So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you (Exodus 23:25).
God originally planned for us to live in these bodies for eternity. Sin marred God’s plan and introduced its offspring, sickness, disease, and death. Our redemption in Christ guarantees us freedom from sickness. And eventually our last enemy death will be destroyed by the Son of God!
When God delivered the Israelites out of Egypt, He made a covenant of healing with them that was perpetual and was more sure than the rising of the sun. If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you (Exodus 15:26).
This healing covenant is still in force, and is now a part of our inheritance in Christ. We have a better covenant established on better promises! We are redeemed from the curse of the broken law (Galatians 3:13). This involved poverty, sickness, and spiritual death.
It’s important that we keep our faith built up for the healing and health of our bodies. Faith comes by hearing the word! Take time to feed on the promises of God for your health. Don’t allow sickness to trespass in your body. You have a legal right to health under the terms of your covenant! You must insist that Satan keep his hands off your body!
The moment symptom appear in your body, command in the name of Jesus that they leave! Believe right then that you receive healing based on your covenant with God. Remind Him of His promises, and act like He heard you! Don’t sign for the “package” of sickness that Satan brings by confessing the symptoms. Refuse it and tell him that it’s not yours!
Expect the Holy Spirit to quicken your body! Expect health and healing to be yours life long! How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17). Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed (1 Peter 2:24).
Keep the healing Word of God built up inside of you. Meditate on these healing promises daily! Speak health and healing, not sickness and disease. Expect the Father to bless your food when you eat, and expect Him to keep sickness away from you!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
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i guess that i have a real hard time with what your saying here. while we are on this earth, we inhabit earthly bodies. being earthly, we are subject to all kinds of earthly sicknesses. God allowed Job to be tested by satan, and he (Job) had his body covered by painful boils. Today, there are many God-fearing folks whom God, for whatever reason "allows" sickness into their lives. we can have the greatest faith on the planet, but the fact remains, we live in earthly, mortal bodies.... that are weak, frail, and subject to failure. only when we have passed over into our immortal heavenly bodies, will we be totally free from sickness, disease, and death.
ReplyDeleteLet me encourage you to search the scriptures to see whether these things be so. Don't short circuit your faith. Isaiah 53 is called the great redemptive chapter in the Bible. And Isaiah 53:3-5 clearly places sickness and disease as one of the items that Jesus death and resurrection covers in His vicarious atonement for us. Matthew 8:17 is God's commentary on Isaiah 53:4 for those who say these verses only refer to spiritual sickness and disease.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, God never changes (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). One of His redemptive covenant names is Jehovah Rapha - The Lord thy Healer or Physician. His Exodus 15:26 promise to the Israelites applies to us today too since He never changes.
It is never the will of God for us to suffer with sickness and disease. It is always the will of God for us to be healed. Satan attacks with sickness (see Job 2:1-5, Acts 10:38, and John 10:10). God heals. Jesus healed those who came to Him for healing. The leper that came to Jesus in Matthew 8 asked Jesus to heal him if Jesus wanted to. Jesus healed him in the same way He will heal us if we reach out to Him in faith.
Don't settle for the unbelief that refuses to take God at His Word. Build your faith in the Word, ask God to heal you, and stand in faith. Sounds like you've allowed tradition to cancel out the Word that God sent to heal you! Reach out in faith and believe!
I've noticed that I'm a lot healthier when I'm right with God. Sickness is rare and my energy level is high.
ReplyDeleteWhen I sin, sometimes I get sick the very next day.