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Divine Healing

RONNIE TRICE


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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in thisvolume are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Printed in the United States of America

Copyright 1982 Ronnie Trice

All Rights Reserved


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Table of Contents

An Introductory Message........................................................5

Chapter OneGod Is for Our Healing............................................................7

Chapter Two

Faith for Healing....................................................................13

Chapter Three

As You Think, So You Are....................................................19

Chapter Four

Walk Out of Your Sickness Into God's Divine Health.......29

Scriptures to Lay a Foundation for Divine Healing...........37

Seven Scriptural Ways to Healing........................................39


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An Introductory Message

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy

diseases ..." (Psalm 103:2, 3).

So many Christians today are not informed about howto receive healing or how to keep their healing once they

have received it. I have seen people who have received

healing and lost it. That is a very sad thing, for God's

Word is explicit concerning healing. Every born-again

Christian needs to know how to accurately handle the

Word of God concerning healing.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that

needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth"

(II Timothy 2:15).

When we are standing by faith on God's Word for

healing, it does not always come instantly. "Now faith is

the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not

seen" (Hebrews 11:1). Between the time you pray and

believe God, and the time you receive the physical

manifestation, stand on the Word of God in faith and

continue to praise Him for the manifestation.

Healing is an important subject. It is important to me

that I be strong and healthy, and it is important to you that

you are strong and healthy. It is important to God that we

are strong and healthy. Our health is so important to God

that His Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, was striped and

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bruised and beaten so that you and I might be healed (I

Peter 2:24).

You and I, as born-again believers, should desire to be

in good health, so we will be able to go about doing the

work of our Lord and Savior. A sick person has difficulty

fulfilling all the things the Lord has called us to do in the

Great Commission (Mark 16:15-18).

Jesus came and died that we might have abundant life

(John 10:10). Abundant life does not consist of sickness,

pain, or disease. It is God's desire that we be healed and

be made whole.

As a born-again child of God, we have a right to enjoy

the blessings and the benefits of God. Before we can enjoy

the benefits of God, we must learn the benefits of God. As

you read the pages of this book, I pray that God's healing

power will become a reality in your life.

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper

and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth" (III John 2).

Ronnie Trice

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Chapter One

1God Is for Our Healing

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to

destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they

might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10).Jesus said that He came to give us abundant life.

Anything that kills, robs, or destroys spiritually,

physically, or financially is not of God.

"Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth; as it is in

heaven" (Matthew 6:10). It is God's will that we have the

abundant life that Jesus came to give us. For us to enjoythe abundant life, we must be healthy.

Disease was not part of God's original creation plan.

"God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was

very good" (Genesis 1:31). All the things that God made

was good; therefore, God is not responsible for sickness.

Sickness is an enemy that comes to rob us of the abundantlife. It is important that every born-again child of God

know that God is not the one responsible for sickness.

When we recognize this, we can release our faith to

overcome the sickness.

After ministering the Word of God one night, a man

came forward for healing. His arm was bent with arthritis

and would not straighten out. This man was a hard

working West Texas farmer, and this condition was not

only painful, but it was hindering him from doing his

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work. As I prayed the prayer of faith, his arm straightened

out, the pain left, and he had an instant manifestation of

healing. This arthritis had come to rob this man of

abundant life, and he recognized that it was of Satan and

not of God. Therefore, he was able to release his faith to

overcome the sickness.

When we do not know who is responsible for sickness,

then we waver in opinion. If we waver in opinion, we are

double minded. We cannot believe God for healing, if wedo not know who is responsible for making us sick.

Remember, the double-minded man receives nothing

from the Lord (James 1:7).

Genesis 3:1 talks about the serpent, "Now the serpent

was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God

made." In other words, the serpent was cunning, crafty,apt, skilled, and clever in the area of deceit. The Bible says

Satan is a master deceiver. That is why the Bible tells us

that we are to test the spirits.

Disease came as a result of man's fall. We know from

Genesis 1:26-28 that Adam and Eve had total authority on

this earth. Psalm 8:6 says, "Thou madest him to havedominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things

under his feet." Then where did Satan get his authority and

power? In Luke 4:6, 7, the devil said to Jesus that it had

been delivered to him. When was it delivered to him? It

was delivered to him in the Garden of Eden. Why would

Adam and Eve turn loose of such a possession of authority

and power? What did Satan bargain or tempt with?

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely

die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your

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eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and

evil" (Genesis 3:5).

God had given Adam and Eve everything. They had

complete rule, complete authority, complete power, and

divine health. They had everything at their disposal, but

they were to leave that one tree alone. Adam and Eve

listened to the deceitful lie of the devil and ate of the tree

of knowledge of good and evil.

Some of us have done the same thing. God tells us to

stay away from certain things. We get involved in those

things, then we wonder what is going wrong in our lives.

That is giving place to the devil. If we give place to the

devil, he is going to kill, rob, and destroy.

The result was death; man fell. "In the sweat of thy faceshalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of

it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou

return" (Genesis 3:19). The perversion of Satan began to

kill and brought on disease. Therefore, reason and senses

developed as resources now limited to the mind and body.

God is for our healing. "If God be for us, who can be

against us" (Romans 8:31). God is for our healing spirit,

soul, and body. God sent His Son that we might be healed

(I Peter 2:24).

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath

anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me

to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the

captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at libertythem that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the

Lord. (Luke 4:18, 19)

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How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and

healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was withhim. (Acts 10:38)

Jesus' mission was to go about doing good, and He is

the same yesterday, today, and forevermore (Hebrews

13:8). Some people have the erroneous idea that healing is

not for today. Some people wonder if it is God's will to

heal everyone. Some people think healing is only for aselect few. Our heavenly Father is no respecter of persons

(Acts 10:34).

Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the

church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in

the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the

sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committedsins, they shall be forgiven him. (James 5:14-15)

Notice this Scripture says, "Is any sick among you." We

can see clearly from this Scripture that it is God's plan and

His will for anyone to be healed. If it was not God's will to

heal everyone, the Scripture could not say "ANY."

Not only was Jesus anointed by God to do good, butthe believer is anointed according to II Corinthians 1:21.

As born-again believers, God has anointed us and given

us authority.

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my

name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new

tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink

any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands

on the sick, and they shall recover/ (Mark 16:17, 18)

These Scriptures say that believers will lay hands on

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the sick, and they shall recover. It does not say that

believers will lay hands on only the saved, the evangelist,

the rich, or the poor. It says they shall lay hands on the

SICK. God wants to heal everyone! All the sick person has

to do is respond to the Word of God that the believer is

bringing.

There was a lady in one of our services who

responded to the Word of God and came forward to the

altar for prayer. When I asked her what she needed Godto do for her, she said that she needed a physical healing

for knots on the upper portion of her body. Because of this

infirmity she was emotionally distraught and oppressed

by the devil. Satan had come to steal, to kill, and to

destroy in this lady's life.

Remember, the Scripture says that believers will layhands on the sick, and they shall recover. I laid my hands

on her and prayed for her healing. I then sent her into the

back to examine herself in private. She came back

rejoicing. Every knot had disappeared!

Folks, God's Word is true. God is for our healing. God

does not put sickness on anyone. God gives us power toovercome sickness. God is in the delivering business, not

the oppressing business. He is setting people free today

like never before.

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Chapter Two

2Faith for Healing

Before faith can be exercised properly, we need to

know that faith is intertwined with God's Word. God's

Word produces faith. "So then faithcometh by hearing, andhearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Believing God's

Word is believing God.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with

God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). God and His Word

are one. Faith begins at God's revealed Word. The Word of

God is so powerful that it can transform any life. Psalm107:20 says, "He sent his word, and healed them...."

I have heard many testimonies of people who were

healed while they were sitting in church listening to the

Word of God being preached. One of the most powerful

testimonies that I know, is about a lady in our

congregation who was healed of cancer. She was under

the care of physicians, and they had confirmed that she

had cancer in her body. As the Word of God came forth,

she began to feel a warmth in her body. She knew that her

body was being healed. On her return visit to the

physicians, they could find absolutely no trace of cancer;

her body was totally and completely healed. God sent His

Word and healed this lady of cancer.Jesus' words are Spirit and life to those who will

receive them. When Jesus approached the people who

were sick, blind, lame, and withered at the pool of

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Bethesda, their eyes were on the pool and not on Jesus

(John 5:1-18). So many people today have their eyes on

natural things. Their confidence is in things and not in the

Word of God. If we will get our eyes on Jesus, His Word

will drive every disease away from our bodies. There is

healing through the blood of Jesus and deliverance for

every captive.

God wants His people to believe His Word and be

free. Psalm 105:7 says there was not one feeble personamong them (God's people coming out of Egypt). Healing

is for the glory of God. The Lord heals for His glory, and

our lives should glorify Him.

And there they preached the gospel. And there sat a

certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet .... The same heard

Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving thathe had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand

upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. (Acts 14:7-10)

A casual reader of these Scriptures once said, "Isn't it

wonderful how Paul healed that man?" Brethren, Paul did

not heal that man. That man was not healed because Paul

was an apostle. He was not healed through Paul's greatand mighty faith. That man was healed because he had

faith for his healing.

God loves us, and He is interested in everything about

us. He is interested in our healing, and He wants us well.

God has made provision in His Word for us to be healthy.

The Bible says in Hebrews 12:2, "Looking unto Jesus theauthor and finisher of our faith . . . . " Through Jesus Christ of

Nazareth, the Word of God, faith can arise in us so that we

can lay hold of healing for our bodies.

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In Acts 14:7-10, Paul did three things. First, he

preached the Gospel. Second, he perceived that the man

had faith to be healed. Third, he told the man to stand and

walk.

Paul perceived that the man had faith to be healed.

Where did the man get the faith to be healed? In verse

seven it says that Paul preached the Gospel. This man was

listening to Paul preach. This man was hearing the Word

of God, and faith comes by hearing the Word of God.

In Mark 5:25-34 is the familiar account of the woman

who had the issue of blood. Verse twenty-seven of this

passage of Scripture says that she heard about Jesus. She

came to Jesus for her healing. As she touched the hem of

His garment, Jesus perceived that virtue and power had

gone out of Him. Jesus said to the woman, "Daughter, thyfaith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy

plague."

Jesus said her faith made her whole, not His faith! Like

the man in Acts, she heard about Jesus, she heard the

Word. When we hear the Word of God, faith comes to us.

The Word of God is not without power.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper

than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing

asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and

is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

(Hebrews 4:12)

It is God's plan that you hear the uncompromisedWord of God and allow faith to arise in your heart, so that

you can lay hold of the promises and the benefits that He

has for you. Faith is a way of life according to God's Word.

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"... The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17).

In Acts 14:7-10, Paul did three things, but the man didthree things also. First, he heard Paul preach. He heard the

Word of God. Second, he had faith to be healed. Third, he

leaped and walked.

I know there are some people who get tired of others

encouraging them to go to church. All Scripture is God-

inspired, and Hebrews 10:24-25 tells us,

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and

to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves

together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another:

and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

God did not put that Scripture in the Bible just so we

would have something to do on Sundays. God wants us toattend church regularly so we will hear the Word of God.

God wants us to know who we are and what we have in

Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In so doing, we will live the

victorious abundant life. God wants us informed, for we

are children of light, not children of darkness. The coming

of the Lord should not come upon us suddenly like a thief

in the night.

God wants us available to hear His Word. If we are not

making ourselves available, faith is not going to be coming

to us, faith will not be stirred up on the inside of us, and

we will not be renewed and refreshed in faith.

Like the man in Acts, once we have our faith built up

by hearing the Word of God, we must do the Word of God."But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving

your own selves" (James 1:22). We can believe God heals,

and be sick. We must have corresponding action through

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anointing with oil, the laying on of hands, or some other

Scriptural way to healing.

The apostle Paul said in Romans 1:16, "For I am not

ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto

salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to

the Greek." The Greek and Hebrew word for salvation

implies the ideas of deliverance, healing, safety, and

security. Paul preached the full gospel, not just part of it.

P.C. Nelson, many years a Baptist minister, said:

"Healing is part of the Gospel package." While he was

pastoring a church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1921, he was

run over by a car. While in the hospital, the doctors said

that his right leg would probably have to be amputated.

They said even if it was not amputated, it would be

paralyzed. As he was lying on his bed, God began tospeak to his heart. This man knew the Word of God. The

Scripture God spoke was James 5:14-15. "Is any sick among

you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray

over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and

the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise

him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgivenhim." Although his church did not practice this, he

believed the Word of God. He found someone who did

practice this Scriptural way of healing, and he was healed.

This man was acting on a Bible principle. He had

heard the Word of God concerning healing, and his faith

had been stirred up on the inside. P.C. Nelson put his faith

into action. He was a doer of the Word and not a hearer

only. Faith without works is dead.

God is no respecter of persons. God healed the man in

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Acts. God healed the woman with the issue of blood. God

healed P.C. Nelson, and God will heal you as you hear the

Word of God and respond in faith to the Word of God. It

is just as much God's will that we be well as it is for us to

be saved. Never doubt God's willingness to use His power

to heal.

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Chapter Three

3As You Think, So You Are

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he ..." (Proverbs

23:7).

As you think, so you are. Certain things affect yourthinking. What you hear, what you say, what you see, and

what you do affect your thinking more than anything else.

Many people do not think about healing, but in this

day and hour people cannot ignore the fact that God is

still in the healing business. When we begin to think

healing, we will begin to enjoy healing. When we begin tothink Divine health, we will begin to enjoy Divine health.

As we think healing, the creative force of God is

activated. In the spirit of a man is the home of sensitivity

and creativity. As we begin to think in line with the Word

of God concerning healing, we are sensitive to the things

of God, and the creative force of God is loosed to operatein our lives. When this creative force of God is operating

in our lives, God will give us His ideas and His thoughts.

He will give us revelation knowledge that we might be

blessed, in order that we might be blessings to others.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I

pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved

blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (I

Thessalonians 5:23)

Man is a triune being, made up of spirit, soul, and

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body. When you make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life,

your spirit is set apart and made perfect. The spirit man

does not think any wrong or do any wrong, but we still

have a problem with the mind area. The mind is the

soulish area. The soulish area is made up of the mind, the

will, and the emotions. The soul and the body are not yet

perfect, but it is the will of God that our soul and body be

sanctified wholly.

Brethren, we are delivered from the curse. Jesus Christbecame a curse for us when He hung on the cross, and we

are redeemed. We have been redeemed wholly by the

blood of the lamb.

Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so ...."

It would be good for us to say daily that we are redeemed

from sickness, poverty, and spiritual deadness. We arefree in the Lord Jesus Christ.

God desires to sanctify our minds. How are our minds

sanctified? Our minds are sanctified and renewed by the

Word of God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptableunto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not

conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the

renewing of your mind . (Romans 12:1, 2)

As God's Word comes to us, His truth comes to us.

When God's truth concerning healing comes to us, we will

begin to think truth concerning healing. Remember, as wethink, so we are.

For many years I did not think about healing, because

the church I attended did not teach God's Word

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concerning healing. I did not know Jesus still healed

today. I did not know Jesus is the same yesterday, today,

and forevermore.

As a born-again believer, you need to hear the truth,

believe the truth, speak the truth, and act on the truth.

When you do, you will not stay bowed down by

infirmities. It may take some time for the manifestation of

healing to come, for it is through faith and patience that

we inherit the promises of God (Hebrews 6:12), but youwill not stay that way.

It is impossible for a person to stay sick if he is hearing

the truth, believing the truth, speaking the truth, and

acting on the truth, for as a man thinketh in his heart, so is

he. That is God's Word; God's spiritual law, and God

hastens His Word to perform it (Jeremiah 1:12).

Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my

words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35).

As we think God's Word, it goes from our minds into

our spirits. When God's Word is in our spirits, we will

receive healing, for in our hearts are the issues of life and

the creative force of God.

My son attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my

sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the

midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find

them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all

diligence; for out of itare the issues of life. (Proverbs 4:20-23)

The mind that does not think on the things of God is amind that is wasted. It is a terrible thing to waste the mind

that God created. Philippians 4:8 instructs us on what

things we are to think:

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Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever

things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever

things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever

things are of good report; ifthere be any virtue, and ifthere

be any praise, think on these things.

We are to think life and not death. Sickness, regardless

of how minor, causes death to cells in our bodies. Our

minds should be on health and not sickness. Thinking on

sickness does not bring life.

We are all familiar with the passage of Scripture in

Mark 5:25-34 about the woman with the issue of blood.

After suffering much at the hands of the physicians and

after spending all her money, she came to Jesus. Verse 28

in the New American Standard Version of the Bible says,

"For shethought, If I just touch His garments, I shall get well."This woman was healed as a result of what she was

thinking. She was thinking in line with God's Word,

because she had heard the truth about Jesus. Not only did

this woman hear the truth and think in line with God's

Word, but she had corresponding action; she pressed

behind and touched Jesus' garment.

Another example is the story of Naaman in the Old

Testament (II Kings 5:1-14). Naaman was a mighty man in

valour, but he was a leper. Naaman's wife was waited on

by a little maid taken captive out of Israel, who said to her

mistress, "Would God my Lord were with the prophet that is in

Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy."

When Naaman heard that, his thinking started

changing. Naaman began to think healing. He took his

chariot and horses and went to the house of Elisha. He

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had heard the good news concerning healing, and he took

corresponding action.

The prophet, Elisha, sent word for Naaman to wash in

the river Jordan seven times. Naaman obeyed the word of

the prophet and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan

River, and he was totally healed.

Many of the people in the body of Christ are sick.

Many people are spending thousands of dollars on drugs

and medical bills. A large percentage of the people are

under the care of a physician due to the way they think.

The medical profession term it psychosomatic. Why?

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he .... "

This is a spiritual law that is just as real as the law of

gravity. It is very possible for a person to be sick in hismind. It is directly related to the way that person thinks.

The thinking of a Christian is influenced by the

ministry that person sits under. Jesus, Himself, said, "And

as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal

the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely

ye have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:7-8). Thiscommission has never changed. Jesus still desires to

manifest His power in every person's life. Jesus is not a

respecter of persons.

If you are being fed the Word of God concerning life,

healing, and prosperity, you will think life, healing, and

prosperity. If you are not being fed the full counsel of God

concerning these things, you will not be thinking in line

with the Word of God. Thinking in line with God's Word

brings victory!

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Every believer has a commission,

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to everycreature.... And these signs shall follow them that believe; In

my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new

tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any

deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on

the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:15-18)

Some people do not know that God heals today. Some

people are not aware that demons exist. Some people do

not have knowledge about speaking in tongues. Praise

God we can talk in tongues and be edified, but we must

first believe. We are not going to believe these truths in

God's Word, if we are not thinking on these truths. It is the

believer's responsibility to tell people the good news; to

tell people about Jesus Christ of Nazareth.Jesus' disciples were believers. They were doers of

God's Word. In Acts 3:1-8, we read about two of Jesus'

disciples. Peter and John went up together into the temple

one day. There was a certain man, lame from his mother's

womb, asking alms at the gate of the temple which is

called Beautiful. Peter and John seeing the man said,"Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In

the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." Peter

took the man by his right hand, and the man leaping up,

stood, and walked, and entered with Peter and John into

the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. God's

Word was performed that day, because someone believed

the Word of God.

God wants us to hear the Word; the devil does not

want us to hear the Word. There are some people who are

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not disciplined enough to be still and give their minds to

what the Word of God has to say. Why? It is because the

devil comes along and tries to influence their thinking

with thoughts concerning circumstances and situations

they may be faced withthe housework that needs to be

done, the phone call they want to make, and various other

things. The list goes on and on.

These thoughts will hinder people from giving

themselves to the Word of God. If they allow thesethoughts, they will read a few minutes, get up and leave,

not even knowing what they read. Then when things in

their lives start going wrong, they just cannot understand

why. They wonder why they think defeat all of the time,

why they are sick, why their children are rebellious, or

why their business deals are going wrong. I can tell youwhy. It is because they have not fed their minds the Word

of God to think on.

When we give ourselves to the Word, we will be

thinking on the truth. When we are thinking on the truth,

the truth has the power and the ability to make us free.

The truth will set us free from sickness and disease. The

Word of God heals!

We must give our minds to something that will profit

us. Do you know why the Scriptures are given to us? The

Scriptures are given to us to profit us, to help us, to uplift

us, to encourage us, and to cause us to be overcomers.

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of thechurch; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in

the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the

sick, and the Lord shall raise him up . (James 5:14, 15)

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I have had individuals say to me, "I just don't

understand healing. I don't understand how the anointing

of oil works." Well, I don't understand how it works

either, but I don't have to understand how it works for it

to work in my life. I don't understand how an automatic

transmission works, but I don't allow that to stop me from

driving my automobile. I really do not care how the

mechanics of my automobile work, just so long as it

works.The Scriptures do not tell us to understand the Word

and then do the Word. The Scripture says, "But be ye doers

of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves"

(James 1:22). We do not have to understand the mechanics

of healing to be healed, but we are to believe and receive

what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us.We must give God something to work with. He is the

potter, and we are the clay. "But now, O Lord, thou art our

father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the

work of thy hand" (Isaiah 64:8). As we think on the truths of

God's Word, we are yielding ourselves to Him, and we are

giving Him something to work with.Brethren, it is important. for us to understand that man

is not the healer, the church is not the healer, and the

preacher is not the healer, but God is the healer. God uses

these instruments to transmit His healing power to

people. We do the easy part. We preach healing; God

causes faith to come forth for healing and causes people to

think healing. We lay our hands on the sick; God causes

them to recover. We anoint with oil and pray the prayer of

faith; God causes the person to rise up. God does the hard

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part.

Do you believe Hebrews 13:8, that Jesus is the sameyesterday, today, and forevermore? If Jesus was willing to

heal the lady with the issue of blood, to heal Naaman of

leprosy, to heal the lame beggar at the gate Beautiful, He

is willing to heal you. Jesus has not changed, and His

Word is forever settled (Psalm 119:89). Jesus, Himself,

bore our sicknesses and our infirmities. (Matthew 8:17).

Are you thinking sickness? Do you think you must

stay in the physical condition you are in? Stop thinking

like that! You do not have to stay sick, for Jesus wants to

heal you. Jesus wants to heal you right now. Begin to think

healing instead of sickness. As you think healing, faith

will rise up in your heart for you to receive healing that

rightfully belongs to you as a born-again child ofAlmighty God. As you think healing, you will be healed,

for as you think, so you are.

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Chapter Four

4Walk Out of Your Sickness Into

God's Divine Health

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.

(Psalm 103:2, 3)

We are going to focus our attention on the latter part

of verse three. It says that God heals all your diseases.

There are many Christians who are sick in body. God does

not want us sick. God wants His people well. Why? One

of the many reasons is that God wants us to be moreeffective witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ, able to

minister the gospel unhindered by physical infirmities in

our bodies.

Please notice that the Scripture says that God heals

ALL diseases. That means cancer, heart problems, eye

problems, ear problems, colds, flu, and I could go on andon. When God said "ALL," He meant "ALL." He heals all

diseases, and this is a benefit you and I are not to forget. It

is a benefit of God to be healed and to be whole.

God expressed His desire through the apostle in III

John 2, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest

prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."As we are learning the Word of God, our soul is

prospering. As our soul is prospering, we are learning of

the benefits of God. As we learn of the benefits of God and

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act in faith according to the Word of God to receive the

benefits of God, we will receive them and live the

abundant life Jesus came to give us (John 10:10).

There are many Christians today in similar conditions

as the woman in Luke 13:10-17. This passage of Scripture

shows us many things.

In verse twelve it says that Jesus saw the woman who

had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. Jesus sees me

today, and He sees you today: "For the eyes of the Lord run

to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in

the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him ..." ( I I

Chronicles 16:9). God is looking for a people who will

believe His Word and act on His Word. When Jesus saw

the woman, He said, "Woman, thou are loosed from thine

infirmity." Then Jesus laid His hands on her. Jesus saw thiswoman, and He responded according to the Word of God.

The laying on of hands is Scriptural. This is something

that Jesus did. Jesus said in John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say

unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he

do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go

unto my Father." The things Jesus did, we can do also. Theapostles believed this, and they practiced this.

We, too, are to believe the Word of God, in the laying

on of hands, and we are to do the Word of God: "And these

signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast

out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take

up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurtthem; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover"

(Mark 16:17-18). As believers, we have our part to do. We

are to lay hands on the sick in faith. They shall recover,

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because God will hasten His Word to perform it (Jeremiah

1:12). We are to be imitators of Jesus and go about doing

good and destroying the works of the devil (Acts 10:38; I

John 3:8).

There are three important things to notice about this

woman in verse sixteen. First, she was a daughter of

Abraham. Second, it was Satan that had her bound, not

God. Third, she was to be loosed from the sickness.

Healing was for the Jew under the Old Covenant

(Exodus 23:25-27). Healing is also for every born-again

child of God (Galatians 3:13, 14). We, as born-again

believers, are from the seed of Abraham (Galatians 3:29),

and we are redeemed from the curse of the law (Galatians

3:13, 14). We must believe we are redeemed from spiritual

deadness, poverty, and sickness! A part of Jesus' sacrificewas for our healing. We are healed by the stripes of Jesus

(II Peter 2:24).

God's Word tells us how to get healed and how to stay

healed. There are certain conditions in God's Word that

we need to meet if we desire to be healed and to stay

healed.The first condition is to be converted, to make Jesus the

Lord of our lives. The born-again child of God has a right

to all of God's promises in His Word.

The second condition is to have faith in God for healing. Faith

is required if we are to receive from God. This is a

spiritual law.

Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye

shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if

ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be

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thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things,

whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

(Matthew 21:21, 22)

If you have God's Word for something, you can

believe. If you ask according to God's Word in faith for

something, you will receive. Have faith in God for

healing. Without faith it is impossible to please God. "But

without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to

God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of themthat diligently seek him" (Hebrews 11:6).

The third condition is to totally trust God. Proverbs 3:5-8

and Psalm 37 teach us to trust God. Jesus' sacrifice on

Calvary was not only for our salvation, but also for our

healing. Wholly trust God to heal your body as you act in

line with His Word.

The fourth condition is to obey God and His Word. "My son,

attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them

not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine

heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to

all their flesh" (Proverbs 4:20-22).

The fifth condition is to be forgiving. "And when ye standpraying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father

also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses" (Mark

11:25). Do not harbor unforgiveness, but be forgiving.

I remember one service in which I had ministered

from the Word of God concerning healing. At the altar call

God was hastening His Word to perform it with signs,wonders, and miracles. As I looked down the aisle, I saw

several people coming forward. The first three people to

come were ladies. The Lord spoke to me and said that

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they each had unforgiveness in their hearts and that it had

and would continue to hinder them from receiving their

healing.

Before I prayed for any of them, I told them quietly

(where no one else could hear) what the Lord had told me.

They each said that they had unforgiveness. I asked that

they talk to the Father about this and get their hearts right

before we prayed. I then prayed for them, and they each

one received an instant manifestation of their healing.Praise the Lord!

The sixth condition is to believe in the prayer of the one

ministering. The latter part of Mark 16:18 s a y s , " . . . they

shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." This

Scripture is referring to believers. Go to a person you have

confidence in to pray for you, and have faith that whenthey lay their hands on you and pray the prayer of faith,

you will receive your healing.

The seventh condition is to control your tongue."The mouth

of a righteous man is a well of life" (Proverbs 10:11).

Proverbs 12:18 s a y s , "... the tongue of the wise is

health." Brethren, you are not going to be able to enjoyhealth and the abundant, victorious life if you have a

negative confession. When you make statements such as:

"Well, my daddy died of cancer when he was 52, and I

guess I will, too," you are calling things that be not as

though they were (Romans 4:17). Chances are, you are

going to receive it. That is not the tongue of a wise man.When you talk like you are healed and act like you are

healed, you will enjoy the benefits of healing.

The eighth condition is to abide in God and in His protection.

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"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall

abide under the shadow of the Almighty" (Psalm 91:1). "He

that dwelleth" means he that remains, settles down, or

takes up homestead. Brethren, we need to settle down in

our Christian life. It needs to be settled in our lives that we

are going to go to church where the Gospel is taught and

preached in an uncompromising way; that we may grow

in the wisdom, the knowledge, and the understanding of

the Lord.

The ninth thing is to praise God in faith for healing."Bless the

Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth

all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases" (Psalm 103:2,

3). Praise God that we are healed by the stripes of Jesus.

The tenth condition is to serve God earnestly. "But seek ye

first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all thesethings shall be added unto you" (Matthew 6:33). Jesus said in

John 5:14, "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a

worse thing come unto thee." Do not get your priorities

mixed up, but seek ye first the kingdom of God.

The eleventh condition is to resist the devil. "Submit

yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will fleefrom you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you"

(James 4:7, 8). Sometimes symptoms come, but we must

resist the devil and draw nigh to God. We draw nigh to

God by drawing nigh to His Word. Look to the Word of

God and do what the Word of God says. God is not going

to leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

The twelfth condition is to observe the laws of God and of

nature. Your body and my body are the temples of the

Holy Ghost (I Corinthians 6:19-20). We are not to abuse

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our bodies physically, but we are to nourish and take care

of our bodies.

As I was praying before the service one time, God

spoke to me and said I was going to pray for a young man

in a wheelchair, and he would be healed. When the

service began, I looked out over the congregation, and

there sat a young man in a wheelchair. Later I called this

young man forward. I shared with the congregation what

God had shown me. I prayed for him, genuinely expectinghim to receive an instant manifestation, but he still could

not get up. He was still completely paralyzed from the

waist down.

I began to share with him some of the truths

concerning trusting God, confessing the Word, and

resisting the devil. I asked him if he believed he washealed and that he would soon have the manifestation of

his healing, and he said he did.

He left the service that day in his wheelchair, but

about a month later, I saw him and he was out of the

wheelchair and using a walker. Approximately a month

later, he was not using the walker, but he was on crutches.Another month passed and he was walking without any

assistance. This young man applied these twelve

conditions to his life. God healed him, and today he is still

healed and serving God diligently.

If you will apply these twelve conditions to your life, I

believe that not only will you receive your healing, butyou will stay healed. It is God's will for you to be healed,

and for you to stay healed.

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and

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this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. (I

John 5:4)

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Scriptures to Lay a Foundation for

Divine Healing

I. IS GOD OR SATAN THE AUTHOR OF DISEASE?

A. Job 2:7Satan smote with boils.

B. Mark 3:24-25House divided against itself.

C. Luke 13:11, 16Verse 11Spirit of infirmity. Verse

16Satan hath bound.

D. John 10:10Sicknesssteals, kills, and destroys.

Jesus went about doing good:

1. Acts 10:38Went about healing all.

2. I John 3:8Jesus destroyed the works of the

devil.

3. Galatians 3:13We have been redeemed from

the curse of the law (Deuteronomy 28).

II. IS DIVINE HEALING BIBLICAL?A. Exodus 15:26I am the Lord that healeth thee.

B. Exodus 23:25I will take sickness away from the

midst of thee.

C. Psalm 103:3Who healeth all thy diseases.

D. Psalm 105:37Not one feeble among their tribe.

E. Malachi3:6God changes not.

F. Isaiah 53:4, 5We are healed by His stripes.

G. Matthew 9:35Healed every sickness and every

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disease.

H. Matthew 8:17Himself took our infirmities.III. WE HAVE AUTHORITY TO GO ABOUT HEALING.

A. Mark 6:56Disciple (also).

B. Luke 10:9Also 70 more people.

C. Mark 16:16Believers.

D. John 14:12Ye shall do also.E. James 5:14Call elders.

F. I Peter 2:24We were healed.

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Seven Scriptural Ways to Healing

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my

sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the

midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find

them, and health to all their flesh. (Proverbs 4:20-22)

I. ANOINT WITH OILJames 5:14-16.

Mark 6:13"And they cast out many devils, and

anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed

them."

II. LAYING ON OF HANDSMark 16:17-18.

Mark 5:21-23Jairus believed in the laying on ofhands.

Mark 8:22-25Note: It does not say he prayed. It

says he put his hands on him.

III. GIFTS OF HEALINGSI Corinthians 12:8-11.

Keep in mind the gifts operate as the Spirit willsand not as we will. Acts 3:1-8, John 5:1-9.

IV. SPECIAL ANOINTINGSActs 19:11, 12.

Touching clothMatthew 14:34, 36.

Lady with the issue of bloodMark 5.

V. IF ANY TWO SHALL AGREE AS TOUCHING

ANYTHINGMatthew 18:19.

Anything includes healingmust be in agreement.

VI. JUST SAYING ITMark 11:23; Mark 5:25-28;

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Matthew 8:5-13.

Note: This is not praying, it is just saying.VII. WHEN YOU PRAY BELIEVE THAT YOU

RECEIVED ITMark 11:24.

This method is probably operating in the highest

kind of faith. Is Jesus a liar or does He tell the

truth? "What things" includes healing.

This I pray for you, that you may grow in the grace and theknowledge of God and that peace be multiplied to you through

God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that you might

be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and

spiritual understanding.

I pray that you remain steadfast and single minded, being

enriched in all things, spiritually, physically, financially, andsocially by Jesus Christ our Savior. May you continue to be

rooted and built up in Him and established in faith, abounding

with thanksgiving.

May God's Word work effectually in you, that you be

strengthened with mighty power by the Holy Spirit, that you

will fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work offaith with power, so the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be

glorified in you, according to the grace of our God.

As you go forth daily, I pray the Lord shall deliver you from

every evil work and preserve you unto His heavenly kingdom, to

whom be the glory forever and ever. In the majestic name of

Jesus Christ our Lord, I pray. Amen.Ronnie Trice

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