Why God Wants Us Well By Julius Green

1. God wants you well because of His compassionate nature,

   His desire for abundant life for His creation, and his loving character.

   
   

2. Proverbs 4:20-22 says, "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 to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” The Hebrew word for "health" in verse 22 is "medicine." God's Word is medicine to all our flesh.

   
   

What good would it do you to believe in food if you didn't eat it? You would starve. What good would it do you to believe in water if you didn't actually drink any? You would die of thirst. God's Word is His medicine.

3. Exodus 15:26 reads, “I the Lord am thy physician." The medicine He prescribes is His Word. Many make the mistake of substituting belief in healing for the actual taking of God's medicine His Word. They say, "I believe in healing" without actually taking the medicine. Which is the word of God.

4. God's Word is a healing agent just as natural medicine is a healing agent. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction." "For they (His Words) are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh. " Isaiah 55:10, 11 says the Word of God will accomplish what it was sent out to do: The Word itself contains the power to produce what it says, just as when God said, "Let there and there was light. Healing Scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing.

5. "God's word to us is something alive, full of energy. The key to partaking of the life and healing energy in the Word is feeding on it until it penetrates your spirit where it deposits that life and energy.

6. We might say that medicine is no respecter of people. It will work for anyone who takes it. It is not a matter of God willing or not willing the healing of any individual, but whether the individual will receive healing by taking the medicine that produces it. This is what God’s character says in 3 John 2 “Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, even as your soul is well”. Psalm 25:27 says, “May those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad; may they say continually, the Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant”.

7. The word of God is the most important medicine for a believer. The most important medicine must be taken according to directions to be effective. Some medicine labels read, "Take internally;” others say, "Take externally." To rub it on your body externally when the directions say to take it internally will not work. To take it after meals when the directions say take it before meals will reduce its effectiveness. To take it occasionally when the directions say three times every day will mean limited results, if any. No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken according to directions, or it won't work. So, it is with God's medicine. The directions for taking God's medicine are found in Proverbs 4:20-22. Notice this it is only as they get in the midst of your heart and stay there that they produce healing in your body. Head knowledge won't do. They are going to have to penetrate to your spirit through meditation by attending, hearing, looking, muttering, musing, pondering to produce healing in your body. But once they do penetrate, they will surely bring health to all your flesh. You can see again that God's way of healing is spiritual. Power is ministered first to your spirit, then distributed to your body. God's medicine must be taken internally.

8. Remember that it takes time for medicine to work. Most people give natural medicine a lot of time and patience and money to work. They take the prescription back for refills and more refills. They are diligent about it. They don't just take one dose and expect a miracle. Keep taking God's medicine. Give it time to work. Take your medicine. Say these Scriptures to yourself. Think on what you're saying in your heart. Use them in praise to the Father. His Word is medicine to all your flesh.

9. Psalm 103:2-3: "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases."

10. Isaiah 53:5: "But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed."

11. Jeremiah 30:17: "For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord."

12. Reasons Why God Wants Us Healthy, Well and Fit                                                                       It Glorifies God.  The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 10:31 that whatever we do we’re to do it to the glory of God. It also tells us in Isaiah that we were created and formed by God to glorify Him.  This is our primary purpose in life – to glorify God. We do that when we care for our body and live a healthy lifestyle.

13. Our Body is God’s Temple and for Us to Care For it. One scripture that reminds us that our body is God’s temple is 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. God’s Holy Spirit lives inside a believer.  After we accept Jesus into our heart, God gives us His Spirit to help us live the kind of life He wants us to live.  Since God actually lives in us, Paul tells us in this verse that our body is His temple.  Since God “bought” us with a high price, Jesus’ death, than we are obligated to care for our body which is His temple.

14. Being Healthy is Being a Good Witness. Acts 1:8 reminds us that we are to be witnesses for other people.  People look for us to be models of the Christian faith.  We ought to desire to live our lives in a way that represents our faith well.  Taking care of our health is one way that we can be a good witness.

15. You’ll Have More Energy to Do God’s Work. Ephesians 2:10 helps us see that we are God’s masterpiece, created to do the good things that He had planned a long time ago for us to do.  We all know that the more fit and healthy we are the more energy we will have.  The more energy that we have, the more we can put into whatever task we are doing.  We’ll also be better able to sustain ourself for the long haul.

More healing scriptures.

MATTHEW 8:17 (NKJV)

17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses."

1 PETER 2:24 (NKJV)

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.

PSALM 34:19 (NKJV)

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

JAMES 5:14–15

14 Is any sick among you? [Among who? Among those in the Church.] 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 of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

ACTS 10:38

38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

This verse says that Jesus went around doing good and healing the sick. Notice that it not only identifies the One doing the healing, but it also makes it clear who is making people sick. Does it say that Jesus was healing all who were oppressed of God? No! It says Jesus healed all who were oppressed of the devil. Now you know why blaming God for sickness and disease doesn't make sense.