Your Healing Is Already Signed: Dare to Declare It Now

Your Healing Is Already Signed: Dare to Declare It Now

A message from Pastor Steve Blackard, hosted by Pastor Cathy at Momentum for a service dedicated to faith and healing, Sunday, February 15, 2026.

There are biblical truths that, once you truly receive them, change the way you pray, the way you speak, and the way you wait on God. This is one of them: your healing isn't something God might do. It's something he already accomplished at the cross. The real challenge isn't getting healed anymore, it's learning to think the way God already sees it.

Pastor Steve Blackard comes every year to share on this topic. This time, he came with his team to pray afterward for everyone who wanted to receive. His message centered on a simple principle: God calls the things that are not as though they were. Here's what he invites you to grasp.

1. God Sees Your Healing in the Past, Not the Future

Isaiah wrote about seven centuries before Jesus came. Logically, he should have used the future tense: "he will carry our sorrows." Instead, he writes in the past tense:

"Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:4-5)

Seven hundred years before the cross, God already speaks of your healing as an accomplished fact. This isn't a grammar slip, it's a revelation: God doesn't think the way we do. What feels like the future to us is already signed as far as he's concerned.

Peter confirms this in the New Testament, again in the past tense:

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed." (1 Peter 2:24)

The inner revolution is to shift your point of view. You look at your body, still in pain, and you conclude: "I'm not healed." God looks at the cross and answers you: "I already healed you, today is the day you can receive the manifestation of it." God doesn't change his mind. We're the ones who hesitate.

2. Your Faith Starts With a Promise You've Found

Steve Blackard quotes Pastor Kenneth Hagin, who passed away in 2003, and who saw tens of thousands of healings in his ministry. His method was radical. Whenever someone came asking for prayer, he always asked the same question: "What promise of God are you standing on when you pray about this?"

If the person answered "I don't have one," he refused to pray. "Come back when you've found a promise. That's the foundation of your faith." For healing, he asked a second question: "What's going to happen when I lay hands on you?" Those who answered "I will be healed" were healed. Those who answered "I don't know, I hope so," he sent back to sit under teaching until faith rose up in their heart. Because hope is the starting point, but faith is what finishes the job.

That's what allowed Abraham to hold on. Even before he had a son, while he was still waiting, God declared to him:

"Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations." (Genesis 17:5)

The verb is in the past tense. No son yet, no visible proof, yet God speaks of the situation as already accomplished. Abraham believed that word, and his faith was counted to him as righteousness. If you want to see God move in your life, you first need to find what God has said about your situation. Faith comes from hearing, and hearing comes through the word of Christ (Romans 10:17).

3. Look, and Take Possession

Twice, before sending his people toward an obstacle, God uses the same word: "Look." He says it to Moses: "Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess it" (Deuteronomy 1:8, 21). And he says it to Joshua, before Jericho: "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor" (Joshua 6:2).

But what does "look" mean when your physical eyes still see nothing? You look at the promises. You look at what God has said. You look at his faithfulness, his goodness, his power, his love, his affection for you, his capacity to intervene. God is never out of hope for a situation. You will never hear him say, "This time it's too much for me." He's always able and willing to act.

There's a practical principle in the silent march around Jericho. For six days, the people marched without saying a word. Why? Because our words carry power. In the face of massive walls and mighty warriors, a single word of fear is enough to undermine the promise. God doesn't want to risk letting you sabotage what he's already doing.

Steve Blackard shares a concrete example. A woman from his church, working in a toxic environment, grasped this principle. She decided to arrive ten minutes early every morning, release God's peace over her desk by faith, and declare that the atmosphere was changing in Jesus' name. Everything was transformed. The toxicity left, solutions came, because she took her stand on a promise.

4. The Woman With the Issue of Blood, and the Key of Her Inner Speech

Mark tells the story of a woman who had suffered a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent everything she had on doctors with no improvement, only getting worse (Mark 5:25-34). One day, she hears about Jesus. Hope is born, then becomes faith. She says to herself: "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well" (Matthew 9:21). She pushes through the crowd, touches the edge of his garment, and instantly her bleeding stops.

This detail matters: Matthew and Mark report what the woman was thinking. No human witness could have known that. It's the Holy Spirit who revealed it to the gospel writers, because that inner speech is the key to her healing. You also have inner speech. You say things to yourself that no one else hears. And those things carry enormous weight over what you experience.

Mark notes that "as many as touched him were made whole" (Mark 3:10, referring to those who had diseases). Many touched Jesus that day. Only one was healed. Jesus himself names the difference: "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease." (Mark 5:34) It wasn't Jesus' faith that healed her, he didn't even see her touch him. It was her own faith, put into action, that laid hold of the power that was already available.

When someone prays for you, hold onto one thought: "This hand I feel is Jesus touching me." Steve Blackard shares a testimony from a Bible school at Bon Berger church, with Pastor Robert Baxter, where two students with no prayer experience saw six people healed one after another. A shoulder wrecked since adolescence regained full mobility after one minute of prayer. A knee pain disappeared. Total healing, six times over. Because the ones receiving believed Jesus was touching them.

5. Two Things to Believe, Two Things to Do

Pastor Steve closes with a simple, practical guide.

Two things to believe.

• Jesus wants to heal you today, because he has already paid the price. His thought toward you is clear: "I suffered so much for you to be healed that my greatest desire is for you to receive that healing."
• It's now, not later. When God declares to Abraham that he is already a father, that's the moment Abraham believes and the answer is released. God presents himself as "the Lord who heals you" (Exodus 15:26) in the present tense, not the future.

Two things to do.

• Make a declaration of faith. In your heart or out loud. Don't say "maybe God will"; speak in the future of accomplishment: "What is God going to heal in you? He's going to heal my back, he's going to heal my leg, he's going to remove my pain." God is waiting for that declaration to release his answer.
• Do what you couldn't do before. Don't move to check whether something changed; move to discover what has changed. That's an expression of faith. If the healing isn't immediately verifiable (thyroid, diabetes), receive it by faith anyway and walk in that healing until you see it fully manifested.

As Steve Buckland put it, quoted by the preacher: "The lives of many Christians would change radically if they stopped using their words only to describe their present, and started using them the way God intends, to shape their future."

Key Takeaways

• God sees your healing in the past tense. What Christ paid for at the cross is already signed for you: it's yours to receive today.
• Faith isn't a feeling, it's an anchor. It rests on a specific promise from God, not on a vague hope.
• "Look" means fixing your eyes on the promises, not on the obstacle. Your words can either build what God is preparing or undermine it.
• Your inner speech is the key. Change what you say to yourself, and you'll change what you receive.
• God is waiting for a declaration of faith from you. He wants to answer you more than you want to be answered.

Personal Application

• For which specific situation do you need to find, this week, the exact promise God has given? Where will you look (Bible, concordance, pastor)?
• When you look at your problem, what dominates your gaze: the obstacle or the word God has given? What will you change starting now?
• What is your inner speech right now about your health, your job, your family? What Bible verse do you want to repeat in its place?
• Can you say out loud this morning, "Jesus, you healed me at the cross, I receive it now," and truly mean it?
• For an area where you were waiting for "maybe later," what first concrete step can you take today "to discover what God has already done"?

Scriptures Cited

• Isaiah 53:4-5 · the prophet speaks of healing in the past tense, seven centuries before the cross.
• 1 Peter 2:24 · "by whose stripes you were healed."
• Genesis 17:5 · God calls Abraham father of a multitude before he has a son.
• Deuteronomy 1:8, 21 · "Behold, I have set the land before you."
• Joshua 6:2 · "I have given Jericho into your hand."
• Mark 5:25-34 · the woman who had suffered a flow of blood for twelve years.
• Matthew 9:20-22 · the parallel account that reports her inner speech.
• Mark 3:10 · "as many as had diseases pressed on him."
• Romans 10:17 · "faith comes by hearing."
• Exodus 15:26 · "I am the Lord who heals you."

FAQ

Why say my healing is "already accomplished" when I'm still suffering?

Because the Bible speaks of healing as a spiritual fact secured at the cross (Isaiah 53:4-5; 1 Peter 2:24). The legal accomplishment is signed, but the manifestation often calls for a response of faith on your part. That's the meaning of the two tenses of salvation: Christ accomplished everything, and yet we enter by faith into what he accomplished.

What if I can't find a specific promise for my situation?

Search actively. Open a concordance, look for the word that describes your situation (fear, debt, sickness, loneliness), and write down the promises you find. Ask a pastor or a mature believer to help you identify one. Without a promise, your prayer turns into vague hoping. With a promise, it has solid ground to stand on.

How do I pray practically for my healing based on this message?

Three simple steps. One: stand on a specific verse (for example, 1 Peter 2:24). Two: make a declaration of faith, quietly or out loud, something like, "Lord, I now receive the healing you secured for me at the cross." Three: take a first action (move, test it, walk), to discover what God has done, rather than to check whether he has done something.