DAY 13: There’s Power in the Name of Jesus: Healing

The name “Jesus” is not a magic word given to Christians as a means of bringing trivial or ungodly matters to fruition. We do not call on his name in order to entertain or exploit. When we use His name in power and miracles happen, He is glorified, not us. Christians are instructed to call on Jesus’ name for protection, comfort, and in order to serve others. They had started out by praying in faith for the healing of this man—but their eyes were on the man and his condition the whole time. When they changed their focus and fixed all their attention on the Name of Jesus, their faith took hold of the power that is in His Name.

There are Christians around us, too, who are hobbling around. They are getting around spiritually, but they are somewhat crippled as well. Before regeneration we may have been somewhat conscious of our need for spiritual healing, but in no way anticipating that anything could be done about it, and ignorant of the fact that there is a cure.When you use the Name of Jesus, Satan backs off. He has no choice.

The only thing he can do is try to deceive you into believing something other than what the Word says. So, when you start believing for your healing or divine health, don’t allow him to get a foothold. The Bible tells us to give him no place. Instead, learn to be bold. “Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel to return, and will rebuild those places as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me” Jeremiah 33:6–8 (NKJV).

There is power in the name of Jesus: wonder–working, miracle healing power of Jesus Christ today to heal all sickness, every disease, all infirmities; including spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical., even power, in the name of Jesus, to bring the dead back to life. Jesus took away the “curse” that entered the world through sin. He took all sicknesses, all diseases, every infirmity and affliction with Him and nailed it to the Cross of Christ. Our total healing includes the atonement Jesus Christ made for our eternal salvation. “Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house” Mark 2:9–11 (NKJV).

When we use the Name of Jesus to lay hands on the sick; we’re ministering the love of Jesus to them. It’s the love of Jesus within that will cause you to put your own feelings aside; your reservations about laying hands on people in public or in other situations; and will give the opportunity for the love of God to operate. We are lame from the womb, spiritually. We have no power to move about on our own. We are dead in trespasses and sins. All around us there are people who are spiritually lame from their mother’s wombs. They have a great need for spiritual healing, for salvation. Even worse, they don’t even realize that they have a need for healing.

Even if they are told of their need, they cannot grasp it. Even if they have heard of Christianity, they are not convinced that Christ can help them in any way. They need the healing gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Healing is God’s calling card; if you will learn to use the Name of Jesus, you won’t have any trouble getting people saved. It is the easiest thing in the world to get people saved when you get them healed first.

Healing in any department of the nature, whether spirit, soul or body, is but a means to an end. The object of healing is health, abiding health of Body, Soul and Spirit. The healing of the spirit unites the spirit of man to God, forever. The healing of the soul corrects psychic disorder and brings the soul processes into harmony with the mind of God. And the healing of the body completes the union of man with God, when the Holy Spirit possesses all. “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us” Acts 3:1–4 (NKJV).

Jesus “paid the price,” the penalty of God’s righteous judgment for the sins of the entire human race. Jesus took upon Himself, into His body, all the sins of the world. Because, The wages of sin is death, and through His willing sacrifice and sinless death, Jesus brought every human being back into righteous standing with God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” Galatians 3:13–14 (NKJV).

Jesus, as the Son of God or God–man, went to those he chose to heal. So, His Apostles were directed by the Spirit of God to this particular lame man. There is no doubt that he was healed that day not only of his physical infirmity, but he was called into the kingdom of Christ as well. As disciples, we are called to pray for healing and at times anoint with oil – to represent the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and God’s provision – with the act of laying on of hands. But ultimately, our faith and trust is to be in God and his healing power, not in people, doctors or medicine, the laying on of hands or even the anointing oil. God may use them to aid in healing, but he is the source of that healing. There’s no human being who can live up to God’s standard of perfection or is worthy by our own efforts to enter Heaven and spend all eternity in the Presence of God. “But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 6:22–23 (NKJV).