Jesus the Healer - Pathway to Healing with Pastor Marci Glisson

We ended with Isaiah 53 and verses 4 through 5 where we see

here, it says surely this was actually a prophecy about Jesus

and what He was going to bring when He came.

So this was still in the Old Testament.

It says, surely He bore our griefs, our sicknesses and

disease, and carried our sorrow, mental and physical pain.

Most people believe that it was just a, you know, a spiritual

part of us that was redeemed, which is what Jesus did on the

cross. But Jesus came to completely

restore us, right? Spirit, soul and body.

The complete man that he says in First Thessalonians 523 that he

wishes that we would be what sanctified completely our

spirit, soul and body until Jesus comes, Amen, until he

comes to take us home. And so that was part of our

redemption, not just to forgive us of our sin, but to also

redeem us completely back into even our physical bodies being

able to walk in health and healing today.

Then he goes on to say, it says, yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our

transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, and the

chastisement for our peace was upon him and by His stripes.

This is why he had to take stripes on his physical body so

that we could be healed. Amen.

So that we could be healed. And you know, I wanted to talk

about just a few healings that took place.

I'm not going to read the scriptures or I'm not going to

give, you know, the reference, but I'm going to talk about

people that we know that were healed.

Even in the Old Testament, naman was healed of leprosy.

Remember that he had leprosy and he went down to the water and

dipped, Amen. And was his leprosy was gone.

Miriam was healed of leprosy. Remember, she was talking

against Moses and you know, leprosy came on her and then she

was healed from it. Also, many women back in the old

covenant, which is really important for some women I know

that are dealing with this. Many women in the Old Testament

were healed of infertility they were not able to bear, but then,

you know, God was able to heal their bodies so that they could

be fertile and be able to have children.

So you if you're struggling with that, you need to go through the

scriptures and highlight all the women that God healed and

allowed to have children that were not fertile at one time.

Amen. We also know that Elijah, right?

Elijah raised the widow's son from the dead.

So we have the raising of the dead even in the old covenant,

right Elisha? How about Elisha when he they

threw his bones in the grave and it hit someone elses dead bones?

Come on, a man was raised to life, glory to God.

I don't know if that's, I mean, you, you know, this is raising

of the dead stuff, right? What about Nebuchadnezzar?

This is very important because this shows you that he does want

to help heal you from mental illness, bipolarism.

He wants your mind to be the mind of Christ.

Amen. So there's nothing going on that

God cannot heal, and you don't always need a pill for it.

You just need his medicine, which is his word, Hallelujah.

So Nebuchadnezzar, he was insane.

He was insane. But then he was healed of that

insanity, and King Jeroboam, his hand shriveled up, shriveled up.

When he went to stretch out his hand to lay hold of one of the

individuals, his hand shriveled up, and then it was made right.

Amen. So here in the Old Testament, we

can see where God was showing His people that healing still

belonged to His people, Amen. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

It still belonged to His people. So here we see in the Old

Testament in Isaiah, well, let's read because again, Isaiah was

prophesying about Jesus at the healer that was going to come to

the earth. And we can see this now in

Matthew chapter 8. And I want to read the whole

Matthew 8 · chapter mention

context, Matthew chapter 8, verses 5 through 17, it says

Matthew 8:5–17

this. Now Jesus, when he entered

Capernaum, a centurion had came to him pleading with him,

saying, Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed,

dreadfully tormented. And Jesus said to him, I will

come and heal him. Say I will.

Because remember, we're here to answer those questions.

Is God, is it God's will to heal people today?

Yes. He goes ahead and lets us know

through even this Scripture, Yes, I will.

I will come and I will heal Him. Amen.

That there's more. We're going to see in a minute.

So the cherion centurion answered him and said, Lord, I'm

not worthy that you should come under my roof, but only speak

the word, and my servant will be healed.

For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.

And I say to this one, go, and he goes, and to another come,

and he comes, and to my servant do this and he does it, which is

great. A great teaching on a person

that's really submitted to authority is the one that's

going to walk in the fullness of health and healing.

But that's another teaching. But in verse 10 it says, when

Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to those who followed, as

surely I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even

in Israel. And I say to you that many will

come from the east and the West, and sit down with Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven.

Verse 12 But the sons of the Kingdom will be cast out into

outer darkness, and there will be weeping and gnashing of

teeth. And then Jesus said to the

centurion, Go your way, and as you have believed, so let it be

done to you. And his servant was healed that

very hour, or that same hour. Now when Jesus had come into

Peter's house, he saw his wife, his wife's mother, lying sick

with a fever. And so he touched her hand, and

the fever left her, and she arose and served them.

And when evening had come, they brought to him many who were

demon possessed, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and and

healed all who were sick. Verse 17 That it might be

fulfilled. This is where it was fulfilled

that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah,

which is what we just read the prophet saying he himself took

our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

See that? So we're moving on over into the

New Testament or the New Covenant.

And we know that Hebrews says this is even a new and better

covenant with new and better promises.

Amen. So if we can see that he wanted

healing to happen in the old Covenant, how much more Jesus

took those stripes on his back so that we could walk in this

today. And it's going to be even more

of our redemption for us to walk in the promise of healing for

our lives. Listen, we need to know that God

just wants us healed. He just wants us healed.

He wants us healthy. He wants our minds right?

He wants our bodies physically able to carry around the glory

of God everywhere we go. Come on.

And of course, He wants our spirit redeemed and made new.

Amen. Hallelujah.

So we can see another scripture here that talks of Matthew 817

and Isaiah. We see it again in first Peter

1 Peter 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2 and verse 24. It says this, Who himself bore

our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to

sin, might live unto righteousness.

Here it goes, by whose stripes you were healed?

When were we healed? 2000 years ago when Jesus died

on that cross, took those stripes on his back, we were

healed, we were already healed. And again, all we are doing is

those that are going to be walking into what belongs to us.

Just like any other promise in the scripture.

All we have to do is walk into it.

Amen. We're not trying to fight for it

and we're not trying to beg God for it.

We already have it. We already have it come on, and

it's already been made available to us.

We just have to believe it. Amen.

We have to believe it. We have to act upon it so that

we can walk in all the benefits that belong to us.

Let's look at Psalms. This is like any other benefit

that belongs to us, like any other promise that belongs to

us. All we have to do is walk into

it. In Psalms 1031 and five, it says

this. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, all

that is within me. Bless His holy name.

Bless the Lord, Oh my soul. And forget not all of His

benefits. We know that the Kingdom of God

has benefit packages and His benefit, one of his benefit

packages, Come on, that belongs to every single one of us.

As an inheritance. Come on, as an inheritance, as

an heir, this healing belongs to us.

Amen. This is a benefit for the

Kingdom of God. It's His health care that

belongs to each and every one of us.

His healthcare system in the Kingdom of God.

Forget none of his benefits. Verse three.

Who forgives us all your iniquities?

Who heals all your diseases? Say he heals all my diseases.

Say it again. He heals all my diseases.

He heals all of my diseases. Say it like you mean it.

There is not one disease, come on, that he cannot heal.

Hallelujah. Glory to God, all of them.

All of them, Hallelujah. Who redeems your life from

destruction? Who crowns you with loving

kindness and tender mercies? Who satisfies your mouth with

good things? Just think about that.

We saw that when God created the earth.

He said it was all what? And he's still saying here, I

want to satisfy your mouth with good things.

Come on, is, is, is sickness and disease good?

It's not good. None of it.

So we have to believe that it was His will for us to walk in

some good things so that your youth is renewed like the

eagles. That every day, day by day, you

can be renewed. Spirit, soul and body.

Now we know the body is decaying, but we can fight

against it. We can fight against it.

It's up to us, right? I mean, we were just dealing

with a few things with the university that was given us

FCU, and the founder of it is 84 this year.

And she was here with us these last couple of days just getting

with it. Getting with it.

I mean, you would never even think she was 84.

Not on one medication. Old school Pentecost, full of

the Holy Ghost, loves the Holy Ghost.

She said, I don't even beat around the Bush when I do the

altar care. The first thing I ask him is,

are you filled with the Holy Ghost?

Because that's what you need. Amen.

But anyway, still working the altar care, you know, still

serving the Lord, still driving down 95 by herself at 84 years

old. Come on.

Her youth has been renewed day by day.

Glory to God, glory to God. And she said I'm not going to

sit still because every one of them that sits still, they die.

She said I'm not going to sit still.

And her mom lived to what was it 9093 full of the Holy Ghost, Not

a not one pill she was taking driving up till she was a year

before she passed driving, preaching.

Come on, this is what He wants for our lives.

And see, we have to push back what the world tries to tell us.

We have to push back on it because we know what belongs to

us. We know this inheritance that we

can walk in health and healing as long as we are here on this

earth to accomplish the purposes and the plans that God has for

our life. And what a testimony.

What a testimony that she refuses to die in her 60s like

everybody else and beyond. They say by the time you're 60,

most individuals are on 10 to 15 to 20 medications.

Come on. This is not what God wants for

our lives. Hallelujah.

Actually, she said she was walking the beach, walking up

and down the beach. And because she has a condo on

the beach, she lives in Orlando, walking up and down her her her

daughter is Martha Minuzzi, you know, the singer, the worship

leader, walking up and down the beach because she's getting

ready to go to Greece and fasting and getting herself in

shape because she's got to build up her stamina.

So she's not going to hold anybody back while she's in

Greece doing all The Walking that she's getting ready to do,

still traveling and doing things on her own.

Even this one, she's going with the family, but she's been on

multiple trips on her own. She said, I'm not going to stop.

Amen. See, that's a, that's a

mentality and that's a belief in what God has promised us, Amen.

So, and you can have as much of it or as little of it as you

want, but we have to be determined if we want it, then

we're going to walk in all of it.

Amen. So we see here that this was a

benefit packaged to us in the Kingdom of God.

Now let's look at Psalms one O 7.

Psalms one O 7 and 19 and 20 says this.

And then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he

saved them out of all of their distresses.

Here it is. He sent His word and healed them

and delivered them from their destruction.

He wants us completely delivered from our distresses now.

Distresses is mental, is anxiety, is stress.

He wants us. We don't have to worry.

Come on. We don't have to be anxious

about anything because we know it's proven by doctors that it

only causes disease in our body. When the human being begins to

stress out, have anxiety, all these things, it ruins and havoc

on your body, right? But anyway, verse 20 says, and

he sent his word. He sent his word.

Who is the word? John 11 Come on, in the

beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word

was God. Come on.

And then in verse 14 we behold His glory, who is Jesus?

He is the manifest as presence. Come on of the Word in the flesh

that He sent. So we know the Word is living

and active, which I don't even have time to talk, baby.

We'll get into that next week. But he sent his word to heal us,

and Jesus is the word that he sent.

And in John one it says, oh, I already said that in first John

three and eight, it says this He who sins is of the devil, for

the devil has sinned from the beginning.

We talked about that in Genesis last week, says this.

For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.

Come on, listen to what he said. For this purpose the Son of God

was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

He is manifested. He sent his word and manifested

Jesus come on to destroy the works of the devil where sin and

death was able to come in, and He is the root of it all right?

Disobedience, sin, death, disease entered.

And so He sent His word. But guess what?

The word Hallelujah destroyed the works of the devil.

Hallelujah, He destroyed the works of the devil.

He already destroyed the works of the devil.

It's already done. It's already done.

Hallelujah, say it's already done.

It's already done, Hallelujah. It's already done now, Jesus,

God sent Jesus as the word into the earth to destroy the works

of the devil. And then we see that then Jesus.

See, we're proving a point that it was always God's will to heal

man because Jesus said in John, I only do the will of the

Father. This is important that you see

God the Father showed himself as Jehovah Rapha in the old

covenant and then he sent Jesus into the earth to destroy the

works of the devil that brought in through sickness and disease,

sin and death. And then he goes to say in John

1037 and 38, if I do not do the works of my Father, do not

believe me, but I do, though you don't believe me, believe the

works that you may know and believe that the Father is in me

and I in him. So Jesus, we know all through

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we can see time and time again all

the healings that were manifesting when people were

brought to him. Amen all.

And he's saying, if you've seen me do these works, then you know

it's because I do the will of the Father, right?

Yes, right, yes, Amen. So it's his will, it's his will.

Look at Acts chapter 10. This is great.

Acts 10 · chapter mention

Again, it's the Father's will that we walk in healing.

Today we're in the New Testament, Acts 1038, who

anointed Jesus, God the Father. Look how God anointed Jesus come

on of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power who went about

doing good and healing all, say healing all.

Look at this healing all. Here he goes and shows you where

the root of the problem was. All who were what oppressed by

the devil for God was with him. So for us to say that God

doesn't want his people healed today goes completely against

scripture, completely against it.

Come on, completely against it now because God anointed Jesus

to do good with the Holy Spirit in power, we went about healing.

Let's look at Luke 418, Luke 4/18/19.

The Spirit Jesus saying the Spirit of the Lord is what upon

me, because he who's he, God has anointed me to preach the gospel

to the poor. He has sent me to heal the

broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the

recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are

what oppressed here. It is to proclaim the acceptable

year of the Lord. Same God, same anointing to be

able to bring healing to the world.

He anointed him. God anointed Jesus to do this,

but we're going to see He didn't just anoint Jesus to do it.

Come on. He didn't just anoint Jesus to

do it. We're going to see later on.

Look at Matthew 8, Matthew 8. Remember, we are laying a

foundation of the Word of God so that it will be irrefutable for

you to ever think that it is God's will not to heal your

body. Remember, we are building our

case, our foundation upon the Word right, and we're going to

prove it by the Word, not disprove it by experience or

what we've seen in the world. This is important because plenty

of people, because of evidence, want to think, try to explain

healing away. But you can't do it when you

strictly look at the scripture and what he says about healing.

Matthew 8-1 and three says this. When he had come down from the

mountain, the great multitudes followed him, and behold, a

leper came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you are

willing, say willing, you can make me clean.

And then Jesus put his hand and touched him, saying, What I am

willing, Say I am willing, I am willing.

Jesus said this, I am willing what I am willing be cleansed,

and immediately his leprosy was cleansed, Hallelujah, glory to

God. So here we see that it was

completely the Father's will that we would walk in healing,

and Jesus was anointed by the Father to also demonstrate that

healing to the everyone who would believe in the earth.

All right, so we prove that he's saying I am willing to heal

people. Now let's look at Jesus.

Jesus who is our healer. Matthew 417 says this.

From that time, Jesus began to preach and say repent for the

Kingdom of heaven is at hand. He's letting us know, listen,

I've just came to show you the Kingdom of God and to let you

know this is how the Kingdom works in the earth.

And I'm going to demonstrate. I'm going to demonstrate for you

and manifest for you the power of God and show you how it works

in the earth for healing. Come on.

Because if you drop on down in that same chapter to verses 23

and 25, it says this and Jesus went about all of Galilee.

This is what he was doing when He said repent for the Kingdom

of heavens at hand. He went about all of Galilee,

teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the

Kingdom and healing all kinds of sickness, say all kinds of

sickness, all kinds of them, and all kinds of disease among the

people, say all kinds of disease, sickness and disease,

all of them. He went about healing, OK, and

then in verse 24 it says then his fame went throughout all of

us Syria and they brought to him all sick people who were

afflicted with various diseases and torments.

Remember, sickness, disease, torments are mental, all, all of

it, various diseases, sicknesses, torments, and those

who were even demon possessed epileptics and paralytics, and

he healed them. And then it says great

multitudes follow him from Galilee and Dicopolis,

Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

You see that? Now go to Matthew 935.

Again, we're just talking about Jesus here and what he did and

how he demonstrated that the Kingdom of heaven was at hand,

says Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages,

teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the

Kingdom, and healing every sickness and disease among the

people. Matthew 1414 and Jesus went out,

He saw a great multitude and He was moved with compassion for

them. Look at here now we're seeing a

side of Jesus. We were moved.

He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick

because He is a loving, compassionate, merciful Father.

Amen. And he wants us whole and healed

completely. Come on.

Now we see here in demonstration there's so many scriptures we

could talk about. Like I said, in Matthew, Mark,

Luke, and John, there was like over 60 something healings that

took place, whether it be healings, whether it also was

raising of the dead. But we see all through these

chapters that He demonstrated that healing power everywhere He

went. But we can see in these last few

scriptures that it wasn't just about him.

He also now commissioned His disciples, his apostles, to go

out and to do the same thing, to go out and to do the same thing.

OK, and let's look at a couple of these scriptures.

In Matthew chapter 10 and verse one, it says this.

Matthew 10 · chapter mention

And when he had called his 12 disciples to him, He gave them

power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all

kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases.

You see that? So here he's sending out his 12

disciples and he wants them to do exactly as he does and gave

them the authority to go out and to do it everywhere they went.

And Luke 91 and two says this. Then he called the 12 disciples

together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to

cure diseases. And he sent them out to preach

the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

And we know one way the Kingdom of God is demonstrated is that

we can see sickness and disease cured and healed off of people's

bodies. Hallelujah.

And He expects us to walk in that exactly as He did.

But not only did the 12 disciples do it, and I think or

the apostles do it, it's important to you to know because

many people said, well, it died out with the apostles.

But here we see that he sent out not just his apostles, He sent

out now 70 disciples, 70 disciples to do the same thing.

Look at this in what was that scripture?

Here it is in Luke, Luke 10, one through 9.

Do you have that on the? I didn't have it typed up.

Anyway, you can see here that he said exactly the same thing to

the 70 disciples, that he sent them out to heal the sick.

And he said this, that the Kingdom of God is nigh unto you.

So even with the disciples, when they went out, he wanted to

demonstrate that the Kingdom of God is right here.

So let's Rita said, after these things the Lord appointed 70

others also, and sent them two by two before his face into

every city and place where he himself was about to go, and

said to them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are

few. Therefore pray to the Lord of

the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest.

Go your way. Behold, I send you out as lambs.

And then he goes on to say, You know, da da, da da da, where is

verse? What is that verse 9?

What about 10? Heal the sick There it is.

See it, Heal the sick there and say the Kingdom of God has come

near you. You see that?

So he also sent out these 70 disciples and told them to do

the same thing. So it didn't stop with the 12

apostles is what I'm saying. It didn't stop.

Then he sent out more to go do the same thing.

But what's so awesome about this is that we see now here in Mark

16, Mark 16, it says this. And he said to them, verse 15

through 18, go into all the world, preach the gospel to

every creature, and he who believes and is baptized will be

saved. Are people still being saved

today? Are people still being baptized

today? And then he goes on to say, but

he who does not believe will be condemned, and these signs will

follow those who believe. See that those who believe.

Now these signs are going to follow those who believe.

Who are those who believe? Those that were saved and those

that were baptized. So if people are still being

saved, still being baptized, and they're in a place of a

believer, now, he's saying, now those who believe in my name,

they will cast out demons, They will speak with new tongues,

they will take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly

thing, it will by no means harm them or hurt them.

And they will lay hands on the sick and will recover.

Hallelujah, they will recover. They will recover.

So every believer now in the church, in the Church age and we

can see in the book of Acts, they turn the world upside down

because those that were in the book of Acts, what were they

doing? They were doing the exact same

thing that they were obviously seen.

All the 70 disciples, everybody doing Paul did it.

They were all laying hands on people.

People were being healed. So much so we know that even

with Paul, that when people would pass by his shadow, would

pass by sick people, they were healed from his shadow.

What about also in the book of Acts, we can see that people

were also healed by aprons, handkerchiefs, aprons, that

Paul, they would pray and have hands laid on them or whatever,

pray over them and then put them on sick people and they would be

what healed. They would be made whole.

So again, healing did not die out with the apostles.

It did not cease to exist. And that Jesus was the only one,

one that could actually heal. No, because then we also see

even in First Corinthians chapter 2 or 12 where he talks

1 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

about the fact that we could actually walk in gifts that were

supernatural gifts, gifts of healings, working of miracles.

Why would He also give those gifts if it wasn't for today?

You see that? So He also gave us gifts as He

would will that people could walk in, laying hands on people,

where there would be gifts of healing that would manifest

miracles that would manifest in people's lives.

Amen. So He expected for us as

believers to all be able to do the same thing that Jesus did,

and we ought to be in that same posture.

If you have seen the Father, you've seen me and reverse it.

If you see me, you ought to see the Father and the works that He

did through our lives and does through our lives.

He ought to be able to see. People ought to be able to see.

You ought to be able to go to work and lay hands on people at

work if they're running a fever or they're not feeling real good

that day. We know many people were healed

of fevers. This is nothing for God.

Come on, nothing. And we ought now we need to

start being bold about it. We need to start saying, I can

lay hands on the sick and they can recover.

Come on. I am a believer.

I am baptized and I believe that the healing power of God can

flow through my hands. Hallelujah, glory to God.

And you know what? How we're going to actually walk

these things out in our life is if we continue to meditate on

these scriptures, but not only meditate on the Word, we have to

have the revelation of the fact that God wants people healed

today. And I'm going to tell you,

people are in a mental state today.

I believe there's going to be more manifestations of some

mental healing in people's lives and torment.

In people's lives because of all this bipolar, you know, stuff

that's happening and all the in just people, you know, in their

minds because they're medicated out of their minds too.

And medication, these medications are in themselves

psychotic when you read them, can cause depression.

Can't. How can it cause depression?

It opens up the mental realm, opens up the mental realm to

demonic activity. Come on.

And so, I mean, and it's rampant today.

And you, you know, when you walk in your workplace to somebody's

always having a, you know, something going on in their

life, you, you ought to be able to recognize this person is just

tormented in their mind and, and go out and say, Lord, do you

want me to, you know, help this person, pray over them, lay

hands on them because listen, people are in need today and

we've been commissioned. And this is one way that we can

demonstrate the Kingdom of God to people and it can draw.

Remember, we say it have said it this way.

Healing is the dinner bell to salvation.

God is so good that he wants to demonstrate the healing power of

God in people's lives to be able to bring them into the Kingdom

of God so they won't be able to refute.

God did this. He's real, He's real.

But if he's not a real healer to us, if he is not Jehovah Rapha

to us, if he is not the great Physician to us, come on, then

how are we going to demonstrate the Kingdom of God to people

that really need it, that really need it, Hallelujah, That need

healing in their bodies, healing in their bodies, healing in

their mind, being tormented by fear and anxiety, tormented.

God wants for us to go out and demonstrate what the church

looked like in the book of Acts, Amen.

And you know what? Everyone of us know this, that

have been here, that God is the healer and that he expects us to

lay hands, all of us, to lay hands on the sick and see people

recover, all of us. It's not just for the preacher,

and it's not just so that we have to be drawn to one person

that can only demonstrate the healing power of God.

No, he wants every single one of his children to be able to lay

hands on the sick and see him recover.

Every one of us to be able to say sickness and disease.

You get out of this person's body in the name of Jesus.

I cast it out. Come on.

And I'm telling you, we're living in an hour that these

demonstrations are going to be that that brings people into the

Kingdom of God and the power of God because they're looking for

all kinds of answers, right? We know they're going to

psychics. We know they're where they're

going, everywhere to look for a way to be able to relieve

themselves, self help and all these things that they're doing

and nothing's working. And we have the answers and he's

commissioned us, commissioned us to do it.