The Scripture is absolutely plain, “I am the Lord your healer.”  “He sent his word, and healed them” (Psalm 107:20); amen?  That’s not only His Word, the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, but it's His Word written as He reveals it to us through the Holy Spirit.  When the Holy Ghost comes up and a rhema manifests itself in a specific Scripture for this particular moment, it causes faith to manifest itself, then we’re healed.  The prayer is answered.  If it doesn’t manifest, I go away declaring the goodness of God and that it will be answered.  Like a good Baptist—they’re not all wrong—if it doesn’t manifest in this lifetime, we will have a new body in the next life; amen?  There’ll be no sickness and no sorrow and no pain and no tears, hallelujah!  You cannot stand, rest, and boast on the Word of God and His promises and not have all things work for your good, hallelujah!

We see all these great Old Testament promises.  Now remember, what are all these manifestations?  What is this all talking about?  These are all things that are types of the soon-coming Jesus.  These are types.  These are shadows of the Healer, Jehovah Rapha.  “I am the Lord that heals you.”  It’s His nature.  He did visit them, but He did not at that time dwell in them.  He said, “There’s a day coming when I, your Healer, will actually dwell within you,” praise God!

Did you know there’s a difference between a promise and a covenant?  A promise is something that one person makes to another person.  A covenant is what two people come together and agree upon.  Many of us are falling short in that covenant understanding.  We have all these promises of God, but we have not yet come to the place where we really agree with those promises and have become one with those promises and become the participant in that covenant, because we don’t have sufficient faith or belief that the redemption is there and manifests itself for our physical man, just as it does for our spiritual man.  I’ve taken years, now, trying to help us come to the place where we are more able to believe God for our justification than when we were before.

How many of you have been growing constantly, here now for these years, in your rest in the justification of God?  Amen?  We need that same thing for healing.  Don’t get discouraged.  Don’t judge yourself any more than when we did in that other realm, but we need that same process to happen as it pertains to this part of our redemption.  We’ve fallen behind.  We’re not grasping the full revelation of what that redemption did for us.

Beloved, I’ve taught for hours, here, on the substitutionary work of Jesus for our redemption.  The substitutionary work of Jesus is so clearly defined in Isaiah 53.  He was made sin with our sin that we might be made righteous with His righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21); amen?  How many of you believe that now?  We’re believing it more all the time; right?  Let me tell you something, you can’t say it any clearer than Isaiah 53:  He was made sick with your sickness.  Isn’t that what it says?  “With His stripes,” He was made sick.  He experienced infirmity (Isaiah 53:5).  Hey, even psychologically, He experienced rejection, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me” (Matthew 27:46), that we might have peace of mind and rest.  We’re healed emotionally.  All those tragedies you’ve been through, you don’t have to carry that stuff around.  Jesus bore that for you.  If we don’t let Him heal us of those things, then we’re going to be in those places where Satan can take advantage of us for bitterness and unforgiveness and hatred and all these things.