Exodus 15:26 | Apostle Joshua Selman | March 8, 2026
The healing ministry of Jesus is not a side expression of the gospel. It is central to the believer’s witness, central to the revelation of God’s love, and central to the transformation of lives and nations.
In this powerful message, Apostle Joshua Selman unveiled the depth of God’s healing agenda, showing that healing is not limited to the body alone. God desires to heal the spirit, the soul, the body, and even bring healing to societies and nations.
This message was more than a teaching. It was a call to restoration, wholeness, and alignment with the ministry of Jesus Christ.
Healing Is Part of Our Corporate Mandate
Apostle Joshua Selman began by explaining that believers are not merely called to admire Jesus, but to become witnesses of His resurrection and reality. Our lives must validate that Jesus truly died, rose again, and still changes lives today.
The church is not only meant to preach truth but to demonstrate its effect. When the gospel truly penetrates society, it should affect the moral fabric of a people. Crime should reduce. Disorder should reduce. Light should shine through transformed lives.
In that context, healing becomes a major expression of the kingdom. Jesus healed the sick, cast out devils, restored the broken, and revealed the Father through acts of compassion and power. If we are to continue His ministry, then healing must remain part of our witness to the world.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
The Healing Ministry of Jesus
The message drew attention to the earthly ministry of Jesus and how healing consistently accompanied His assignment.
From Matthew 10:1, where Jesus gave His disciples power over unclean spirits and power to heal all manner of sickness and disease, to Acts 10:38, which declares that Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, the pattern is clear: healing is in the character and mission of Christ.
Apostle Selman emphasized that when Jesus read from Isaiah 61, the healing of lives became one of the major visible proofs that the prophecy had been fulfilled. Healing was not an afterthought. It was one of the clearest evidences that the Messiah had come..
God Reveals Himself as Healer
One of the foundational scriptures of the night was Exodus 15:26, where God revealed Himself as Jehovah Rapha the Lord who heals.
This name does not merely describe something God does occasionally. It reveals a dimension of His nature. God is healer by character. His desire is not only to forgive sin, but also to restore, mend, and make whole.
The message further explored Jeremiah 30:17 and Jeremiah 33:6, showing that God’s promise of healing extends beyond physical pain. He heals wounds, restores health, and reveals abundance of peace and truth.
Healing Is Tripartite: Spirit, Soul, and Body
One of the most profound parts of the teaching was the explanation that man is spirit, soul, and body, and each dimension requires healing in a different way.
1. The Healing of the Spirit: Salvation
The first and greatest healing is the healing of the human spirit.
A person may be physically healthy and mentally sharp, yet spiritually dead. The healing of the spirit happens through salvation. It is the reconnection of man to the life of God through Jesus Christ.
Apostle Selman explained that salvation is not just a religious experience. It is the restoration of the spirit from death to life. Outside Christ, man is disconnected from the divine habitat he was created for. Just as a fish cannot thrive outside water, man cannot truly live outside God.
This is why no amount of therapy, success, or morality can replace the need for the new birth. The deepest healing of all begins when a person receives Jesus and is made alive in God.
2. The Healing of the Soul: Emotional and Psychological Restoration
The second dimension of healing is the healing of the soul the realm of the mind, emotions, and inner wounds.
This part of the message struck deeply because it addressed a reality many believers carry silently: emotional pain.
Apostle Selman taught that many people look fine outwardly, yet carry deep wounds inwardly. He identified some major causes of emotional brokenness:
- disappointed expectations
- rejection
- betrayal
- loss of trust
- painful life experiences
- childhood wounds
- family dysfunction
- repeated delays and disappointments
He explained that many lives, homes, and destinies are being damaged not because people are evil, but because they are wounded.
Unforgiveness, bitterness, jealousy, rage, aggression, insecurity, pride, and even toxic relationship patterns can all be fruits of unhealed wounds. A broken soul can distort marriages, parenting, leadership, ministry, and destiny.
This was a strong call to honesty and healing. God does not only want us saved; He wants us whole.
3. The Healing of the Body: Divine Health and Divine Healing
The third dimension is the healing of the physical body.
From 1 Peter 2:24, the teaching affirmed that healing is part of Christ’s redemptive work. By His stripes, we were healed.
Apostle Selman made it clear that believers must embrace both divine healing and divine health. Healing is corrective. Health is preventive. God desires not only to cure sickness but to keep His people in strength and vitality.
He also stressed that many sicknesses have spiritual roots, while others involve biological, emotional, and lifestyle factors. Therefore, walking in health requires spiritual understanding, wise living, and responsible stewardship of the body.
The Reality of Emotional Wounds
A major burden of the message was that many people are wounded and do not know it.
The average person, especially by adulthood, may already carry years of pain. Some have been rejected. Some were abused. Some watched their expectations collapse. Some were hurt by people they trusted. Some are still reacting to injuries from childhood, family failure, or heartbreak.
Apostle Selman warned that if pain is not healed, it gets transferred.
Wounded parents wound children. Wounded leaders wound followers. Wounded spouses wound each other. Wounded pastors wound congregations. A generation can inherit not only battles, but also emotional wounds from those before them.
This is why healing is urgent. A person can be anointed and still bleeding inside. A person can be successful and still be broken in the soul. A person can have a title, a business, a family, and yet remain trapped in unseen pain.
But the good news of the message was simple and powerful: healing is possible.
Four Steps to Emotional Healing
Apostle Selman shared practical steps toward emotional healing:
Call upon the Lord
Healing at the deepest level begins with crying out to God. There are wounds only His power can reach.
Locate scriptures that speak victory
The word of God must be applied intentionally to areas of pain, shame, rejection, delay, and disappointment.
Seek godly counsel
Not everyone should handle your pain. Seek counsel from spiritually mature and emotionally intelligent believers.steadfast in prayer, study of the Word, and spiritual discipline. According to him, miracles can open doors, but character and consistency keep them open.
Find a cause bigger than your pain
One of the strongest healing keys shared was this: healing becomes complete when your pain is transformed into purpose. When you use your story to bring life to others, healing deepens.
This is powerful. Pain that only complains remains pain. Pain surrendered to purpose becomes ministry.
Laws of Health and Healing
The message also offered practical wisdom for maintaining health and receiving healing.
Keys to Walking in Health
- guard your heart
- speak life
- eat right
- practice fasting
- rest
- maintain joy and gladness
Keys to Receiving Healing
- believe it is God’s will to heal
- be willing to receive healing
- expose yourself to the hearing of faith
- release faith by acting on the Word
- create an atmosphere of worship
This balance was refreshing. The message did not present healing as shallow hype, but as a kingdom reality that works with faith, wisdom, discipline, and sensitivity to God.
Healing to the Nations
The message moved beyond individual healing into something broader: healing to the nations.
Apostle Selman taught that healing is not only for persons but also for lands, systems, homes, institutions, and nations. There are broken ecosystems, broken cultures, broken governments, broken atmospheres, and broken social structures. God’s people have a role in standing as life-giving spirits and releasing healing over territories.
This means the healing ministry is larger than a miracle line. It is part of kingdom witness. It is part of reformation. It is part of God’s answer to a wounded world.
A Final Call: The Greatest Healing
The message ended where all healing truly begins — the healing of the spirit through salvation.
Physical healing is precious. Emotional healing is necessary. But the greatest miracle is when a person is brought from spiritual death to life in Christ.
Apostle Selman reminded the congregation that the deepest cancer of humanity is sin and separation from God, and only Jesus can heal that.
He then gave an altar call, calling men and women into eternal healing through surrender to Christ.
That was the crowning moment of the message: all healing finds its source in Jesus.
Final Reflection
The Ministry of Healing was a timely and weighty message. It reminded us that God’s idea of healing is far deeper than many people imagine.
He wants to save the spirit.
He wants to heal the soul.
He wants to restore the body.
He wants to heal homes, systems, and nations.
This message is a call to stop hiding wounds, stop normalizing pain, and stop carrying yesterday into tomorrow. In Christ, healing is available. In Christ, wholeness is possible. In Christ, wounded lives can become vessels of restoration.
The ministry of healing is still alive because Jesus is still alive.