APPROPRIATING COVENANT HEALTH

“Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases” – Psalm 103:3

Accessing and enjoying our inheritance of healing comes by APPROPRIATING THE COVENANT of HEALING: “Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases” (Psa.103:3). Sin, through disobedience,was the genesis of diseases and sicknesses (Dt.28: 22, 27- 28; Rom.5:12). Sin disrupted the framework of humanity – spirit, mind and body, and brought a harvest of decay. The Lord Jesus Christ sometimes linked sickness with sin: “When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you” (Mk.2:5). James did likewise: “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 (Jam.5:14-15).

Covenant Healing and Health are in the Redemption package. Our God who forgives iniquities also heals diseases. Satan afflicts; but God heals and restores: “So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head….And the Lord restored Job’s losses…Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before” (Job 2:7; 42:10). Jesus liberated a woman whom Satan had bound: “So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound – think of it – for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond…?” (Lk.13:16). The Lord was always on the move to heal: “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38).

Healing and Health are both vital portions of our Inheritance in Christ, but we must press in to possess them as our possessions. We must appropriate them, by FAITH. Just as it is not God’s will that we be saved over and over again, but that we remain spiritually well, His desire is that we “be in health”: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and BE IN HEALTH, just as your soul prospers” (3Jh.2). If God could, by faith, heal the soul, He can likewise heal the body! His promises to heal are as much a revelation of His Will to heal as His promises to save reveal His will to save. Although Christ paid for our healing, we must reach out and receive what He has purchased for us, by faith!

Faith in the revealed Will of God is fundamental to health and healing. we know what God’s will is, there is nothing to base our faith on. Healing is God’s Will, accessible primarily by faith (Rom.10:17; 3Jh.2). We must jettison all unbelief and uncertainties about God’s will for our healing – spiritual, mental or bodily healing. The power of God can be claimed and received into manifestation only where the Will of God is known. Faith begins where God’s will is known. To appropriate faith is not to simply believe that God can but that He will: “And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed” (Mt.8:2-3).

Faith is based on knowing what God’s will is. God is a Healer, and He has never changed: “…For I am the Lord who heals you” (Ex.15:26b). Christ died to atone for sicknesses as well as for sins (Is.53:4-5). Healing is the children’s bread; we don’t need to beg for it (Mk.7:27). It is only as we know that God has accomplished what we are seeking that all uncertainty can be removed and a steadfast faith established. There is no doubt about what God’s will is: He who forgives all...also heals all! Our attitude toward sickness should be similar to our attitude toward sin! Faith for appropriating Covenant Health and Healing is a factor of revelation knowledge and understanding of the Will of God concerning healing and health.