God’s Word is Medicine

God has medicine that works for every disease, injury, deformity, or deterioration in the human body. It also works healing in the human soul – that part of us that incorporates our mind, will, and emotions. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is comforting to know that God has made provisions for us to triumph over this disease.

Our dear Great Physician does not need a pharmacy. He has created one medicine for us, and it will accomplish a complete cure for any illness or infirmity of body or soul. It has absolutely no negative side effects. It has no expiration date. And it will never drain our finances. God’s medicine is His very own Word.

Proverbs 4:20-22  “My son, give attention to my words; incline thine heart unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they [my words] are life to those who find them and health to their whole body.”

 The word health here is also the Hebrew word for medicine. So we have a promise here that the very words spoken by God will work on our flesh like physical medicine. The truth is that the Word of God is able to heal our bodies because it is able to change our flesh.  And why not? It was that very Word that created the matter out of which our flesh is made. The first chapter of John’s Gospel tells us that the Word was with God and was God and that all things were made by Him (that Word). It then tells us that the same Word became flesh. Then the first chapter of Hebrews tell us that God originally made and continues to uphold the entire world by His Word. Then Hebrews 11:3 tells us again that the world was made by the Word of God and that “what we see was not made out of things which are visible.”

How to partake of the medicine in God’s word

Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God’s medicine – His Word. They say, “I believe in healing” without actually taking the medicine. What good would it do for you to believe in food if you didn’t eat it? You would starve. What good would it do for you to believe in water if you didn’t actually drink any? You would die of thirst.

1. The key to partaking of the life and healing energy in the Word is feeding on it until it penetrates your spirit where it deposits that life and energy.

God’s Word is a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God’s Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in your body.

Psalm 107:20 – He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Proverbs 4:22 – For they (His Words) are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. (KJV)

The Word itself contains the power to produce what it says. Just as when God said, “Let there be light” and there was light, healing Scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing.

 

2. God’s medicine must be taken according to directions to be effective.

Some medicine labels read, “Take internally”; others say, “Take externally.” To rub it on your body externally when the directions say to take it internally will not work. To take it after meals when the directions say take it before meals will reduce its effectiveness. To take it once in a while when the directions say three times a day will mean limited results, if any. No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken according to the directions or it won’t work. So it is with God’s medicine. It must be taken according to directions for it to work.

The directions for taking God’s medicine are found in:

Proverbs 4:20-23 — “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings, 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.”

This is God’s prescription for life and health

• To fill God’s prescription you must put the Word of God first place and allow it to be final authority
• There is no limit to the amount of God’s medicine that you can take.
• You cannot get an overdose — The more you take, the more it produces life and healing to you

• Attend to His Word

To attend is to give time, thought, meditation and action. It is only as God’s Words get in the midst of your heart and stay there that they produce healing in your body. Head knowledge won’t do. They are going to have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation – attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering – to produce healing in your body. But once they do penetrate, they will surely bring health to all your flesh. … let them penetrate deep within your heart. (Living Bible) You can see again that God’s way of healing is spiritual. Power is ministered first to your spirit, then distributed to your body. God’s medicine must be taken internally. Listen, instead of wondering whether you have enough faith to be healed, just take the medicine.

Joshua 1:8 — This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

Isaiah 26:3 — “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”

Your mind will be free from doubt when you keep your attention on God’s Word.

• Incline Thine Ears

Put your physical ears in position to hear the Word of Faith.

Romans 10:17 — “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

Listen to what is being said with your Spiritual Ears. The Holy Spirit will speak revelation knowledge to the ears of your spirit if you incline them to the Word of Faith.

Acts 14:7-10 — “The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.”

• Let Them Not Depart From Thine Eyes

Keep your eyes trained on the Word. Do not look at circumstances and the gravity of your symptoms.

Psalm 119:130 “The entrance of thy words giveth light.”

The light of the word will dispel darkness.

• Keep Them in the Midst of Thine Heart

The portion of God’s Word that you act on is the portion that is living in you.

Matthew 12:34 …for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

3. Be patient and persistent; It takes time for the medicine to work.

Most people give natural medicine a lot of time, patience, and money to work. They take the prescription back for refills and more refills. They are diligent about it. They don’t just take one dose and expect a miracle. Keep taking God’s medicine. Give it time to work. Take your medicine. Say these Scriptures to yourself. Think on what you’re saying in your heart. Use them in praise to the Father. His Word is medicine to all your flesh.

God’s Words Are Life and Health

Continually attending to God’s Word with your eyes, ears, and heart will cause you to live in divine health

At the first sign of a symptom take a dose of God’s Medicine

EXODUS 23:25  “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.

DEUTERONOMY 7:15  “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, . . . .

PSALM 103:2-3 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits:3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases,

ISAIAH 53:4-5  Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

MATTHEW 4:23 Now Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.

MATTHEW 8:17  that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”

MARK 16:17-18 “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;
18 “. . . they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

GALATIANS 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

JAMES 5:15 And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 PETER 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.

CONFESSION: God is speaking to me now, saying, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” He is watching over this Word to perform it. He is the Lord that healeth me. He is healing me now. This Word contains the ability to produce what it says. He is the Lord that healeth me. He is healing me now. His Word is full of healing power. I receive this Word now. I receive the healing that is in His Word now. Healing is inherent in God’s nature. God is in me. My body is the temple of God. My body is the temple of the Lord that healeth me. God is bigger than sickness and Satan. God is dwelling inside of me now, healing me now. The Lord that healeth me is my Shepherd; I do not lack healing. My body is in contact with the Lord that healeth me. My body has to respond to God’s healing life and nature at work in me now. Healing is in God, and God is in me. I thank You, Father, because You are my Healer; and You are healing me now, in Jesus’ name, AMEN.