BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR LEADERS AND AUTHORITY
For those who have been contending for physical healing after weeks and months of illness, I stand alongside you. For those who have endured pain, discomfort, and discouragement for long periods of time, still holding out for your breakthrough, you are not alone. Many have been physically attacked in this past season and I believe there is a collective and collaborative faith that can break this yoke of oppression and death that seeks to take us out. If we endure, do not give up, and exercise our faith together.
I have shared some of my own health journey on my YouTube channel this past year. Starting with a demonic attack of debilitating Tinnitus in March of 2023, I have seen deliverance on one hand and ongoing health challenges on the other. Overcoming one symptom after another ever since that time, my own faith has been challenged to stand fast against a spirit of infirmity, ongoing pain, and many sleepless nights. I can’t remember the last time I actually felt “normal” and free of some kind of physical limitation. My husband and I have learned many lessons through this journey as the Lord has given instructions for each round which have always brought a level of relief and freedom. He has already shown us that it’s more about listening to His voice than simply decreeing and demanding our healing. It’s more about following His directives in each step than it is the length of a fast or a certain method of prayer. It truly has been about the journey and not just the outcome.
As I sat the other day, discouraged again at another restless night and ongoing affliction, I berated myself for not being more resolute in declaring my healing. Almost immediately, He responded to my internal struggle.
“This is more about getting to know Me as your Healer than it is in getting your healing.”
The truth of His response both freed me and challenged me. How much of my faith for healing focuses on getting my breakthrough instead of getting to know Him as Healer? What have I learned about His goodness and Perfect Love in the midst of ongoing physical setbacks and suffering?
So far, I’ve learned that He is always faithful to show me the next step. I’ve experienced His comfort and enduring patience in the midst of hardship. I have gained greater empathy and compassion for others who are tormented by chronic illness and disease. I have grown in this fellowship of suffering and deepened my thankfulness for His perfect sacrifice on the cross. The bottom line is that I know my healing is coming. Not because of my steadfastness or determination, but because that’s just who He is. He cannot do anything less. The lingering questions and doubts will never be enough to turn me from this truth or cause me to back down from my expectation for total and complete restoration.
I share this to encourage those of you who are, like me, still pushing through for your healing. Even as we continue to declare His Word as a reminder of His promise, He is calling us to fix our eyes on Him. He is the author and the finisher of our faith. He sees the powers and principalities that have aligned themselves against us. He sees this Spirit of Infirmity that plagues His body and is passionate to see us overcome, urging us to yet believe!
And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
The Lord led me to Luke 5:17-26 where a crazy faith was demonstrated that overcame corporate strongholds of unbelief. In the midst of pharisaical accusation and threat, a group of passionate believers pushed past the accepted norms and expectations of the day to call on Jesus. Literally carrying their friend on a stretcher, motivated by deep love and compassion, they tore through a roof because they knew who Jesus was. They weren’t bound by any natural order of things, but focused on getting to The One who was the answer to their friend’s plight. Because of their collaborative faith, Jesus’s innate power to heal was activated in the midst of corporate opposition. And breakthrough came.
Is this a lesson to be apprehended and exercised today? Perhaps our healing is not so much about our personal levels of faith, our personal decrees, or our individual determination to believe. Perhaps it is our collective confidence in The One who alone can heal, deliver, and set us free from our oppressors. It is not about the power of our personal authority or proving our spiritual muscle. It is about pursuing Him together out of love. First for Him, and then for one another.
It is for this reason I encourage you to hang on and do not give up the fight. I have personally determined this isn’t about my healing, but ours. We are on this journey together. He is looking for some crazy collective faith that is motivated by deep compassion for one another and ready to push through the crowds of bystanders to get our breakthrough. We have been marked for a glory that will only be known when we contend together in the midst of opposition and determine that He is greater.
After all, it is not our healing that we seek – but Him. And when He is found, no power of darkness or stronghold of men will be able to stop the healing that’s to come.
Wanda has been in ministry for over 35 years as a worship leader, teacher, author, deliverance counselor, and speaker.
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“LORD, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the word only and I shall be healed.”
Amen
Wow this is such a good word wanda! And I can see that Jesus is wanting us to seek him and not the healing. I needed that revelation and would suggest that you prepare a zoom group call and we all pray together for each other and ask the Lord to show us how he wants us to move forward. I’ve had three years of severe back and leg pain the doctor’s call advanced osteoarthritis. I call myself healed but have many nights tossing and turning in pain and now using a cane to get around. I’m listening for his voice to guide and direct me and I believe that’s what he wants me to do. Through all our trials he’s developing perseverance, endurance, and new direction. Rejoice in all things and again I say rejoice. Hallelujah!
Wanda, thank you so much for your word today. It resonates with me so much as I’ve been going through health problems. Thinking the same thing About when am I ever going to Feel normal again. It’s been a tough year, but I also want to thank you for saying what God said to you. “This is more about getting to know me as your healer than it is in getting your healing.” It made me cry. I can identify with all the things that you talked about, and I believe too That he is faithful to do all that he’s promised us. It’s a healing balm it points right back to Christ who is our healer. Thank you for your faithfulness.
Thank you for this article, we moved last November at the word of the Lord and been struggling ever since with crazy physical symptoms. I continue to stand as intercessor and watchman on the wall. Thank you for your ministry.
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Hi! I just read your comment and it shook me. I’ve suffered with severe anxiety, fatigue and now memory issues for many years not knowing the cause. The Lord has led me to someone who finally diagnosed me with mold toxicity. I’m now on a journey to overcome this horrific illness. God is good and it’s His Will to heal!!
I have felt discouraged contending for healing for years. I have repented of my doubt and unbelief due to long term disappointment. I have chosen to know Jesus and I choose intimacy with him. I am waiting for my miracles in my feet, knees, teeth and other areas.
God bless you Judi. I hear the cry of your heart in your writing. May the Lord bless you mightly and make you whole and pain free.
Highly recommend Dr. Don Colbert’s book, Let Food Be Your Medicine. Yes, we always inquire of Holy Spirit
who answers, but seeking out keys that have already been revealed by God is equally important.
Inflammation is the culprit behind disease. Be sure you hold nothing against your fellow man. Love is the key
that unlocks revelation. May the healing virtues of JESUS’ blood flow through
your body from head to toe & set you free right now!
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Many blessings to you Wanda and all reading this. The Lord is good and His mercy endures forever. Jesus have mercy on us, help us, Lord hear our cries and help us. Jesus Reigns!
The Word says we are already healed (1Peter 2:24, Matthew 8:17, Is. 53:4,5) Our faith brings it from inside to outside manifestation. Our words tell us what we believe. We need the revelation that Jesus has already healed us. Faith is the evidence.
I have had tinnitus for over 30 years. It drives me nuts sometimes but have largely lived with it. Then 2020 came. Since then it changed frequency and volume several times. It’s definitely been something I have been contending for healing the last several years because of this. Thanks for this post and insight as this gives me fresh hope.
I will stand with you and hold on to his word that God is the way to our infirmity set on us by the enemy to take us down but will continue to press in for the healing / deliverance his word tells us will prevail if we don’t give in but stand on his guidance to heal and break anything not of his will for our lives and our families. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice to save the people who seek your knowledge and guidance for true break throughs found only in the body of Christ.
THANK YOU for this word. You said exactly what I needed to hear.
I am so grateful for these words. I know there is added power in the number of all of us “under these attacks” for our own healing as well as each other. Thank you Wanda for saying the words the Father needed me to read today.
Thank you, Wanda Alger, for the Word from God to encourage his people today. There is not one who does not need fresh hope and encouragement. I thank our LORD for your ministry (and husband’s) and all the lives you are positively affecting in the name of Yeshua!
Awakened by pain on many sleep disturbed nights, I feel determined to redeem the hours by praying for others, known and unknown, who I know are enduring afflictions of many sorts. I also speak with the Lord and ask what’s on His heart, that I might pray in the Spirit, and be in tune with His will working around the world. It’s enough to rest in His arms, singing little praise songs in my mind (so I don’t wake my husband).
Blessings to all, His grace is sufficient!
So good, Wanda. Just what I needed to hear! I remember the Lord speaking to me something similar in the past that I constantly have to remind myself of. He said- “Don’t seek the answer to the problem. Seek Me and I’ll give you the answer.”
One other thing that stood out to me, Wanda. The phrase you wrote: “Even as we continue to declare His Word as a reminder of His promise, He is calling us to fix our eyes on Him.” I encourage people to listen to Johnny Enlow on Elijah Streams Aug 5. I need to re-listen because it was definitely something I’d never heard of before. But he talked about how “matter” begins to move when we look at it. When we look under a microscope and focus the lens, then the matter moves. He likened it to when we magnify the Lord, we focus in on Him, and then He moves. Scripture always encourages us to Magnify the Lord. As we magnify Him, he becomes larger and our circumstances become smaller. It’s part of getting to know him more. Anyway, I believe both your word and Johnny’s teaching work together in all this.
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This is not just a word for healing. I am in a period of “the dark night of the soul” and this word is very applicable to me during this time. My focus has been on the “why” and searching every means for an answer. I am now focusing on embracing the journey. I have to trust that He will reveal His purpose in His time. It is indeed the fellowship of suffering. A very timely word. Thank you Wanda.
Thank you for this insight. I do need to press into Jesus more and listen to His voice.
All Glory to our Daddy God…Who loves us soooo immensely!!! Thank you Wanda for your faithfulness in sharing! I stand in agreement with you today & say..”You..LORD..is Who I seek! I seek Your Face & not Your Hand!.may I be a sign & a wonder for/by You..so that others will see Your Absolute GOODNESS and will desire to seek Your Face too! I love You LORD…have Your Way in us & I Praise You..I thank You..and I give You all the Glory ..in Jesus’ Name…Amen
Thank you so much, Wanda, and each of you Saints. Yes, I’m praying and standing with each of you. Please do the same for my husband and me as well. Major, major health issues…his bloodwork, platelets have been very out of the normal range since we discovered it in early March 2024. Many tests including 2 bone marrow biopsies, but still no plan. My dear husband will NOT die, but LIVE, and declare the works of the Lord. Psalm 118:17
May our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bless each of you and yours according to Ephesians 3:14-21!
And yes, Sue M., Johnny Enlow’s 8/5/24 message on Elijah Streams is definitely right on!
Dr. CD, I just ordered Dr. Colbert’s cookbook. Thank you for the reminder.
I too have suffered from not only long term physical pain, but from a long term deep depression as well. When I feel that I cannot face another day I remember Job and the fact that God did not choose to heal Paul from his affliction. The great Charles Spurgeon suffered from very painful gout and a depression that kept him in bed for weeks. I can’t pretend to understand why some are healed and some are not, my prayer each morning asks for gratitude and ends with thy will be done.
Amen, God knows what He’s doing and why 🙏