GOD’S MEDICINE
Always have an open mind and a receptive heart,
You can believe things and you can be sincere
But you can be sincerely wrong
Don’t base what you believe on what you have heard other people say
Base your belief on what the Word of God says
I can’t change what you believe, only you can do that
Proverbs 4:20-22
20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. {health: Heb. medicine}
In the original Hebrew, this scripture literally says that God’s Word is medicine to our flesh
(A marginal note in my King James Version substitutes the word medicine for the word health)
Think about this: What if someone invented a medication that could cure anything wrong with the human body?
He would be rich overnight; People would take that medicine diligently to make sure it worked.
Well, if we would just give God’s promises on healing the same credibility we give the medicines developed by medical science, we would have 100 times the results!
Now I am not against medical doctors, doctors are good and they are in the same business that Jesus is in.
That is getting people well. God has given doctors the wisdom and knowledge and the know how to help people.
If people’s faith is not strong enough to believe God totally for their healing, they can believe that the doctor will help them. They are putting their faith in the doctor, and God will honor that.
Doctors can keep people alive until they discover there is a better way.
God’s Word may be medicine to all our flesh, but just like other medicine, we have to take it. If we just put it on the shelf and look at it, it won’t do us any good.
How do we take God’s medicine? We hear it and hear it and hear it.
Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.”
When we take the time to continually hear God’s Word our faith hooks up and releases God’s power and we rise up healed!
God is interested in healing us if we are sick. He is also interested in keeping us well.
He has made provision for our healing and our health God’s Medicine
What are those provisions? What are our rights? What actually belongs to us when it comes to physical healing and health”
How can we tell What belongs to us? There is only one way.
By a constant, careful, diligent, reverent, prayerful study of God’s word
Suppose you go to the doctor and get a prescription that says Take two capsules, three times a day, before meals
If you expect that prescription to work for you
Then you would take it according to directions
Did you know that God gives directions for taking His prescription?
He prescribes His word for our health.Because He says
My words are life unto those that find them
And my words are health, or medicine, to all there flesh
Medicine even in the natural, won’t do you any good unless you take it
You could go to the doctor and he could prescribe you some medicine
You could go home set that medicine on the chest of drawers
Or even table right beside your bed
And could still grow worse
You could call the doctor and say “I don’t understand it
I Got prescription filled, I paid money for it, but I am getting worse
Doctor may ask, are you taking it according to directions?
Well no! but I’ve got it right here in the bottle by my bed
It won’t work just because it’s in the bottle, YOU HAVE TO GET IT IN YOU
God’s medicine won’t work just because
You have a bible lying on the chest of drawers
It won’t even work just because you read it
It won’t work just because you memorize a few scriptures
Just because you say I believe in verbal inspiration of the Word of God
But it will work if you will get it down on the inside of you! Into your heart
The way you do that is
Not by just reading and forgetting about it
But by meditating on it
By thinking on it
By feeding on it
Until it becomes a part of your inward man
God’s medicine is His word—and here are His directions for taking it
Proverbs 4:20-22
20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
23 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. {health: Heb. medicine}
My son, attend to my words;
What does He mean “attend”
Attend means to pay attention, to listen, to hear
He means to put His Word first
Make it first place in your life
You could go down town see someone you know and try to talk to them
They might say can’t talk right now I am late for an appointment
They mean no disrespect,
But they have something else to do first
There is something else he has to give his undivided attention to.
That is the way it needs to be with God’s Word, give it first place.
Incline thine ear unto my sayings
Open your ears, God said
To My sayings
Incline your ear to what?
To my sayings, open our ear to what God has to say
I don’t understand it you may say
God doesn’t ask us to understand His Word
All He ask us to do is believe it.
Prov. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Trust in the Lord, we are to put our trust in Him
Not our own understanding
Our mind will tell us that won’t work
But if God’s word says it will then it will work
I don’t understand how a lot of things work
But Thank God they do
You can’t give an explanation for the natural viewpoint of just how the new birth works
Just by believing Jesus, receiving Him, and confessing Him you become born again
I can’t tell a person how divine healing works
But I do know that faith makes it work
That’s why God said put My Word first, Attend to my Words
Incline your ear to my word
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
When God’s Word gains entrance into your heart, into your spirit
Faith will be there automatically
You won’t have to seek
You won’t have to search
There will be no effort on your part
Faith will come unconsciously into your spirit
As you feed upon and accept His Words
Faith is the clue. It is the secret It is the secret in the healings’ Jesus performed when he was upon the earth
He said to the centurion, “Go thy way, and as thou hast believed,so be it done unto thee” (Mat. 8:13)
And in the selfsame hour his servant was healed
Woman with the issue of blood touched His garment He said
Daughter thy faith hath made thee whole, go in peace & be whole of thy plague (Mark 5:34)
Mark 5:23 Jairus said “come lay thy hands on her and she shall live…”
Then came woman with issue of blood
She fell down before him and told him all the truth
Then some one from Jairus house came and said don’t trouble the master, your daughter is dead
Jesus said “be not afraid, only believe” …
Mat. 9:28 two blind men came saying have mercy on us…
Jesus said believe ye that I am able to do this
They said “Ye lord”
He said according to your faith be it unto your
Proverbs 4:22 For they (My Words) are life unto those that find them, and health (or medicine) to all their flesh.
Why don’t Christians if they do get sick, and they do
Take time to find out what God has to say about it
They won’t listen to what God says
Instead they listen to what every body else has to say
People can be right in their hearts, but wrong in their heads
Unless people give you the Word of God on a subject, you can’t listen to what they say
Even preachers; Good men some time give natural advice, and may cause you to miss it
God said “Incline thine ear unto my sayings”
If you are going to listen to God
Sometimes you have to shut out other things
We have to listen to what God has to say in his word to enjoy
The blessings of His Word
Incline thine ear, listen to what God has to say
Does He have any thing to say about sickness
Here is a sample, and we will look at a lot more
Matthew 8:17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
1Peter 2:24 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 ye were healed.
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Here Jesus calls sickness satanic oppression
This is God’s Word, it is not my word
He goes on to say
Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart
He tells us to look as well as listen
What does He say to listen to? My Words
What does He say to look to?My Words
This has to do with healing, because He talks about life, and health, and medicine in the next verse
So—get the words on healing
Get the words on health
Get God’s Word and look at it
Don’t let it depart from before your eyes
Don’t look at anything else; Just look at the Word
God’s Word says “by whose stripes ye were healed”Past tense
Ye were, and if that word doesn’t depart from before your eyes,
You are bound to see your self well
You will see yourself with what God says belongs to you
If His words doesn’t depart from before your eyes
If you see yourself sick; …unhealed & getting worse
His Word has departed from before your eyes
You are looking at something else
Keep them in the midst of thine heart
That means the very core of your being
In your spirit, your inner man
Psalms 119:11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
We are going to look at how to do this,. How to get His Words in our heart
What are the result of following these directions?
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, (My Words) and health to all their flesh.
When we get God’s Words on the inside of us they will
Produce healing to all our flesh
LETS LOOK AT HOW TO APPLY GOD MEDICINE IT IS TO BE APPLIED FROM THE HEART
God’s medicine like all His provisions—salvation for instance—is to be applied from the heart, the spirit
Many times people read certain promises, They maybe even able to quote them
They endeavor to act upon them without really getting them into their heart
Without getting them in their spirits
It is more in there head than in their heart
Some times we may not need to pray right away
If it is healing that we need, then we need to find scriptures on healing
Then we need to read and meditate on them
To get them established in our heart
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success
Meditate means to utter, speak to meditate, imagine; to mutter
Psalms 1:1 ¶ Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps. 63:5-6 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
We have to get the Word of God. That is God’s Medicine built into our spirit
Your spouse may know about cooking
She can sit at table with nothing on it & explain a delicious recipe, every ingredient
Just how to make it
But just because she knows all that it won’t get anything in your stomach
It won’t put anything in her stomach
You have to cook up the dish, you know how to fix
You can prepared and set it on the table
Just because it is on the table you still have to do something with it
To get the benefits from it
GET THE WORD OF GOD—GODS MEDICINE—BUILT INTO YOUR SPIRIT
Here is God’s medicine, scriptures to study, to read, to meditate on, to speak, to build into your spirit
HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT
Isaiah 53:4-5 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But 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. {wounded: or, tormented} {stripes: Heb. bruise}
In this verse the word”borne” (nasa) means to lift up, to bear away, to convey, or to remove to a distance. It is a Levitical word, and is applied to the scapegoat that bare away the sins of the people
Lev 16:22
So Jesus bore my sins and sicknesses away “without” the camp” to the cross.
Sin and sickness have passed from me to Calvary. Salvation and health have passed from Calvary to me.
The word griefsis from the Greek word 2483 choliy khol-ee’
It is translated sickness 12 times, disease 7 seven times, grief 4 times and sick 1;
“Sickness is the foul offspring of its father, satan, and its mother, sin.”Alexander Dowie.
Jesus bore our sins on His body, and sickness is a direct descendant of sin.
Not only did He bare our sickness, He bore the root cause of all sickness
If there had been no sin, there would have been no sickness
Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
According to Deut. 28:15-22;27-29;35-61 all sickness and disease is a curse of the law
Deuteronomy 28:61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed
HEALING IS THE WILL OF THE FATHER
Exodus 15:26:… for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
Exodus 23:25-26 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfill.
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
Psalms 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
The Word Plague means disease
Psalms 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. {long…: Heb. length of days}
We can live till we are satisfied
Psalms 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
There are benefits to serving the Lord
He forgives all thine iniquities
He heals all your diseases
Psalms 107:20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction’s.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
You give good things to your children. How much more… will God give unto them that ask
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Matthew 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Matthew 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Jesus said Himself in John 6:38“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”
Every thing Jesus did in His earth walk was the will of the Father
He was the will of God in action
If you want to know the will of the Father, look at Jesus
HEALING THE WORKS OF JESUS
Here is a fact to settle in your heart,
Jesus is the healer
Satan is the oppressor
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The thief is the devil or adversary and he comes to steal, kill and to destroy, if it does any of those it is the devil not God.
That is a good way to find out if it is from God, does it give you life, provide life or bless you, or does it rob hurt or destroy? God came to give us life and life more abundantly
Matthew 9:35 ¶ And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Matthew 15:30-31 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:
31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.
Hebrews 13:8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
HEALING IS A MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH
John 14:12 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:17-18 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
James 5:14-15 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. {wish: or, pray}
HEALING IS God AT WORK WITHIN
1 John 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
FAITH FOR HEALING
Mark 11:23 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.
PRAYER OF FAITH
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Confession
God’s Word has the power to effect healing in my body, I hear the Word and faith rise in me, releasing God’s power and producing what I need.
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