We have to forgive as we’ve been forgiven.  We have to love as we’ve been loved.  Jesus enabled us to do that, praise God, through this redemptive work.  What does it take?  It’s not some emotional experience.  It’s not some visitation.  It’s a choice to believe that Jesus taking it on Himself was sufficient.  You’re free from its power, its lordship.  All these things operate by that great virtue that we call faith, the ability to call things as God calls them.  What does the Scripture say?  “Calleth those things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).

I don’t have to be able to comprehend it.  I will say what God says about this.  And what God says is:  I’m healed.  Oh, I’m not denying that there’s not some kind of a warfare that’s taking place.  You have a broken arm and the arm’s dangling, and someone is saying, “Man, are you going to go get that broken arm looked at?”  And you say, “I don’t have a broken arm!”  “Dude, you have a broken arm!”  But you believe that by the stripes of Jesus you’re healed, praise God.  The prayer of faith is going save the sick and the Lord is going raise you up.  Doctors don’t heal you.  They’ll take you over there.  They’ll pull that thing into place.  They’ll put a cast on you, and God will heal you because God created this body to heal itself.  That’s one of the avenues God can use.  God can supernaturally move there and instantaneously snap that baby back into place; amen?  The woman with the infirmity who was walking along bent over for 18 years, oppressed of the devil, and thank God, He moved instantaneously.  She didn’t come up five degrees every year but she’d been down for 18 years and then in 18 years she was back up.  That could happen, but that’s not what we’re believing for ourselves; amen?  We’re healed by the stripes of Jesus.