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Proverbs 4:20-22

In these verses, God tells you how to have health in all your flesh. You must reverence and listen to what his Word tells you. You must attend to his words, not just dabble in them. Then those words become health (the Hebrew word can also be translated medicine or cure) to you. Not just part of you, but "all your flesh," including whatever part is sick.

You cannot approach the Bible with a cavalier attitude. You must reverence God's words as you would reverence God himself, since the Bible is a personal message to you from God. You must consider what he says carefully and spend time reflecting on it. God's promises must be planted in your heart so that they can produce a harvest. (See the parable of the sower in Mark 4.) If you don't plant and water seed, you don't get a harvest, no matter how much "confessing" you do for it. This is the primary reason that so few Christians get any lasting results from hearing good Bible sermons.


If you are constantly reflecting on your situation instead of the Word, you are planting seed for a harvest of failure instead of a harvest of healing. No matter how bad your symptoms are, keep the Word before your eyes and deem it more powerful than whatever you are facing.

Observe that all of God's Word is medicine, not just "Healing Scriptures." Just as you cannot read only "Prosperity Scriptures" to prosper (you must observe "all the law" (Joshua 1:7), not just part of it), you cannot read only "Healing Scriptures" all the time. In some cases, the very thing that is stopping your healing, such as unforgiveness, might be treated in a Scripture other than a "Healing Scripture," and if you read only "Healing Scriptures," you will never get healed! (Yes, you should read things other than this book!)


If you were given a prescription for your illness, you would not get healed unless you took it regularly according to the directions. God says to keep the Word before you day and night, muttering and meditating upon it. The Word needs to have the kind of place in your life that it did in the life of the author of Psalm 119. (For space reasons, I have not included Psalm 119 here!) If you do not exercise this constant attention to God's Word, you are not taking the medicine according to the instructions. You cannot blame God if it does not work the way you think it should.

Few people are willing to pay this kind of price to store God's Word in their hearts, and that is a major reason why so few are healed through faith. You won't get mountain-moving faith watching TV and entertaining your flesh all the time. If you want to really know and walk in God's Word concerning healing (or anything else), it will cost you something in study time. If you want a quick drive-thru solution to your sickness, you will not find it here. God's Word is not a magic wand that you just wave, but if you will take the time to meditate on it and then act on what you know, it will work for you.

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