Healing Is Part of Your Redemption

Over the centuries, one of the things that has set the Church apart from the world is divine healing. Healing took place during the ministry of Jesus and was commonplace in the early Church.

For several centuries, however, the revelation that God wants His people well was almost completely lost. Even after the healing revival of the 1940’s and 50’s, many people were still in the dark, not knowing that healing is the children’s bread.

The devil has something to do with this. He doesn’t want people to receive divine healing, because it releases them from his grip on their lives. He tries every strategy to keep people from knowing that healing belongs to them, or to keep those who do know about healing from receiving it. I was in the first category, being raised in a denominational church that never taught divine healing. I didn’t ever hear of anybody being healed.

One day that all changed. While I was in college, a close cousin shared with me that he had found a church where people were being healed! Curious to see for myself, I attended a service with him and saw that people really were getting healed. This was a dream come true for me.

From that day until now, I have witnessed hundreds of healings, in other people, in my family, and in my own life. It’s too late to try to convince me that God no longer heals.

Maybe you are reading this blog and hearing for the first time that God still heals. Continue reading, because what I’m about to share has the power to change your life!

We know from the Bible that God always reveals to His prophets what He’s about to do in the earth. One of the most significant prophecies about the redemptive work of Christ is in the book of Isaiah.

Who has believed our report?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,

And as a root out of dry ground.

He has no form or comeliness;

And when we see Him,

There is no beauty that we should desire Him.

He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.  Isa 53:1-5 NKJV

The New King James translation subtitles this passage, “The Sin-Bearing Messiah.” Multiple New Testament passages confirm that the Isaiah 53 passage refers to Jesus.

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One is in Acts chapter 8, when Philip joined an Ethiopian eunuch who was reading from Isaiah 53.

So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. . . .  

So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. Acts 8:30-31, 34-35 NKJV

Let’s focus on verses 4 and 5 in the Amplified Classic.

Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we [ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with leprosy]. [Matt 8:17.]

But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole. Isa 53:4-5 AMPC

In this passage, we find three key things that Jesus provided for us in His redemption:

1.     Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our guilt.

The universal church agrees on this provision. As our substitute, Jesus paid the price for all our sins and He made it possible for us to live without guilt and shame. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we become born again: our spirit is made brand new and replaces our sin nature.

2.     Jesus was chastised so that we could have peace and well-being.

With this provision, Jesus paid the price for us to have a sound mind. The peace of God is part of our inheritance.

In my opinion, this is the second most important benefit of redemption. Why? Because you can have a lot of great things in life, but without peace, you will not enjoy any of them. Furthermore, if you don’t have peace, you won’t receive bodily healing and live in health.

I would highly recommend you get my book, Untroubled to help you further understand this wonderful provision.

3.     Jesus took a brutal beating so that we could be healed and made whole.

The third provision is that Jesus paid the price for us so that we no longer have to be sick or diseased. This was how God always intended man to live; there was no sickness in the garden of Eden that He created for Adam and Eve. It was only when they sinned and fell that sickness and disease were introduced—sin brought every cursed thing into the lives of people.

But Jesus solved this problem! By conquering sin, Jesus also conquered sickness! This is what Isaiah saw when he looked ahead to Jesus’ sacrifice and prophesied that with His stripes, we ARE healed. Centuries later, when the apostle Peter looked back at the completed work of the cross, he changed the tense of that verb.

…by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24

Since we WERE healed, it is a finished work! Now it only needs to be received by faith.

Are you ready and willing to believe these truths from the Word of God? If so, you are ready to receive your healing by faith today!

I highly encourage you to get a copy of my new daily devotional, Healing Nuggets: 31 Days of God's Word for Health, Wholeness, and Peace, to help you meditate day and night. I believe it will be a blessing to your life.

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