GOD WANTS YOU WELL
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Isaiah 2:2 (NLT) — 2 In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship.
Exodus 23:25 (NKJV) — 25 “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
Exaltation - meaning
To be lifted up
Promoted
Celebrated
distinguished
set apart
marked difference and marked for difference
Upgrade
Advancement
Promotion
To shine
Exaltation
The exaltation of God
The exaltation of God’s people
Soul prosperity
Sound mind
good decision making
emotional intelligence
Physical prosperity
God wants you well
God wants you financially well
The exaltation of God’s Church
The exaltation of the Nation
The exaltation of the individual
family
Sureway Malta
GOD WANTS YOU WELL
3 John 2 (NKJV) — 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NLT) — 23 Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.
As we approach Easter and our Easter revival program, I would like us to enter into a time of divine expectancy
Words are powerful. Words spoken over you are a weapon, but not always for good. It’s your job to rebuke negative words someone may speak over you. It’s best to do it in love, but you can’t let the power of their negativity take root in your heart when you are believing for healing, provision or anything for that matter
The Book of Acts in the Bible is not just telling a story, but it is telling the story of the Power of God.
Medical science has made great strides in its effort to alleviate human suffering. Yet the accelerated pace of our modern society continues to take its toll on the bodies of men and women, producing sickness beyond a man's ability to help.
The demands for sufficient doctors, hospitals, beds and cures grow with increasing pressure, and many new drugs and medicines are creating new problems.
The population explosion has caused problems of poverty, malnutrition and epidemic disease that can only intensify the message that man needs a healer God.
How God longs for man to return to the security and simple faith of pure fellowship with Him, taking His Word as fact that can be fully trusted!
Psalm 28:7–8 “The Lord is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him. The Lord is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.”
Before we can have faith in God, we empty ourselves of all uncertainty concerning God's will in the matter.
The faith we have in God, cannot go beyond our knowledge of His word and what He says about our wellbeing
Before attempting to exercise faith for healing, one needs to know what the Scriptures plainly teach, that it is just as much God's will to heal the body as it is to heal the soul.
Matthew 8:1–3 “When He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.”
Faith for receiving Gods healing and blessings is the result of knowing and acting on God's Word (Romans 10:17).
The right mental attitude, or the "renewed mind" (Romans 12:2), makes steadfast faith possible to all.
Before we can trust God about anything, we must know what He has said and promised about it
The Word is seed
Until the person seeking healing is sure from God's Word that it is God's will to heal him, he is trying to reap a harvest where there is no seed planted.
It would be impossible for a farmer to have faith for a harvest before he was sure the seed had been planted.
For each sick person to know that it is God's will to heal him, it is necessary for the "seed" to be planted in his mind and heart.
It is not planted until it is known and received and trusted.
No sinner can become a Christian before he knows that it is God's will to save him.
It is the Word of God, planted and watered and steadfastly trusted, which heals both soul and body.
The "seed" must remain planted and be kept watered before it can produce its harvest.
Praying for healing with the faith-destroying words, "if it be Thy will,' is not planting the "seed"; it is destroying the seed.
The Holy Spirit's words, "Himself... bare our sicknesses" (Matthew 8:17), are just as truly a part of the Gospel as His words, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24).
Many, instead of saying, "Pray for me;" should first say, "Teach me God's Word, so that I can intelligently cooperate for my recovery."
Jesus Christ took both our sins and our sicknesses that we might be delivered from them.
Comprehensive Instructions In Proverbs 4:20-22
we have the most comprehensive instructions as to how to receive healing:
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.
Attend to my Words
Incline thine ear to my sayings
Let them not depart from thine eyes
Keep them in the midst of thine heart
The Word of God cannot be health to either soul or body before it is heard, received and attended to.
Notice here that the Words of God are life only to those that "find" them.
If you want to receive life and healing from God, take time to find the words of Scripture that promise these results.
We have seen the Word, when received and acted on, produce these results thousands of times.
God says that when we do as we are told in the Scripture, His Words are made "health to all our flesh:"
It does matter what the health issue maybe, the Word God that is heard, received and attended to will always bring “health to all our flesh
Do what Farmers Do
John 12:24 (NIV) — 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
When we attend to God's Words by not letting them depart part from before our eyes and by keeping them in the midst of our hearts, the seed is in "good ground"
This is the kind of ground in which, Jesus says, "It bringeth forth fruit" Paul says, "It effectually worketh."
When the farmer gets his seed into the ground, he does not dig it up every day to see how it is doing, but says, "I am glad that is settled:" He believes the seed has begun its work. Why not have this same faith in the
God Word is "imperishable seed", that means that the Word of God cannot die. (1 Peter 1:23)
Christ's Words, which He says are "spirit and life:" (John 6:63)
The psalmist said, "Thy Word hath quickened me:" Psalm 119:50)
Paul tells us that it is the Word, which "effectually worketh" in them that believe. (1 Thess 2:13)
Every Word of God is "spirit and life" (John 6:63)
When we receive and obey the Word of God, we can say with Paul, "The power of God worketh in me mightily:" ( Col 1:29)
Three Essential Things
This passage in Proverbs shows us the method of obtaining ing results from the promises in God's Word:
1. There must be the attentive ear. "Incline thine ear unto my sayings"
2. There must be the steadfast look. "Let them not depart from thine eyes:"
3. There must be the enshrining heart. "Keep them in the midst of thine heart:"
When your eyes are upon your symptoms and your mind is occupied with them more than with God's Word, you have in the ground the wrong kind of seed for the harvest that you desire.
You have in the ground seeds of doubt. You are trying to raise one kind of crop from another kind of seed. It is impossible to sow tares and reap wheat. You
Acts 10:38 “how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Jeremiah 30:17 “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.” ’”
Matthew 8:16–17 “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.””
1 Peter 2:24 “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.”
Exodus 23:25 ““So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.”