3 John 2

God's will for you is health, not simply healing. Here we see that God's desire is for you to be in health. This is far better than getting sick, getting healed, getting sick again, getting healed again, and so on. Thank God, healing is available to you when you get sick, but health is available to you so that you don't have to get sick in the first place. It is not God's perfect will for you to get sick and need healing!

1 Peter 2:24

Here we see that by Jesus' stripes (the wound on his body from his flogging) you were healed. It is important to recognize this as a statement, not a promise. Peter did not say that by Jesus' stripes you were promised healing when you get sick, although that is also true by implication because of your legal standing with God. Peter puts your healing in the past tense. You were healed. If your healing is in the past tense, you have the right to walk in health at all times, because healing has already been accomplished for you as far as God is concerned.


Of course, if any among you is sick (notice the if), that person can call for the elders of the church and receive healing through the prayer of faith. But James' very use of the word if shows that sickness is abnormal for the Christian and needs to be done away with. This is because the Christian is to walk in health, not simply healing.

Psalm 91

Here we see that the pestilence is not to come near you. It is not to come nigh your dwelling. That means that the latest flu strain does not have any business being in your home. If the pestilence does not come near you, you are not going to get sick from it and then need healing. You are going to walk in health because you don't get sick first. We can see this even under the Old Covenant.

Romans 8:11


Here we see the ongoing quickening (life-giving) work of the Holy Spirit in your body. This life-giving force will keep you from getting whatever sickness is going around.

Exodus 23:25-26

God promised Israel that he would take sickness away from the midst of the people. This goes beyond a promise to heal diseases if they came (which he did elsewhere), but shows that even under the Old Covenant, it was God's will that there not be any sickness in the first place. Even if you want to interpret this as healing sicknesses when they come, it is still a health promise and can be interpreted no other way.