The Prophetic Messenger
A Newsletter From Mysteries From The Word Of God MinistriesNovember/December 2010 - Volume 12/Issue 6
Healing - Part I
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5In this issue of The Prophetic Messenger, we will begin a message titled “Healing.”
1. Is It The Lord’s Will I’ll Be Healed? Yes!
Testimony
When I was a teenager, many years before I was a Christian and many years before I knew any of the promises in the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ healed me. I was playing organized sports and one day I came home with a pain in my leg. I thought that it was a muscle pull or stain and I would treat it and it would feel better for a time. But when I went out again to play the pain would come back. I went to the emergency room at the hospital to try to find out what was causing my pain. But no one could find out what exactly was causing the problem. When I finally got an appointment with my family doctor, he took an x-ray of my leg. The x-ray showed that the problem was in my hip and that I needed surgery. Before the operation, the surgeon told me that my right hip was out of the socket and that I had little cartilage in between the bones. He also said that I might not be able to run again if the cartilage did not repair itself. Even though I didn’t know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour at that time, I prayed that the Lord would heal me and Jesus Christ healed me! Months later after the surgery, another x-ray was taken and the Lord had totally restored the cartilage in the hip area and the doctor was amazed by the results. Praise the Lord! This should encourage any Christian who needs a healing from the Lord that Jesus Christ is a healer.
Most Christians know that we have salvation through the shed blood, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9 is a good passage of scripture confirming this truth. In Hebrews 9:11-22 it says “11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, 20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. 22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”
The one part many Christians miss is that the stripes on Jesus were for our healing. In I Peter 2:24 it says “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” Also, in Isaiah 53:4-5 it says “4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”