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Wednesday May 20, 2026

Body healing

“Our bodies, especially when sick, are very real to us. We cannot help being body-minded. The immense appeal of any healing ministry, naturally, is the hope of a body healing; and we know that as in the days of Jesus there were wonderful healings, so also there are today. Some people have and use the healing gifts which Paul mentioned among the gifts of the Spirit.

But Paul did plainly warn us all that our bodies are not to be redeemed until the resurrection. ‘We ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body’ (Rom. 8:23). Only about our bodies did he say that we are saved in hope, and ‘hope that is seen is not hope’ (vs. 24). In everything else we walk by faith and may experience immediate deliverances. But our outer man perishes, and the majority of us have body affirmatives of some kind, whether eyes, teeth, ears or elsewhere. So we can easily be very body-minded. But I find the answer to this in the fact that I am not a body person, but a spirit person tabernacled in my body. Therefore, whatever my body condition, I keep reminding myself that I am in God’s eternal life, and in perfect spirit health, and that’s the real health.

Then when I have some attack of sickness, I first accept it as from God, for all is always from Him, and therefore He means me to be like that for the moment. I do not put a desire of physical healing first, but I see myself in Christ’s eternal health…and praise Him, though that’s not easy when in pain.

But then I can also rely on Paul’s words in Romans 8:11, that the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in me and ‘shall…quicken our mortal bodies’; and I can enlarge that from ‘shall quicken’ to ‘does quicken,’ for He does dwell in us. So I take body quickening for granted, and look also for healing. I take what medical remedies are available, but I am inwardly maintaining my position of being in God’s health.”

Taken from: Yes, I Am

By Norman Grubb

Pages 228-229