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Healing Is Yours
Jesus said, "Healing is the children's bread."
Our Creator-Father is the God of words.

The Father of heaven and the Creator of your existence has spoken to us. He asks us to believe what He said. He requires us to persist with His words. The essence is that the Creator of the Universe will do what He says when we join our heart, our being, to those words. Passer-by's, quick hitters, hit-and-run jolts do not meet the standard of His words.

So do people get healed by special gifts, special miracles without learning His words and ways? The answer is, "Yes." Do people get healed by praying with little or no knowledge of the Heavenly Father's words and ways? "Yes!" However, did you know that there is a guarantee of healing if you follow the Creator-Father's word-way. Being healed as a passer-by, through a special miracle or special gift is not the Heavenly Father's way of guarantee. Everyone who approaches Him in the way He promises in His word and Spirit is guaranteed healing. Note: When we speak of Word-Way. We are talking about the Bible: the inspired Words of Eternity. We are also talking about the Bible as a spoken word to you. I am not talking about the Bible as a mere historical document, for ancient study, that has no voice today. The Bible is not a dead voice of the past. These words are spoken to you today for you to hear from heaven in the quiet place of your heart. Will you seek until you hear? I am pointing you to the place of guaranteed healing from any illness or disease.

You might ask, "Is healing my Heavenly-Father's will for me?"

The answer is, "Yes." How do we know? What is said by our Creator-Father is His will for you. He does not say one thing and want another.

Great, then you may say, "I will pray, and then I will be healed!" Not quite. There's more involved. You must understand what you are praying before you will be healed. You will understand if you follow this teaching, confirm it, and verify it with the Bible verses and see it for yourself.

Central Truths: The Creator-Father has declared Names to us that He has given Himself. The Hebrew Name is Yahweh, when He said to Moses at the burning bush that I AM THAT I AM, that's what He said when he said, "My Name is Yahweh." He was saying that He is the eternal One who exists forever in eternity. In Exodus 15:26 He said, “For I am the Lord who heals you.” In the Hebrew language He said that His Name is Yahweh-Rapha, which means, "MY NAME IS YOUR FOREVER-HEALER." When I pray to Him as Father, I also call to Him as "Rapha" in the Hebrew, which means I call to Him, "Healer...." When I say, "Yahweh-Rapha" in the Hebrew I am saying, "You are the I AM HEALER." Would I call His Name "Healer" should I expect anything else from Him? No, a thousand times, "NO!" You will still realize though, that until people know what they are praying, they do not get healed. So...never decide against the word of God to match your experience. Do you want to be healed? Do you want to be well? Then, meet the Word of the Creator-Father and persist to its standard, and never compromise or accept your experience as a higher truth than the word of eternity. In this teaching you will come to understand that the Eternal Father is a powerful Spirit of life and healing. This Spirit movement operates under the rules of Spirit. These are the Eternal Father's ways. You must move in His ways to get His results. You can't define the "playing field" or "ground rules" and then expect His Spirit to operate.

Jesus is the expression of the Creator-Father. In John chapter 14, Jesus said that who has seen Him has seen the Father. So how do you ask, "Show us the Father." Jesus was talking to the disciples, so he went on by saying, "Have I been so long with you, and you say, 'Show us the Father.' " Jesus always healed everyone who came to Him the word-way, the Spirit way, believing who He is and what He said. Coming to Jesus in the proper way, in faith, in the Spirit of truth, means every such person had a guarantee of healing. To the contrary, if a person did not come to Him in faith, they may be healed by the Spirit's leading but there was NO guarantee of healing. Read the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and see Jesus never refusing to heal anyone, never explaining to anyone that they could not be healed...never.

Now I'm moving to the serious pitfalls. To enter the guarantee of healing you must make Jesus the Lord and King of your life, believing that He rose from the dead to be Lord over all creation and over your whole life: spirit, sould, mind, and body. You must believe that He died for your sins and sicknesses, according to the scriptures (I Peter 2:24). You must believe that Jesus did it, and you can add nothing to it. You are saved, healed, and prospered by grace. Grace means that He earned the benefit. You didn't.

The big trip up, the big challenge is my next point. You must believe with your heart. What's your heart? That is your human spirit. That is the part in you at the core of your being that has all of your power. Your body is limited in power. How much weight can you pick up? Can you pick up a chair? a couch? a car? a truck? Your body is limited in the physical realm. How strong is your mind, your will? All of these are limited. The core of your being is the part that lives forever. The part of you on the inside that lives forever. This is the real you. You are a spirit-being that will someday leave your body. This is "the you" that I am talking about. The "trip up" is that you must believe with your spirit before you can be healed. People hear the truths of the word of God and accept them intellectually but they do not believe with their heart. How do you believe with your heart? You must connect to the Father, and these words of who He is, and what He said, until your heart has total confidence in what He said.

Another pitfall is people do not hear what the word of God is saying with their whole heart. People will say, "I believe, and I prayed, but I did not get healed." I must ask, "What did you believe?" The same person believes Jesus is risen from the dead, believes the Bible is from God. If you believe Jesus is King and risen from the dead, and you make Him the Lord of your life, then you are born again but this will not guarantee healing. This guarantees that you are saved because you are meeting the scriptural instruction of Romans 10:9-10. You must meet the scriptural truth required in healing to be healed. A blind man came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, "Do you believe that I can do this?" You must believe that the Creator-Father in Jesus can heal you here and now.

You must hear His word on healing from HIM! How does this happen? Proverbs 4:20-22. You see Jesus, His Father, and their great love to heal as seen in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You see Him only in this way. You see His great desire to love you by healing your sick or injured body. You stay before Him and His word, and hear Him say His Name to you, "My Name is your Healer." You call Him by the Name He gave for you to call Him. When you're praying for healing and learning that He is your healer, rather than pray simply, "Dear Father," you pray, "Healer, Father, I accept your will for me. You have named yourself my healer." So I ask, "Do you know His will to heal you?" If you had a sick child, would you want them well. Our Heavenly Healer Father is better than us. He wants us well and whole to glorify Him and show the world He is good. Do you believe His will is to heal you? As we said, look at Jesus. Jesus said, "He who sees me, sees the Father." See the Gospel of John 14:9-11. "I came not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me." "The Father in me does the works." What does the Bible say about healing? Would the Creator Healer Father say one thing and do another? No! A thousand times NO! His will is what He says.

Isaiah 53, I Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17, are scriptures based upon Jesus paying the penalty for sin and all of the effects of sin. We are given righteousness or sinlessness, as though having no sin, through the cross of His death. Because the payment is made, we are righteous. Being righteous, we can receive the gifts of heaven, which includes healing, because the penalty of sin is paid. A paid debt is a paid debt. The sickness debt was paid by Jesus in His beatings and death on the cross. Why did He suffer for sickness? So we could be healed. The Creator Healer Father did not want people to die. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Certainly, we will die in this world, but sickness is not the way He wants us to live our days. So He made a way that we could be cleansed as though we never sinned. He paid for sickness so we could be healed by believing what He said that He is to us, and what He wants for us. The scourgings or beatings that Jesus took before the cross paid for our healing. The Creator Healer Father did not pay for healing so that payment would be made twice. The right or privilege to be healed is complete.

So what's my next move? When I believe those words that He spoke, what do I believe about those words? Believe that what the Creator Healer-Father has spoken is spoken to you, and that it is true in your body, or mind, or being, before you have any other evidence but that He spoke those words about your condition, the condition of your body...as healed from whatever troubles you. You must believe that you receive the answer before you see it. Look at Mark 11:23-24. You must believe that you receive healing before you are healed. Some say, "I could not believe that I am healed until I see it." There's no faith in that. Anyone can believe they are healed after they see it. Some say, "Well, I cannot say I am healed before I am healed."

When you clearly understand the points made up to this sentence, you will understand that healing is your condition. When you say to the Creator Healer Father: If you have named yourself my Healer, and you want me well, and you paid such a price to make it so, then all of nature and your power is effecting or bringing healing to every cell of my body. You say to the Creator Healer Father, "If you are moving in this way, then I can only see myself as healed, and because this is happening in my body, then I am healed." The Creator Healer Father, in this believing state, has your healing system in your body supercharged, empowered with His creative healing life, supplied by Him to every cell in your body. I am not a doctor or bio-chemist but your blood stream, bones, and organs produce massive healing chemicals and cells that drive every sickness, disease, atrophy, degeneration, and malfunction into proper cell function, organ function, skeletel, nervous system, and blood cell function. Romans 8:11 says, "But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you."

The only means for healing to come into your body from the Eternal Father Healer is by the action of His Spirit. You must align yourself, your believing, your life with the ways of the Father-Healer's Spirit. No one can live outside of the Spirit's ways and expect the action of the Spirit to occur. How about an natural example? You've heard of bodies of water called Lakes or Oceans, right? Think of those bodies of water as the place of the Spirit. Could you find a Lake? Does the Lake really exist? Is it there, where it's said to be? The Bible tells you about the Lake of the Spirit. This place of the Spirit is a lifestyle, not like taking a bath in your bathroom! This Lake is a place to be, to live, to operate, to experience. Simply reading and knowing about this natural Lake, does that get you wet with water? Looking at a map of the Lake's location, does that get you wet? No! So you find out about the Lake. Do you believe it's real? Do you believe it can get you wet? I'm sure you do, but does believing it's real get you wet? No. So you go to the Lake. Looking at the Lake, does it get you wet? No. You finally get in the Lake. Only then do you get wet from the Lake. So like a fish you stay there, you live there, you make the Lake your life. Everything is different now. You have a different life. You live in the Lake. Do you really want healing, and a life of health? You have to want it enough to live in a different place. Living where you hear the voice of eternity, sspoken by the Eternal Healer Father to your heart. So you focus on His words in the Bible that speak to your need. As you receive words from him, you also have turn your heart to love your Creator Father, and to cherish His presence. You are born of love in this place. Not the world's love, but the love you were created for, in relationship with the Heavenly Father, Jesus the Champion King, who conquered your every wrong as your sin-offering. You are a prisoner set free in your heart, your soul, and from any disease or injury that attempts to destroy your quality of life.

You may say, "What quality of life?" I say, "The life you were created for: to know and walk with the Spirit of eternity." When you understand this Spirit, you will want it with all that is in you. When you learn to live in this Spirit, He will be the lover of your soul. The peace in you, His care for you, His strength coarsing in you, will relieve the stress, take the worry and cares, and bring healing to your body...when you live in this place.

All right, I know my example is getting silly!

So how does the Father Healer view your sitation? How does the risen Jesus view the circumstances?

So the issue, the crux, the catch is: what do you believe about the word of healing from your Creator Healer Father? When healing is vitally working in me, I would be lying to say that I am sick. My view is from the side of light, not the side of darkness. I am looking from Jesus' side, from the side of my Named Healer, Yahweh-Healer. Anything less would be an insult to what He said, to who He said He is. He declares He is able, He is present, He is willing, He desires healing, so I stand on what He said, what He declared Himself to be, and I say what He says about me: "I am healed."

Here's the shocker. Your sickness or disease is not the problem. What you believe is the problem. You believe the wrong thing. So, one more time, you say, "Okay, I believe what you say. I will pray and be healed." I'm going back to the same point. When you accept what I have taught from the Heavenly Father's wisdom, you do not believe in His way until you take the other steps to believing. Because you say, "I believe," does not hide the fact that you really do not believe in your heart! You learn truth. You know see the healing is possible. Healing really exists, but you must get to the LAKE and get in. Saying you believe does not mean you believe. Wanting to believe, does not make you believe. You will believe in your heart, and BELIEVE you RECEIVE what they Bible says about your healing, when you take the words of healing from the Eternal Healer Father and live there, where He speaks those words to you. The words come alive in your heart (not your head). The words start with your eyes, and your mind, and your thoughts, but become alive in your heart until you stand against the disease and injury of your body. You must reach the place where in the face of your disease you stand against it and declare, "I win." "I'm healed." "Healing is in me, and 'disease,' you are no match." You push one step ahead of every disease obstacle. You take your health one more step. You resist the disease and its symptoms one step at a time. What you couldn't do, you do one time. The limits set by the disease, you cross one step at a time. You give the disease no victory, no credit, no praise. You step higher, stronger, while all the time, BELIEVING you RECEIVE (and therefore HAVE) healing. You don't give credit to the disease. You resist it, fight it, and conquer it with words and actions based upon your Healer Father's voice that He is your healing. This is His Name to you; so it's His promise, His love, His will, His result in your body by His great power and unfailing love. His healing love cannot fail you...is impossible to fail you, because His creative love power is too much for any disease, injury, or symptom that wants to steal your "quality of life from you. John 10:10 Jesus said, "The thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. I have come so that you may have life and have life more abundantly." Only one result is acceptable: the Healer Father wins in you...so you win. We never turn to defeat. We never embrace defeat. We do not entertain or allow defeat because we know Jesus' work on our behalf and His greatness with the Father's greatness...all for us. Jesus did not die for Himself. He did not bear or take sickness for Himself when he was beaten and murdered on the cross. Why did He do it? So we would not have to!

A short word about lifestyle. You must not abuse your body. Eating properly, exercising, proper rest are all important. You must not harm your body and intentionally put poisons in your system, such as excessive alcohol or drug abuse or even cigarettes while you desire to be healed of emphazema for example. When you work or play physically, you shouldn't continue to re-injure your back, muscles, joints, or bones by using them in ways not intended. I'm talking about common sense, which means rest is required and working within the limits of the design of your body! Healing is not magic and does not follow foolishness. There is an intelligent enemy who we call the adversary. He is so stupid that when Jesus was in the earth, the adversary said to Jesus, "Throw yourself off of this cliff and God's angels will catch you." This is what I mean be avoiding every such foolishness. You must follow a responsible lifestyle. As you truly, sincerely, seek your Creator Healer Father and Jesus as your Shepherd, King, and the lover of your soul, you must also sincerely receive healing and forgivenss as free, as grace, as a gift. So work with His moving and His power in you to see Him working in you to overcome all things that try to destroy you. He is life, goodness, and abundance of peace and health.

Secondly, a word about doctors and medicine. They are good when they follow the best treatments. Your Creator Healer Father wants you well, and so live saving measures are always appropriate. We do not work against our Creator Healer Father when we use proper science and methods to control diseases or injuries.

SEE A BIBLE TO FIND OUT IF THE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE. LOOK UP THESE SCRIPTURES: See the index in your Bible to find these books, chapters and verses.

Healing is yours. Only you can stop the healing that was purchased and delivered for you. In fact, you have stopped it until now. All would be saved if they would accept Jesus as the Risen King for their life. If they do not, who is the cause?
Jesus paid for every wrong and every result of wrong. Death is the last enemy to be destroyed. Jesus and His Father do not want people to die. This is why He sent Jesus to reverse the problem. Will we die? Yes. Yet, we will rise again just as Jesus did. Jesus' Spirit is in us now. Does He want the punishment of sin's sickness in our body? No, He paid for healing so that sin could no longer make us suffer for what He has already paid for!
 

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