FATHER spoke in Exodus chapter 15:
26 and 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 commandments and keep all His statutes, I will permit none of the diseases on you which I have permitted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you (Jehovah Rapha).”
Does it require any more faith to receive healing than to receive salvation? Many believers have difficulty in walking in this redemptive promise because of the world’s constant influx of alternative solutions to treatment of symptoms. The eyes and ears are inundated with the world’s answer to sickness and disease only to find their solutions to be insufficient and temporary in nature.
Only one time was Jesus asked if it was His will to heal. In Matthew chapter 8 Jesus confirms FATHER’S Divine Intent:
1 When He had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him.
2 And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”
3 Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
The healing of the leper was not the exception, but the rule. Leprosy is a contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes, and nerves, causing discoloration and lumps on the skin and, in severe cases, disfigurement and deformities. Jesus was not afraid of this contagious disease for no disease could survive in Him. His body was not subject to any disease for He is the manifested Word of GOD. When Jesus took on disease and sickness, it was done for us that we no longer would be subject to this curse. It is up to us to accept the redemption from this curse. FATHER’S Love expressed in Him provided for our total delivery from sickness and disease. It is not FATHER’S Divine Intent for any of us to be plagued with sickness or disease.
In Matthew chapter 8:
16 When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,
17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
“He Himself took our infirmities And bore our sicknesses.” (Isaiah 53:4)
In Matthew chapter 4:
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.
In Matthew chapter 12:
11 Then He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
13 Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.
14 Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.
15 But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.
The above passages fully express FATHER’S Divine Love for us in HIS fourth redemptive promise. The multitudes were following Jesus and hearing His message of Good News. He was manifesting the redemptive promises He was preaching. Were the people of His time any different than those of us living now? Was this redemptive promise only for that time? No, to both questions. We must immerse ourselves in this redemptive promise until the seed sown produces the desired good fruit. We must overcome the adversary’s worldly alternatives which have been continuously planted in our hearts and minds. The weeds must be removed and purged from our midst. The world has infiltrated our minds with alternative that seem plausible to most people. Let us accept an exceedingly superior solution.
Let us focus on this redemptive promise by keeping HIS Word before us day and night. As we do, HIS Word will become preeminent in our hearts and minds thus producing great faith. Our bodies will respond accordingly. Once the manifestation occurs in each of us, we will have a testimony to share with others. The Blood of The Lamb and the word of our testimony will overcome the wicked one.