Jesus Died for Your Forgiveness, AND Your Healing!

My prayer list grows almost daily with those who are in serious need of healing. It feels like almost every week I learn that someone else has cancer. Almost every day, someone I know is in the hospital either for an operation, tests, follow up, or being rushed to the emergency room. We need a major healing touch from the Lord!

Now, either the Bible is true or it is not. Either the Bible is the Word of God or it’s not. If the Bible is indeed God’s Word, then we must believe and trust what it says, or else we call God a liar. The Bible says in Psalm 103:2-3,

Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not his benefits- who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases

We know that forgiveness of sin is a guaranteed promise from God thanks to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. If you don’t know that, let me assure you that no matter what you have done, no matter how far you have gone, because of the death of Jesus on the cross, God can and will forgive you of any and all sins if you will simply turn to him, and put your faith in Jesus Christ.

Healing is just as much a benefit of the cross as forgiveness. You can trust and believe God for your healing TODAY just as much as you can trust Him for forgiveness. How do I know that? Because the Bible says that Jesus carried your infirmities and diseases.

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”  -Matthew 8:17

That’s right! Jesus took up and carried your cancer! Jesus took up and carried your arthritis! He took up and carried your heart condition! He took up and carried your back problems, joint and bone conditions! He took up and carried your eye condition! Jesus took up and carried your pain! Jesus took up and carried ALL your sickness and disease!

Just as you believe that you can come and find forgiveness through Jesus, you should also believe that you can come and find healing through Him! Healing is not a “maybe one day” possibility. It isn’t an add on or footnote to the Gospel. It is a FINISHED promise accomplished at the cross!

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.   –Isaiah 53:5

We ARE healed. Not will be, not “maybe one day”, not as a possibility, we ARE healed! The Bible says we are healed by His wounds. If you are a Christian, I am sure you are thankful for the forgiveness that Jesus purchased for you with His death.

You can also receive healing through that same sacrifice. Jesus died for your forgiveness, AND healing. Your body was not created to get sick. It is not, never has been, and never will be God’s plan for you to be sick. Sickness, cancer, and all disease are a result from The Fall.

They are works of the Devil. And 1st John 3:8 tells us that Jesus came to “destroy the works of the Devil.” All you need to do is have the same attitude as the woman with the issue of blood. Have faith in God’s promises, then reach out and claim your healing!