Healing Promises (27 page)

Jesus has become the guarantee of
a better covenant.

—H
EBREWS 7:22, NIV

Our Covenant-Keeping God

When God promised to give Abraham land, Abraham asked, “God, how can I be sure?” And as if His word wasn’t good enough, God went one step further and cut a
covenant
with Abraham, binding Himself irrevocably to it to reassure His friend that He would do as promised.

Let me say something about God’s covenants. They can
never
be broken, only replaced with a better one. My friend, God will do as He has promised you, and to set your heart at ease, He bound Himself to a
covenant
with you when He cut it with your representative, Jesus, at Calvary.

So rest easy in the knowledge that you have a covenant-keeping God who CANNOT break His covenant or renege on His promises. Simply lean on HIS faithfulness and like Abraham, you will walk in your inheritance and healing.

When we are

faithless…

…He remains

faithful.

Rest in

His faithfulness

to heal you.

“The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right
hand, till I make Your enemies
Your footstool.”

—M
ATTHEW
22:44

For He must reign till He has put all enemies
under His feet. The last enemy that will be
destroyed is death.

—
1
C
ORINTHIANS
15:25–26

For He raised us from the dead along with
Christ and seated us with Him in
the heavenly realms because we are
united with Christ Jesus.

—E
PHESIANS 2:6, NLT

Remain Seated With Christ

In some ancient battles, the conquered would be placed one by one under the feet of the victorious king. Likewise, in God’s kingdom, Jesus has defeated all His enemies at Calvary, and God is now placing every one of them under His feet, the last being death.

The Bible says that we are seated with Christ—a position of rest. And as you rest with Christ, God will place every one of your enemies—every symptom, every disease—under your feet!

Many of us want our diseases to be under our feet first, before we will rest. But God wants us to rest first, and then HE will place every disease under our feet!

Jesus also said, “The Kingdom of God is like
a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. Night and
day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts
and grows, but he does not understand how it
happens. The earth produces the crops on its own.
First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of
wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens.

—M
ARK 4:26–28, NLT

Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they
sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was
thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times
as much as had been planted!

—M
ARK 4:8, NLT

Toward The Hundredfold

First the blade, then the head, and then the full grain in the head of wheat. Just as a seed takes time to sprout and grow, it may take some time before your healing manifests fully. And just as a new farmer may see a thirty or sixtyfold yield before he sees a hundredfold yield, it may take some time before you experience 100 percent wholeness.

My friend, don’t say, “Why is my healing taking so long?” and give up. Press on toward the hundredfold. As you get 30 percent better, trust God for the 60 percent, and then the 100 percent.

Don’t lose sleep over when or how the full manifestation of your healing will happen. Be like the farmer—go to sleep! Rest, and leave the how and when to God. Beloved, the Lord will give you strength to persevere. Your hundredfold is on the way!

Every day they continued to meet together in the
temple courts. They broke bread in their homes
and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.

—A
CTS 2:46, NIV

The true bread of God is the One who comes
down from heaven and gives life to the world.

—J
OHN 6:33, NLT

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.
He who comes to Me will never go hungry,
and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty.”

—J
OHN 6:35, NIV