Jesus the Healer Has Not Changed

By Apostle Samuel Oduro

This book shows the truth that our unchanging Christ still heals today! You’ll learn that healing is the will of God and that it is primarily a faith proposition on the part of the individual who receives. This book will show you how to receive and maintain healing and how total surrender and intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit brings healing and miracles.

There are some who are bound and plagued by sicknesses, unaware of the truth that Jesus is a deliverer, and others who lack the teaching, testimony, and manifestations of deliverance and healing. Jesus the Healer Has Not Changed is replete with testimonies from Apostle Oduro’s personal life and members of his ministries that will increase your expectation, ignite your faith, and reposition you for your healing and deliverance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Word Alive Press
• Release date: May 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781486609611

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PREFACE

Jesus the healer has not changed. In the Old Testament, God says, For I am the Lord [Jesus]; I do not change (Malachi 3:6). The New Testament records, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus gave us everlasting healing promises. In the Old Testament, He says, … I am the Lord [Jesus] who heals you (Exodus 15:26b). Peter tells us that it is by Christ’s stripes we are healed (1 Peter 2:24). Jesus has already secured your healing once and for all.

There are non-believers who are bound and plagued by bondages and sicknesses, unaware of the truth that Jesus is a deliverer and a healer. There are Christians who are aware of the truth that Jesus is a deliverer and a healer, but they say that the healing and miracles of Jesus Christ stopped in the Apostles’ time, thereby preventing God’s people from being healed. Some of God’s children remain sick, and others have died prematurely. God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not sickness and suffering: Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me (Psalm 50:15).

Healing does not detract from salvation, which is the greatest miracle; instead, they work together to bring souls to the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus ministered salvation and healing together.

Healing is Food and Medicine for the Children of God

In Mark 7:27, Jesus explains that healing is food for the children of God. Children must eat to be strong. The Word of God is medicine: Then they cried out to the Lord [Jesus] in their trouble … He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions (Psalm 107:19–20).

Healing and Compassion are Inseparable

The leper came to Jesus saying, … if you are willing, you can make me clean. Jesus was moved with compassion and then healed and cleansed him (Mark 1:40–43). Healing is compassionate and the will of God. On another occasion, Jesus went out and saw a great multitude. He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick (Matthew 14:14). If Jesus was willing to move with compassion and heal sickness and disease among people over two thousand years ago, I can tell you that Jesus will move with the same compassion and heal your sickness and disease today.

The healing of our Lord Jesus Christ has not stopped; in fact, it has reached its full capacity because all His glory has returned back to Him. In John 17:4–5, Jesus says, I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

It’s very important for you to study the Word of God to know who Jesus is. Everything is based on the Word of God—faith, healing, salvation, prayer, deliverance, forgiveness, righteousness, giving, love, hope, obedience, and prosperity are based on the Word of God.

The Word of God is the foundation of Christianity; without the Word of God, there is no Christianity. Remember, the name of Jesus is the Word of God: … His [Jesus] name is called the Word of God (Revelation 19–13). John says that …the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1b).

Faith, healing, and all of God’s blessings are available to us in Christ. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you (John 15:7). Your prayer becomes more effective and your healing more secure when you abide in Jesus and His Word abides in you. There is life in the blood of Jesus, so sincerely apply it to your life. Satan is afraid of the blood of Jesus. Amen!

Those who know their God, our Lord Jesus Christ, can be healed and have their freedom back, because they known who Jesus is. Developing an intimate relationship with Jesus draws you nearer to Him. It requires you to take the step of faith and believe without any doubt. Healing is primarily a faith proposition on the part of the individual who receives. Pray with the proper attitude, then confess the Word of God and claim that you’re healed. You can use God’s Word to pray and destroy any source behind your sickness (Satan and the demonic kingdom) in the mighty name of Jesus.

May the grace and the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen!

CHAPTER 1:

THE EVERLASTING PROMISE OF JESUS

The History of Jesus’ Healing Ministry

… For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy

(Revelation 19:10).

Over seven hundred years before Jesus Christ was born in the flesh, the Spirit of God revealed the healing ministry of Jesus through the prophets of the Old Testament, namely Isaiah, King David, and Malachi.

The Prophet Isaiah prophesied about the beginning and the end of Jesus’ Earthly ministry.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.

(Isaiah 61:1)

Earlier Isaiah had prophesied: … He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). We are given the prophetic image of Jesus the Messiah who would come to preach the good news to us. The Spirit of God is upon Him. He will save and redeem us from the hands of our enemies, Satan and his demonic kingdom. He will heal our sickness and disease. He will teach us to understand the Word of God. He will prove Satan wrong and set us free. We will have liberty forever. He will rebuild the house of God. He will comfort us. Amen!

The Lord wants us to be free from the hands of our enemies, Satan and his demonic kingdom. The redeemer, Jesus, paid a heavy price by taking all our sin and punishment to the cross so that our sin would be forgiven and our healing secured.

The Beginning of Jesus’ Earthly Ministry

Jesus repeats Isaiah’s prophecy about Him in His first sermon when he says,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.

(Luke 4:18)

Hallelujah! Glory to God! This is exactly what Jesus as man came to do. He preached the gospel to the poor, He healed the broken hearted, and He set the captives free. He opened blinded eyes and He freed those who were oppressed by Satan and his demonic kingdom. He tore down the enemy’s stronghold by casting demons out of people. He even brought Lazarus back to life after being dead for four days (John 11:39–44).

The End of Jesus’ Earthly Ministry

Isaiah prophesied about the manner of our Lord’s death (Isaiah 53:5) and its relationship to our salvation and healing. Jesus was severely wounded for our sin. He took thirty nine stripes on His body for our healing. In deep pain and suffering, He took our sickness, disease, and sin onto the cross and nailed them together with Himself when he was crucified.

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head … Then they spat on Him, and took the reed struck Him on the head. And when they had mocked Him … [they] led Him away to be crucified.

(Matthew 27:27–31)

After the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Apostle Peter confirmed Isaiah’s prophecy by proclaiming Jesus Himself: Who Himself bore our sin in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—By His stripes you were healed (1 Peter 2:24). The difference between Isaiah’s prophecy and Peter’s proclamation is the tense—present and past. Isaiah prophesied that by Jesus’ stripes we are healed, while the Apostle Peter proclaimed that by Jesus’ stripes we were healed. Jesus fulfilled all the promises of God and the prophet’s prophecies in the healing He wrought for us. Praise the Lord! Amen!

Now Your Healing is Secure Forever

Jesus gives everlasting healing promises to His followers and has already provided our healing once and forever, yet some Christians who are aware of the truth that Jesus is a deliverer and a healer say that the healing and miracles of Jesus Christ stopped in the Apostles’ time. That is not true. These people need divine direction, wisdom, and knowledge to study the Word of God. Jesus says everything is possible for those who believe.

Those who say that Jesus no longer heals are creating problems for other Christians. They prevent God’s people from being healed. Some of God’s children remain sick and others have died prematurely. God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not sickness and suffering. The Word of God says, Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me (Psalm 50:15). If the healing of Jesus Christ stopped in the Apostles’ time, I could not have written this book. I would have died a long time ago, but the healing of Jesus Christ continued and I am alive today to write this book. Praise the Lord!

Jesus said, I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10). We have life superabundantly, overflowing, more than enough, above the ordinary, more than sufficient.

The Cross of Jesus Became the Centrepiece of Our Life

Jesus took all our diseases, sickness, and sin on the cross, making the cross of Jesus the centrepiece of our life. While on the cross He said, … It is finished (John 19:30). All the pain, suffering, and the multitude of the stripes He took on His body were substitution for our freedom, healing, and salvation. He did it once and for all.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross means that everybody can be free if they sincerely receive Him as their Lord and Saviour. Jesus was not sick, but He became sick on the cross for you and me to be healed. Jesus, who has promised us that by His stripes we were healed, is able to perform what He promised. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, became the Son of Man for us so that we can become the sons of the living God through Him. Amen!

Jesus, the everlasting God, died on the cross for you to live forever. Jesus wasn’t a sinner, but on the cross He became sin for you to be righteous: For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus was rich, but He became poor on the cross for you to be rich. "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you