As I worshipped the Lord today, he said to me, “Praise yourself healthy.” I heard him clearly. He went on to say it again: “Praise yourself healthy.” I’d heard him say it to me a few weeks before, as well. At that time, he had said it to me like this: “Praise will heal you. You will recover and regain strength in praise.
“As I write this, I am awaiting the results of a chest x-ray that I took last week. I had Covid in the month of December and experienced some symptoms in my respiratory system. Because I was laboring to overcome fear, it took a while for me to acknowledge this to myself and ultimately seek out medical advice. I still believe, that by the stripes of Jesus I am healed, (Isaiah 53:5). Nothing about that statement is untrue or unreliable to me. I trust the cross, the planner of the cross, the person who died on the cross, the work that was done on the cross and the results of my resurrected Saviour after the cross.
Doctors are in the business of fighting sickness and death too, so a good one is a blessing, but friend, your doctor is not your healer, Jesus is. He is the only one who can say that he lived to die, and in the manner that he was prepared for death, defeated sickness for us.
Maybe you are like myself, and you believe that we are living in one of the final generations of this age, and that we will very likely see Messiah return for the Church.
If you are, exercise every opportunity for victory that you have. Every opportunity. Waste no time in this. So, if you are sick, if you get Covid, meditate on the power of that statement; by the stripes of Jesus we are healed. What a glorious comfort in the time in which we live, when we are experiencing things that seem unprecedented.
So, praise God. Praise yourself healthy. Sing, pray, dance before the Lord, thanking Him for who he is and all he has done. Watch, and sometimes wait, and see your healing break forth like the dawn, (Isaiah 58:8). Victory comes in praise, (Deuteronomy 20:1-4). Don’t be discouraged and don’t believe persistent symptoms. Persist in your faith and your praise. If you do, you will outlast them.
While I still had Covid, and I could sense my breathing a little altered, the Lord told me to sing to him, and my lungs would strengthen and repair. So, I did. I’m not moved by what I see, (2 Corinthians, 5:7). I’m moved by my faith in the unshakeable, 100% trustworthy word and person of God. Faith is the substance of things not seen and our evidence of things hoped for, (Hebrews 11:1-6).
I’m glad to report, that I’m much better, and in my manifested, physically experienced, healing right now. I won’t have it any other way, and truthfully, neither will God. Believe that, live there and in all of the promises of God for his people. Don’t settle for anything less, no matter what you feel, experience or are told. Allow God’s word, to run its full course in your life.
