When you break down the problems and challenges people face, they almost always come down to two things: health and finances. And the two are linked together.

Think about it. Someone with a health problem struggles to make money. All their focus goes into getting relief from the pain. In the process they become dependent on others, and even paying to deal with the sickness becomes a problem of its own. So a health battle quickly turns into a money battle too.

I don't think that is an accident. Scripture tells us exactly who is behind it.

"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10, KJV)

The devil is a thief. Sickness is one of the ways he steals, and he doesn't only steal your strength. He steals your time, your money and your future.

What would you do with that money?

One of my pastors once said something that sounded funny but is simply the truth: "If you are from a family that cannot quickly raise 10 million for you in an emergency, maybe for a surgery, you have to just use the Word of God."

Now let me take it a step further. Even if that 10 million is successfully raised for you, I'm sorry to say it, but it is the devil that has stolen it.

Yes, that money may save your life in that moment, and I thank God for that. But imagine you used the name of Jesus instead. Imagine you insisted on the power of God. Imagine you said, "Jesus has paid for this, and I am going to walk in it. I am going to receive it."

That 10 million, could it not change your life? Could you not start a business with it? Could it not bless your family for years?

God's desire for you covers both your body and your daily life:

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 1:2, KJV)

Prosperity and health sit side by side in that verse, just as they sit side by side in our lives.

The devil wants you comfortable

Here is what the enemy wants: he wants us complacent and comfortable.

Let me be clear, I am not against medicine. Medicine resolves a lot of problems, and I thank God for doctors and nurses. If you are on treatment, please don't stop it on your own. But medicine can resolve problems until it gets to a level where it cannot resolve them anymore.

I have seen people come to healing lines who have reached the height of their sickness. There is nothing left. There's no money. The doctors are tired of them and have told them to go home. Even their own family members are tired. They are just barely surviving.

And it is at that last point, the breaking point, that they finally come to a healing service and receive their healing.

Praise God that they were healed. But think about it: many people spend years living with diseases that Jesus had already paid for. That is the point I want you to see. He has paid for it.

"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5, KJV)

You don't have to wait until you have nothing left before you turn to what Jesus has already done.

Healing is not complicated

Sometimes people don't really understand what it means to receive healing. They think it is so complicated. They assume some people qualify and others don't.

That is not so.

Just as everyone is open to salvation, healing is open to everyone. Jesus' arms are open to receive everyone for salvation, and in the same way, healing is available to everyone. The same cross that paid for your sins paid for your healing.

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Peter 2:24, KJV)

Notice that Peter puts both in one verse: our sins and our healing, both dealt with by Jesus. You didn't earn your salvation, and you don't have to earn your healing. You receive it.

So the question isn't, "Do I qualify?" The question is, "How does it work? How can I receive my healing?"

God wants you well

The first thing you must settle is this: God wants you well. That is His desire. God does not want anybody to be sick.

If you are in that situation right now, get angry at the devil, because sickness is not the will of God for you.

The will of God for you is not to set aside a budget, a certain amount of money every month that goes towards a sickness or disease. That is not His desire for you.

I'm not condemning you. I'm just telling you the truth, because the truth is what sets you free.

The meal that has already been paid for

Let me give you a picture.

Imagine someone went to a restaurant and paid a huge amount of money so that you could eat there for the rest of your life. They tell you, "Just go into this restaurant and eat as much as you want. It's all covered."

But every time you walk into that restaurant, you are billed. You have to pay for your meal again and again.

That would be a nightmare. And it would be painful to the person who paid, wouldn't it?

That is what it looks like when we keep paying for something Jesus has already paid for in full. He took the stripes. He paid the price. Healing is on the table for you, and the bill has been settled.

A practical takeaway

Here is how I'd encourage you to start walking in what has been paid for:

1. Settle God's will. Decide, based on Scripture, that God wants you well. Don't let anyone, not even your symptoms, talk you out of it.
2. See the real thief. When sickness tries to drain your body and your finances, recognise who is behind it and refuse to make peace with it.
3. Receive it, don't earn it. Healing is open to everyone, just like salvation. Thank Jesus for what He has already done.
4. Insist on the name of Jesus. Speak the healing scriptures above over your body every day: Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24 and 3 John 1:2.
5. Don't wait for the breaking point. You don't need to reach the end of your money and options before you turn to God's Word. Start today, while continuing any treatment you're on.

Don't let the devil steal from you, not your health, not your money and not your years. Jesus has paid for it. Walk in it.

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Michael Adegoke