Our Journey of Faith for Healing

There are different types of healing. In fact the word salvation, in the original language, means to be saved, healed, delivered, made whole, total soundness of being. I have experienced mental and emotional healing and even physical healing, but sometimes it is definitely a journey.

My husband began having symptoms of frequent urination and then being unable to urinate back in January. We didn’t know that these could be symptoms of an enlarged prostate or prostate cancer. He also has had pain in his hips, back, etc. After several trips to Urgent Care, the Doctor’s office, four trips to the ER, dealing with a catheter being put in and then taken out twice and then getting an MRI, the Urologist believes that my husband has prostate cancer, based on his PSA number (which is extremely high) and the exam that he did. We have to go back to him in a couple of weeks to find out the results of the MRI, but in the meantime, we have taken a multi-pronged approach. My husband has drastically changed his diet and we are doing everything in the natural that we know to do. Also, we went to church a couple of weeks ago and had the Pastor and elders of the church pray for my husband and anoint him with oil. A day or two later I felt the presence of the Lord as I thought about the scripture in James, chapter five, that says:

Is anyone among you sick? Let them call for the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. James 5:14-15 NIV

Other scriptures we claim and speak out loud are Isaiah 53:5, and 1st Peter 2:24 that says: “by His wounds (or stripes) you have been healed.” And Psalm 103:3, that says God “forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.”

It’s wonderful when someone gets a miracle or an instant healing, but often it comes gradually, as we follow the Lord and continue to praise Him and claim His promises in spite of how we feel or how things look in the natural.

We have also listened to some very encouraging testimonies of healing. One of the things that stood out to me from a few different testimonies we heard is that some people had to be healed mentally and emotionally from a “works mentality,” feeling like they had to earn the healing or be good enough to receive healing from the Lord before they were actually healed. One man said that when he stopped rebuking, commanding, and focusing on getting healed and just turned his attention on his relationship with the Lord and His unconditional love for him, that’s when the turn around came. Some had been sick for a number of years and seemed to only get worse until they made this change.

I think what we all need to realize is the way you get saved is the same way you get healed; you accept it as a free gift, not as something that has to be earned, but something that Jesus has already paid the price for and has made available to us and we accept and receive it by faith, regardless of how things look in the natural.

Ephesians 2:8-9 says: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” (NKJV). Also, Romans 10:9 says that “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” So, we believe in our heart and confess with our mouths that we are healed by the stripes of Jesus and we enter into God’s rest and the finished work of the cross.

I heard someone once say that faith doesn’t tell time. So again, we don’t go by what we see in the natural or how long it takes, but only by what God’s word says and we have gradually began to see things turn around, praise the Lord. God bless you all on your faith journey.

In Christ ~ Kelly Rowe