You Are Healed
You Are Healed
” This is the
cry of God’s heart. And it is such a
deep desire that He has provided a
covenant, a promise, of healing for
all who will believe. In this brief, but
thorough Bible-based study, Kenneth
Copeland proves beyond all doubt
that "by His stripes" You Are Healed!
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Unless otherwise noted, all scripture is from the King James Version of
the Bible.
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study the ministry of Jesus.
According to Hebrews 1:1-3, Jesus
is God’s Son—the heir of all things,
the brightness of God’s glory, the
express image of God’s person. Jesus is
the very image of Almighty God! Every-
thing He did, every move He made,
every word He spoke was an exten-
sion of His Father in heaven.
There is no question Jesus came to do
the will of the Father. In John 10:10 He
said, “I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more
abundantly.” Abundant life is God’s
will for the believer. Jesus explained
very clearly how He would bring that
abundant life into manifestation:
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the determining factor in acting by
faith or unbelief. You know God can
heal. The problem comes in knowing
for certain that God will heal and that
He will heal you! Until you realize in
your own heart that God wants to
heal you, you will never receive from
Him. You can watch other people
receive healing and still never receive
it yourself.
To realize the truth of God’s will
for healing, you need to understand
the full extent of your redemption.
Healing is just as much a part of the
plan of redemption as salvation, the
Holy Spirit and heaven as your eter-
nal home. To stay sick when Jesus has
provided healing would be living far
below your privileges as a child of God.
Let’s view the plan of redemp-
tion through the eyes of Isaiah the
prophet. He describes what was to
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happen at Calvary—the sacrifice, the
pain, the suffering, the death. He gave
a very accurate picture of Calvary, by
the Holy Spirit, showing exactly what
would happen in both the physical
and the spiritual world: “Surely he
hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows…” (Isaiah 53:4).
Note the first word of this verse:
Surely—not maybe, not perhaps.
It’s a fact. Surely Jesus has borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows! The
King James Version gives an inaccurate
translation of the original Hebrew
words. The literal Hebrew translation
of the words for griefs and sorrows
should read, “Surely he hath borne
our sickness, and carried our disease.”
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for our iniquities: the chastise-
ment of our peace was upon
him; and with his stripes we
are healed. All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own
way; and the Lord hath laid
on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was
afflicted, yet he opened not his
mouth: he is brought as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep
before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and
from judgment: and who shall
declare his generation? for he
was cut off out of the land of
the living: for the transgression
of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich is his
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death; because he had done no
violence, neither was any deceit
in his mouth. Yet it pleased the
Lord to bruise him; he hath put
him to grief… (Isaiah 53:5-10).
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people think God wants them to
stay sick, so He can get glory out of
their travail, but that kind of thinking
is a lie straight from the pit of hell!
To put sickness on you after it was
put on Jesus would be a miscarriage
of justice! You are not the sacrificial
Lamb of Calvary. That sacrifice has
already been made—it does not need
to be made again. You need to receive
His sacrifice made for you and appro-
priate its benefits into your life.
What was the fruit of Jesus’ travail?
Salvation, healing, love, joy, peace—
the kingdom of God being born in
the hearts of men. Praise God!
From these scriptures alone, you
can know beyond doubt that God’s
will is for every person in Christ Jesus
to be healed and made well. He paid
the price, so we could receive it.
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Any time a believer has a problem
receiving healing, he usually suffers
from ignorance of God’s Word,
ignorance of his rights and privileges
in Jesus Christ. To fully understand
your position, you need to realize
what took place many centuries ago
between God and a man named
Abram. God approached Abram
with a proposition. The agreement, or
covenant, they made together is the
basis of the entire New Testament.
It was in behalf of this covenant that
Jesus came to earth.
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that covenant came into existence:
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ment by swearing an oath. In Genesis
22:16 God said, “By myself have I
sworn.” There was no higher power
to swear by, so He swore by Himself.
He gave His own word that He would
bless Abraham and his seed. “That in
blessing I will bless thee, and in multi-
plying I will multiply thy seed.... And
in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed” (Genesis 22:17-18).
The Hebrew word covenant means
“to cut,” implying “where blood
flows.” A blood covenant is the
strongest form of agreement on earth.
Two parties agree to certain terms
and then seal their agreement by
the shedding of blood. The covenant
made between God and Abraham
was sealed through the act of circum-
cision. “This is my covenant, which
ye shall keep, between me and you
and thy seed after thee; Every man
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child among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin; and it shall be a token
of the covenant betwixt me and you”
(Genesis 17:10-11).
The shedding of blood was the
most vital act of the Old Testament.
The blood shed in circumcision stood
as a sign of agreement, a token of the
covenant between God and man. El
Shaddai agreed to bless Abraham and
his descendants exceedingly. In return,
He required them to live uprightly
before Him.
But man continually sinned against
God, failing to hold to the terms
of the agreement. Again, the shed-
ding of blood held the answer. The
Levitical priesthood was instituted to
offer blood sacrifices that would atone
(or cover) for sin. Without the shed-
ding of blood, there is no remission
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of sin (Hebrews 9:22). The offering of
an innocent lamb on the altar covered
the sin of God’s covenant people for
one year. God accepted these sacri-
fices in order to keep the Abrahamic
covenant in force. This was the only
way to bridge the gap between sin
and righteousness.
Centuries later, the supreme blood
sacrifice was made. Jesus of Naza-
reth came into the world, born of a
virgin. When John the Baptist first
saw Jesus he said, “Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world” ( John 1:29). Jesus was the
sacrificial lamb offered upon the altar
of the cross. He was the final sacrifice
under the Abrahamic covenant. The
blood He shed on the cross washed
away forever the spot of sin. The
Old Testament sacrifices only covered
sin, but the New Testament sacri-
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fice—Jesus, the spotless Son of God—
completely did away with it. Hebrews
9:12 says, “Neither by the blood of
goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption
for us.” By accepting His sacrifice, you
stand before God clean and pure—
just as if you had never sinned.
When sin entered the world, it
brought with it the forces of destruc-
tion: death, sickness, poverty and
fear. Jesus bore sin’s penalty and, at
the same time, did away with all the
effects of it. Jesus paid the full price
at Calvary, covering every area of
human life: spiritual, mental, physical,
financial and social. Our redemption
is complete.
Galatians 3:13-14 says, “Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is writ-
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ten, Cursed is every one that hangeth
on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ; that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.”
“The curse of the Law” described
in Deuteronomy 28:15 was the
penalty for any person who disobeyed
the statutes of the Levitical Law. It
included every possible curse that
could come on mankind: sickness,
disease, poverty, lack, pain, suffering,
etc. Verse 61 includes, “Also every
sickness, and every plague, which is
not written in the book of this law....”
Though Jesus lived a sinless life,
He gave Himself to bear that curse
as if He were the One who had
sinned and disobeyed the Law. He
took the punishment for all the sin
of mankind. He bore the curse which
included every sickness and every
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plague known to man. He bore pain
and suffering. Why? So that we could,
instead, receive the blessing when
we accept His sacrifice as our own.
Because we are in Christ, we are now
Abraham’s seed and heirs to the bless-
ing.
Galatians 3:29 says, “And if ye be
Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed,
and heirs according to the promise.”
Deuteronomy 28 sets out the
stipulations of this blessing and curse:
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straight, and glorified God.”
Because Jesus healed this woman
on the sabbath day, the ruler of the
synagogue was indignant; but Jesus
answered him saying: “Thou hypo-
crite, doth not each one of you on
the sabbath loose his ox or his ass
from the stall, and lead him away to
watering? And ought not this woman,
being a daughter of Abraham, whom
Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen
years, be loosed from this bond on the
sabbath day?” (verses 15-16).
The Abrahamic covenant had been
in force for many years. God’s people
could have walked in health and well-
being, but they had become too preoc-
cupied with their religious traditions.
The result was a standard of living far
below that which God had intended
for them.
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This woman was a daughter of
Abraham and, because of that, her
covenant right was to be loosed from
her infirmity. Satan had been able to
keep her bound for eighteen years for
only one reason: because she was igno-
rant of her covenant with God. Jesus
came and ministered as a prophet
under the Abrahamic covenant. He
healed the people according to that
covenant. He came to set the captives
free, and this woman was one of
those captives. All she needed was for
someone to tell her what was right-
fully hers as a daughter of Abraham.
I have good news for you: If that
woman could be delivered and set
free because she was Abraham’s seed,
so can you on those same grounds.
Because you believe in Jesus Christ
and have accepted His sacrifice as
your own, you are Abraham’s seed and
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heir to the promise (Galatians 3:13).
Praise God, that promise includes
physical healing!
Satan has no right to put any
sickness, disease or infirmity on your
body. You are a child of God, a joint
heir with Jesus and a citizen in the
kingdom of God. You have a covenant
with Almighty God, and one of
your covenant rights is the right to a
healthy body.
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Church: “And I, brethren, could not
speak unto you as unto spiritual, but
as unto carnal, even as unto babes in
Christ. I have fed you with milk, and
not with meat: for hitherto ye were
not able to bear it, neither yet now
are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for
whereas there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions, are ye not
carnal, and walk as men?”
Paul could not teach the Corin-
thian believers about deeper spiritual
things because they were not mature
enough to understand. They were
“babes in Christ,” and he had to feed
them with “milk”—basic principles of
faith—as you would feed a tiny baby.
Hebrews 5:13 says, “For every one that
useth milk is unskillful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.” First
Peter 2:2 says, “As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the word,
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that ye may grow thereby.”
When you accepted Jesus as Savior
and made Him the Lord of your life,
you were “born of God” (1 John 5:1).
According to 1 Peter 1:23, you were
“born again,” not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the Word of
God. At that moment, you joined
the family of God and entered into
spiritual affairs as a newborn baby. If,
since that time, you have never fed on
the milk of the Word, you are still a
spiritual baby. You will not yet be able
to operate proficiently in faith with-
out a knowledge of the Word.
A baby does not grow to adulthood
overnight, so a new believer should
not expect to operate as a mature
Christian after only a few days. It
takes time spent in God’s Word to
grow and mature spiritually.
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The first step to spiritual maturity
is to realize your position in God.
You are His child and a joint heir
with Jesus. Romans 8:16-17 says:
“The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of
God: and if children, then heirs; heirs
of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if
so be that we suffer with him, that we
may be also glorified together.” You
are entitled to all the rights and privi-
leges in the kingdom of God, and one
of these rights is health and healing.
You will never fully realize or
understand healing until you know
beyond any doubt that God’s will is
for you to be healed. As we have seen,
God wants you healed! He wants you
whole! He wants you to grow in the
Word and walk in His perfect will
just as Jesus did. Whether or not you
accept this and purpose to walk in the
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reality of the truth, is your decision.
I urge you to accept it now and
begin to see His will carried out
in your life. Begin seeing yourself
healed and whole. Put God’s Word
concerning healing in your heart,
meditate and think about it, then
speak it out boldly over yourself. His
Word will not return to Him void, but
it will accomplish what it was sent to
do (Isaiah 55:11).
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Prayer for Salvation and
Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name
of Jesus. Your Word says, “Whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).
I am calling on You. I pray and ask Jesus to come
into my heart and be Lord over my life according
to Romans 10:9-10: “If thou shalt confess with
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised him from the
dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.” I do that now.
I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my
heart that God raised Him from the dead.
I am now reborn! I am a Christian—a child
of Almighty God! I am saved! You also said in
Your Word, “If ye then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children: HOW
MUCH MORE shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
(Luke 11:13). I’m also asking You to fill me
with the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, rise up within
me as I praise God. I fully expect to speak with
other tongues as You give me the utterance
(Acts 2:4). In Jesus’ Name. Amen!
Begin to praise God for filling you with the
Holy Spirit. Speak those words and syllables
you receive—not in your own language, but the
language given to you by the Holy Spirit. You have
to use your own voice. God will not force you to
speak. Don’t be concerned with how it sounds. It is
a heavenly language!
Continue with the blessing God has given you
and pray in the spirit every day.
You are a born-again, Spirit-filled believer.
You’ll never be the same!
Find a good church that boldly preaches God’s
Word and obeys it. Become part of a church family
who will love and care for you as you love and care
for them.
We need to be connected to each other. It
increases our strength in God. It’s God’s plan for us.
Make it a habit to watch the Believer’s Voice of
Victory television broadcast and become a doer of the
Word, who is blessed in his doing ( James 1:22-25).
About the Author
Kenneth Copeland is co-founder and president of
Kenneth Copeland Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas,
and best-selling author of books that include How to
Discipline Your Flesh and Honor—Walking in Honesty,
Truth and Integrity.
Since 1967, Kenneth has been a minister of the gospel of
Christ and teacher of God’s Word. He is also the artist on
award-winning albums such as his Grammy-nominated Only
the Redeemed, In His Presence, He Is Jehovah, Just a Closer Walk
and his most recently released Big Band Gospel album. He
also co-stars as the character Wichita Slim in the children’s
adventure videos The Gunslinger, Covenant Rider and the
movie The Treasure of Eagle Mountain, and as Daniel Lyon
in the Commander Kellie and the Superkids TM videos Armor
of Light and Judgment: The Trial of Commander Kellie.
Kenneth also co-stars as a Hispanic godfather in the 2009
movie The Rally.
With the help of offices and staff in the United States,
Canada, England, Australia, South Africa, Ukraine and
Singapore, Kenneth is fulfilling his vision to boldly
preach the uncompromised WORD of God from the top
of this world, to the bottom, and all the way around. His
ministry reaches millions of people worldwide through
daily and Sunday TV broadcasts, magazines, teaching
audios and videos, conventions and campaigns, and the
World Wide Web.