Daily Archives: May 1, 2020

Does seeking to live a healthy lifestyle show God that I don’t trust him to heal?
A: Not generally, but that is somewhat of a personal question based on the motives of the heart. As Christians, we should see ourselves as stewards of the bodies God has given us. This would necessitate a healthy lifestyle.
Consider finances. God provides all that we have. We are meant to trust Him for the provision of our daily bread. That said, you would not think it godly to squander all your funds every day on consumer pleasures because God has promised to provide for you.
Or consider your personal holiness. God has saved you and forgiven all your sins by the blood of Jesus Christ. It is not your good behaviour that will get you to heaven; rather, it is the righteousness of Christ imputed to you. But Paul makes it clear that it does not give license to sin all you want (Ro 6:1).
In the same way, just because God heals the body, or even that he will give you a new one in heaven, it doesn’t mean that it would honour him to abuse your body now. So, it is right to live a healthy lifestyle for his glory and for the health and energy to serve him in whatever ways he has called you to.
That said, some are obsessed with what they can do. There are myriad weird diets and lifestyles that become almost a religion for those that practice them. Check your heart on this. Do you trust God as you seek this lifestyle? Or do you trust in the lifestyle?
 

Can God use a non-believing doctor to heal me?
A: Yes. God is so powerful that he uses atheists and people of other religions every minute of every day to accomplish his purposes. Those being used don’t know that they are agents of God’s special grace, but that doesn’t stop God.
It is really nice when you can find a medical professional who is a believer and who prays but don’t fret if you cannot. Some have chosen less-skilled doctors on the basis that they are Christians. This is a personal preference, but I don’t think it is necessary to do that. God is sovereign and in control of all and can use anyone for his purposes. A non-believing doctor can have God’s blessing because of the prayers of believers for him or her in your situation.
Whether you are being treated by a Christian or a non-Christian doctor, a Christian should always pray first, during, and after treatment for miraculous healing and never give up on the reality that God may yet heal miraculously. I believe God has an especially good time waiting until someone is in treatment to come through and heal them because he likes to show hardened medical professionals that he is the greatest physician that there is. 

PRAYER FOR COMFORT, HOPE AND PROTECTION
By Selva Sugunendran

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land” 2 Chronicles 7: 14.

• Dear Father, I thank You for Your Word that has gone forth concerning us and our health. You sent Your Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. I stretch forth my hands and proclaim healing for those plagued by this deadly pandemic. I declare them healed! I declare that the virus ease from spreading any further, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

• I declare that I and my household are preserved. We are shielded in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Your Word says “Though a thousand fall at our side and ten thousand at our right hand, the pestilence will not reach us”. I declare that no member of my family shall be plagued by this pandemic. And if anyone has already contacted it, I declare that person healed and cleanse in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• I declare that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Therefore I am indestructible, impenetrable and insusceptible to Covid 19 or any other virus or disease.

Lord, You said in Your Word that You wish above all things that I prosper and remain in health even as my soul prospers. I declare that I prosper in my health, in Jesus’ Name.

I have eternal life in me and one of the several benefits of eternal life in divine health. Therefore, I refuse to entertain any fear of contacting Covid 19 or dying because I have eternal life in me. I cannot be infected, I cannot die. I cannot go under. I am sustained by the power of the Holy Ghost, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

• Father God, I thank You because the Spirit that raised up Christ from the dead vitalizes my physical body. I declare that just the same way it gave life to the Body of Christ, it gives my mortal body life. It removes every trace of sicknesses, diseases, infirmity or death from my body.

In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I declare that the Lord Jesus Christ lives in me. There is nothing of the devil that can affect me because I bear the Mark of Christ in me. I am born of God and I am far above principalities and powers of darkness. I declare that I am alive.
Praise God forevermore! Amen