What is amazing to me is how often folks look at situations in life and put more stock in what they see and what they feel than what the Word of God says.  If we want to see God move in areas where we need him to move then we have learn to put his Word first above everything else. We can't go around saying we believe the Bible, but then put our trust in things that contradict the Bible. 

       How many times have you heard someone say, "Oh, brother, you just don't understand my situation!" Or, "You just don't know what I'm up against!"  That may very well be true, but no matter what it is you are facing it still doesn't have the final say-so. I am not saying we are to go around denying its reality. I am saying God's Word is a greater reality and it can change anything and everything that tries to stand in our way.  Jesus himself said, "All things are possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23). How much stock are we willing to put into such a statement as this?  If he said "all" then we have to believe that everything is subject to change. 

       The prophet Isaiah once asked the question: "Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?" (Isa. 53:1).  In the natural realm there are things that have their own report such as symptoms in our body.  But God's Word declares, "I am the Lord that healeth thee" (Exo. 15:26). It also says, "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" (Exo. 23:25).  If we truly believe the Word then we have to believe what God has to say about it? 

       If that still seems hard to take hold of, then consider the fact that Jesus "Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses" (Matt. 8:17). In other words, whatever he did on the cross was not just for a single generation.  He died for the whole world, and that includes every generation. When it is identified as redemptive then every ailment and every need has been atoned for, which is exactly what Peter declared: "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" (1 Pet. 2:24).   If we "were" healed, then we "are" healed.  And if we "are," then that supersedes anything else that tries to usurp its right above whatever has been declared to be a redemptive provision.

      Ask yourself this question: If he is the one who bore my sickness, then why should I have to bare it?  For us to think that we have to bear whatever comes against our body in the form of a sickness or a disease isn't any different than if we were to say that we have to bear whatever sin comes against our mind or our heart.  It is just as wrong to go around declaring, "This is my sickness," or "I have this condition," as it is to say, "This is my sin" or "I have this sin condition I have to put up with."  We would never go around nursing a sin issue, so why should we go around nursing a sickness or disease issue?

      Here is what we have to acknowledge.  If Christ defeated sin then surely he defeated everything that came under sin's dominion. Don't ever think that there are things in life we just have to put up with. Everything that came into this world as a result of sin lost its right and power to exist in us the moment we came out from under the dominion of sin. We have to know that healing, prosperity, deliverance and every blessing of God is part and parcel of the gospel.