If a person wakes up from surgery, the nurse will say, “don’t worry, the surgery fixed you.” It was a past tense event and is reported as finished. The patient doesn’t need to ask the doctor to do something, because the doctor already did something. Just like someone waking up from surgery doesn’t need to ask for the procedure to be done again because it’s already completed, believers don’t need to ask Jesus for healing because, according to Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter, it’s already been done.[1]
The same with supernatural healing. Isaiah 53 says it was by the stripes of Jesus that healed us. In God’s mind He counted Jesus stripes as the substitution and means by which we are healed. Peter quotes this as a past tense event, reported as finished, “by His stripes you have been healed.”
Likewise, we don’t need to ask Jesus to do something to heal us, because Jesus already did something. You are not healed by God doing something in the future, because God already considers you healed by the stripes that rained down on Jesus. Just like with forgiveness you are not asking God to re-crucify Jesus; your forgiveness already happened in the atonement, and so you confess and receive it by faith. Healing is the same. Because your healing has already been accomplished in the atonement, you confess it and receive it by faith. Believers should confess and receive this healing by faith, not by expecting a new act of healing from God.
If someone believes they are healed by Jesus’s atonement but still waits for God to actively heal them, they’re missing the point. It’s like having the keys to a car but refusing to drive because you’re waiting for the car to drive itself.
Because God already considers your healing accomplished by Jesus, in His atonement, God is not holding back your healing. You are the only one holding back your healing. It is logical insanity to affirm with the bible that God has already healed you by Jesus’ stripes, and then affirm God is holding back your healing. Stupid supreme. You must believe it and command the sickness to leave.
With spiritual warfare, God has given believers the authority to command sickness and the devil to leave. Waiting for divine intervention when you’ve been given the power to act is, to put it bluntly, unbelief on steroids.
And just like making the devil flee, only you can do it. God has given you the power to make the devil flee, and commands you to make him flee. Thus, it is insanity to say “God is sovereignly causing the devil to harass me.” No. God has commanded you to resist and make him flee, only you can do this. Not resisting and waiting for God to sovereignly remove the devil from you, is lazy, disobedient, unbelieving and stupid. If you are waiting for God to sovereignly remove the devil from you, you might as well make Satan your bedfellow, because he’s never leaving your side. The same with healing. Waiting for God to heal you, when He has already healed you by Jesus’ atonement, and has commanded you to receive it, is wicked and unbelieving. Only you can do it. If you are waiting for God to sovereignly heal you, then you will die that way.
But I say to you, Don’t worry, Jesus has already fixed you.
[1] Grok AI, helped with post-essay fun summaries.
