HEALING SERIES 7: DIVINE HEALING AND DIVINE HEALTH

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

HEALING SERIES 2: HEALING IS GOD'S WILL

He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. Psalms 107:20 NKJV

Glory.

He sent His word

His word revealed (Jesus) and this word healed us

This healing in turn meant deliverance from destructions for us

Again, the word is Jesus, who is the divine revelation of God. If you do not know Jesus, you cannot know/understand healing.

Don't get it wrong, an unbeliever can receive healing if prayed for but that unbeliever can permit sickness in their bodies cos they don't know Christ. The sickness will come back basically.

Even believers that lack this knowledge suffer same fate, which is why the bible says my people perish because they lack knowledge. Most times we are languishing in sickness because we do not know. We are yet to come to full understanding of God's will concerning sickness and diseases

And here is my belief: People need the word more than they need healing

The word enables us to not even give room to sickness in the first place. It opens us to certain truths about who we really are.

Should we fall sick, we speak to it immediately. We do not condone it at all. I had a revelation over the night and I was gisting those in Ibadan with me this morning. So lately, I've been having this pain in my legs. I stand most times when I'm praying (ministering) or kneel, then I'm usually stressed too. So I assumed this was a result of the stress and all

Usually after ministering for long, my leg gives way most times and I just want to rest. In my mind, this is my body telling me to rest more and take care of it. (PS. I'm a firm believer in resting our bodies so this message is not against it)

Since I started feeling this pain in my leg, in my head "it is not that serious", so I just ask someone around to help me massage my body. 

I've been asking everyone in Ibadan to help me massage my leg but they've been airing me 😂😂😂

Samson offered to help Saturday night but I somehow forgot and didn't meet him. So in the revelation, I saw myself asking for a massage again.

"Please help me massage my leg and my shoulders" And the Holy spirit came beside me and clapped 😂

He made a statement: Continue to pet this sickness o. Continue to pat in on the back. This was around 3am in the midnight

I stood up and I was like. "It is just body pain na, it's not that I'm sick"

And the Holy spirit helped me to realise this, that so many times we allow sickness with:

It's just headache

It's just menstrual pain

It's just body pain

It's just...

Most times the devil doesn't start afflicting believers with "big" sickness. He knows the body of Christ will rally round and speak over you. He knows you can send it out with your authority

So he starts with the little sickness, the ones we term as it's just.. He is banking on us allowing those little ones that will now generate into bigger problems. Because they've stayed too long in our body

So as we speak on healing, I want us to open our hearts and ears. We are not just talking of Cancer or those sickness with big and scary names. God's healing is valid for everything and I need us to take what is ours in this period.

It is God's will that you are healed

Even of that seemingly little headache that is getting consistent

Of that body pain

Of that menstrual period

Just name it

Emotional healing 

Physical healing 

Whatever it is, maybe it has name or not, big in your eyes or small. It is God's will that you are healed of it

Scripture says that the wholeness the Messiah brings has no limit.

I love it soooo much

No limit

No restrictions

It is complete wholeness

Your key to experiencing this is first believing it!

You know when you pray for a sick person for healing and in the middle you are putting "If it is your will God"

That's your unbelief jumping out, sometimes induced by ignorance.

Actually all times.

If you are saying "if it is your will God", then you really don't know God's will and you are not sure your prayer might be effective

It is always God's will to heal

So no need to say "If it is your will. God has said it is His will already so why are you still saying if if every time?

It is God's will!

When you use that if statement, what you are doing is destroying your words of healing. It's like somebody planting and at the same time uprooting immediately. You are rendering your words of healing useless basically.

When we say that it is God's will that all men be saved. It is God's will that our sins are washed away. Do we pray for people and say "If it is God's will to wash away your sins/save you"?

Fola: So this means it doesn’t apply to sickness only but other things 🤔🤔

Answer: No. Reason is God (through Christ Jesus) already established healing as His will. In fact, one of the things Jesus accomplished on the cross for us is healing. The only reason Jesus had to be beaten like a thief was for our healing.

So if we believe every other thing achieved in Calvary, we should not doubt healing.

Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 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. Isaiah 53:4‭-‬5 NKJV

He bore our griefs and sorrows. So probably you are in need of emotional or physical healing, the first thing Christ did was carry the weight of it. Everything (past, present, future). So if I'm carrying a heavy bucket of water and someone comes to carry it for me, what does it mean?

I'm relieved from that pain. Maybe temporarily until they decide they are tired.

Now, Jesus permanently lifted this load off us.

Emotional sickness

Mental sickness

Physical sickness

All have been lifted off you. You can't afford to be carrying a load someone else has not just carried but destroyed

He was wounded and bruised for us. It wasn't just coincidental that Jesus went through that. No. There was a purpose to it.

Sickness is a result of sin (the nature), everyone that has this nature is subject to sickness. It is why man has to be born again (change His thinking through the word)

In the suffering of Jesus is embedded provision for your healing

For mine. For the world

And this provision extends to all type of healing. If you don't believe God heals emotional or mental sickness, you are not positioned to receive it

Healing is your legal right as a believer.

In Matthew 15, Jesus told that woman who asked for healing, that healing belonged to the children. It is their legal right

Healing is bread to the children

Probably you are wondering, "Remi, if healing is God's will, why then are people sick?"

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. II Peter 3:9 NKJV

God's will is that nobody perishes but will people perish? Yes!

Here's how I feel about these things, God's will is brought to life by agreeing men. So if God's will is that nobody perishes, men have to align to this will of I am not perishing. If God's will is that nobody should be sick, I have to be in agreement to it also.

And here is the thing with healing as it is for salvation: The price has already been paid!

You know when something is bought for in your name and you just have to pick it up with a reference code? Exactly! This is the perfect picture. Your healing has been paid for. You are not just trying to negotiate it. It is already completely done

Take your reference code (the word) and get your healing: 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. I Peter 2:24 NKJV

Past tense

Done, done and dusted

Jesus is not receiving extra stripes or beating o. He did it once and for all

So this is true of healing: It is God's will that you are healed!

God has already healed you!

You have to believe the first statement to believe the second and they are both true. 

And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Matthew 8:2 NKJV

The leper came to Jesus needing healing. Now look at it this way, the leper came off as being okay with just worshipping Christ even if it doesn't lead to healing. So he asks Christ, "Lord, if you are willing, heal me"

So if Jesus is not willing, that's fine too. I will continue to worship

Most times, Jesus replied people with parables first. But you see this leper man got a straightforward answer

I am willing

It was straight to the point, no room for extra interpretation. And this answer is same for you and I today, It is God's will that we are healed

Straight forward.

Don't overthink or analyse

There are no buts or maybe

This statement is true for you and the world at large. Another proof of Healing being God's will is Heaven's design.

What is the eternal plan?

What is the plan before man fell?

What was the plan before man fell?

In heaven, there is no sickness.

In eternity, there will be no sickness

"Your will be done on earth, as it is in Heaven"

What Jesus came down to do was also reveal the father's will. God's will is that men be saved

Healing is a full package in our salvation

If heaven has no mental sickness, emotionally sick people, people with cancer, then it is God's will that men live this way on earth too. It is God's will that you enjoy good, perfect health

Believe this and begin to live it

HEALING SERIES 1: INTRODUCTION TO HEALING

Question: I know we all know what healing is but I will like those of us online to just drop a sentence on healing. Anything that comes to your mind.

Ally: I think healing has to do with restoration of physical, mental, emotional, (financial🤣) wholeness

Pearl: Being transferred from a state of infirmity(physical mental,  emotional) to wholeness of health. (Physical, mental, emotional.)

Samson: Healing is the restoration of health and well-being

Fola of London: To be sound or to be made whole . Could be physical or mental

Jane: Restoring to normalcy

Question: Has anyone here been sick? Or you are currently sick? Or you know someone who is sick? What was going on in your mind about them (you) and the sickness?

Ibukun: When I was in the hospital on Dec 24th 2020 with ulcer pains, I was scared and in panic. I kept saying God please take the pain away

Restoring to Normalcy - Healing! 

You see sickness was never part of the plan at creation. Did we see sickness in any of the things God created? No!

Sickness did not come from God

I want us to know this truth and hold on to it like our lives depend on it.

In Genesis 1, the Bible says everything God made was good. God saw it and confirmed it was good.

To understand healing and God's divine will about it, we will have to first check how sickness came in.

If you really want to understand a disease or sickness, you should be focused more on the cause than measures to treat it. Understanding the cause helps you to know exactly how to tackle that problem.

So let's go to the very beginning. The men that lived in the beginning lived really long. For 17 centuries, men lived for long: 777years, 979 years 365years etc

None of these people died sick. They grew old and just died

No heart disease, no diabetes, no cancer. There is an expectation today for older people to fall sick. In fact, some people save ahead for it.

A lot of us have and invest in health insurance also, of course for the days we fall sick. Sickness has become a normal in our world today

Question: How and when do we think sickness came into the world?

Samson: After the fall of man and sin came into the world. Sin brought death, sickness, pain and all the paparazzi

Question: Can anyone remember the first mention of sin in the bible?

Samson: Genesis 48 vs 1

The fall of man caused a lot of things. Sin resulted in sickness. Man became sick

And not just physical sickness. Sickness is being in a state or condition of illness. A state that is not normal, something that opposes the original wiring of man. 

The minute man fell, man became sick all round. Man became sick in the spirit, body, everything you can think of. Man's normal wiring changed. So man started living a life that is not in accordance with the original creation template.

There is this myth that AA genotypes have malaria easily So I used to claim it. Oh! I'm AA so malaria is a normal thing for me. I can have it like 10 times in a year because I'm AA. And the Holy spirit opened my eyes to it that I was confessing a normal that is not my template. 

It's normal for people to become sick now. It's normal for people to build hospitals today

Imagine Adam and Eve building hospital before the fall. For what? The world became corrupted and cursed at the fall of man. And it will keep deteriorating till this world is ended.

Does this mean we have to accept sickness until our new world? No!

“For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; No one seeks her.” Jeremiah‬ ‭30:17‬ ‭NKJV

I will restore you back to the original order. What I had in mind when I created man. Though God did not cause sickness in the world, God did not push man to sin. Yet God still actively found a way to restore man to the original order.

Today, as we celebrate Easter, one of the things we actually celebrate is the fulfilment of God's word to the prophet Jeremiah. So if we accept sickness as a part of us, we are really not true partakers of sickness. One of the things Jesus' death accomplished for us is healing.

"I don't know why God made me sick" "I know God wants to use this sickness for a purpose"

Erhm...

God is not using anything. God is not responsible for that sickness. His wish is that you are in good health always. 

Jesus bore so much pain just to make sure we were healed. Do you know how they beat Him? Even the person that steals in open markets does not get beaten up that much o

And that was allowed for just one reason: Your healing

A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came to give life—life that is full and good. John 10:10 ERV

A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to  give you everything in abundance, more than you expect —life in its fullness until you overflow! John 10:10 TPT

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). John 10:10 AMPC

Christ came so we will enjoy life. Sick people are always in pain, that's not enjoyment. Sickness leads to Death. The aim is to kill, so we can be assured it is from the devil

One thing most of us struggle to get is that the same power that saved us healed us. These things were worked at the same time.

Do we believe we are saved? If yes, why then do we believe we are not or can't be healed?

The first time I had this conversation with the Holy Spirit

I kuku responded

Nobody can see salvation physically na. So it's just a thing of the heart. But health can be seen. I can see if I'm healed or not

And the spirit reminded me of this saying: Faith precedes manifestation

Seeing is believing ❌ This is not kingdom principle, so it is a lie.

We believe then we see. 

If we doubt healing, then we can as well start doubting salvation. Because that one is even more complex

There is no ID number given to you to confirm you are saved except that faith. So what if you get to heaven and they say you did not get saved on earth 😂. It sounds somehow abi?

Exactly.

That faith that we have that we've been saved, we need to have it that we've been healed to. 

One of the things I've found that makes believers to allow sickness is this belief that God sends sickness, allows sickness or uses it. 

God is not planning to prove anything through that sickness. God always works things out for our good

We should not mistake this to be God causing sin Himself so He can prove a point. That is wicked

Remember we just finished the gospel according to  John and we all agreed that Jesus is the living expression of God. 

If Jesus cannot do it, God cannot do it!

We've discussed sickness coming in as a result of sin. There are also human actions that lead to sickness

Bad health habits

Bad eating habits can lead to sickness. Gluttony can lead to obesity which leads to sickness

Health compatibility in marriage

This is another reason for sickness

Before now, our parents didn't know so much.

They were ignorant about these things

But now, our generation is very much aware of  health compatibility, yet people still marry without giving a care about genotypes. And it's more of carelessness than faith on their part

If it were faith, they will activate the healing before they get married and even heal the person ahead. 

There are so many other physical causes of sickness. But everything still points back to the fall of man. And the devil

If man didn't fall. If we decide to eat all the food in the garden, I doubt that we will get obese and be sick. I don't even know if we will be hungry in the first place

So we must know, recognize and accept that only one person is responsible for sickness and it is the devil. If you are sick or you know anyone who is, let this be your thoughts and belief:

The devil is responsible for that sickness

This determines our reaction and how we treat sickness in the long run

So I want us all to believe this strongly

We will stop here tonight and continue on Sunday. Please don't miss any part of this teaching.

Healing gifts will be activated before the end of this series

Testimonies will flow. Before we meet next week, I want you to start praying for the sick around you.

If it is not the will of God then it should not be. So start praying for the sick now