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Building Blocks of Life or Death
(Excerpts Taken From Charles Capps’ Book God’s Creative Power for Healing)
Divine healing is a spiritual cure. Medical science aids healing through physical means by administering medicine into the physical body. God’s divine healing is spiritual. It is administered through the human spirit (1 Cor. 2:9-12). In Prov.4:20-22 God tells us His word is life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. GOD’S WORD WILL HEAL YOUR BODY, but it does it through spiritual means. Healing can be received into the human spirit through the Word. Once it is conceived there, it permeates the physical body.
Just as you would take medicine into your physical body to aid healing by physical means, so YOU MUST RECEIVE GOD’S WORD CONCERNING HEALING INTO YOUR SPIRIT FOR SUPERNATURAL HEALING. And like other medicine, it must be applied on a regular basis. You must SPEAK GOD’S WORD to your individual circumstance or situation - someone else can’t do it for you. James 1:21 admonishes us to receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your soul (and body). Once the Word of God is engrafted into your spirit, it produces results in your body as well.
The image that the Word creates in you is already a reality in the spirit realm. When you speak God’s Word from your heart, then your faith frames your world daily. Jesus made it very plain; “a good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things” (Matthew 12:35). Every time you speak your faith, it creates a stronger image inside you. Eventually the Word of God will perfect that image, and you will begin to see yourself well. When the Word is engrafted into you, it infuses its life into you (John 6:63, Rom. 8:11).
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb.11:1). Hope is important, but hope lacks substance until filled with faith. Look at the works of Jesus: “All things are possible to them that believe” (Mark 9:23). If you had faith as a seed you should say” (Luke 17:6), “he that believeth hath…” (John 3:36), “whosoever shall say; he shall have” (Mark 11:23, 24). It is the Bible principal of BELIEVING AND CALLING FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET MANIFEST. “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole” (Mark 5:34). Giving voice to your faith in God’s Word can also make you whole.
God’s Word is spoken of in Proverbs 4:22 as being medicine to all our flesh. It is the most powerful medicine available today, and it is capable of healing your body without side effects. Psalms 107:20 tells us that God sent His Word and healed… According to Isaiah 53:5, 6 and 1 Peter 2:24, healing is a fact as far as God is concerned.
It belongs unto us because healing was in the atonement (Isaiah 53:5, 6). Our confession of the Word of God calls for healing which is already ours but is not in manifestation in our bodies. No, I am not teaching against doctors or medicine. But don’t depend on doctors or medicine alone to keep you healthy. There are some diseases that medical science cannot cure. But, if you need a doctor, see a doctor. There are medicines today that are beneficial in aiding the body’s healing process. If you are taking medicine, mix faith with it by saying, “I believe I receive my healing in Jesus Name.” Most medicines will help hold down the symptoms while you are applying God’s principles concerning healing and health.
I don’t advocate that you throw your medicine away and rely on confession alone unless the Lord directs you to do so. It takes time to renew your mind and develop faith in your words as well as God’s Word. But the things you are continually confessing eventually become part of you. DEATH and LIFE are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof (Prov. 18:21). In Isaiah 57:19 we were told, “I create the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.”
It takes time to develop faith to operate in these principles, so don’t let anyone put you under condemnation for going to the doctors or having an operation. In other words, operate on your level of faith, but don’t stay on that level forever. Continue in God’s Word until you develop faith in the healing power of God’s Word.
Operating in these principles is not easy. It takes discipline and commitment. It’s not good enough just to read these confessions. I encourage you to confess the Word audibly over your body two to three times a day. Confess it with authority. It is not necessary for you to make these confessions before others, for the words you speak are for your benefit.
God declares that His Word will not return void. We are to return His Word by giving VOICE to it, and He will create the fruit of our lips. Confessing God’s Word is a way you can fellowship with the Lord and increase your faith at the same time. I challenge you to affirm these scriptural confessions audibly three times a day. Don’t let it become a hit and miss proposition. Make it a practice to take God’s medicine on a regular basis, just as you would any other medicine. Then it will be LIFE to you and HEALTH to your flesh.
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