God’s Side of Healing

By understanding and applying the Living Word of God, you can receive Physical Healing, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Healing.

The four Gospels show that during Jesus’ earthly ministry there were many occasions when people approached Jesus for healing. Not once did Jesus turn anyone away or state that it was not His will. This is significant since the Bible is intended to show God’s will for man.

In the Old Testament, God says that His name is JEHOVAH RAHPA, or “I am the Lord that heals you” (Exodus 15:26). Think of it! God says that His name is “The Lord that heals you!” How could God reveal His will more clearly than to give Himself a name that says He heals you? Not only is it His will, it’s His name – it’s who He is and what He does!

Physical Healing

Matthew 4:23 (New King James Version)

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

Jesus preached the gospel—the Good News—to everyone who wanted to hear it. The Good News is that the Kingdom of Heaven has come, that God is with us, and that he cares for us.

Emotional and Spiritual Healing

Luke 4:18 (New King James Version)

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.

Jesus did not come as a rich ruler to win power and man’s applause, but he came to win men’s hearts with “His love.” He came to “heal your broken heart.” Why? Because He truly loves you!

He proved that He had the power over the grave and that we can have eternal life with Him in heaven. How loving our Lord is and how wonderful it is that He looks past our sins. He loves us in spite of everything we could have ever done. You can be happy! You can have victory over the sadness of life and you can have healing for your broken heart through the Salvation of Jesus Christ who dearly loves us. You can be saved and healed! Christ can heal us, not just of physical sickness, but of emotional and spiritual sickness as well. There’s no sin or problem too great or too small for Him to handle.

Jesus’ words were good news because they offered freedom, hope, peace of heart, and eternal life with God.

Matthew 14:35-36 (New King James Version)

And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent out into all that surrounding region, brought to Him all who were sick, and begged Him
that they might only touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well.

Both the man’s body and his spirit were paralyzed – he could not walk and he did not know Jesus. But the man’s spiritual state was Jesus’ first concern.

If God does not heal us or someone we love, we need to remember that physical healing is not Christ’s only concern. We will all be completely healed in Christ’s coming kingdom, but first we have to come to know Jesus. The people recognized Jesus as a great healer, but how many understood who He truly was? They came to Jesus for physical healing, but did they come for spiritual healing?

They came to prolong their lives on earth, but did they come to secure their eternal lives? People may seek Jesus to learn valuable lessons from His life or in hopes of finding relief from pain. But we miss Jesus’ whole message if we seek Him to heal our bodies but not our souls, or if we look to Him for help only in this life, rather than for His eternal plan for us.

Only when we understand the real Jesus Christ can we appreciate how He can truly change our life.