HEALTH

GOD'S WORD IS HEALTH TO ALL OUR FLESH

PROVERBS 4:20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

GOD GIVES PROSPERITY AND VICTORY

1 CChronicles 29:12  Both riches and honor come from You, And You reign over all. In Your hand is power and might; In Your hand it is to make great And to give strength to all.

Psalms 35:27 Let them shout for joy and be glad, Who favor my righteous cause; And let them say continually, " Let the LORD be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant."

Psalms 68:6 God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Psalms 118:25 Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.

Psalms 122:7 Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces."

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world --- our faith.

You must exercise spiritually! One of the best ways to exercise spiritually is with your confession, your words, and what you say. How did you get born again? You believed with your heart, and you said it with your mouth. Speaking in tongues is a good spiritual exercise. Praising and worshipping God is a good spiritual exercise. Every time you’re exercising faith, you’re exercising your spirit. Walking in love, walking in joy, and walking in all of the fruit of the Spirit is exercising.

Sickness Is of the Devil

Job 2:7 says, “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.” Who did it? Satan did it.

We are sure it’s God’s will for all to be healed is because sickness is a work of the devil.

Acts 10:38 says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good…” Did He ever do any evil? Of course not. He only did good, and what was part of the good He was doing? “He went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.” According to the Holy Spirit, speaking here through the Book of Acts, everyone to whom Jesus ministered healing was oppressed of the devil. It didn’t say He went about doing good and healing people who were oppressed of God, or that God put sickness on them to teach them something. No, everyone who Jesus healed, the Scripture says, was satanically oppressed. According to Acts 10:38, sickness and disease are satanic oppression.

The Eternal Names of God (Jehovah)

 We are sure it is God’s will for all of us to be healed today because of the eternal names of God.

We just read one of the names of God: I am Jehovah-Rapha. I Am the Self-Existent One Who mends you and heals you, Who restores you to normal.

Let me give you some of the other redemptive names. This is exciting! Another name is Jehovah Jireh. In Genesis 22:14, it says, “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.” The phrase “it shall be seen” indicates that the Lord sees ahead and provides. Provision, before seeing.

He used to be the “Great Self-Existent One Who sees ahead and provides supply.” He used to be the “Lord Who Provides.” Is He still? Do you like scriptures like Philippians 4:19, “But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Is He still “Jehovah Jireh, the Great I Am”? Certainly!

Another name is “Jehovah-Nissi.” “Jehovah, the Self-Existent One Who is our banner,” has to do with a banner of victory, a banner of triumph. It kind of reminds me of the famous picture of the United States Marines putting the flag up on the ground they took. You’ve got the victory, the enemy is conquered, you have won, and you put up the banner. You put up the flag of victory.

Exodus 17:15 says, “And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.” He used to be the “God of Victory.” He used to be the “God of Triumph.” Is He still? Has He changed? Recall scriptures like 1 Corinthians 15:57, “But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Second Corinthians 2:14, “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ.” If God be for you, who can be against you? He’s made us more than conquerors. We are overcomers. Is He still “Jehovah-Nissi”? Is He still the “Lord our Victory”? Yes!

Another name is “Jehovah-Kadesh.” It means the “Lord Who sanctifies, Who makes you clean.” Exodus 31:13 says, “That ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.” You’ll see it numerous places in the Old Testament.

He used to be the “Lord Who makes you holy,” “the Lord Who cleanses you, and sanctifies you, makes you clean.” Is He still? Yes!

In the New Testament, Hebrews 10:10 says, “By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all.” First Corinthians 1:30 says, “…we are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.” Is Christ our Sanctifier? Does He make us clean? Is He still the Lord our Cleanser Who makes us holy? Yes!

Another name is Jehovah-Shalom, the “Lord our peace.” Judges 6:24 says, “Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and he called it Jehovah-shalom.” Peace. He used to be the “Lord their peace.” Is He still? The Lord our peace. In John 14:27, Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” He is still Jehovah-Shalom. Do you believe it?

Would you believe anyone who came along and said, “No, He used to be Jehovah-Shalom, but He’s not any more. That’s all passed away.” You have better sense than that. The Great I Am is, and a million years from now, He is. He’s never going to change.

Jehovah-Tsidkenu is the “Lord our righteousness.” Jeremiah 23:6 calls Him the “Lord our righteousness.” Is He still our righteousness? Second Corinthians 5:21 says, “For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” Is He still Jehovah-Tsidkenu? Yes, He is.

How about Jehovah-Raah, the “Lord our Shepherd.” Psalm 23:1 says, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Is He still the Good Shepherd? John 10:14 says, “I Am the good shepherd, and
I know my sheep, and am known of mine.” Is He still the Lord Jehovah-Raah, our Shepherd? Yes.

How about Jehovah-Shammah? There are a lot of these, and I’m glad about every one of them. The Lord is present: Jehovah-Shammah, the Lord is there. Is He still with us? Is He still present in our midst? He said in Matthew 28:20, “…lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” In Matthew 18:20, He said, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” I am there. I am present. That means I am Jehovah-Shammah. He used to be the “Lord Who is present,” and He still is the Lord Who is present.

I’m listing just a couple more. Jehovah-Sabaoth means the “Lord of Hosts,” the Lord of Armies. He used to have armies. He used to have hosts. He used to have amazing military power. Does He still have it? Oh, it’s all through the New Testament. The Book of Revelation talks about the Lord with His armies and His hosts. He’s called the “Lord of Sabaoth” in James 5:4.

He’s called Jehovah-Gemuwal, the “Lord who repays,” and He is still Jehovah-Gemuwal. He is still Jehovah-Shammah, Jehovah-Sabaoth, Jehovah-Gemuwal, Jehovah-Raah, Jehovah- Tsidkenu,  Jehovah-Shalom, Jehovah-Kadesh, Jehovah-Jireh, and Jehovah-Nissi. Are we to believe that one of these has passed away? That Jehovah-Rapha out of all these stands changed? That He used to be the “Lord Who heals us,” but somehow or another He is just a “has-been” in that department? I won’t even listen to anyone who suggests such a thing. If He ever was the “Lord Who heals you,” He is—and will always be—the “Lord Who heals you!”

We are persuaded, we are fully convinced, that it’s God’s will—always has been and always will be—to heal everybody today because He is the Great I Am Who does not change. He is the great Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord Who makes you whole. Glory to God!

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