Acts 10:38

If you study out this verse in the Greek, you will find that the word oppressed means under the power of. (At least one popular translation words it this way.) Jesus healed those who were under the power of the devil. If there is sickness in your body, the power of the devil is at work in your body. This does not mean that there is a moral failure on your part. It simply means that when there is sickness, the devil is in control of something. Sickness is his power, not God's.

According to Colossians 1:12-14, Jesus has already delivered you from the power of darkness. This is not a promise; it is a fact. You are already delivered from the power of the devil because you are now in the kingdom of God's Son. Since sickness is part of the power of the devil, you are therefore delivered from sickness. You could tell that from 1 Peter 2:24 and Matthew 8:16-17; this is just another way of proving it.


Jesus gave his disciples power over all devils and all sicknesses (Luke 9:1-2). You cannot object that you are not called to preach as they were, because the Great Commission applies to you as a believer. This commission includes the laying of hands on the sick for their recovery. You have power over the power of the devil. Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4)! You have already overcome him (1 John 2:13-14). It follows, then, that you do not have to put up with the power of the devil in your physical body. You have overcome him and have power over his works. The Son of God, who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), lives in you. Since Jesus, and not Satan, rules your life, you get the things that go with Jesus (healing) instead of the things that go with Satan (sickness).


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Who or what causes sickness?