“But, Gloria, it bothers me to say I’m healed when my body still feels sick!”

It shouldn’t. It didn’t bother Abraham. He went around calling himself the Father of Nations for years even though he was as childless as could be. Why did he do it? Because “he believed…God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17). He was “fully persuaded that, what [God] had promised, he was able also to perform” (verse 21).

You see, Abraham wasn’t “trying” to believe God. He wasn’t just mentally assenting to it. He had immersed himself in God’s Word until that Word was more real to him than the things he could see. It didn’t matter to him that he was 100 years old. It didn’t matter to him that Sarah was far past the age of childbearing and that she had been barren all her life. All that mattered to him was what God said because he knew His Word was true.

If you don’t have that kind of faith for healing right now, then stay in the Word until you get it! After all, “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Read, study, meditate, listen to tapes and watch videos of good, faith-filled teaching, watch our Sunday and daily television broadcast every day until God’s Word about healing is more real to you than the symptoms in your body. Keep on keeping on until, like Abraham, you stagger not at the promise of God through unbelief, but grow strong in faith as you give praise and glory to God. (See Romans 4:20, The Amplified Bible.)

Notice that last phrase there doesn’t say you give praise to God because you’re strong in faith. It says you grow strong in faith as you give praise to Him. I like that particular translation because I’ve found it to be true. Praising God for your healing is one of the most powerful things you can do.

In fact, Psalm 103 commands us to do it. It says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases” (verses 1-3).

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Psalm 68:19-20
NKJV—Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads
us with benefits, the God of our salvation!
Selah. Our God is the God of salvation; and to
God the Lord belong escapes from death.

AMP—Blessed be the Lord, Who bears our
burdens and carries us day by day, even the
God Who is our salvation! Selah [pause, and
calmly think of that]! God is to us a God of
deliverances and salvation; and to God the Lord
belongs escape from death [setting us free].

NIV—Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
who daily bears our burdens. Selah. Our God
is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord
comes escape from death.

NAS—Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears
our burden, The God who is our salvation.
Selah. God is to us a God of deliverances; and
to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

Psalm 91:16
KJV—With long life will I satisfy him, and show
him my salvation.

Moffatt—I will satisfy him with long life, and
let him see my saving care.

TLB—I will satisfy him with a full life and give
him my salvation.

Psalm 94:17-18
NIV—Unless the Lord had given me help, I
would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your love, O
Lord, supported me.

KJV—Unless the Lord had been my help, my
soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said,
My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held
me up.

AMP—Unless the Lord had been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land where
there is] silence. When I said, My foot is slipping,
Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord,
held me up.

Moffatt—If the Eternal had not been my help,
I would have soon passed to the silent land.
When I think my foot is slipping, thy goodness,
O Eternal, holds me up.

Psalm 103:1-4
Moffatt—Bless the Eternal, O my soul, let all
my being bless his sacred name; bless the
Eternal, O my soul, remember all his benefits;
he pardons all your sins, and all your sicknesses
he heals, he saves your life from death.

KJV—Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that
is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth
all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from
destruction.

AMP—Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise)
the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest]
within me, bless His holy name! Bless
(affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His
benefits—Who forgives [every one of] all your
iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your
diseases, Who redeems your life from the pit
and corruption.

NIV—Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost
being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases, who redeems your life from the pit.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries