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Your
Healing Contract with God
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Most Christians don't know it,
but you and I who belong to Jesus Christ have a healing contract
with Almighty God. As far as God is concerned, He has already
healed us. He did this when He sent Jesus Christ to the cross
two thousand years ago to die for our sins and sicknesses.
God has already healed you. He has already provided
for your complete and total healing--body, spirit, mind,
emotions, relationships, finances, everything else that's
dragging you down.
When Isaiah writes, "By his stripes you are
healed," he's setting forth God's part of the contract--the
agreement, in other words. When the Psalmist writes,
"Who healeth all thy diseases," he's presenting God's
part of the agreement. When Matthew writes, "He took our
infirmities and bore away our diseases," he, too, is laying
out God's part of the agreement. When Peter writes, "By his
wounds you were healed," he's giving us God's part of the
contract.
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".
. . it should be clear that you were and are
healed."
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When God sent Jesus to the
cross to die for us, He had in mind the complete, total
salvation and healing of all of us. We know that it's impossible
for God to lie, because He is sinless. Therefore, if God writes
that "By His stripes you are healed" in Isaiah and
"By his stripes you were healed" in Peter, then it
should be clear that you were and are healed.
God's part of the contract is made plain in these words, Mark
11:23 (KJV): ". . . whosoever shall say unto this mountain
[of sickness and pain], Be thou removed, and be thou cast into
the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe
that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall
have whatsoever he saith."
God's part of the contract is very clear and to the point. If
we talk to the mountain of sickness and pain, we will get
results and we will be healed. God has already done this for
each of us. His part of the contract is very clear, very sure,
very exact.
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".
. . His part of the contract is solid. . . ."
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It is also timeless. God's
healing has been in place for His children ever since Jesus died
on the cross. It has not changed one bit for almost two thousand
years. It is a certainty that His part of the contract is solid,
and can be counted on by every one of us.
Our part of this healing contract needs to be just as firm
and sure as God's part. Often, however, it is not. First, many
Christians don't even know that such an agreement exists. If
they do, they don't understand their part it.
We Christians have a part in God's healing agreement, in
order to make it work in our lives. Our part of the contract is
to believe God's Word on healing, to talk the
healing, and then to walk in the healing.
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"We
need to study the Word ourselves. . . ."
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First, we are called to believe
God's Word on healing. Unfortunately, many of us have not grown
up in churches where this part of the gospel is even preached,
much less believed by the church members.
To get ourselves straightened out, we need to hear competent
teaching on the subject of healing. We need to study the Word
ourselves to see exactly what God has provided. In doing so,
we'll become strong in faith, able to believe the healing
promises of Scripture.
Next, we need to talk the healing. By this I mean
precisely that we need to repeat the healing Scriptures aloud,
so that in hearing them we build them into our memory banks and
our spirits. Simply reading them out loud a few times a day will
cause this to happen. We can also pray the Scriptures
aloud each day, building faith in our hearts to believe and
receive the healing Word.
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".
. . we need to walk in healing."
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Finally, we need to walk
in healing. Our actions must reflect our words and our faith.
For example, if we've been praying God to heal us of a gluttonous
appetite reflecting an obsession with food, we need to act as if
the prayer is answered, turning from the obsessive appetite that
has controlled us.
We can do this by taking smaller portions of everything,
eliminating certain foods from our diets such as pie and ice
cream, avoiding tempting recipes, not cooking and baking fattening
things, staying out of chocolate stores, and so on. Any number of
actions will line up with our prayer that God will release us from
food-bondage.
In addition to believing His Word on healing, talking it, and
walking in it, we can also prepare ourselves to receive healing by
doing one more thing. The "one more thing" is to FORGIVE
if we have anything against anyone.
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"Forgiveness
is a necessity. . . ."
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According to Mark 11:22-26 we
can have anything we ask for in prayer if we believe we receive
it, if we believe that whatsoever we say shall come to pass, and
if we do not doubt in our hearts that we will have the answer to
our prayer. There is another condition laid down, however, to
answered prayers, and that is to FORGIVE others.
I write this word in caps because it's the most frequent
blockage to answered prayer. Unforgiveness causes many people to
stumble in seeking God for healing or anything else. Forgiveness
is a necessity for our receiving answers to our prayers.
Look at Mark 11:22-26. Mark writes, "And when you stand
and pray, forgive anything you may have against anyone, so that
your Father in Heaven will forgive the wrongs you have done."
(Good News Bible) Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you, harmed
you, made you mad, stolen from you, despised you, and so on. Think
of all the bad and evil which has been done against you. Think of
the persons who have done these things to you, and then forgive.
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".
. . for I am the Lord Who heals you"
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There is no healing that happens
without forgiveness. By that I mean both the forgiveness of
our own sins by God himself and our forgiveness of the sins of
others against us. Forgive if you want healing. There's
absolutely no way around the issue.
Our contract with God, then, is a sure thing. He cannot lie, so
His part is rock-solid, a promise made to each of His precious
children--made to every one of us. Our part of the contract or
agreement must be set in motion by our believing God's
words on healing, talking these words, walking
according to them, and forgiving everyone who has
trespassed against us.
It's that simple!
--Mary Graff
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