THEME: Jesus the Healer: Knowing How to Receive Healing for Our Bodies from The Lord
LESSON: Four
TOPIC: How To Turn Your Faith Loose Through Corresponding Actions
TEXT: Acts 14:9-10; Romans 10:8-10; Psalms 107:20; Acts 3:2-8
MEMORY TRACK:
In our last lesson, we saw that most times we assume we have faith for healings, when we really do not. We blame God, ministers and other saints for not getting healed, whereas we do not have what the word says for us to get healed. We learnt that faith for healing comes from the word – Rhema Word from the Holy Ghost, Meditation on God’s word, and Fasting and Prayers. It was stressed that the lessons were not just to further inform and enlighten us alone, but for us to know what to do about our health conditions or challenges.
The Faith Dilemma: When Faith Seems Not to Have Worked Healing
It is possible to have Faith for healings in one’s heart as a Christian and still not be healed! While we have taught how to get healing faith in the previous lesson, it is good to further look at how to turn our faith loose from our hearts to get the healings we desire from the Lord.
Corresponding Actions; The Key to Triggering God’s Power for Healings (Acts 14:8-10; Acts 3:2-8)
God is not going to heal you or me from whatever ailments we may be plagued with. This is because “He has healed us, by whose stripes we were healed” (1st Peter 2:24). The truth is, the healing has occurred from God’s end, but by the principles of understanding of milk faith for healings, and properly applying the principles, we are meant to receive our healings. Hallelujah!
There Are Two Kinds of Corresponding Actions
Confessions Of Faith/Rhema Word/Sent Words of God for Our Healings (Romans 10:10; Psalms 107:20)
The door to everything in the Christian faith is CONFESSION (or DECLARATION) (Romans 10:10). Without confession with our mouth we cannot be born again (new birth); without confession (opening our mouth to speak) we would not have been able to speak with tongues (Acts 2:4). Jesus Christ Our High Priest is called The High Priest of Our Profession (Confession) (Hebrews 3:2). Without confession, we cannot access almost all of God’s blessings, graces, and provisions for us.
The whole world system is a “world of confession”. Satan and his cohorts fill humanity with junks (his things) and triggers them to confess negativity and to confess death, hence the prosperity of sickness and diseases (Proverbs 18:21).
It is good to know that we are all “confessors by nature”. Man is a speaking being just like God (Hebrews 1:1). We have just been rewired by the devil to speak negativity from hearts filled with fear.
The Christian faith, particularly the milk faith of the word for healing seeks to and doth retrains us in how we use our mouth for our health and healing.
Confessions with our mouth is the number one and major corresponding action that a believer ought to engage in to release and turn loose the healing faith that is in their heart for to get healed, Hallelujah!
Why do We find it difficult to speak God’s word for Our healings?
We have been trained and constrained by the systems of the world not to believe in or confess the invisible that God’s word prescribes for us to be healed (Mark 11:23). Increased knowledge, having filled us with fear, makes bold declaration of God’s rhema word so foolish and difficult to engage in.
Most times we do not have the rhema word (which many times is a Grace filled, faith powered, and light propelled word) in our heart (Psalms 107:20).
We doubt the faithfulness of God to confirming His word (Matthew 21:21)
How to better position ourselves to confess God’s words for our healing
Be sure to get a rhema word from God (Psalms 107:20)
Fill your mind and heart with God’s words of healing (Matthew 12:34 – out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks). Confessions of God’s word for healings are easier when our hearts particularly are filled with faith.
Starve your heart and mind of fear. Whatever is in the soul, particularly in the heart, ends up as the confessions of our mouths. It is better not to put fear (faithless knowledge, facts etc) in the heart, because as long as they are in the heart, they will find their way to the mouth which is just a matter of time. Feed your faith, starve your fear (or your reasonings).
Listen to testimonies of those who God has healed.
Acting on God’s specific instructions, and acting as though what we believe for is so or is done (Acts 14:8-10; Acts 3:2-8; 2nd Kings 5:10 and 14)
While confessions are the number one corresponding actions that a believer ought to engage in for to trigger the healing anointings and power, in many cases, it is just one of two major steps to be engaged in for to come into full healings.
The Acts 14:8-10 case study
Here, Paul perceived the lame man had faith for to be healed but was not healed. The missing link was what Paul the Apostle, by The Holy Ghost, supplied through his instruction to the lame man… “stand upright on thy feet!” While we believe there was power in the command issued by Paul, but the man “by Himself had to act on Paul’s words”, otherwise he would not have been healed and that is the truth.
The Acts 3:6-7 case study
Here Peter after having said “rise up and walk” still had to pull the lame man and lifted him up (which is faith steps/corresponding actions in demonstration).
The Elisha and Naaman case study (2nd Kings 10 and 14)
Somethings to know about corresponding actions
- A young believer may need to effectively carry their Pastor or an older Christian in the faith along so as to be well guided in professing corresponding actions of milk faith for healing. This is being said because some have been known to have gone overboard without wisdom in the name of faith, and corresponding actions.
- Faith for ones’ dependants: the faith of parents can carry and bring healings on their children and other dependants who in certain peculiar circumstances rely on them spiritually. Note; this also has to be done in the full glare of knowledge of God’s word and counselling of Ones Pastor.
Conclusion
Now go act on God’s word, both with your words and actions, do not just add this to what you have known! Hallelujah!