Zion Church

Healing of the Spirit, Soul and Body

I Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Healed by the Word

God intends for His body to be made whole. His people, being those individual members of His body, need His wholeness to be able to perform the tasks commissioned to them as the church. One recent move of the Holy Spirit has been the restoration of the gifts of the Spirit to the church bringing deliverance and healing. Since Jesus is coming back for a church without “spot or blemish,” a “glorious” church, we can look for her to be cleansed and healed before that moment. This healing involves the total man: spirit, soul and body.

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:26-27).

The Hebrew word for “heal” is rapha, which means “to make thoroughly whole.” The Greek word sozo has the same connotation. It is used interchangeably throughout the Greek New Testament to mean “to save” and “to heal.” We need to be free of ...the sin which doth so easily beset us... (Hebrews 12:1), the sickness in our bodies, the fears of the soul, and all that keeps us from being the overcoming sons of God. This is what the Bible calls sanctification; the process of cleansing that needs to take place within our spirits, our souls, and our bodies.