Today's "Faith Food" by Kenneth E. Hagin is a lesson that is THE most vital lesson to know concerning health and healing for every born again believer!
Source of Sickness
"And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" (Luke 13:16).
The Bible is progressive revelation. It is in the New Testament that we get full light, full truth, and full revelation. There, Jesus plainly taught that sickness is of the devil, not God.
In Luke 13, we see Jesus going into the synagogue on the Sabbath. A woman was there whose body was bowed together in a fixed position. She couldn't straighten up. She may have had arthritis. Jesus called her to Him, and said, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity!"
Then Jesus laid hands on her, and immediately she stood straight. The ruler of the synagogue, like the leaders of some churches today, got angry about it!
Then, as recorded in our text, Jesus elaborated on the fact that Satan is the author of sickness. Jesus made three enlightening statements:
(1) The woman ought to be loosed, she ought not to be bound, she ought to be free from this physical infirmity
(2) It was Satan who had bound her, not God
(3) The reason this woman ought to be loosed was because she was a daughter of Abraham.
Confession: Since Satan is the author of sickness, I ought to walk free from sickness. And Jesus has made the provision for me to do so. Divine health is my covenant right!
Unless we have firmly established for ourselves that sickness and disease comes only, and ever, from the enemy, we will never be able to stand fast on the Word for healing! Another thing to establish for ourselves, as New Testament believers, is that healing and health were already a part of the Old Covenant! When Moses, in obedience to and by the authority of Almighty God, led the people out of Egypt, the Word of God tells us that there was NOT ONE 'feeble one among them"! Psalm 105:37:The Bible is progressive revelation. It is in the New Testament that we get full light, full truth, and full revelation. There, Jesus plainly taught that sickness is of the devil, not God.
In Luke 13, we see Jesus going into the synagogue on the Sabbath. A woman was there whose body was bowed together in a fixed position. She couldn't straighten up. She may have had arthritis. Jesus called her to Him, and said, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity!"
Then Jesus laid hands on her, and immediately she stood straight. The ruler of the synagogue, like the leaders of some churches today, got angry about it!
Then, as recorded in our text, Jesus elaborated on the fact that Satan is the author of sickness. Jesus made three enlightening statements:
(1) The woman ought to be loosed, she ought not to be bound, she ought to be free from this physical infirmity
(2) It was Satan who had bound her, not God
(3) The reason this woman ought to be loosed was because she was a daughter of Abraham.
Confession: Since Satan is the author of sickness, I ought to walk free from sickness. And Jesus has made the provision for me to do so. Divine health is my covenant right!
He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
If Old Covenant believers obeyed God and operated in faith concerning their Covenant with God, they could receive healing! Because they did not have the Spirit of God living IN them, it was not so easy for them to believe! WE have it so much easier! Holy Spirit lives IN every born again believer, and overflows with Wisdom and power every believer who has also received the infilling of Holy Spirit, having been "endued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49)! Once you establish that TRUTH in your own heart, the devil will never be able to KEEP you sick again! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "Look To The Son":
Shalom in Him!
