Question: How do you keep your healing? First, you must know that healing belongs to you, and second, you must know that it is God’s will to heal you personally.
What does God’s Word say about healing?
1. The prophecy of healing was given.
Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV)
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
This prophecy promises that God would provide a complete redemption for the entire threefold makeup of your being; spirit, soul, and body.
In Isaiah 53:4 from the New Living Translation, the prophecy specifically refers to being redeemed from sickness and disease.
Isaiah 53:4 (NLT)
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows* that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
*Yet it was our sicknesses he carried; / it was our diseases.
2. Jesus fulfills the prophecy.
Matthew 8:16-17 (NKJV)
16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”*
*Isaiah 53:4
Matthew 8:17 (NLT)
This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, “He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.”*
*Isaiah 53:4
3. Now divine health belongs to the children of God!
1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
Just like salvation is one of your new covenant benefits, divine health is also one of your new covenant benefits. It is part of your inheritance in Christ. Hopefully, you now know 3 things: First, healing belongs to you. Second, it is God’s will to heal you personally. Third, it is God’s will for you to live in divine health.
So the question we want to answer is: “How do you keep your healing?” In other words, how do you live in divine health?
Hebrews 3:1 (NKJV)
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and HIGH PRIEST of OUR CONFESSION, Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 4:14 (NKJV)
Seeing then that we have a great HIGH PRIEST who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast OUR CONFESSION.
Notice the two phrases in these two verses: “Our Confession” and “High Priest”. Jesus is the High Priest of our confession.
Confession comes from the Greek word “Homologeo” which means “to speak the same thing.” It also means “to agree with.”
Key Point #1:
If you want to keep your healing, if you want to live in divine health, you must develop the habit of saying the same thing about your health that God says about it. You must develop the habit of agreeing with God concerning the subject of your personal health. You can agree with God by saying the same thing that He says about any given matter, including living in divine health.
You will never enjoy the promises in God’s Word until you confess them. The Bible will never become a living thing in your life until you confess what it says, and then put it into practice. Until you confess God’s Word, until you practice God’s Word for yourself personally, you will never receive what God thinks already belongs to you. God thinks healing already belongs to you!
Confessing God’s Word is one way you can act on it. Confession leads to action. You release the power of God into your life by confessing God’s Word – by speaking God’s Word. You will then find yourself acting on God’s Word.
Christianity is called the Great Confession. The Bible is God’s confession. Healing follows confession just as salvation follows confession (See Romans 10:10). Confession precedes possession concerning all the promises of God.
Your High Priest, Jesus, is doing something with your words. Jesus Christ is doing something right now with the words you speak. He is saying to God, “Father, make that person’s words good in their life.” Whether you speak positive words or negative words, Jesus has no choice because He is bound to His own word, which He stated in Mark 11:23.
Mark 11:23 (NKJV)
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”
You are having in your life today that which you have spoken in your past. Whatever you have been saying is gong to show up in your life. Many people are not having what they say because they are saying what they have. They are walking by sight. The goal of your life is to make your confession, the words you say, harmonize with the Word of God, with what God says.
Hebrews 4:14 (NKJV)
Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us HOLD FAST our confession.
Hebrews 10:23 (NKJV)
Let us HOLD FAST the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
The phrase “hold fast” means to seize, retain, and keep. You keep your healing by holding fast to your confession of God’s Word. You keep your healing by continually speaking what God’s Word says about your health and healing. Key point number two, if you want to keep your healing, comes in the form of a question:
Key Point #2:
Where is your tenacity? Where’s your tenacity to hold fast to your confession of God’s Word concerning your healing?
The motivation and the inspiration to hold fast to your confession lies in your ability to honor Jesus as your High Priest. Where is your tenacity to honor Jesus as your High Priest? Your confession is your estimation of the value of the Word of God in your life.
Hebrews 10:23 (AMP)
So let us seize and HOLD FAST and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.
Jesus is the One who promised you complete and eternal redemption, and now He is faithful to make that promise good in every area of your life. All God’s promises are found in the Holy Bible, which is God’s Word. The challenge is whether the One who made the promises is faithful to His word. We know that Jesus is reliable, sure, and faithful to His word, but you will never enjoy the promises in God’s Word until you confess them and act like you have them.
Your confession, the words you say, will either honor Jesus or dishonor Jesus. Jesus Christ is the Guarantor of every word from Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 22:21. Jesus has become the guarantee of God’s Word.
You can say the following affirmation based on 1 Peter 2:24 to confirm God’s thoughts about your health and healing. Making this affirmation will also help you practice “holding fast” to your confession of living in divine health.
1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
Confession:
Jesus Christ bore my sins in His own body on the cross. I am now living right with God. He also bore my sicknesses and removed my diseases. Jesus has already obtained healing for me. His wounds healed me. I believe it. I accept it. I have it now. I was healed by the stripes of Jesus, and now I can live in divine health.
Continue to make this life-changing affirmation and expect the life, health, and strength of the risen Christ to infuse your entire body with life, health, and strength!