This document provides guidelines for maintaining healing from illness. It discusses maintaining a positive confession by affirming healing like the blind man healed by Jesus. It encourages rejecting negative thoughts, not regarding symptoms, exercising faith through previously impossible actions, abstaining from sin, attending church regularly, praying always, and studying the word of God. Following these guidelines will help keep divine health and resist the devil's attacks.
This document provides guidelines for maintaining healing from illness. It discusses maintaining a positive confession by affirming healing like the blind man healed by Jesus. It encourages rejecting negative thoughts, not regarding symptoms, exercising faith through previously impossible actions, abstaining from sin, attending church regularly, praying always, and studying the word of God. Following these guidelines will help keep divine health and resist the devil's attacks.
This document provides guidelines for maintaining healing from illness. It discusses maintaining a positive confession by affirming healing like the blind man healed by Jesus. It encourages rejecting negative thoughts, not regarding symptoms, exercising faith through previously impossible actions, abstaining from sin, attending church regularly, praying always, and studying the word of God. Following these guidelines will help keep divine health and resist the devil's attacks.
We are excited about it too. We desire that you not only receive healing but that you also keep it, living in divine health always. The bible says, “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). Gods desire that you not only be healed, but that you remain in health always. This book contains very vital guidelines that will help you to maintain your healing. We encourage you to go through it prayerfully and expectantly. We love you.
MAINTAIN YOUR HEALING THROUGH A POSITIVE CONFESSION
The blind man who was healed after Jesus had performed a miracle on him after washing at the pool of Siloam, when asked concerning his healing, confidently affirmed that he was healed. “The neighbor therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, this is he others said he is like him but he said I am he. Therefore said they unto him, how were thine eyes opened? He answered and said, a man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes and said unto me, go to the pool of Siloam and wash and I went and washed and I received sight” (John 9:8-11). Just like this man you have also received from God. An atmosphere of health remains with and around you as you speak Gods word concerning your health. Not only will this cause your general health to improve, but will also bring you into Gods best for you DIVINE HEALTH Remember you are not healed just because you don’t feel the pains anymore, but because the word of God declares you are healed of Christ. “….By whose stripes ye were healed” (1 peter 2:24). Confession is saying the same thing with God so declare always that the same spirit which raised up Christ from the dead dwells in you and brings life to your body. REJECT NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Thoughts are very important. “As he thinketh in his heart so is he” (proverbs 23:7). The thoughts that come to your mind and those that you dwell on after you have received your healing would determine whether or not you would keep your healing. Negative thoughts of defeat like, “you are not really healed” or “it wouldn’t last”, come from the devil. “Resist the devil and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). Reject all negative thoughts fill your mind with thoughts of life and healing. If you think defeat you would be defeated, if you think health, you would live in divine health. Choose health and live in health. DON’T REGARD SYMPTOMS When you receive a miracle in your body, it is important to know that you have become a powerful witness to the healing power of Jesus Christ. As such the devil may want to launch a counter attack against you. This is one of the reasons it is possible for a person who has been healed to ‘’feel’’ the symptoms returning. Another reason is that though you have been healed, the effects of the sickness on your body may still be there. For example, one who has been bedfast for months may still feel some discomfort after being healed of the primary disease. This does not in any way mean that he has not been healed. Whatever the case may be, there is no reason for you to panic when you ‘’feel‘’ any symptoms. What you need to do is stand your ground against the devil and he will certainly flee from you. “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). This is not the time to give your attention to any symptoms and get worried the bible says, “they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy” (Jonah 2:8). Don’t forsake your own mercy, symptoms are just lying vanities. Keep yourself in the word of God, keep confessing God’s word concerning you and the word will prevail over that condition.
KEEP EXERCISING YOUR FAITH
This means that whatever you couldn’t do before your healing, you must now start and continue to do. For example, if you could not walk before, now that you are healed keep acting your faith by walking and exercising your legs. Former symptoms may try to return, but you must reject all of that in the name of Jesus and put your faith into action. This is how to resist the devil. ABSTAIN FROM SIN Sin is a tool that the devil uses to bring people back to bondage and death. “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord” (Romans 6:23). Living in sin could bring you back to your former state and even to a worse condition. The man who has been invalid for 38 years and had been healed by Jesus was commanded emphatically to stop sinning. Jesus told him, “See you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you” (John 5:14 NIV). You have been set free from sin, “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness”. (Romans 6:18); therefore do not yield your body to sin any longer. Romans 6:12 says, ‘’Let sin not reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.’’ Do away with every sin and live for Jesus in true holiness. Shunning evil will keep you in divine health. “Be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the lord and depart from evil (proverbs 3:7). ATTEND CHURCH SERVICES REGULARLY “Not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching’’ (Hebrews 10:25). You need to be in constant fellowship with God and with other brethren now more than ever. You received your healing in the presence of God continue to be in his presence at the church meetings. Here, you can be encouraged strengthened and instructed in the word of God which you need now, more than ever. Your healing is a sure evidence a proof that the gospel is real and true get involved with the brethren in the great commission of evangelism. Tell others about Jesus and what he has done for you and you will be blessed mightily. Be in God’s presence at the meetings where you would be transformed all the more as you praise and worship him. Your healing is a stepping stone to more miracle. PRAY ALWAYS The bible instructs us to pray always, 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says, “Pray without ceasing’’. This is an essential part of developing your relationship with God, it keeps you in his word prayer creates a conducive atmosphere for exercising your faith and also maintains this atmosphere of positivity and faith. It gets you attuned to the power of God within you. Prayer is a weapon against the attack of the devil. Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;” Pray in the spirit always giving yourself to prayers just like Jesus did. STUDY THE WORD The bible says in Hosea4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children.” If you do not know that the will of God for you is to live in divine health, then the devil can keep you in sickness or even kill you with it. But as you study the word of God, your mind becomes renewed then you will begin to think like God and talk like God. “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken, we also believe and therefore speak (2 Corinthians 4:13). Get acquainted with all of Gods will for you through the word of God from the bible. Spend quality time studying Gods word so you can be adequately informed. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalm and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your heart to the lord (Colossians 3:16). The word of God is a weapon. Ephesians 6:17 says ‘’And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.’’ The word of God is a ‘’medicine’’ that will keep you always in health. “My son attend to my words incline thine ears unto my saying let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thine heart, for they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh (Proverbs 4:20- 22). Let Gods word bring health and Joy to you meditate on it continually and it will keep you in the victorious life.