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GOD’S
MEDICINE
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by Charles Capps
promise, but Abraham had to call it “...ye were healed” (I Peter 2:24).
into reality by mixing faith with Your healing is a complete work as far
God’s Word. (Hebrews 4:1-2) as God’s Word is concerned. Yet we
Every time he said, “I am must be fully persuaded of it and call it
Abraham,” he was calling things that into manifestation.
were not yet manifest. Abraham
didn’t deny that he was old. He HEALING IS IN
didn’t go around saying, “I’m not YOUR MOUTH
old,” because he was old. But he
said, “I am Abraham”, (Father of One way to administer God’s
Nations). This was God’s method of medicine to your body is to keep
helping him change his image, and it God’s Word in your mouth. Paul said,
caused him to be fully persuaded. The Word is nigh you even in your
Just as Abraham did you must mouth and then in your heart. But,
also call things which are not yet instead of calling things that are not,
seen in the natural, if you are to live most people make the mistake of
in the reality of God’s promise. For calling things the way they are.
God uses unseen spiritual forces to Many years ago, I heard about a
overcome natural things. First lady who had a fever continually for
Corinthians 1:27-28 says, “God several months. Doctors couldn’t find
hath chosen... things which are anything physically wrong with her.
not, to bring to nought things that They questioned her thoroughly
are.” and discovered that when she was
Your part is to speak what is true upset about anything, she would say,
according to God’s Word. “that just burns me up.” She used that
David said, “I believe, therefore phrase several times a day. The doctors
have I spoken...” (Psalm 116:10). were not sure if it had anything to do
Quoting David, Paul wrote, “We with her condition or not, but they
having the same spirit of faith, asked her not to use the phrase
according as it is written, I anymore.
believed, and therefore have I Within weeks, her body tempera-
spoken; we also believe, and ture was normal.
therefore speak” (2 Cor. 4:13). Now let me ask you, how many
When it comes to divine healing times have you said, “Every time I eat
this is a vital principle. For God’s that it makes me sick...My back is just
Word is life, health, and medicine to killing me...Those kids make me so
all your flesh. nervous... I’m trying to take the flu...”?
Psalm 107:20 tells us that God Your own words are giving instruc-
“...sent his word, and healed them, tions to your body and it will be
and delivered them from their greatly influenced by those words. It
destructions.” (Notice that God did may even shut down your immune
not send His Word to heal, but He system.
sent His Word and healed.) God’s method is to call for positive
The truth is that by Jesus’ stripes things that are not yet a reality in your
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body. Call them until they are mani- mouth. No one else can do it for you.
fested. Exercise your God-given James admonished us to “...receive
authority over your body. with meekness the engrafted
word, which is able to save your
APPLY SPIRITUAL souls” (James 1:21).
MEDICINE God’s Word becomes engrafted
into your heart as you speak it. It is
To exercise your authority over first in your mouth, then in the
your body, God’s Word must be heart...this is God’s order.
allowed to become part of you. This “The righteousness which is of
process is called receiving the faith...says...The word is nigh thee,
engrafted Word. even in thy mouth, and in thy
When you declare God’s promises heart...” (Romans 10:6-8). Nothing
concerning your healing, you are builds your faith more than declaring
establishing God’s truth even before it with your own voice what God has
is a reality in your body. This is not said about you in His Word.
denying that sickness exists. It is When you declare God’s
denying sickness the right to exist in promises concerning your healing,
your body. you are establishing God’s truth even
before it is a reality in your body. Let
Exercise your me say it again, this is not denying
God-given authority that sickness exists. It is denying
over your body. sickness the right to exist in your
body. It is taking your rightful
Just as you would take medicine position as one who has been
into your physical body to aid healing redeemed from the curse of the law
by physical means, so you must and delivered from the authority
receive God’s Word concerning of darkness (Galatians 3:13;
healing into your spirit for supernatur- Colossians 1:13).
al healing. Just as medical science aids Some people who have misun-
healing through physical means by derstood this principle try to deny
administering medicine into the what exists. But there is no power in
physical body, God’s medicine denying what exists. The power is in
provides divine healing by administer- calling for healing and health, and
ing the promises of His Word through you do that by mixing faith with
the human spirit. God’s Word will heal God’s Word.
your body, but it does it through If you are sick, you don’t deny
spiritual means. that you are sick. Then on the other
Although it is a spiritual cure, hand, you don’t want to always be
God’s Word is like any other medicine confessing your sickness. Denying
- in that it must be applied on a regular sickness will not make you well, yet
basis. You must apply God’s Word to confessing sickness establishes you
your individual circumstances or in your present circumstance and
situation by the confession of your gives you a mind-set of fear.
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Make a decision to mix your faith more clear in The Amplified Bible,
with God’s Word and call for God’s which says, “For she kept saying,
promises to be manifest in your body. If I only touch His garments, I
The mixing of your faith with God’s shall be restored to health.”
Word will cause you to be fully This woman hoped to be healed
persuaded. When you become fully as she pressed through the crowd.
persuaded, healing is the result. She continued to speak until she saw
Do you want your flesh to reflect herself well. Her hope was that she
the life of God’s Word? Then let the would be healed, although she didn’t
Word become so infused into your feel or look healed. She continued to
spirit that it becomes a part of you. Not strengthen her hope with faith-filled
only will His Word become your words: “I shall be restored to
thought and affirmation...but it will be health...I shall be restored to
you. When God’s Word concerning health...I shall be...I shall be...”
healing takes root in your flesh, it I’m sure her head demanded,
becomes greater than pain, greater When? You don’t look, or feel, any
than disease, and that Word becomes a better. She answered human
reality in your flesh. reasoning by speaking the faith
image that filled her heart; When I
SEEING YOURSELF touch His garment, I shall be whole.
WHOLE Those words penetrated her spirit
and she began to see herself well.
When the Word of God is allowed Images of despair and defeat gave
to be engrafted into you, it creates in way to faith-filled words of healing.
you an image of what is already reality When she touched Jesus’ garment,
in the spirit realm. When you speak her touch of faith made a demand on
that Word from your heart, then faith the covenant of God and the healing
gives substance to the promises of anointing which was on Jesus. Faith
God. Those images become stronger gave substance to her hope and
every time you speak your faith. healing was manifested in her body.
A healing image is created in you Hope is a goal-setter, but it lacks
by God’s Word and your continual substance until it is filled with faith.
affirmation of agreement with what Faith gave substance to her hope and
God has said. When that image is laid claim to what was hers
perfected by the Word of God you according to the promises of the
begin to see yourself well. The Word covenant. Someone said Jesus
engrafted into you is infusing God’s healed her, but He didn’t even know
life into you (John 6:63; Romans she was there until He felt power
8:11). flow out of Him. Then Jesus said,
This was demonstrated by the “Daughter, thy faith hath made
woman with the issue of blood, who thee whole...(verse 34).” It was her
followed Jesus saying, “If I may faith in the covenant that made a
touch his clothes, I shall be whole” demand on the anointing and healing
(Mark 5:28). The verb tense is made was the result.
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Learn what the Word of God has to say about:
• God’s Will for Your Health
• Acting in Faith to Receive from God’s Provision
• Your Words affect the Cells and Tissues of Your Body
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PRACTICAL TEACHING
The
Mind-Body
CONNECTION
BY ANNETTE CAPPS
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happens in the other cells of the it was also present to teach them
body...the liver, pancreas, heart, how to maintain that healing. A
kidneys etc. It is not what big part of the healing ministry
happens in life that affects our was to teach people to let go of
cells as much as it is our reaction things that make them sick.
to those experiences. You may have stepped into the
prayer line for healing of a
L ET GO OF WHAT MAKES tension headache and when
YOU SICK hands were laid on you the
headache left. You have
In Luke, chapter 5, verse 15, temporary relief. But if you don’t
the Bible says, “But so much the learn to deal with the tension in a
more went there a fame abroad of healthy manner or eliminate
him: and great multitudes came some of it, you will continue to
together to hear, and to be healed have tension headaches. Now,
by him of their infirmities.” lest you go around judging those
The people came to hear and who are seeking treatments for
to be healed. Something that they stiff necks and headaches, let me
heard helped them to be healed. say that there are organic and sit-
Yes, they heard that Jesus was uational causes for sickness and
anointed but they also heard His disease also. Perhaps that person
message. The Sermon on the with a stiff neck was in an auto
Mount was probably the essence accident and has whiplash. There
of Jesus’ message. (Matt 5, 6, & are genetic predispositions, as
7) That message was one of love, well such as diabetes, heart
forgiveness, and overcoming evil problems, cancer, etc. However,
with good. The people that Jesus with the Word of God and our
was speaking to were terribly confession, we can reverse those
oppressed by the religious leaders tendencies. James says that we
of the day. They had good reason can set on fire the wheel of
to hate and hold grudges,but nature, that is our genetic inheri-
Jesus taught them how to let go tance. (James 3:2-6)
of what was eating them alive. If you have a chronic
(Resentment and bitterness can condition that you are troubled
literally eat you alive and make with, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal
you sick.) to you any areas in your attitudes
Yes, the anointing will heal, and thought life that are affecting
but what if the root of the disease you. Let Christ really heal you
was not dealt with? The hatred down to the root of the disease.
would cause the physical “If the Son therefore shall make
problems to return. Yes, the you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
anointing was present to heal, but (John 8:36)
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