Healing Is God’s Idea Pt. 2

Happy Monday Morning to you! I am so excited to finish this teaching with you, because I can see how this is changing minds, hearts, bodies and anything else that needs changed in your life.

Last week, we ended with the Lord telling me “to capture those wrong thoughts, to arrest them and renew my mind by replacement so that I don’t go down those dark alleys anymore.”

Now, here is the rest of it:

“So instead of trying to keep yourself out of the quicksand, that’s a quagmire for you, instead of that, the more you fight it, the more it feels your falling into it, replace it with the Bible and it will rescue you with a life jacket around your thoughts and it will bobb** you up instead of being dragged down into the bottom dwellers stuff.  ** bobb = it’s like a fishing thing (a bobber) that stays on top of the water. Pretty cool, huh?

So put those Bible verses in your head to counteract those dark alleys, so when the dark alleys tempt you, you have those verses to say Oh No, you’ll take the Bible verses and replace it with replacement therapy to immunize you to those dark alleys.” 

From me – No More Dark Alleys!

Whatever your circumstance is, you can stop seeing yourself sick, defeated, rejected, hurt, depressed, and on and on you could go. 

We have the choice to see ourselves the way God sees us – healed, healthy, whole, victorious, accepted, comforted, and joyful!  Don’t these words sound so much better?  These are words of life that will make a change in your heart.

This is what God says about healing! Will you believe it?

Matthew 8:16 & 17

16 When evening came, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and He drove out the spirits with a word and restored to health all who were sick.

17 and thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah; He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases. (This was Jesus showing us what was in our redemption when He would go to the cross, that He would bare everything that was fallen in us, so we can be all that He is and purchase back all that we were created to be)!

I love that Jesus showed us while He was here on earth that this is what His Father’s will was and still is for His people to live in health, even as their souls prosper. 3 John 2

Isaiah 53: 4 & 5

4 Surely, He has borne our grief’s (sicknesses, weaknesses and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.

The verses above are what was prophesied of the Messiah. How wonderful that it all came to pass and still is alive and being experienced today!

1 Peter 2:24

24 He personally bore our sins in His [own] body on the tree [as on an altar and offered Himself on it], that we might die (cease to exist) to sin and live to righteousness.  By His wounds you have been (were) healed.

Here is the promise now after the cross of Christ. I love in the Passion translation it says,” Our instant healing flowed from His wounding”!

Romans 8:2

2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] had freed me from the law of sin and death.

We are not bound to the law of sin and death anymore. We live under a new law, called the Law of the Spirit of Life and that Life lives in you!

Romans 8:11

11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

The meaning of the phrase “give life” also means to “preserve” life in your mortal (physical) body that you live in right now.

Listen to what Preserve means:

• Preserve – to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction.
• Protect – to keep alive, intact, or free from decay.
• Maintain – to keep or save from decomposition.

Let these Words build the foundation in your heart that it is always God’s will to heal and as you change the way you think about God and His Word, you will experience the promise for yourself!

Remember, you are Loved, you are Righteous, and you are His!