Pronounce Yourself Clean!

Matthew 8:3
Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing; be cleansed." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.


Most of us are familiar with the healing of the leper in Matthew 8. It is a beautiful account of God's willingness to touch and heal the sick, no matter how unclean they may be. Whenever we doubt God's willingness to heal us, we should listen to the words of Jesus again, who is the same yesterday, today and forever: "I am willing; be cleansed."

Since the Bible is clear about God's willingness to heal, why do we still have problems with our health? Why do we still experience attacks and symptoms in our bodies that seem to imply that we are not healed?

I believe that the answer is found in what Jesus told the leper to do next. He told him to go and show himself to the priest. (Matthew 8:4) This was the law then for lepers who were healed. (Leviticus 14:2–3) And he was to hear the priest pronounce the word "clean" over him. (Leviticus 14:7)

You see, as believers, when we received Jesus, His blood cleansed us from sin as well as sickness. (Isaiah 53:4–5) But we keep hearing people pronounce sin, sickness, poverty and death over us. We keep hearing people tell us we are unclean, undeserving, poor, weak, and that it is only natural that we grow old and sickly, and die.

God is waiting for a priesthood that will rise up and pronounce His people clean!

"But Pastor Prince, where can I find such priests?"

Who are the priests today? You and I! In fact, we have more authority to pronounce good things than the Levitical priests of the Old Testament. They were just priests. But we are king-priests by the blood of Jesus. (Revelation 1:5–6) Where the word of the king is, there is power. (Ecclesiastes 8:4) And by the word of a priest, every controversy and every assault shall be settled. (Deuteronomy 21:5)

Beloved, God has cleansed you, so pronounce yourself clean! Right now, put your hand on your heart and pronounce good things over yourself. Say, "I pronounce myself clean, righteous, healed, whole and prosperous by the blood of Jesus!" By your word as a king-priest, every assault against you shall be settled!

Life Under The New Covenant

Hebrews 8:10
I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.


What laws was God referring to when He said, "I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts"? God was certainly not referring to the Ten Commandments, known as the laws of the old covenant, since He said that He found fault with that covenant and declared it obsolete. (Hebrews 8:7–9, 13)

The laws that God puts in our minds and writes on our hearts refer to the royal law of love (Matthew 22:37–40), the perfect law of liberty (James 1:25), and the law of faith. (Romans 3:27) These are the laws of the new covenant. (Hebrews 8:8)

You live according to the laws of the new covenant when you know how much God loves you all the time. And the more you know God's love for you, the more your heart is filled with love. You will love God and also the people around you supernaturally and effortlessly. That is God writing on your heart the royal law of love — that we love because He first loved us.

Secondly, when you know that you are perfectly accepted by God because of Jesus, you can have the courage and liberty as a child of God to come boldly into the presence of your heavenly Father who loves you so much. And in His presence, God is able to put in or write on your heart new desires and you will find yourself wanting to do the right things at the right time. You will live life victoriously from the inside out. This is the perfect law of liberty operating in your life.

When you sense what God is writing on your heart and putting in your mind, and as your faith is activated, causing you to trust Him, God calls it obeying the law of faith. When that happens, whatever you believe, you receive!

My friend, God has made it easy — and you will find that it is exciting — to live life under the new covenant!