Divine Healing In The Age Of Corona- Part 7

Review

• Last week, we continued to build a foundation for a belief in divine healing.
• This series has two objectives:

1. To demonstrate that developing faith for divine healing is biblical, practical and beneficial.
2. To foster reasonable expectations for divine intervention in the healing and recovery of your physical body.

• Big Idea: Receiving divine healing has everything to do with seeing Jesus .

1. We look intently at the Word to see Jesus.
2. We look intently at Jesus to see God is.
3. When we look intently at God through the Word, we see a healer.
4. Once we see God as a healer, we can have faith to be .

• Key Insight: We can cultivate faith in Jesus from the Scripture.
• Deuteronomy 6:4-9
  • The goal: Love the Lord (Jesus)
  • The Process: Put God’s Word in your heart
  • The steps: Scriptural meditation

What do the steps of scriptural meditation look like specifically?

Reading, Talking, Listening, Pondering, Reflecting Day and Night

• The Word that’s not in your won’t help you.
• The Word feeds our spiritual immune system.
• Resisting sickness requires a healthy and immune system.
• When we meditate on the Word day and night, we are taking daily doses of Jesus, our supernatural multivitamin.

New School Faith is Just Old School Faith Remixed

• We can accomplish the by adopting the same faith that our spiritual ancestors did (Hebrews 12:1-2).
• We have a privilege that our spiritual ancestors did not: the capacity to go to Jesus and boldly when faced with problems that require supernatural intervention (Hebrews 4:15-16).
• The faith of Old Testament saints puts the woman with the issue of blood in
• When we look to Jesus uninhibited, we won’t be able to avoid seeing Him as a healer.
• What the woman with the issue of blood did physically, we do .
• We Jesus through the Scripture.
• Mark 5:25-43
• Mark 6:1-6

Faith is About Who, Not What

• Ultimately, faith is essential to pleasing God. (Hebrews 11:6).
• However, the faith discussed here is not a faith for something, but a faith in .

© Joshua D. Smith, Ph.D., 2020