A Response

I have come accross many people who, because of their experiences, tell me that in reality the fullness of the kingdom modelled by Jesus is not always for us, now. This is just a quick response - to hopefully put accross a different view on this.


The gospel is salvation and salvation (‘soteria’) is an all-inclusive, holistic term that restores all that was lost at the fall. It means forgiveness, healing, prosperity, deliverance, safety, rescue, liberation and restoration.

Now if we believe that we already have one part of the word (‘forgiveness’) then we also, legally, have the rest of it – as in Jesus has already earned all this for us. Now I will be the first to say that we haven’t fully pulled in our legal inheritance yet, but it’s not because it is impossible in our time. It is why we need to keep contending and praying ‘your kingdom come as it is in heaven.’

I know that not every person that comes to me for healing gets healed at the moment. So, I can lower the standard of Holy Scripture to meet my level of experience, or I can pursue more of the Kingdom and change my experience. We know that God hates sickness like he hates sin. So he wants us out of sickness, right now. The father can’t want us in sickness to teach us things when it cost Jesus everything to get us out of it – the Trinity can’t be divided. It says that Jesus did what he saw the father doing and Jesus healed every sick person that came to Him for healing. So the problem is not with God.

We also have been justified, so there is no good beating ourselves up either, particularly when Jesus took the beatings for us.

So the last thing we can look at is the demonic – and we are in a battle there. But the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church – so we have not just a legal right to health, but also we are on the winning side. That’s not to say we aren’t going to have disappointments on the way – but if we know it’s our inheritance we will fight more for it and see more and more people healed. We can’t pray ‘your kingdom come’ and then not really expect it to manifest. There is no sickness or poverty or demon oppression in the kingdom – so when we pray ‘kingdom come’ we are pulling all that onto earth.

When Jesus sent people out he told them to say that ‘the kingdom of heaven is (present tense) at hand’ then to lay their hands on the sick and heal the sick, raise the dead and cast out demons. That was the gospel according to Jesus and Jesus is perfect theology. Jesus never preached the gospel without demonstrating it in power. They cannot be separated. Where people have chased this biblical example of the gospel, they have found it. In Mozambique, they have had 60 people raised from the dead because they take Jesus at his word and they also see countless deaf people healed. In Redding California cancer rates have dropped 50% since they started praying and healing the sick.

And just a little end note!!: When Jesus said the poor will always be with you, He was doing it within a specific context. He was talking to a bunch of people who had the privilege in time and space to have the physical Lord Jesus with them. Jesus was speaking to them. They were always going to have the poor with them in their lifetime, because the kingdom was not going to be fully established across the planet in their lifetime. They had a unique privileged choice to spend on the physical Jesus in-front of them or the poor.

It is different for us - we don’t have that same choice. For us if we spend on the poor we ARE spending on Jesus – for what we do for them we do for Him. But just as that is different, so He was not making an eternal or universal statement when He said ‘the poor will always be with you’. Instead He asked us to establish the kingdom (which has no poverty in it) and to practically help impoverished people out of poverty.

All in all, we owe the world a divine encounter. Have fun doing it!