Article November 9, 1992 Issue

Saying "No!" to sickness

When we see our place in God's purpose for His creation, we find great authority to be well—to be whole.

Joe Eller

Rejecting sickness through spiritual means alone? It is possible. In fact, It's an effective practice flowing from the Bible and is fundamental to Christianity.

Christ Jesus illustrated in great depth that the authoritative rejection of sickness heals. In his healing ministry, symptoms of disease—regardless of the severity or history involved—disappeared at once when he voiced God's Word. Luke's Gospel tells of "a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself." Jesus said, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity." Then we're told that "immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."

Doesn't it seem clear from Jesus' record that healings like this were not due to sudden bursts of emotion or to human willpower? Christ Jesus could and did reject sickness immediately, and this resulted in permanent healing; but it was Jesus' deep spiritual sense of God's nearness and love that brought power to the rejection.

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