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1 Peter 2:24 is not a healing promise. In fact, it is not any kind of promise. God does not promise you anything in this verse. There is only the statement that Jesus did something for you. God did not say that he would heal you. He said that you were already healed by Jesus' stripes. That's how God sees it. Once you and God agree on this matter, you can receive what's yours.

This verse does not promise salvation from sin, either. It simply tells what Jesus did for you. It is up to you to act on it.

People make a mistake when they cite this verse as God's promise to heal them. A promise to heal you would put your healing off into the future. This verse puts it in the past tense. It says that Jesus already healed you. If you are "believing that God will heal you," you are not in agreement with God at all. You are saying he will and he is saying he did. Can you see the difference?


The obvious question is, if you are healed, why are you experiencing pain in your body? This is probably the #1 misunderstanding that people have. As usual, it helps to draw a parallel with the spiritual side of salvation.

We know from many Scriptures that Jesus bore the sin of the whole world on the cross. He was punished in our place, thus purchasing complete forgiveness for us. The Scriptures say that he atoned not only for our sins, but the sins of the whole world (
1 John 2:2). Yet not everyone is saved. That is because only some have received the forgiveness that is already theirs in Christ. Those who do not receive this forgiveness do not benefit from it. When a sinner receives forgiveness, Jesus does nothing new. The sinner simply acts on the facts and receives what Jesus already made available.


No sinner would ever get saved by standing around saying, "God promised to save me in John 3:16!" It is not enough that the price was paid and the provision was made. The sinner is only saved when he receives something that already belongs to him as far as God is concerned. Salvation from sin does indeed belong to everyone, but only those who receive it get it.

Likewise, healing belongs to everyone. It is part of the same atonement. But only those who receive it get it. You can't even just believe that Jesus made it available to you. You have to receive it. Until you do, you experience pain in your body even though God considers you healed by the stripes of Jesus.


What Peter didn't say

Peter did not say that you are not sick. He did not say that your sickness must be a figment of your imagination because you are really healed. To think that is incorrect and dangerous; you could die denying the symptoms in your body. The statement, "You were healed" does not mean that you cannot get sick. Epaphroditus and Timothy were sick, and Paul did not spiritualize this. Peter's statement must be understood to say that you are legally healed by the stripes of Jesus, just as you were legally saved even before you were born again. In other words, healing belongs to you as a Christian. It is part of your inheritance in Christ. Sickness may manifest in your body, but you have a right to make it leave.



Don't beg for what's already yours

Do you go in every payday and grovel before your boss to get your paycheck? Of course not. You simply receive something that rightfully belongs to you. When something rightfully belongs to you, you do not beg for it.

When you go to the bank, do you beg the teller (or the ATM machine) to give you money from your account? Of course not! That money rightfully belongs to you.

That is why it is unproductive and useless to beg God for your healing. Don't beg and plead for something that is already yours. Instead, receive healing from God just as you would withdraw money from your bank account. God has already deposited your healing into your heavenly bank account. You have a legal right to withdraw it at any time.


In God's mind, you are already healed by the stripes of Jesus. Nothing can possibly change this fact. You never have to worry whether or not healing is yours, because it has been settled once and for all.


Your healing already exists!

Don't treat your healing as something that you want God to manufacture in heaven and give you. Your healing already exists! It is waiting for you to take it. God already laid it up for you. Remember that faith is the assurance of something that is unseen. If your healing did not exist, you could not be in faith about it, because there would be nothing there to get. There would be no unseen thing to have an assurance of!

You are not creating anything with your prayers. You are receiving something. Jesus said to believe that you receive when you pray, not to believe that you create when you pray. When you receive healing, you are taking something that already exists that God is offering to you. He does not have to whip up a new healing for you in heaven.


One of most awesome statements in the Bible is that God has given to you all things that pertain to life and godliness (see 2 Peter 1:3-4). This would certainly include healing. In other words, your needs have already been supplied in Christ. When you believe for a need to be met, you are simply making a withdrawal from heaven of something that has already been laid up for you. Full provision for everything that you need is already in storage waiting for you to claim it.

People sometimes get mad when you talk about claiming things, but that really is what you're doing! When I travel, I have a claim check that enables me to claim something that is already mine when I get to where I'm going. No one fusses with me for claiming my luggage -- it's mine. No one should ever fuss at you for claiming your healing or anything else that pertains to life and godliness -- it's yours! People talk as if you're going to cause a heavenly power drain by making a demand on heaven's resources, but you can't possibly do that. Everything that everyone needs has already been laid up in Christ! Everyone could claim everything at once and it wouldn't put a dent in God's unlimited power.


When I claim my luggage, I don't try to make it exist. I know it exists; I just want to pick up what's mine. When you claim your healing, you aren't manufacturing anything new, and neither is God. You are just picking up what is already yours.