In the Bible, there are numerous passages in which God promises divine healing for those who believe. There are too many to quote them all here.
While Jesus was on earth, He devoted a great deal of His time healing the sick and afflicted. This shows the tremendous desire in God’s heart to make us well.
In answer to the question whether or not it is scriptural to believe in divine healing, I have selected only two pivotal passages from the Bible to prove conclusively that it is God’s will and plan to heal. One is taken from the Old Testament and the other from the New Testament, each confirming the other.
As you read them reverently, please keep in mind the awesome sacrifice Christ had made for your healing. He took our guilty place and was punished for our sins so that we can be free from the penalty of sin. He bore our sicknesses and diseases so that we need not carry them ourselves. He rose again from the dead so that the divine healing for our total man can be effectual.
Isaiah 53:1-5 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
In simple and modern English, let me tell you what Isaiah the Prophet was prophesying some 700 years before Jesus Christ came into this world.
Here is the most wonderful message:
Who can bring himself to believe our wonderful report? Has anyone seen God’s power to believe what we are going to tell you?
Like a young plant, He shall come into this world like any ordinary person. Outwardly, there is nothing special about Him.
He is going to be despised and rejected of men – a Man of pains and acquainted with sicknesses. On the Cross, He will look so hideous because of the torments He is going to endure for us that we will turn our faces from Him. Surely, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.
It is because God has made Him paid for our sins. He was wounded and bruised for us, and with His stripes, we are healed.
That is the message of salvation, healing and deliverance.
That is God’s promise of divine healing which was given about 2,700 years ago. But the fulfillment came about 2,000 years ago when Christ walked the earth.
Matthew 8:14-17 14 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. 15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. 16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
It is impossible to read the four Gospels about Jesus without being struck by the prominence He places on divine healing. In this Matthew passage, He healed Peter’s mother-in-law of fever and then proceeded to minister healing and deliverance to many people.
Verse 17 explains that the Lord Jesus Christ did all that in order to fulfill what Isaiah the Prophet had prophesied 700 years before He came. The conclusive statement of fulfillment is captured in one sentence, “Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” That means He took upon Himself our sicknesses so that we can be free from carrying them ourselves.
It is, therefore, crystal clear that divine healing is in the atonement provided by our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ so that we can be saved from our sins and healed of our sicknesses.
There is absolutely not a shadow of doubt that there is a strong scriptural basis for divine healing. Yes, God longs to heal you so much so that He has it written in black and white. His part is to give you access to His healing power, and your part is to believe and receive.