Jesus Christ heals, not just treats. We need get back to the word of God to learn what He says about sickness and healing. I offer you my healing testimony as a free offering to help understand that it is God’s will to heal; yesterday, today, and forever!
Exodus 23:25-26 NIV
“Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.”
I was once chronically depressed since I was a teenager. Year after year It only seemed to worsen and the antidepressant medications only seemed to get stronger and the effects, weaker. When I tried to stop taking them, I was always met with side effects that were so painful, I had to continue taking them, but the depression would persist.
It wasn’t until I completely yielded to God in 2018, while I prayed for and encountered God’s beautiful glory that I was healed from depression and suicidal thoughts. I was delivered from a spirit of heaviness, which causes depression and sadness. The periodic visitation of suicidal thoughts were finally gone, the joy of the Lord was on my face, and He has never left me since!
To this day, people see my smile and might think me a bit crazy or at least a little funny in the head, which I quickly agree with them and state that yes, I am absolutely crazy for the Lord! In fact, I consider myself a fool for Christ for Him to do His will and reject my own. I take the approach that I am no longer my own, but His, who saved me. Just like all the saints and apostles who came before me.
2 Corinthians 5:15 NIV
“And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
Signed, Healed, & Delivered
He not only delivered me from the depression, but of the constant battle with ailments I had frequently incurred as a younger man. Every Christmas without fail, I would be sick with the flu. I thought that it may have been being run down, mentally or physically from work, but it turned out to be a spiritual attack by the enemy to steal my joy from spending time with my family.
I have now been healed and delivered for 3+ years. I no longer rely on medications of any sort, but on the word of God, which reveals and teaches me the truth to why people (myself included) get sick and stay sick. Some through reaping and sowing, some through sin and curses, and others through spiritual attacks.
Don’t get me wrong, I believe there is a need in our world for much of the medical field, especially for injuries and accidents. But when it comes to healing, I primarily depend on God’s word made flesh, who is Jesus Christ, as my primary care provider. By His stripes I was healed!
I Peter 2:24
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
Since my encounters with our Lord and savior, I have seen miracles, signs and wonders. I have often seen, prayed for, and have visions and dreams about seeing others healed, delivered from demons, and even raised from the dead by Jesus.
Through this transformation process, I have also sworn off pornography, alcohol, violent and debaucherous movies and music, and other sinful ways of the world in order to focus and dwell on the word of God as my daily bread and continue seeing the benefits He describes in the Holy Bible. I am now kept in perfect peace.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.”
I once dreaded getting older and thought I would never make it to the age I am, but now, with Christ, I feel ready and able to accomplish growing older and enjoying each day, no matter what it brings with grace.
Yes, indeed, there is power in the name of Jesus Christ. There is also peace, hope, joy, love, kindness, and everlasting life. Those who yield to Him and believe in Him are kept in excellent health with a promise of many years of good life.
May this word offer encouragement to you to stay in His word, truly believe what it says, and have joy in all the things he has in store for you. May you be healed through them. You are loved! ❤️
