There's Healing in Gilead!

Many believers whom have become ill for whatever the reason may be, are aware of healing scriptures, and a number of them choose to stand steadfast, immovable, unshakeable, on the Living Word of God until they were healed completely.

One of the most notable testimonies of this taking place was in life of Dodie Osteen, Co-Founder of Lakewood Church in Houston, Tx, widow of the late John Osteen who began the ministry many decades ago. Lakewood is the largest church in America and, as you may know, is now being Pastored by Joel & Victoria Osteen, John's son and daughter-in-law.

Joel has often told from the pulpit the story of how his mother somehow contracted or became ill with cancer many years ago. He has told, time and time again, that even though there was that initial shock, she and the family did not allow that to remain, but rather began a journey of faith that would truly become a legacy following her, as well as a powerful testimony! 

Dodie chose to get out her bible and look up and find every healing scripture, promise and testimony that she could find, so that she could confess and stand on before the Lord in faith, day and night, night and day, believing for her healing relentlessly, till finally the cancer gave way and she was miraculously healed! Her faith in the Healing Power of our Lord God, Jesus Christ made her WHOLE!

However, what many of you might not realize is that the very thing that Dodie chose to do was and still is the exact remedy that the scripture gives for healing, especially when medicines have failed and the ailment remains.

In Jeremiah 46:11 it says this:

"Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured."

What is hidden within this verse of scripture is truly remarkable. The word Gilead there in the original language, Hebrew, in its deepest root, means:

"A Heap of Testimony, Something rolled, Heap of stone, by Analogy a Spring of Water (plural waves) :- Billow, Heap, Spring, Wave."

The word Balm means: "to Crack [as by pressure], Hence to Leak; Distillation"

Brother, sister or friend, the word of God is filled with Testimonies of people being Healed by the Lord! This speaks of one taking up a HEAP of TESTIMONIES and Causing them to Billow Over Himself, To Receive like a Spring Unto Herself, To Allow Them to Wash Over Them like Waves...

"IN SUCH AN ENORMOUS MANNER THAT THEY "CRACK" AN OPENING & BRING FORTH HEALING INTO THOSE LIVES!"

This is exactly what Dodie Osteen did and was made whole, decades ago, and she remains cancer free, testifying to this very day! She also leads her own Prayer & Healing Service Every Tuesday Evening at Lakewood, where people come from all over to receive an impartation of healing from the Lord, through her life, that has been healed.

Can you see that this is by no means talking about taking a couple of scriptures and speaking them over oneself a couple times a day....?? 

NO! THIS IS LITERALLY SAYING TO RELENTLESSLY OVERWHELM OURSELVES WITH HEALING TESTIMONIES AND CRACK THAT SICKNESS OPEN WITH THE HEALING POWER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTIL WE ARE COMPLETELY WHOLE AND MADE ENTIRELY WELL! 

From Hezekiah being told that he needed to get ready to die and then finding mercy from the Lord because he did not want to die yet, then receiving 15 more years of LIFE from the Lord; to Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army, who finally obeyed the word of the Lord through the prophet Elisha and was HEALED of leprosy... 

THERE ARE VAST NUMBERS OF HEALING SCRIPTURES, PROMISES AND TESTIMONIES WITHIN THE WORD OF GOD FOR BOTH YOU AND I TO:

HEAP UPON OURSELVES, LET SPRING OVER US, LET THEM BE LIKE MIGHTY WAVES CRASHING INTO OUR SOUL'S OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL THE CRACKING OF HEALING BALM OPENS IN FULLNESS!

THERE IS HEALING IN THE WORD OF GOD FOR YOU AND I RIGHT NOW!

And if one wanted to find something more recent, to help him or her believe that JESUS IS STILL HEALING TODAY, then all he or she needs to do is just search online for a little while and before long you will run into a TRUE TESTIMONY THAT YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART OF HEART'S CANNOT BE DENIED! Ask people in your church, even, who have maybe not even testified of their healings yet or perhaps not testified of their multiple healings throughout their lives as of yet!

When the medicines of men fail, GILEAD HAS A BALM THAT WILL PREVAIL!

Grace & Peace to You,

Rev. Jason Kruse