Psalm 103

With its Powerful Healing Promise

Chapter 1

Here is Psalm 103 from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version--

___Psalm 103

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is inside me, bless his holy name.

2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and don't forget all his benefits,

3 Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

4 Who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.

6 The Lord executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

7 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel.

8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.

10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward those who fear him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from us.

13 Like a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him.

14 For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass, like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 For the wind passes over it, and it's gone, and the place of it shall know it no more.

17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

19 The Lord has prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

20 Bless the Lord, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, listening to the voice of his word.

21 Bless the Lord, all of you his hosts, you ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

22 Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion, bless the Lord, O my soul.

Chapter 2

Notice in verse 3, above, “Who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,”

This is a very important principle that seems to have escaped many of God's people.

Not only does the Lord forgive our sins, but he also heals all our diseases.

Now probably someone will be quick to say, “Well then he sure has a lot of work to do on me.”

But, you see, here's the thing, WHEN YOU GET SOMETHING FROM GOD, YOU GET IT BY FAITH.

So if you want to sit in your armchair and wait for the Lord to fix your health problems, you're liable to wait a long time.

And that's where faith teachers come in. People like Kenneth E. Hagin, Norvel Hayes, Charles Capps, and I've written on the subject.

Hagin has gone on to be with Jesus, but he left behind close to a hundred books, most of which were best sellers.

You can find them at www.Amazon.com, and at www.Rhema.org.

Hayes has www.nhm.cc, and also is at Amazon.com

Capps has www.CharlesCapps.com. I especially recommend Capp's "God's Creative Power will Work for You."

Hagin was born with an incurable heart disease that would have killed him before reaching age 21. But Hagin didn't want to die young (he died at about age 86).

So Hagin started reading the New Testament, looking for a way to get God to heal him.

He found it at Mark 11:24, “When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you'll have them,” Jesus said.

So, Hagin decided to start believing for his healing. It took about 16 months for him to get his miraculous healing from God, but the Lord gave him a new heart.

Then the Lord said to Hagin, “Now go teach my people faith.” So, Hagin taught faith for about seventy years.

I am one of his students, having read many of his books, and having listened to many of his teaching recordings.

Hagin got many people healed during his earthly ministry, and cast many demons out of people that had demons in them.

A demon is a fallen angel that rebelled against God at the time that Satan rebelled against God. Satan is the leader of the demons.

Demons tempt people to commit sins, they afflict people with physical and mental problems.

Many of God's people understand that forgiveness of sins is available from God, but please notice that in verse 3, above, as much weight is given to the healing of our health problems as it is to forgiveness of sins.

Of course, we must get our sins forgiven if we want to go to heaven. Jesus said, “You must be born again.” You get born again by obeying Romans 10:9,10--

“That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you're saved. For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation.”

But let's not stop with forgiveness of sins. Part of the package of benefits from God is also the healing of our health problems.

Of course, here in America, we are prosperous enough that many people just automatically go to the doctor if they have a health problem.

People run up high medical bills. Perhaps some of it is covered by insurance. But why would you want to pay for something that you can get free from the Lord?

Also, there are some health problems that medical science doesn't seem to be so great with. Cancer, for example.

I've been hearing about the American Cancer Society for lots of decades. I'm not saying they don't do good work, and yet, medical science doesn't really seem to have found the cure for cancer.

When medical science goes looking for a cure for a disease, they generally look for the problem under a microscope. Some kind of bacteria. Other diseases can be caused by viruses.

But some diseases are neither caused by bacteria nor by viruses.

Some diseases are caused by demons that get into people.

Kenneth E. Hagin healed a woman of lung cancer by casting out the demon from her that was causing that lung cancer.

God helped Hagin to do that by opening Hagin's eyes to see into the spirit world that we normally don't see with our natural eyes.

When that happened, Hagin actually saw the demon that was causing the disease. Then Hagin commanded it to go from the woman in Jesus' name, and it went.

But don't try casting out demons if you're not a Christian, or you could get beaten up like the seven sons of Sceva, who tried to do so in Acts chapt 19.

I've probably learned more from Kenneth E. Hagin than from any other teacher or Preacher or Pastor.

If you have a health problem, K.E. Hagin can probably help you with your healing from God with the books and CD's still available.

But the church you go to is also important.

Norvel Hayes' mother died of cancer.

When Hayes sought the Lord about why his mother died of cancer, the Lord told Hayes that his mother couldn't be healed of cancer because she had never been taught how to receive healing from God.

She went to a church where they knew about getting their sins forgiven, but at that church they didn't know about divine healing.

Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Hayes' mother didn't have to die young, leaving her children orphans. She loved the Lord, and surely she is with Jesus in heaven, but what she didn't know killed her.

___James chapter 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.

2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,

3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.

8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,

10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.

11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,

14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.

16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.

18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.

21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,

24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2

1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,

3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"

4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?

5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

6 But you have despised the poor. Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?

7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?

8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,

9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.

10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill." Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.

12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.

13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.

14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works? Can faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,

16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?

17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.

18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."

19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.

20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?

22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?

23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."

24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3

1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.

2 For in many things we offend all. If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.

4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.

5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how great a matter a little fire kindles!

6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.

7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,

8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be.

11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?

12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.

13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.

14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.

15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?

2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.

3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.

5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"

6 But he gives more grace. So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.

11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers. He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?

13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"

14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."

16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.

17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5

1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You've heaped treasure together for the last days.

4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.

5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.

6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.

7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.

8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.

9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.

10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 See, we count them happy that endure. You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.

13 Is anyone among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is anyone merry? Let him sing psalms.

14 Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.

16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.

17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,

20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.