If you’ll read the Bible, however, you’ll see that spiritual power has been affecting this physical world ever since time began. In fact, it was spiritual power released in the form of God’s Word that brought this natural world into existence in the first place. Just look at Genesis 1 and you can see that for yourself. It says:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light…. And God said, Let there be a firmament…. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together…. And God said, Let the earth bring forth…. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night…. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly…. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind…. And God said, Let us make man in our image….
Now, in the light of those scriptures, can you believe that God’s Word—the force that originally brought into being everything you can see and touch, including your physical body—is still capable of
changing that body today? Of course you can! It makes perfect sense.
John G. Lake says this about divine healing and divine health: “Divine healing is the removal by the power of God of the disease that has come upon the body, but divine health is to live day by day and hour by hour in touch with God so that the life of God flows into the body, just as the life of God flows into the mind or flows into the spirit” (John G. Lake—His Life, His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith, p. 9 9-10).
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
Granted, it isn’t easy to keep your attention centered on the Word like that. It takes real effort and commitment. It may require getting up a little earlier in the morning or turning off the television at night. But I urge you to do whatever is necessary to take God’s medicine exactly as directed.
It won’t work any other way!
That really shouldn’t be so surprising. After all, we wouldn’t expect natural medication to work for us if we didn’t take it as prescribed. No rational person would set a bottle of pills on the night stand and expect those pills to heal him. No one would call the doctor and say, “Hey, Doc! These pills don’t work. I’ve carried them with me everywhere I go—I keep them in the car with me, I set them on my desk at work. I even have them next to me when I sleep at night—but I don’t feel any better.”
That would be ridiculous. Yet, spiritually speaking, people do it all the time. They cry and pray and beg God to heal them, all the while ignoring the medicine He’s already provided. (They might take a quick dose on Sunday when they go to church, but the rest of the week they don’t take time for the Word at all!)
Why do people who love God and believe the Bible act that way? I think it’s because they don’t understand how putting the Word in their heart can affect their physical bodies. They don’t see how
something spiritual can change something natural.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
