HEALING 

Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.  For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh." The Hebrew word for "health" in verse 22 is "medicine." God's Word is medicine to all our flesh.  Isaac Leeser's transiation of Exodus 15:26 reads, "... I the Lord am thy physician." The medicine He prescribes is His Word.

Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God's medi¬cine—His Word.  They say, "I believe in healing" without actually taking the medicine. What good would it do you to believe in food if you didn't eat it? You would starve. ,What good would it do you to believe in water if you didn't actually drink any? You would die of thirst.

God's Word is His medicine.  There are several parallels between God's medicine and nat¬ural medicine.  First, God's Word is a healing agent just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst.  In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. God's Word contains inherent within it the capacity, the energy, the ability, the nature to effect healing in your body.  Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent his word, and heaied them, and delivered them from their destruetions." Fenton says, "He sent out His word, and it heaied, and from their corruptions it freed!" Proverbs 4:22 says, "For they (His Words) are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh." Isaiah 55:10, 11 says the Word of God will aecomplish what it was sent out to do. The Word itself contains the power to produce what it says, just as when God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Healing Scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing. Hebrews 4:12 says, "The word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. ..." Weymouth says, "God's Message is füll of life and power. ..." Jordan says, "God's Word is alive with energy. ..." Knox says, "God's word to us is something alive, füll of energy. ..." The key to partaking of the life and healing energy in the Word is feeding on it until it penetrates your spirit where it deposits that life and energy.

Secondly, we might say that medicine is no respector of persons. It will work for anyone who takes it. It is not a matter of God willing or not willing the healing of any individual, but whether or not the individual will reeeive healing by taking the medicine that produces it.

Thirdly, and most importantly, medicine must  be  taken aecording  to directions  to  be affective.   Some medicine labels read, "Take internally; "others say "Take externally."  To rub it on your body externally when the directions say to take it internally will not work. To take it after meals when the directions say take it before meals will reduce its effectiveness. To take it once in a while when the directions say three times every day will mean limited re-sults, if any.  No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken aecording to directions, or it won't work.  So it is with God's medicine.  It must be taken aecording to directions to work. The directions for taking God's medicine are found in Proverbs 4:20,2 1. Attend to them, incline your ear to them, don't let them depart from before your eyes, and keep them in the midst of your heart. We might say that attending to them, inclining your ear to them, and keeping them before your eyes causes them to get into the midst of your heart.  Notice this— it is only as they get in the midst of your heart and stay there that they produce healing in your body. Head knowledge won't do. They are going to have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation—attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering—to produce healing in your body. But once they do penetrate, they will surely bring health to all your flesh. The living Bible says, ". . .let them penetrate deep within your heart." You can see again that God's way of healing is spiritual.  Power is ministered first to your spirit, then distributed to your body. God's medicine must be taken  internally.

Listen, instead of wondering whether you have enough faith to be heaied, just take the medicine.  Here is a list of healing Scriptures—feed on them several times a day, repeating them over and over again to yourself.  The medicine itself will work if you will get it inside you.

Fourthly, remember that it takes time for medicine to work. Most people give natural medicine a lot of time and patience and money to work. They take the prescription back for refills and more refills. They are diiigent about it. They don't just take one dose and ex-pect a miracle.  Keep taking God's medicine. Give it time to work.

Take your medicine.  Say these Scriptures to yourself. Think on what you're saying in your heart.  Use them in praise to the Father. His Word is medicine to all your flesh.

Exodus 15:25,26.  And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a Statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his Statutes, 1 will put none of these diseases upon thee, which 1 have brought upon the Egyptians: for 1 am the Lord that healeth thee.

(New English Bible) ...I the Lord am your healer.
(Leeser) . . .for I the Lord am thy physician. l'
(Basic English) . . .1 am the Lord your life-giver.
(Rotherham) . . .1 am Yahweh thy physician.
(Y oung) . . . I , Jehova, am healing thee.
(Smith-Goodspeed) . . .for I , the Lord, make you immune to them (diseases).
(Knox) ...I, the Lord, will bring thee only health.

God is speaking to me now, saying,"I am the Lord that healeth thee." He is watching over this Word to perform it. He is the Lord that healeth me.  He is healing me now.  This Word contains the ability to produce what it says.  He is the Lord that healeth me. He is healing me now. His Word is füll of healing power.  1 receive this Word now.  1 receive the healing that is in His Word now. Healing is inherent in God's nature. God is in me. My body is the temple of God. My body is the temple of the Lord that healeth me. God is bigger than sickness and Satan. God is dwelling inside of me now, healing me now.  The Lord that healeth me is my Shepherd; 1 do not lack healing. My body is in con-tact with the Lord that healeth me. My body has to respond to God's healing life and nature at work in me now. Healing is in God and God is in me.  "I thank you,  Eather, because you are my Healer and You are healing me now."

Exodus 23:25. And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

(Basic English) And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send a blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.
(Moffatt, Smith-Goodspeed) ... I will free you from disease.
(Young)  ...I have turned aside sickness from thine heart.
(Knox) . . .and keep sickness away from thy Company.

("I will" is the strongest assertion that can be made in the English language.)

God is speaking to me now saying, "I will take sickness away from the midst of thee." God is watching over this Word, performing it in me now. He is tak-ing sickness away from the midst of me.  I worship the Lord my God who takes sickness away from the midst of me. "Good-by, sickness; the Lord is taking you away from the midst of me," "Thank you, Father, for taking sickness away from me.  I thank you for doing what you said."

Deuteronomy 7:15.   And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

The Lord is taking away from me all sickness. His Word contains the ability to do what it says. His Word will not return void but accomplish what it was sent to do. The Lord is taking away from me all sickness, every trace of weakness and deficiency. Sickness is going out of me now.  "Thank you,  Father, for taking away from me all sickness like you said."

Psalm 30:2.  O Lord my God,  I cried unto thee, and thou has healed me.

I believe I have received my healing, Mark 11:24. Thou has healed me.  I don't con-sider what I feel.  I believe I am healed.  Thou hast healed me.

Psalm 42:11.  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?

Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. I refuse to be cast down or discouraged.  1 am the conqueror.  I will yet praise Him Who is the health of my countenance and my God.  "Father,  I praise you because You are the health of my countenance."

Psalm 91:1-6,10. l He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and trom the noicsome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

(Amplified) ^e who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty (Whose power no foe can withstand)
(Leeser) lHe who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow of the- Almighty.
(New World) !Anyone dwelling in the secret place of the Most High will procure himseli lodgine under the very shadow of the Almighty One.
(Byington)TOne who lives under the Most High's screen, lodges under Shaddai's canopy.
(RSV) *He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty, 2will say to the Lord, "My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom 1 trust."
(Young) *He who is dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, in the shade of the mighty lodgeth habitually, 2 He is saying of Jehovah
(Basic. English) LHappy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and und the shade of the wings of the Most High; 2Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place ana my tower of strength: he is my God
(Smith-Goodspeed) *He who dwells...  Says of the Lord
(Knox) *He who lives under the protection of the Most High, under his heavenly care content to abide, 2can say to the Lord, Thou art my support and my stronghold, my God, in whom 1 trust.
(Basic English)3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
(Good News) 3He will keep you safe from all hidden dangers and from all deadly disease.
(Beck) 3. . .and from the deadly plague.
(Knox)   It is he that rescues me from every treacherous snare, from every whisper of härm. 4Sheltered under his arms, under his wings nestling, thou art safe; his faithfulness will throw a shield about thee.
(Living Bible) 4. ..His faithful promises are your armor.
(Knox) 5 Nothing shalt thou fear from nightly terrors            6. . .from the assult of man or hend under the noon.
(Basic English) 5You will have no fear of the evil things of the night           6Or of the disease which takes men in the dark
(Beck) §..the p[ague ravaging at noon.
(New American Bible) .6. .nor the devastating plague at noon.
(New English Bible)6 or the plague raging at noonday.
(NIV) ?..nor the plague that destroys at midday.
(Leeser)  6. . .nor of the deadly disease that wasteth at noonday.
(New World) 9Becuase you [said]: "Jehovah is my refuge, "You have made the Most High HimseÜ your dwelling.
(Basic English) 9Because you have said,  I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place.
rI?eW ?£gIish Bible) 1ÖNo disaster will befall you, no calamity will come upon your home.
(Knox) luThere is no härm that can befall thee
(Smith-Goodspeed) 10No disaster will befall you, Nor calamity come near your tent.
(Good News)10 and so no disaster'will strike you, no violence will come near your home.
(Fenton) ^ So sickness will not approach you, Contagion not enter your Rest.

I'm abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. Jehova-rapha, the Lord that healeth me, is my refuge and fortress against disease. His Word is my shield and buckler against sickness.  I'm trusting under His wings, and there is heal-ing in His wings (Malachi 4:1.) I'm not afraid of disease.

I'm not afraid of sickness.  I'm abiding under the shadow of Jehova-rapha, the Lord that healeth me. No plague shall come nigh my dwelling or my body. I resist sickness and disease.  1 refuse to accept it; it's not mine.  1 refuse to be sick in Jesus' name.  Sickness cannot trespass in my body.  Sickness (name it), you can't come nigh my dwelling.  1 refuse you; I resist you.

Psalm 103:2,3. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all they diseases.

(New English Bible) He pardons all my fuilt and heals all my suffering.
(Basic English) . . .he takes away all your diseases.
(Young) . . .Who is healing all thy disease.

Bless the Lord,  Jehova-rapha, O my soul. Blessed be God the father. Lord, 1 praise You; Lord,  I thank you.  Praise You for your benefits. You forgive all my sin, all my faults, all my failures and disobedience. You heal all my diseases, and I thank You for it. Healing belongs to me as part of the New Covenant. Healing is my redemptive right. (A benefit is a condition of a con-tract, not a bonus thrown in extra at the discretion of the employer.) Thank You Father for healing all my diseases.

Psalm 107: 20. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

(Moffatt) he sent his word to heal them and preserve their life.
(Leeser) . . .and delivereth them from their graves.
(Fenton) He sent out His word, and it healed, and from their corruptions it freed!

He sent His Word and healed me.  His Word heals me and delivers me from my destructions. His Word frees me from my corruptions. God's Word contains God's ability to perform what it says (Isaiah 55:10,11.) His Word is healing me now.  His Word contains His healing power. His Word is working in me now . He has sent His Word and healed me.

Proverbs 4:20-22. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22For they are life unto those that find them, andhealth to all their flesh.

(Living Bible) 21. . .let them penetrate deep within your heart.
(Knox)  22Let a man master them, they will bring life and healing to his whole being.
(Leeser) 22. . .and to all his body a healing.
(Rotherham) 22 . . .to every part of one's flesh they bring healing.

God's Word is health to all my flesh. His Word is medicine to my flesh. "1 am the Lord that healeth thee" is medicine to my flesh now.  "I will take away from thee all sickness" is medicine to all my flesh. "1 will take sickness away from the midst of thee" is medicine to my flesh.  The Word of God is füll of the life of God. That life is saturating my spirit. God's life and healing power is in His Word and His Word is at work in me now. The Word of God is depositing the life of God and the healing of God into my spirit. That life and health is spreading out of my spirit into every tissue and pore of my body, creating health and soundness. My body has no choice but to respond to the healing in the Word that is being abosorbed into me now.

Proverbs 12:18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

(Moffatt) A reckless tongue wounds like a sword, but there is healing power in thoughtful words.
(Good News) Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal.
(Basic English) There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue. of the wise makes one well again.

My tongue makes me well.  1 have what 1 say.  1 say, "The Lord is my Healer." I say, "He takes sickness away from me." 1 say, "No plague come nigh my dwelling." I say, "He healeth all my diseases." What 1 confess,  1 possess. My words make me well.  There is healing power in my words, for they are God's words.  1 speak health to every muscle, tissue, fibre, and cell in my body.  I release God's healing power with my words into my whole body. Healing IS mme.

Proverbs 17:22.  A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth ihe bones.

(Good News) Being cheerful keeps you healthy. (Smith-Goodspeed) A happy heart is a healing medicine. . .
(Basic English) A glad heart makes a healthy body .
(Moffatt) A glad heart helps and heals. ...
(Jerusalem) A glad heart is excellent medicine, a spirit depressed wastes the bones away.
(KnoxO A cheerful heart makes a quick recovery; it is crushed spirits that waste a man's frame.
(Fenton) The best medicine is a cheerful heart.. . .
(Rotherham) A joyful heart worketh an excellent eure. . . .
(Living Bible) . . .a broken spirit makes one sick.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  I have a merry heart.  Sickness can't dominate me.  Satan can't dominate me. What do you think you're trying to do, devil? You can't put sickness on me. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I have a merry heart.  I'm füll of joy. A merry heart works like a medicine. God's medicine is working in me.

Isaiah 53:3-5. 3He is despised and rejeeted of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him Stricker smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

(Leeser)   ?. .a man of pains, and acquainted with disease.... (Masoretic O.T.)
(Bsic English) 3. . .he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease....
(Rotherham, Byington) . . . .Man of pains and familiär with sickness.
(Leeser) 4But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried.
(Basic English) 4But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
(Masoretic O.T.) 4Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried. . . .
(Rotherham) 4Yet surely our sicknesses he carried, And as for our pains he bare the bürden of them.
(Byington)  4But in fact it was our sicknesses he was carrying, our pains he was loaded with.
(Smith-Goodspeed) 4Yet it was our sicknesses that he bore, our pains that he carried.
(Leeser)   5. . .through his bruises was healing granted to us.
(Rotherham) 5. . .by his stripes there is healing for us.
(Byington)  5. . .the chastisement to give us soundness came on him, and by his stripes we got healing.
(Moffatt) 5. . .the blows that feil to him have brought us healing.
(Good News) 5. . .we are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he reeeived.
(Young) ...by his bruise there is healing to us.
(Amplified) .. .the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole.

Surely He hath borne my sickness and diseases and carried my pains. He took my sicknesses on Himself, and carried my pains. He bore them and carried them away to a distance.  I don't have to bear what He bore for me.  1 refuse to bear what He bore for me. Satan cannot put on me what Jesus bore for me. By His stripes I am healed. By His stripes I got healing. By His bruise there is healing for me. His punishment has brought me healing. Healing has been granted to me. With the stripes that wounded Him I am healed and made whole.  I am made whole by the blows He reeeived. My diseases went to the cross with Jesus and died with Him there. Satan, you're visiting the wrong one.  Jesus took my sicknesses and by His stripes,  I am healed.

Malachi 4:2.   But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

The Son of righteousness has arisen, having conquered sickness and Satan There is healing in His wings. That healing is beaming into me now by His Word. 1 am trusting beneath His healing wings.

Matthew 8:2,3.   And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, 1 will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

(Jerusalem) A leper came up and bowed low in front of him. "Sir," he said, "if you want.to, you can eure me." Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, "Of course 1 want to! Be cured!" And his leprosy was cured at once.
(Wade) ".. .if you have the will, you have the power, to cleanse me."  ".. .1 have the will; be cleansed."
(Jordan) . . ."Sir, if you really wanted to, you could heal me." . . ."1 do want to. Be healed."
(Phillips) .. ."if you want to, you can make me clean." .. ."Of course I want to. Be clean!"
(Basic English) . . .Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean. And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean.
(Rieu) . . ."1 will it. Be cleansed."
(Knox) .. .It is my will. ..
(Fenton, Weymouth, 20th Century) ..."I am willing...."
(Wuest) .. .1 am desiring it from all my heart. Be cleansed at once.
(Authentic) ... I do will it. ...

God wants me well. Healing is the will of God. God is at work in me right new to will and to do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13). Healing is at work in me.

Matthew 8:16,17. 16When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: 17That it might  be fulfilled which was spoken by Easaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmi-ties, and bare our sicknesses.

(Norlie) .. ."He took our infirmi ties upon Himself, and took away our diseases."
(Amplified) . . .He Himself took (in order to carry away) our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases.
(New English Bible) 'He took away our illnesses and lifted our diseases from us.'
(Translator's NT) .. .'He took away our illnesses and carried away our diseases.'
(Jerusalem) He took our sicknesses away and carried our diseases for us.
(Moffatt) . . .He took away our sicknesses and our diseases he removed.
(New Life) .. ."He took on Himself our sicknesses and carried away our diseases."
(Wuest, Berkely 1) . . .carried off our diseases.

Himself took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses. He carried away my sick¬nesses. He carried away my sicknesses. He took them away; He bore them away and removed them. Disease is not mine. Healing is mine.  I refuse to bear what Jesus bore for me. I refuse to take what He took for me.  Satan, you cannot put disease on me, for Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sick¬nesses. I refuse to aeeept sickness. I will not tolerate sickness.  Sickness and disease is totally unacceptable. I refuse to aeeept it.  Jesus bore them and I refuse to have them.

Mark 5:25-34. 25And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,25And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bet-tered, but rather grew worse,27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.  28Eor she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.  29And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she feit in her body that she was heal¬ed of that plague. 30And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 31And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.  33But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and feil down before him, and told him all the truth. 34And he said unto her Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

(Williams) 28.. .for she kept saying, "If I can only touch his clothes,  I shall get well."
(Wuest) 28.. .for she kept saying,  If I touch even his garments, I shall be made whole.
(Phillips)28. . .she kept saying
(Authentic)30Jesus also was immediately aware that power had been drawn from him...
(Wade) 30. .. Jesus, becoming conscious that the healing Power within Him had been in active Operation... .
(Smith-Goodspeed) 30jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him. .
(20th Century) 30jesus instantly became conscious that there had been a demand upon his powers, ...  34"# # .your own faith has made you well. . . .M
(Barclay) 34. . xo and enjoy your new health, free from the trouble that was your scouge
(Diaglott) 34. m ,5e entirely free from thy disease.

Her faith made her whole and my faith makes me whole.  I have faith, for I am a believer.  I believe I receive my healing, and my faith makes me whole. The power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in me (Ephesians 1:19) My faith -puts that power into active Operation in my body. Disease has no choice, no chance for survival in my body. The power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in me. That power is irresistable; it is greater than sick-ness and disease.  That power is flowing in me and makes me whole.  I am free, I am entirely free from sickness and disease.  I am whole.  I believe I have received my healing, and my faith has made me whole.

Luke 13:11-13,16. 1]And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herseif. 12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 3And he laid his hands on her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

(Amplified)11.. .an infirmity caused by a spirit [a demon of sickness].
(Piain English) lK . .had a disease caused by an evil spirit; she was bent double and altogether unable to hold herseif up.
(Smith-Gcodspeed, Confraternity, NASNT)11. ,.a sickness caused by a spirit.
(Wuest) il.. . A woman had a spirit that caused an infirmity eighteen years and was completely bent together by a curvature of the spine, and was not able to raise herseif up at all.
(Douay)12.. .thou art delivered.
(NASNT)12. . .you are freed from your sickness
(Marshall)12.. .thou hast been loosed
(Basic English)12.. .you are made free from your disease.
(NIV) 12. . .you are set free from your infirmity.
(Norlie)12.. .you are now rid of your infirmity.
(Piain English) !? . .you are freed from your disease.
(Jordan) 12. .."Lady, you have been freed from your weakness."
(Worrell) 12. . ."Woman, you have been loosed from your infirmity."
(Condon) 12. . ."Your bondage is at an end."
(Williams) 13. . .at once she straightened herseif up and burst into praising God.
(Rotherham)16. . . was there not a needs-be that she be loosed... .
(Wade) 16And ought not this woman, a descendant of Abraham as she is, whose power of movement Satan has fettered actually for seventeen years, to have been released from such fetters on the day of the Sabbath?
(Barclay) 16. . .For eighteen years Satan has fettered her.  Is it not right that she should be liberated from her fetters?
(Basic English)16And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?
(Norlie)16But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been in the bondage of Satan —think of it!—for eighteen years, should not have the right to be released from her bonds because it is the Sabbath?

Satan can't bind me with sickness.  1 have been delivered from Satan's dom-inion and translated into the kingdom of the Son of God (Colossians 1:13). Sickness is ungodly.  Sickness is of the devil.  Satan, you can't put sickness on me. Who do you think you are? You are a defeated foe.  Jesus stripped you of your authority over me (Colossiäns 2:15, Hebrews 2:14). You can't do this   7 to me.  I resist you in Jesus' name.  I am delivered.  1 am free; I have been loosed.  1 am no longer fettered.  1 am now rid of my infirmity. My bondage is at an end!  It is right for me to be completely free, for I am a child of Abraham, and Abraham's blessings are mine (Galatians 3:14,29). Healing is part of the covenant.  I am under the covenant.  Healing is mine. Healing belongs to me. It is my rightful possession.  I have a right to be released.  Satan,  I demand my rights now. Take your filthy hands off my body!

Acts 10:38. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

(Moffatt) .. .all who were harassed by the devil. ..
(N IV , Piain English) .. . healing all who were under the power of the devil....
(Rieu) . . .healing everyone in the devil's clutches....
(Barclay) .. .curing all those who were under the tyranny of the devil. . . .
(New Berkeley)  '. . .healing all that were overpowered by the devil. . . .
(Weymouth) .. .curing all who were crushed by the power of the devil. . . .
(Jordan) .. .God equipped him with Holy Spirit and power, who passed through our midst acting nobly and healing all those who were lorded over by the devil....
(Phillips) .. .healing all who suffered from the devil's power ....
(Concordant) .. .Who passed through as a benefactor and healer of all those who are tyrannized over by the Adversary. . . .
(Amplified) . . .harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil. . ..

Sickness is oppression of the devil.  Satan can't oppress me with sickness, for I have been delivered from his authority, (Colossiäns 1:13)- Satan can't oppress me.  I have authority to tread on Satan and demons and all the power the enemy possesses. I tread on sickness.  Satan, you can't lord it over me with foul disease. You can't do this to me.  Sickness, you can't do this to me. You are visiting the wrong one. Healing is mine. The power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in me.  It is healing power because He is the Lord that healeth. Healing power is at work in me and I am free.

Luke 10:19- Behold,  I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

(Norlie) I have given you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the might of the satanic foe, and nothing will härm you in any way.
(Knox) ... I have given you the right to. ...
(Amplified) Behold!  I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (physical and mental strength and ability) over all the power that the enemy [possesses], and nothing shall in any way härm you.
(Condon) Yes,  I have given you power to trample every evil underfoot, to counter all the might of the enemy; nothing whatever shall härm you.
(Authentic) I have indeed invested you with power to stamp on snakes and scorpions. .. .

Sickness is a power of the devil (Acts 10:38).  I trample on all the power of the devil.  I trample on disease.  I stomp on disease.  I tread every evil under¬foot. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave me authority over all the power of the enemy.  I have authority over sickness.  Sickness, I trample on you; I tread on you; I stomp on you. Get out, get out, get out. You have no right to dominate me. Get out of my body in Jesus' name. Sickness and disease are under my feet because I am seated with Christ above all the power of the enemy (Ephesians 2:6).

Romans 8:2.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

(Knox) The spiritual principle of life has set me free, in Jesus Christ, from the principle of sin and death.
(Translator's NT) For the principle of spiritual life in Christ Jesus has liberated me from the principle of sin and death.
(Amplified) . . .[the law of our new being]. .. . Romans 8:11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that " dwelleth in you.
(Way)  If the Spirit of God, of Hirn who raised Jesus from the dead, has its home in you, then He who raised the Messiah Jesus from the dead will thrill with a new life your very bodies—those mortal bodies of yours—by the agency of His own Spirit, which now has its home in you.
(Goodspeed) If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has now taken possession of you. (Godbey) .. .will also create life in your mortal bodies. . . .

The Spirit of God is residing in me. The spirit of God is making His home in my spirit. The Spirit of Jehova-rapha is in me, giving life to my body. The Spirit of the Lord that healeth is creating life, supplying life in my body, making it whole. The life of Jehova-rapha is being applied to my body by His Spirit who dwells in me. The life of God drives out every trace of sickness and dis-ease. The life of God is destroying disease germs in my body now.

1.Corinthians 6:13,15,19,20. ^Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye noi that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and y "^ are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, ana in your spirit, which are God's.

My body wasn't made for sin but for the Lord. My body wasn't made for sickness, but for the Lord. My body is a member of Christ. My body belongs to Christ. Satan cannot make Christ's body sick. Satan, how dare you trespass on God's property? Take your hands off God's property in Jesus' name. My body is the temple of Jehova-rapha, the Lord that healeth. He is in me healing me now, for He is the Lord that healeth me. I have been bought with a price. Jesus' blood cleansed me from all sin, and by His stripes, my body is healed.  I glorify God in my body.  I refuse to allow disease in my body in Jesus' name. You foul disease, take your hands off my body in Jesus' name.

Galatians 3:13» Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree.

(Translator's NT) Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by taking that curse upon himself for our sakes....
(Wand) Now, Christ bought us off the curse of the law at the cost of being accursed for our sakes
(20th Century) Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the law
(Weymouth) Christ has purchased our freedom....

Deuteronomy 28:21,22,27,28,35,59-61. 21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.22The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 27Jhe Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28  The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:35The LOrd shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. 59Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61Also every sickness,and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. (The curse of the law is found in Deuteronomy 28.  It is the curse for breaking God's law.  It includes sickness, as the Scriptures above show.) Christ bought me back,brought me back, and set me free from the curse of the law.  Sickness and disease is part of the curse of the law; therefore Christ has redeemed me from sickness.  I am liberated, I am ransomed,  I am free from disease.  I am redeemed from every disease written in the curse of the law. (Confess the specific disease if it is listed in these verses—"1 am redeemed from_ .") I am also redeemed from every disease that is not written in the Bood of the Law. Christ has re¬deemed me—bought me back, brought me back, and set me free from all sickness and disease.

Ephesians 4:27. Neither give place to the devil

(Williams) Stop giving the devil a chance.
(Barclay) Give the devil no place or opportunity in your life.
(Translatorfs NT) . . .and do not give the devil a chance.
(Jordan) . . .don't give in one inch to the devil.

I refuse to give place to the devil. Sickness and disease are of the devil. I refuse to give place to sickness and disease. Satan, you can't put that on my body.  You can't, you can't, you can't.  I say "no," and 1 mean "no." No sickness or plague comes nigh my dwelling. You have the wrong address. I will not give in one inch. Satan, you have no place in my body. You can't do this to me.  I won't have it.  It is unacceptable.  It is not mine, and you cannot give it to me. You have no place in me or my body.  I belong to God. Sickness, you have no choice but to go because I'm not giving you a chance. Get out now.

Colossians 1:12. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

(Smith-Goodspeed) . . .thank the Father who has entitled you to share the lot of God's people in the realm of light.
(New Berkeley) . . .who has qualified you for your share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.
(Rotherham) . . .the Father that hath made you sufficient for your share
(Godbey) .. .who has made us worthy....
(Noli) . . .he enabled us to share the inheritance of the saints who live in the light.
(Living Bible). . .to share all the wonderful things that belong to those who live in the kingdom of light.

I am qualified, entitled, worthy, and able to partake of my inheritance in Christ. Healing belongs to me (Psalms 102:3.) I refuse to be beaten out of my inheritance.

Colossians 1:13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

(Smith-Goodspeed) He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has trans¬ferred us into the realm of his dear Son.
(Piain English) He has freed us from the power of darkness and carried us away into the kingdom of his beloved Son.
(Conybeare) For He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of His beloved Son.
(Wade) For God has rescued us from the dominance exercised by the Powers of Spirit¬ual Darkness, and transferred us to the Dominion of His Son—the Object of His love.
(Living Bible) For he has rescued us out of the darkness and gloom of Satan's kingdom and brought us into the kingdom of His dear Son.

I have been delivered from the authority of darkness. I have been delivered from Satan's authority and dominion. (Acts 26:18.) I am free from Satan's dominion. Sickness is of the devil. Satan can't dminate me with sickness and disease.  Satan,  l've been delivered from your authority. You can't put sick¬ness on me.  I have passed out of your Jurisdiction over into the kingdom of the Son of God.  I am a Citizen in the kingdom of Jehova Rapha, the Lord that healeth me.  I have been transplanted into the kingdom of His Son.

Colossians 1:14.  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgivenss of sins.

(Smith-Goodspeed).. .by whom we have been ransomed from captivity. ..
(Conybeare).. .in whom we have our redemption...
(Way)...ln whom we have our ransoming, the remission of our sins.

In Christ Jesus I have redemption.  I have been ransomed from captivity.  I am delivered from Satan and his works.  I am free from sickness and disease.

James 4:7.  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

(Barclay) So then, accept the authority of God. Take a stand against the devil, and he will run away from you.
(New English Bible) Stand up to the devil and he will turn and run.
(Wuest) Stand immovable against the onset of the devil and he will flee from you
(Basic English). . .be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

I submit to God.  I submit to the will of God.  I accept the authority of God and His Word. I submit to God's Word. I resist you, devil. I resist dis-ease. You can't do this to my body. Get out. Remove yourself. You must flee from my body now.

James 5:14-15» And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

(Basic English) And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well.
(Wade) and the prayer offered in faith will restore the sufferer to health, and the Lord will raise him from his sick-bed.

The prayer of faith has made me whole. The Lord is raising me up.  I cannot stay down.  I believe I received when I prayed, and my faith makes me whole. I believe I have received my healing.

1.Peter 2:24-   Who his own seif bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

(20th Century). . .his bruising was your healing.

By His stripes I was healed. Healing belongs to me. I was healed 2000 years ago by the stripes Jesus bore. By His stripes I was healed. I’m not trying to get healing.  I’ve got healing, because by His stripes I was healed.

1.Peter 5:8,9« 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethern that are in the world.

(Barclay) 9 You must resist him with a rock-like faith...
(Wuest)9 Stand immovable against his onset, solid as a rock in your faith...
(Amplified)9. . .be firm in faith (against his onset)-rooted, established, strong, immov¬able and determined.. •

I stand immovable against sickness in Jesus' name.  I refuse to accept it.

1.John 3:8.   He that committeth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

(Amplified) The reason the Son of God was made manifest (visible) was to undo (destroy, loosen and dissolve) the works the devil (has done.) (Young). . .that he might break up the works of the devil.

(Basic English). . .and the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
(Wand). . .that he might neutralize what the Devil has done.
(Wuest).. .that He-might bring to naught the works of the devil.
(Jordan).. .that he might break up the Devil's doings.
(Jerusalem) To lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil, since the devil was a sinner from the beginning.  It was to undo all that the devil has done that the Son of God appeared.
(Phillips) Now the Son of God came to the earth with the express purpose of liquidating the deviPs activities.
(Concordant).. .that He should be annulling the acts of the Adversary.

Sickness is a work of the devil. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Sickness has been dissolved, broken up, annulled, undone, liquidated, as far as I am concerned.  Jesus put sickness to an end for me. The activities of the devil have been liquidated.

III John 2.   Beloved,  I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

I am prospering and 1 am in health even as my soul prospers, because it is God's will for me. God is at work in me to do His will and pleasure.  Jehova-Rapha is at work in me, healing me.

Philippians 2:13. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure, God is at work in me.  Jehova-Rapha is at work in me, healing me. He is the Lord that healeth me. God is greater than the devil. Healing is greater than sick-ness. God is at work in me, healing me.

Luke 10:19. Behold,  I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

(Norlie) I have given you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and all the might of the satanic foe, and nothing will härm you in any way.
(Knox).. . I have given you the right to. . .
(A-mplified) Behold!  I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and (physical and mental strength and ability) over all the power that the enemy (possesses), and nothing shall in any way härm you.
(Condon) Yes,  I have given you power to trample every evil underfoot, to counter all might of the enemy; nothing whatever shall härm you.
(Authentic) I have indeed invested you with power to stamp on snakes and scorpions. . .

Sickness is a power of the devil (Acts 10:38.) I trample on all the power of the devil.  I trample on disease.  1 stomp on disease.  I tread every evil underfoot. The Lord Jesus Christ gave me authority over all the power of the enemy.  1 have authority over sickness. Sickness,  I trample on you.  I tread on you.  I stomp on you. Get out, get out, get out. You have no right to dominate me. Get out of my body in Jesus' name. Sickness and disease are under my feet because I am seated with Christ above all the power of the enemy (Ephesian- Z:bj

Mark 16:17,18. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

(Williams). . .By using my name they will drive out demons...
(Barclay) These are the visible demonstrations of the action of God which will accompany the life of those who believe.  By using my name they will eject demons.

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(Moffatt).. .for those who believe, these miracles will follow. . .
(Smith-Goodspeed). . .with my name they will drive out demons.
(Weymouth). . .making use of my authority, they shall expel demons.
(Translator's NT) Wherever men believe, these signs will be found...
(Wade) By the use of my  name they will expel demons; they will speak rapturously in Strange languages.. .They will place their hands upon invalids, and they will be restored to health.

The name of Jesus is greater than sickness.  Jesus conquered sickness and disease.  In the name of Hirn who conquered sin, sickness, and Satan,  I com-mand disease to leave my body. Satan, take your hands off my body.  I cast you out in Jesus' name. You can't do this to me.  In the name of Jesus,  I am free.

John 14:12-14. Verily, verily,  I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name,  I will do it.

The name of Jesus takes the place of Jesus. Jesus is the resurrected healing Lord.  In the name of Jesus I command disease to leave my body. My body is healed in Jesus' name. His name through faith in His name gives me perfect soundness (Acts 3:16) I'm healed in Jesus' name.

Acts 3:16.  And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know; yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

His name through faith in His name makes me whole, gives me perfect soundness, and makes me strong. The name of Jesus is greater than sickness. All that He is is in His name. All He did is in His name.  He is greater than sickness.  He conquered sickness.  I speak His name, Jesus, to my body now.  Every disease germ dies now in Jesus' name. My body is made whole in Jesus' name.

Galtians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

(Laubach). . .Christ took me to the cross with him, and I died there with him.
(ASV,NASV,RSV,NEB,NIV) I have been crucified with Christ...

I was crucified with Christ. I died with Him to sickness and disease. Christ the Healer lives in me. Healing is in me. Christ in me heals me.

John 15:4,5, . Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. ,

(New Life) Get your life from Me and 1 will live in you. No branch can give fruit by it¬self.  It has to get life from the vine. You are able to give fruit only when you have life from Me.  I am th,e Vine and you are the branches. Get only when you have life from me. I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me.
(Phillips) You must go on growing in me and I will grow in you.  For just as the branch cannot bear any fruit unless it shares the life of the vine, so you can produce nothing unless you go on growing in me. I am the vine itself; you are the branches.  It is the man who shares my life and whose life I share who proves fruitful. For the piain fact is that apart from me you can do nothing at all.

I am in union with Christ. My spirit is in union with Christ the Healer.  I draw out His healing power and it is manifested in my body.  I am one with the healing Vine.  I am in union with the healing Christ.  I have His life and health in me.