1. Jesus was moved with compassion and healed the sick. He is still moved with compassion and has never stopped loving – likewise He has never stopped healing the sick and freeing the oppressed.
2. The disciples, when asked how could a cripple stand, said that the miracle happened through the name of Jesus, and faith in that name – His name is still the same, and faith in Jesus’ name will still see similar results.
3. Hebrews 13:8 says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. he healed 2000 years ago, and certainly continues to heal today. Ultimately, all sickness and disease of any kind will be eradicated through His power and love.
4. His death was for the sins of mankind.His death was for the sicknesses of mankind. (Isaiah 53:4-5).He saves today from sin. He heals today from sickness.The same sacrifice that deals with our sin, deals with our sickness.
5. Jesus took upon Himself the “chastisement of our peace” – all that afflicts the body, soul or spirit of mankind was addressed in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
6. Healing was available under the Old Covenant, how much more now under a new and better covenant?
7. The Lord Himself commanded His followers to lay hands on the sick, expecting them to recover.
8. Often Jesus or the disciples ministered healing and said, ” by your faith be it unto you” or “Your faith has made you well”. Faith, as a spiritual law, works the same today as it has always worked.
9. Jesus came to give life, and life more abundantly (John 10:10). Sickness and disease are not part of the abundant life He offers and promises.
10. The epistles speak about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which are distributed to the church. One of these gifts is the “gift of healings”.
11. Another gift mentioned in this list is the gift of the “working of miracles”. Miraculous healings are possible today through this gift of the Holy Spirit.
12. Jesus said that whatever we pray, believing, we shall receive. We can pray for healing, believing God’s Word and promise, and receive what we ask.
13. Sickness and disease are part of the curse, and Galatians 3:13 says that we have been redeemed from the curse.
14. Sickness and disease are referred to as the “oppression of the devil” (Acts 10:38), and Jesus came to heal us of it.
15. One of God’s covenant names is “jehovah-Rapha” meaning the Lord who heals – He is true to His name.
16. The Greek word for salvation is “sozo” which means “to save, i.e. deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): — heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.”
17. 1 Peter 2:24 says that “by His stripes, we were healed”.
18. If sickness was part of the fall, of necessity healing must be part of redemption or Jesus work was incomplete and did not restore what had been lost at all.
19. If sickness were God’s will, all doctors and nurses would be rebels, and to seek relief from disease would be a direct violation of God’s desire for our lives – such a notion is simply absurd!
20. Romans 8:11 says that the Holy Spirit gives life to our mortal body, not death and disease.
21. Proverbs says that God’s Word is like a medicine, strengthening the bones and health to ur flesh. God’s Word has power to affect both our spiritual and physical well-being.
22. Psalm 103 says that one of the benefits we are to believe for and remember is hat God heals all of our diseases.
23. Jesus is the perfect example of God’s will in action – He always is seen healing and restoring and delivering people from sickness and disease, not putting it on them!
24. Matthew points out the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophetic word when he says; “they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” (Matthew 8:16-17)
25. I have seen God heal with my own eyes.

What comes to mind when I mention the big “C”? I dare to say that for most people they think of something dreadful, and that their perception of the biggest “C’ they can think of is one that destroys life and robs families. Cancer is not a subject I approach lightly. I have known people who have fought the good fight and won against this dreaded disease, and others who have fought and lost.

It is not a subject that can be lightly glossed over, but I do want to boldly and unapologetically declare that there is a BIGGER “C” that overcomes cancer every time, even if the damnable disease wins one round of the battle, it can never win the war!

The biggest “C” in our life, and the one that should take preeminence every time we face sickness and disease of any kind is “CHRIST”.

He came to destroy every work of the devil:

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8)

Cancer is a work of the devil!

The second BIG “C’ is the CROSS!

It was here that the victory was won. Isaiah, in his amazing prophetic foretelling of the work and purpose of Jesus’ sacrifice and substitution says this:

“Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy].

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.” (Isaiah 53:4-5 AMPLIFIED)

and again:

“Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.” (Isaiah 53:10 AMPLIFIED)

Sickness is under the curse, and Jesus has redeemed us from the curse! (Galatians 3:13). Let us magnify the name of Jesus – focus our attention on the CHRIST and the CROSS and all that they accomplished. Let the little “c” bow before the all consuming fire of healing in the wings of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Furthermore, my dear friends, even if cancer or any other sickness manages to destroy the body of a believer, it is only a temporary victory. The day is coming, and soon, when:

“…the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16 NKJV)

Our final victory is assured. Our ultimate and thankful declaration:

“O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55)

Jesus is the Healer as well as the Saviour. His atoning sacrifice dealt not only with sin, but sickness, disease and every wicked thing that would attack the body or soul of His people.

Our BIGGEST “C” – CHRIST – is alive today, healing the sick and delivering from oppression. Let us believe His Word and stand in the face of what may seem impossible odds. Never give up – your victory is guaranteed.

1. Since the seven compound names of Jehovah, one of which Jehovah-Rapha (I am the Lord that healeth thee) reveal His redemptive relationship toward each person, do they not point to Calvary? 
2. Since all the promises of God are yea and amen in Him do not these seven names including Jehovah.Rapha (the Lord our Healer) owe their existence and their power to the redeeming work of Christ on the cross? 
3. Has not every believer the same redemptive right to call upon Christ as Jehovah-Rapha (the Healer: of his body) as he has to call upon Him as Jehovah-Tsidkenu (the Healer of his soul)? Is not His name given for healing as long as it is for salvation?
4. If bodily healing is to be obtained independent of Calvary, as opposers teach, why was it that no blessing of the Year of jubilee was to be announced by the sounding of the trumpet until the Day of Atonement? 
5. If healing for the body was not a part of Christ’s redeeming work. why were types of the Atonement given in connection with healing throughout the Old Testament? 



6. If healing was not in the Atonement why were the dying Israelites required to look at the type of the Atonement for bodily healing? If both forgiveness and healing came by a look at the type, why not from the antitype? 
7. Since their curse was removed by the lifting up of the type of Christ was not our curse of disease also removed by the lifting up of Christ Himself? (Galatians 3:13)
8. In the passage, “Surely He hath borne our sicknesses and carried our pains” (Isaiah 53:4) why are the same Hebrew verbs for “borne” and “carried” employed as are used in verses 11 and 12 for the substitutionary bearing of sin unless they have the same substitutionary and expiatory character? 
9. If healing was not provided for all in redemption, how did the multitudes obtain from Christ what God did not provide? 
10. If the body was not included in redemption, how can there be a resurrection or how can corruption put on incorruption or mortality put on immortality? Were not the physical as well as the spiritual earnests (foretastes) of our coming redemption enjoyed by God’s people throughout history? 
     
11. Why should not the “Last Adam” take away all that the first Adam brought upon us? 
12. Since the Church is the body of Christ does God want the body of Christ sick? Is it not His will to heal any part of the body of Christ? If not, why does He command “any sick” in it to be anointed for healing? 
13. Are human imperfections of any sort, be they physical or moral, God’s will or are they man’s mistakes? 
14. Since “the body is for the Lord, a living sacrifice unto God” would He not rather have a well body than a wrecked one? If not, how can He make us “perfect in every good work to do His will” or have us “thoroughly furnished unto every good work?” 
15. Since bodily healing in the New Testament was called a mercy and it was mercy and compassion that moved Jesus to heal all who came to Him, is not the promise of God still true, “He is plenteous in Mercy unto all that call upon Him?” 
     
16. Does not the glorious Gospel dispensation offer as much mercy and compassion to its sufferers as did the darker dispensations? If not, why would God withdraw this mercy and this Old Testament privilege from a better dispensation with its “better Covenant?” 
17. If as some teach, God has another method for our healing today, why would God adopt a less successful method for our better dispensation? 
18. Since Christ came to do the Father’s will, was not the universal healing of all the sick who came to Him, a revelation of the will of God for our bodies? 
19. Did not Jesus emphatically say that He would continue His same works in answer to our prayers while He is with the Father (John 14: 12-13) and is not this promise alone a complete answer to all opposers? 
20. Why would the Holy Spirit who healed all the sick before His dispensation began, do less after He entered into office on the day of Pentecost? Or did the Miracle-Worker enter office to do away with miracles? 
     
21. Is not the book of the Acts of the Holy Ghost a revelation of the way He wants to continue to act through the Church? 
22. How can God justify us and at the same time require us to remain under the curse of the law which Jesus redeemed us from by bearing it for us on the cross? (Gal. 3:13)
23. Since “The Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil” has He now relinquished this purpose which He retained even during the bloody sweat of Gethaemane and the tortures of Calvary? Or does He now want the works of the devil in our bodies to continue that He formerly wanted to destroy? Does God want a cancer.-”a plague,” “a curse”-”the works of the devil” in the members of Christ? “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ?” (Cor. 6:15). 
24. Are the proofs of Divine Healing among the one hundred and eighty-four persons who testified in this Tabernacle the last two Friday nights, less bright and convincing than the proofs of Spiritual Redemption among professed Christians today? Are not these 184 who have been healed in better health physically than a like number of professed Christians are spiritually? Would not the physical health of these 184 compare favorably with the spiritual health of even the same number of ministers of our day?  
25. Would not the argument commonly employed against Divine Healing, drawn from its failures, if employed against justification, regeneration and all the rest be simply overwhelming? 
     
26. Does the fact that Christ could do no miracle at Nazareth prove anything except the unbelief of the people or would it be right to conclude, because of the failure of Christ’s disciples to cast out the epileptic spirit from the boy, that it was not God’s will to deliver him? Christ proved by healing him that it is God’, will to heal even those who fail to receive it.
27. Is not God as willing to show the mercy of healing to His worshippers, as He is to show the mercy of forgiveness to His enemies? (Rom. 8:12). 
28. If Paul (as a New York minister says) “was the sickest of men suffering from ophthalmia of the eyes,” or if, as others teach, his “thorn in the flesh” was physical weakness instead of what Paul himself says it was, “Satan’s angel” inflicting the many buffetings which Paul enumerates, how could he labor more abundantly than all the other apostles? Or since he had strength to do more work than all the others, how could his “weaknesses” be physical? Since Paul’s “thorn” did not hinder his faith for the universal healing of “all the rest of the sick folk on the Island” of Melita, (Moffatt’s trans.) why should it hinder ours? Would not Paul’s failure to be healed, if he was sick, hinder the universal faith of these heathen for their healing? Why do traditional teachers substitute “ophthalmia of the eyes” or sickness, (neither of which Paul mentions) for the “reproaches,” “necessities,” “persecutions,” “distresses” and all the other buffetings at the hands of “Satan’s angels” which he does mention. If the former constitute his “thorn” why does he not say he takes pleasure in the former instead of the latter? How could Paul, sick in body, or with the unsightly disease of “ophthalmia of the eyes,” and unable to be healed, “make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed through mighty, signs and wonders?” (Rom. 15:18-19). 
29. If sickness is the will of God, then would not every physician be a law-breaker, every trained nurse be defying the Almighty, every hospital a house of rebellion instead of a house of mercy, and instead of supporting hospitals should we not then do our utmost to close them? 
30. Since Jesus in the Gospels never commissioned anybody to preach the Gospel without commanding them to heal the sick, how can we obey this command if there is no Gospel (good news) of healing to proclaim to the sick as a basis for their faith? Or, since faith is expecting God to keep His promise, how can there be faith for healing if God has not promised it? And since the Bible is full of promises of healing are they not all Gospel (good news) to the sick? Since “faith cometh by hearing…the Word” how can the sick have faith for healing if there is nothing for them to hear? 
31. “Could the loving heart of the Son of God, Who had compassion upon the sick, and healed all who had need of healing, cease to regard the sufferings of His own when He had become exalted at the right hand of the Father?”-Kenneth Mackenzie. 

Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, in ‘Pursuit of His Presence’ say, concerning our salvation:

 “The word salvation includes a whole lot more than being born again and going to heaven when you die. It actually means “material and temporal deliverance from danger and apprehension; preservation, pardon, restoration, healing, wholeness and soundness.”

The atoning sacrifice on the cross provided for our entire being, not just our spirit, but our soul and our body as well.

The Bible says that “the chastisement of OUR peace was UPON HIM”. The word ‘peace’ in this verse from Isaiah 53 is the Hebrew word “shalom”. It includes not only our spiritual state, but our total being; our health, prosperity, peace, safety, security, welfare and wholeness. All of these were provided for in the very same sacrifice made for our sins. 

Salvation through Christ is a total makeover: Spirit, soul and body. 

In the same way we receive our redemption from sin’s power and penalty through simple faith in Christ’s blood, we receive our healing. The same blood that washes away sin, heals and eradicates sickness and disease.