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Jesus went through pain and suffering for our healing—spiritually and physically. What should you do when you’re sick and need healing? Take these 5 steps from Bible verses about healing.
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00:00 Divine Healing vs Faith Healers
04:52 God’s Power and Authority to His Servants
09:32 Bible Reference on Healing: What to Do When You’re Sick
10:01 Follow the Instructions in James 5 14–15
10:53 Healing Requires Faith | Hebrews 11 6
12:16 Healing and Obedience to God | Acts 5 32
14:06 Forgiveness of Sins and God’s Healing | Isaiah 53 5
16:33 Connection Between Sin and Sickness
18:56 Repentance and Healing
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Do you realize that the Bible gives clear instructions of what to do when you are sick? Write down this passage and look it up for yourself in your own Bible: James 5:14–15.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
1. Obey the instructions given in James 5 14–15.
Now this is not the whole story. It is important to know where God is working, as He is not working in everyone who claims to be one of His servants. This is a large subject in itself, but I encourage you to read and meditate on 2 Corinthians 11.
2. Healing requires faith.
Two blind men came to Jesus requesting to receive their sight and Jesus put this straightforward question before them (Matthew 9 28–30).
And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” And their eyes were opened.
It may come as a surprise, but even Jesus was limited in what He could do where there was no faith. We learn this when He visited His hometown of Nazareth.
Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching (Mark 6 5-6).
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11 6)
3. The importance of obedience
Not everyone was happy when people were healed as God worked remarkable miracles through the apostles.
Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed. Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison (Acts 5 16–18).
God sent an angel to supernaturally release them and commanded them to go right back to the temple complex in the morning and teach the words of life. This landed them once again in the hot seat before the council. When the high priest strongly rebuked them for preaching in the name of Jesus, the apostles boldly responded.
But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: "We ought to obey God rather than men…. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him (Acts 5 29, 32).
4. Divine healing involves forgiveness of sin.
Jesus kept the Passover with His disciples on the night in which He was betrayed, instituting symbols of a New Covenant—unleavened bread and wine—with new meaning.
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matthew 26 26–28).
Wine symbolized His shed blood. The life is in the blood, and Jesus’ blood was shed to pay for our lives.
Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53 4–5).
Jesus suffered pain for our healing, both spiritually and physically, to pay the consequences of our sins—not only the death penalty, but sin’s physical penalty.