Jesus My Healer

Jesus is presented unmistakably as the healer whose ministry still operates by the same authority and power now as in the Gospels. Drawing from Luke 5 and the story of the paralytic lowered through the roof, the account emphasizes that hearing the word and bringing faith into contact with Jesus produces healing. The narrative highlights both Jesus’ practice of withdrawing to pray and his willingness to respond to persistent faith — not merely as an historical miracle but as a pattern for believers today. The Greek term sozo is unpacked to show that salvation is comprehensive: it saves, heals, delivers, and restores the whole person.

The teaching firmly locates sickness as an oppression of the enemy rather than a divine lesson, insisting that God’s nature is good and that no sickness originates from heaven. Because Christ’s atonement dealt with the curse, believers are positioned to claim deliverance from poverty, sickness, and death. Practical steps are given to make that inheritance operative: settle the issue of God’s will to heal; believe that healing is received at the moment of prayer; align heart and tongue with Scripture; act in correspondence with faith (doing what could not be done before); and resist the enemy’s attempts to reintroduce symptoms as a test.

This exposition balances theological truth with pastoral practicality. Confession and action are not mere emotional exercises but responsible exercises of authority established in Christ’s victory. The talk cautions against a fatalistic religiosity that attributes sickness to God’s teaching methods and instead encourages disciplined faith — a faith that confesses Scripture, moves the body into corresponding action, and refuses to be swayed by senses that contradict the word. The closing appeal invites listeners to receive healing now by faith, to stand on the promises, and to cultivate vigilance against the enemy’s counterattacks, confident that the law of the Spirit of life governs those who are in Christ.

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Key Takeaways

• 1. God intends to heal everyone Belief that healing is God’s will clears the ground for faith. If sickness is seen as a divine lesson, prayer becomes tentative; when God’s goodness is affirmed, prayer becomes expectant. This conviction reframes petition from bargaining to appropriation of the atonement’s reality. [35:08]
• 2. Sozo includes bodily healing Sozo is a gospel word that covers salvation’s full scope: saving, healing, delivering, and restoring. Reading salvation narrowly robs believers of the Scriptures’ wholeness; restoring the wider meaning recovers a biblical expectation for bodily health. The atonement’s power that forgives sin is the same power that heals the body. [15:30]
• 3. Believe you receive immediately Faith operates in the present tense; healing is often received in the moment of believing, not delayed until feelings change. Waiting for symptoms to subside before believing makes the senses the final arbiter instead of God’s Word. The discipline is to claim the right-now reality and live from that truth. [36:24]
• 4. Confession aligns heart with Word Words are not neutral: confession either fuels faith or amplifies fear. Honest, repeated confession of Scripture reorders inner logic and trains the will to trust God’s promises over symptoms. This is spiritual formation—choosing speech that scaffolds lasting belief. [41:06]
• 5. Stand firm against symptom attacks Symptoms that return after prayer are often a test of whether faith will trust the Word or retreat to sensation. Resistance is not passive endurance but authoritative rebuke: command the lie and reassert the promise. Maintaining healing requires vigilance and quick spiritual response. [48:44]

Youtube Chapters

• [00:00] - Welcome
• [00:42] - Luke 5 & Key Scripture
• [01:20] - Hear and Be Healed
• [02:14] - Jesus' Prayerful Example
• [03:52] - Paralytic Lowered & Faith
• [05:23] - Authority to Forgive and Heal
• [07:20] - Spiritual Solutions for Problems
• [09:56] - Jesus Still Heals Today
• [12:17] - Redeemed From Poverty, Sickness, Death
• [15:30] - Sozo: Salvation Includes Healing
• [16:37] - Five Steps to Receive Healing
• [35:08] - Step 1 & 2: Will & Receiving
• [41:06] - Steps 3–5: Confession, Action, Resistance
• [50:58] - Invitation, Prayer, Closing

Bible reading: Luke 5:17-26 (ESV)
On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.” And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”

Observation questions

1. What two things did the friends of the paralyzed man have to do to get him to Jesus, and what was Jesus’s response when He saw their actions?
2. What was the first thing Jesus declared to the paralyzed man, and how did the religious leaders react to this statement?
3. What reason did Jesus give for then telling the man to “rise and walk”?
4. What was the immediate, physical result of Jesus’s command, and what was the man’s immediate response after he was healed?

Interpretation questions

1. Jesus directly connected His authority to forgive sins with His authority to heal the body. What does this connection reveal about the comprehensive nature of the salvation He offers?
2. The religious leaders questioned Jesus’s authority in their hearts. Why is an internal attitude of skepticism or unbelief such a significant barrier to receiving from God?
3. The man was healed “immediately” but still had to physically obey the command to rise, pick up his bed, and walk. What does this tell us about the relationship between God’s power and our responsive action?
4. The man’s healing led him to glorify God, and the crowd’s amazement also led them to glorify God. How does divine healing ultimately serve a purpose greater than just our personal comfort?

Application questions

1. Faith begins where the will of God is known [35:08]. How would your prayers for healing change if you were completely settled, without any doubt, that it is always God’s will to heal?
2. Believing you receive when you pray is a right-now factor [36:24]. Do you tend to wait to *feel* healed before you *believe* you are healed? What would it look like this week to thank God for your healing the moment you pray, before any change is felt or seen?
3. Your words give flight to your faith or weight to your fears [41:21]. What is one specific symptom or diagnosis you are facing that you need to stop describing and start speaking to, using the truth of God’s Word?
4. Faith without works or actions is dead [42:49]. Is there something you’ve been unable to do because of a physical limitation? What is one small, corresponding action you can take this week as an act of faith, doing what you couldn’t do before?
5. The enemy may try to bring symptoms back to see if you really believe the word [48:44]. What will be your specific, go-to response from Scripture the next time a symptom tries to return, to resist the lie and stand your ground?
6. The Greek word *sozo* means to save, heal, deliver, and restore [15:30]. How does understanding that Jesus’s salvation is this comprehensive change your expectation of what He wants to do in your life, beyond just forgiving your sins?