Healing Scritpure

Last week we looked at bible verses about healing and the life of Jesus. These verses made it pretty clear that Jesus is a healing God. But this was not "something new" for God. He has always been a healing God, even from the early days of humanity. It has always been His will to heal us and to give us health. Let's look at some Old Testament Scripture along this line.

Healing In The Old Testament

Genesis 20:17
So Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants. Then they bore children;

Exodus 15:26
and said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you."

Numbers 12:13
So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, "Please heal her, O God, I pray!"

Deuteronomy 7:15
And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

Deuteronomy 32:39
"Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

1 Samuel 6:3
So they said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty; but by all means return it to Him with a trespass offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why His hand is not removed from you."

2 Kings 2:21 - 22
Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, "Thus says the Lord: "I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness."' So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

2 Kings 5:1,3, 14-15
Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. Then she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy." ... So Naamon went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, "Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel."

2 Kings 20:5
"Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord."

2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 30:20
And the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

Psalm 6:2
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 30:2
O Lord my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me.

Psalm 41:4
I said, "Lord, be merciful to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."

Psalm 60:2
You have made the earth tremble; You have broken it; Heal its breaches, for it is shaking.

Psalm 103:3
Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases.

Psalm 107:20
He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.

Psalm 147:3
He heals the broken hearted And binds up their wounds.

Proverbs 3:8
It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.

Proverbs 4:22
For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.

Proverbs 15:30
The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, And a good report makes the bones healthy.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.

Isaiah 6:10
"Make the heart of this people dull, And their ears heavy, And shut their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And return and be healed."

Isaiah 19:22
And the Lord will strike Egypt, He will strike and heal it; they will return to the Lord, and He will be entreated by them and heal them.

Isaiah 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun will be sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people And heals the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 53:5
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 57:14
And one shall say, "Heap it up! Heap it up! Prepare the way, Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people."

Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

Isaiah 57:19
"I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near," Says the Lord, "And I will heal him."

Isaiah 58:8
Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

Isaiah 61:1
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Jeremiah 3:22
"Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,' says the Lord, "Because they called you an outcast saying: "This is Zion; No one seeks her."'

Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Ezekiel 47:1,8-9
Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. Then he said to me: "This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.

Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

Hosea 11:3
"I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

Hosea 14:4
"I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him.

Zechariah 11:16
For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.

Malachi 4:2
But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.

Healing In The New Testament (apart from the life of Jesus)

We just saw God's will to heal us demonstrated in the Old Testament. This pattern continued when Jesus came to the earth to live among us and to save us. He demonstrated God's heart to heal by having compassion on people and healing countless numbers of sick people. And it is still God's will to heal today.

Jesus ascended into heaven and sent the Holy Spirit to teach, lead, guide and empower us, and to establish His church. And the bible shows us that God expects physical healing and deliverance to be very much a part of normal Church life. Let's look as some passages from the New Testament that demonstrate this.

Acts 3:1-8
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." So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them--walking, leaping, and praising God.

Acts 4:30
by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus."

Acts 5:16
Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

Acts 8:7
For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

Acts 9:34
And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed." Then he arose immediately.

Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

Acts 14:8-10
And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" And he leaped and walked.

Acts 28:8,9
And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery. Paul went in to him and prayed, and he laid his hands on him and healed him. So when this was done, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.

1 Corinthians 12:9
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.

Hebrews 12:13
and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

James 5:16
Confess your trespasses [sins] to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

1 Peter 2:24
who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Revelation 22:2
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Allow these verses to penetrate your being. Let it become real to you. Jesus came to purchase our salvation, and that includes the physical aspect of our salvation as well -- healing for our bodies. It is God's will for us to be well and healthy. He is a God who heals the sick.