Step Three: God Wants You Well. Only Satan Wants You to Suffer

by T.L. Osborn

Based upon Receive Miracle Healing by T.L. Osborn
© 89-08 OSFO Used with the Author's permission

Sickness comes from the Devil, not from the Lord.

Erroneous teaching has led countless good people to suffer needlessly, and die early because they believed God put their sickness upon them. They suffer in patience, and never seek healing.

The Bible says Satan... afflicted Job with painful sores. Holy Bible Job 2:7 NIV Not God.

Jesus said the woman bent over was bound by Satan. Lk. 13:11-16 Not God.

The blind and mute were cured when Christ cast out demons. Mtt. 12:22

Similarly, the deaf and mute epileptic boy's sickness was due to a Devil. Not God.

Jesus cast the demon out, and the boy was perfectly cured.

The Scriptures declare all the sick people Christ healed had been oppressed by the Devil.

All sickness is Satan's oppression. Not God's work.

Jesus of Nazareth... went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the Devil. Acts 10:38

Infirmities and disease only came to people after Adam and Eve doubted God's Word.

Such things were the result of sin; personal sin, and sins committed against others.

Satan is the source of all disease

That is the bad news.

But the Good News is: Through Christ, God has already provided the total cure... for any sin, and any disease or infirmity.

Often, in His dealings with a diseased person, Jesus simply cast out a spirit, and they were healed.

Here's why;

Every disease has a life, a germ. Its source is Satan because it destroys.

Jesus said, The thief (Satan) comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. Jn. 10:10

The germ causes the disease to grow just like the germ of life at conception caused us to grow, and become a human body. When that germ, or life, leaves our body, then our body will die. It decays and returns to dust. Likewise, when the spirit of a disease leaves, the disease dies, and it will decay and disappear.

Those who have received Christ by faith, and have become part of God's Family have power (authority) over the spirit of the Devil who brings disease.

... he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons, and to cure diseases. Lk. 9:1 See also Lk. 10:9+19

Jesus said, In my name you will drive out demons. Mk. 16:17

In His Name we have absolute authority to command the life of disease to leave the body of one who trusts in Christ. It must obey us. When it leaves, the disease dies, and the effects vanish.

For example, a cancer has life in it. That life is evil, of the Devil, because it destroys and kills. As long as that life is there, the cancer will continue its work of destruction, but when the life of the cancer is commanded to leave, in Jesus' Name, it must go. Then the cancer is dead. It will decay, and be removed, and the sick person recovers.

Jesus said of true believers,

In my name they will drive out demons... they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well. Mk. 16:17-18

When you understand what the Scriptures clearly teach, that sickness is from Satan, you will resist it, rebuke it, refuse it, and it will leave you as you trust in Christ.

A tip to help your faith:

Farmers cut a deep groove around a tree to kill it. Though its leaves do not wither instantly, it is bound to die. So it is with disease.

Jesus gave believers power to rebuke all evil spirits, and they will die. Perhaps some symptoms, like the leaves, may not go immediately, but when we have rebuked the life of the disease in faith, we know that the sickness has been destroyed from the root, and all symptoms will disappear.

Now Take Step Four