God Heals?

If you have already decided that the answer to the title of this post is no, then read no further. This isn’t for you. If you are unsure that He does or know He does but can’t pinpoint why, read on. God heals? Yes, He does!

Is It God’s Will To Heal

The question of whether God heals can stir up many different responses, emotions, and even debates. You might have heard a range of answers: Does God heal? Will He heal me?

Questions Worth Considering

If it’s not God’s will to heal, why do so many of us seek help from doctors? Wouldn’t going to a doctor be going against God’s will if He truly didn’t want us to experience healing? I am not saying God doesn’t use doctors. Matter of fact, I beleive He can and does.

These questions often lead to a variety of responses:

• “Well, He healed in the past, but that was for a specific time or purpose.”
• “God didn’t heal everyone in the Bible, so why should He now?”
• “We all die eventually, so healing can’t always be guaranteed.”

The list could go on, but let’s pause and ask another question:

What’s Holding Us Back?

In a broken and sinful world, it’s easy to let doubts, experiences, and even well-meaning advice cloud our belief in God’s power. We’ve become so conditioned by the world’s narrative that it can overshadow what God’s Word says about healing.

Think about it:

• Have we let reports, opinions, or feelings speak louder than God’s truth?
• How often do we allow our circumstances to dictate what we believe about God’s ability to heal?

My Perspective

I’m not a Bible scholar, and I don’t claim to have all the answers. But here’s what I know: I believe in God’s Word, and I choose to trust it over my doubts.

The Bible speaks clearly about the power of faith, the danger of doubt, and the importance of standing on God’s promises. It also calls us to renew our minds—not with the world’s patterns, but with His truth.

So, why am I not always healed? I have to ask myself tough questions:

• Am I truly aligning my faith with God’s Word?
• Have I brought my needs to Him in prayer?
• Do I really know Him as my Healer, or just as my Savior?

The Ultimate Goal

My deepest desire is to know God more—and to help others do the same. Being in His presence changes everything. After all:

When we acknowledge His presence and trust in His perfect love, fear fades, and faith grows. Do I fall short? Often. But I keep pressing forward, trusting in His love and learning to walk in His truth.

Scripture on God’s Healing Power

Let’s explore what God’s Word says about His healing touch. Here are a few key passages to reflect on:

God

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

 “…I am the Lord, your healer.”

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast.

My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

…for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

About God

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord,

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He sent out his word and healed them.

Jesus

And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Jesus said, “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.”

Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.”

The Thief Steals

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.

And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.

Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other.

And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

About Jesus

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.

And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.

Regarding Us

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

While you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”

Resist The Enemy and His Lies

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.

Is anyone among you sick? 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 will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live! Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

Wisdom

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Challenge of the Week

The challenge is this. See what God can do with the faith of even a mustard seed. Whether it’s healing physically, a relationship, mentally, or otherwise, find scripture from the word of God to use as the foundation of your prayer – the foundation of what you are believing God for. Hold on to that. Don’t look to the left, or to the right. Don’t believe the reports that contradict the word of God. Walk in and with the living Word of God – Jesus Christ. So be it.

Scripture supporting the above Words from the Bible:

Isaiah 41:10, Exodus 15:26, 3 John 1:2, Jerehiah 30:7, Proverbs 4:20-22, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Malachi 4:2, Isaiah 57:18-19; 54:17, Psalm 147:3; 41:3, Mathew 10:1, Philippians 4:19, Deuteronomy 7:15, , 2 Kings 20:5, Psalm 146:8,Isaiah 53:4-5, Isaiah 19:22, Psalm 103:1-5, Psalm 107:19-20, Isaiah 58:8, Psalm 107:19-21, Mark 10:52, Luke 4:18, Matthew 10:8, Luke 10:9, John 14:27, Mark 9:23, John 10:10, Matthew 13:15, Matthew 9:1- 2, Matthew 9:35, Mark 5:34, Luke 8:50, Acts 10:38,Hebrews 13:8, Matthew 4:23, Luke 13:10-17, Luke 6:19, Matthew 14:14, Luke 13:12, 1 Peter 2:24, Luke 5:17,Matthew 12:13, Luke 9:11, Jeremiah 17:14, Jeremiah 33:6, Psalm 6:2, Psalm 30:2, Acts 4:30, Psalm 41:4, Romans 5:3-4, James 4:7, Psalm 119:50, Acts 9:34, James 5:14-16, Isaiah 38:16-17, 1 Corinthians 12:9, Luke 8:48, Matthew 17:20, Proverbs 16:24, Exodus 23:25, Proverbs 3:5-8, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 12:1-2, Proverbs 17:22 

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