I am the Lord who heals you. This is what God said when he called the Israelites out of Egypt.
Exodus 15:26 If you will diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God, and will 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 forI am the Lord who heals you.
The Hebrew text reads: I will permit none of these diseases upon you which I permitted upon the Egyptians.
This covenant was repeated at the close of the forty years wanderings of Israel.
All through their history, in sickness and pestilence, the Israelites turned to God in repentance and confession and received healing in answer to their prayers.
If healing in answer to prayer was God’s way under the old covenant, it is much more prevalent under the new covenant.
Matthew 12:15 tells us that “Great multitudes followed Jesus, and He healed them all"
Jesus healed all who came to Him.
Heb.13:8 declares that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever.
He is the same in love as when, in compassion He healed the multitudes.
He is the same in power as when He healed all manner of diseases.
Hebrews 2:17 Therefore in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.
During His earthly ministry, Jesus was always moved with compassion and healed all those that had need of healing, and He is our faithful and merciful high priest today.
All that God has given us is given through Christ Jesus for whoever will meet the conditions and believe the word.
He is no respecter of persons. His promises are to all
So healing is for all and should be preached to all.
We can see from the Bible that this is exactly what the early church did.
Philip preached Christ at Samaria. Acts 8:6-8
The crowds were eager to receive Philip’s message and were persuaded by the many miracles and wonders he performed. Many demon-possessed people were set free and delivered as evil spirits came out of them with loud screams and shrieks, and many who were lame and paralyzed were also healed. This resulted in an uncontainable joy filling the city!
We see that Jesus proved to be exactly the same when Philip told the people about Him.
Peter preached Christ to the cripple in Acts 3:6, to the multitude in Acts 5.14-16 to Anneas in Acts 9:34.
All were healed.
So Jesus was the same for Peter.
Wherever and whenever Jesus Christ is proclaimed as our sacrifice for sin and sickness physical healing as well as spiritual salvation will result.
Lets read what happened with Paul in Acts 14:8-10 In Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked.
Notice the lame man received faith to be healed while listening to Paul’s message. Faith comes by hearing.
Wherever healing is taught as God’s provision for all, faith is imparted and people are healed.
However faith cannot be exercised where there is indecision as to whether or not God's will is to heal all.
If He will not heal all, then we are forced to consider in every case: “I wonder if it is God’s will to heal this one? Or could this be one of the unfortunate ones where God‘s will is for them to remain sick and to suffer?” NO NEVER! It is God's will to heal all!
