Walking In Healing - Free Christian Online Books

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Walking in HealingSandy Haga 20033

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Table of ContentsChapterPageIntroductionStep 1. Accept Salvation for RealStep 2. Commit and SubmitStep 3. Have Peace With GodStep 4. Come Under the BloodStep 5. ForgivenessStep 6. Understand Why There’s SicknessStep 7. Find God’s Will For YouStep 8. Know Who You AreStep 9. Know Your WordStep 10. Understand FaithStep 11. Learn to Look BeyondStep 12. Understand the StruggleStep 13. Understand Healing Is A WalkStep 14. Choose Your Counsel WiselyStep 15. Watch How You TalkStep 16. Learn How To Deal With PainStep 17. Don’t Whine or Be Double MindedStep 18. Don’t Be AfraidStep 19. Put On the Mind Of ChristStep 20. Know the Power of PraiseStep 21. Get a VisionStep 22. Understanding a Doctor’s PlaceStep 23. Don’t Let Your House Be a TombStep 24. Know the Power of Your PrayersStep 25. Keep ClimbingStep 26. Healing in Body, Soul, and 2767880838890919395

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IntroductionI started to title this book How To Be Healed. Often welook at healing as being a single instant act of God. When wedo, we may miss out on seeing the miracles that God does inus everyday. Sometimes when we don’t see an instanthealing, we doubt God and we doubt ourselves. This blocksour healing when God may have been healing us all along.Sometimes healing is gradual, a process. If we want to getfrom this point to another point, walking is our natural meansto get there. Sometimes healing is a journey from one point(sickness) to another (health). It is a walk. It may happen inone instant healing, or healing may come in daily touches.Any way, the result is the same. We are healed.In this book I remind you that healing is our breadaccording to the Word of God. It is our right and it is definitely His Word and His will that you be healed. I give scoresof testimonies of those who have been healed, and somestories about those who haven’t, and why they weren’t. I givemany scriptures to encourage and build your faith. I giveencouragement and even rebukes, if you need it.I have had many people that were dear to my heartwho fought sickness and were never able to be healed becausethey lacked the knowledge of how to claim healing. This hasgiven me the determination to write this book and to put it inthe hands of every child of God who is claiming healing. Ihave been healed many times, and I have seen many healed. Ihave been a part of a New Life Ministries for over 20 years.Through this ministry I have seen the deaf hear, the crippledrun, and even the dead raised. If you want to talk to someoneabout healing, be sure to talk to someone who has been healed,or knows someone who has. Don’t ask someone who doesn’tbelieve and hasn’t been healed. Ask someone who knows.I have prayed while writing this book that God givesme the words to say, and that He anoint it. I believe that itwill touch your life and guide you in Walking in Healing.9

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Step 1.Accept Salvation for RealWhat a strange way to put this, “accept salvation forreal”. You might ask what I mean by that. I have heard somany people say, “I’ve been born again. I’ve been saved.”But I didn’t see a real change in their life. I knew that theywere professing something that they didn’t really possess. Iknew that they really hadn’t received salvation for real. Howdo we do that?“Salvation is a free gift.” I see this slogan on bumperstickers and T-shirts. That is true in one respect. But inanother way, it is not true. Salvation has a dear cost-both Jesus’ cost and ours. When Adam and Eve sinned they passedthe nature to sin down to us all. We are their descendants.We inherited sin. Even if we think we are not bad people, wesin just because we are human. The best of us don’t evenrealize the ways we sin. We may not see it, but in the eyes ofa holy perfect God we sin every day. (Isaiah 64:6, “But weare all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are asfilthy rags: and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities likethe wind, have taken us away.") The wages of this sin isdeath. (Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death; but thegift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”)This death is even worse than just a physical dying. It meanseternal separation from God. Someone who was perfect, thathad no sin of His own, had to die to take the punishment forour sin, to earn our wages that we had coming to us. (Romans5:12-17, “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered intothe world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men,for that all have sinned . Verse 15, “But not as the offence,so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one manybe dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace,which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded untomany . Verse 17, “For if by one man’s offence death reignedby one; much more they which receive abundance of graceand of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one,11

Jesus Christ.”) One man, Adam, condemned us all to sin andto have to pay the wages of that sin, eternal separation fromGod. One Son of God, Jesus, paid that price so that we couldreceive grace and His righteousness. Jesus came from heavento be born as a baby. He lived on earth without sin and diedon the cross. He went to hell and came back with the keys todeath, hell, and the grave. (Revelations 1:18, “I am He thatliveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore,Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”) He reignsvictorious over all. How do we receive life that He died togive us victorious and eternal? Through Jesus. He died androse again to give us salvation. So we can see that salvation inthat sense is not free. The price He paid so that you couldreceive salvation was very dear.How do we accept that salvation that He offers? Werepent of our sin and receive it. (Romans 10:9-10, “That ifthou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shaltbelieve in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead,thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth untorighteousness; and with the mouth confession is made untosalvation.”) That is just the beginning. From there wecontinue to grow in knowledge about what that means. Wecontinue to grow in knowledge of what it means to be God’schildren. I hear so many people who have accepted salvation,but doubt in their hearts whether or not they are really saved.If you accept salvation, and continue to walk in a relationshipwith God, you are saved. You don’t need to shake in fearwhen that old devil comes around with His seeds of doubt.Quote him scriptures like Romans 10:9-10. Remind him ofGod’s Word. He’ll soon leave you alone.I read a tract that was titled, “How To Miss Heaven BySixteen Inches”. That is how far it is from your head and yourmouth to your heart. If we just confess with our mouth, butwe don’t believe in our heart, or we don’t accept the heartchanges that come with our salvation, we will have just saidsome words. We will be professing something that we don’tactually possess. There will be no change in our lives.12

If we accept salvation in our heart, 100%, there will be agenuine change in us. When we ask Jesus to come into ourhearts, and rule as Lord of our lives, there will be a definitechange.Now you are probably asking, what does this have todo with healing? Just hang in there and you’ll see. When weare saved, we ask Jesus to come into our heart and be Lord ofour lives. Through the power of the Holy Ghost and God’sWord, He does. When Jesus comes in our heart and life forreal, there will be a big change in our lives. Then why do wesee people that confess to be saved, but there is no evidence ofa change? When Jesus comes into our hearts, we then havetwo things going on—Jesus and us, our flesh. If we don’tallow Jesus in us to control our flesh, then we won’t see Jesusin us, just our old self. (Romans 8:8-10, “So then they that arein the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, butin the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you, Nowif any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”)We have two parts in us, but we have to learn how to let theSpirit of Christ in us rule over our bodies and minds. The partof salvation that a lot of people miss is committing andsubmitting ourselves to Jesus in us so that He reigns in ourlives. We know the cost that Jesus paid for salvation, and weknow the price that we have to pay. That price is committingand submitting all we are to Him. That makes salvation, inone sense, neither free nor cheap. Yes, it is a gift available toall. But it has a price.When we commit and submit to Jesus, He will bringchange in us. I remember one man who drank most of his life.His face showed the damage of his sin. He wasn’t that old,but looked twice his age. I saw him not long after he wassaved. I didn’t even recognize who he was. His salvationshowed on his face. He looked years younger. When ourheart changes, it will show. In former communist countries,they don’t consider a person saved until they see a committed,submitted life change. There weren’t many, if any, hypocriteswho said they served God, but they really didn’t do so.13

In the days of communism, saying you were saved withoutreally letting Jesus change your heart wasn’t done. Often thatadmission brought persecution for you and your family, andeven death. There were few who confessed salvation with themouth and head who didn’t possess it in their hearts. InAmerica, all too often, we say it and claim it, but it is onlyskin deep. It is only words that we say without a commitmentand heart change to make it real. We need to take a lessonfrom those saints in persecuted countries.Another key to accepting salvation is realizing that it isthe beginning of a relationship with Jesus. We have to get toknow Him in a walking, talking way that is real. That doesn’tjust mean on Sunday, but everyday, every waking hour. He isnumber one and He is real to you. Just like you work on arelationship with anyone, you have to work on your relationship with Jesus. Get real with Him and He will get real withyou. Talk to Him and listen to Him. Many people lose theirsalvation because they don’t have a relationship with Jesusthat holds them through the battles, through their temptationsand trials. Jesus will help you if you will get close enough toHim to know that. If you want to trust someone with something as valuable as your eternal soul, for heaven’s sake, get toknow that Someone.Another key to accepting salvation is repentance.People get that subject all confused. They think it just meanstelling God regularly that you are sorry for all that you dowrong. I have been a teacher for a lot of years of my life. Thebest way to make peace between two kids who are at war withone another is by getting a heart-felt confession andrepentance from the one at fault who caused the problem.That wasn’t always easy. When they were cornered, sure theysaid I’m sorry, but that wasn’t always genuine. They didn’tmean it in their heart. They just said it because I made them.They would go out and do the same thing over again. Theirconfession and repentance wasn’t real. We sometimes areguilty of doing God the same way. We know we are supposedto and we do it, but sometimes we really don’t mean it.14