I am pretty sure that you are like me, and love feeling good! Being healthy is wonderful. Health is something we take for granted until sickness knocks on our door. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. We are going to talk about healing for the next two weeks. I’m so thankful for the Word of God which encourages us to live in divine health and for the example of Jesus, who, while he was on the earth who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the enemy. I love encouraging believers to rise above the common world’s thoughts that sickness is inevitable or that old and sick are words that go together. I encourage you, to believe for health and wholeness in your life.
This week I will be emphasizing healthy living. It is so much better to prevent a sickness than to have to recover from one. I can hear you saying AMEN to that! Eating healthy food and moving your body, are two great keys for a long, healthy, fruitful life. Another important key is remembering that the words we speak have the power of life and death. This is such a vital truth that works both negatively and positively. In Mark 11:23, Jesus said that we have what we say. What are you saying? Believing and speaking the language of health has life long benefits. This week we’re going to talk about God’s Word being medicine and bringing health to our flesh. It is amazing how many scriptures in the Bible talk about healing. God sent His Word and healed them (Ps 107:20). Proverbs 4:22 says that God’s Word is life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Isaiah 53:4,5 says that by His (Jesus’) stripes, we are healed. I Peter 2:24 says that by His (Jesus’) stripes we WERE healed. It is a past tense done deal! Jesus made provision for healing as well as salvation when He died on the cross. In Matthew 9:5 Jesus asks the question, which is easier, to forgive sins or heal a body? Jesus made it clear that both are covered by the cross. Don’t you love his answer? Jesus spoke to the paralyzed man and told him to rise and walk. Sins were remitted and his body was healed. Continuing in Matthew chapter 9 we see the woman with the issue of blood, the ruler with the sick daughter, the blind, and the those who couldn’t speak, all received healing. It is not the well that need the healing, Jesus said in Matthew 9:12, but the sick. Jesus was moved with compassion and just kept doing what He was sent to do, proclaiming the good news, curing all kinds of disease and every weakness and infirmity.
Just like we would faithfully take vitamins or medicine directed by the doctor, let’s daily receive the provision of the cross and believe and practice God’s Word to prevent sickness and live in health and wholeness.