preachalways!
Discussions about Healing index
You have authority over your body

Awesome Christian Sites

Click Here for God's Counter

 


God does not refer to your body as you, even though most people consider a person and his body to be the same. God refers to your body as "your body" instead of "you." You should always make the distinction in your mind. Rather than thinking, "I am sick," you should think "My body is sick." (Yes, I know that you were healed by the stripes of Jesus, but I am making a point.)

I have had wonderful things happen in services where I was standing for my own healing while I ministered! My condition didn't affect the anointing at all. You know why? The anointing comes out of your spirit, not out of your body. Remember, Jesus said that rivers of living water would flow out of your belly (speaking of your spirit). I was not sick! My body was sick. That is why you can minister healing even when you feel rotten yourself!


You can control your body! Your words can determine whether you get well or get sick, and whether you live or die. Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). James 3:2-6 shows that your tongue can either "set the course of nature on fire" in your body or "bridle your whole body." Like a rudder or a bit in a horse's mouth, your tongue can control your body. You can get into sin and pay a price in your body, or speak wholesome words and reap health in your body.

You are not a helpless slave of your body. Paul said in 1 Cor 9:27, "But I keep my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." Paul is talking about mortifying the deeds of the body, but the point I want to make is that your body is subject to you -- the real you, or your spirit. Paul didn't say that he kept himself under subjection. He said that he kept his body under subjection. Paul understood that his body was not the real him. You are a steward over the unique body that God has given you, but your body is not the real you. The real you will live forever. Your mortal body will rot in the ground.


Romans 6:12 says, "Let not sin reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." It doesn't say not to let sin reign in you. The real you is a spirit being who has been born again, recreated in God's image in righteousness and true holiness. There's an interesting side note here that might bless you and might make you mad, since it cuts across the grain of modern theology. You do not have an old man and a new man both living in one body! The old man is dead, all things have become new, and you are a new man in Christ. The Christian struggles not with an old dead spiritual nature (which is gone), but with the mortal body, which is led by the senses and what "seems" right, and with the mind insofar as it is unrenewed with the Word of God. That is why Paul said not to let sin reign in your body. Again, there is a distinction between you and your body. You are not to let sin reign in your body. Your body is what is referred to as "the flesh," not an old sin nature that is gone now. If you follow your body, you will indeed get in trouble. That is why you have to keep your body under subjection, as Paul did.


In 1 Cor 6:18, the sexual sinner sins against his own body (not "himself"). In 1 Cor 13:3, Paul talked about giving his body (not "himself") to be burned. In Romans 12:1, Paul beseeches you to present your body as a living sacrifice to God. There are many, many other places where Paul referred to his body as "his body," not "himself." Your body is not you! You can't get sick! Only your body gets sick! And you, the real you, have authority over your body. So use your tongue correctly to speak the Word of God about your body. Speak that you were healed by the stripes of Jesus. Speak life, not death. Your body will respond.

| | | | | | |