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This certainly doesn’t need to happen to begin with, but if a believer gets a diagnosis of something permanent, chronic, incurable, or hard to fix, they may suddenly feel like, “This isn’t really happening to me.” They may feel, “This is so foreign, it can’t even be real.” While the world would tell you you’re in denial, I am here to tell you that, as far as the permanent nature of it, you’re right. It’s not really happening to you. Let me explain.

There is simply no such thing as any condition that is permanent, chronic (if defined as long lasting), incurable, or hard to fix. I don’t mean that you can experience healing from all the above. I mean that, for a believer, there is simply no such thing! For a believer, these descriptors don’t even exist. Because Jesus has already provided healing for the whole world, and we have received it inside of us, what could possibly be incurable? What could possibly be permanent anymore? What could possibly be a big deal? These characteristics simply do not exist for any sickness, injury, or disability that a believer could ever undergo. 

I would encourage you to read Isaiah 53:3-5 in the YLT or LSV (which are literal translations of the Bible), and compare that with Matthew 8:16-17. This confirms that the healing Jesus came to provide, through His broken flesh at the cross, was indeed for our bodily sicknesses and infirmities, not just our grief and sorrows.

Listen, I’m not saying that your body is not experiencing a particular sickness or injury. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t take care of your body. After all, it’s the temple of the Lord. Take care of it and do what you think is necessary to benefit it and not hurt it, even medically. But the part of any diagnosis, from a doctor, therapist, or any other person, which is describing your condition as chronic, incurable, or potentially permanent is simply not true. They may say that’s what is happening to you, but it simply is not. While doctors may be able to see certain things in your body now, what they don’t see is the Spirit of life inside of you, which renders everything curable, fixable, and fleeting (Romans 8:2). Whatever you have right now, as a believer, it’s the temporary kind.

God forbid, but if a believer’s body has any kind of sickness, disease, injury, or disability it’s the temporary kind that is easily reversible. It’s not the same sort that the world gets, which they are bound to. This is the kind that has no dominion over you whatsoever. Your relationship to it is entirely different than the world. Yet a doctor, who doesn’t know better, will diagnose you the same as he would the world, expecting the same things for you as he would expect for the world. Why? Because he may be seeing something physically, but most doctors have no clue what you have in your spirit. 

I’m not saying to not take beneficial advice from a doctor as you see fit, to help your body temporarily. It’s not more spiritual if you go to the doctor less or don’t take beneficial medicine, etc. You’re not helping or hindering your receiving from God based on your interaction with the medical field. You receive by faith and faith alone, which is a condition of your mind (Galatians 3:5). But I am telling you to be careful about the part of any diagnosis which tells you that something is permanent or is a big deal to fix. Those kinds of conditions no longer exist for a believer.

I’m not saying that you’re able to be healed of a permanent or incurable condition. I’m telling you that they don’t exist to begin with. How can something be permanent or incurable, if by His stripes healing was already provided and we’ve already received it inside of us? 

But you may say, “I’m only calling my condition incurable, because no doctor can cure it.” But is something incurable, just because your doctor can’t cure it? Your doctor also couldn’t save you from hell, but you would never say that there’s no salvation from hell. Your doctor couldn’t cure that. So why is it, when a doctor can’t cure a sickness, disease, or condition, do we say it’s incurable? Isn’t there Someone else that became the cure already? 

Permanent and incurable conditions don’t exist for believers, so you’re not in denial if a diagnosis like that seems so foreign and unreal. Mind you, your body may certainly have a condition temporarily. I’m not asking you to deny that, but the permanent, incurable, or grave nature of a condition is simply not real for you. If you feel like it’s not really even happening to you, you’re not in denial, you’re just being truthful in this case. 

Your body may very well have a temporary condition or injury. That may be true, but a permanent condition is not happening to you. A chronic, long-lasting condition is not happening to you. A grave condition, meant to be reverenced, is not happening to you. The only kind of conditions that a believer can even possibly get, due to our own lack of knowledge of Jesus, are temporary, fixable, reversible, fleeting, momentary conditions in our bodies. Our spirits are perfect, our minds are being renewed, and therefore our body is being transformed, changed, and healed, from glory to glory. That is the only truth for you as a believer. Anyone that contradicts that — I mean anyone at all — is simply not telling you the truth (Hebrews 12:23 and 2 Corinthians 3:18).

Even Paul, who suffered bodily, for his own lack of knowledge (which he openly admits in 2 Corinthians 4:12 and Romans 8:6), had the wherewithal, by the Holy Spirit, to know that it was light and momentary. It was only an opportunity to see the glory of God exercised in his body. 

2 Corinthians 4:17 (NKJV) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

Do you know what light and momentary is? I can tell you this much, it’s certainly not grave and permanent. That’s for sure.  So, if someone diagnoses you or tells you that you have a condition that is very serious, hard to fix, permanent or incurable, they are in direct violation of the truth of the gospel, and of who you are as a new creation.

I will stress this one more time, I am not asking anyone to deny that their body has a condition. I’m not asking anyone to not take medical advice if it is beneficial. I’m not asking anyone to stop taking medications that you deem helpful to your body for the time being. I am asking you to never accept a message, from anyone in this world, that tells you that your condition is anything but light, momentary, and being transformed as you believe.

When someone uses the words permanent, chronic, incurable, or hard to fix, and you feel like it’s not even happening, you’re not in denial. It’s just the truth. 

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