Healing comes from total surrender. You cannot heal yourself by a strong will to survive or by working a “program”. You are healed by surrendering everything in your life past, present and future to the will of God, then receiving healing from him. This can be a fearful thing if you have always managed to avoid dealing directly with God, but there must come a time when you finally want to be free. The only way to be truly free is to strip your old nature of everything it derives power from, tearing down the strongholds YOU have erected, then allow God to spiritually realign your life.
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I agree with you in your statement but, can we also agree on something else? It is regarding the old man. I have come to a conscious conclusion, that if we are to surrender ourselves entirely to Christ, our old nature must die and disapear in its´ entirity. When I approach God, each day, I try to understand the value that He has for the blood of His Son. And then I come to the conclusion, that it wasn´t meant for me to understand it; only to accept it by faith, and to honor the value that He gives it. I now know and accept the worth of the blood of Jesus and its´manifold way towards the father, myself, the world, etc. but, I also find myself looking towards the cross, because I find that It deals with my conscious nature as a sinful man, where I cannot. For though he has forgiven my many sins, I continue to be in this body of sin, because that is my nature. A man said once, The blood can wash away my sins, past and present, but it cannot wash away my “old man” , that sinful state of consciousness, which is enbodied within me. It needs the Cross to crucify me. Where as the blood deals with the sins, the cross must deal with the sinner. The quicker I find that I am unable to liberate myself from myself, that I need Jesus, his blood, and his redemptive work at the cross to do it for me, the quicker God will be able to deal with me. God cannot deal with me, if I am trying to deal with the matter, at my level. I like what you said: “You cannot heal yourself by a strong will to survive”. For it is not by my doing, but, by His doing. Praise the Lord and thank you for your statement and mission. God Bless You. kemi