Supernatural healing causes a ton of confusion in the Body of Christ today. People have views which are all over the map.
Some believe supernatural healing is totally dependent on God and we have no part in it. The other extreme makes it all about us and our ability to work up enough faith to make God move on our behalf to heal us.
Both of these perspectives are equally wrong.
For example, recently I had a conversation online with someone who believes the extreme sovereignty of God theology which says, “God is in control.” Many of those folks believe God can heal anyone He wants. They just don’t think He really will heal you most times when they pray.
Really what it means is they believe more in fate than in faith. While they’ll claim supernatural healing is theoretically possible, they don’t have any faith that it will work in any specific case unless God arbitrarily decides to heal someone.
So, if I pray hard enough then my disease will be cured? Is that what you suggest? God promises to make me healthy and if I am sick then I lack faith? Do I understand you right?
No. Thatโs a caricature which misrepresents the truth of supernatural healing.
Power of God’s Promises
Instead, the Bible reveals that Godโs grace has already provided promises which meet every need we can possibly have. Peter tells us that our knowledge of God and His promises is how we experience His divine nature and escape the corruption of this world.
as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
โ 2 Peter 1:3-4 (NKJV)
Sickness is corruption in our world. Therefore, our answer to escape that corruption of sickness and disease is found in God’s promises.
Godโs promises are hidden for us in His word waiting for us to discover them. But He does not force them on us. Instead, when we choose to come into agreement with those promises, that is when we experience them.
Salvation Example
We can look to a promise which all believers can agree on to see a practical example of how this works. Every believer in Jesus has received Godโs promise of salvation.
Reading Romans 10:9 we see that God promises salvation to us if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead.
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
โ Romans 10:9 (NKJV)
Until we come into agreement with this promise by doing those two things, confessing and believing, we donโt experience what God promises to us here. Yet the moment anyone does come into agreement with this promise of God and does do those two things, they experience salvation.
No one has to jump through a bunch of other hoops to be saved. Nor do they ever have legitimate reason to doubt their salvation. They can know whole heartedly that they are saved because they’ve see this very clear promise in Scripture and know God keeps His promises.
At the same time, if someone chooses not to come into agreement with that promise of God by not doing either of those two things, then they donโt experience salvation.
Does the fact that many donโt choose to receive that promise of God for salvation invalidate it for any who do receive it? Of course not.
Thousands of Promises
Likewise, there are thousands of other promises which God makes to us in scripture. The Bible tells us that every single one of them is yes and amen in Christ:
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
โ 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NKJV)
Because Jesus fulfilled the Law perfectly on our behalf, itโs as-if we fulfilled the Law too. Remember, as believers we are now โin Christโ and part of the physical Body of Christ (2 Corinthians 1:21).
Itโs not possible for Jesus to have fulfilled the Law if part of His body didnโt. James tells us that if we break the law at one point, we are guilty of all.
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
โ James 2:10 (NKJV)
Therefore, since Jesus fulfilled the Law, and since we are in Him as part of His body, then we get credit for fulfilling the Law regardless of our behavior.
Since thatโs the case, the next question for us to investigate is whether or not God makes any promise to us in scripture to heal us. If so, then we can receive that promise (or those promises) by faith, just like we receive the promise of salvation.
Supernatural Healing Promises
It turns out there are many such promises.
We can start with the fact that one of the revealed names of God is Jehovah Rapha in Exodus 15:26, which means the Lord who heals you.
and said, โIf you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.โ
โ Exodus 15:26 (NKJV)
Remember, Jesus did the first part of that verse on our behalf. He diligently heeded the Fatherโs voice and followed all His commandments and statutes. Therefore, it is just as if we did too because we are part of His physical body here on earth in Christ. This truth means we can experience God in accordance with this name of His (the LORD who heals you) and receive supernatural healing from Him.
And by the way, this verse directly refutes any who claim sickness for believers is from God to serve some divine purpose. In this verse He plainly says He won’t put any diseases on us.
Healed by His Stripes
Hereโs another promise from God for healing to us found in Isaiah.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
โ Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV)
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
By His stripes we are healed. God promises to heal us because Jesus paid the price for our physical healing when He was physically whipped the day He was crucified.
In the New Covenant, now that Jesus has already paid the price Peter moves this promise into the past tense.
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousnessโby whose stripes you were healed.
โ 1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)
By His stripes you were healed. This means our healing has already been accomplished in the spirit. Now itโs just a matter of our body and soul catching up with the truth of whatโs already been accomplished by Jesus in the spirit.
Of course, if our soul never comes into agreement with that promise of supernatural healing because we don’t believe it and receive it, then we wonโt ever experience the benefit of it, just like with salvation.
Double Minded Problem
This is the point where most believers get stuck. Some don’t believe God still heals supernaturally today like He did through Jesus in the gospel accounts. Others believe “God is in control” and arbitrarily decides who He will heal. They think everyone else is on their own.
All this doubt and unbelief effectively blocks the power of God from working. So many are begging God for healing while simultaneously not believing that He really will heal them.
The Bible describes this conflict as being “double minded.” And it presents that condition very negatively. Look at what James says,
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.
โ James 1:6-8 (NKJV)
A double-minded person cannot be confident they will receive anything from God. This is one of the reasons why the Bible tells us unbelief is flat out evil.
Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
โ Hebrews 3:12 (NKJV)
Until our heart is fully persuaded that God’s promises are for us, and that He will do what He says He will do on our behalf, our life experience will continue to be no different from unbelievers in that area.
This is true with salvation, supernatural healing, and every other area God promises to bless us now that we are in Christ.
At the same time, we can receive God’s promises in one area, and totally miss His promises in another area. For example, we can receive God’s promise for salvation to the point where we know absolutely that we are saved and will spend eternity in heaven. Yet, at the same time we can not be in faith to receive any of His promises for supernatural healing.
In that case, our physical health will have no noticeable difference from the unbelieving world around us. This, despite the fact that we are totally secure in our salvation.
So as you can see, where we place our agreement is vital. Will we choose to come into agreement with the truth of God’s word and receive all He promises to provide for us? Or will we continue in unbelief and experience those parts of our lives little different from the unbelieving world around us?
According to scripture, we do not want to be double-minded.
Even More Healing Promises
All that said, there are a great many other promises for healing in the Bible. But I’ve given you three to get you started.ย
I see it in scripture. And Iโve experienced enough supernatural healing by receiving promises like these from scripture, both in my own body and in others, that you canโt convince me it isnโt true.
And I am not in any way opposed to medical doctors and natural means of healing. From my perspective, the goal is to be in health. So I’m going to come at sickness with every weapon available, both natural and supernatural, to destroy that work of the enemy.
I’ll conclude with yet another promise of healing in the Bible to encourage you.
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
โ 3 John 1:2 (NKJV)
