Pain Doesn’t Change God’s Word

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth: but you shall meditate it day and night, that you may observe to do all that is written therein… -Joshua 1:8

Sometimes people ask me, “How can I believe I’m healed? I still have pain in my body.” But it doesn’t matter whether or not there is pain in your body. Pain doesn’t change the promise of God.

Let me ask you this: Does the pain in your body affect the fact that Jesus is coming again? No. Regardless of the symptoms or circumstances we deal with in life, we are always “waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 1:7).

Well, if your pain doesn’t affect one of God’s promises, then it doesn’t affect another of His promises. If it doesn’t affect God’s promise of Jesus’ soon return, it doesn’t affect the fact that by His stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

You see, as we start believing God’s Word, it will begin working the change we desire in our symptoms, our circumstances, and our problems.

How do we develop our faith in the Word? We feed on it! That means we read it, study it, think about it, meditate on it and mutter it to ourselves. Soon our hearts will be so full of the Word that our faith in God’s promises will drive every remnant of pain and sickness away!

CONFESSION:

Even when my body is in pain, the Word of God is still true. And as I walk by faith, its healing power manifests in my life!

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