Healing is a gift, like salvation, already paid for at Calvary. All we need to do is accept it. All we need to do is possess the promise that is ours. As children of God, we need to realize that healing belongs to us.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
(Isa. 53:3-5)

Isaiah chapter 53 holds the key to both our spiritual and physical redemption. The fourth verse reads in the Hebrew, "Surely he hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains." In verse 10, the King James Version reads, "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to GRIEF...." Again, that is the word for "sick." The Hebrew literally says, "He hath made him sick."

Matthew 8:17 says, "That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias [Isaiah] the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Matthew is quoting Isaiah 53:4. Therefore, the correct translation is, "Surely he hath borne our sicknesses and carried our pains," for, as Matthew said, "...Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."

Dr. Robert Young, an able Hebrew scholar and author of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible, translated this passage in his Literal Translation of the Bible in this way:

He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains he hath carried them, And we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace is on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us. All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all....And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick...with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.
(Isa. 53:3-6,10,12)

Dr. Isaac Leeser's translation of the Hebrew Bible—a translation authorized for use by Orthodox Jews—reads, "He was despised and shunned by men: a man of pains, and acquainted with disease...But only our diseases did he bare himself, and our pains he carried...and through his bruises was healing granted to us...But the Lord was pleased to crush him through disease...." (Isa. 53:4,5,10)

Rotherham's translation, The Emphasized Bible, reads, "He laid on him sickness."

Every church believes that portion of Isaiah 53:6, "...the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."

Why can't they believe the rest of that redemptive concept, which we saw in verse 4: "...he hath borne our sicknesses, and carried our pains?"

If I can believe that God laid my iniquities on Jesus—and because He laid my iniquities on Him there is salvation for me—I can believe it when this same chapter tells me that God also laid my sickness and disease on Jesus. I can believe for my healing.

Healing is a gift, like salvation, already paid for at Calvary. All we need to do is accept it. All we need to do is possess the promise that is ours. As children of God, we need to realize that healing belongs to us.

Source: Healing Belongs To Us by Kenneth E. Hagin
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers