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Biblical Healing Principles

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God desires us to walk in total freedom. This includes complete physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual freedom.

Often our experience dictates our theology, i.e. our beliefs about God and what He can and can’t do. Before my children were radically healed of anaphylaxis and food allergies and intolerances, I believed God could heal but that He didn’t heal the ‘big’ issues in our life. My experience with having a close friend die at age 27 during surgery for a brain aneurysm repair, my mum dying of cancer three weeks after my first child was born, and our ten years of infertility all formed my belief that God only came through and healed the ‘little things’.

After years of prayer, God ‘suddenly’ healed them after Rolland Baker prayed a simple prayer of seven words “Oh God, take care of this family.” I was flabbergasted. Surely not. My religious mindset took a beating. (To read the story, please see Chapter 8 in my devotional book “Ministering like Jesus: How to Grow in Healing, Deliverance, and Miracles” (available on my website here or through Amazon).

Our children were healed, and I went on a journey of rediscovering my identity in God. This resulted in an increased intimacy with God and a faith today that believes in the impossible. God can do far above everything we could ever ask, dream, or imagine. (Ephesians 3:20).

Do you have faith that God can and will do far more than you could ever ask, dream, or imagine?

Sometimes we need to re-examine our beliefs, get stuck into reading the Bible and commit to unpacking the truths about Jesus and how that affects our lives as children of God.

Jesus is our model. When He was on earth, He walked in perfect health. Everywhere Jesus walked and desired healing for people, those people were healed. We too, can experience total healing.

Jesus has given us the authority, as children of God and joint heirs of the Father with His Son Jesus, to have authority over sickness. John 14:12 “Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these…”

God loves partnering with us. He could heal people on His own and, in fact, doesn’t need us, but He desires relationship. God loves us to partner with Him. Greater intimacy with the Father has an outcome of seeing greater result.

Biblical examples of healing:

  • Moses prayed for Miriam’s healing from leprosy – Numbers 12:10-14
  • Elisha prayed for the raising of the widow’s son – 2 Kings 4:18-37
  • Elisha sent Naaman to bathe in the Jordan River for his healings – 2 Kings 5:1-19
  • Isaiah ordered a poultice for Hezekiah’s healing – 2 Kings 20:1-11
  • Jesus healed many people eg Mark 1:29-42, Mark 3:1-10, Mark 5 etc
  • Jesus sent out His disciples to preach & heal – Matthew 10:1-8, Mark 6:7-13, Luke 9:1-6, Luke 10:1-12
  • Peter healed the lame man at the temple – Acts 3:1-10
  • Philip healed many in Samaria – Acts 8:5-7
  • Peter healed Aeneas, who was paralyzed – Acts 9:32-35
  • Peter raised Dorcas from the dead – Acts 9:36-41
  • Paul raised Eutycus from the dead – Acts 20:9-12
  • Paul performed a variety of miracles in Ephesus – Acts 19:11-12
  • Plus many more examples in the Gospels

God gave gifts of healing to people (1 Corinthians 12) to use them.

God’s love is often demonstrated through healing.

Jesus expressed his mission in terms of language that expresses His love. His mandate in Luke 4:18-21 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”

Healing the sick is a demonstration of God’s power. Jesus showed authority over sickness, disease, and demon possession by healing the sick. (Colossians 1: 15-18)

In the Gospels, we see Jesus authorizing and commanding His disciples to heal the sick. We, too, are His disciples if we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. We, too, are called to heal the sick.

Luke 9:1-2, 6 “When Jesus had called the twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick… So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.”

When Jesus commissioned the disciples, He gave them authority to do everything He had been doing, including healing the sick. Matthew 28: 18-20 “Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded.”

Mark 16:17-18 “And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Are you walking in your full authority as a child of the Most High God?

Is some of the fruit of your relationship with God seeing sick people healed?

Foundational beliefs

  1. God’s desire is for everyone to be healed.
  2. God is always good. There is no sickness in God or in Heaven. God is never bad.
  3. The devil is always bad and only bad. He can never be good.
  4. God’s will is healing and health. Health is good.
  5. The devil’s mandate is to kill, steal, and destroy. One of his methods is through sickness. Sickness is not good.
  6. Jesus didn’t have a ‘formula’ for healing. It is not about how and what we pray.
  7. God also uses medical professionals to heal us.

What about people who are not healed?

At this stage, you may have a question: Why doesn’t God heal everyone? Great question. A plethora of answers. One of those answers is relationship and intimacy. As stated above, God desires to partner with us to bring forth healing. Other times, I have no idea. If I were God, I would want to heal everyone, but I don’t have His wisdom, knowledge, or the ‘full’ picture.

Sickness is not of God, and we are not ‘called’ to put up with being sick.

Is there an area in your belief about sickness that you are being called to re-examine?

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

Every blog post I list 5 prophetic activations/exercises under children/family, group, beginner, intermediate and advanced. The purpose of these exercises is to practice to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and see and sense God and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy! Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Gather birthday candles and matches. Take it in turns to have each child hold a lighted candle. When they are holding the lighted candle, have the rest of the family/group share encouraging words that God is putting in their minds about the person and declare them out aloud over the person.

2. Group Activation: Ask people for words of knowledge about what God would love to heal for people in the group. Gather around the relevant people who are suffering from the conditions highlighted and pray for them.

3. Beginner Activation: Ask God to highlight any false beliefs you may have incorporated about God and healing. Ask God to show you His truth.

4. Intermediate Activation: Ask God to highlight a person whom you will meet today that you can take the initiative to pray for healing for them.

5. Advanced Activation: Ask God to highlight to you a health condition affecting a vast number of people. Ask God to show you what He would like you to do and declare in relation to His desired outcome.

Which lens are you looking through?

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This morning while watering the vegetable garden, I asked God many questions. Questions like “How do you want me to pray for my kids at the moment?”, “What should my involvement in Healing Rooms look like in 2023?”, “What about church?” etc. All big and important questions. I was expectant. Expecting God to download the answer to me immediately.

Simple.

Except I was not getting any answers. I change my question when I don’t get an answer or find it hard to hear God.

I changed my questions as I simultaneously placed the hose nozzle in the watering can on full bore. Loud noise filled the air. I said aloud, “I can’t hear God clearly in this din.”

Since I wanted to finish watering my plants and needed to fill the watering can for the final stretch, I kept the hose inside it, the din continuing. Meanwhile, another thought filled my mind. When I have junk in my life or stuff that’s not yet healed, I see and hear God through the lens of that unhealed ‘junk’. I took a few moments to ask God what lens or junk I was looking through at Him and trying to hear Him.

Sometimes we have placed walls up, walls of protection.

Other times, we may have withdrawn.

We may have had disappointments. Disappointment in God. In others. In ourselves.

Sometimes we still need a revelation of God’s love in a particular area of our life.

Sometimes we may be holding on to something tightly and not ready to surrender that to God fully.

An hour later, I was at a Doctor’s appointment. The Doctor shared with me how he and his wife wanted to do medical mission work overseas but didn’t want to go until their children were adults. They didn’t want their children to be laden with any serious medical issues from the parasites of third-world countries. I challenged him. “Did he have the faith to trust God to care for his children?”.

Today my friends, you have an opportunity to examine if you are perhaps looking at God through a particular lens.

The lens may be clear, cloudy, scratched, or coloured.

Usually, our lens being cloudy, scratched, or coloured means we have incorporated a faulty belief into our thinking.

Below are some prompts to ask God to hear His perspective on your current lens.

  1. “Father God, is there an area I still need to surrender to you?”
  2. “God, what do you say about …..?”
  3. “Lord, can you please show me any areas in my life or thoughts that are not in agreement with you, Lord?”
  4. “God, is there a lie I am believing about you?” If you hear, sense, or think of anything here, then deal with it with God. Repent. Then ask God, “what is the truth you want me to know?”
  5. “Holy Spirit, is there anyone I still need to forgive?” (If a person immediately comes to mind, please take that as a sign that forgiveness is still required).
  6. “Father God, is there a bitter root I’ve allowed to develop in my life from past hurts?”
  7. “Father God, what walls of protection have I built in my life?”

To help you unpack this further, take a few moments to spend time with God and ask:

  • Father God, is there any lie or faulty belief I am believing?
  • Grab the first thought through your head and explore that.
  • Ask God to show or tell you why you believe that.
  • Ask God if there is anyone you need to forgive. If anyone comes to mind, forgive that person. Bless them. Do you need to forgive yourself?
  • Ask Father God to show, tell, or give you the truth.

God loves questions. Feel free to explore any of the above questions with Him.

God is also in the business of miracles, as nothing is too hard for Him. Ephesians 3:20 “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.”

You may even appreciate and benefit from having some prayer ministry by a trusted, experienced person. Reach out to someone for help if you need to. Intimacy with Father God, Holy Spirit, and Jesus is so important, and often, we may not realize that past hurts are clouding our relationship.

Prophetic Activations / Exercises to incorporate into your week:

Every blog post I list 5 prophetic activations/exercises under children/family, group, beginner, intermediate and advanced. The purpose of these exercises is to practice to help us hear God’s voice in a clearer manner. They sharpen our senses to hear and see and sense God and His way of communicating with us. This enables us to grow in our relationship with God and also to impart to others what God tells us for them. Feel free to use as many of these activations each week as you can. The more you practice, the sharper you become at hearing God’s voice. Enjoy! Remember that whenever you give another person a prophetic word or picture etc, please make sure that it is encouraging, edifying (strengthening) and comforting (1 Corinthians 14:3) and that it comes from a place of love.

1. Children / Families Activation: Gather pencils, crayons and paper. Ask everyone to draw what God would love their teacher to know at the moment. Pass the papers on to the appropriate teacher.

2. Group Activation: Buy coloured jellybeans or smarties and place in a bowl. Get into small groups of 5-6 people with a bowl of jellybeans/smarties in each group. Ask everyone to take one and to take note of the colour they selected. If their lolly was yellow/orange – give a prophetic word to the person on their left. Red/pink – to the person opposite them. Blue/white – a person who serves well. Green – the quietest person in the group. Black/purple/brown – to the person they know the least.

3. Beginner Activation: Spend time focusing on God. Ask Him to show you what type of light you are and why.

4. Intermediate Activation: Spend time with God asking Him for a prophetic word for your member of Parliament. Ask God if you are to share it with them and how, or if it is for you to pray.

5. Advanced Activation: Spend time with God asking Him to show you His heart for the people in Turkey/Syria with the earthquake devastation. Ask God what He would like your response to be. Craft a prophetic word for you to declare about the outcome for these countries.