Healing Is Good!

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

The Bible doesn’t say, “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power: who went about making people sick everywhere He went.” No, Jesus went about doing good. What “good” did Jesus do? This Scripture says He “went about doing good, and healing.” Whom did He heal? Those who were oppressed.

Who oppressed them? The devil. That’s pretty plain. God tells us in the Scripture where sickness and disease come from—the devil.

God also tells us what “good” is: Good is healing. Sickness isn’t good, because Jesus healed those who were sick and oppressed of the devil. “Good” is setting people free from sickness and disease.

Sickness isn’t a blessing from God. It’s a curse, a satanic oppression and a bondage that the enemy places in the body of Christ to slow us down or stop us from preaching the Gospel to all the world.

God wants us well so we can fulfill the Great Commission. He wants us not only to preach the Gospel, but to lay hands on the sick to set them free. (Mark 16:18) Why? Because sickness is bad, and healing is good!

CONFESSION

My Father says healing is good. He willingly heals me. And as I lay hands on the sick, God’s power causes them to recover!

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