“…I am the Lord who heals you. ---Exodus 15:26b
Sickness and disease have existed since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. God’s creation was designed to live forever, but Adam and Eve opened the door to sin and death because of their rebellion. Satan is the one who introduced the destruction of the flesh because he hates all mankind. For that reason, we have dealt with sickness and the corruption of our flesh. Sounds depressing, doesn’t it?
The Hebrew children who were wandering in the desert experienced sickness and death although they were God’s anointed people. In the story in Exodus 15, they hadn’t had water for three days and were murmuring and complaining. Moses knew God was the provider and cried out to God. The Lord showed him a tree. When Moses cast it into the waters, the water was made sweet. There God made a stature and an ordinance (Spiritual Law) for them and there He tested them. He said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His statutes, I will put none (or in the original language, ALLOW) of the diseases on you which I have brought on to the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”
Jehovah Rophe really means, The Lord, Your Health. It’s better to have health than to have to seek healing. God wants His people to walk in divine health. That means we must listen to the voice of the Lord and follow His laws. He wants you to examine your life and make necessary adjustments.
Here’s the Good News! God’s Word is like medicine and will heal emotional wounds, physical sickness, diseases and even make wounds heal faster. When you take and read His Word you are taking in health. That is why God told his people to listen to His Word. You will receive healing by reading and meditating on God’s Word. You must, according to this scripture, continuously feed upon His word of life, healthy and healing.
Jesus quoted from Isaiah 61:1-2 when he spoke in Luke 4:18-19: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
This is your time; this is your opportunity to seek healing. Seek God for your healing. 1 Peter 2:24 says, “who Himself bore our sins (past tense) in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness (right-standing with God) by whose stripes you WERE healed (made whole and cured.)"
Confession: God and God alone is my Healer. He established a way for me to be healed by accepting His Son as my Savior. As a child of God, I can read His Word and it will be applied to my life. Jesus came to bear my sins and diseases when He hung on the cross and by His stripes I have been healed.
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