I BELIEVE IN GOD'S WILL TO HEAL
By Jack W. Hayford
I believe it is God's will to heal and deliver the
sick and the tormented, and that He has revealed the fullness of
His healing purpose in His Son Jesus Christ. I believe it is in
God's nature to work redemptively to heal by every possible means,
inasmuch as His mercy and lovingkindness are ever open to provide
grace for the relief of human need, pain, misery
and sin.
Because I believe this, I offer praise to the Creator who has made
all things well, affirming that all sickness and pain is adverse
to His will and desire for mankind, and has only come upon the
race because of man's fallen estate, I declare thanksgiving
to Him for the fact that, notwithstanding every effort of hell to
steal, kill, and destroy all of mankind, compounded by human weakness
and vulnerability to pain, sickness disease, deformity, and tragedy,
the Father has appointed multiple havens of refuge from sickness
and pain: through natural recuperative processes; through climate
and diet; through the charitable efforts of mankind through hospitals,
doctors, and medicine; and through the divine means of healing gifts
distributed by the Holy Spirit and ministered in the Name of Jesus.
I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to heal
the sick and afflicted and to break any bondage of satanic sort
when His Name is invoked in any circumstance. I believe His power
is as consistently available today as it was during His own earthly
ministry, and that through His Cross He has provided the grounds
for us to expect and receive healing and deliverance as surely
as we may receive forgiveness and sanctification.
Because I believe this, I accept the ministry of
healing as a part of the Lord Jesus Christ’s commission that
the Church go to the whole world with the Gospel. I proclaim God's
will and power to heal, and in Jesus' Name instruct that the prayer
of faith be offered, that confession of sins be made unto deliverance,
that elders anoint with oil, and that hands be laid on the sick
that they may recover.
I believe in the power of God's Word and Spirit
to sustain and supply health when those who believe walk simply
and humbly before Him in faith. I believe the fruit of such faith
will be manifest in love and patience, and so I correspondingly
reject any system that begets lovelessness or induces guilt when
a believer in Jesus does not seem to be able to receive physical
healing or personal deliverance from sickness or any other torment.
Because I believe this, I withstand every evidence
of pain, suffering, sickness, disease, bondage, or torment, convinced
that the good fight of faith will prevail unto health. I am equally
convinced that in any case where victory is not evidenced, that
a victory of another order is being realized by the divine grace
of Almighty God.
With such faith as this, I move in the ministry
of prayer, faith, and healing, so that Jesus Christ is glorified
and, in all circumstances, His Church is edified. |
Jack
Hayford Ministries
14800 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, CA 91405-2233