Don’t Be Double-Minded

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. -James 1:6-8

Whenever sickness or disease attacks our bodies, everything in us wants to be free of it. It’s uncomfortable. It is “dis-ease,” and we automatically want to get rid of it as quickly as we can.

But if we think sickness is from God for any reason—whether we think it’s commissioned by Him, sent by Him or allowed by Him—we’re in trouble. We become double-minded. One side of our mind thinks, I don’t want this; but the other side thinks, If God wants me to have this sickness, it must be good for me and I should keep it. I want whatever God wants for me. I want to obey God.

If sickness is a blessing from God, we should never be found fighting against it. We shouldn’t fight it with medical science, with prayer, with the laying on of hands or anything else. If our sickness is from God, we should keep it and pray for the rest of the family to get sick!

But if sickness is not from God, then as God’s children, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, we shouldn’t have any part of it.

You can walk free of sickness. So don’t be double-minded about it—refuse to accept it when it comes. If symptoms attack your body, attack those symptoms with the Word of God! You are God’s child and you don’t have to keep one thing that doesn’t come from Him!

CONFESSION:

I am single-minded and stable in all my ways. I know God’s will for me is healing and good health. Sickness has no place in me, and I refuse to let it stay!\ From: 

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999