Conductor of Our Lives
“...God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life...” — 1. John 5:11, 12 (KJV)
Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature… And these signs shall follow them that believe…” (Mark 16:15, 17). One of these signs Jesus said would follow believers —not the early church, not apostles, not pastors, not preachers, but believers— is, “...they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover” (Mark 16:18).
Why? Because the life of God is in believers!
Sometimes people are specially anointed to minister healing, but that isn’t what Mark 16 is talking about! Every born again believer has the life of God, the nature of God, the God kind of life in him—and by the laying on of hands, that life can be imparted into the physical bodies of others!
That’s why you should lay hands on the sick. When you lay hands on them, that life of God in you is conducted through your hands to others. Often, you’ll be conscious of that life flowing right out of you into them. You’ve got the life of God in you! You’ve got thenature of God in you! God is a healing God. Put God’s power to work! That’s how God works—through your own hands. God’s not here on earth in Person, but He is in you by His spirit! He is walking in you, when you walk in Him!
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. — Romans 6:4
Some translations of Romans 10:9 read, “...if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart... thou shalt be saved.” That means you must confess Jesus as your Lord and acknowledge His lordship over your life in order to be saved.
The reason for this is obvious. We’ve been the servants and the subjects—as well as the children—of Satan, the enemy of God. We have belonged to the kingdom of the devil. Now we want to leave that kingdom and become “naturalized citizens” of God’s kingdom. But before we can do this, we must swear allegiance to the new fatherland, so to speak. We must make an absolute, unconditional break with our old fatherland. So, the Bible says, we must confess Jesus Christ as Lord. He is the new Ruler of our intellectual life as well as our heart, or spiritual life.
Some want to have Jesus as Savior, but not as Lord. They want Him as their Savior from hell, but they don’t want Him as their Lord and Ruler on earth. You can’t really have one without the other.
Make the following confession:
I am a believing one. I have the life of God in me. And God is a healing God. I lay hands on the sick, and they recover. I walk in the newness of life. Jesus Christ is my Savior. Jesus is my Lord. Lord Jesus, I live in Your kingdom now, and I acknowledge Your lordship over my life. I want to have Your will and your way in every area of my life.