1. Faith for physical healing.
Firm Foundations 2
Faith for physical healing.

2. Let’s Recap What We Know So Far:
 Jesus is willing to heal all who come to him.
 Jesus is able to heal all.
 Jesus’ desire and ability is cancelled by man’s unbelief.
 All things are possible to him who believes.
 Sickness is a work of the devil.
 Jesus, through healing the sick, was undoing the devil’s works.

3. Jesus Bore Our Sicknesses
Isaiah 53:4 JPS
Surely our diseases he did bare, and our pains he carried…
Isaiah 53:5
But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.
Isaiah 53:10 YLT
He hath made him sick.

4. Questions
Isaiah 53:4 says that when Jesus was crucified he was baring our ___________ and carrying our ________________.
Isaiah 53:5 says that the chastening for our ______________fell upon Him and by His scourging we are _____________.
Though Jesus was never sick in His lifetime, the Bible says that when He was crucified, according to Isaiah 53:10, Jesus was made ___________ with our sickness.
diseases
pains
well-being
healed
sick

5. By His Wounds We Were Healed
1 Peter 2:  and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

6. Questions
In 1 Peter 2:24 we are told that by His _____________ we _______ healed.
According to this verse, are we healed? ______
At what event were we healed? ____________
If we were healed then, are we healed now? ___________________
wounds
were
Yes
At the cross.
Yes.

7. Redeemed From The Curse
Galatians 3:  Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us
1 Corinthians 6:  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

8. Questions
Sickness is part of the curse for the breaking of the Law in Deuteronomy 28, but Galatians 3:13 tells us that Christ __________ us from the ______________ of the Law by becoming a _________ for us.
According to 1 Corinthians 6:20, did Jesus pay the price for your body? _______________
redeemed
curse
curse
Yes

9. Your Faith Has Made You Well
Matthew 15:  Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, your faith is great; be it done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed at once.
Luke 18:  "What do you want Me to do for you?" And he said, "Lord, I want to regain my sight!" 42  And Jesus said to him, " Receive your sight; your faith has made you well."

10. Questions
In Matthew 15:28, what did the woman have that caused her daughter to be healed? _______________
In Luke 18:41, Jesus asked the man what he wanted Him to do for him. Do you think God wants us to be specific? ________________
What was the man believing for? ____________________________
Faith
Yes.
Regaining his sight.

11. Believe = Speak
2 Corinthians 4:13 says, “But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE," we also believe, therefore also we speak.” Can we believe like the Bible says without speaking it out? ____________________
No.

12. Your Faith Has Made You Well
Luke 17:  And Jesus answered and said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine-- where are they? Luke 17:  And He said to him, "Rise, and go your way; your faith has made you well."

13. Questions
In Luke 17 Jesus said that it was the former leper’s ___________ that had made him well.
If Jesus had no power, would the leper’s faith have mattered? _____
If the leper had no faith, would Jesus’ power have mattered? ______
The leper’s faith was not the source of his healing, but it was the means by which he received the healing.
faith No No

14. Saying: “I shall Get Well!”
Matthew 9:  And behold, a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak; 21  for she was saying to herself, "If I only touch His garment, I shall get well." 22  But Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well." And at once the woman was made well.

15. Questions
In Matthew 9:20-22, how long had the woman been sick for? _____
Was she complaining about her condition? ____________________
What was she saying? _________________________________
12 yrs. No
If I only touch his garment I shall get well.

16. Questions
Was she speaking her faith or her doubts? _____________________
Look at verse 21, what is the difference in meaning between “saying” and “said?”______________________________________
Jesus said to her, “Daughter, take courage; your ____________ has made you __________.”
Her faith.
Saying is continuous. Said is only once.
faith
well

17. Is Anyone Among You Sick?
James 5:  Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 15  and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

18. Questions
According to James 5, if someone is sick, what must he do? _______________________
According to verse 14, The elders should pray ________________ , and anoint him with ___________ in the ____________ of the Lord.
The elders’ prayer must be offered in ________
Does James 5:15 say that the sick person “might” be restored? ________________________
Call upon the church elders.
over him
oil
name
faith.
No, he will be restored.

19. They Shall Recover
Mark 6:  And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them. Mark 16:  "And these signs will accompany those who have believed: …they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

20. Questions
In Mark 6:13, what were the disciples doing prior to healing people? ________________
In Mark 16:17-18, what does it say that the believers will do? _____________________
What will happen to the sick when we do this? ________________________
Does “recovery” always indicate instant healing or a process? ______________________
Anointing with oil.
Lay hands on the sick.
They shall recover.
It indicates a process.

21. Healing As A Process
John 4:  So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

22. Questions
In John 4:52 the master inquired of the servants the hour his son had ______ to __________.
Does this indicate immediate results or a process? ______________
begun
get well
Process.

23. If we do not see instantaneous results what should we do?
 Believe that the work has begun and refuse to rely on our eyes to tell us what God is doing.
 Give up and say it isn’t God’s will.
 Keep reminding ourselves that God says, “They shall recover.”
 “Walk by faith and not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7

24. How To Heal A Cripple
Acts 14:  and there they continued to preach the gospel. 8  And at Lystra there was sitting a certain man, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked. 9  This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze upon him, and had seen that he had faith to be made well, 10  said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet." And he leaped up and began to walk.

25. Questions In Acts 14:7 what was Paul doing? __________________________
What comes by hearing the word of God? _____________________
In verse 9, what was the man doing while Paul spoke? ___________
According to verse 9, what did Paul see? _________________________________
Where did this faith come from? ____________________________
He continue to preach the gospel.
Faith.
Listening.
He saw that he had faith to be made well.
He was listening to the word.

26. Questions
In verse 9, the man had faith to be made well, but was he well? ___________
In verse 10, did Paul gently suggest he get up? ___________________
What happened when the man acted on his faith? _____________________
Looking at this story, is faith enough? ________________________
What would have happened if the man never acted on his faith? __________________
Not yet.
No, said in a loud voice.
He leaped up and walked.
No, actions are also needed.
Never have walked.