First Peter 2:24 tells us, “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” This verse lets us know when healing was purchased and paid for and made ours – when the stripes were laid on Him. That happened long before we were born; healing was purchased for us long before we were born. 

     Although healing was purchased for mankind long ago, we moved into all He purchased for us at the new birth – including healing.

     Ephesians 1:3 reads, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” Healing and health has been made ours – it’s one of the blessings we have already been blessed with.

     When we were born again, we were made new creatures in Christ – that’s what He made us to be at the new birth. And as children of God, He has given us a divine inheritance which contains righteousness, health, prosperity, victory, peace, etc. All these are what we were BORN INTO at the new birth. We don’t have to “try to become” these – it’s what we were born into.

     When I was born into the earth, I was born a female – I didn’t have to TRY to become that. Likewise, at my new birth, I was born into victory, health, prosperity, and every flow of Heaven. I don’t have to TRY to become those things – I was born into them.

“You may feel symptoms in your body – that’s a fact – but that’s not truth. Facts change, but truths are unchanging.”

     We are the healed because of what Jesus did for us! The Word tells us that, so that’s what we are to believe – regardless of what we may or may not feel! If we believe anything different, we’re off the Word.

     You may feel symptoms in your body – that’s a fact – but that’s not truth. Facts change, but truths are unchanging. Truth trumps facts. The truth believed will change the facts. Believing and speaking that you are the healed, regardless of what you feel, will change what you are feeling in your body. 

     The deception of the enemy is to try to deceive you into thinking that you have to TRY TO GET healing. You are not the sick trying to GET healed – you are the HEALED, and sickness tries to steal your healing from you. It’s so easy and natural to slip back into natural thinking – walking by what you feel and see. Symptoms don’t change what has been made ours. The devil wants to make you think that you have to GET something – he doesn’t want you to know that it’s ALREADY yours. 

     Someone may say, “Well, if I’m healed, why don’t I FEEL healed?” Because they’re carnal. “Carnal” means body-ruled. They are being led by the five physical senses (what they can feel and see) of their bodies instead of believing what the Word said – that your healing was paid for when the stripes were laid on Jesus. If I doubt that I’m healed because of what I’m feeling, then I’m carnal. If we believe anything else more than we believe what God says, we are carnal – we are being dominated by the five physical senses of the body.

     Romans 8:6 & 7 tells us, “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”

     Romans 8:4 (AMPC) reads, “So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh (dominated by the five physical senses), but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh (the five physical senses), but controlled by the Holy Spirit].”     What God has for us is fulfilled as we walk dominated by our spirit and not dominated and governed by the 5 physical senses of the flesh.

     Verse 8 (AMPC) tells us, “So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.”

     “Living the life of the flesh” is being carnal – body-ruled – believing the body more than believing God’s Word. Body-ruled people are not in faith, so they can’t receive from God – and God isn’t pleased when we don’t receive because He wants us to receive what we need from Him. 

     Faith is in our spirit – not in our mind or the feelings of the flesh. You don’t have faith because you FEEL like you have faith. Feelings have nothing to do with it. 

     Verse 12 (AMPC) reads, “So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.”

     Carnal people are ruled by their flesh – they only believe what their flesh tells them – but as faith people, we believe what God’s Word tells us – regardless of what we feel. If we live just based on what we feel of the flesh, that will rob us of all that God provided for us.

     It needs to dawn on our spirit what Jesus has already made ours. When our minds are renewed to what God has already made ours in Christ, we quit opening the door to the devil through wrong thinking. 

     Paul prayed that the believers would grasp with their spirits what belongs to them in Christ: “Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding (spirit) being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe…” (Ephesians 1:16-19). Paul prayed that they would know who they are, what they have, and what they can do because they are in Christ.

     Then someone may say, “Well, if healing already belongs to me, then why don’t I have it in my body?” What belongs to you has to be received – it doesn’t fall on you automatically – faith has to lay hold of what has been made yours.

     We are not healed because we feel healed – we are the healed for one reason – because Jesus purchased it for us and made it ours! Faith in God and His Word says, “I’m healed because His Word says so – regardless of whether I feel like it or not.” When pain or symptoms come, we are to say, “I’m healed because Jesus purchased it for me – regardless of what I feel! I already have my healing, and I refuse to allow it to be stolen from me!”