Healing With God’s Medicine, Effective Healing Of God’s Word

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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. (KJV)

The Hebrew word for “health” in verse 22 is “medicine.” God’s Word is medicine to all our flesh. Isaac Leeser’s translation of 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. What good would it do for you to believe in food if you didn’t eat it? You would starve. What good would it do for you to believe in water if you didn’t actually drink any? You would die of thirst.

God’s Word is His medicine. There are several parallels between God’s medicine and natural medicine.

First: God’s Word is a healing agent, just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to produce healing. Inherent within God’s Word is the capacity, the energy, the ability, and the nature to effect healing in your body.

Psalm 107:20 – He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

20… He sent out His word, and it healed, and from their corruptions it freed! (Fenton)

Proverbs 4:22 – For they (His Words) are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. (KJV)

Isaiah 55:11 – 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 be light” and there was light, healing Scriptures contain within them the capacity to produce healing.

Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit … (KJV)

12 God’s Message is full of life and power. (Weymouth)

12 God’s Word is alive with energy. (Jordan)

12 God’s word to us is something alive, full of energy. (Knox)

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.

Second: We might say that medicine is no respecter of persons. It will work for anyone who takes it. It is not a matter of if God is willing or not willing to heal any individual, but whether or not the individual will receive healing by taking the medicine that produces it.

Third, and 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 once in a while when the directions say three times a day will mean limited results, if any. No matter how good the medicine is, it must be taken according to the directions or it won’t work. So it is with God’s medicine. It must be taken according to directions for it to work. The directions for taking God’s medicine are found in:

Proverbs 4:20-21 – Attend to them, incline your ear to them, don’t let them depart from before your eyes, and keep them in the midst of your heart.

We might say that attending to them, inclining your ear to them, and keeping them before your eyes causes the Word to get into the midst of your heart. Notice this: It is only as God’s Words 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 – 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. … let them penetrate deep within your heart. (Living Bible)

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. Listen, instead of wondering whether you have enough faith to be healed, just take the medicine. This handout contains Healing Scriptures. Feed on them several times a day, repeating them over and over again to yourself. The medicine itself will work if you will get it inside of you.

Fourth: Remember that it takes time for medicine to work. Most people give natural medicine a lot of time, 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.

Exodus 15:25-26 – And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, and said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. (KJV)

26 … I the Lord am your healer. (New English Bible)

26 … for I the Lord am thy physician. (Leeser)

26 … I am the Lord your life-giver. (Basic English)

26 … I am Yahweh thy physician. (Rotherham)

26 … I, Jehovah, am healing thee. (Young)

26 … for I, the Lord, make you immune to them (diseases). (Smith-Goodspeed)

26 … I, the Lord, will bring thee only health. (Knox)

CONFESSION: God is speaking to me now, saying, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” He is watch-ing over this Word to perform it. He is the Lord that healeth me. He is healing me now. This Word contains the ability to produce what it says. He is the Lord that healeth me. He is healing me now. His Word is full of healing power. I receive this Word now. I receive the healing that is in His Word now. Healing is inherent in God’s nature. God is in me. My body is the temple of God. My body is the temple of the Lord that healeth me. God is bigger than sickness and Satan. God is dwelling inside of me now, healing me now. The Lord that healeth me is my Shepherd; I do not lack healing. My body is in contact with the Lord that healeth me. My body has to respond to God’s healing life and nature at work in me now. Healing is in God, and God is in me. I thank You, Father, because You are my Healer; and You are healing me now.

Exodus 23:25 – And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. (KJV)

25 … And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send a blessing on your bread

and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you. (Basic English)

25 … I will free you from disease. (Moffatt, Smith-Goodspeed)

25 … I have turned aside sickness from thy heart. (Young)

25 … and keep sickness away from thy company. (Knox)

CONFESSION: “I will” is the strongest assertion that can be made in the English language. God is speaking to me now saying, “I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” God is watching over this Word, performing it in me now. He is taking sickness away from the midst of me. Good-bye, sickness! The Lord is taking you away from the midst of me. Thank You, Father, for taking sickness away from me. I thank You for doing what You said.

Deuteronomy 7:15 – And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. (KJV)

CONFESSION: The Lord is taking away from me all sickness. His Word contains the ability to do what it says. His Word will not return void but will accomplish what it was sent to do. The Lord is taking away from me all sickness, every trace of weakness and deficiency. Sickness is going out of me now. Thank You, Father, for taking away from me all sickness like You said.

Psalm 30:2 – O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. (KJV)

Mark 11:24 – Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (KJV)

CONFESSION: I believe I have received my healing. Thou hast healed me. I don’t consider what I feel. I believe I am healed. Thou hast healed me.

Psalm 42:11 – Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (KJV)

CONFESSION: I refuse to be cast down or discouraged. I am the conqueror. I will yet praise Him Who is the health of my countenance and my God. Father, I praise You because You are the health of my countenance.

Psalm 91:1-6, 9-10 – 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 9 Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; 10 there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. (KJV)

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under

the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand]. (Amplified)

1 He who sitteth under the secret protection of the Most High, shall rest under the shadow

of the Almighty. (Leeser)

1 Anyone dwelling in the secret place of the Most High will procure himself lodging under

the very shadow of the Almighty One. (New World)

1 One who lives under the Most High’s screen, lodges under Shaddai’s canopy. (Byington)

1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,

2 will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” (RSV)

1 He who is dwelling in the secret place of the Most High, in the shade of the mighty

lodgeth habitually, He is saying of Jehovah … (Young)

1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret place of the Lord, and under the shade

of the wings of the Most High; (Basic English)

2 Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength:

he is my God … (Basic English)

1 He who dwells… Says of the Lord … (Smith-Goodspeed)

1 He who lives under the protection of the Most High, under his heavenly care content

to abide, (Knox)

2 can say to the Lord, Thou art my support and my stronghold, my God, in whom

I trust. (Knox)

3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease. (Basic English)

3 He will keep you safe from all hidden dangers and from all deadly disease. (Good News)

3 … and from the deadly plague. (Beck)

3 It is he that rescues me from every treacherous snare, from every whisper of harm. (Knox)

4 Sheltered under his arms, under his wings nestling, thou art safe; his faithfulness will

throw a shield about thee. (Knox)

4 … His faithful promises are your armor. (Living Bible)

5 Nothing shalt thou fear from nightly terrors … (Knox)

6 … from the assault of man or fiend under the noon. (Knox)

5 You will have no fear of the evil things of the night …(Basic English)

6 Or of the disease which takes men in the dark … (Basic English)

6 … the plague ravaging at noon. (Beck)

6 … nor the devastating plague at noon. (New American Bible)

6 … or the plague raging at noonday. (New English Bible)

6 … nor the plague that destroys at midday. (NIV)

6 … nor of the deadly disease that wasteth at noonday. (Leeser)

9 Because you [said]: “Jehovah is my refuge,” you have made the Most High Himself

your dwelling. (New World)

9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe

resting-place. (Basic English)

10 No disaster will befall you, no calamity will come upon your home. (New English Bible)

10 There is no harm that can befall thee … (Knox)

10 No disaster will befall you, Nor calamity come near your tent. (Smith-Goodspeed)

10 … and so no disaster will strike you, no violence will come near your home. (Good News)

10 So sickness will not approach you, Contagion not enter your Rest. (Fenton)

CONFESSION: I am abiding under the shadow of the Almighty. Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord that healeth me, is my refuge and fortress against disease. His Word is my shield and buckler against sickness. I’m trusting under His wings because Malachi 4:2 says there is healing in His wings. I’m not afraid of disease. I’m not afraid of sickness. I’m abiding under the shadow of Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord that healeth me. No plague shall come nigh my dwelling or my body. I resist sickness and disease. I refuse to accept it! It’s not mine! I refuse to be sick in Jesus’ Name. Sickness cannot trespass in my body. Sickness, (name it), you can’t come nigh my dwelling. I refuse you! I resist you!

Psalm 103:2-3 – Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. (KJV)

3 He pardons all my guilt and heals all my suffering. (New English Bible)

3 … he takes away all your diseases. (Basic English)

3 … Who is healing all thy disease. (Young)

CONFESSION: Bless the Lord, Jehovah-Rapha, O my soul. Blessed be God the Father. Lord, I praise You. Lord, I thank You and praise You for Your benefits. (A benefit is a condition of a contract, not a bonus thrown in extra at the discretion of the employer.) You forgive all my sins, all my faults, all my failures and disobedience. You heal all my diseases, and I thank You for it. Healing belongs to me as part of the New Covenant. Healing is my redemptive right. Thank You, Father, for healing all my diseases!

Psalm 107:20 – He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

20 … he sent his word to heal them and preserve their life. (Moffatt)

20 … and delivereth them from their graves. (Leeser)

20 He sent out His word, and it healed, and from their corruptions it freed! (Fenton)

CONFESSION: He sent His Word and healed me. His Word heals me and delivers me from my destructions. His Word frees me from my corruptions. God’s Word says in Isaiah 55:10-11 that it contains God’s ability to perform what it says. His Word is healing me now. His Word contains His healing power. His Word is working in me now. He has sent His Word and healed me.

Proverbs 4:20-22 – 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. (KJV)

21 … let them penetrate deep within your heart. (Living Bible)

22 Let a man master them, they will bring life and healing to his whole being. (Knox)

22 … and to all his body a healing. (Leeser)

22 … to every part of one’s flesh they bring healing. (Rotherham)

CONFESSION: God’s Word is health to all my flesh. His Word is medicine to my flesh. I am the Lord that healeth thee is medicine to all my flesh. I will take sickness away from the midst of thee is medicine to my flesh. The Word of God is full of the life of God. That life is saturating my spirit. God’s life and healing power is in His Word, and His Word is at work in me now. The Word of God is depositing the life of God and the healing of God into my spirit. That life and health is spreading out of my spirit into every tissue and pore of my body, creating health and soundness. My body has no choice but to respond to the healing in the Word that is being absorbed into me now.

Proverbs 12:18 – There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. (KJV)

18 A reckless tongue wounds like a sword, but there is healing power in thoughtful

words. (Moffatt)

18 Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words

can heal. (Good News)

18 There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the

tongue of the wise makes one well again. (Basic English)

CONFESSION: My tongue makes me well. I have what I say. I say, The Lord is my Healer. I say, He takes sickness away from me. I say, No plague can come nigh my dwelling. I say, He healeth all my diseases. What I confess, I possess. My words make me well. There is healing power in my words, for they are God’s Words. I speak health to every muscle, tissue, fiber, and cell in my body. I release God’s healing power with my words into my whole body. Healing is mine!

Proverbs 17:22 – A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (KJV)

22 Being cheerful keeps you healthy. (Good News)

22 A happy heart is a healing medicine … (Smith-Goodspeed)

22 A glad heart makes a healthy body … (Basic English)

22 A glad heart helps and heals … (Moffatt)

22 A glad heart is excellent medicine, a spirit depressed wastes the bones away. (Jerusalem)

22 A cheerful heart makes a quick recovery; it is crushed spirits that waste a man’s

frame. (Knox)

22 The best medicine is a cheerful heart … (Fenton)

22 A joyful heart worketh an excellent cure … (Rotherham)

22 … a broken spirit makes one sick. (Living Bible)

CONFESSION: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I have a merry heart. Sickness can’t dominate me. Satan can’t dominate me. What do you think you’re trying to do, devil? You can’t put sickness on me. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I have a merry heart. I’m full of joy. A merry heart works like a medicine. God’s medicine is working in me!

Isaiah 53:3-5 – 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (KJV)

3 … a man of pains, and acquainted with disease … (Leeser)

3 … he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease … (Basic English, Masoretic O.T.)

3 … Man of pains and familiar with sickness. (Rotherham, Byington)

4 But only our diseases did he bear himself, and our pains he carried. (Leeser)

4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he

seemed as one diseased, on whom God’s punishment had come. (Basic English)

4 Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried … (Masoretic O.T.)

4 Yet surely our sicknesses he carried, And as for our pains he bare the burden

of them. (Rotherham)

4 But in fact it was our sicknesses he was carrying, our pains he was loaded with. (Byington)

4 Yet it was our sicknesses that he bore, our pains that he carried. (Smith-Goodspeed)

5 … through his bruises was healing granted to us. (Leeser)

5 … by his stripes there is healing for us. (Rotherham)

5 … the chastisement to give us soundness came on him, and by his stripes we got

healing. (Byington)

5 … the blows that fell to him have brought us healing. (Moffatt)

5 … we are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he

received. (Good News)

5 … by his bruise there is healing for us. (Young)

5 … the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being for us was upon Him,

and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole. (Amplified)

CONFESSION: Surely He hath borne my sickness and diseases, and carried my pains. He took my sicknesses on Himself, and carried my pains. He bore them and carried them away to a distance. I don’t have to bear what He bore for me. I refuse to bear what He bore for me. Satan cannot put on me what Jesus bore for me. By His stripes, I am healed. By His stripes, I got healing. By His bruise, there is healing for me. His punishment has brought me healing. Healing has been granted to me. With the stripes that wounded Him, I am healed and made whole. I am made whole by the blows He received. My diseases went to the cross with Jesus and died with Him there. Satan, you’re visiting the wrong one. Jesus took my sicknesses; and by His stripes, I am healed!

Malachi 4:2 – But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (KJV)

CONFESSION: The Son of righteousness has arisen, having conquered sickness and Satan. There is healing in His wings. That healing is flowing into me now by His Word. I am trusting beneath His healing wings.

Matthew 8:2-3 – And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. (KJV)

2 A leper came up and bowed low in front of him. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘if you want to you can

cure me.’ (Jerusalem)

3 Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, ‘Of course I want to!

Be cured!’ And his leprosy was cured at once. (Jerusalem)

2 ‘… if you have the will, you have the power, to cleanse me.’ (Wade)

3 ‘… I have the will; be cleansed.’ (Wade)

2 ‘… Sir, if you really wanted to, you could heal me.’ (Jordan)

3 ‘… I do want to. Be healed.’ (Jordan)

2 ‘… if you want to, you can make me clean.’ (Phillips)

3 ‘… Of course I want to. Be clean!’ (Phillips)

2 … Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean. (Basic English)

3 And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. (Basic English)

3 ‘… I will it. Be cleansed.’ (Riew)

3 … It is my will … (Knox)

3 ‘… I am willing …’ (Fenton, Weymouth, 20th Century)

3 … I am desiring it from all my heart. Be cleansed at once. (Wuest)

3 … I do will it … (Authentic)

CONFESSION: God wants me well. Healing is the will of God. According to Philippians 2:13, God is at work in me right now to will and to do His good pleasure. Healing is at work in me.

Matthew 8:16-17 – When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. (KJV)

17 … He took our infirmities upon Himself, and took away our diseases. (Norlie)

17 … He Himself took (in order to carry away) our weaknesses and infirmities and

bore away our diseases. (Amplified)

17 He took away our illnesses and lifted our diseases from us. (New English Bible)

17 … He took away our illnesses and carried away our diseases. (Translator’s NT)

17 He took our sicknesses away and carried our diseases for us. (Jerusalem)

17 … He took away our sicknesses and our diseases he removed. (Moffatt)

17 … He took on Himself our sicknesses and carried away our diseases. (New Life)

17 … carried off our diseases. (Wuest, Berkely)

CONFESSION: He Himself took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. He carried away my sicknesses. He took them away and removed them. Disease is not mine – Healing is mine. I refuse to bear what Jesus bore for me. I refuse to take what He took for me. Satan, you cannot put disease on me, for Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. I refuse to accept sickness. I will not tolerate sickness. Sickness and diseases are totally unacceptable. I refuse to accept them. Jesus bore them, so I refuse to have them!

Mark 5:25-34 – 25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. 33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. (KJV)

28 … for she kept saying, ‘If I can only touch his clothes, I shall get well.’ (Williams)

28 … for she kept saying, If I touch even his garments, I shall be made whole. (Wuest)

28 … she kept saying … (Phillips)

30 Jesus also was immediately aware that power had been drawn from him … (Authenic)

30 … Jesus, becoming conscious that the healing Power within Him had been in active

operation … (Wade)

30 Jesus instantly perceived that healing power had passed from him … (Smith-Goodspeed)

30 Jesus instantly became conscious that there had been a demand upon his powers …

34 ‘… your own faith has made you well …’ (20th Century)

34 … Go and enjoy your new health, free from the trouble that was your scourge. (Barclay)

34 … be entirely free from thy disease. (Diaglott)

CONFESSION: Her faith made her whole, and my faith makes me whole. I have faith, for I am a believer. I believe I receive my healing, and my faith makes me whole. I receive God’s power as mentioned in Ephesians 1:19. The power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in me. My faith puts that power into active operation in my body. Disease has no choice. There is no chance for its survival in my body. The power that raised Jesus from the dead is at work in me. That power is irresistable. It is greater than sickness and disease. That power is flowing in me and makes me whole. I am free. I am entirely free from sickness and disease. I am whole. I believe I have received my healing, and my faith has made me whole!

Luke 13:11-13, 16 – 11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? (KJV)

11 … an infirmity caused by a spirit [a demon of sickness]. (Amplified)

11 … had a disease caused by an evil spirit; she was bent double and altogether unable

to hold herself up. (Plain English)

11 … a sickness caused by a spirit. (Smith-Goodspeed, Confraternity, NASNT)

11 … A woman had a spirit that caused an infirmity eighteen years and was completely

bent together by a curvature of the spine, and was not able to raise herself up at all. (Wuest)

12 … thou art delivered … (Douay)

12 … you are freed from your sickness. (NASNT)

12 … thou hast been loosed … (Marshall)

12 … you are made free from your disease. (Basic English)

12 … you are set free from your infirmity. (NIV)

12 … you are rid of your infirmity. (Norlie)

12 … you are freed from your disease. (Plain English)

12 …‘Lady, you have been freed from your weakness.’ (Jordan)

12 …‘Woman, you have been loosed from your infirmity.’ (Worrell)

12 …‘Your bondage is at an end.’ (Condon)

13 … at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God. (Williams)

16 … was there not a need … that she be loosed … (Rotherham)

16 … And ought not this woman, a descendant of Abraham as she is, whose power

movement Satan has fettered actually for eighteen years, to have been released

from such fetters on the day of the Sabbath? (Wade)

16 … For eighteen years Satan has fettered her. Is it not right that she should be liberated

from her fetters? (Barclay)

16 And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan

for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath? (Basic English)

16 But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, who has been in the bondage of Satan — think

of it! — for eighteeen years, should not have the right to be released from her bonds

because it is the Sabbath? (Norlie)

CONFESSION: Satan can’t bind me with sickness. I believe that, according to Colossians 1:13,

I have been delivered from Satan’s dominion and translated into the kingdom of the Son of God. Sickness is ungodly. Sickness is of the devil. Satan, you can’t put sickness on me! Who do you think you are? In Colossians 2:15 and Hebrews 2:14 it says you are a defeated foe. Jesus stripped you of your authority over me. You can’t do this to me. I resist you in Jesus’ Name. I am delivered. I am free. I have been loosed. I am no longer fettered. I am now rid of my infirmity. My bondage is at an end! It is right for me to be completely free, for I am a child of Abraham. According to Galatians 3:14, 29, Abraham’s blessings are mine. Healing is part of the covenant. I am under the covenant. Healing is mine. Healing belongs to me. It is my rightful possession. I have a right to be released. Satan, I demand my rights now! Take your filthy hands off my body!

Acts 10:38 – 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. (KJV)

38 … all who were harassed by the devil … (Moffatt)

38 … healing all who were under the power of the devil … (NIV, Plain English)

38 … healing everyone in the devil’s clutches … (Rieu)

38 … curing all those who were under the tyranny of the devil … (Barclay)

38 … healing all that were overpowered by the devil … (New Berkeley)

38 … curing all who were crushed by the power of the devil … (Weymouth)

38 … God equipped him with Holy Spirit and power, who passed through our midst

acting nobly and healing all those who were lorded over by the devil … (Jordan)