The Question of Healing
The Gospel tell us over and over again that healing, hearing the Gospel, and the Kingdom of Heaven were all found together. The question of healing is never one of power to acomplish the healing, but authority. To quote Dutch Sheets:
Power never was and never will be the issue between God and Satan. Authority was the issue - the authority Satan had obtained through Adam. Jesus did not come to get back any power, nor to remove Satan’s power. He came to regain the authority Adam lost to the serpent and break his headship over the earth.. Authority is the issue. Power does the work, but authority controls the power…The power issue was won in heaven by God before man was created, and won on earth at the cross.
What are some things, then, that prevent us for appropriating this power and authority?
1. Sin
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
James 5:16 NKJV
2. Unbelief
Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief .
Matt 13:58 NKJV
3. Fear
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ”
Luke 12:32-33 NKJV
4. Ignorance
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Hos 4:6a NKJV
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
2 Cor 10:2-6 NKJV
5. Prayerlessness
…praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints —
Eph 6:18-19 NKJV
God wants us healed, but His working in our life is always against a battle in which the Enemy tries to capture our heart.