Stop Arguing With Symptoms, Start Agreeing With Jesus

This is Episode 8 of our Foundations of Faith series 

What if healing doesn’t start when symptoms disappear, but when faith connects to what Jesus already finished? We open the Foundations of Faith series to a core claim: faith does not convince God to heal; faith receives the healing grace already supplied. Anchored in Mark 5, we trace the woman with the issue of blood and discover how identity, confession, and action converged to draw power from Jesus before a single word was spoken.

We get practical about fear, pain, and waiting. You’ll learn how to separate sensation from authority, letting scripture define the outcome while your body reports the present. We show why peace often arrives before relief and how hearing the word—again and again—feeds revelation until it grows louder than fear. Then we unpack the richness of sozo, the New Testament idea of wholeness that restores body, soul, and spirit, and we highlight the order Jesus models: acceptance and identity first, then visible change.

From Jairus’s house to the centurion’s insight to Bartimaeus’s boldness, the pattern is consistent: grace makes it available, faith makes it personal. Along the way, we clear common myths—healing isn’t random, selective, or mysterious—and offer an activation you can use this week: speak one healing scripture morning and night, pray the prayer of faith, and confess what Christ has finished until peace anchors your heart. If this teaching strengthens your walk, subscribe and leave a review so more people hungry for clear, Bible-rooted faith can find it. Share this episode with someone who needs hope today, and tell us: which scripture will you speak over your body this week?

Transcript

Setting The Theme: Faith Heals

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This is the season. This is the moment. This is faith revealed. Welcome back to Faith Revealed. I'm your host, VM Mansfield, and today in our Foundations of Faith series, we address a vital dimension of faith. Faith that heals. This episode dives into healing, specifically the healing of the woman with the issue of blood. A moment where Jesus clearly identifies faith as the means by which healing is received. What if healing does not begin when symptoms disappear? But the moment faith connects with what Jesus has already finished. Faith does not convince God to heal. Faith receives the healing God has already provided. In Mark chapter 5, verse 34, he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith has made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy plague. This teaching reveals how faith reaches into what God has already provided, and how healing flows where faith becomes active.

Honoring Marie And Community Impact

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Before we get into the message, it is time for a big ol' faith-revealed listener shout out. Today we want to give a very special shout-out to a very special person in this ministry, Marie Connell. From Dayton, Ohio, Marie has served as the Secretary of the Board and has supported this ministry faithfully for many, many years. Her encouragement has been constant. Her support has reached far beyond the local level. Even helping carry this vision forward on a national scale through radio and through television broadcasting, and even helping in our international training and leadership development. Marie is a fabulous singer, a minister in her own right, and someone with tremendous leadership ability. Her heart for the work of God, her faithfulness, and her willingness to stand with this ministry through the years means more than we could ever express. Marie, we wanted to just take a moment and say thank you. Thank you for your years of service, your encouragement, your leadership, and your belief in this ministry. We honor you and we are deeply grateful for you. We cannot say enough about you. We could spend the whole episode talking about the things that you've done for this ministry, but we don't have time, and I know you wouldn't want us to. You'd want us to go right into the message.

Listener Question: Fear Vs Faith

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So, without further ado, we're going to continue, but we want to definitely say thank you to Pastor Marie Caudell from Dayton, Ohio. Today's listener question comes from Sharon in Michigan, who writes, You said fear fades when revelation takes over. Yes, I did, Sharon. But when it comes to healing, fear of getting worse is strong. How do I keep the faith active when my body still feels sick? Yep, that's a powerful question. And first let me say this plainly: feeling sick does not mean your faith is shut down. It means your body is reporting one thing while faith is anchored in another. Here's the truth we have to anchor into. Faith does not deny the body's report. Okay? If your body says it's sick, it probably is. God designed it that way. Faith refuses to let the body be the final authority. Okay? Scripture never teaches us to pretend symptoms aren't there. That's not what we do. We do not pretend that symptoms are not there. It teaches us to live from a higher revelation. When fear says, what if it gets worse? It's because the body is still loud. Revelation quiets fear, not by arguing with it, not by arguing with the symptoms, but by establishing a greater reality. Here's how to keep faith active when your body still feels sick. Number one, and if you want to write this down, write it down. There's probably show notes if you listen on Apple or something like that. Uh, but I encourage you to really get a hold of this, and this is probably not just for uh Sharon. This is probably for everybody that watches this podcast. So number

Keeping Faith Active Amid Symptoms

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one, separate sensation from authority. Okay. The very first thing you have to do is separate sensation from authority. You cannot allow the sensation to become the authority. Pain is a sensation, not a verdict. Symptoms are information, not prophecy. The word of God is the only thing that has the authority to define your outcome. Jesus never asked how people felt before he healed them, he spoke what heaven had already decided. Keep faith anchored in truth, not timelines. Okay? Healing in Scripture isn't sustained by when it manifests, but by what Christ has already accomplished. Faith stays active. Okay. Faith, faith can absolutely just stay active no matter what your body's saying. You might say, well, how does faith stay active? Faith stays active by resting in the finished work, not by measuring progress through symptoms. Okay. Revelation feeds faith, even when the body resists it. Fear fades when revelation grows. Not when symptoms vanish, but when revelation grows. That's why the scripture says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Okay? Keep hearing the truth of what Christ has done. And not just hearing it with these ears, but hearing it with these ears. Okay? That's the important part is that you have to hear that with your heart. You cannot just hear it with your natural ear. Okay? Revelation strengthens the inner man even when the outer man is still trying to catch up. So don't allow that to hinder you. Okay, you you can say, oh, well, that hurts. Sure, it probably does hurt. But that's not the that's not the final authority. Okay, speak from identity, not desperation. When you're trying to convince God to heal you, it's it's it's speaking from desperation. So we're not trying to convince God to heal us. What we're doing is we're agreeing with what he has already done. Confession is not denial, it's alignment. Saying, by his stripes I'm healed, that's not ignoring the pain. It's declaring who has the final word, who has the final authority. So let peace be the indicator, not the pain. Faith doesn't always look like instant relief. Okay, I know that we've been made to believe that for whatever reason, and we kind of come to this thing where we think that faith is absolutely the end all be all, the instant belief. It's it's not. Faith doesn't always look like instant relief. Sometimes it looks like unexplainable peace in the middle of discomfort. Peace is often the first fruit of faith. Okay? Before healing fully manifests, there's the anchor truth. Your body may still feel sick, but your faith is alive and it's still agreeing with Christ. Fear loses its grip, not when symptoms disappear, but when revelation becomes louder than sensation. You're not failing because you feel pain. You're standing because you still believe. And that posture, steady, anchored, agreeing with truth, is exactly where healing flows. I hope that helped answer your question, Sharon, and I thank you for writing in. Uh you're not the only one that that deals with that question. We actually have a lot of people that have written that same or same version of that question in uh numerous times, but I think yours kind of some totaled it here, and yours was the closest one I grabbed. So uh thank you for writing that in. And um stay tuned for the rest of the episode because we're gonna deal

Sozo And True Wholeness

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with some more about healing. And if you want to go deeper into healing, we can absolutely do that. Uh just email us, write to us, do do whatever it takes to get a hold of us, and uh we'd be more than happy to you know try to help expound on that, and even maybe just shoot a video for you guys to help you understand a little more of that. Um, we're gonna get into Mark chapter 5, verse 34, where he said unto her daughter, Thy faith has made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of these plagues. The word whole is the word sozo in the Greek. It is also rendered as the word saved. Okay, it's also rendered as the word saved in the King James. It means to deliver, to protect, to heal, to preserve, to restore health, to make whole in every way. Healing is not partial. The salvation Jesus provides includes physical, emotional, and spiritual wholeness. Okay? W-hol e-ness, wholeness. The word plague is mastics. It's a scourging, a torment, a long-standing affliction. Her condition was not temporary, it was a torment that dominated her life. Faith, we know, is the word uh pistes, and it means conviction of truth, reliance upon Christ, full confidence in his ability. Jesus attributes the healing to her faith, not because faith earned it, but because faith received it. Okay. Daughter was a term of acceptance, belonging. It was a covenant relationship. Okay, that's what that means. Identity precedes healing. Jesus calls her daughter before declaring her whole. Okay. Especially you women, get a hold of that. All right. He called her daughter before he declared her whole. He gave her covenant identity. He gave her acceptance when the entire community around her did not accept her. Now, I want to I want to take a moment because of some feedback that we've been getting already on these. And

Why We Read One Verse At A Time

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I want, I want to take a moment and tell you, listen, the reason we start with the verse, people want me to expound and read the whole context of the verse. I can't do that. We don't have time for that on a 28 and a half minute podcast. Uh, here's what I encourage you to do: you go read it. Okay, you go read it. If you want to read it, you go read it. And I encourage you to go read it when we start in a verse, go read the entire chapter. So if we start can start in Mark 5 or if we start in Hebrews 1, go read the entire chapter. In fact, I encourage you that every verse that we pull up here on the screen that you go read the whole chapter of. So that you can get the context and you can get the understanding that I can't give you all of that. Okay, we just don't have time for that. And the reason that we bullet point these scriptures the way we do is to try to stay on time. Okay. And you say, well, we don't, we're not on a time limit. Well, we try to do this and we try to we try to manage the time of the podcast out of respect for your time as the listener. You may be commuting, you may have this plotted out in your day or in a day of your week that you're you say, okay, faith revealed, dropped, and we're going to go listen to it. All right. So we try to respect your time. It's just like a live church service. That's why we just do one scripture at a time, one thought at a time. We we just go slowly. So if you want to know more about it, just go read it. You have a Bible, go read it. Uh, let's get into let's get on on into the message here. Uh, I want to talk about Jesus specifically and the flow of power that that he produced. Before Jesus speaks to the woman, something supernatural happens. So look at Mark chapter 5, verse 30. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him,

Power Flow: Touching Jesus By Faith

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he turned about in the press and said, Who touched my clothes? Now, the word virtue is the word dunamis, miracle working power, divine energy. The power flowed before Jesus spoke. Faith drew what grace supplied. Grace makes it available, faith makes it personal. I was telling someone not that long ago, grace and faith to me are married. They work hand in hand. Okay? So when you're talking about Jesus and the flow of power, you you've got to understand this woman, she had continually told herself, if I could just touch the hem of his garment, just the thread of his clothes, the stitching on his clothes, I know beyond any doubt that I will be made whole. Okay. Her faith had three expressions. She heard, when she had heard of Jesus, that's Mark chapter 5, verse 27. When she had heard of Jesus, so she heard. Faith always begins with hearing. Okay, that's where it's birthed, in the hearing. She said, is the second one. Mark chapter 5, verse 28. For she said, If I may touch his clothes, I will be made whole. Her confession aligned with her expectation, and then she acted. She pressed through the crowd, weak, unclean, rejected, in jeopardy of death, but faith moved her. She pressed through the crowd. So she heard, she believed, and she acted. James chapter 2, verse 26 said, For as the body without the spirit is dead, faith without works also is dead. Her action activated her faith. And then what happens? Well, he's dealing with her. And in that moment, the centurion comes to him. And you can find this in Matthew chapter 8, verse 13. We try to use the harmony of the gospels to give you guys a variation of things here. And Jesus said unto the centurion, Thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. Okay. Now let me show you something. He's dealing with the woman with the issue of blood. I'm sorry, I said the centurion came to him. Jarius came to him. At that moment, Jarius was trying to get him to Jarius' house to heal his daughter that was dying. She was like about to die. And this woman with the issue of blood stopped Jesus from going to Jarius' house, and he's dealing with her. Daughter, thy faith has made thee whole. At that moment, someone from Jarius' house came to them. And he said, Don't trouble the master anymore, your daughter's dead. Jesus looks at her and says, Fear not, she's only asleep. Your daughter's not dead, she's only asleep. Now she is exactly what we would call dead. Jesus said, She's not dead, she's only asleep. He goes to Jarius' house, and they had what they called wailers or criers. So these people would be sitting there crying and

Jairus, Unbelief, And Resurrection

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wailing. Listen, don't come to my house with that. Don't come to my house with that. I don't want to hear you whining, crying, wailing. Listen, I will chuck you out the door like a frisbee. I will throw you out. And that's pretty much what Jesus did he cast out all the unbelief, all the criers, all the wailers, all the musicians that was there playing uh Goresti. He threw all these people out of there, all right, and said, Get out. And he went to the went to the girl and he said, Daughter arise. And she came back from the dead. Daughter arise. Jarius said, I knew if I could get you there, you could heal her. I don't think Jarius probably realized that he could raise her from the dead, but he did that. He absolutely did that. And the first thing he did was he kicked out all the unbelievers. Listen, that's the first thing I do. If you don't believe that God's going to heal me, get out of the room. I don't want you here. I don't want your wailing. I don't want your crying. I don't want your sad sapiness. And we think that we're doing right by showing compassion. That's not compassion. Jesus was moved with compassion and he raised the dead. He was moved with compassion and he healed the sick. He cleansed the lepers. He took paraplegics and he picked them right up out of wheelchairs. Anybody that he dealt with that needed a miracle, he was moved with compassion and they received a miracle. Sitting there crying over somebody that's dying is not compassion. It's not faith. It's absolutely 100% unbelief. Now look at the, let's go to the centurion now, Matthew chapter 8, verse 13. Jesus said unto the centurion, As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. Healing responded to belief. Every time Jesus would heal somebody, he would look at him and say, Your faith healed you. Preachers do that today because most of the preachers don't have faith, so they hinge it all on you. Well, I don't believe in that. I do not agree with that at all. I have made the statement for the last decade: if you don't have faith to get you healed, I have the faith, I'll get you healed. It don't take both of us, it just takes one person believing. Okay? You might be too close to the situation to have enough faith. That's why we're a many-membered body. That's why we lay hands on the sick, and that's why we see the sick recovered. These unbelieving preachers said, Well, it's according to your faith. The reason Jesus said, Your faith has healed you, according to your faith be it unto you, the reason he did those things was to show normal, commonplace people like us that we could have the faith to be healed, that we could do it. That's why. Okay, you've got to realize when Jesus was doing this, he was

Belief, Authority, And Healing Examples

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building a church. We're not building that church. That church is built and has been built for a long time. 2,000 some years, that church has been established. All right. We now have the faith. We now have the belief. We now have the understanding to understand that healing responds to belief. If you believe, you can be healed. If I believe, I can be healed. If you believe, you can get me healed. And vice versa. Okay, so now look, let's look at Bartimaeus in Mark chapter 10, verse 52. Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith has made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus in the way. So he received his sight, he was immediately healed, and then he knew he had enough sense to follow Jesus. I've seen countless people get healed and never come back. They never, you they just wander off and go back to their lives, and they they forget Jesus even exists. Okay? Now let's let's look at Matthew chapter 9, verse 29. Talking about these blind men. Two blind men. Then he touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you. Listen, every healing Jesus performed revealed the same truth. Faith receives what God gives. A hundred percent of the time. Faith receives what God gives. If we don't have the faith to receive it, it's not that God isn't giving it. It's already been given. And this is the thing that I want to clear up. And I know this is a foundational teaching, and we're trying to keep it foundation, but listen, there's some things that just are are foundational to me that have to be addressed. It's not according to God's will if you're healed, He wills you healed. By his stripes you will. Were healed. All right. That is his will for you to be healed. But faith has to receive what God has already given. That's how that works. It's not, well, God's just not healing people. Bologna, you're a cop-out. I looked at a guy that said that and said, You're a coward. Okay? Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean that God isn't doing it. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean God isn't doing it. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That didn't change. The kingdom is in power. Speaking of kingdom, let me give you some kingdom principles. Healing is not a mystery. People look at this stuff and they think, oh, it's very mysterious. It's this, it's that. Healing is not a mystery. Healing is not random. Healing is not selective. What do you mean? I'll tell you. I'm glad you asked that. He doesn't choose me better

Kingdom Principles: Finished Work

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than you to heal me and not you. Or choose you better than me to heal you and not me. It's not selective. It's not random. We're not sitting there twirling one of those things and we pull a number out and say, okay, number 42 gets healed. No. No, that's not how that works. It's not a mystery. It's not hidden behind the clouds somewhere. Healing flows where faith connects to the finished work of Jesus Christ. Done. Okay. Isaiah 53, 5 said, but he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace, you and I, we can claim that, was upon him, and by his stripes, or with his stripes, we are healed. First Peter chapter 2, verse 24 bore witness to this and said, He who his own self bare our own sins in his own body on the tree, which was the cross, that we, being dead to sin, should live under righteousness by whose stripes we were past tense healed. Healing is past tense in the finished work. Faith brings the finished work into your present reality. That's a good statement. I'm going to say that again. Faith brings the finished work into your present reality. Now let's put this to life inside of you. Look at Mark chapter 11, verse 24. I am all about activation. And

Activation: Pray, Believe, Receive

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this is the activation segment of our podcast where it becomes alive in you. And I love this part. Mark chapter 11, verse 24. I believe there's always a scripture that will activate God's truth inside of you. Therefore, I say unto you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you shall have them. Belief receives. Receiving precedes having. So let's look at James. Okay. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. Not the prayer of fear, not the prayer of begging, the prayer of faith. Proverbs chapter 4, verse 22 said, For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. The word itself is medicine. The word itself is medicine. Faith receives healing as a reality before the body registers the change. Okay? Faith receives it. Healing is my reality. Health is my reality. I don't care what the body says, I stand on the word of God, unshakable, unmovable, on the finished work of Jesus Christ, because I read the scriptures. I know the scriptures, and the scriptures are alive inside of me. Therefore, I have the revelation of healing. I have the revelation of health. And that doesn't mean that I've God gave me something that He didn't give you. No, I got it all right here out of the Bible. It's all the same. I read the same scriptures you do. The only difference maybe between me and some people is that I actually do sit there and read it and try to understand it and learn it and get it inside of me. I don't just take it as a verse and post it on my mirror and say, There it is, God, you read it. I do it. Okay? Healing does not flow because you deserve it. Healing flows because Jesus provided it. Okay, that's the number one thing that we need to understand when we're dealing with people is healing doesn't flow because you deserve it. It flows because Jesus provided it. Therefore, receive it. Faith simply reaches out and receives what grace already released. That's the beauty of grace, is we didn't deserve it, but God gave it to us anyway. Okay? Pray this with me. Say, Lord, let your word take root in my spirit

Closing And Listener Actions

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until healing becomes real to me from the inside out. Confess this. Say, by his stripes, I am healed. Wholeness is mine. Healing is working in my body right now. Now I want you to do something. I want you to speak one healing scripture over your body every morning and every night this week. Scripture spoken becomes healing awakened. Think like this when you're doing it. My symptoms are temporary. His stripes are eternal. The effects, the healing of his stripes are eternal. Okay. Healing is mine because Jesus finished it. That's where we're going to stop for the day. I think that's probably enough to get you started there. And let that word settle in you. Let it establish faith inside of you. Let it guide your steps. If faith revealed has helped you understand the word more clearly or strengthen your walk with God, would you please take 30 seconds and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you listen that you can review? Your review helps this teaching reach believers who are hungry for truth and sound doctrine. The word doctrine just means teaching. Okay? Stable teaching. It's one simple way you can help spread the word from wherever you're at and whatever you're doing. While you're at it, share this episode with someone who needs it. Encouragement and teaching from the word. Okay? Share this with people. Whether you think they need it or you don't, share it with them, please. And if you're listening on YouTube, make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss future teachings. And I want to personally thank you for being part of this Faith Revealed community. And until the next time, may God continually bless you abundantly. Thank you for tuning in to Faith Revealed. Please subscribe, share, and join our email list to receive our monthly magazine and teaching updates keeping you rooted in the Word. We appreciate you keeping us in your prayers, and we will see you next week right here on Faith Revealed.