What is Healing?

The Hebrew word for "health" in the Bible is "medicine". God's Word is medicine to all our flesh. Exodus 15:26 tells us, "I the Lord am thy Physician". And, the medicine He prescribes is His Word.

I read recently some wise words about how many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God's medicine - His Word. It's like saying, "I believe in healing" without ever taking the medicine. The author pointed out, "what good would it do for you to believe in food if you didn't eat it? You would starve." The same goes for God's Healing - without receiving a steady dose of His Word into our Spirit, we miss the healing effects it provides.

Proverbs 4:20-22
"My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh." (KJV)

Important to understand: God's Word is a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent (or catalyst). In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God's Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in our bodies.

Proverbs 107:20
"He sent His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." (KJV)
"He sent out His Word, and it healed, and from their corruptions it freed!" (Fenton)

Proverbs 4:22
"For they [His Words] are life unto those that find them, and health unto all their flesh." (KJV)

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." (KJV)

The Word itself contains the power to produce what it says. Just as when God said, "Let there be light," and there was light, healing Scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing.

The Key: The key to partaking of the life and healing energy in the Word is feeding on it until it penetrates your Spirit where it deposits that life and energy.

Hebrews 4:12
"For the Word is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit..." (KJV)