Exodus 23:25-26

Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.

 What a day today. I spent the afternoon at the Doctor's office having a 3 and 1/2 hour stress test to see if my heart is working good.  They first give you a type of  radiation injection that goes into your blood stream so they can take pictures of your heart and while the injected liquid lights up your heart so they can watch to see if the blood is flowing correctly with no blockages. 

 Then they give you  stress-producing medication that puts your heart into stress to show any abnormalities in the blood flow to different portions of the left ventricular of the heart. The heart stress test can determine what is going on with your heart and as well s intimate If you are at risk or have heart disease.

 Before they do the second procedure they have to put the monitors on you, take your pulse and check your blood pressure. Well, that is when there became a problem.  They put the blood pressure cup on me and guess what no blood pressure would register. But they have always had a hard time getting a blood pressure on me.  They put the cup on several different places on my arm, my leg, and then she said that they had a thigh cup.  I laughed because if you can seen a picture of me, I am not a small person. I told her I did not think she had a cup large enough for my thigh.

 A gentlemen came in the room, he pick my arm up to feel my pulse, he said, she does not even have a pulse. I again laughed and said well, I am sitting here talking to you, I know I am alive and well.  It did make me this of the story told by Wendell Bagwell, when a policeman stopped him for not having a license plate because it blow off. He told the office "well sir, this car does not have a heater, no reverse, or a radiator either." The story is called Ralph Bennett's Volkswagen.

 The nurse finally got a manual monitor and was able to get my blood pressure, but she said it was very light. Anyway when they did the test, they had several people watching to make sure I did not check out on them. LOL

 Anyway, the doctor came in after the test and said that it would be a few days for them to study the test, but from what he saw, I had a strong heart, and no blockages. I giggled and thought, I already knew this, but you know common sense you go get a check-up and take care of yourself.

 I knew I was okay, because I refuse to let sickness have any part of me anymore.  After I had 7 surgeries, 2 surgical staff infections, and nearly 2 years bed ridden, I just decided that sickness is something I did not like or did not want anymore. So be it!

 But I did get a good laugh each time they try to get a blood pressure on me, because they begin to think they need to go ahead and call the funeral director. LOL

 Because our Father desires that we be whole spirit, soul, and body, understanding our covenant is the answer to being able to appropriate the blessing of Divine Health.  Indeed, our healing, both spiritual and physical, comes from looking to and identifying with the crucified and resurrected Christ.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

1 Peter 2:24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

It was Jesus’ willing offering of Himself on the Cross that bore our sins. But the very same tormented body of Jesus, in His scourging and crucifixion, purchased for us the blessing of divine healing — “by His wounds you have been healed.”

And notice the differences in the verb tenses used by Isaiah and Peter. Isaiah, prophetically seeing this seven centuries before Christ, said, “By His wounds we are healed.” The apostle Peter, looking back to Christ’s historical death and resurrection, declared, “By His wounds you have been healed.” Jesus cried out from the Cross, “It is finished!” Sin has been overcome. Sickness has been overcome. The Cross of Jesus Christ has conquered both sin and sickness.

In Exodus 15:26, Scripture records, …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. 

“Heals” means to cure, heal, repair, mend, and restore health.  Its participial form rophe, one who heals, is the Hebrew word for a doctor.  The main idea of the word rapha is physical healing (Strong’s #7495). 

God identified Himself to Israel in a variety of names and ways. Here He revealed Himself to His people as “Jehovah-Rapha” — “the Lord who heals you.”

Healing is not just something that God “does.” No, more than that, healing is part of God’s very nature — “I AM the Lord who heals you.” Remember always that you serve a God who has declared that His intent towards you is “not [to] bring on you any diseases ... (but to be) the Lord who heals you.”

God’s heart is for healing. It is a “benefit,” as is the forgiveness of sins, that Jesus secured with His death, burial, and resurrection (Psalm 103: 2 - 3). It is a historical "ancient landmark" of both the Old and New Testaments.

Jesus healed again and again while He walked the earth. And He remains “the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus heals today!

Biblical healing methods vary, and they include healing prayer, the laying on of hands, the spoken word, and anointing with oil by praying elders, among others.

Jesus has entrusted the healing ministry to His Church. The first apostles healed the sick. So did a large group of disciples. In the Great Commission, Jesus encouraged all believers to lay hands on the sick for healing. And there will be some in the churches whom the Holy Spirit will endow with specific “gifts of healing.”

Exodus 15:26 I am the Lord, who heals you.

Psalms 103:1-3 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits — who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.

Blessings, Love and Prayers,

Elder Joe and Pastor Pat

 

 

Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman  Book © 1996/2009 "Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals"

Study Notes: The New King James Bible

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