Healing

Mental, emotional and spiritual healing is just as important, if not more important, than physical healing. How many of you agree you would much rather have your spouse get mental healing over physical healing so that they can be nicer to you? 😉👍🏼 Amen. But those three types of healing can LEAD to physical healing.  We all know worry can lead to headaches.  We all know worry can lead to high blood pressure, which can lead to all kinds of other health problems and even eventually death.  So don't worry and you will be healthy and healed. 🙂  Theoretically. 🙂 But how can you not worry?  By reading the word as much as you can and listening to sermons and worship music.  Just play worship or sermons in your car and in your home non-stop and I guarantee you won't have time to worry.  Amen! 🙂  "He sent forth his word and it healed them."  So if you do this, your headaches might get better and your blood pressure might go down, just by focusing on God and his goodness.  Amen?  Amen!

It's ironic that the two times I was in my car yesterday, on my way to a Bible study and delivering pizzas, J Vernon McGee was on CSN radio 101.3, or 100.3 if you live south of Jarrell.  I love CSN radio! McGee was saying that the verse "by his stripes we are healed" refers to spiritual healing only.  That is also what Billy Graham says about that verse in his book "The Holy Spirit."  That is always how I have seen that verse, because before that phrase it says, "he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed." That is in Isaiah 53. Transgressions and iniquities are other words for sin specifically.  We were healed from our sin, and now sin does not have power over us and we can choose to sin or not sin.  But before accepting Jesus' free gift and the Holy Spirit coming in our soul, we had no choice but to sin, because we were under it’s power. Not to speak doubt and unbelief over that teaching, but it's always important to read verses in context.

Although, and here’s the other side, in Matthew 8 when Matthew refrences that passage it says, "When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.  This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 'He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases.' "  So ironically Matthew himself misquotes Isaiah 53.  Why?  I have no idea.  In Isaiah this verse actually says, "He took up our pain and bore our suffering."  So it is close.  Pain and suffering does mean about the same thing as infirmities and diseases.

So there is biblical justification for both sides of the argument.

But Jesus did bear our diseases when he died on the cross. 😉

How do you receive that healing? Pastor Dennis correctly points out that everything we receive from God we receive by faith. Faith comes by hearing the word. Now that you have read that teaching on healing for any Christian does actually come from the word, you can have faith!

So have faith! God bore your pain and suffering on the cross, but don’t sin anymore, as much as possible, so that your freedom from sin and sickness can really be real and true for you. 😁😉👍🏼👏🏼⭐️

God Loves You!

May God bless you all! 😁