Once you understand God’s will
really is for you to live in divine health,
you can’t help but question why so
many believers live sick. It seems puzzling
at first. But the answer is very
simple. Many of them just aren’t
willing to do what it takes to be well.

People want to be well. No one wants
to be sick. But to be well, you have to
make choices. How often have you seen
someone with a hacking cough still
smoking a cigarette? Or an overweight
person eating an ice cream cone?

Our fleshly nature likes to take the
easy way. And it’s much easier to give in
to habits than to break them. It’s easier
to give in to your flesh and watch television
every night like the rest of the
world, than to spend your time putting
God’s healing Word into your heart.

I recently heard Charles Capps say
that some people try to build the third
story of a building on a vacant lot. That
sounds funny, but spiritually speaking
it’s true. A lot of people want to enjoy
the benefits of healing without building
the foundation for it from the Word
of God.

It can’t be done. To construct a building,
you have to start below ground
level. If you want a harvest, you’re
going to have to plant something first.

Everything in the natural world works
that way. I call it the law of genesis.
This law of planting and reaping works
in the spirit realm too. It governs health
and prosperity—in fact, everything in
God’s kingdom is governed by the law
of planting and reaping.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries

I have some revolutionary news for
you today. God wants you healthy!
Every day!

Oh, I know that, you may quickly
think, I know God will heal me when I
get sick.

Yes, that’s true, He will. But that’s
not what I’m saying. I’m telling you
God’s perfect will is for you to live
continually in divine health. His will
is for you to walk so fully in the power
of His Word that sickness and disease
are literally pushed away from you.
Isn’t that good news?

You’ve probably heard a lot about
God’s healing power, but there is a difference
between divine healing and
divine health. Years ago, the powerful
preacher John G. Lake put it this way,
“Divine healing is the removal by the
power of God of the disease that has
come upon the body. But divine health
is to live day by day, hour by hour in
touch with God so that the life of God
flows into the body just as the life of
God flows into the mind or flows into
the spirit.” (John G. Lake: His Life,
His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith
[Fort Worth: Kenneth Copeland
Publications, 1995]).

I agree that it is wonderful to get
healed when you’re sick, but it’s more
wonderful to live in divine health. And
that’s what God has always intended
for His people.

Even under the old covenant God
promised His people immunity from
disease. Exodus 23:25 says, “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.”

That promise is even stronger
under the new covenant. Isaiah,
looking forward to what Jesus would
accomplish at the cross wrote,
“Surely he [Jesus] hath borne our
griefs, and carried our sorrows…. 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” (Isaiah 53:4-5).

The Apostle Peter, looking back at
the same event wrote, “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 Peter 2:24).

Were healed! That’s past tense. Jesus
finished your healing on the cross. He
paid the price for you to be whole. He
bought righteousness for your spirit,
peace for your mind and healing for
your body.

As far as Jesus is concerned, you’re
not the sick trying to get healed. You’re
the healed and Satan is trying to steal
your health. I remember when Ken and
I realized that, it changed everything
for us. We quit trying to talk God into
healing us and began instead resisting
sickness and disease the way we
resisted sin.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries