Healed by the Power of God
It was the power of God and the leading of the Holy Spirit which healed me from Bipolar. Doctors had told me that I would be on Lithium Carbonate medication for the rest of my life. After my last trip to the mental hospital in 1981, I made a commitment to God.
I committed to God, promising to pray every day, to read His Word every day, and to get to church every Sunday. I coined a word, calling it “frontsliding.” Frontsliding is the exact opposite of backsliding, which is what I had recently done -- that landed me in the mental hospital. I determined to stay close to Jesus always through making that commitment, later adding to it, telling Him that I would do whatever I found in the Bible to do, once I understood it.
He honored my commitment. He kept me from backsliding again. The only times I did not get to a Sunday morning service from then on was when He said not to go, which was on rare occasion -- or when I later joined with a group that met at another time.
How does God’s power come to a person? Like almost all things come from God -- by their faith. They can simply ask Him for it, believing that He hears them when they ask, and it shall be theirs. (See Mark 11:24.)
All throughout the Gospels, we see Jesus preaching, teaching, and healing the sick. He is the same now as He was then. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (See Hebrews 13:8.) What He did then, He will do now. He will still heal the sick.
I looked, but could not find any place in Scripture where He refused to heal a person. I found instead that He healed them all. (See Acts 10:38.) He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. This implies that healing is good, and it is. It is from God.
There is a place in the Scriptures where it says that Jesus could not heal -- because of unbelief. (See Matthew 13:57-58.) It does not say that He would not heal, but that He could not heal. There is a difference. The word “would” has to do with the will, whereas “could” has to do with ability. Unbelief in the people in His hometown stopped Jesus from doing more there. He would have if He could have, but since He could not, He did not. The same is true today.
In some cases where people were healed, they came to Jesus or were brought to Him. In other cases, He went to them. In most cases, it was by the faith of the person needing the healing that they were healed. Occasionally, it was because of the faith of others.
The Bible has much to say about faith. It takes faith to be saved, and for other things as well. Although I agree that it is true that not all who remain unhealed is because of a lack of faith, it is true in some cases. Patience is also necessary, as it often takes time for the manifestation to take place.
Jesus is able to heal a person in an instant. That is called a miracle. He told certain people (John 5:14 and John 8:11) to go and sin no more. Ridding your life of sin is necessary in order to keep the miracle.
Is it really possible to get free from sin? As a new Christian, I attended some Bible classes. The instructor mentioned something that greatly sparked my interest. She spoke of “sinless perfection.” As it was a very large class, we were each allowed to ask only one question. Raising my hand, I asked how to achieve this sinless perfection. After the snickering of the class ended, she said, “I don’t know. Fast and ask God, I guess.”
That began my journey into ridding my life of all sin. I did as she had instructed. I fasted and I asked God. I also studied the Scriptures and found what I needed to know about the subject. (See Psalm 119:1-3 and 1 John 3:6, 9). We do not have to continue to sin.
It is called living an overcoming life. We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. (See Revelation 12:11.) We are to overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21). In the book of Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, there are messages given to seven churches. At the end of the message to each of the churches, there is a promise given for those who overcome.
God’s Word shall not return void to Him. It shall accomplish things. It shall prosper in the thing in which it was sent. (See Isaiah 55:11.) He sent His Word to heal our disease (Psalm 107:20). Without Him, we can do nothing. Without His Word, we are nothing. Jesus is the Word. In the beginning was the Word. It was God, and it became flesh. (See John 1:1-2, 14.)
God spoke. He used words. By the words He spoke, that which was not, came into being. (See Genesis 1:3.) God still speaks today. As we hear what He says, and speak out what we hear Him say, circumstances change.
It is by faith that we can hear His voice. We believe that He will speak to us, and we can then hear Him. His sheep know His voice (John 10:4). They are not unsure. They do not doubt. No. They know.
As we speak what we hear God saying, we are in agreement with Him. We are merely repeating what we are hearing Him saying. When God says that we are healed, and we agree with Him and say that we are healed, healing manifests.
Excerpt from God Can Heal Anything!
ISBN: 1-59330-432-3
Ann Doupont