HOW JESUS CAN HEAL YOU "Jesus went about preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people." (Mt. 9:35) "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." (Ac. 10:38) Sickness and disease are works of the devil. Jesus healed every sickness and disease freeing people from Satan's oppression. Jesus wants you to be healed. God healed people in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament. In Exodus, the Lord is revealed as Jehovah Rapha, "I am the Lord that healeth thee." (Ex. 15:26) In Psalms 103:3, He is One "who healeth all thy diseases." Jesus Christ is "the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Heb. 13:8) He will heal you! Sickness came to man after the fall in the garden. Sickness is part of the curse because of sin. In Isaiah, the Bible says, "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." (Isa. 53:5) Jesus not only took our sins on the cross, but also our sicknesses. By Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, we are legally free from sin and sickness. "Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Pet 2:24) Healing now belongs to all believers. It is our legal right because of what Jesus has already done for us in redemption. Some may question if it is God's will to heal all. A leper once questioned His will, "saying, 'Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.' " Jesus answered him, " 'I will; be thou clean.' And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." (Mt. 8:2-3) Jesus showed His will by healing the leper. It is God's will for you to be healed. Just as Jesus said to the centurion concerning his servant, "I will come and heal him (Mt. 8:7)," He says the same to you: "I will come and heal you." Since the devil causes sickness, we must take authority over the devil in order to be healed. Jesus has given us authority over Satan. "Behold, I give unto you authority . . . over all the power of the enemy." (Lk. 10:19) The authority of Jesus is released when we speak in the name of Jesus. At the gate of the temple, Peter said to the lame man, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." (Ac. 3:6) In testifying how the man was healed, Peter said, "His name through faith in His name hath made this man strong." (Ac. 3:16) In Mark 16:17-18, Jesus said, "These signs shall follow them that believe: in my name shall they cast out devils; . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." We take authority over the devil and minister healing in the name of Jesus. Healing is your legal right, and you can possess it by taking authority over the sickness from Satan in the name of Jesus. Healing is ministered in many ways. One way is to "lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." (Mk. 16:18) Jesus touched the hand of Peter's wife's mother and the fever left her. (Mt. 8:15) Paul laid his hands on the father of Publius and healed him. (Ac. 28:8) Healing is also released through anointing with oil. The twelve disciples "anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them." (Mk. 6:13) Those that are sick are instructed to "call for the elders of the church and have them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and, the prayer of faith shall save (heal) the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." (Jas. 5:14-15)