“And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you” (Romans 8:10-11 NKJV).

It is a horrible thing to suffer from a sickness or disease. Even with modern medicine, there are some conditions that the doctors cannot treat. Sickness often causes fear and dread because along with the sickness comes pain, disability, and a bone-chilling terror of what the future holds. Unfortunately, God’s children are not automatically exempt.

Christians can suffer from various ailments and conditions. We have been given new spirits, but we still remain in a physical body that is subject to sin. God’s children can be vulnerable to sickness because we dwell in a sin cursed earth, and we live in mortal bodies. However, we have hope. 

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”  (James 5:14-16 NKJV). God’s word tells us that we can be healed of sickness if the prayer of faith is offered on our behalf by spiritually mature believers. We also see that confession of sin is a part of the healing process. And the prayer must be in faith. Those praying for the sick must believe that the Lord is going to heal the sick person. As a child of God, our healing has been purchased by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 

God has already addressed sickness and disease on the cross of our Savior. “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” (1 Peter 2:24). Please don’t let people tell you that this only applies to spiritual healing. Let’s compare scripture with scripture. “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, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses'” (Matthew 8:16-17). When we look at these two passages we see that Jesus “stripes” paid for our healing and deliverance. God’s children have the right to be free from sickness and disease because Christ already took those upon himself so that we would not have to bear them. But where does the power for a healing come from? 

Some Christians travel miles to receive healing from some well-known minister. But this is not necessary. The power that can heal us is already inside of us, and it is actually a part of us. “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17). The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is actually a part of us. Our recreated human spirits have been permanently united with the Spirit of God. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of us. The same power that created the universe is a part of us. We don’t have to ask God to give us the power to be healed, our prayers should be that the Lord teach us to release the power that we already have. 

One of the first steps in receiving healing is to understand that the Holy Spirit of God is a part of us. The Christian does not have to go outside of themselves to find healing power, it is already inside of them. So one of the first steps in receiving healing is to ask our Father to show us how to release the power that we already possess.