Faith and love work together in the kingdom of God, and in this episode of Believer’s Voice of Victory, Kenneth Copeland shares a truth he has learned about faith, love and healing. He’s learned that if you want to receive your healing, you must walk by faith, and you must live by love. Watch to learn more about this important spiritual connection.
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The Keys That Unlock Healing
Does trying to figure out healing feel like fumbling around with a giant wad of keys to find just the right one? Call off the search! The keys that unlock healing are right here.
If you’ve ever lost your keys, you know one thing—it can be frustrating! You can’t open the door to your house, you can’t start your car, and you can’t get your mail. You’re locked out and have no access to what belongs to you.
Sometimes, we can feel the same way spiritually when it comes to healing. We know healing belongs to us. We know abundance, peace and joy are rightfully ours, but we can’t seem to find the keys. We get down on the spiritual ground looking this way and that way and think, Maybe if I pray harder and longer, maybe if I say a few more confessions, I will get my healing. Or we might even get off course enough to think, Maybe it isn’t God’s will to heal me.
Stop right there.
If you’re in the place where you’re going through a wad of spiritual keys the size of a janitor’s key ring, and questioning if a key even exists—it’s time to take a step back and look to the Master Locksmith. He has the master key that opens every door to your blessing, your healing and your victory—it’s the Word of God. You don’t have to fumble around looking for the keys to your healing anymore. You don’t have to keep trying one key after another on that giant key ring. The life and healing ministry of Jesus takes the exact keys you need off the ring and places them right in your hands.
If you’re ready to stop fumbling around with that giant key ring, here are five keys that unlock healing.
Key No. 1: Meditate on God
“My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.” –Proverbs 4:20-22 (NKJV)
One of the keys to unlocking healing is found in the hands of the woman with the issue of blood (Luke 8:43-48). We don’t know much about this woman—we don’t know her name, her family background or what may have caused her ailment. We don’t even know if she’d ever met Jesus before. But we do know this—she got healed.
How? Well, it was a long process for her. She had been struggling with her ailment for 12 long years. She’d spent every dime she had trying to get better, but instead was worse. She was also not allowed to walk the streets, so she had been shut in her home for all these years—until now.
What would cause someone to take such a leap of faith and leave her home to walk the streets (illegally) and ask a man she may have never met to heal her?
The answer is simple: faith.
How did she come by such bold faith? By meditating on Jesus. Though she was shut in, she had clearly heard of Him. She had heard of His miracles, His compassion, His healings. She had meditated on these things in her heart long enough for faith to rise up within her. She was already believing for healing before she ever stepped onto the street.
She thought about it and thought about it until faith came, and then it came out of her mouth as she said, “If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole” (Mark 5:28). And what did Jesus say? He said, “Your faith has healed you” (Mark 5:34; NIV).
That same key will work for you. Start meditating on the Word. Meditate on Jesus instead of thinking about what the world has to say or what your symptoms or your feelings tell you. Turn off the television for a while and keep your focus on Him. If you do see commercials for pills and drugs for diseases—talk back! Say, “There’s healing for that. I don’t need your pills. Glory to God.” Talk back or don’t watch it. Keep your consciousness from having access to anything but Jesus until faith comes and gets in your mouth, and you start speaking faith. You’ll know when it comes—when you start to get excited about it!
Mark 11:23-24 tells us that whatever we desire, when we pray, we should believe we receive it. So when you pray, start believing while you’re praying—not after. The woman with the issue of blood didn’t just jump onto the street that day and get healed. No. She spent enough time meditating on these things to become fully persuaded, and that time meditating on Jesus unlocked her healing.
Key No. 2: Clothe Yourself in Bible Humility“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” –Hebrews4:16 (NKJV)
Key No. 2: Clothe Yourself in Bible Humility“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” –Hebrews4:16 (NKJV)
You may not have checked your key ring for this key to healing, but it fits the lock and
opens the door. What is it? Humility.
The Bible definition of humility is “boldness”—coming boldly to the throne of grace to find mercy and help. Andrew Murray defined humility as “the place of entire dependence on God.”[1] In other words, when we don’t think we need God’s help, or if we’re trying to
solve all our own problems, we’re knee-deep in the sin of pride.
How do you know if you’re operating in pride? Pride says, “I’ve got this.” Pride stays up
all night trying to fix it. Why won’t God come and fix it for you? Because He can’t. You’re
holding it.
On the other hand, humility is acknowledging that God is greater than we are. We are
told to be clothed and covered with humility (1 Peter 5:1-5), and that includes casting
our cares upon God (1 Peter 5:7).
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