Scriptures on Healing -
I Am Blessed and I Am Healed

20. The True Blessing Of Healing Is A Stronger Relationship With God

“One of them [a leper], when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.

Jesus asked,
“Were not all ten cleansed?
Where are the other nine?
Was no-one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

Then he said to him,
“Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
(Luke 17:15-19, NIV)

For me the implication of this healing Bible verse is that when we receive physical healing without strengthening our relationship with God, we have missed out on the only real blessing that healing can bring.

I love the phrase that Kenneth Copeland uses in his ministry:
"I am not blessed because I am healed.
I am healed because I am blessed."

"Does this meant that if I am not healed, I am not blessed?"

My goodness, NO! Illness has no power whatsover to separate us from God. We are One.
If I am blessed, you are blessed, we are all blessed.

What it may mean is that you may not know you are blessed;
you may not have accepted that blessing;
you may need to practise resting in that blessing.

Although I am teaching you here to claim your healing by faith, please know that the relationship I have found with God is far more important to me than my physical health.

Whatever state of health you are in, you are blessed. Knowing that is more important than physical healing. If you know that, even a little, you are rich.

To paraphrase A Course In Miracles, the important thing is to wake up, not to create a really comfortable dream for ourselves.

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21. How Do We Practise Believing That We Are Healed?

Imagine how you would feel if you were healed right now.

What would you do? – Picture yourself doing it.
What would you see? – Imagine seeing it.
What would you hear? – Imagine hearing it.

Do you sometimes imagine how ill you will feel if you do something?
Do you sometimes imagine getting more ill or even dying?
I know I did. It is natural to do so.

But we are not concerned here with doing what is natural to the world; we are learning to do something that is unnatural to the world so as to see a different result.

22. Fear And Faith Definition

Let us look at what we are doing when we imagine getting more ill. Often we feel fear.

Fear is when we react to an unwanted event as though it is already happening.

And now, let us consider a definition of faith:

Faith is when we react to a desired event as though it is already happening.

This is such an important definition of faith that it is really worth repeating to ourselves:
“Faith is when we react to a desired event as though it is already happening.”

After all, if we are so expert at fear, why can't we learn to be expert at faith. They are the same skill directed in different ways.

Our thoughts and emotions are so powerful that they bring into our world whatever we direct them towards. So let us direct our thoughts and emotions towards health.
Scriptures on healing can be fantastic for helping us to redirect our thoughts. Particularly those from the Psalms, in which the author often switches from despair to praise.

“I will exalt you, O LORD,
for you lifted me out of the depths
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
O LORD my God, I called to you for help
and you healed me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the grave;
you spared me from going down into the pit.”
(Psalm 30:1-3, NIV)

Say this healing Bible verse as though it was already true.
Get in touch with the joy and gratitude you feel now you are healed.
Get in touch with the joy and gratitude you feel now your healing is manifested.

Over and over in the face of symptoms I praised God that I was already healed; that I could not be ill because He would not create sickeness.
Often, I fell into a place of joy at having been healed.

(Sometimes I fell into the faith of not caring about getting better because my health was irrelevant compared to the revelation of God's love.)

I still have some symptoms, but today I am very happy to say that my healing is manifest. I continue to thank and praise God.

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23. So What Do These Scriptures on Healing Tell Us We Need To Do To Allow Healing?

It is great to read the accounts of Jesus healing in the Bible. These scriptures on healing can really raise our faith that Jesus healed. And if we believe that Jesus is available to us today, then they also raise our faith for our own healing.

So what can we do to raise our faith for healing?

1. We bring ourselves to Jesus. We ask for healing.
2. We believe Jesus wants to heal us.
3. We believe Jesus is available to heal us.

If we want to believe them, then...

• We identify our doubt when it comes up.


• We look at the contents list on the first page of scriptures on healing and find the healing Bible verse that replaces that doubt with the faith we need.


• We confess these healing scriptures over our life.

Can I say it has been such a pleasure writing these pages for you.

Many of the promises in these scriptures on healing have been manifest in my life. I am so grateful, and so aware that I still need these healing Bible verses to grow my little faith, both on my own behalf and on behalf of others.

Thank you for reading these scriptures on healing.
May they bless you as they have blessed me.

Move to I am blessed and a blessing

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