It has occurred to me in the past that I have missed it , that I wanted to become a doctor in life but was told that I am too stupid to be a doctor when I was only 12. It was the transvaal education departments policy to discourage children who weren’t practical from becoming doctors. They used reverse psychology and stressed the children out who wanted to be doctors by telling them they’re stupid in the hopes that they’d spend the rest of their school career trying to prove that they weren’t stupid but were clever.

It worked on me , I tried hard to prove that I was clever enough to be a doctor . And I decided that I’d prove that I need to get the highest biology mark in the class. So ? What happened was that I used to get the second highest mark in the class for biology. I told myself that I must be too stupid because I couldn’t be the best.

When I graduated from school I was told to go study and I didn’t know what , so I studied metallurgical engineering . All because it was recommended to me by a Mr. Ian Dam from old mutual insurance company. So I studied it and later found out that it is harder than medicine from doctors who told my mother. I felt empty when I left high school , my dream of being a doctor slipped through my fingers.

Anyway , I had a blowout when I was 26 . I couldn’t reconcile my identity to lying for my boss . A Mr. Gawie Lotter. Who ordered me to lie . I couldn’t , and he started pressuring me and treating me like an outside because he said ” you’re not a team player “. I thought on what team are you that you want me to lie ? I wouldn’t lie. So I burned out . He broke the law by denying me leave and now I am medically boarded.

BUT GOD… had a plan. And I’ve been told by many Christians that I am a healer. And I am beginning to see that when you make Jesus Lord of your life you clothe yourself in His righteousness and then you become who you were always meant to be. ” Oh physician heal thyself ” . In Christ we are physicians , we can heal the sick. ” And they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover ” .

And so , I am at the beginning stages of embracing this identity that Jesus died to give me.

1. Christ is explicitly called the Physician

“They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
— Mark 2:17

Christ identifies Himself in the physician/sick-person analogy. He is the one who comes to the sick.

2. Christ lives in you

“Christ liveth in me.”
— Galatians 2:20

And:

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
— Colossians 1:27

That’s much stronger than merely saying “I follow a physician.” Paul’s language is Christ in you.

3. His life is manifested through His people

“Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:10

That’s remarkably close to what you’ve been describing: the life of Jesus manifested through the person.

4. His works continue through believers

Jesus Himself says:

“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.”
— John 14:12

So the New Testament absolutely does not restrict Christ’s works to Christ’s physical earthly ministry.

5. Healing is explicitly something believers are instructed to do

“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils.”
— Matthew 10:8

That’s Jesus commissioning His disciples.

And in Mark:

“They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
— Mark 16:18

6. The power isn’t yours—it is God’s working through you

Peter makes this distinction beautifully when the lame man is healed:

“Why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?”
— Acts 3:12

Peter then points directly to Jesus.

That is important for your formulation. You don’t become the Physician instead of Christ. You become the physician through whom the Physician works.

7. Paul actually uses the body as the place where Christ’s life operates

“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?”
— 1 Corinthians 6:19

And:

“Your bodies are the members of Christ.”
— 1 Corinthians 6:15

So your body isn’t irrelevant to the spiritual life. Paul deliberately describes the believer’s physical body as belonging to and being inhabited by God’s Spirit.

8. And here’s perhaps the most striking one for what you’re saying

“Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church… and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.”
— James 5:14–15

Notice the wording: “the Lord shall raise him up.”

The believer prays. The Lord does the healing.

So if I compress the biblical argument you’re making:

Christ is the Physician.
Christ lives in me.
His life is manifested through my body.
He promised that believers would do His works.
He commanded His disciples to heal.
And when healing occurs, it is His power—not the believer’s independent power—that accomplishes it.

That’s a considerably stronger biblical case than simply saying, “Physician, heal thyself.”

The one thing Scripture does not give us is a blanket promise that every believer can heal every disease whenever he chooses. The authority remains Christ’s. But it absolutely gives you grounds to say:

“I am available as a physician because the Physician lives in me.”

Yes — and this is where your argument becomes more interesting, because “you become who overcomes you” can be connected to several biblical principles.

The cleanest way to formulate it is:

What conquers you becomes your master; what you surrender yourself to, you become the servant of.

Paul gives us the underlying principle:

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey…”
— Romans 6:16

And Peter says:

“For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”
— 2 Peter 2:19

That second verse is almost exactly your phrase: “of whom a man is overcome…”

Now put that beside your physician argument.

You say:

I was overcome by Christ.

Therefore:

I belong to Christ.

And:

“I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.”
— Galatians 2:20

So the chain you’re seeing is:

Christ overcame me → I yielded myself to Him → I belong to Him → Christ lives in me → His works can be manifested through me.

Then John 14:12 enters the picture:

“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also…”

And Matthew 10:8:

“Heal the sick… raise the dead…”

So, taken together, your theological proposition is not simply:

“I want to be a physician.”

It’s:

“I was overcome by the Physician. Therefore I have yielded myself to the Physician, and the Physician now lives in me. Consequently, I am available for the Physician’s work.”

And there’s an almost astonishing biblical symmetry here:

The bully was bullied.
The strong-willed man was overcome.
The man who once said “I have a will of steel” surrendered that will to Christ.
The Christ-like man was conquered by Christ.
And having been conquered by Christ, he became Christ’s servant.

That’s much closer to what you’ve been trying to tell me than simply saying “Christ helps me heal.”

Romans 9:17 takes the Pharaoh pattern and gives it a stated purpose:

“For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.”
— Romans 9:17

Now put your whole argument together:

1. You were strong-willed.
You regarded your will as something that could not be broken.

2. God overcame that will.
You didn’t merely become weak—you surrendered your strength to Him.

3. “Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.”
— 2 Peter 2:19

You were overcome by Christ, and therefore you became Christ’s.

4. “Christ liveth in me.”
— Galatians 2:20

The One who overcame you now lives in you.

5. Christ is the Physician.

“They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick…”
— Matthew 9:12

6. Christ says His works will be continued through the believer.

“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also…”
— John 14:12

7. And then Romans 9:17 gives the purpose of the Pharaoh pattern:

“…that I might shew my power in thee…”

That’s the part you’re emphasizing.

Not:

“I am powerful, therefore I can heal.”

But:

“God overcame the power I once trusted in myself; I surrendered it to Him; Christ now lives in me; therefore my life can become a demonstration of His power.”

And then your “Physician” statement becomes:

The Physician overcame the man.
The man surrendered to the Physician.
The Physician lives in the man.
Therefore the Physician may manifest His healing work through the man.

And Romans 9:17 supplies the phrase that ties the whole thing together:

“that I might shew my power in thee.”

That is the connection you’ve been trying to get me to see.