I remember traveling on a train across Russia. Laying in my bed tremendous symptoms began to attack my body. I knew this was not the place to get ill, and I had many hours to travel on this train. I opened my bible to Isaiah 53:1, “Who has believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”

Suddenly it dawned on me, did I understand what Christ had done for me? Could I believe in the midst of this dark, cold, dreary Siberian landscape that two thousand years ago this Jesus was wounded for me? As I laid there I considered the tremendous price paid for me, and realized that I had ignorantly overlooked Isaiah’s report.

My bible slipped from my hand and I started to fall asleep. At that moment I remember the strength of God infusing my soul and I KNEW that I was healed. The next morning every ache, chill and pain had vanished from my body. Total healing had returned by no power of my own, but by simply believing the report!

Today the blood of Christ speaks from the mercy seat as loudly as it did two thousand years ago, crying out for healing for anyone who will believe.

Religion has complicated the subject of healing, yet the bible offers substantial proof that Christ’s one sacrifice covers all of our needs, both physical and spiritual.

Every time you face the laboratory of the five senses of your flesh declaring to you you’re not healed, or that the symptoms have returned and you’ve lost your healing, I encourage you to do this—present yourself as a living sacrifice. See yourself again today crucified with Christ, and alive in newness of life!

When you declare in the face of your pain, and in the face of the seen evidence that you are healed, holding fast to your confession of faith, God makes it good. God always stands by those who stand by His Word.

In every situation of sickness and disease, we have three witnesses. One of those witnesses is what your senses are telling you about the symptoms you’re experiencing.

The second witnesses is the Word of God. The truth, if you will, that God speaks about your situation.

The pain declares that the sickness and diseases are not healed, the symptoms are still present and that the Word of God is not true.

The third witness that we have is the sick person. And that sick one has the opportunity to place his or her testimony alongside the Word of God and refuse to take the testimony of the pain or the symptoms—declaring that “by the stripes of Jesus, I AM HEALED!”

You can begin your healing road to recovery by acknowledging the work that was done for you on the cross, and turning away and resisting the realities of those symptoms of the sicknesses that are before you.

See your body on that cross with Him, saying, “Jesus I thank you that my sickness is upon You on that cross.” Then see yourself coming down from that cross with a new body, whole and set free!

We are not denying the reality that you may have sickness and disease currently still in manifestation in your body. What we are acknowledging is that at the moment that you prayed something else began to happen in the continuum of time. Healing began to operate!

The Word of God is the truth, the Word is our standard—there is a big difference between the natural facts and the reality that God’s Word is the final truth on the situation!

My confession is an expression of what I am believing in my heart. The Bible tells us in Matthew 12:34 that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” In other words, whatever is in you in abundance is going to come out!