Many people fail to receive what they pray for because of lack of understanding about confession. The word confession in the Greek language means “saying the same thing.”

This means we are to believe and say only what God says about our sins, sicknesses and everything else included in our redemption. When our affirmation is the Word of God, He watches over it to make it good.

To the religious leaders of Jesus’ day healing was easier, even acceptable. To the religious in our day, forgiveness of sin is easier and acceptable. But, by one sacrifice Jesus Christ made both forgiveness and healing available to us!

When the Word of God is released declaring salvation and healing, any individual who calls on the name of the Lord—any person who responds to His invitation, can take up their mat, their crutch, their wheel chair and walk free from sin, sickness and disease!

The fact that God ever healed anyone is the best proof that healing is provided for us today. The reality that ALL who touched Him were healed in His day paints the picture of reality for us now.

If He is the same “yesterday, today and forever,” then ALL who touch Him today shall be healed (Hebrews 13:8)!

Jesus understood that sickness found its origin in original sin, and that to forgive sin was to potentially release the body from the effects of sin.

If you have confessed Christ as your Savior, nothing can separate you from God. No sin can control you. No sickness can have authority over your life. God Himself lives in you!

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.

Psalm 23:5 tells us that God has prepared a table for us in the presence of our enemies. On that table we’ll find healing, peace, abundance—everything that we have need of. Have you pulled up to the table and partaken of what God has for you?