If you look at the ministry of Jesus and the apostles you'll notice that with the spreading of the Kingdom (and sharing the Gospel) accompanying it was always healing, signs, and wonders. It confirmed that which was preached and if Jesus and the apostles needed it how much more do we?
The two coincided, when the Gospel was preached. In many verses you'll notice that every time the Gospel was preached all were healed, not only in Jesus' ministry but also too the apostles. If they, the apostles and Jesus, are to be a lesson for us to glean and learn from then how far have we come to accept sickness as God's will at the price of declaring Jesus' death to be in vain.
Imagine standing before a blind man and telling him, "It is not the Lord's will for you to be healed this day." The audacity! To place the blame on God at the cost of this man's revelation of God's love. Are you a parent? Even so, a child? Could you see yourself with the cure for the disease that plagues your child and say, "Not today'? How about, "A little longer"? This is not what Jesus, nor the apostles, did in their ministry. They healed them all, they gave no excuse. So then, what is ours?
Too often truth is merely relegated to experience, and yet that is not how the Lord set things in motion. Our experience is tarnished by our perception and mindset, even so the outcome of our lives. This is why we are called to renew our minds, so that we may walk as He intended. As I once heard, something of the sort, our lives are simply an echo of what our mouths speak from the heart. It is ripe with expectation and faith, and so it comes. Have you ever said, "I knew that was going to happen"? Indeed, but how little do you know the principle of expectation at work.
VVe must believe that Jesus paid for our healing and that healing is in association with the Gospel. It is shown in the lives of Christ, Himself, and the apostles. Hope that God may heal you is not the same as belief. I may hope all the days of my life, but in it is not faith. If only I would take hold of the heart that is in my savior and take full recognition that it beats for me. He is risen, so that I may have life! Life abundantly. He is the Lord that forgives all my iniquities and heals all my diseases, according to His word. May I believe!
That is where the rubber hits the road, to believe. To expect. To be ripe with faith. No, it is not a measure of faith but simply to believe. To the mind it seems simple, but that is at the core the Gospel. Simplicity. Faith, to stand on God's word and know that He is not a liar. He is faithful. In the same way Jesus did not deny a person their healing how is it now risen He would deny you? He gave His life for you, what is a healing in comparison?
Excuses are piling up, and doctrines made to accommodate a lack of results. VVe do not wish to offend, but do we not consider how we may end up offending God by declaring Him a liar unknowingly in our zeal to protect the tender heart of the sick? May it not be so! Lets stand on truth, heal the sick. Believe! Christ healed all, the Apostles healed all, and so too must we be capable of such results if indeed such wonders have always accompanied the spreading of the Gospel.
I do not question your faith for God to heal today, His capabilities are not in question. He can. Of course He can. He is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. He speaks and it is so. I question your and my own, belief that God will heal me today. Not can He but will He? Not a hope, but an expectation for Him to fulfill His word. I need to stop hoping, for such hope may be in vain if I do not take Him at His word. I must believe. His will is for me to be healed today. That statement I must believe in my heart of hearts. May God place such a boldness in us. Not only so that we may receive our healing, but so too that the Gospel may be confirmed as it is preached. Just believe.
