Don't doubt your healing

"Go show yourselves to the priests.' And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy."                                          Luke 17:14    NLT

Ten men with with the dreaded disease, leprosy, approached Jesus and asked Him to have mercy on them. Now leprosy was very contagious, rather like aids in our day. They were ordered to stay away from other people because of the risk that they were. Occasionally, the leprosy went into a form of remission and this was probably why they approached Jesus so openly.

Notice that all Jesus said was to go to the priests and show themselves. This was part of the law where a priest would check them over and declare them clean (Leviticus 14). The ten men did so, acting on their faith and as they walked, they were cleansed.

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(1)  Jesus didn't pray over them or declare that they were well. He sent them to the priest. Therefore, they left Jesus in the same state that they had approached Him but, they were healed on the way. The healing didn't take place straightaway.

(2)  The ten men, obeyed Jesus. They didn't complain that they hadn't been healed. They just went to the priests by faith. And they were healed on the way.

This can help explain to all the people who have received prayer for healing but, they feel they have not received it. Healing does not alway take place instantly. Yes, for some it does and that is wonderful. However, for others, they have walked away from the prayer feeling that nothing happened. Healing doesn't always happen instantly, for many there can be a time process and, this is where people are vulnerable. It is so easy to become despondent and give up on your healing. What do I mean? Well, look at the ten men, they could have become downhearted that Jesus had done nothing to help them but, they acted by their faith and did what Jesus had said, they went to the priest. On the way, the healing took place. No doubt if they had given up and gone home, or believed that it was a farce, they would have lost their healing.

In the same manner, if you have received prayer for healing and feel that nothing happened, DO NOT begin to doubt. If you do, you will go without. Receive the healing by faith and stand on the Word thanking God and receiving this every day until the healing comes. We can be a people that, if we don't receive what we asked for straightaway, we give up on the whole idea. Faith people keep standing, waiting, hoping and receiving.

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