God’s will for us is to be in Health

Messages for April 2017: Our Month of Divine Health

Message for Sunday the 2^nd of April, 2017

Theme: Understanding our right to Divine Healing and Health in the Covenant of Grace

Topic: God’s will for us is to be in Health

Introduction: Apostle John was one of the founding apostles of the Christian faith whose life really demonstrated eternal life by the inability of the early Church persecutors to kill him because all their efforts to do so proved abortive. He was the only apostle who died a natural death because all the persecutions he faced like being thrown into a pot of hot oil to fry had no effect on him just like the three Hebrew boys in Daniel 3. This great man of God operated in so much light and understanding that it was impossible to kill him.

He brought us this revelation of God’s will for our health from God in his third letter to the Church in 3^rd Jn.1:2 where he wrote:

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

This presupposes that God’s wish for us above all other things includes being in health to the extent of the prosperity of our souls. This truth is what we are going to be unpacking from the word of God today.

The wish of God above all things: from our text scripture here we can glean that above all things, God wants us to:

1.     Prosper: This means to be whole with nothing missing and nothing broken. Much as many have reduced the value of prosperity to only the possession of money, the truth still remains that money is just a fragment of the prosperity life. In fact money is needed only to accomplish two things namely create more options for us and give us the ability to expand the kingdom of God and help others in need. See Zechariah 1:17; Isa.58:10-12 and Acts 4:32-35. Please understand that to be whole means to be complete just as God originally intended before creating us. If we come short of divine expectations, then this does not describe us. Last month, we looked at success from God’s perspective and concluded it to mean knowing and diligently pursuing God’s purpose for our lives to completion in time. With that understanding in mind, it should be easy for us to know that the extent to which we can prosper and be in health is the extent to which our souls are prospered. Therefore for more clarity, let us look at the prosperity of the soul first.

2.     The prosperity of the soul: From the word of God, we understand the nature of man to be triune to wit – man is a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body. The spirit of man is the real man also known as the inner man or the hidden man of the heart. It is the part of man which gets born again. The soul and body do not get born again; they must therefore be cultivated to obey the dictates of the spirit who is under the influence of the Holy Spirit. See 1Thess.5:23; Prv.18:14; Prv.20:27; Jn.3:6; Eph.3:16 and 1Pet.3:3-4. Your body is the part of you that enables you to live on earth. It is made up of your five senses with which you live on earth. These senses are sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste. The soul is the part of you that makes the connection between your spirit and body possible. It is made up of your mind, will and emotions. With the mind, you think, reason and create. With the will you make decisions and with the emotions you feel strong enough to act on your thinking and decision. This is the part of you that controls your passion. It is so important that it enables a leader enjoy his best friend otherwise known as momentum.

Even though the soul does not get born again at new birth, it can be developed to conform to the new life through the renewal of the mind. When we get saved, our souls and bodies remain the same until they are worked on by us. Please understand that the development of the soul is the responsibility of the individual through making the right choices [Deu.30:19-20]. The means by which we develop our souls has to do with what we do with the word of God. We are expected to renew our minds with God’s word and the word of God is replete with the how to of mind renewal. When our minds are renewed effectively, the result is the prosperity of the soul which in turn impacts on the prosperity of the body and our environments. What our text scriptures show us is that the extent to which we can be in health is determined by the extent to which we have been enlightened in our souls in the area of God’s will being our total healing and health. See Rm.12:1-2; Jas.1:21-25; 1Tim.4:13-16; Jos.1:8; Ps.1:1-3; Ps.119:105 and 130; Pr.24:13-14; Prov.17:22 and Acts 4:13.

3.     Being in Health: Now that we have understood the prosperity of the spirit and soul, we are now ready to see what the mind of God is here:

First God’s will above all things is that:

1.     We prosper

2.     Our soul prospers

3.     We are in health to the extent our soul prospers.

Let us therefore understand that meditating on this text in 3^rd Jn.1:2 will hatch this understanding to us:

First, God’s perfect will is our total prosperity.

Second, His method for our prosperity is as prescribed by His word. Therefore if we use the word of God to cultivate our souls, we would save our souls from wrong thinking, wrong decisions and wrong emotions and consequently a poverty lifestyle. See Ps.1:1-2; Jer.17:5-8 and 1Tim.4:13-15.

Third, when our souls are saved, healing of our spirits, souls and bodies become automatic so that we can be said to bring heaven on earth by our lifestyles. See Gal.5:16-17; vv22-23; Prv.18:14. It is through the salvation of our souls that we get to know our rights to be healed and stay healthy in the word of God and how to apply that knowledge for the manifestation of the glory of God in our lives. See Ps.82:5-6; Jn.1:1-5.

As we all know, the stating point for healing and divine health is to first be rid of sin which is the source of all sickness. Jesus Christ paid the full price for that on the Cross of Calvary. All we need to do to activate it in our lives is to receive Him as our savior and Lord. If you are reading this and are yet to do so, please you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again by the activity of the Holy Spirit who is waiting right now to help you:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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