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Details about Healing:
Building Blocks of Life or Death
(Excerpts Taken From Charles Capps’ Book
God’s Creative Power for Healing)
Divine healing is a spiritual cure. Medical
science aids healing through physical means
by administering medicine into the physical
body. God’s divine healing is spiritual. It
is administered through the human spirit (1
Cor. 2:9-12). In Prov.4:20-22 God tells us
His word is life unto those that find them,
and health to all their flesh. GOD’S WORD
WILL HEAL YOUR BODY, but it does it through
spiritual means. Healing can be received
into the human spirit through the Word. Once
it is conceived there, it permeates the
physical body.
Just as you would take medicine into your
physical body to aid healing by physical
means, so YOU MUST RECEIVE GOD’S WORD
CONCERNING HEALING INTO YOUR SPIRIT FOR
SUPERNATURAL HEALING. And like other
medicine, it must be applied on a regular
basis. You must SPEAK GOD’S WORD to your
individual circumstance or situation -
someone else can’t do it for you. James 1:21
admonishes us to receive with meekness the
engrafted Word, which is able to save your
soul (and body). Once the Word of God is
engrafted into your spirit, it produces
results in your body as well.
The image that the Word creates in you is
already a reality in the spirit realm. When
you speak God’s Word from your heart, then
your faith frames your world daily. Jesus
made it very plain; “a good man out of the
good treasure of his heart brings forth good
things” (Matthew 12:35). Every time you
speak your faith, it creates a stronger
image inside you. Eventually the Word of God
will perfect that image, and you will begin
to see yourself well. When the Word is
engrafted into you, it infuses its life into
you (John 6:63, Rom. 8:11).
Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen (Heb.11:1).
Hope is important, but hope lacks substance
until filled with faith. Look at the works
of Jesus: “All things are possible to them
that believe” (Mark 9:23). If you had faith
as a seed you should say” (Luke 17:6), “he
that believeth hath…” (John 3:36),
“whosoever shall say; he shall have” (Mark
11:23, 24). It is the Bible principal of
BELIEVING AND CALLING FOR THINGS THAT ARE
NOT YET MANIFEST. “Daughter, thy faith hath
made thee whole” (Mark 5:34). Giving voice
to your faith in God’s Word can also make
you whole.
God’s Word is spoken of in Proverbs 4:22 as
being medicine to all our flesh. It is the
most powerful medicine available today, and
it is capable of healing your body without
side effects. Psalms 107:20 tells us that
God sent His Word and healed… According to
Isaiah 53:5, 6 and 1 Peter 2:24, healing is
a fact as far as God is concerned.
It belongs unto us because healing was in
the atonement (Isaiah 53:5, 6). Our
confession of the Word of God calls for
healing which is already ours but is not in
manifestation in our bodies. No, I am not
teaching against doctors or medicine. But
don’t depend on doctors or medicine alone to
keep you healthy. There are some diseases
that medical science cannot cure. But, if
you need a doctor, see a doctor. There are
medicines today that are beneficial in
aiding the body’s healing process. If you
are taking medicine, mix faith with it by
saying, “I believe I receive my healing in
Jesus Name.” Most medicines will help hold
down the symptoms while you are applying
God’s principles concerning healing and
health.
I don’t advocate that you throw your
medicine away and rely on confession alone
unless the Lord directs you to do so. It
takes time to renew your mind and develop
faith in your words as well as God’s Word.
But the things you are continually
confessing eventually become part of you.
DEATH and LIFE are in the power of the
tongue; and they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof (Prov. 18:21). In Isaiah 57:19
we were told, “I create the fruit of the
lips. Peace, peace to him that is far off,
and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and
I will heal him.”
It takes time to develop faith to operate in
these principles, so don’t let anyone put
you under condemnation for going to the
doctors or having an operation. In other
words, operate on your level of faith, but
don’t stay on that level forever. Continue
in God’s Word until you develop faith in the
healing power of God’s Word.
Operating in these principles is not easy.
It takes discipline and commitment. It’s not
good enough just to read these confessions.
I encourage you to confess the Word audibly
over your body two to three times a day.
Confess it with authority. It is not
necessary for you to make these confessions
before others, for the words you speak are
for your benefit.
God declares that His Word will not return
void. We are to return His Word by giving
VOICE to it, and He will create the fruit of
our lips. Confessing God’s Word is a way you
can fellowship with the Lord and increase
your faith at the same time. I challenge you
to affirm these scriptural confessions
audibly three times a day. Don’t let it
become a hit and miss proposition. Make it a
practice to take God’s medicine on a regular
basis, just as you would any other medicine.
Then it will be LIFE to you and HEALTH to
your flesh.
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