Jesus bore our diseases as well as our sins on the cross therefore we need not bear them! Our next step is to take hold of our healing by faith. The truth of the matter is, God gave us this part of our inheritance nearly 2000 years ago, & He is the One who is waiting for us to appropriate the blessing by faith. 2000 years ago God put away sin by the sacrifice of Jesus Heb.9:26 & He laid on Christ the iniquity of us all Isa.53:6 & Christ took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses Matt.8:17. God is the waiting party. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord does not delay & is not tardy or slow about what He promises according to some peoples conception of slowness but He is long-suffering extraordinarily patient toward you. Mark 11:22-24 Jesus answered & said to them Have faith in God. For assuredly I say to you whoever says to this mountain Be removed & cat into the sea & does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will be done he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them & you will have them. Jesus tells us exactly how to appropriate any of the blessings purchased for us by His death. He says Whatever things you ask for when you pray believe that you receive them & you shall have them. The condition of receiving what we ask God for is to believe that He answers our prayers when we pray & that we shall recover according to His promise. In other words when you pray for healing Christ authorizes you to consider your prayer answered as when He stood at the grave of Lazarus & said Father, I thank You that You have heard me John 11.41 before He saw Lazarus come out from the grave. When we ask for healing Christ tells us to say with faith Father I thank You that You have heard me before we have yet seen the answer to our prayer. When God's Word alone is our reason for believing that our prayer is answered before we see or feel it this is faith! Jesus declared The words that I speak to you are spirit & they are life John 6-63. John 1.1 says The Word is God. To receive the written words of Christ as His direct message to us is faith. This is the way the Word of God becomes life to us both in our healing & salvation. The truth when it is believed changes adverse facts because God’s word has spiritual power. The physical things we see & feel are subject to the spiritual just as the physical world came into being by the spiritual. We do not have to pretend the physical symptoms do not exist but know that they will be changed by the higher truth of Gods word when it is believed. When His Word convinces us that our prayers are answered before we have yet seen the answers the Word begins to effectively work in us 1Thessalonians2:13. God's Word never fails to work in those who accept it as such because they are not entertaining doubts as to its being fulfilled. If we will steadfastly believe that we receive Mark 11:24 the answer to our prayer & act on our faith every one of us can be healed though it will not always instantly be manifested. Whatever you ask when you pray believe that you receive them & you will have them Mark 11:24. Another translation reads: Whenever you pray or ask for anything have faith that it has been granted you and you shall have it. It is important to keep the word of God constantly before us and stay away from negative influences. We might as well face the truth: Unbelief is sin. It is a slavish loyalty to sense knowledge and a disloyalty to the word of God. We have to firmly shut the door on unbelief however it manifests. We need to be certain that it is God's plan that sickness should be taken from our midst Ex.23.25. Gods will is that we prosper in all things & be in health 3John2. Bodly believe & receive the promise
