Guess what? God never told you to understand healing. Guess what else? You don't have to understand healing to get healed!

You need to renew your mind with God's promises and statements regarding healing. But you are not commanded to understand everything about healing! Jesus commands you to believe the gospel, not understand the gospel mentally.

Do you understand how the Trinity can be three persons and yet be one? That doesn't stop you from believing in the Trinity, does it? Do you understand how Jesus could have borne your sins in his own body on the cross? That doesn't stop you from believing that he did, does it? Do you understand how God can hear and answer prayers for millions of people simultaneously, and all the while treat you as if you were the only one praying and you had his undivided attention? That doesn't stop you from believing that he does, does it?


Do you understand how God in his fullness can actually live inside you? That doesn't stop you from believing that he does, does it? Do you understand how God can make your old nature cease to exist when you get born again and give you a brand new nature? That doesn't stop you from believing that he does, does it? Do you understand how God always existed before time or the universe that we know, and that no one made God? That doesn't stop you from believing that he has eternally existed, does it?

Oh, but now that we're talking about healing, do you suppose you have to understand it to get it? You believe and walk in the light of these other things without understanding them, right? Why not believe in and walk in the light of your healing without understanding it?

Jesus said that you believe with your heart. Trying to understand healing is trying to believe with your mind. Yes, you should renew your mind, but you don't believe with your head -- you believe with your heart! And you can believe in your heart even when your head does not understand it. We have just proved that. Faith arises in your heart when you hear the Word of God.


If you've received the Holy Spirit, you can pray in other tongues. Unless God gives you the interpretation, you have no idea what you're saying. You can pray very effective prayers out of your spirit without your mind understanding anything. This is clear, because Paul said that he would pray with the spirit and with the understanding, and that his understanding was unfruitful when his spirit prayed in an unknown tongue (1 Cor 14:14-15). So your spirit can know things that your mind does not grasp, and you can still get results anyway!

Why should you believe that you are healed by the stripes of Jesus? Because God says so! Why should you believe that God heals all your diseases? Because God says so! Why should you believe that surely Jesus has borne your sicknesses and diseases? Because God says so! Why should you believe that your body as well as your spirit was bought with the price that Christ paid? Because God says so!


Stop trying to believe the Bible! Trying to believe is a mental struggle that is nowhere encouraged in Scripture. Jesus did not tell you to "try to believe" the gospel! Quit trying and start doing it. You can!

Here is something that should help you a lot. Your receiving is based on your actions, not on your understanding. God tells you to "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5). This does not mean that you leave your brains at the altar when you get born again. God did not say to throw out your understanding or even to ignore your understanding. (You'll need your understanding to drive to work.) God just doesn't want you to trust in your understanding instead of in him. If you know what God says and you don't understand it yet, you are commanded to act on what he says instead of what your understanding says.


The key is to act based on the Word of God instead of based on your understanding when there is a conflict. Your understanding says, "I don't know why I can't get healed." God says, "By Jesus' stripes, you were healed." Act on your understanding and you will say, "I guess I'm going to have to tough out this cold." Act on God's Word and you will say, "I may not feel like it, but God says that I am healed. Sickness does not belong to me; healing does. Thank you, Father, that I am healed and not sick! Thank you, Jesus for taking my sicknesses away so that I don't have to bear this one! Thank you that I have healing for my body, and the devil can't keep it away because I already have it!"

You aren't going to feel like acting on God's Word most of the time. You might as well settle that now. Your flesh is going to fight you. The less renewed your mind is, the more your mind will fight you. It is a question of obedience and reverence for God's Word. Your feelings do not matter. You must act on God's Word whether you feel like doing so or not, and whether it feels like it is true or not. The fact that God said it is sufficient.


So in summary: Stop trying to believe, and start acting on God's Word instead of leaning on your own understanding!