GODS WORD IS MEDICINE

By Rory Synoground

"My son attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."  (Proverbs 4:20-23)

One of the ways we know that it is Gods perfect will for you to be healed, and to walk in divine health, is that He said that His Word is health to all our flesh.

This word “health” here in the Hebrew also means medicine. Like natural medicine aids us in receiving our healing, Gods Word, when taken appropriately, will heal our fleshly bodies as well.

In Hebrews 4:12 we read where the Word of God is alive, and full of creative power. What kind of power is He talking about here? He is talking about a creative yoke destroying power!

Isaiah 10:27 says; “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.” Glory to God, the YOKE shall be DESTROYED.

Sickness is a yoke. It weighs you down. It places limitations on your life, and keeps you bound. To believe that your sickness is the will of God is to believe a lie straight from the pit of hell. The Word states very clearly and boldly here in Proverbs 4, that GODS WORD IS MEDICINE TO ALL YOUR FLESH! God’s will is healing! He wants YOU FREE!

Sometimes people think; “Okay, I’m going to try this faith healing stuff to see if it works.” And when healing doesn’t come, or stay; they get discouraged, and begin to believe the temporary circumstance, instead of the eternal Word of God.

Proverbs 4:20 says; “My son ATTEND to my word—“ The word “ATTEND” here means; “to become joined with, or give your full attention too.”

Listen when we are dealing with sickness, disabilities, or any other bodily ailment, we need to become joined with, and give our full attention to God’s Word, instead of allowing our heart and mind to become joined with that ailment. We need to quit giving that sickness our attention.

We must become one with the Word of God. We must become so Word of God minded, Word of God centered, that we come to a place in our lives where the Word of God begins to govern our thoughts and actions. We must come to a state of mind where we are habitually and sub consciously thinking about the Word of God every second of every minute of every day.

Look at what God instructed Joshua to do, at the most critical hour of Joshua’s life. In Joshua 1:8 we read: “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do all that is written therein: for then thou halt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

What was God telling Joshua to do? He was revealing to Joshua how to place His Word in his heart. He was literally showing Joshua how to create a new heart where the Spirit of God could flow through him to take the land! He was instructing him to become one with His Word.

Joshua had many responsibilities. He was the leader of a governmental system that directed the actions of an entire nation of people. You know He was busy with the affairs of this leadership position 24hrs a day. Yet God instructed Joshua to begin thinking on and meditating in His Word day and night.

Joshua could have argued and thought this to be impossible with all he had to do, yet the Bible declares, that with God all things are possible to him that believes. (Mark 9:23) So this is exactly what Joshua did. As a result he had great success.

Ezekiel 18:31 declares; “Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:….”

Yes it is possible through the power and ability of God’s Word to create in you a new heart. To develop your thinking patterns to where His Word is on the forefront of your mind every minute of the day. To change your perception, and cause you to be able to observe to do His Word, thereby releasing the Spirit of God in your life!

When you actively participate in mediating in the Word of God day and night, you literally begin positioning yourself to qualify for the next step of Proverbs 4:20 to take place in your life.

“Incline your ear unto My SAYINGS, . . .” Once you become joined with His written Word in your heart, where His Word has you full attention, you are then able to incline you ear unto His SAYINGS. The word “Incline” here means: “stretch, to extend, to open.” We can open our ears to hear what God is personally saying to us.

So not only must we hear the written Word of God spoken to us, but we also must hear what God is saying personally to us.

We must do exactly what Deuteronomy 28:1 commands us to do. “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the VOICE OF THE LORD thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command thee this day, that the lord thy God will set thee on high. . .And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the VOICE OF THE LORD thy God. . . Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body. . .”

You see we must live our life in a way that we become so Word of God centered that we can hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to us. God will speak directly to you about your condition. This is where your victory comes. In the secrete place of hearing your loving Fathers voice speaking to you personally. It is when you hear what He is saying to YOU and act on that command, that you’ll release the blessing of the Lord.

Romans 10:17 says “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” The word “word” is the Greek word “Rhema”which means “the spoken Word of God.”

This is not only talking about you hearing the written Word of God, but it also reveals God Himself speaking directly to you. It is when you hear HIS VOICE speaking His Word to you,  that faith comes. And it is this faith, formed from the spoken word of God, which overcomes the world! (1 John 5:4)

We can’t just try the Word of God to see if it works. It must become our heart!

Allow His Word to create in you a new heart. Allow His Word to go to work in your life. Know that for whatever sickness, disease, disability, or illness the devil has out there, Gods Word spoken to you has the power to utterly destroyed it and free you from it.

God’s Word is LIFE AND MEDICINE to your body. Begin walking in the liberty where Christ has made you free by taking His Word as medicine today! (Galatians 5:1).

YOU ARE BLESSED

FAITH MAKES A DEMAND

“And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. 

And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

(Luke 8:43-48)

Many times while praying for individuals who are seeking healing, I have literally sensed energy or power flowing through me and into the person I am praying for. I literally feel the anointing of God surge down my arms through my hands and flow into the person as I touch them.

It is much like the example of the woman who had the issue of blood. When she reached out in faith, and touched Jesus, virtue or power went out of Him and into her. “And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue (POWER) is gone out of me” (Luke 8:46.)

You can always tell when faith is in operation. Faith always draws upon the power or ability of God. In this case, the women with the issue of blood made a demand on the healing power of God and it healed her body immediately.

Now what’s interesting in this situation is that she did not even ask Jesus if He would or if it was His will.

She simply had a belief that if she just touched the hem of his garment she would be healed. We could study what the hem of his garment was, but we would be missing out on a kingdom principle. It was not the garment that healed this woman.

Jesus said in Luke 8:48; “… Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.”

Jesus said it was her faith that made her whole. Why, because faith in action makes a demand on the power of God. Her faith received POWER from Jesus which entered her body and healed her.

Individuals who have come to me or any other person for prayer are doing the same thing. Like the woman in Luke 8 they make a demand on Gods power by faith.

As I have prayed for people, I have seen some sense the power of God flow into their body. I seen them laugh, cry, smile, or even fall down under such an overwhelming move of Gods anointing at work.

As a result they walk away healed and restored to health! Sometimes I have them do the very thing that their condition was preventing them from doing.

For example, I have had people read, who couldn’t read, listen for sounds who could not hear, walk, who could not walk, move an arm or leg, when they could not move that extremity before.

Sometimes the pain that was in their body just leaves and the person starts moving or touching that part of their body, praising God.

Unfortunately there have been other times that I have prayed for individuals and I sense the power of God flowing through me and into them, and that anointing just stops. His power literally just stops at the point of impact, and at times I have even sensed His anointing come back into my hands.

What happened? Well, I was acting on the command and promise of Mark 16:18. My faith was in operation. By laying my hands on the sick for them to recover in the name of Jesus I was making a deman on the power of God. Gods healing power was on the scene to produce results. But because the individual did not believe, and make a demand on that power as well, NO HEALING took place.

Is this scriptural Rory, you may ask? If God wants me healed, won’t He just do it?

The truth is, according to 1 Peter 2:24, God has already paid for your healing. But if you don’t believe this, your unbelief will stop the power of God from being applied in this area of your life.

This even happened in the ministry of Jesus while He was physically present on this earth.

Look at Luke 5:17 “And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.”

Notice it says that the “power of the Lord was present to heal them.” God’s power was present to HEAL the Pharisees and doctors of the Law. Yet no one was healed. Why? Because even though Gods power was available, no one made a demand on it.

We know that the Pharisees and doctors of the law were some of the most unbelieving opponents of Jesus. They resisted His ministry and were always skeptical and full of doubt. They had no faith in Him or His Word. In this case it is recorded, that even though the power of God was available for them, they could not benefit from it because of their unbelief.

It wasn’t until a man, who was full of faith, came into the house before Jesus, that they would witness an awesome demonstration of Gods power.

Luke 5: 19-25; “And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him. …, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee…But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.”

Jesus saw their faith. You see faith can be seen. We see faith in action through our words, and behavior. It was their visible faith that made a demand on the power of God that was available to heal the Pharisees and doctors of the law.

That power went to work and healed the man. Jesus said, “…that you may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth….He said unto the sick Arise and take up your bed and go. And immediately he rose up before them (did what he could not do before), and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.”

What an awesome display of Gods power. Again it was faith that made a demand on that power of God. You see it is evident that God has freely given us His power, life and ability to change any circumstance, forgive sin, and to heal our bodies. It is ours for the taking.

Unbelief blocks the power that God freely gives to us, whereas faith receives that power of God.

Learn how to form your faith in God, and you will begin seeing your faith make demands on God’s power to do the impossible in your life.

YOU ARE BLESSED