In Part 1, we began to investigate the Good News of the promise of healing that God has for His people. Remember, there are two very important things that are requisite for us to understand in order to possess God’s provision. These principles are so powerful that if you begin to see and implement them in your life, you’ll realize you don’t even have to wait for gifts of the Spirit or the laying on of hands to receive your healing. 

Let’s take a look at the first one. 

The Blessing: An Abbreviated Look

In Genesis 1, God was finishing His creation. In verse 28, after He created man in His image, He blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth…” God spoke His blessing over them, declaring that their seed would be blessed and fill the whole earth. This is generally called the Blessing of the Lord. 

In Genesis 9, God spoke the same blessing over Noah in verses 1 and 7. 

Then, in Genesis 12, God called Abraham and spoke the Blessing over him in verses 2 and 3. The Blessing of the Lord became the Blessing of Abraham. In chapter 13:2, the Word states that Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold. Why? Because the Blessing of the Lord maketh rich (Proverbs 10:22). That’s just one of the things it does.

In Genesis 14, Abraham met Melchizedek, priest of the Most High God. Two things happened: 

1. Melchizedek blessed Abraham again.

2. Abraham gave him the tithe.

Then we see Isaac in Genesis 26:12-13. Isaac sowed in the great famine and received in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him, and he grew very great. In verses 28-29, Abimelech said to Isaac, “We saw certainly the Lord was with thee,” and “Thou art now the blessed of the Lord.” The Blessing of Abraham was inherited.

In Genesis 27:28-29 and 28:3-4, we see the Blessing passed on to Jacob. Then, in 28:12-22, Jacob has the dream of the ladder to heaven, and God confirms the covenant, telling him in verse 14, “Your seed shall be as the dust of the earth” (like “Be fruitful and multiply”) and “I am with thee…” In verse 22, Jacob promises the tithe.

A few hundred years later, Moses came and rescued the children of Israel from Egypt, took them to Mount Sinai, and received the law from God—along with the Blessing and the cursing found in Deuteronomy 28. Notice that everything is blessed to be fruitful and multiply, especially in verses 2-6 and verse 11.

Okay, now pay attention—you don’t want to miss this. 

Turn to Exodus 23:26. When it says that nothing shall cast their young or be barren, it is another way of saying “You will be fruitful and multiply.” This is speaking of the Blessing. 

Now look at verse 25: “Ye shall serve the Lord Your God, and He shall bless thy bread and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” 

When you look up the words “take away” in Michelson’s Strong’s Concordance, they mean “to turn off.” In other words, God is saying, “I will take sickness away—and turn it off.”

Now look at Deuteronomy 7:13-15. In verses 13 and 14, He says, “Be fruitful and multiply, and there shall be no one barren” (the Blessing). Then in verse 15: “And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness…” Same wording. “I’m turning off all sickness.”

When I was small, my dad used to say that if you are messing with a plug in the wall and you feel a little something—get your hand out of there quick! However, the electrician said to just go to the breaker box and flip the switch. That will turn off the juice to that box, and no electricity will exist there to hurt you. 

That’s another function of the Blessing.

Now, if you go back to Deuteronomy 28 and read the whole chapter, you will see that in the first 14 verses there is no mention whatsoever of disease. That is because sickness and disease do not exist in the Blessing. But when you read the rest of the chapter beginning at verse 15, you’ll find that the curse is full of sickness and disease.

Think about this: God put the Blessing upon Abraham. From then on, Isaac, Jacob, and their seed—down through the twelve tribes, even down to the woman with a spirit of infirmity in Luke chapter 13—all inherited the Blessing. 

Galatians Chapter 3: The Blessing Is Yours

We need to pay close attention to Galatians chapter 3. Most people are aware of Galatians 3:13 which says, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law” (where sickness exists) “being made a curse for us.” Just like He was made sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Why did He do this? So that “the Blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ” (verse 14), and that we might receive the promise. Because verse 18 says: “If the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.” 

And finally, verse 29: “And if ye be Christ’s” (do you belong to Jesus?) then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.” 

That means you have inherited the Blessing of Abraham—where no sickness or disease even exists! That’s good news!

In Part 3, we’ll add the final principle to the equation.

...to be continued in Part 3 

Click here to read Part One