May 27

Matthew 4:23 (NIV)

23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

I was talking to someone the other day and we were talking about Jesus Culture (a band). We told him that they came out of Bethel Church in Redding, CA. He recognized the name and asked if that was Bill Johnson’s ministry. He asked if I like Bill Johnson and then commented, “he’s really into that healing stuff”. I actually corrected him and said that Bethel is really into the supernatural stuff, but of course healing is included. It was the way he said “healing stuff” that made me think that this guy wasn’t in agreement with healing. I could be wrong about him, but I am not wrong about Jesus. Jesus is definitely into that “healing stuff”. The way Jesus went around healing people one might think that it was part of his mission! Hmmm…..

To take healing out of our personal ministry, and I am talking about supernatural healing, is to deny that part of Jesus’ mission. To think or to believe anything but the reality of Jesus’ mission on this earth was to destroy the work of the devil (1 John 3:8) which included slavery to sin, captivation to oppression AND a submission to sickness, is to negate scripture. Jesus came to bring us salvation and redemption, to release us from every bondage and to heal every disease, both mental/emotional and physical! Here in this passage He does what He came for – Teaching, Preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and DOING the Good News – healing!

Some would say; “Well, that is Jesus, He is God, I am not.” It was Jesus, He is God and you are not, however the same Spirit that raise Christ from the dead dwells in YOU! If not, then your mortal body will not be raised! The same Spirit that just came on Jesus in Matt. 3, will come on you (or has), through the baptism of (or with) the Holy Spirit. John talked about it, Jesus talked about it, the disciples waited for it (Acts 1-2) and then they got it just like Jesus did and just like you and I can. Yes I am saying that you can operate (heal) just like Jesus did because you have the same “ability” (power) that Jesus did, the Holy Spirit. It is time to start believing who we really are and what we can really do through the Spirit of God! Jesus was able and so are we. Jesus was commissioned and so are we. Jesus DID it and so will we!