Matthew 8 - He Healed Them All!

When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Matthew 8:16-17

Matthew tells us that after Jesus healed the leprous man, He healed the Centurion's servant who was grievously afflicted by demons. The unique thing about the Centurion is that he was a gentile pagan who recognized Jesus as Messiah and treated Him with the same respect as a ruler or king. He saw and understood the authority Jesus had over demons and disease and KNEW He could heal at the spoken word - no prayers or fanfare, but just a word of authority, the same way the Centurion would speak to his soldiers. Jesus told His disciples He had not seen such great faith in all of Israel.

In Peter's house, Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law of a fever, and again, the multitudes thronged Him. All who came to Him at Peter's house that night who were demon afflicted and sick were healed. ALL. Matthew said this was to fulfill Isaiah 53, that "surely He has born all our sicknesses and diseases."

When looking at the original Hebrew language in Isaiah, it appears that prophet also says that Messiah bore all of mankind's sicknesses and disease, NOT griefs and sorrows as the KJV states. Praise God for the Internet that enables us non-scholars to see the original language!

He healed them ALL because He bore ALL sickness and disease!

Healing Scriptures

Here's just a quick introduction to my reading of the healing scriptures found in the Old and New Testament. I had someone ask for a list of the Scriptures regarding healing, so I thought I would read them out loud on video for people (including myself) to listen, mediate and feed upon as they focus on the Lord's goodness.

Keep feeding on God's Word and you will find your faith strengthening and your body changing. Sometimes healing is quick and other times it takes longer. Don't question God, but just keep believing. Do what the Holy Spirit tells you!

This is not a substitution for doctors, medicine, and medical treatment! Again, do what the Holy Spirit is telling you to do. Listen to Him and obey!

Email me at carolinefriday@aol.com and I'll send you my free ebook, God Wants You Healed! and/or the accompanying bible study, Jesus, the Healer. I'll also send a list of scriptures in PDF.

Listen and be blessed!

Old Testament Scriptures:

New Testament Scriptures - part 1:

New Testament Scriptures - part 2:

Have you HEARD of Jesus?

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? Mark 5:25-30.

I love this story of the woman who suffered a female bleeding disorder for twelve years but had the audacity to believe her condition would not disqualify her from being healed. In biblical times, under the Mosaic Law, this woman could have been stoned for pressing into a crowd of supposed righteous people and infecting them with her spiritual and physical uncleanness. And then to make matters worse, she had the nerve to touch a holy rabbi! In their minds, she suffered because of some undisclosed, secret sin or generational curse. Doctors would never be able to heal her, and no amount of money could buy her out of her situation – she was doomed to suffer until she atoned for her obvious sin. What self-righteous Jewish man would ever marry her? She certainly would never be able to bear children. She was a rejected outcast who many feared because her “uncleanness” might be catching. What a horrible fate!

Like the Jews of her day, many of us Christians sitting in denominational churches have been told time and again by many well-meaning pastors and bible study teachers that we, like this woman, must first become “clean” before we can approach a holy God. They say we must confess our myriad sins first and “get right” with God before we could ever approach His holy presence to ask for healing. Just recently, my husband accompanied me to a local healing service, but when he came forward for prayer, he was told he could not be healed because he had unforgiven sin, unconfessed sin, and unforgiveness toward others! If these prayors had lived in this woman’s day, I’m sure they would have strong-armed her to the ground and given her a good lecture on sin before she had a chance to defile the righteous Jesus. When are we Christians going to wake up and reject this kind of teaching?

Answer: like this woman, it will be when we hear about Jesus! But don’t we hear about Jesus every week at church? I don’t know – do you? What do you think this poor woman heard about Jesus? Did she hear that He made everyone confess their sins and go through a long forgiveness list before receiving healing? Did she believe she had to be perfect before approaching Him? She was certainly imperfect for breaking the law by even being in public, much less touching the hem of a holy rabbi’s garment. No, she must have heard about a different Jesus, a Jesus who had mercy and compassion and went about healing all those afflicted by the devil, because God was with Him. (Acts 10:38).

She KNEW He would heal her because of all the good things she had heard about Him – healing the leprous man, the man born blind, casting out a legion of devils out of the mad man who lived in the catacombs of Gadara. In fact, she had so much faith in Jesus’s power to heal that she merely said to herself, “If I can just touch His clothes, I shall be well.” She risked the public scrutiny of her fellow Jews, the chance that she might be kicked and spit upon, that she might be chastised and forever expelled from the synagogue, that they might pick up stones and kill her for making a public profession that what Jesus presented was TRUTH and what she had been taught for years was a lie. Her persistence in pressing through for healing was a public profession of faith that He could and would do what the law could not and never would be able to do.

Fortunately for us, her story has been preserved in the Word as a lesson for us. Jesus warned us not to be deceived in the last days. There will be many false teachings in our midst, telling us that our sins are our problem, when He took all our sins away 2000 years ago on the cross! If this sweet Jewish woman was instantly healed by her dogged faith that enabled her to take from Jesus, how much more should we who are born again IN HIM after the cross and the resurrection press in and likewise take our healing? Selah – think about it!

Pressing In For Healing - a Personal Story

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee. Exodus 15:26

I've written a book and Bible study on divine healing, taught it for years, listened to countless teachings from anointed teachers and preachers and have stood on these Scriptures and truths many times for my own healing and for my family and friends. I have witnessed miraculous, quick recoveries, some that took days, and others longer, but in every case where the believer stood in faith, healing came. At the same time, I have seen several believers throw in the towel because manifestation didn't happen in their time frame. They gave up and caved in to the devil's lies, believing they would never be healed and that it was God's will for them to be sick. I have to admit, I was always a bit judgmental of those people, but now I have more compassion because I recently experienced the same strong temptation to give up and quit.

As a parent, the worse thing imaginable is see your child hurting. The first thing you want to do is make things right. But what about those situations where you have to watch them suffer in pain and aren't able to do one thing about it? Except pray! Recently, my husband and I were in that situation with our youngest child who had to be whisked to the ER not once, but three times, for excruciating, relentless abdominal pain. With no fever, perfect blood and urine tests, and a clean ultrasound, two sets of doctors were stumped as to the cause, diagnosing severe constipation. When the pain worsened and we were forced to go back to the ER this last time, a CT scan was done and the culprit was revealed: a hidden kidney stone!

Now, when your child is writhing in pain and can't be given pain meds because the doctors are 100 percent sure emergency surgery is inevitable for some horrible, off-the-charts diagnosis, and that child is begging for mercy, let me tell you, if you've never been tempted to give up and quit on your faith, then that day has come! The enemy whispers lies to your mind in countless ways, pressuring you to fall to the floor and prepare for the worst! The spirit of fear descends on you in a blanket of darkness and hopelessness threatens to take root in your soul.

Fortunately, the Lord has given us our prayer tongue, so the Spirit is able to pray the perfect prayer needed in these situations. I paced the halls of the ER while my husband held our daughter's hand, trying his best to comfort her. We both prayed in tongues like crazy, quoted Psalms 91, and cried out to Jesus, not caring what anyone thought. Finally, I called Kenneth Copeland ministries and had a sweet lady on the prayer line pray with me. We came into agreement that healing was ours, that the pain would be bound, that the demonic forces would be stilled, and there would be a shalom peace - that we all would enter into the Lord's rest. After that, I heard the Lord tell me to "rise up and stand firm in all I had learned and come to believe." Years of Bible study and revelation came to a boiling point that night - I either believed or I didn't!

A peace came over my husband and me even though our daughter still suffered. Finally, the diagnosis was made and a treatment plan was devised. Our prayers were answered! She was able to receive pain meds for a situation that was easily fixable compared to all the horrible things the doctor had been expecting. We felt like we had won the lottery!

We declared healing and slept peacefully that night. After a quick, noninvasive surgery the next day, we went home and now things are 90% back to normal. Sure, the healing didn't happen instantaneously, but healing was ours. I won't criticise the method or timing! But we had to press in, and hard, with our faith, while our child cried and moaned in pain.

Why did this happen? I do not know. It was certainly an attack of the enemy. Why was the enemy able to attack like that? I don't know. I don't ask. The disciples asked Jesus the same thing about the man born blind - who had sinned, him or his parents? Wrong question. Jesus taught them that focusing on man's sin is not where we should look. Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. John 9:3-4. 

I don't look to why this happened, I look to Jesus. His word to me the next night in my sleep-state was this: I am the God who healeth thee! That's straight from Exodus 15. In my sleep-prayer, I saw myself and my entire family being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and then covered with the feathers of His wings so that we dwelled in a secret, hidden place. That's straight from Psalms 91, the secret place of the Most High which is the Holy of holies. That's a very good place to be! What can man do unto you if you dwell there? What can the devil do to you there? Sickness, disease, poverty? No-thing! Absolutely NOTHING!

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Psalms 91:1-2.