Our Argument For Divine Healing

Let’s begin where we will end.

There is no biblical or theological foundation to say that God sometimes wants people sick.

From Genesis to Revelation, the consistent pattern of Scripture shows that God’s will has always been life, healing, and restoration. Jesus revealed the Father’s heart perfectly. He healed everyone who came to Him in faith without exception. Acts 10:38 says, “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

If sickness was ever God’s tool to teach or humble people, then Jesus would have been working against His Father every time He healed someone. But Jesus said, “I only do what I see the Father do” (John 5:19). That means every healing, every deliverance, and every restoration came directly from the will of God. Jesus was not breaking divine policy. He was enforcing it.

Isaiah 53:4–5 ties this together: “Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows… and with His stripes we are healed.” The same sacrifice that paid for sin paid for healing. You would never question whether it is God’s will to forgive someone, so you should not question whether it is His will to heal either.

Not everyone receives healing, but that is not because God withholds it. It is because there are battles of faith, understanding, and sometimes demonic resistance involved. God’s will does not change based on experience. His will remains life, wholeness, and freedom through Christ.

The Old Testament Foundation

Healing did not start with Jesus’ earthly ministry. It began with God’s covenant character revealed in the Old Testament. In Exodus 15:26, right after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, God declared, “I am the Lord that healeth thee.” That was not a random statement. It was a revelation of His nature. Healing is not just something God does. It is who He is.

Deuteronomy 7:15 reinforces this truth. “The Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt upon thee.” These promises were based on covenant relationship, not on God’s unpredictable moods. When Israel walked in obedience and fellowship with Him, healing and divine health followed naturally. When they turned away, sickness and disease came as part of the curse, not as God’s active will but as the result of being outside His covering.

Psalm 103:2–3 confirms the connection between forgiveness and healing. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.” David understood that healing was as much a part of God’s covenant goodness as forgiveness. Both flowed from His mercy.

Proverbs 4:20–22 adds, “My son, attend to my words… for they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” God compared His Word to medicine. He would not use that comparison if it were not His will to bring healing to those who receive His truth. Every time His people returned to Him, healing and restoration followed. When they rejected Him, the curse of sin opened the door for sickness and destruction.

The prophets also pointed forward to the Messiah as the ultimate expression of God’s healing will. Isaiah 53 prophesied that the coming Christ would carry our sicknesses and bear our pains. Matthew 8:16–17 later confirms that Jesus’ healing ministry was the fulfillment of that prophecy. The same God who revealed Himself as the Lord who heals in Exodus is the same God who healed through Jesus in the Gospels.

The Causative and Permissive Will of God

A major reason people think God sometimes sends sickness is a misunderstanding of how Hebrew language expresses divine action. In many Old Testament passages, God is described as directly causing things that, in context, He only permitted. Deuteronomy 28 lists the curses that would come upon Israel if they disobeyed God, including disease, destruction, and death. The King James Version translates those statements in a causative way, saying things like “The Lord shall smite thee with a fever” or “The Lord shall bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt.”

However, Hebrew scholars have long noted that these verbs can also be understood in the permissive sense. Because the people chose to step outside of God’s protection through disobedience, He allowed the natural and spiritual consequences of sin to operate. God did not send disease. He simply could not shield them from it when they rejected His ways. This understanding aligns with His revealed nature throughout Scripture. He is the giver of life, not the author of death.

James 1:17 confirms this truth in the New Testament. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” God’s nature has never changed. He is not both the healer and the one making people sick. The permissive language of the Old Testament reflects what happens when people step out from under His covenant covering, not what He desires to happen.

The Consistency of God’s Nature

Jesus came to clear up centuries of confusion about the Father’s will. He said, “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father” (John 14:9). He never once made someone sick, never refused healing to the desperate, and never told anyone their suffering was God’s lesson. His actions revealed the same heart that had been true from the beginning, the heart of a healer.

Hebrews 13:8 declares, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” The same God who revealed Himself as the healer in Exodus is the same God who healed through Christ, and He remains the same today through the power of the Holy Spirit. His will has never shifted from health to sickness, from life to death, or from blessing to curse.

Healing is not a side issue or a spiritual luxury. It is part of redemption itself. The same blood that forgives sin also restores the body, mind, and soul. God’s will is healing, not sometimes, not occasionally, but always.