Take it!
That’s exactly what you have to do if you want to obtain healing.
In fact, in every area of life obtaining the victory boils down to one thing: Just take God at His Word. What He says—what is written in His Word—is the absolute truth and it really will work if we will only take hold of it.
The fact of the matter is, healing is no problem for the Lord. The only hard part is getting people to believe what He has said about it so they can receive their healing.
God has given each of us the choice. He said it this way: “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). We must choose to take what God has offered. And we must do that—“by force” Matthew 11:12 says.
If you need a healing, you can’t sit back and wait for God to drop it down on you. You have to do what it takes so you can rise up in faith and take what rightfully belongs to you!
Taking requires active faith. Having faith in God and His Word is the bottom-line answer to every problem regardless of what others may say. People are not short of well-meaning advice. I’m sure you’ve figured that out, especially if you are believing God for healing. More than likely, you’ve also figured out that most of what people say is not productive advice. I can tell you from experience, the answers that actually work are found in one place—the Word.
God’s Word has the power within it to bring itself to pass. Not only that, God’s Word teaches us to think His way which is the higher, better and smarter way (Isaiah 55:8-11). That becomes possible when His Word, His way of thinking, crowds out other thoughts and ideas. Then you can pray in faith and receive what you need.
Faith Believes – It Takes!
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,” Jesus said, “believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24). That word receive is an action word. It means “to take.” We could say, “What things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you take them.” That is a brief lesson on faith right there! Faith believes it takes what is needed when it prays. That’s exactly what we must do when we pray for healing. We must take healing like a dog takes a bone. He clamps down hard on that bone and refuses to turn loose of it!
The fact is, you really haven’t prayed in faith if you pray about something, but don’t take it. If you get up from prayer saying, “I don’t have it. I’m still sick, I still feel bad,” then you didn’t take it…and you certainly don’t have it.
You simply cannot look at the circumstances to determine whether or not you are healed. II Corinthians 4:18 explains that you must “look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
See yourself taking your healing when you pray. See yourself in perfect health. Take it—by faith—and hold on to it. When you take it, you have it. And if you have it, you say you have it. You call “things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).
To get to that point, read healing scriptures aloud and receive (take) each promise. Look at the scriptures with your eyes, and hear them with your ears as you speak them out your mouth. Rest assured they will get down into your heart and you’ll be able to release your faith. You’ll say, “Thank You, Lord, I believe I’m healed and I take it!”
Be Relentless!
Years ago, my friend Dodie Osteen had to take healing in just that way. She was given a report that the cancer in her liver was fatal. The doctors offered no hope. So, Dodie went home from the hospital. She and her husband took forceful action! They stood in agreement on the healing promises in the Word of God. They confessed God’s Word over her body. They were relentless.
Dodie faithfully took those healing scriptures every day, just like medicine. She fought the good fight of faith by using the sword of the Word to resist fear and all the lies of the devil (Ephesians 6:17; James 4:7). It was a battle that took awhile, but Dodie was completely healed of cancer and remains free today. In fact, she has been cancer free for more than 22 years. She says she stays well by consistently taking God’s medicine. (Read her book)
Proverbs 4:20-22 explains this process for healing. It says: “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 Hebrew word translated health there means “medicine.” Healing scriptures are God’s medicine for your body. So, take that medicine daily, be relentless about it and take your healing.
The fact is, as a child of the living God you are more than a conqueror in Christ (Romans 8:37)! So, if you’re believing for healing, you can kick the devil out of your life with the Word of God! If it takes time to obtain a complete healing, don’t give up; be determined to persevere until you win! And, don’t fall prey to self-pity or seek sympathy from others. That is not what you need. Faith is what you need.
Do the Heavy Lifting
Let’s look at the important lesson Jesus taught His disciples about faith and receiving from God. In Mark 11, we find He charged them simply to “Have faith in God” (verse 22). By way of explanation about this scripture, the margin of my Bible says, “Have the faith of God.” Faith is imparted to us when we’re born again, and we are given “the measure of faith” (Romans 12:3). At that time, God gives us the same kind of faith He has. But, we have a responsibility to feed and grow our faith.
Faith for healing comes as we meditate on what God’s Word says about healing. When we read healing scriptures, we are building up our faith to obtain healing. A bodybuilder lifts weights consistently to build up his muscles. He becomes stronger day by day as he works out. We build up our faith in the same way—we exercise the healing scriptures over and over again until we become strong enough in faith to take our healing out of the realm of the spirit into the natural realm. Hebrews 11:1 says it this way: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Jesus told several people who received healing that it was their faith that made them whole. (See Matthew 9:22; Mark 10:52 and Luke 17:19.) And, faith will work for you the same way it worked for those mentioned in the Bible.
God is present where faith is present. Faith causes the supernatural healing power of God to come on the scene and override natural diseases and circumstances.
The Word of Faith
I’m sure you realize faith for healing won’t come by reading secular magazines or comic books. To build your faith, you must read the Bible and believe it is God speaking to you. Romans 10:17 explains, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Find scriptures that apply to your situation and take hold of those promises and apply them to your life. That’s the truth that changed my life—knowing that the Bible is God’s Word to me, and I can take it and do something with it (John 17:17).
The Bible tells us what God says about things. Men of old, anointed of the Holy Spirit, wrote down what came out of the heart of God. In regard to healing, they wrote things like “by whose stripes ye were healed” (I Peter 2:24).
The born-again spirit is a receptacle for the Word of God. His words get into us when we consistently take them in through our eyes and ears. From there His life-giving words go down into our hearts, or our spirits, and affect our entire body.
So, if you need healing, feed on healing scriptures daily. Your faith increases according to how much time you spend in God’s Word. When the Word gets down into your heart and overflows out your mouth in faith—healing will manifest!
Jesus said in Matthew 12:34, “For out of the fullness (the overflow, the superabundance) of the heart the mouth speaks” (The Amplified Bible). What you continually say with your mouth is what you are enjoying or struggling with in your life today. Your words either open or shut the door to the power of God working in your situation. They also open or shut the door on the devil. So if you catch yourself saying things you don’t desire in your life, repent and change your words. Speak only what you want to come to pass.
God’s Word and Your Words Are Powerful!
Every word you say is important. To have faith for healing operating in your life, you must have confidence not only in God’s Word, but in your words. Mark 11:23 says, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”
Faith comes (in) by hearing and goes (out) by saying. Faith is released by your words.
Faith is believing what God says in His Word regardless of what any person, circumstance or the devil may say. And faith speaks what the Word says. When you take the Word into your heart and it comes out through your voice, it becomes God’s Word applied to the problem. If you will keep your words in agreement with God’s Word, they will change your natural circumstances. Or, as Jesus said, “The truth shall make you free” (John 8:32).
But if you read the Word with traditional eyes, not believing the promises are for you, you disqualify yourself from receiving those promises. It takes faith—believing in God and His Word—for the Word to transform your situation.
Receive the Word as truth. Then say, “That’s God speaking to me. I can have it. I take it!” That’s faith.
Possess the Land
After you have received God’s Word for healing by faith, begin to do what you couldn’t do before. James 1:22 says we must be doers of the Word, not hearers only.
The children of Israel in the wilderness are a good example of what happens to hearers who are not doers. Through Moses, God told this nation of people He had given them the land. At one point, Moses basically told them the Lord said they had been going around the same mountain long enough (Deuteronomy 1:6). Have you ever felt like that? Perhaps even now you are going around that mountain of unbelief and getting nowhere fast! If so, you can take drastic faith action!
What God said to the children of Israel applies to you as well. He said: “Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers…to give unto them and to their seed after them” (verse 8).
God had promised them the land. But possessing it wasn’t automatic. He was telling them to go armed and take it. That was the only way they were going to get it. If you need healing, that’s how you must possess it too! You must take it!
Take It by Force!
Healing belongs to you and to me. God has given us great promises in His Word, including promises of health and wholeness. He sent Jesus to die on the cross to redeem us from sin and sickness. Galatians 3:13 says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us….” The curse includes every sickness and every disease (Deuteronomy 28:15-68). Jesus’ sacrifice paid for us to be redeemed from them all.
As far as God is concerned, that settles the issue of healing. It’s all done. There’s nothing left for Him to do. Healing belongs to us in Christ Jesus, and yet it’s not automatic. It’s up to us to receive it.
If you need healing, take it! Take it with your faith, and with your words. Believe you receive it and don’t waver.
By Gloria Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries. All Rights Reserved – Used by Permission
Comments
God has healed me, I have been made whole from the sole of my head to the crown of my feet. Thanks for sharing this and thank you Jesus for your healing power.
I believe God has healed me from ancestral flow of diabetes and its symptoms through confession of God’s word.
My question is; since I believe God has healed me, will continue confessing scriptures as though I am still believing God or I will start confessing scriptures in Thanksgiving
God healed me and my household of covid.He is so good. I thank you Lord I worship and praise your Holy Name. We can do nothing without you Lord. Your word is just and true for those who receive and believe it!!! Amen. I love you Lord!
I am struggling so hard to believe now..
I think I need how to start as a beginner.. Please help
Thank you Jesus for healing me of mental illness. I take my healing by faith.my problem now is that my family do not believe in my healing but still threaten me to take drugs by persecuting with injection while I am whole.please help
Gloria – I agree with you in Jesus Name. You are healed and whole. I also believe that God will give you guidance on how to handle your family. They love you and want the best for you. They may not understand what God is doing in your heart. God will help you.
Taking medications will not hinder God’s work in your life and body. Maybe you can take the drugs and then prove to your family that you are healed and no longer need them. We love you. Rex
Thank you Jesus for your healing power.
I recall Shadrack, Mishak, and Abendigo having faith but they said “even if you don’t” and another that said”Jesus, if you are willing”. What about Job? My testimony of my salvation begins with someone being healed. I know many people who have been healed. Can God heal everyone? Yes!!!! Does God heal everyone? No. Is it from our lack of faith? I think not!!! I know people healed that never asked, people healed that ask, and people of great faith not healed. His ways are not our ways. We do not command the Infanite, Almighty, Sovereign God of the universe to do what we want or need. Can we ask? Absolutely! Expect that He can, accept if He doesn’t. Might He heal later? Yes. Keep asking. But one thing we can know for certain is that in the end, we all will be healed!!! Praise God for all who have been healed. But never forget that it is a gift given by God in His great mercy lest you should boast about this great faith you have. It is Him and only Him! Not us.
Thank u Jesus. I am totally healed
The question came up as we were studying Mark. Must on have faith to be healed? I want to go back to my class with the answer next Tuesday.
Janela – The answer is yes, God always requires faith for healing, always, always except when He does not require it. Confused? Don’t be, sometimes God will work through his Mercy, which bends the rules of God. Read Mercy – Bending the Rules of God. And read Faith Is ‘hupostasis’ – Hebrews 11:1.
There are so many articles to help. Also – “All Things Are Possible” – Really, What Things? We Love you. Rex
The Lord spoke to me in a dream after I was seriously ill after my first child .He said I could ask for anything in his name & he would give it to me I would receive it . I had only been a Christian for 2years & I didn’t know how to claim this promise that’s in John . But ut I’m claiming it now & im reading all the healing Scriptures for my healing can I re-claim this as now I know how to it’s not too late is it ?
The Lord spoke to me in a dream after I was seriously ill after my first child .He said I could ask for anything in his name & he would give it to me I would receive it . I had only been a Christian for 2years & I didn’t know how to claim this promise that’s in John . But ut I’m claiming it now & im reading all the healing Scriptures for my healing can I re-claim this as now I know how to it’s not too late is it ?
Thank you for this wonderful and inspiring message.
I believe God has heal me all sicknesses in my body .Hallelujah.
am totally healed by the blood of Jesus. Amen.
This had brung revelation to Gods truth for me. I have read many articles and sermons but never none like this. I will continue to read this over and over it has answered many questions even by some comments. When u said take it , i received that and i take hold of it in Jesu Name , it will manifest in my body. i cant believe its that simple All Glory be to God for his trues and May God bless you all., in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus! Thank you for the incredible testimonies that has changed many lives now and to come !!!
Can you be on medication and still expect your faith to heal you completely?
Sure. The point is to be ‘in faith’ whatever you do. Sometimes God works in or through medicine and doctors. Get the scriptures down inside your heart and seek God on what He wants for you. What do you feel peace about? Sometimes it is pride to not go to the doctor. It was for my Pastor over 20 years ago.
He was given 3 months to live because of the terrible cancer he had. He wanted God to heal him without medicine because he was a ‘faith man.’ Well, he went off to pray and God spoke to him to go back and go to the doctor or he would die. He did and God saw him through the whole process. He is totally clear now and, again, that was 20 years ago. Hearing from God is the key. Do what it takes to hear from God to receive from God. We love you. Rex
This was a question that had rumbled me for awhile now. Thank you for your transparency and honesty. By this question you have have asked a question i longed for a answer to, Because we often believe that by taken medicine you dont have faith and Faith Mechanic has really help to put God perspective on it. Proverbs 27:17 Thank you
thanks for rebuilding my faith and i no that I’m heal completely.
Thank you Gloria for sharing what “take it” or receive it” means based on the Word of God. Thank You, Heavenly Father, for sending this truth through Gloria Copeland. I trust in God and do good. I believe in God and I believe God’s Word is the truth. As a born again believer, I’ve put on the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit to resist fear and the lies of the devil. (Ephes. 6:17; James 4:7) . Jesus said, “Daughter, your faith has made you whole.” That’s God speaking to me. I can have it. So I take it”. Thank You, Jesus!
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I died with Christ on the cross of Calvary and i rose with him the third so I am healed since 2000 year ago in my body there is no more disease. Thank you Jesus
Thank you so very much for the lesson on healing . I am believing God’s word for several people . I know that my God can do it . Bless you minister Copeland. I am encouraged by your lesson on healing. Corene in Houston.
God bless you so much I believe I have received my healing and my stay in divine health and very shortly I will see you in person to testify, AMEN
Thank You….Thank You ….. Thank You for reminding me of GOD’s Word. I needed it so desperately. God Bless YIu