Enslaved to Sickness
- Heather Edmund
- Jul 20, 2022
- 5 min read
Updated: Feb 11
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Part of God's gift of salvation for everyone is to live a sick-free life. All that is required is faith.
From Series: Life Lessons Learned from the Bible - John 5:5-9
Refuse to live enslaved to sickness
In John 5:5-9 Jesus asks the man who was sick for 38 years of his life if he wanted to be healed. The man's healing required only his desire or willingness. However, he believed he needed to perform some action before receiving his healing. He assumed he had to be put into a pool to be cured of his illness.
Like many people today, we believe that participating in specific physical, mental, or spiritual practices or routines is necessary for healing.
While many might suggest meditation, breathing techniques, visualization, chanting, yoga, physical exercises, and other methods for healing, with Jesus Christ, these additional practices aren't required for healing. All you need is faith. Trust that "by His stripes you are [already] healed." (Isaiah 53:5).
Don’t be dazzled by other people’s insight. Instead, look to Jesus then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones (Proverbs 3:7-8).
Faith is all it takes!
Faith is all you require for healing—faith in believing what Jesus has already done for you (Isaiah 53:5)
There is no need to take medications, substances, drugs, or subscribe to all the numerous healing methods that are available to us because Jesus Christ has already bore our sickness and carried our pains, so we do not have to (Matthew 8:17, 1Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:4-5).
In the story one of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking... John 5:5-9.
Jesus stated that he, as the Son of Man, did not come to destroy or harm people's lives, but to save them (Luke 9:56).
That is what the devil does: steal, kill, and destroy; similarly, sickness steals, kills, destroys you, drags you down, ruins your day, ruins your life, wrecks, disrupts, frustrates, and stops you from living a peaceful life (John 10:10).
But Jesus came to save, rescue, help, set us free, deliver, and protect us; because “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” (Luke 18:27).
The Bible brings physical healing to your body and mental health to your soul.
What must you do
When you Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ you will be saved, and part of salvation is being healed (Acts 2:21; Romans 10:10).
Once you are saved you now have authority, power, and rights. You can now speak to the sickness and command it to go away. You can cast out the infirmity (poor health) in Jesus's name and order and announce strength, good health, and physical health.
Do not consent to or live under the bondage of illness like the man who suffered for 38 years. Regardless of the illness or condition you may face, whether it be arthritis, fibroids, weakness, imperfection, ailment, infection, allergy, disorder, declining health, etc.; denounce, dismiss, and condemn it. In other words, do not accept any form of sickness.
Do not settle for sickness when you don't have to, and do not do the unnecessary practices to get healed when the solution is simply asking God for healing in faith.
Remember, as a born-again Christian you are now a new person. Your old nature is gone, allowing you to be broken free from having to remain sick (2 Corinthians 5:17; 1Peter 1:23).
In examining the ministry of Jesus Christ, you'll observe that He was consistently engaged in healing. His deep desire to see people healed was evident then and remains unchanged today.
Numerous Scriptures highlight Jesus's wish for our healing, and I have included some of them below.
Scriptures on Jesus healing
God is faithful and can be trusted to help you. The word trust means to have complete confidence in someone. It's having a firm belief in their strength and ability. It is having assurance in the person's creditability, character, and their words. While placing trust in people can lead to disappointment and hurt, this does not apply to God.
Jesus came to set the captives free and with Jesus there is freedom (John 8:36). Freedom from sickness, poverty, and every bad thing life brings!
From Series: Life Lessons Learned from the Bible - John 5:5-9
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A call for salvation
When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, His spirit will become one with yours. This is one of the greatest blessings of salvation. You don't have to go through someone else to get to God, as you and Him are now one.
All you must do is receive salvation, simply choosing to repent of your sins and welcome Jesus into your life by confessing Him as Lord. In Romans 10:9 Paul said, "If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Here's a Prayer that you can pray to get saved:
Jesus, I confess that you are Lord, and I believe in my heart that you died and were risen for my sins. I ask for forgiveness of my sins, and I accept you as my personal Lord and Savior—in Jesus' name, Amen.
After this step, pray for guidance to find a ministry where you can grow spiritually, gain knowledge about the kingdom, and begin living the abundant life promised by Jesus.
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