By Bishop David Oyedepo
Last week, I brought you a teaching on how you can enjoy total health through the Word of God. I know that teaching was very useful to you! May the Lord give you understanding!

This week, I will show you the healing virtues in the Word of God. The Word of God is full of healing virtues. Most of the sicknesses and diseases people suffer, today, have spiritual root. The Bible makes us to understand that Jesus cast out the evil spirits tormenting the people, and He healed them all. Talking about Jesus, the Bible says: “And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils” (Mark 1:34).

I want you to know that spiritual problems require spiritual solution. For instance, if your attack has spiritual root, it will be foolishness seeking medical solution. The Bible makes it clear that the problem of the woman with the issue of blood had a spiritual root.

Luke 8:43 says: “And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any.” That was why after she had spent all she had on medical solution, she wasn’t healed.

The Word of God says: “The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed” (Matthew 8:8). Jesus cast out the evil spirit by His Word. However, most people are struggling under hereditary challenges, without knowing that they have a spiritual root. From the above diagnosis, it becomes clear that your health challenges are spiritual. They have spiritual root.

At this juncture, let us consider some of the virtues in the Word of God:

The Word of God is curative: The Word of God is medicinal. Proverbs 4:20-22 says: “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.”

The Word of God is full of health capsules. When you take them in, they heal you, and set you free from sicknesses and diseases. God’s Word brings to you health and cure (Jeremiah 33:6). God’s Word is medicinal (Jeremiah 8:19-20). It is a spiritual pharmacy, from where you collect the virtues needed for your total health.

God’s Word is surgical: The Bible says: “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged 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 of God is surgical. It is able to repair any damaged part of your body.

God’s Word is creative: In case your case is not repairable, it is replaceable. God’s Word says: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:3). The Word of God carries creative capabilities. For instance, what Jesus did with blind Bartimaeus was to give him a set of brand new eyes (Mark 11:51-52). God has not changed. If Jesus did it for Bartimaeus, He will also do it for you.

God’s Word is prophetic: The prophetic Word is a quickening Word. It has a quickening force in it (Ezekiel 37:1-10). An encounter with the prophetic Word quickens your system, thereby bringing life out of you, thus ensuring your total health.

Jesus encountered the widow of Nain, who was going to bury her only son. Through the prophetic Word, Jesus raised the boy up! Also, the centurion’s servamt was healed by Jesus via the prophetic Word (Matthew 8:10). I want you to know that the prophetic Word can travel any far distance to heal people.