Scripture Reference:
• "Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do
NOT forget ALL his benefits: Who forgives ALL your iniquities; who heals
ALL your diseases”" [Psalm 103:2-3]
Notice that the scriptures exhort us NOT to forget ALL of the benefits
that come with being a born-again child of God. And yet, too many of
God’s people have forgotten the promises of God for deliverance,
protection, safety, provision and HEALING that are an important part of
the COVENANT that we entered into when we received Christ as our
savior.]
WHY WE FORGET:
There is a reason why many of God’s people
have forgotten that we HAVE a COVENANT of healing.
The reason is because so many of God’s people place
more value upon the experiences of others
than they do on God’s WORD!
Just about everyone knows someone that needed
healing - perhaps even prayers were offered for that
person, hands were laid upon them and they might
have even been anointed with oil - but they never
recovered. The result was that everyone assumed that
it must not have been “God’s will’ for them
to be healed and that’s why the Lord didn’t
heal them.
In other words, despite what the scriptures say
- despite all the promises of God FOR healing,
despite all the evidence of the scriptures that we
HAVE a COVENANT of healing GUARANTEED by the LORD in
His Word - people chose to go by their
experiences, and the failures that others have
experienced rather than to believe what God has
promised.
UNDERSTANDING THE
COVENANT:
What most people do not understand is that a
covenant is a BINDING CONTRACT between two or more
parties in which BOTH parties are required to
keep THEIR part in order to partake of the benefits
of the covenant.
In our covenant of healing; God has PROMISED that He
HEALS ALL of our sicknesses. Not a few, not some,
not most - ALL of our diseases: That promise is part
of the BENEFITS that are included in the covenant
that we have with Him.
• “When evening came, many who
were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he
drove out the spirits with a word and healed ALL the
sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through
the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and
bore our diseases." [Matthew 8:16-17
• “He himself bore our sins"
in his body on the cross, so that we might die to
sins and live for righteousness; "by his wounds you
have been healed.” [1 Peter 2:24]
Notice carefully that JESUS Himself assured us of
his WILLINGNESS to heal us when He himself
TOOK our sicknesses upon himself so that we COULD be
healed.” -- And when Jesus took our sickness and
carried our pains he did HIS part, He fulfilled
HIS part of the agreement, the contract, the
covenant - Now WE must do our part if we are
going to RECEIVE the healing that Jesus PAID
for.
DOING OUR PART:
The first REQUIREMENT that we have under the
covenant is that we must BELIEVE that Jesus
TOOK our sickness and pain, and with His stripes we
HAVE BEEN healed just as Matthew 8:16-17 & 1 Peter
2:24 state.
It’s NOT enough for us to know that the
scriptures say these things - Nor is it enough for
us to believe that God promised us healing: We must
BELIEVE the promises if we are to RECEIVE the
manifestation of the promise - - And it doesn’t
matter how many others failed on their end to
receive what God promised!
REMEMBER ISRAEL?
Even though God did everything He could to fulfill
His promise to bring them to the land of Canaan,
Israel refused to enter in because they did
not BELIEVE that God would protect them and
enable them to overcome the enemies that dwelled in
the land.
Whose fault was it that they failed? It wasn’t the
Lord’s fault - He did what He promised, He delivered
them out of bondage to Pharaoh and led them right to
the edge of the Jordan river - All they had to do
was to TRUST the Lord that He would carry our
His promises to drive out the inhabitants.
NOW THERE’S THE CATCH:
Israel KNEW what God had promised -
They KNEW God has said it: They just
didn’t BELIEVE what God had said.
Instead they went by what the spies saw
(the experience of others) - and when they chose to
rely upon the experiences of others they began to
DOUBT God’s promise.
ACTING LIKE
ISRAEL:
This is the SAME mistake so many of God’s
people make today. They KNOW what the God has said
in His Word - They just choose to put more trust in
the experiences and failures of others
than they do in what God has promised in His
Word.
When we choose to believe anything other than
what the WORD of God SAYS - we are now guilty of the
same thing Israel did: We DOUBT God -and
doubt is nothing more than UNBELIEF.
When we begin to doubt that God will
fulfill HIS part of the Covenant - we are FAILING to
keep OUR part of the Covenant - Because the
first REQUIREMENT that WE have under the
covenant is that we must BELIEVE that Jesus
TOOK our sickness and pain, and with His
stripes we HAVE BEEN healed just as Matthew
8:16-17 & 1 Peter 2:24 state.
In other words, we must BELIEVE that Jesus TOOK our
sicknesses and with His stripes we WERE
healed - and then we must STAND on that promise no
matter how bad we feel, no matter how many others
failed to receive their healing, no matter how long
it takes: We must HOLD fast to our profession
WITHOUT wavering because He IS faithful that
promised. [Hebrews 10:23]
FAITH IS REQUIRED:
It takes FAITH to access the promises of God
for salvation, deliverance, protection, safety,
provision and healing.
• “Therefore, since we have
been justified through faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have
gained ACCESS BY FAITH into this grace in which we
now stand.” [Romans 5:1-2]
It’s not enough to KNOW what the scriptures say - we
must BELIEVE what the scriptures say no
matter how bad things look - no matter how bad we
feel - no matter what the doctor says - and no
matter how many others have failed! ~~ Only then
will we fulfill OUR part of the
Covenant - and only then are we able to ACCESS
the benefits of Healing as promised in the Covenant.
GOD’S WILL FOR
HEALING:
Friends, if it wasn’t God’s will for us to BE
healed then Jesus would not have taken ALL
our sins and ALL our sicknesses! Nor would He have
promised us to HEAL ALL our diseases!
But, let’s face it: Not everyone receives
their healing - and the scriptures are very clear
about WHY some get healed - and others don’t!
It’s NOT because it isn’t God’s will
for them to be healed - That would make the Lord a
“respecter of persons” and the Scriptures make it
very clear that He is NOT a respecter of persons: He
does not ‘play favorites’. [Acts 10:34]
SO WHY DOESN’T
EVERYONE GET HEALED?
There are many scriptures that explain why
SOME get healed while others don’t and that is why
we have placed this series online that uses the
scriptures to teach WHY healing IS part of
our Covenant - HOW to obtain the supernatural
healing of God - and WHY some people fail to receive
the healing that Jesus paid for
Beloved, I have personally experienced the
supernatural healing of God in my body more than
once -AND I have personally witnessed the healing
power of God more times than I can relate here.
Let me assure you that if you are willing to LEARN
what the SCRIPTURES say - And begin to STAND IN
FAITH on God’s promises of healing: YOU will also
begin to experience healing in your body as
promised in our Covenant of Healing.