Healing From Your Spirit To Your Flesh

 In dealing with healing it's easy to get focused on what's happening in the body, but that's actually the opposite of what The Bible teaches.  Because, actually it's what's going on in your spirit that's most important.  Because, The Bible teaches that you prosper outside according to how you prosper inside. Notice, in 3John 2 it says, Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.  Man is spirit, soul, and body.  You are spirit and you have a soul(inside of your spirit) and you live in a body.

Notice, what Jesus was known for saying, "According to your faith so be it unto you", "As thou hast believed so be it done unto you" or "Your faith has made you whole".  All of those instances referred to healing in the body, but faith is an operation of the inside, the spirit.  As they prospered inside(spirit) they prospered outside(body).  God told Joshua in Joshua 1:8, This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.  Paul says in Romans 10:8, But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach.  First, the word is in your mouth and that word will get in your heart(spirit).

Notice, how God says you make your way prosperous and have good success by the word you keep in your mouth, you do it from the inside out.  Well, Proverbs 4:20-23 says, 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.  21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.  22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.  23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.  That word health is translated medicine, remedy, healing, and cure.  Notice, it says to keep the word in the midst of your heart(inside) and those words can be medicine to your flesh(outside).

Take Abraham and Sarah for example God told Abraham that him and his wife would have a son, but his body was dead and her womb was dead.  So, God changed their names from Abram-high father to Abraham-father of a multitude and from Sarai-my princess to Sarah-princess of the multitude.  God had them to do the Proverbs 4:20-23 process which works from the inside out.  They had to speak the word in and then speak the word out. Jesus said it this way,  A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.  And those are the words that are medicine(healing) to your flesh that work from the inside out.

God's Operation Of Healing

 One thing about receiving your healing from God is knowing how he operates, because when you know how he operates then you can cooperate with him.  And in 1Corinthians 1:28 it tells you, God has chosen things which are not, to bring to nought(nothing) things that are.  When it says things that are not it is not talking about things that don't exist, it's talking about things that are not manifested because if it didn't exist you couldn't call it a thing.  So, God has chosen things that are not manifested (spiritual) to bring to nothing things that are manifested (physical).  God operates at a level that is not detectable by the senses that's why you have to walk by faith and not by sight (senses).  And if you don't know that then you could spend your time waiting on God to do something that's already done.

Notice, in Genesis 17:4,5 it says, 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.  5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.  And in verse 15 it says, 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.  Abraham means father of a multitude and Sarah means Princess of nations.  Notice, in verse 5 God told Abraham, "For a father of many nations have I made thee."   Now, God told him that while his body was dead and his wife's womb was dead (Romans 4:19).  So, he was not that physically, but he was that in the spirit.  Don't think of the spiritual as not real or less real.  John 4:24  says, God is a spirit and yet God that is a spirit was manifest in the flesh (1Timothy 3:16).  Is God any less real as spirit as when he was manifested. That which is spiritual can be manifested physically by a release of faith.  And the main way you release your faith is by your words.

How was God manifested in the flesh, Isaiah spoke the word God gave him, "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son."  Now, we know it takes something from a man and a woman to have a child.  Once God spoke that it was done in the spirit.  And in Luke 1 the angel brought that same word to Mary, "Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son" and Mary said, "Be it unto me according to thy word."  She spoke what she believed, she released her faith for in verse 45 her cousin Elizabeth said, "And blessed is she that believed:  for there shall be a performance of those things that were told her from the Lord."  And notice, in John 1:14 the scripture calls Jesus the word (spiritual) made flesh (physical).

So, when God said, "For a father of many nations have I made thee" that was spiritual and it was up to them to receive that by faith.  Notice, in Romans 4:20 it says that Abraham was strong in faith and Hebrews 11:11 says, that through faith Sara received strength to conceive seed.  Everytime they heard or spoke their names they just didn't hear their names, but also the promise God made them.  That was the purpose of changing their names to get them hearing and speaking in line with the promise.  But, notice God chose what was not manifested(for a father of many nations have I made thee) to bring to nothing what was manifested (Abraham considered not the deadness of his body nor the deadness of Sarah's womb) Romans 4:19.  

Another way God operates is in Romans 4:17, it says God calls things that be not (manifested) as though they were (manifested).  Isn't that what he told Abraham and Sarah to do.  Notice, God's method of operating is to speak it before you see it.  But, the average person wants to see it and then speak it.  Understand God's method, the word calleth is translated to incite by word.  The word incite means to cause to act or occur.  So when you call things that be not as though they were you cause them to occur, you cause them to happen.  So, if you don't want to speak things before you see them you may never see them.  How was God manifested in the flesh, words.  He was spoken of first before he was manifested.  So, when God says 1Peter 2:24, "By whose stripes you were healed" that's how it is in the spirit and you are going to have to speak that even when your body may be totally contrary.  In James 3 it says 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.  3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.  4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.  

Your words are very important in receiving healing.  Notice, the connection God makes with the tongue and the body that you bridle your body by controlling your tongue.  Notice, you control the horse's body by it's tongue.  Understand what he is saying in verse 4, the ship is your body, you are the governor (spirit man), and your tongue is the helm it's what controls the ship.  Did you notice even though something is coming against the ship it goes where the governor directs.  Your words are so important that Proverbs talks about your words being health(medicine, healing, remedy, cure) to your flesh.  But, they will only be health to your flesh when they are in line with God's words.  That's why in Hebrews 10:23 it says to hold fast to your confession of faith.  Confession means to say the same thing, so a confession of faith will always be in line with God's word.  Because your faith should always be based of the word of God and not conditions or circumstances.  So, your words are very important, use them wisely.

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