Your Healing Was Already Paid For

If you are in a long health battle, you have probably wondered whether the healing verses are really meant for you. That is an honest question and it deserves a straight answer from the Bible instead of a slogan.

Proverbs 4:22 says of God's words, "For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh." His Word was never meant to stay parked in your head. It carries life all the way into your body.

Isaiah 53:5 says, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Jesus carried what you are carrying. It was handled at the cross, in the same act that dealt with your sin.

1 Peter 2:24 says, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." Look at the tense there. Were healed. Not will be, once you perform well enough. It is a finished purchase already in your name.

And straight up, being ill is not a faith failure. It is not God putting you through something to teach you a lesson, and it is not a scoreboard on how well you believe. Take your medicine, see your doctor, and keep your heart open to Him at the same time. God is not against you and He is not the one holding out.

So receive this the way you received everything else, by faith rather than by feelings. The Holy Spirit is the One who makes it real in you, and you can talk to Him in plain words: thank You Jesus for taking my sickness and my pain, I receive the wholeness You bought for me. Then keep standing right there. What Jesus paid for does not expire.