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Title: Jesus Christ paid for your health and total wellbeing and made it statute and ordinance.
“And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
Exodus 15:25-26 KJV.
It is the desire of God that you be in complete and perfect health. Here the word of God says He made a statute or He declared His policy to you. The word of God also says He made for them an ordinance-a directive, a mandate, an injunction, a command, an authoritative rule or law. Your health and well- being was ordained by God and put as statute, as law of heaven, a declared policy of heaven, stamped and sealed by God Himself. He put in place an injunction against disease to Satan concerning you.
Right there also He put His name in the definition of your health and said I will be called the God that heals you- Jehovah Rapha.
Notice therefore that God did not only make your healing and well-being a statute and an ordinance, He also put your health and well- being in the definition of who He is to you. Wow! His name is called the God that heals you- Jehovah- Rapha. In other words He swore by Himself that He will heal you and make you well totally, spirit, mind and body.
To accomplish this, and buy back health for you to all eternity, He sent His son Jesus Christ who was of God allowed to suffer physical pain. Jesus Christ was God. In Him dwells the fullness of God. But the word of God teaches us in Isaiah:
“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 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 53:3-5 KJV.
In Matthew His word also teaches us: “When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”
Matthew 8:16-17 KJV.
Notice He, Jesus Christ was wounded for our transgressions, so that our sin may be forgiven, Jesus also carried our sicknesses, the beating needful to bring us peace was upon Him and by His stripes we were healed. Please understand the sequence - He wants to forgive your sin and then heal your body.
That is why Psalms 103: 1-5says :
“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. KJV.
Notice here the Psalmist was worshipping and praising God and recounting His benefits. In verse 2 He forgives all your sin and heals all your disease.
1 Peter 2:24 is even more revealing: “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.” KJV.
Notice here the healing is in past tense: "by whose stripes you were healed".
When you receive Jesus Christ as Lord, He comes into your spirit, makes your spirit alive again by regeneration, His Spirit joins to your born again spirit. (Ephesians 2:1-5). As your mind agrees with the word of God which is Spirit and life, the power of Jesus Christ flows from your spirit to heal your body (John 6:63). Your mind needs to celebrate His benefits and agree with the word of God as that happens, you release the power of God already inside your spirit to flow into your mind and body. The healing of Jesus Christ was already accomplished, when He was whipped on the whipping post before going to the cross. Jehovah- Rapha, is Jesus Christ inside you. You need diligence in celebrating the work already accomplished for you. Your healing was decreed and ordained as statute in Jesus Christ.
Prayer: My Father I thank you that my healing and total well-being has been ordained and decreed as statute in heaven. Thank you that Jesus Christ within me carried my sickness and disease and by His stripes I am healed. I bless the Lord who forgave all my sin and healed all my disease. I celebrate all His benefits in my life and I celebrate the health and total well- being that I received from the stripes of Jesus Christ. I release the healing of Jesus Christ from my spirit into my mind and body, my circumstances and to those around me. Amen.
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