Why are we sick with diseases?
Disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired. It is lack of ease; uneasiness, trouble; vexation; disquiet. And sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
It is a moral or mental defect or disorder. It’s having poor health condition in the body. So a person who have a disease or sickness, needs to receive healing from the condition or problem in order for him to be well and sound. Reformation in the church has restored the lost truth to the church and one of those great truths which the spirit has restored is that of divine healing.
All over the world, Christians are discovering the reality of God’s healing power. So, the problem of sickness and disease is intertwined with the problem of sin and death; i.e. the consequences of the fall of man.
Whereas medical science views the causes of sickness and disease in physiological or psychosomatic terms, and the bible presents spiritual causes as the underlying or basic problems:
- (a) Sin, is the one which has affected our spiritual and physical makeup. John 5:5;14 says, “And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come to you”.
- (b) Satan is the supreme evil spirit or arch demon who is behind every evil done to man and man needs to be delivered from his evil schemes. It takes the anointed one from God to render him powerless. Acts 10:38 says “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him”. Some oppression is from Satan and others is a result of sin.
If sin and Satan are one of the causes of sickness, then repentance, forgiveness, healing and deliverance are vital in order for man to be made whole.
James Enjoman
Righteous Beginning Ministries
Director