The Word of God and Healing

Yesterday, we shared that the movement of God's word and God's healing are experienced in us in the same ways. The changes they bring can be received as a revelation and by meditation, instantaneously and gradually. Today, I want to share one of the other similarities between healing and the word of God.

Healing and the word of God can be appreciated in us through a call to separation. The word of God is, Hebrews 4:12 says "quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." The word of God, the Psalmist says is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path and leads us in the way we should go. It gives us a spiritual diet for us to follow.

Healing also can arise out of following dietary or behavioral directions. We close the gap between how we are and how we were meant to be by separating ourselves from how we were meant to be from how we are. We are intentional about maintaining the distinction between our will and God's. We observe what is good for us instead of what is not.

This method is called for when we pray in the Lord's Prayer "Give us this day our daily bread." This literally means we are asking God to prescribe for us what we need each day and we will follow it until we have achieved the desired outcome. Healing comes about in the same fashion.

Some of us need to keep this similarity in mind when we are in wait mode for healing. We are tempted to think if healing hasn't already occurred it is not meant to be. Do we do that physically? No, we do not.

Do you ever tell your doctor you don't deserve a diagnosis that will heal you? You haven't gotten better so it must be meant to be. Separate yourself from that kind of thinking spiritually. The Great Physician is willing to prescribe what you need for healing and wholeness. Consecrate yourself, separate yourself unto his words until you have healing.