Three Enemies of our Divine Health

Messages for April 2017: Our Month of Divine Health

Message for Sunday the 30th of April, 2017

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

Topic: Three Enemies of our Divine Healing and Health

Introduction: So far in this series, we have seen that it is God’s perfect will for us to not only be healed, but to live in health. In our text scripture for the month, we learn that God wishes above all things that we prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers. See 3Jn.1:2 and 1Pet.2:24.  We have also established that God is the sole healer of mankind and He is also the only one who has the power to cause us to live in health based on the extent to which we submit to his word to prosper our souls. 

In spite of all these truths there are some enemies that war against the perfect will of God in our health. I want to compress these enemies into three even though they are more. An examination of these three however will help to show us why many people do not attain to this desire of God for their total healing and health for them. 

Three Enemies of our Healing and Health: While there may be more, I want to address these three enemies of our total healing and health today as we wrap up our messages for this month of divine healing and health for us. The three enemies we shall be addressing today are sin; ignorance and fear. 

Sin: The source of sickness in the first place is sin. There was no sickness on earth until man sinned against God in Gen.3 and came under the influence of death. Because of sin, man became a child of the devil or a child of disobedience. In other words, he passed from life to death. As a child of the devil, he came under the curse of death which encapsulates sickness among other ills. In Deu.28:15-66 we see a comprehensive list of the curse for sin which includes sickness. It took Jesus Christ coming to die for us on Calvary’s Cross to redeem us from sickness among other curses of the Law. See Isa.53:1-5; Mt.8:17; 1Pet.2:24; Gen.2:16-17 and Gal.3:13-14.

After people are saved and still live in sin, they make themselves vulnerable to the attacks of sickness from the devil. A major sin most believers commit is the failure to rest. When this is disobeyed, they come under attack and therefore under the oppression of the devil because every sickness is an oppression of the devil [Acts 10:38]. In fact many sicknesses that people suffer from could have been averted by sufficient rest. See Ex.31:15-17; Mk.6:31 and Eccl.10:8.

Ignorance: The second enemy of our divine healing and health I want to look at is ignorance. So many people are ignorant of the following truths among others and are therefore not free from the plague of sickness and disease: 

1. People are ignorant of their source and as such they are not saved and are therefore still under the captivity of the devil. They are thereforesubject to sickness and disease – see Ps.82:5-7; Jn.3:16-19.

2. People who are saved and still battling with this unfortunate state are in that state because of ignorance of their right in the covenant of divine healing and health. Prov.13:17 and Jas.5:14-15.

3. In some other cases, some people who are aware of their right may be ignorant of some of the covenant demands that makes us get healed and also walk in divine health. For instance some believers even though they are saved and even serving God, are ignorant of their right to divine health and fruitfulness through service and therefore are waiting for God to  come and heal them instead of taking their healing and health by faith. Some are even ignorant of the truth that it is the perfect will of God to heal us and cause us to live in health.Ex.15:26; Deu.7:15.

4. some other people even though saved are ignorant of the truth that it is God’s will for them to be healed and walk in divine health and as such they hide under the falsehood that if it is the will of God they would be healed otherwise they would die in that state. See the will of God in the following texts: 3Jn.1:2; 1Pet.2:24 and Ex.23:25-26.

5. Refusal to use Medicare when their faith cannot handle their circumstance. Each of us has a measure of faith per time. For some, they have mountain moving faith while others have stone moving faith. Work with the level of faith you have per time. See Rm.12:3-6 and Mk.5:25-34. 

6. Ignorance of the need for proper diet, hygiene and exercise. See Ex.23:25-26; Rm.14:20-23; Deu.14:3 and 12:24-25.

To overcome ignorance, go for light that comes through intimacy with the Holy Spirit who would give you understanding of the mysteries of God and their applications. We learn in the word that the entrance of his word gives light and understanding to the simple. We also understand that when the light shines in the darkness including the darkness of infirmity, the darkness must give way. We can get light by asking it of God and /or searching it out from scripture through the help or the Holy Spirit. See Ps.119:130; Jn.1:1-5; Eph.1:17-21; Mt.7:7-8 and Prov.2:1-7.

Fear: Most people who fail to get healed failed in faith because of fear of death while they claim to be trusting in God. If you will not use Medicare, there is something you must use. This is why we looked at the great physician’s prescription last week. With the contents of that message we were able to see some of the options available to us for taking our healing and walking in divine health. 

Another reason for faith failure is the failure to walk in love because faith works by love. Therefore failure to walk in love is automatically going to result in faith failure. We saw the need to walk in love by getting rid of unforgiveness last week. 

Another kind of fear that keep people from getting healed even if they are smart enough to use Medicare when their faith do not measure up is the fear of the disease itself. This can be overcome when we see every sickness as an oppression of the devil and we get to understand that in the clinic of the Lord Jesus Christ, there are no hopeless cases because he terminates every terminal case and even raises four days old corpses from the dead. See 2Tim.1:7; Rm.8:14-15; 1Cor.13:1-3 and Gal.5:6.

It is on this note we shall be bringing this series to an end this month. There may be someone reading this message now who is yet to receive Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives and therefore not able to know his or her source in experience. Please you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be initiated into God’s family and be entitled to all the privileges of divine health we have talked about this month. If you want to do so, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

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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The Great Physician’s prescription pt.2

Messages for April 2017: Our Month of Divine Health

Message for Sunday the 23^rd of April, 2017

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

Topic: The Great Physician’s prescription pt.2

Introduction: Last week, we began to look at the first part of the above topic. We already established in the course of this series that it is God’s will that we should not only be healed but to be in health even as our souls prosper. In the course of exploring the prosperity of our souls, we saw that the extent to which we can prosper in our bodies and minds is determined by the extent to which our souls have prospered. Consequently, that the health status of our bodies indicates the extent to which we have had our minds renewed regarding God’s will for our total health.

We also learnt that God is not only interested in healing us and causing us to stay healthy, he also wants to make us agents of His healing grace. It is to this end he has given us his prescription for our total healing and health which we began to examine last week. We also saw the prescription of the word and the gift and ministry of the Holy Spirit last week. Today, we shall continue with some more prescriptions for our total healing and health.

The great Physician’s prescription:

3. The keys of the kingdom of heaven: In Matthew 16:19 after Peter had confessed the Lordship of Christ, Jesus said the following words to the Church including you and I: “… And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt lose on earth shalt be losed in heaven.” From this text, we can see that there are certain keys that belong to heaven which if delivered to the saints on earth would enable us to bind and lose. Please understand that we can bind and lose many things. For our purpose here, we can bind sickness and disease and remove them from ourselves and others and lose the healing virtue of God upon ourselves and them through the use of the keys of the kingdom of heaven. When we operate these keys of the kingdom of heaven here on earth, heaven approves of them through the manifestation of the glory of God by healing signs and wonders wrought by God to prove his approval. See Acts 2:22 and John 5:36.

When Jesus walked the sands of time, he taught us in Matt.5:14-16 that we are the light of the world and that the means by which we shine as lights is our good works. A look at the word of God tells us that good works include the healing of sickness and disease. For instance in Acts 10:38, we are made to understand that the good works Jesus Christ was that he went about doing was healing all that were oppressed of the devil. So from that text, we know that sickness is an oppression of the devil and that the good work required to stop it was healing the sick. Furthermore about seventy percent of the miracles that Jesus worked were healing related.

Jesus said he did nothing by himself and that he only did what he saw the father doing. As at this time, only he had access to the father enough to see what the father was doing. For us at this time, the keys of the Kingdom that Jesus talks about in Matthew 16:19 refers to the mysteries Apostle Paul was talking about in Col.1:26-27 that the salvation of Jews and gentiles together is a mystery to be summed up in the words “Christ in you the hope of glory”. To this end, by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in each of us, we have a legal right of access to all that God is and has which is another definition of His glory. See Rm.8:11 and Eph.3:14-20.

From our text, we see that the Lord packages the keys of the kingdom in mysteries hidden for our glory.

What are mysteries: They are secrets embedded in scriptures and revealed by God to His holy apostles and prophets for their use to bring help to the Church and glorify God. These mysteries; when applied as prescribed by God are always authenticated by Him with signs and wonders. Some of these mysteries were applied by the ancients in the bible to work such miraculous signs by which God has glorified himself over and over again to set himself apart from all other gods. A good example was the crossing of the Red Sea by Moses just stretching his rod towards the sea. Please understand that the proof that these signs are from God is that the persons applying them must do so to glorify God and not self. Also, understand that signs and wonders are not the sole means of divine authentication; the persons operating them must bear the fruit of the spirit. This explains why Jesus Christ said by their fruits you shall know them. See Mt.7:15-27. Some of these mysteries are as follows:

1.     The mystery of forgiveness of the wrong of others to you: The healing of sickness and disease and the ability to stay healthy is God relationship based. Therefore access into these graces is by faith in God. In the exercise of our faith, we must play by the rules. For instance if we trust God to heal us and keep us healthy, our access would be by the prayer of faith.  Going to God by this means places a demand of walking in forgiveness on the one who wants to access God for healing and divine health. If the person fails to meet this demand, healing and divine health become a mirage to such a person. The result is that the person may have to manage their health by the weak help of man all their lives and this may even affect their ability to fulfill their destinies. See Mk.11:24-26 [KJV]; Mt.6:14-16 and the analogy of the unmerciful servant Jesus taught about in the book of Matthew chapter 18. Please understand that this was the first key of the Kingdom Jesus gave to us after he talked about giving us the keys of the kingdom. Examples abound in our dispensation of people who only got healed after they were led to do this word of God by the Holy Spirit and they obeyed.  I personally had this experience once in the mission field when I was just not getting healed of typhoid. When I sought to know from God why I was not getting healed in spite of all the faith I had released, He told me he had not found my love walk perfect. At the time, I knew of someone I needed to forgive and I released the person immediately and immediately began to recover from that day. By this time, my situation had left me so weak that I had to go for Medicare as I did not have the strength to keep exercising faith at the time. Forgiveness is necessary because faith works by love and one of the demonstrations of the love of God is the ability to forgive. See Gal.5:6. 

2.     The mystery of healing by points of contacts: This is a ministry of the Holy Spirit through his Apostles and Prophets designed by the Lord to take care of mass healings especially when access to the said minister of God is difficult or impossible because of the multitude of people seeking help at the time. The bible refers to these points of contacts as mantles. This was exemplified by the story of the woman with the issue of blood for twelve years who got healed after she touched the hem of the garment of the Lord Jesus Christ in Mrk.5 and the multitude of  people who got healed just from doing the same thing in Mt.14:35-36 and Mark 6:56. Also, in the early Church, this mystery was applied by the disciples in Acts 5:12-16 and Acts 19:11-12.

3.     The mystery of tithing: Tithing is a law set by God in the Old Testament to enable to him fend for his servants at the time. Failure to tithe at this time was viewed as robbing God and visited with sever consequences. The consequence of not tithing would include disease and sickness which are some of the devourers God promised to rebuke if we tithe. See Mal.3:8-12 and Gen.14:18-20; Lev.27:30 and Num.18:28. The principle of tithing was ratified in the New Testament by the Lord in Matthew 23:23 where He said we ought to do it and the word of God in Hebrews Chapter 7 where we learn that tithing is a spiritual transaction between the saint and God; Jesus Christ being our High Priest. When we tithe on earth, Jesus Christ receives it from us in heaven. See Heb.3:1.

4.     The Holy Communion mystery: This mystery was instituted by the Lord before His death, burial and resurrection when he had the last supper with his disciples. He told them to do this often in remembrance of him. When we do this, we remember that he shed his blood so that we can be forgiven our sins by God because without the shedding of blood there can be no remission [Heb.9:22-28]. His blood was the only acceptable one for our eternal redemption. Secondly, we remember the injury with which he was inflicted which was done for our healing. [Isa.53:1-5; 1Pet.2:24 and Mt.8:17]. Please understand that sin was the means by which Satan was able to afflict mankind with disease and sickness. When we embrace the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross, we receive forgiveness of sin and become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus [2Cor.5:21]. Therefore, we can be healed of any sickness thereby [1Pet.2:24]. In addition, when we do the word of God to remember him and take the Holy Communion often, we can walk in divine health for real. This is the means by which God gave me victory over sickness and he will do the same for any one who believes. Please understand that this mystery can be administered on children contrary to some religious persuasions because they are the perfect example Jesus presented to us of those to whom the Kingdom of heaven pertain [see Mt.18:1-5; 19:13-14; Mk.10:14-15 and Lk.18:16-17]. Further, Apostle Paul clarifies in 1Cor.11:20-34 that a proper administration of the Holy Communion would keep us from being sickly, weak or dying untimely. See Mt. 26:26-29; Mk.14:22-25; Jn.6:48-58 and Lk.22:15-20. 

I will stop here today but more can be said on the keys of the kingdom next time as the Lord permits. Meanwhile the first access to the grace of God is the new birth experience. If you are reading this content and are yet to make Jesus Christ your Lord, today is your day. Please do so right away to assure your healing and staying healthy by the covenant of grace by saying the following prayer out loud in faith:

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.

Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.    

The Great Physician’s prescription Pt.1

Messages for April 2017: Our Month of Divine Health

Message for Sunday the 16^th of April, 2017

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

Topic: The Great Physician’s prescription Pt.1

Introduction: We began to see who the great physician is last week and we also looked at our covenant of divine healing and health. Today, having established that Jesus Christ is the one the Bible refers to as the great physician; we want to take the time to look at some of his prescription for out total healing and health.

When we go to the medics for any kind of health issue, we expect them to be able to investigate our complaints and come up with a diagnosis and possible cure or management of the health situation as the case may be. In the same way, because we recognize the Lord as the great physician, we can go to him like we go to the doctor and have our health issues resolved. The difference between the Lord and other doctors is that in His clinic, every health issue can receive healing. In addition, there is no hopeless case with him when He is properly consulted because even the dead are raised in His clinic. A good example of this is the raising of a four days old dead called Lazarus in John 11. Now let us see his healing methods and prescription here.

The great Physician’s prescriptions for total healing and health:

1.     The first and most important prescription for total healing and health the great physician offers is his word. This is the greatest prescription because His word is the source and maker of all good things visible and invisible whether thrones or dominion. All things were made by his word and for His word. See John 1:1-3; Col.1:16-17; Ps.33:6, 9; 107:19-20; Mt.8:16 and Prov.4:20-22.

How the word works:

·        As medicine, it cures you of any sickness when it is released through speech in faith. It is released in faith when it is coming from a heart connected to the Lord especially in an intimate relationship. The closer you are in fellowship with God, the faster it works for you. As the word is released through speech, it cuts through the joints and goes straight to the bone marrow and multiplies white blood cells in your marrow responsible for destroying the disease until the patient is completely healed. The word required for this is the word of God on healing revealed by the Holy Spirit to you and confirmed with the word of God on that occasion. See Heb.4:12; Isa.53:1-5; Ps.107:20; Mt.8:14-17 and 1Pet.2:24.

·        Where surgery is required, the word carries out surgical functions and removes the source of infirmity without causing the patient’s blood to be spilled in any way. Don’t forget that the great physician is also the greatest surgeon in all existence. It was by occupying His office as a surgeon that He brought out the first woman from the first man after causing the man to fall into a deep sleep. See Gen.2:18-23 and 1Tim.2:13-15.

·        Where body parts are missing, the word has the creative ability to create new body parts. See the example of the healing of the man born blind healed by Jesus Christ during his earthly ministry and the lame man healed by him through his apostles after his ascension. Please understand that God is wiser than any human manufacturer; if mere men can be responsible enough to make spare parts for their products, how much more God! There are spares of all our body parts in heaven; if there is need for any, we can receive them by faith. See Jn.9:1-9 and Acts 3:1-10.

·        The word heals psychological issues. This is why the diseases of the mind also known as mental illnesses which are merely managed by men can be healed by the word of God through casting out devils and mind renewal. See Rm.12:1-2; Jos.1:8; Mt.8:16; Mk.16:17; Lk.13:32 and Jas.1:21.

2.     The gifts and Ministry of the Holy Spirit: On his first coming, before going to the Cross and taking our place, the Lord promised that when He departed, He was going to send us the gift of the Holy Spirit from the father who would teach us all things, lead us into all truths; show us things to come and take of the father and him and show unto us. See John 14:26 and 16:13-14. True to His word, on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, the Holy Ghost came and filled the disciples and has been around in the world since then. The disciples were then empowered to do everything the Lord did during his earthly ministry like healing the sick, casting out devils and raising the dead. See Acts 1:8.

·        Through the gifts of the Spirit listed in 1Cor.12:7-11: These gifts are diverse but it is the working of the same Holy Spirit towards achieving the same objective in the mind of God and the goal is to glorify God. See 1Cor.13:1-13 on the means of making these gifts work effectively.

·        The Holy Spirit works through ministry gifts: There are five fold ministry gifts listed for us in the bible in Eph.4:7-16. These gifts are people separated by God from the foundation of the world to fulfill His purpose of bringing healing and health to his body so we can grow up in him to do the work of the ministry and grow into the fullness of Christ where sicknesses and diseases are completely eliminated. See Gal.1:15-20 and Lk.6:12-19; 10:1 and Acts 13:1-3.

·        He works through divine guidance showing us things from the father and the Son so that we begin to do what they are doing just like Jesus always sought to do what the father was doing. See Jn.14:26; 16:13; Jn.5:19-21; verse 30 and Acts 16:7-10.

We shall stop here for today. We will continue with the second part of this message next week as we will be looking at using the mysteries or keys of the Kingdom of God which Jesus promised us to unlock the solution to infirmity and come on top of all our health challenges in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Meanwhile, anyone reading this piece that is yet to make Jesus Christ the Lord of their lives will have to do so to enjoy all these benefits we are talking about because healing is the children’s bread [Mk.7:25-27]. Therefore the first step to taking advantage of all we are looking at today is that you must be born again. Now that you know; if you have decided to make this choice; please say the following prayer out loud in faith with me and you will be born again:

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.

Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.    

The great physician and our right to healing

Messages for April 2017: Our Month of Divine Health

Message for Sunday the 9th of April, 2017

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

Topic: The great physician and our right to healing 

Introduction: Last week we established that sickness was never part of the plan of God for man but was introduced by the devil to man as a consequence of man’s sin and has passed on from generation to generation. Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil like we are told in 1John 3:8 a major work of the devil we know of is sickness. No wonder we are told by Apostle Peter in Acts 10:38 that God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power and that he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil because God was with him. We also saw from our text scripture last week that God’s perfect will is that we be in health. In this case we should be so endued with divine nature that sickness can no longer hang around us.

Who is the great physician?  The great physician also referred to as the balm in Gilead is the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, he is the Lord that healeth us and the one by whose stripes we are healed. In the New Testament, He is the one who himself took our infirmities and carried our sicknesses. He is the one by whose stripes we were healed. See Ex.15:26; 23:25-26; Jer.8:22; 46:11; Mt.8:17; 1Pet.2:24; Lk.4:23; Mt.4:23-24; 12:15; 15:30-31 and Lk.6:17-19.

Our right to divine healing and health is a covenant:

What is a covenant?

A covenant is an unbreakable bond between two parties with terms and conditions which make it become binding after the parties have fulfilled their respective obligations. It is then sealed with blood. In the Old Testament, it was sealed by the blood of animals like goats and bulls. See Heb.9:19-22.

In the New Testament, the most powerful covenant recognized by God in all of existence was sealed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary. It is the most potent of all covenants and overrides any other kind of covenant. See Heb.8:7-13 and 9:8-15.

In the Old Testament, the children of Israel enjoyed the covenant passed down from Abraham to Isaac his son and subsequently to Jacob. Packaged within this covenant as we would later discover is healing for them even when others around them were plagued by sickness. In fact God promised not to put any of the diseases of those not in the covenant on them.

A list of healing covenants:

1.     Freedom from all the diseases of Egypt. Please note that Egypt for us is a type of the life of bondage to sin which we were born into before we received the salvation Jesus wrought for us. We become entitled to this when we get saved and are therefore delivered from the dominion of darkness. See Deu.7:15; Ex.11:7 and Col.1:13.

2.     Healing for service: healing was also promised in the Old Testament when people met the condition of serving the Lord. See Ex.23:25-26.

3.     Healing for forgiveness: healing is given as proof that God has forgiven us our sins: see Ps.103:1-5 and Mk.2:5-11.

4.     Healing in anticipation of God’s restoration of the seed of Adam: Gen.3:15; 1Cor.15:20-22 and Isa.53:1-5 and 1Pet.2:24. Please understand that if you ever experience sickness, you have a right to receive healing if you take advantage of 2Cor.5:21 and also forgive anyone you begrudge. See Mt.6:15-16 and the example of the unforgiving servant in Mt.18.

Our right to Divine health: This is God’s perfect will for us. In 3Jn.1:2, we read that God’s wish for us above all things is that we prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers. We took time to unpack this text last week. Today, we are going to see how this works in the life of the believer in Christ.

Note the following truths when we are saved:

1.     We are delivered from the rule of the prince of darkness who is the ruler of the kingdom of darkness. Darkness means ignorance. When we are free from him, we receive access to light which comes through the word of God. The more of the word of God we know and understand, the more faith we have and therefore the more we can walk in health because our access to all that God has for us including divine health; is by faith. See Col.1:13; Jn.1:1-5; Ps.119:130; Prv.22:3; 27:12; 16:22 and Eph.4:18.

2.     We cross over from darkness to light: in other words, we now receive on the spot the potential of receiving enough light and understanding from the word of God to be able to walk in the light. This is when our souls are said to prosper because as we receive the engrafted word of God with meekness, it would cause our souls to be saved and freed from the habits that make us carnal and keep us under the control of the prince of darkness.

3.     We receive divine nature which if we cultivate, we would bear the fruit of the spirit and as we do so, we would be able to manifest as authentic children of God bearing much fruit including the fruit of living in health. See 2Cor.5:17; 2Pet.1:4; Gal.5:16; 22-23; 1Cor.13:1-8; Rm.7:4 and Jn.15:1-8.

4.     In the Eternal life package is revelation knowledge which comes from our ability to hear God for ourselves and be led by His Spirit. When we are led by the Holy Spirit, making the right choices become a norm for us and as long as we stay this connected to God, we cannot walk in disease. The reason is that the Holy Spirit would lead us to eat right, rest when necessary, give us revelation knowledge of any demonic attempt at our health and show us the way to overcome them. See Ex.13:17-18; Gal.2:2; Eph.1:17-21 and Acts 10:38.

Whereas this message may not have exhausted all that could be said about God’s will for divine healing and health, I believe this is enough to cause us to pay more attention to the word of God with the intent of finding out more of what He has in mind concerning healing and divine health for us and how we can take advantage of them.

Meanwhile access to this mercy of God to enjoy health that comes from only him is through the New Birth experience. Someone is reading this material today that is yet to make a decision for Christ, please take advantage of this opportunity today to access eternal life and begin to enjoy the heritage of the redeemed from now on. If you desire to do so right away please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

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.

Congratulations! For more information and resources that would help you grow in this new life, please visit our website at www.kingdomheirsministries.org and our blogs at www.flourishinggirl.blogspot.com and follow us on twitter at alero_nanna and on face book on www.facebook.com/flourishinggirl www.facebook.com/khmii2015; www.facebook.com/thewellbeingcenter. Or www.facebook.com/kingdomjointheirsfamily email:  jointheirsfamily@gmail.com.    

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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