a message excerpt from pastor jonathan morgan
This is part three of our series on the Healing Ministry of Jesus. What we want through these messages is simply see Jesus as he's revealed in the scripture by the Holy Spirit.
I believe as you see Jesus, I believe your faith is going to be lifted and encouraged.
I'm often reminded of Peter seeing Jesus walking on the water. The Bible says it was at night, there was a storm, and they were fearful for their lives. When Peter saw Jesus, something inside of him said, I can do that. Jesus said to him, “come” and Peter accepted that. While he was focused on Jesus, he could do what Jesus could do. So, I'm saying to you today that as these messages direct you to the person of Jesus, you set your focus on him, the power of the Holy Spirit is going to rise up inside of you, and you're going to be able to do what doctors have told you you'll never do again.
In our last post, I talked about redemption. Jesus took our infirmities, he bore our sicknesses in his body on the cross to redeem us from our sickness and diseases. In the same way, he redeemed us from our sins so we can be forgiven, we can be healed.
Today I want to talk about the life of Jesus in you. I want to talk about the power of the Holy Spirit inside of you.
This is God's plan. It was God's intention that having saved you, the blood of Jesus, wash all your sins away, that the Holy Spirit would come live inside of you. More specifically, he would come live inside of your body.
a new type of life
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
He's not talking about living a long life, he's talking about having life. “that you might have everlasting life”. That's a new kind of life that God gave you, it's divine life, it's the life of God.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. John 7:38
Jesus is not just talking about a little bit of life, he's talking about an overflow of life.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10
There's an abundance of life. God planned that the life of God would do more than just come inside your heart, would do more than just come inside your spirit or inside your soul, but that it would overflow into your body.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 1 Corithians 6:19
Paul here is talking about the indwelling Holy Spirit inside of the life of the believerIf I ask most Christians, where is the Holy Spirit? They say the Holy Spirit is in me, and that's true. But here in this scripture, he gives us another truth that we also have to add to that. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has come to live inside of your body. He lives in your flesh. He lives in your organs. He lives in your cells. He lives in your tissues. He lives in your muscles.
the holy spirit is in motion
Fire — a fire that's not burning is not a fire. So a fire is burning, right? So the Holy Spirit is a fire in your body burning. He's in motion. He's burning right now.
Wind — the Holy Spirit is wind. The Holy Spirit is wind, in other words, he's blowing. So a wind that's not blowing is not a wind. So we know the Holy Spirit is right now in motion. He's right now in action inside your body.
River — A river is always flowing. A river that's not flowing is not a river. So a river is flowing. So the Holy Spirit is a river that is flowing inside your body.
He is a wind that's blowing inside your body. He is a fire that's burning inside of your body. Now that is the plan of God. Jesus redeemed you from your sin. Jesus carried your sin. He carried your sickness. He carried your disease. He redeemed you from it. He sets you free. Then He gave you the life of God. He gave you the Holy Spirit who came to live inside of your flesh, who come to live inside of your body.
Right now He's active. Right now He's in motion inside of your body. That's why you're being healed. That's why you're being kept healthy, kept safe because of the action of the Holy Spirit inside of your body.
People think: OK, I'm going to pray and I'm going to pray and I'm going to pray and God in heaven is going to send healing down upon me. That's not how it works. God gave you the Holy Spirit who came to live inside of you, more than live inside of you, to literally live inside of your body. That is healing. That's healing action. That's healing action inside of you right now.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Romans 8:11
Your mortal body is the body you live in right now. Mortal means “death doomed.” It's not talking about the body that's laying in the grave. He's talking about the body you have right now. The Holy Spirit lives inside of your mortal body. And what's He doing? The Bible says He's making life. He's quickening. He's making life inside of your body right now. Hallelujah.
I accept that the Holy Spirit is working inside of my body. He's healing me right now. He's healing you right now.
He's not just sitting there. He's not just inactive. He's in me and he's active. He's fire that's burning. He's wind that's blowing. He’s a river thats flowing.
The holy spirit is transforming…
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2
Let’s look at that word “transform.” You know the word transform there is the same exact word that's used in the gospels regarding Christ as transfigured on the mount of transfiguration.
There was Jesus in prayer, suddenly the glory of God, the voice of God, and Jesus is transfigured before them. Which means what? Which means the power, the radiant glorious power inside of Jesus, suddenly begin to radiate through Him.
The glory didn't come literally out of heaven. It was already residing inside of Jesus. It began to radiate out of his inside, from his spirit. The glory radiated through his intestines, it radiated through his stomach, it radiated through his pancreas, it radiated through his liver, it radiated through his kidneys, it radiated through his flesh until it got into his clothes. When it got into his clothes, the Bible said, they became white. They lost their color and they became resplendent with radiant light. That was transfiguration.
Romans 12:2 says that we are transformed, we are transfigured as our mind is renewed, as we begin to shift how we see things, to line up with God's Word, then we begin to be transfigured.
So God's intention is that you be transfigured, which means that this life of God, this glorious life of the Holy Spirit that's inside of you begins to radiate through you. It begins to radiate through your intestines, through your kidneys, through your liver, through your heart, right out into your skin.
That's what God's doing right now. That's what the Holy Spirit is doing inside of you right now. When you take your eyes off of your situation, off of your pain, off of your diagnosis, and you put your eyes upon what is inside of you, my friend, you have a spiritual nuclear power plant inside of your spirit.
The moment you take your eyes off of your physical limitation, your pain, and your sickness, and you put your focus on the power that's inside of you, this power begins to radiate through you and will make you every bit whole, completely healed.
Hallelujah!