God's Medicine

“My son, attend to My words; incline your ears unto My sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those that find them, and health to all your flesh” (Proverbs 4:20-22).

The Hebrew word for “health” in this verse is “medicine.” (It is translated medicine in the margin of many Bibles.) God’s Word is medicine to all our flesh. The medicine God prescribes for your healing is His Word.

Many make the mistake of substituting “belief in healing” for the actual taking of God’s medicine – His Word. They say, “I believe in healing” or “I believe God can and does heal” without actually taking the medicine. What good would it do you to believe in food if you didn’t eat any? You would starve. What good would it do you to believe in water if you didn’t actually drink it? You would die of thirst. God’s Word is God’s medicine and must be internalized in order to benefit you!

There are several parallels between God’s medicine (God’s Word) and natural medicine. First, God’s Word is a healing agent just as natural medicine is a healing agent or catalyst. In other words, the medicine itself contains the capacity to promote and produce healing. God’s Word contains inherent within it the capacity, energy, ability, and nature to effect healing in your body.

The Word itself contains the power to produce what it says, as when God said, “Let there be light” and there was light from Genesis 1. Healing scriptures contain within them the capacity to overcome sickness, disease, pain, infirmities, and produce healing and soundness. The key to partaking of the life and healing energy in the Word is feeding on it through meditation and affirmation until it penetrates your spirit where it deposits that life and energy.

Keep feeding your faith and starving your doubts!