Healing Was Purchased at the Cross
Many believers pray for healing while quietly wondering whether God is willing. But the question of God's willingness was answered two thousand years ago. The prophet Isaiah, describing the suffering of the Messiah, wrote:
"Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows... He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:4–5
Matthew leaves no room to spiritualize this away. Describing an evening when Jesus "healed all who were sick," he writes that it happened "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: 'He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses'" (Matthew 8:16–17). Peter puts it in the past tense: "by whose stripes you were healed" (1 Peter 2:24).
If healing was included in the same sacrifice that purchased your salvation, then the question is no longer whether God is willing — it is how to receive what has already been provided.
"Which Is Easier?" — The Question That Settles It
When four men lowered a paralytic through a roof, Jesus first said, "Son, your sins are forgiven you." When the scribes objected, He asked a question that echoes to this day:
"Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Arise, take up your bed and walk'?" Mark 2:9
Then He healed the man — to prove that the same authority stands behind both. Forgiveness and healing flow from the same Savior, the same cross, the same sacrifice. That is why receiving healing looks so much like receiving salvation: not by earning, striving, or begging, but by taking God at His Word.
Faith Comes by Hearing
Romans 10:17 says, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Nobody receives salvation before hearing the Gospel — and few receive healing before hearing what Scripture actually says about it. Faith for healing is built the same way faith for salvation is built: by hearing the Word on the subject, again and again, until it settles from mental agreement into settled conviction.
That is exactly what these teaching series are designed to do — put the scriptural case for healing in your ears until faith rises, and then show you how to position yourself to receive.
