Divine Healing and Divine Health
So open question. Is there a difference between both? Can someone help us with their understanding of both terms?
Ayodele: Divine healing- Supernatural healing for someone who is already sick. Divine Health- Being in perpetual good health divinely.
Chelsea: For me, the word divine already tells it's not from/by man, but from God. Divine healing would be the supernatural restoration process to having Divine health (good health of course)
Joshua: Devine healing is for the sick, while Divine health is a supernatural resistance of sickness, decreases or any infirmity.
Sumi: Divine healing for me is God , through someone or something healing someone who ill and Divine health is being immune to sickness or any infirmity by God's supernatural power.
Jane: Divine Healing is a process, while divine health is a state of enjoying supernatural health.
Thank you so much everyone. Your answers are correct
One thing we've been focusing on is healing for ourselves and others, which is divine healing. Basically God taking away our sicknesses. But there is something greater and sweeter
It is called Divine Health
I really bless God for the gift of healing released to us. I have enjoyed it and so many even through me. But you see, I will actually prefer not to need healing in the first place.
Some Christians will tell you that it is not possible to have divine health until eternity. Because sickness is a result of sin (the fall) and until the Christ comes again, we will have to live with some of these things. So divine health as a concept for believers is wrong and misleading. You see this school of thought I just shared, I do not agree with it.
Israel had divine health for a whole generation. They had it in the worst possible place ever: The wilderness. That's like the easiest place to fall sick.
But no, what they received from God wasn't healing but divine health.
They were not falling sick. Between Egypt and the promised land, this covenant stood
And you know the most interesting part? The people that enjoyed this divine health were rebellious. So it wasn't that they did something to deserve this from God or they were good people.
They were sinful. They were not born again. They didn't have Christ
If a people like this could lay hold of divine health, then it is time for us in Christ to sit back and know exactly what is ours to take.
I don't know if we've met Christians that tell you they can never be sick and they are never sick? Like they don't even take paracetamol or cold medicine.
I met someone like that first during my ND days. So careless with his health. Can sleep anywhere with plenty mosquitoes. Can eat anything. Yet he knew he'd never fall sick. He'd say it with so much belief. This person was a Christian o but I thought myself a "better" Christian than him, yet it was me in the hospital every now and then.
The secret is this, he aligned with God on His covenant for Divine Health. He simply believed that covenant and it became his reality.
While I was preparing for this sermon, I was wondering what life would have been like if me sef know. I knew this guy, I even used to talk about how he is so lucky and never falls sick but I didn't think I could have what he had. I was basically okay with getting healed for every time I'm sick
That too is a miracle from God. I didn't know there was something more
Something better than healing; DIVINE HEALTH
Beloved friend, I pray that you are prospering in every way and that you continually enjoy good health, just as your soul is prospering. 3 John 1:2 TPT
Gaius was doing well spiritually but it was also important that he knew to enjoy good health. This will mean that a person can be spiritual yet not enjoy good health
For us to get repeated healing, it will mean that we have repeated sickness. God offers healing o but He offers even something bigger for those that can lay hold of it
God's best for you is Divine Health
You must serve the Lord your God. If you do this, I will bless you with plenty of bread and water. I will take away all sickness from you. Exodus 23:25 ERV
Divine health!
Christians may get sick, this is not a sin. God has also provided a solution to sickness which is healing. But there is a bigger solution, which is divine health. It is us having permanent healing.
God offers healing o and it is available for everyone. But like I said before, something more sweeter has been offered
It is Divine Health. It is a permanent fix to sickness.
From our reading in 1 Cor 15, we established that the second Adam came to undo whatever the 1st Adam did.
Man was made in the image of God and there is no sickness in the image of God. But man fell and lost a lot of these divine privileges because of sin.
Then Jesus came and He undid what Adam did.
If you believe that you have eternal life, then you should believe that divine health can be yours too
Before we started this series, I didn't know this also. Or rather I knew, but I didn't really accept it as mine deep down.
Until the period we were in Ibadan in April/May. At this point, I want us to include in our personal confessions our divine health status. We can't afford to keep moving from one pills to the other, one diagnosis to the other.
For how long?
How long do we live this way?
How long do we keep coming for healing?
Coming for healing will mean that we experience the discomfort of sickness first. How long do we keep believing God to take away that discomfort (of course He will answer) when we can actually believe Him to never be sick
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. Isaiah 33:24 KJV
No one living in Zion will say I am sick. Not I was not healed. They wouldn't even get sick in the first place
I say this again, if Israel as stiff-necked as they were could enjoy divine health in the wilderness of all place. Those people sinned so much yet
How much more you and I?
If divine health is the will of God, why then do most Christians not have it?
Why are we looking for healing up and down every minute?
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. Psalm 82:5-6 KJV
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Psalm 82:7 KJV
Look at.
I have said you are gods
Yet you know not
You do not understand your identity as God and because of this men walk on in darkness.
Ignorance is a huge problem.
If they pick up snakes or drink any poison, they will not be hurt. They will lay their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” Mark 16:18 ERV
Is it not the believer Jesus was talking about here. You will drink poison and nothing will happen. Because you are not meant to be susceptible to sickness. I am not meant to be
You are gods!
We need to recognize our privilege as gods and live it
How then can we access Divine health?
1. Faith
You cannot rise higher than your faith.
There is nothing we've received in this kingdom that was released to us outside of Faith.
If you do not believe that God is willing to give you divine health, then you can't receive it.
2. The word
First, to know it.
You need to know what God has said concerning your health and believe it. When you know what God has said, you do not beg to be healthy.
It is our right.
Then we move to confessions
My son, pay attention to what I say. Listen closely to my words. Don’t let them out of your sight. Never stop thinking about them. These words are the secret of life and health to all who discover them. Proverbs 4:20-22 ERV
Look at. These words are the secret of life and health to all who discover.
Your health is hidden in the word.
Find it, know it and begin to Confess it.
Eat the word
Feed on it
Let it be your diet
3. Opposing the devil based on the words we have found
You see, the devil doesn't want you to live in good health so he will fight.
The devil always fights even when he is losing.
I was speaking with someone (I think Ayo and Fola) on how hardworking the devil is. The devil works really hard and "smart". Read the smart as cunny
He will come to attack you because of this word that you have received.
He will try to test if the word has root
You will not let him.
You will stand on God's promises
He sends headache? Oh Devil! I live in divine health. Send him the new memo till he gets it.
So give yourselves to God. Stand against the devil, and he will run away from you. James 4:7 ERV
Stand against the devil! How? With the word!
One person I honour so much is Kenneth Hagin.
Bro Hagin taught so much on healing. Then what did the devil do? He sent a heart problem. This heart symptoms persisted for 6 months. And it's somehow you know, when you preach one thing to people and some even lay hold on it then the devil strikes you with that exact thing
It's like he is trying to use you to show off and make your God a laughing stock.
If you are not careful, you may get to a stage where you don't believe or agree that your teaching was in error.
But in all I have read about Bro Hagin, I noticed something.
Every day these symptoms came, for 6 months he stood against it. He refused to accept this as his reality.
He believed Jesus had given him divine health so it was his. It didn't matter that the devil tried to use personal experience to override his privilege as son.
He stood against the devil until those symptoms turned back
The devil is persistent with his wickedness, you need to take a stand.
He stood and the symptoms left. Today, we will say Kenneth Hagin enjoyed divine health. His testimonies have brought life to many but we must not forget the part where he stood on the word of God even when the physical report said different
Divine health is also not just limited to physical health, it is total well being. All round wholeness
In your mental health, spiritual health, marriage, friendships etc
Isaiah 9, the message translation describes Jesus as the Prince of wholeness. That verse says There is no limit to the wholeness the Messiah brings
Question:
Wale: Can an unbeliever receive divine healing?
Answer:
Yes. An unbeliever can
The man at the gate, it wasn't recorded that he believed. Peter gave him what he had which was healing. So a believer can give from his healing stash to an unbeliever
