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Preached by Dr. Gene Scott on January 20, 1980 I am the LORD that healeth thee. Exodus 15:26 FAITH IS AN ACTION. IT IS NOT ENOUGH to just “believe.” You are not expressing New Testament faith until you hang your body on God’s promises by an action that conforms to His word, even though your circumstances may contradict that word. That is the context of Matthew 18, where Jesus says, “Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.” God’s word, once uttered, is forever settled in heaven. God’s word becomes fact in that frame of reference, even though time and circumstance may contradict that word. And God waits for an intercessor who will act in reliance on His word rather than accept the circumstance that contradicts it. When you encounter that contradiction, you have a choice: you can either flow with the stream of time and circumstance and let them have their way, or you can buck the tide, grab hold of yourself and say “I will not let time and circumstance rule me, even though they appear to be ruling everything around me. I will reach up in faith and grab hold of what God’s word says.” That is what creates the tension, the conflict, the stress and the resistance that is involved in the life of faith. You grab hold of something in God’s word that contradicts the stream that is tugging you along. That is all faith is, which is why I often say that faith is 90 percent courage, 9 percent endurance, and 1 percent all those other things you may have heard about faith. It is not an act of faith to just ride a wave; faith bucks the wave. If I come to church to preach on divine healing, and then I drop dead in the church parking lot, don’t grieve over me. I just had the best possible healing: I went home to a brand-new body. Again, God’s word is forever settled in heaven. Let every man be a liar and let every circumstance deny it, the choice laid in front of the children of God is whether they will be ruled by “Thus saith the word of the Lord,” or whether they will be ruled by feelings, circumstances, facts of time and history. Notice there is a subtle distinction between this concept and the fanciful thinking of those who deny facts. Some people practice a faith that teaches that if you are sick, you are not really sick; you just think that you are. Well I know when I’m sick, and I know when I’m not. You would have to be awfully foolish to believe you are not sick when you know that you really are. History, time and circumstance will often contradict God, heaven and eternity. An intercessor has an opportunity to make heaven’s rule gain an entry, establish a foothold and become the rule down here on earth. That is why the Disciples’ Prayer says, “Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” In other words, an intercessor is one who says, “Your kingdom, O Lord, let it come down here on earth. Your will, which is already prevailing without friction in heaven, let it be done down here on earth.” I am sick today, so I am going to preach on healing. I do not believe that you have to talk God into healing you. I once did a study through the Old Testament looking at the little phrase “for the sake of,” which describes God’s motivation for His actions. You will find God sometimes acting for the sake of a servant whom He loves, and He will say, “for my servant David’s sake.” You will find Him acting on other occasions for a particular covenant He has made. Since God will not go back on His word, He will act for the sake of that covenant. Other times you will find Him acting for His name’s sake, or for the sake of an attribute or quality of His nature. But I find only two instances in the Bible where the reason for God’s action is explained as “for the sake of Himself.” God is a person. You cannot divide God into parts. You do not receive the Spirit of God a little at a time, like pouring water into a vessel. God is a living person, and wherever God is, He is absolutely there. We will never fully understand the infinite nature of God’s person while we are here on earth because “now we see through a glass, darkly.” But there are expressions of God’s nature that are rooted and grounded upon the unchangeable nature of God, without which God would not be God. There are only two kinds of expressions I find in the Old Testament that are rooted and grounded upon God’s very nature. One of the two is God’s forgiveness of sins. In the book of Isaiah, God proclaims through the prophet, “I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake.” Our forgiveness is rooted and grounded in the very nature of God Himself. When you unfold the Scriptures and see God placing our sins onto His own Son, you begin to understand how secure we are in the promise of forgiveness of sin. Time may pass away, covenants may pass away, servants of God may falter, but forgiveness of sin is rooted and grounded in God’s own nature. The other expression is God’s nature to heal. The church, historically, has had no trouble believing that God’s own nature is the basis for forgiveness of sins. But the church has tended to ignore the fact that God also places healing in the same category. This is made very clear in the book of Exodus. I am sure that every child in Sunday school has learned about Moses and the Red Sea. Yet the events chronicled in Exodus are far more profound than they might appear on the surface. When God’s people had crossed over the Red Sea, the waters closed up on the Egyptians who were pursuing them. Then all the people shouted and danced for joy because God had given them a great victory. Then they marched for three days through the wilderness and found no water. God was testing His people. They were thirsty, complaining and murmuring. They came to a place where there was water, but they could not drink it because it was bitter. Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. It is important to notice that God showed him the tree: it had to be provided by God. That tree a was type of the cross. It was cut down and cast into the water to sweeten it. Then God suddenly burst forth with a self-revelatory name: Jehovah-rapha, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.” The names of God show forth specific qualities of God’s nature. The Bible opens, saying, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” The name of God used in Genesis 1:1 is Elohim, the plural form of the name El. In Exodus 6, God said to Moses, “I was known by that name, but now I am going to reveal Myself to My people by My name Jehovah.” God had in fact given Himself this name before, but here He introduces His name Jehovah as a self-revealing force. It is almost impossible to translate, but it invokes the picture of a force seeking an outlet, eager to be released. God desires that He might be revealed and understood. The Jehovah names of God, revealed through Moses to His oracle people, were intended to convey God’s nature to the world. The names of God that are formed from the name Jehovah reveal the specific ways that God wants to relate to His people. God has many names in the Bible. He is named Jehovah-shalom, meaning “the Lord is peace.” He is Jehovah-jireh, “the Lord sees and the Lord provides.” He is Jehovah-rohi, “the Lord is my Shepherd.” All of these names, formed from the name Jehovah, express a quality of God’s nature that He wants to reveal to His people. But all of these names were given to God by men. They are revealed in episodes recorded in the Scriptures where a man applied a name to God because of what he learned about God through his experience. But the name that God gave Himself in Exodus 15, Jehovah-rapha, is not a name that man discovered in his own experience. It is like the revelation in Isaiah where God flings a window open and reveals that He forgives sins for His own sake. Jehovah-rapha is a name revealed by God Himself. It is as though God is saying, “Just in case you would not have found it out otherwise, I am naming Myself. You can know that this is the way I am. It is not some temporary attribute, not something related to a particular covenant; this is Me. Where I am, this is My nature. Wherever I am, I am a healing kind of God. You don’t have to talk me into healing. Just as I am a forgiving kind of God and I blot out sins for My own sake, I am a healing kind of God and I heal for My own sake.” I remember praying for Dr. Fred Smith in the University Hospital in Minneapolis. He had earned two Ph.D.’s and he was one of the most prominent scientists in evangelical circles. I had flown in to pray for him in the hospital where he was facing surgery because of a complete blockage in his stomach. I remember him struggling as his scientific mind was trying to find a reason why God should heal him. I said to him, “Fred, God doesn’t need a reason to heal you. God doesn’t need a reason to save you. His basis for saving us is the Atonement. But the reason is within Himself, who brought forth ‘the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.’ God forgives because it is His nature. He bleeds over His sinning children and He wanted to provide a way of salvation. In the same manner, it is God’s nature to heal.” So I said, “Fred, if I can break down those mechanical boxes of a scientific mind, I want you to see that the Lord is present in this hospital room. We are nothing; He is everything. We have this treasure in earthen vessels and I’m just the container here to pray with you. God doesn’t need a reason to heal you; He already wants to heal you. By faith you may come to the fount that can flow and cleanse the sickness out of your body,” which the Lord did. The Lord delivered him completely that day and he was able to leave the hospital and go home. It is God’s nature to heal. If God can be Himself, He will heal. Now if this is true, then everywhere you turn in God’s book where God’s nature is revealed, you will see this being borne out. So I want you to make some notes in your Bible today. We are going to look at a number of familiar Scriptures, but I want you to look at them through a special set of spectacles. I want you to look at them as a revelation of God’s nature. When we deal with God, we are dealing with a living person. God is omnipresent, yet He has promised to manifest Himself through His Spirit when we gather together as a body. I do not have to feel or see Him. God’s word promises, “where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” That is why we come to church. All the benefits of His living presence are available to those gathered in His name in a way that you cannot claim when you are by yourself. Therefore I believe that I am in a better position to receive healing from God when I am at church than when I am stretched out on a bed at home, because the Lord whose nature is to heal has promised to meet us here. God’s promises are expressions of His nature. When we understand that, we can move from bibliolatry, which is worship of the Bible, to true worship, which is worship of God Himself. John Wright Follette was right when he criticized many Christians who take a promise out of the Bible or out of a promise box, and they hold it over God and shake it like a stick and say, “Well, I have You now, God. You said it, and You can’t get away from me. I’ll club You to death with Your own word if You don’t do what You have promised.” God never says anything He doesn’t intend to do. Numbers 23 says, “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” He never expressed an utterance that contradicts His nature. He never promises something to His people that He must then be clubbed into doing. Faith is not only faith in God’s word but it is faith in God’s relationship to His word. God says in Jeremiah 1, “I will hasten my word to perform it.” In essence, God is saying, “I will labor and concentrate all the energy at my disposal on my word to cause it to come to pass, because I said it and it is an extension of me.” The Bible says, “of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” You are not going to talk for very long on any subject without your basic nature coming out. Let people talk long enough, and they will reveal not only their knowledge about a subject, they will also reveal themselves. If it is God’s nature to heal, He will not speak for very long on any subject without His healing nature coming out. In that context turn to Psalm 103, and read the first three verses. “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…” Pause for a moment right there, and remember that forgiveness is part of His nature. God said through the prophet Isaiah, “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake.” Now read the rest of the verse: “who healeth all thy diseases.” There is a difference between healing and miracles. I believe in miracles, but I also believe in the healing that comes from a tenacious grip of faith. Jesus said to the woman who pressed through the crowd and touched the hem of His garment, “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole.” I want us to see that God cannot talk for very long in His book without His nature coming out. And His nature always has this two-fold expression: it is His nature to heal and it is His nature to forgive sins. John 1:18 says that “No man hath seen God at any time,” but Christ “hath declared him.” The word “declared” translates the Greek word from which we get our word exegesis. The word “exegesis” comes from a Greek word that means “to lead out from behind a curtain and put on display” what was hidden behind the curtain. There are courses in Bible schools that teach you how to preach and do what is called “scriptural exegesis.” Scriptural exegesis is supposed to take a verse of Scripture and lead it forth and put it on display, unfolding its full meaning to those who listen. Jesus was the living exegesis of God. No man has seen God, but God led Him forth and put Him on display in the person of Jesus Christ. We may be walking with God and know that He is walking with us, but the facts of time have intruded and the circumstances of life are overpowering us. And when we feel very sick, it is easy to forget that at our side is One whose nature is to heal. You might say, “I don’t have the faith to believe God for healing.” Well, neither did I, but I had enough faith to believe that I could make it to church today and preach. I knew I could at least do that. In fact, I feel better now than I did when I started. It is God’s nature to heal. I forget it sometimes, and He has to let me get a little shaken up in order to make me grab hold of it again. There is a difference between faith and foolishness. Don’t try to fool yourself into believing something that you do not believe. The Bible says “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” When I do not have much faith, I cannot help that very much, but I sure can do something about my lack of hearing. I can fasten onto God’s word until it begins to flow through me and I find the momentum of faith to grab hold of God’s promises and say, “Circumstance, you will not rule any longer!” We have said that Jesus was the exegesis of God, the revelation in the flesh of what God is really like. Therefore, since it is God’s nature to heal, you will find Jesus healing people as an expression of His nature. He doesn’t need any other reason. In New Testament times, men and women only needed to come into the sphere of His presence and get His attention and He would be what He already was. His nature would flow out to heal. Some theologians have analyzed the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels and concluded that Jesus healed people only to prove He was the Son of God. But Jesus did not have to heal the sick to prove anything; the Resurrection is the ultimate proof of His deity. My Bible says Jesus healed the sick because He had compassion on them. The English word compassion literally means “with feeling.” It translates Greek words that speak of His empathy for us. He was moved in response to feelings He felt about the objects of His compassion. In Matthew 14, after John the Baptist was beheaded, Jesus went to a wilderness place, naturally crushed with grief over John the Baptist’s death. A multitude followed Jesus there, and most of them did not understand even half of what He was teaching. There were sick among them, and the Scripture says He healed all the sick, and the reason given is He was “moved” with compassion toward them.” Jesus healed with feeling. In Mark 1, a leper cried out. The Scripture says that Jesus had compassion on him, and with feeling for his need. He healed him. In Matthew 20, Jesus was coming out of Jericho and two blind men cried out. The disciples wanted them to shut up. But the Scripture says again, “Jesus had compassion on them,” with feeling. To coin a word, He acted with “feeling-ness.” That was His only motivation for healing them. In Matthew 12, another multitude surrounded Him, and He healed all their sick. Matthew explained these events by quoting from Isaiah the prophecy that Jesus was fulfilling: “A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench.” Jesus’ nature was being put on display. I pray that God will give me the ability with words today to help you understand that you do not have to talk God into a willingness to heal. Immediately someone will ask, “Well, if it’s God’s nature to heal, why doesn’t He just heal everyone?” I do not know. The Scripture says that Jesus saw Nathaniel under a tree before He ever met Nathaniel, so we know that Jesus had that kind of power. He was able to discern and read the hearts and minds of the Pharisees and tell them what they were thinking. He had all of those superhuman powers. He had not divested Himself of His power when He became incarnate in flesh. Nevertheless His nature to heal was attracted to, focused on and expressed itself only to those who in some specific way beseeched Him, cried out, pressed through a crowd to touch Him, or in some manner specifically and tenaciously got His attention. Do not ask me to explain it; just do it. The same God had the power to know the needs of the people before they even expressed their needs. His nature responded to those who in a specific way hung their body on His word in an act of faith. He called it faith and courage in the case of the woman who pressed through the crowd to touch Him. Those who would seize upon His nature received the benefits of His nature. Your healing is somehow intertwined with this requirement of faith and the covenant limitation made when Jesus declared, “Ask, and you shall receive.” The Bible says, “You have not because you ask not.” The people who received healing were the ones who besought Him. Some were so persistent that they tore a roof off and lowered their sick friend down in His midst. But when they finally got His attention, He didn’t have to generate a reason to act. It was as though their persistence and their tenacious expression of faith and courage released the Lord to be what He already was. It was His nature to heal. I would quit preaching today if I didn’t believe “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Either God’s presence is here by His Spirit today or we ought not to gather together. We gather together claiming that promise, and that means the Lord is here to heal you and me. After Jesus’ resurrection and ascension, the Holy Spirit became the subsequent revelation of God’s nature on this earth. Spirituality in the New Testament is “the expressions of the Spirit.” It is God finding an outlet through us until He can be Himself through us. When you are born again, new life is implanted and regeneration occurs. The seed of the Spirit has come in to dwell, and when that new life in us begins to find an outlet through us, God in us can express His own nature in the fullness of the Spirit. Judges 6 says, “the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon.” An alternative translation is “God clothed Himself with Gideon.” God wore Gideon like a garment while He was expressing Himself through Gideon. When God moved from the eternal world and struck a tent in human flesh called Jesus of Nazareth, man saw God expressing Himself in human form in the person of Jesus. Likewise, the Holy Spirit comes to abide and expresses Himself through the spiritual person, which is “the Spirit’s person.” When we belong to Christ, when He is our Lord and the Holy Spirit has free rein, the expressions of the Spirit are going to look like God when they come out. Paul says in 1st Corinthians 12, “Now concerning spiritual gifts.” Literally it says, “Now concerning the spirituals.” The word “gifts” is not in the original text and was added by the translators. Nine expressions of the Spirit are named. One-third of those expressions are related to healing: faith, healing and miracles. They are God’s provision for continuing the work of healing among the saints in the church. He could have left out healing, but He would not have been Himself. God made a specific provision for healing in the church. There is nothing on this earth that God loves more than His church. He gave His Son to purchase it; it is the bride of Christ. Do not complicate God. Any time you catch a glimpse of someone talking to someone they really love, their nature is going to come out. Watch a mother or father talking to their baby and see them totally focused in their attention. When God addressed the church, He is addressing His most prized, precious possession. Again, His nature is going to come out. That is why you are going to find forgiveness of sin and healing, intertwined. James 5 says, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” The devil will come along and hammer your conscience and say, “You must have done something horrible to get sick like this.” All of us have done enough horrible things to not deserve anything from God, but God’s word says, “I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,” and “I am the LORD that healeth thee,” because it is His nature. God knows that when we are sick, we may be weak in faith. So He provides for the weak and says, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick.” There is no ambiguity in that statement: “the prayer of faith shall save the sick.” Any person praying that prayer at this moment can strike the key that releases the healing: “The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” The ordinance of oil provides for the weak in the church, where once again God’s nature takes care of both forgiveness and healing of the saints. Now we come to the heart of God, and nothing reveals His heart more than the Atonement. There is abundant reason for believing that healing is in the Atonement of the same order as salvation. The types of the Atonement show this twin expression of God’s nature. In Numbers 16, a plague killed 14,700 of God’s people. Aaron, the high priest and type of Christ, stood between the living and the dead and made atonement for them. The Scripture says that the people received both physical healing and spiritual restoration. In Numbers 21, the brazen serpent was lifted up in the wilderness, and all who looked on it received physical healing as well as spiritual restoration. In exodus 12, the Passover lamb was slain and its blood was put on the doorpost. The blood was a token that kept the avenging angel from killing the firstborn that night, the type of death as a punishment for sin. The children of Israel ate the roasted lamb for strength, and Exodus 13 says that they went forth “harnessed out of the land of Egypt,” literally in groups of five, the symbol of God’s grace. Psalm 105 lets us know that “there was not one feeble person” in their midst, because they were all healed that night. In Isaiah 53, the concepts of healing and forgiveness are so intertwined that you would destroy the sense of the prophecy if you were to attempt to remove the references to physical healing. The prophecy of the atoning work includes Christ’s bearing our iniquities, lifting our sicknesses and carrying the full weight of them away from us. In Matthew 8, Jesus is healing the sick, and the sicknesses are specifically named. Matthew says that Jesus healed that it might be fulfilled what Isaiah the prophet had said, and he quotes from Isaiah 53, leaving no doubt that it is physical sicknesses that are carried away in the Atonement. Isaiah said, looking forward, “With his stripes we are healed.” Peter said, looking back, “By whose stripes ye were healed.” Everywhere you look in God’s book, the symbols of the Atonement include both forgiveness of sin and physical healing. God removed the barrier and set His Son to take upon Himself the consequences of our sins. God not only laid our iniquities on Him, He also laid our sicknesses on Him. Every sin has a double happening: when you or I commit it, it was also laid on Him. There is no logical explanation for that. The doctrine of the Mediator in the New Testament says that He died not only for the transgressor, He died for their transgressions. In removing any claim against our eternal inheritance, God laid on His Son all of the sins of mankind. It defies logic, but every sin that was ever committed or that ever will be committed was already laid on Christ. That is the basis by which any sinner can come to Christ, whether or not he actually does come to Christ. Matthew 13 says that the price that Christ paid was sufficient to buy the whole field in order to get the treasure in the field. The treasure is those who respond. There will never be a sin committed that Jesus has not already paid for. They were all laid on Him. By the same logic, every sickness was also laid on Him. Isaiah 52 reads, “his visage was so marred.” Some theologians believe that God darkened the earth at that hour on the cross as His Son was buffeted with every sickness of mankind, so that the world might not look upon that buffeting, as disease after disease hit the Savior and Creator of the world on your behalf. In all the pictures of the Atonement, healing is there along with provision for sin. Yet the church has made an error in its understanding of how God’s promises are appropriated. When God writes a covenant, He sticks to that covenant. I cannot claim the benefits of the Atonement on behalf of another person. I can claim all the other doorways to healing on your behalf. That only requires the simple recognition that it is His nature to heal as His name reveals. Anyone can claim the promises of God to heal as His name reveals. Anyone can claim the promises of God on behalf of another, based on the revelation of Jesus Christ and the knowledge that He is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” The ordinance of oil gives us the authority to anoint with oil and “the prayer of faith will save the sick.” Your prayers can be the instrument that God uses to heal another person. You can claim the promise and get God’s attention, like the people who tore the roof off and lowered their friend down before Jesus. You can, figuratively, pound on the door until you gain attention. You can lay hands on the sick. The gifts of the Spirit being expressed through any saint can result in someone else’s healing. The sick person’s faith is not a necessary ingredient for that healing. That is why, mysteriously, some people get healed who do not have the smallest amount of faith. Someone else’s faith prevailed for them. Each of these other entries or doors through which you can walk into the room of provision can be claimed by an intercessor on your behalf, who appeals to God’s nature to heal. But this last provision, healing in the Atonement, has been misapplied by those who attempt to appropriate it on behalf of another. I am sure you know that I cannot save you with my prayers. You have to claim for yourself the salvation that is in the Atonement. You have to see it and understand that God laid on Him the penalty for the curse of sin, and you can walk out from underneath it. “With the heart man believeth…and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Your confession, and only your confession, can save you and appropriate the benefits of the Atonement. It is a simple, logical deduction that if healing is in the Atonement just as salvation is in the Atonement, then that particular source of healing has to be appropriated in the same manner. There is another unique quality about the healing that is available in the Atonement. The other avenues of healing that God makes available have certain conditions attached. I cannot explain why those who strained and broke through and got His attention received His compassion. Even the promise “the prayer of faith shall save the sick,” requires the prayer of faith to activate it. But when we come to God for the healing and forgiveness of sins that is available in the Atonement, when the heart truly believes and the mouth confesses, God cannot say “no.” The “yes” is already established. God cannot say “no” to your salvation. “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” Romans 10 says that we do not have to go up to heaven and bring God down, and we do not have to descend and bring Him up. The word is already near you: it is in your mouth, speak it forth. For with the heart man believes and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. The word translated “salvation” is soterion in the Greek. It embraces healing. But to appropriate that healing, I have to see it, believe it, claim it and walk in it. And God cannot deny my healing when I see it! I can anoint people with oil, lay hands on them and claim the promise of James 5. I can pray for my brothers, sisters, and the saints of this church, and claim the promise, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and forever.” I can get God’s attention as an intercessor for those who need healing, and verbally do the equivalent of what those who tore the roof off did for their sick friend. I pray for the day that the reality of the Holy Spirit’s presence will make it impossible for a sick person to walk through the doors of this church without being healed. But concerning the healing that is promised in the Atonement, I can only teach you about it; you have to appropriate it for yourself by faith. We have this confidence: God has promised that “with the heart man believes, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” The same God stands behind the promise that He laid on Him our sicknesses and our infirmities, and carried them away. You can with your heart believe and with your mouth confess, “With His stripes I was healed.” But I cannot say to you, “With His stripes you were healed,” and expect that my words will result in your being healed. Likewise, I cannot say, “You are made worthy by the blood of the Lamb” and expect that my words will result in your salvation. But with Peter, I can teach you that with His stripes you were healed already. When you can see your healing as you see your salvation, you can claim it for yourself and say, “With His stripes I was healed.” You might say, “Well, you are still coughing.” Just give me some time. I am also far short of being a perfect saint, but give me some time. To the surprise of many, I am being perfected, and to the surprise of whatever virus is in my body today, I am being healed. Praise His wonderful name! 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