I’m healed!…Should I throw away my medicines?

14th April 2023. A classic picture of a healing is of a disabled person throwing away their crutches or jumping out of their wheelchair – I witnessed the latter some years ago in my own church. Crutches and wheelchairs can be retrieved easily, but prescribed drugs are a different matter, however.

If you have read my Introductory Blog you will know that I am not opposed to medicine, when it is administered wisely and responsibly and not a quick means of getting a patient quickly out of the surgery. Neither am I one of those Christians convinced that vaccinations are evil, and to accept a Coronavirus jab is to receive “the mark of the beast”, a deception created by a worldwide conspiracy to create a mass army of zombies! Vaccines today increasingly do not contain ‘live’ germs, but the traditional understanding of them was that to inject a person with a tiny amount of a disease would result in a building of resistance in the human body against catching a potentially fatal dose of the disease. It was while pondering whether to receive my first Covid jab that I happened to read Numbers 21:1-9, the account of the Bronze Snake (interpreted for our salvation in John 3:14-15). Here, the Lord punishes the wilderness-wandering, sin-prone Israelites, with multiple cases of snake-bites; then orders Moses to make a bronze snake and hang it up on a pole, with the instruction that anyone bitten by a snake should have a good look at the prescribed bronze snake and be healed! If that sounds a slightly mad thing for God to say, compare it with his instruction to Naaman (‘dip in the filthiest river’ – 2Kings 5), or to ten lepers (‘go and show your spots to a priest’ – Luke 7:11-19) – all part of “the foolishness of the gospel” (I Cor. 1:18-25). But it dawned on me that the principle of ‘Got a problem with a snake? – the remedy is a Snake!’ was essentially the ‘like-for-like’ principle behind vaccination. I received it as a prophetic word, which I happily offer to my readers.

A person healed in the Name of Jesus may be urged by the minister to ditch the drugs as they are no longer needed – or, indeed, they may decide that for themselves. Now, I am not going to PRESCRIBE on the matter of PRESCRIPTIONS – it is for you to decide. However, I offer the following thoughts: (A) If you feel compelled to do so because it will PROVE to yourself and others you are healed by God, I suggest you have nothing to prove. Your healing will become evident. (B) Even though you are divinely-healed, your body or mind may have become dependent – or even addicted – to the medication, so it may need to be weaned off them gradually. (C) As a mark of respect to your medical practitioner, who has devoted their best understanding to your well-being, you should at least inform them of your intentions. They may advise gradual withdrawal, if at all.

Speaking personally, as a result of a Heart-attack caused by Cholesterol, two bouts of Clinical Depression, a chronic but mild complaint called Cough-variant Asthma, and a few other fairly mild conditions, I have a potential prescription of 5 drugs I should take regularly, 2 drugs that I should keep handy in case of a recurrence, 3 I am advised to keep for treating occasional flare-ups, 1 to improve the quality of my life, and one or two more which exist on paper but not readily used. One medication I used after Depression 20 years ago to help me sleep at night proved very difficult to wean myself off – even with my GP’s assistance. I once accidentally forgot to take it on holiday. and could not sleep for three whole nights – despite being dog-tired, because my brain refused to switch off! I later realised that, probably due to heart-trauma, my body no longer produced enough seretonin – the natural ‘happy-drug’. So I am currently embarking on a steady approach to weaning-off, but do not feel in any way that it contradicts my testimony to several personal healings; nor do I sense a need to rid myself of them in order to be a a credible practitioner of divine healing.