Sometimes you have to endure sickness patiently and you should not complain about it. That’s life, sickness exists and is a part of life. Make the best out of it. Really? Do you think this is encouraging? No? Very good, Jesus does not think so either. That is why he has created a solution for sickness.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53,7
When Jesus was beaten, mistreated and eventually nailed to the cross, he did not once open his mouth. He just had to say a word and all these torments would have ended immediately. But he did not do it. He remained silent and endured everything and carried all sins and sicknesses on the cross. Jesus remained silent so that you can speak! Jesus at the cross is not our example but our representative. He remained silent in our place so that we no longer have to be silent, but can open our mouth and speak. If you are sick today, do not be silent. You never have to endure sickness or even accept it. Jesus already did it for you. He carried the sickness and he was silent.
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Mark 11,23
Three times this verse is about what you say, only once it is about faith. Faith is first and foremost a decision. You can decide to believe what Jesus says. And then it is about what you say. Your words have power. So, when you are sick, start speaking healing and health. You can say: “What Jesus bore, I do not have to bear anymore. By Jesus stripes I am healed. Jesus nailed this sickness to the cross. I am free.”
As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn’t even been found guilty?” Acts 22,25
Paul knew that as Roman citizen he had certain rights. One of them was that it was not legal to flog someone without verdict. So, he opened his mouth and said it. As child of God you are a citizen of heaven, heir of God and co-heir with Christ. You also have rights, namely those, which Jesus bought for you at the cross through his blood. He paid a very high price for it. One of these rights is healing and health. Jesus bore every sickness on the cross and with it ransomed you from every sickness. If you are sick, it is your right to get healed. Do it like Paul and invoke your civil rights. As a child of God, as citizen of heaven, healing is your right. Sickness has no right to be in your body. Open your mouth and speak forth healing. You are allowed to do it because Jesus has paid the price. Because Jesus remained silent, you can speak today.