Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise. Jeremiah 17: 14 (KJV)
We have healing services from time to time like this because everything physical has spiritual undertone. While illness manifest physically the root cause is something coming from the spirit. Jeremiah 8: 17, 22 says, For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah was a prophet in Israel and he came at a time when the people had gone away from God. Jeremiah relayed to them the words of God and told them of the incoming wrath of God. The people did not listen and instead they put him in prison. Jeremiah in chapter 8 told the people that there will be sickness in the land that won’t be cured with the balm of Gilead.
A lot of us do not know or appreciate the value of good health. We take good health for granted. I visited a person in the hospital recently, a promising successful man who has being weighed down by an illness that affects one in a million persons. I looked at myself and wondered why such a promising person is faced with such a challenge.
You are going to get up and face every arrow of sickness that the enemy is using to prevent you from being that person God has created you to be today. Fight it in the spirit realm with prayers and reject it. You must face fiercely every seed of illness the enemy has planted in your life; the germinated plants must be uprooted with the help of the Holy Spirit.
The word says, “We shall live and not die to declare the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living”. It says we shall decree a thing and it shall be established unto us and when we ask, we shall receive.
Why do people fall sick? A lot us will simply fall sick at some time. Sickness is a degeneration, a fault, a malfunctioning or an error in the body. Sickness is a messenger of death. But the issue here is that we will not die before our time. We will not be held down by any kind of sickness that will not allow our body to respond to us. Through Jesus we shall rise above them all.
Gods original plan was for man to live a simple and everlasting life, sin and disobedience came in the life of man and sickness came. Every illness is an attack on the body. If we open ourselves to attack, we will be attacked. The bible tells us the arrow flies at noon day looking for whom to attack.
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. 2 Samuel 12: 13-15 As a result of the sin committed by a father his child died.
People fall physically sick when their mind or their heart is sick. As we go through life, we must be careful what we hear, feel, see and say. Sometime sorrow, fear, unhappiness, depression and anxiety causes can manifest as sickness and manifest in the physical and that sometimes lead to death. Proverbs 13:12 hope deferred makes the heart sick. A lot of people fall sick not because of any physical attack but because of emotional attack that result in sickness or death.
Some sicknesses are as a result of unkindness and bot being merciful to the people that look up to us for help. Nabal’s heart died within him and immediately he died. 1 Samuel 25: 37 says, “But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.” (KJV).
Sometimes, some sicknesses are generational and are passed on from grandparent to parent and from parent to children. This is not what God has planned for you. Since it is not the plan for God for us then He can cancel it and bring about good health to you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8: 36 KJV
