Jesus Took Our Place

I have returned home to the United States. It was a wonderful trip with a lot accomplished in a short time. I hope my blog reports filled you in on all that I did. Thank you for your prayers. If you ever want to visit LaCeiba, Honduras with your mission team, please let me know and I'll make sure you reach the right people.

I am now back in the "saddle" so to speak with my daily devotions, so please check in every day to see what God's Word will reveal to us TODAY. Here is today's devotion from my favorite book, Prescription for a Miracle by Mark Brazee. Tomorrow, I'll be writing my own devotions again. So be ready to read relevant comments from scriptures that will give you an insight in how you can live a life of victory.


But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. ---Hebrews 9:11,12

After Adam’s fall, man inherited a load he couldn’t carry- a load of death, sin, iniquity, sickness and disease. The old covenant provided for man’s sins to be covered for only one year at a time through the shedding of the blood of bulls and goats. Man could also experience healing in his body through animal sacrifices. But those sacrifices had to be made every year because they were only temporary. They could only cover sins, not totally eliminate them.

Then Jesus Christ came and took the place for our punishment, dying on the Cross as our substitute. Most people have no problem believing that Jesus bore our iniquities on the Cross and set us free from sin (disobedience) ---and He did. He paid the price for our sins so we could stand before Him forgiven. Through Jesus, we don’t have to be bound to a sin nature anymore. We live in right standing with God, and sin cannot dominate us any longer.

But most Christians believe that Jesus left us with our sicknesses, intending to decide on an individual basis who should be healed. These people believe that salvation belongs to everyone but that you never know who’s going to get healed.

That’s what most Christians believe, but that is not what the Bible says. Isaiah 53:5 says that Jesus “was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with His stripes we are healed.” He took our sin, pain and sickness and nailed it all to the Cross, setting us free.

Jesus already took sickness. Anyone can be saved, and anyone who is saved can be healed. Healing belongs to us!

Confession: When I called on Jesus to be my Savior and made Him my Lord, He also became my healer. By faith I receive the healing that is mine. I walk in the divine health that Jesus bought and paid for!