Healing Word

Today the Lord showed me something that would hardly catch my attention, if not in sobriety and hunger. Though my attitude toward healing, particularly that of physical, are less important because of the widespread misuse by the charismatics, mostly for name and fame, rather than the true spiritual healing intended for, the Lord balanced me in my viewpoint to freshly appreciate a genuine healing touch by the Lord's healing word.

In Mathew 8:16, "And when evening fell, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed, and He cast out the spirits with a word, and all those who were ill He healed," Here is a succinct record of the Lord's healing with the His healing words. What was that healed any? It was the Lord, by His word! He healed the ills by His word. This is very interesting. While majority holds the concept that only a "healer" or specially anointed one can heal, as it is a gift. Well, that's not biblically false either, but the healing factor is the Lord's word, the word of God Himself, the word as the definition, explanation and expression of God in Christ as the Spirit! Going by this fact, actually any believer who has the rhema word can experience healing and can also heal. O what a discovery!

Psalm 107:20, "He sent forth His word and healed them, And He delivered them from the pitch of destruction." It is the word of God that heals. To me this applies to all the three parts of our being, our spirit, soul and body. The word of God can heal the abnormality in the physical body. The word of God can also heal the anxiety in the psychological soul. And the word of God can heal all the anomalies in the spirit too. These facts are out from a very subjective experiences the Lord has been gracing me with all these years. He heals our whole being with His words. Hallelujah!

Here's another reason why the word must be loved, read, digested and be constituted with. When the Lord was tempted in Mathew 4 by the devil with the misquoted words, He rightly quoted corresponding words and defeated the tempter. And similarly in Mathew 8, the casting out of the spirits (evil) was with the word ensuing healing. The word not only feeds, quenches and supplies, but also heals.