"while we do not look at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV
Today in our series of Burdens and Yokes, we look at the area of our HEALTH. Some people suffer bad health and others, good health. It is similar to why some healthy people go out of the house, have an accident and die, whereas, many unhealthy people live long lives, but suffer bad health. There is an impasse in our thinking here and all we can say, is that life goes that way. It is unexplainable.
In our life as a Christian, we really shouldn't have bad health, because the Word of God tells us that we are healed by the stripes of Jesus, Isaiah 53:5/1 Peter 2:24. According to our text today, in a spiritual sense, what we see as illness is temporary; the world looks upon this as possibly permanent. But being temporary, the Word of God is saying that it is subject to change. It is receiving your healing by faith.
Dr Bill Winston comments:
'Maybe my natural eyes see a sickness. This is what the natural world is telling me. But I am to look at the promise in the Bible which says, 'by His stripes ye were healed.' 1 Peter 2:24. That is the eternal truth that will overcome the temporal situation I am dealing with. My total health and healing may not be seen in the natural , but I see it in the Spirit - and the Spirit realm overrides the natural realm.'
Copyright 2000 Bill Winston The Law of Confession
This is what faith is, looking at something that to the world isn't, but we believe that it is. Jesus tells us that if we believe in Him, we will have a place in Heaven when we die. 'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.' (John 3:16). That is the only assurance that we have, but as Christians, we believe that it is true. God said it, so we believe it. Therefore, it makes sense to believe also, that if God's Word tells us that we were healed by His stripes, then we are; we just have to believe and receive it.
Many people struggle with this concept. When we stand on God's Word in this area, we may not see the healing with our natural eyes; there may appear to be no difference. However, don't forget that what we are looking at is temporary - subject to change. So at the right time, the full manifestation of God's Word will come into fruition and the healing will come.
You may need healing at this moment. You may have struggled with bad health for some time. All I can tell you, is what the Word tells us and I believe it, God heals today and what's more, He is interested in healing you at this very moment. Oral Roberts once said, 'Believe and receive - doubt and go without.' What will you do?
'Lord Jesus, I believe in Your healing power and I come before You this day. I have suffered with................................... but your Word tells me that I am healed. Therefore, I believe and receive this healing in Jesus' name and confess with my mouth that, by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed.
Amen and Amen.
Now go believing and refuse to consider doubt, no matter what.
Copyriight 2021 Grahame Howard
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