Based upon Receive Miracle Healing by T.L. Osborn
© 89 OMI Used with the Author’s permission
Sickness comes from the Devil, not from the Lord.
Erroneous teaching has led countless good people to suffer needlessly, and die early because they believed God put their sickness upon them. They suffer in patience, and never seek healing.
The Bible says Satan … smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Holy Bible Job 2:7 KJV
Satan: Not God.
Jesus said of the woman bent over, whom Satan hath bound
Lk. 13:11-16 KJV
Not God.
The blind and mute were cured when Christ cast out demons. Mtt. 12:22 KJV
Similarly, the deaf and mute epileptic boy’s sickness was due to a Devil: Not God.
Jesus cast the demon out, and the boy was perfectly cured.
The Scriptures declare all the sick people Christ healed had been oppressed by the Devil.
All sickness is Satan’s oppression: Not God’s work.
Jesus of Nazareth … who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Acts 10:38 KJV
Infirmities and disease only came to people after Adam and Eve doubted God’s word.
Such things were the result of sin; personal sin, and sins committed against others.
Satan is the source of all disease
That is the bad news.
But the Good News is: Through Christ, God has already provided the total cure… for any sin, and any disease or infirmity.
Often, in His dealings with a diseased person, Jesus simply cast out a spirit, and they were healed.
Here’s why;
Every disease has a life, a germ. Its source is Satan because it destroys.
Jesus said, The thief (Satan) cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy
Jn. 10:10 KJV
The germ causes the disease to grow just like the germ of life at conception caused us to grow, and become a human body. When that germ, or life, leaves our body, then our body will die. It decays and returns to dust. Likewise, when the spirit of a disease leaves, the disease dies, and it will decay and disappear.
Those who have received Christ by faith, and have become part of God’s Family, have power (authority) over the spirit of the Devil who brings disease. Jesus …
…gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Lk. 9:1 KJV See also Lk. 10:9+19
Jesus said, In my name shall they cast out devils; Mk. 16:17 KJV
In His Name we have absolute authority to command the life of disease to leave the body of one who trusts in Christ. It must obey us. When it leaves, the disease dies, and the effects vanish.
For example, a cancer has life in it. That life is evil, of the Devil, because it destroys and kills. As long as that life is there, the cancer will continue its work of destruction, but when the life of the cancer is commanded to leave, in Jesus’ Name, it must go. Then the cancer is dead. It will decay, and be removed, and the sick person recovers.
Jesus said of true believers,
In my name shall they cast out devils; … they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Mk. 16:17,18 KJV
When you understand what the Scriptures clearly teach, that sickness is from Satan, you will resist it, rebuke it, refuse it, and it will leave you as you trust in Christ.
A tip to help your faith:
Farmers cut a deep groove around a tree to kill it. Though its leaves do not wither instantly, it is bound to die. So it is with disease.
Jesus gave believers power to rebuke all evil spirits, and they will die. Perhaps some symptoms, like the leaves, may not go immediately, but when we have rebuked the life of the disease in faith, we know that the sickness has been destroyed from the root, and all symptoms will disappear.
