There is a doctrine preached in thousands of churches that God uses sickness to teach His people spiritual lessons — that a loving heavenly Father sometimes inflicts disease as a form of discipline or character development. If this is true, then praying for healing is at best presumptuous and at worst a resistance of God's will. But if it isn't true — if this doctrine has no biblical foundation — then millions of believers are suffering needlessly because of a theological error.

Last time we saw that human government, given divine authority, ended in collective rebellion at Babel. We now turn from dispensational history to something that directly affects your body today: what does Scripture actually teach about God's will concerning sickness and health?

Let's start by clearing up what divine healing is not. It's not healing through natural remedies, imagination, willpower, or personal magnetism.

It's not metaphysics, demonology, or spiritualism. It's not a promise of immunity from death or an excuse for presumption or insubordination toward God's will.

It's also not "mind over matter," a denial of the reality of sin, sickness, and disease, or simply the body's natural ability to heal itself through inherent laws and creative powers.

So what is divine healing and health? It's a definite act of God—something He does through your faith in Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Word of God, and the precious blood of Christ.

Through this work, the human body is cured, healed, repaired, and delivered from sickness and its power. The result? You're made as whole, sound, and healthy as you were before the attack came.