Loosed & Lifted: The Spirit of Infirmity

This month is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month". This type of cancer as well as other types of cancers today has affected many people. There has been some medical explanations as to why we have seen a dramatic increase in the cases of cancer and other sicknesses. However I believe a spirit of infirmity causes many of the sicknesses that we see today. But Jesus has power over the spirit of infirmity and wants it loosed, lifted and removed from His people. 

 In Luke 13:10-17 we read of a woman who was loosed from her spirit of infirmity.

"Now He [Jesus] was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."  

Like this woman, many of us have a “spirit of infirmity”- we have something that keeps us ‘down’, disables us from being able to raise ourselves up to our fullest potential.  It is these things that we try to “loosen” ourselves from “again and again”…we resolve to unbind ourselves to these circumstances, habits, attitudes.  But like this woman, we cannot do this on our own.  We must remember that a “spirit of infirmity” can only be truly “loosened” by the power of Christ. 

The American Heritage dictionary defines infirmity as lacking power, disability, bodily disability, frailty, or moral weakness. Some verses of scripture at times will refer to infirmity or infirmities as sickness in body, but at other times infirmity and infirmities mean moral weakness in the flesh. So the meaning of these words may go either way. And in every other instance where these words do refer to sickness and disease we see that it was always the will of Almighty God to heal His people from the oppression of the enemy. So don't let the enemy deceive you into accepting an infirmity in your body.  This is a lie from pits of hell seeking to devour you, and if you do not resist him then he will overcome you. We all know that it is God's will that mankind will receive healing, but we also know that this is not going to happen just because it is God's Will. It requires the faith and every individual must believe for themselves in order to receive healing from sickness or disease. You must believe until the end, until healing is manifested in your body.

However, like this woman, we must also be listening for the call, and we must go to Him, and we must acknowledge that we have been “loosed”!  When Jesus said to the woman, “you are loosed!”, she could have gone back to sitting…after all, it was her familiar habit for 18 years!  But, she didn’t, she was made straight and she glorified God because of it!

What about you? Is there something from which you long to be loosed?  Do you feel a spiritual or even physical infirmity that is hindering you from glorifying God? I encourage you today to pray that God loose, lift and heal your every infirmity!

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Intercessory Prayer

Dear God, I ask You Lord to rebuke all: physical or spiritual infirmities, affliction, inflammation, sickness, disease, disorder, abnormal cells, radical cells, abnormal growth, radical growth, and cancer, out of and away from me at this time. I curse any abnormal cell, radical cell, abnormal growth or radical growth, and cancer in my body, and command them to die and leave my body in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and I loose them in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It says in Matthew 18 whatsoever I bind or loose on earth shall be bound and loosed in Heaven, in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I bind and loose all viruses, cancers, abnormal cells, radical cells, abnormal growths, radical growths, lesions of any kind, spasms of any kind, pains of any kind, trauma, shock, sicknesses, disorders, and diseases of any kind, afflictions of any kind, infirmities or inflammations of any kind, in any part of my body, in the Name Jesus Christ.

Father God I ask you to release Your healing virtue, Your miracle virtue into my body in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth; from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I ask You to make me whole, restore every organ, every cell, every gland, every muscle, every ligament, every bone in my body and bring everything in total alignment, complete alignment, the way you created me, in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Lord, it is written in Psalms 91 and Matthew 6, in Your Word that You are our Deliverer and I ask that You give  every organ, every gland, every cell, every bone, every muscle, every ligament, in my body total deliverance, total freedom, total liberty and total salvation from all evil, wicked, demon, lying, perverse, unclean, foul, demonic spirits, strongmen, and their messengers, and from all sicknesses, diseases, destructive organisms, bacteria,  viruses, and fungi, physical and spiritual infirmities, afflictions, infections, inflammations, abnormal cells, radical cells, abnormal growths, radical growths, all cancers, tumors, and disorders of any kind in every cell. I thank You for giving me deliverance, freedom, liberty and salvation from all these things in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth according to John 16:23. 

Jesus took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. Therefore, I refuse to allow sickness to dominate my body. The Life of God flows within me, bringing healing to every fiber of my being. I ask You to fill me now with Your Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ Holy Name. Heavenly Father, I ask You to put a hedge of protection around me in the Name of Jesus. Amen.