Legalism does not get you Divinely healed. The seven steps to healing written about earlier this month are to be a guide to maturing in HIS Word concerning healing and health. The mind would like to convert these steps to a formula and I strongly suggest that you resist the temptation to convert revelation to tradition, formulas, or worldly customs. In Colossians chapter 2, Paul warns against legalism:
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
When Jesus walked the earth, the people were engulfed in legalism promoted by the leaders of that time. Those legalistic views kept the people from receiving personal healing. Jesus busted up the doctrines and traditions of the day when He stood up and quoted out of the Book of Isaiah in the 4th chapter of Luke:
16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.”
FATHER’S anointing of power and authority HE conveyed to Jesus is meant for us as well. We are to do greater things as Jesus proclaimed. Preach, heal, and proclaim are all actions that we should expect as we walk in full fellowship with FATHER. How do we move toward full fellowship? By walking in the revelation of Love, HIS Divine Intent behind everything HE creates, does, and says. As we align ourselves with HIM, we become qualified as mature sons and daughters. “IN HIM” we can do all things.
What about demons, spirits, or the devil? People give too much credit and emphasis to the adversaries. Principalities and powers are not equal to the power of Our Heavenly Father WHO created everything. Jesus made that perfectly clear as He cast them out and restored all who were sick:
Matthew 8:16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick, 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“He Himself took our infirmities
And bore our sicknesses.”
Each and every act of Love was and is intended to bring forth restoration of mankind. There is no superior adversary that can keep it from happening. Only your ego will keep you from receiving what FATHER has for you. HE gives you the choice out of HIS Love for you. HE did not create us to be robots but to be independent expressions of individuality experiencing life by uniquely making our own decisions. HE gave us the right to reject HIS Love as the parable of the prodigal son reveals.
As we seek to fellowship with FATHER, our health will begin to improve. Health and healing occur in HIS Presence. Jesus provided countless examples of the Divine Intent of FATHER “having disarmed principalities and powers”. The mind would try to encapsulate healing into a formula. The medical profession has been taught formulas to treat patients. You cannot put Love in a box or pill but as you align yourself with HIS Love, your body will begin to respond. The healing power of Love will take command over all of the indivisible GOD particles composing your physical body. Jesus restored life, sight, hearing, and body parts as the situation demanded. Let us not dilute FATHER’S restorative power in our lives but expect HIS higher Laws and Divine Intent to supersede the lower laws we’ve been walking under in the past. Let us no longer be void of HIS Word in the area of healing and restoration. Remember, seed produces after its own kind. If you don’t study healing Scriptures and keep them alive and activated in your heart, you will not produce fruit in that area.