"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise." Proverbs 11:30


God Wants You Well!
Excerpts from Harvest of Health by Gloria Copeland

I have some revolutionary news for you today.  God wants you healthy!  Every day!  Oh, I know that, you may quickly think, I know God will heal me when I get sick.

Yes, that's true, He will.  But that's not what I'm saying.  I'm telling you God's perfect will is for you to live continually in divine health.  His will is for you to walk fully in the power of His Word that sickness and disease are literally pushed away from you.  Isn't that good news?

I agree that it is wonderful to get healed when you're sick, but it's more wonderful to live in divine health.  And that's what God has always intended for His people.

Even under the old covenant God promised His people immunity from disease.  Exodus 23:25 says, "And you shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you."

The promise is even stronger under the new covenant.  Isaiah, looking forward to what Jesus would accomplish at the cross wrote, "Surely he [Jesus] has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows... he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:4-5).

The Apostle Peter, looking back at the same event wrote, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed" (I Peter 2:24).

Were healed!  That's past tense.  Jesus finished your healing on the cross.  He paid the price for you to be whole.  He brought righteousness for your spirit, peace for your mind and healing for your body.  

"Some people try to build the third story of a building on a vacant lot." - Charles Capps.

Now that sounds funny, but spiritually speaking it's true.  A lot of people want to enjoy the benefits of healing without building the foundation for it from the Word of God. 

Look at Proverbs 4:20-22: "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.  Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.  For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."

The word health here is translated remedy or medicine.  God's Word has life in it.  It is actually spirit food.  As you feed on it, you become strong spiritually and physically.

"Let them not depart from thine eyes."  Read the Word.  Meditate on the Word.  That's taking God's medicine.  If you will be faithful to take it continually, it eventually will be as hard for you to get sick as it ever was for you to get well.  But it's a process.  You can't just read the healing scriptures once and then go about your business.  You must continually feed on the Word of God.

Isaiah 55:11 says the Word of God prospers (or succeeds) in the things for which it is sent.  That means His Word about healing will produce healing.  It may not produce it right away, but the more you let the Word work in you, the greater your results will be.

If what you're looking for is health, then go to the Word that tells you, "By His stripes you were healed," and put that in your mouth.  Don't talk sickness.  Talk health.  Don't talk the problem. Talk the answer.