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I serve the One Whose Name is, "I Am the Lord Who heals you." (Exodus 15:26)

Jesus is the Healer; satan is the oppressor. For Acts 10:38 says "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, Who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil."

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

Because I am Christ's, I am a child of Abraham, and according to Jesus in Luke 13:16, I ought to be loosed from all bondage today (because God shows no partiality. Acts 10:34) (Galatians 3:7,29)

Jesus gave me authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt me. (Luke 10:19; Mark 16:17)

Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, which includes all sickness. So I forbid all sickness and disease in my body. (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 28:61)

There shall nothing evil happen to me, neither shall any plague or sickness come near me. (Psalm 91:10)

I serve the Lord my God, and He blesses my bread, and my water, and He has taken sickness away from me. For Jesus, Himself, took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses away. (Exodus 23:25; Matthew 8:17)

Surely He has borne my sicknesses and carried my pains, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for my transgressions, He was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement for my peace was upon Him, and by His stripes I am healed. (Isaiah 53:4,5; 1 Peter 2:24)

Christ my passover was sacrificed for me. So all sickness and death has to pass over me and my household. (1 Corinthians 5:7; Exodus 12)

The Lord has taken away from me all sickness. (Deuteronomy 7:15)

God sent His Word and healed me, and delivered me from destruction. (Psalm 107:20)

I will give attention to God's words, I will incline my ear to His sayings. I will not let them depart from my eyes. I will keep them in my heart. They are life to me for I have found them, and they are health, healing and medicine to all my flesh. (Proverbs 4:20-22)

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all my iniquities, Who heals all my diseases, Who redeems my life from destruction, Who crowns me with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's. (Psalm 103:2-5)