GOD'S MEDICINE

God’s Word is His medicine for the believer. Many people wonder what keeps us going without patronizing the clinics and chemists. We have our own brand of medicine that is more effective than medical science. It is God’s Word!

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:20-22

The Word is health to all their flesh - healthy livers, healthy kidneys, healthy intestines, healthy bones, healthy marrows, healthy eyes, healthy ear, nose, mouth, legs. It is health to every part of the body of whosoever finds it. The moment the Words enters into you, you become a different person altogether The Word transforms your body to health.

God's Word is an all-purpose drug. Actually, the word translated "health" in verse 22 is also translated "medicine." It is an all-purpose medicine sent to you by God, to immunize you against all forms of sickness and to keep you healthy all the time. All you need to do now is find out how to administer God's medicine in your own situation. This where wisdom comes in.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times (Isaiah 33:6). In the physical, if a doctor gives you some drugs, he will definitely give you the prescription for maximum results. If you are given injection drugs to be injected directly into the blood streams and you decided to use your discretion and mix it with your food as a time-saving device (after all, it will get into the body at last), you will run into difficulties.

In the same way, if you are given drugs and asked to take a specific number of tablets at a specific time, for effect, perhaps two in the morning, two in the afternoon and two in the evening; you cannot say "Well, thank God, I will not be able to wait for this long. As a matter of fact, I will be away for the next two weeks" and then you take the six doses all at once in the morning. You will injure yourself, and that may cost you your life!

You have got the right drugs, but you have not used them appropriately. On the same note, you cannot expect to have the best results by reducing the specified dosage.

God’s Word is medicine. It is drug (health) to your body - every part of your body.

A friend of mine (a man of God) used to be a stammerer. He could not speak well. But the Word got into him and knocked out every bit of stammering. He is now a fluent and eloquent speaker, one of the best the world has ever known. He is a man of great speech! The Word did it.

I have been with him in many private and open discussions, and there is no trace of stammering in him. When the Word enters a man, it transforms him completely.

One of my cousins came and said, "Uncle, I have some problem with my eyes." I gave Him God’s medicine and it worked for him. "It is health to all their flesh."

When the Lord brought this revelation into my consciousness, it knocked all odd ways of praying for the sick out of me. It used to be "Lord, heal him if it be Thy will, but heavenly Father, grant them strength to bear it so that they can see Thy glory." What glory is in sickness? It was a common thing for them to be sick. They all bragged about their ability to endure sickness.

But the Bible says, the Word is medicine to all your flesh.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12

The Word is quick: living and powerful. It can combat any form of sickness and win. It is powerfully alive. It is capable of healing any manner of sickness. It penetrates into the spirit and the soul. It gets into your entire system and works effectually there. It carries out operations in your bones and marrows. You do not need all those painful processes in the medical theater. All you need is God’s medicine the all purpose drug. It will make you whole.

When the doctor recommends amputation because rheumatism has eaten into your marrows, you will need to apply God’s medicine. The Bible says the Word penetrates into the joints and marrows. Medical science believes that blood is manufactured in the marrow. Thank God that the Word of God gets there! That is why it is health and medicine to all your flesh. When the Word enters you, it sharpens you out and makes you look like God here on earth.

There is a great healing effect in the Word of God. If anybody says something is wrong with your system, tell that person you know the answer. It is the Word.

The man of God, Dr. Kenneth Hagin, was holding a meeting in a church and ministering to the sick. The Pastor of this church, however, did not believe in divine healing. But Dr. Hagin continued to minister, and the sick started getting healed. It came to a point that he became tired and there was a woman who was brought in on a wheel chair. She had been in that state for a long time. The church Pastor quickly went to Kenneth Hagin, giving him the case history of the sickness. He said the woman had not walked for nine years, and that doctors have said she would never walk again in her life. He tried to convince Kenneth Hagin against praying for her.

But despite the fact that he was tired, Kenneth Hagin said the Word is never tired, and went ahead to minister to this woman. He opened 1 Peter 2:24 and placed it on the woman’s laps.

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live in righteousness: BY WHOSE STRIPES YE WERE HEALED.

He asked her, 'Is "were" present, past or future tense?' The woman said, "past." He said to her, "That means you have been healed before now!" The woman was amazed and wondered where such scripture had been all these years. He asked her to begin to thank God for her healing and urged the congregation to join her in praising the Lord. She was still on the chair, but the Word says she had been healed. Ten minutes later, she was out of the wheel chair, very sound, never to sit in there again.

While she was thanking God, the Word was carrying out all operations in her system, replacing dead tissues and supplying new sets of bones. It penetrated into every area that needed attention and got the woman on her feet again, contrary to the doctor’s report and certification.

The Word made the difference. That word will make the difference in you too. It is not the one you have in your head, it is the Word in your heart. "Keep them in the midst of thine heart" (Proverbs 4:21).

Your heart is the only good ground where the Word can grow and produce fruit. When it enters into you, it will make all the difference, and heal every part of your body. Your whole system will receive adequate attention from the Word, the moment it enters into your heart. When I got this word, I said, this is what everybody should be told. It is not just to increase their scriptural vocabulary.

There are many people today who can quote series of scriptures, but have never drawn any benefit from them. They know it but it does not profit them. It has not entered their hearts. They need just more than being able to quote it. The Bible talks of some people who heard the word but did not benefit from it. You need to know how to apply the word based on Proverbs 4:20.

He said, "My son, attend to my words!" God intends you to create time for His Word. Be available to the Word. Wait on the Word. We talk very much about waiting on the Lord but have done very little of waiting on the Word. But He said here that you should wait on the Word.

That is God’s prescription. The devil knows that any word that enters you makes you his master in that area. When the Word of holiness enters you, it makes you a master over sin. Same with prosperity and divine health. This is why you have to attend to the Word. It is your live-wire. It determines your life content and quality.

The second prescription is "incline thine ear unto my sayings." Be totally attentive to the Spirit. Somebody once asked me if I memorized scriptures. No. I do not. When it enters into you, it becomes part of you just like your name. You do not need to memorize your name. You know it. You respond to it instinctively. If the Word should enter into you, it would require your attention - give ear to it. If faith for divine health has to enter into you, you must give ear to it.

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17

It is hearing the Word that transformed Reverend Kenneth Copeland’s life. Give ear to the Word. Hear it preached. Take time to be attentive. Many people hear the word with lightness. Jesus said, "take heed how ye hear." Hear the Word with seriousness of mind. This is important.

I taught at a seminar on divine healing in February, 1984. One of the men in attendance had been under severe oppression of the devil. He had been passing out blood for many years. In fact, he could be rightly called "the man with the issue of blood." He had tried every possible means to be healed, but nothing happened. He was finally booked for an operation. But he was at this seminar and heard the Word on divine healing. He received the Word. It entered and began a surgical operation in his body.

As the seminar progressed, he felt a pulling force in his system. At this point he went to the toilet to ease himself. To his surprise, the issue of blood ceased and he became a normal person. There was no need for the operation any more. The Word had done it; pain-free! From that day, the man has made it a point of duty to attend all our meetings. That is the effect the Word will produce, if you will give ear to it diligently.

You do not need all the pains medical science entails, to get your healing and be in health. All you need is to attend to the Word, and give ear to it. Hearing the Word helped this man. He could have died during the operation that was barely days ahead. But the Word, God’s medicine, made all the difference between life and death for him.

As you give ear to the Word, it will produce the same results in you also. There is no limit to what the Word will produce in you. I have seen women give birth without labour. This is contrary to medical science. But thank God, we are not medical people, we are supernatural people!

The Bible says they shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and holiness (1 Timothy 2:15). That means that as long as they continue hearing to produce faith, they will be saved during child-bearing. The moment this word enters you and gets hold of you, you become a master in child-bearing. It is not more than going to toilet any more.

Remember these two major keys: one, to attend to the Word: create time for it if you want divine healing virtue to be released into your system. And two, give ear to the Word, by listening to cassettes, reading the Bible or books: be wholeheartedly attentive to it. That is the secret of victorious living.

The next step is: "Let them not depart from thine eyes." There is health virtue in looking. Keep your eyes glued to the Word.

There was a time when judgment came into the camp of Israel in the wilderness. They were bitten in their thousands by fiery serpents. Moses, the man of God, prayed and God asked him to make a fiery serpent of brass and hang it up on a tree so that any man who took time to look upon the serpent might be saved. Moses did this, and everyone who looked upon the brazen serpent was saved from the fiery serpents.

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld (looked at) the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers 21:9

You have to keep looking at the Word. When situations come against you, you do not focus on them, you focus on what God has said about you. Hebrews 12:2 says:

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith...

In John 3:14, Jesus is likened to that fiery serpent of brass. If the serpent of brass could bring health, looking unto Jesus will bring greater (divine) health. The psalmist knew the secret of looking. The people of old looked unto the Word and they were not ashamed. As long as you keep the Word in sight, it will produce the desired results.

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalm 34:5

That is the effect of looking unto Jesus.

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:18

The glass referred to here is the Word of God according to James 1:23-25. The glass is the perfect law of liberty - the Word of God. Keep looking at it until it transforms you from the body of sickness to the body of divine health. There is that power in the Word. It will move you from the natural into the supernatural, from the ordinary into the extraordinary and from yourself into God Himself. It will bring you into the same level of bodily glory with the Lord.

If you want your health to be like the health of Jesus, you have to keep looking unto Him, by looking up at everything He has said about you in His Word. You take time to look at the exceeding great and precious promises. As you focus on them, they will rise within you and devour every form of sickness and produce a body of health in you.

One important thing to note is that, you do not need to look at or attend to symptoms. He said, "attend to My words!" You have nothing to worry about when you attend to His Word. When you notice that certain symptoms are trying to show up in your system, you look at the Word -  "surely, He hath borne my sicknesses upon His own body and by His stripes I was healed."

There are many things that will want and demand your attention, but refuse them. Attend to the word only, and your victory is as sure as ever. These are basic spiritual laws. If you apply them correctly, you will get the results. No one has ever been disappointed after applying the Word appropriately. It is a basic fact. It carries God’s life, and His integrity backs His Word up. It cannot fail.

If the word says "look," all you need to do is look. Forget about every other thing around you and concentrate on what God has said. Look at the case of the people of Israel. As many as looked, got saved. But those who felt that looking would not do any good, all died. The secret is in simple obedience to the Word. Close your eyes and ears to everything and focus on the Word. It will do you good in times of trouble.

The psalmist said, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." He knew all the troubles are here below, but he refused to focus on the problems. He focused on the source of solution. That is the whole idea about looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times. Knowing what God has said and knowing how to apply it, will make a diligent and stable fighter out of you and you will find life very exciting.