Healing For Pain and Sickness (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally. We have been meditating about the cross and the reality of the great exchange that has been brought to us because of the cross. The whole humanity is hurting with physical and emotional pain but the Lord is offering something better, that is good for us, that improves our lives, transforms us, changes us and changes our destiny. One of the things that He is offering in this great exchange is healing in place of pain. The cross is the place where the Lord Jesus carried our sickness and pain. The bible talks about it in Isaiah chapter 53, verse 4, it says, ‘Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.’ The Hebrew word for ‘grief’ is sickness and the Hebrew word for ‘sorrow’ is pain, which means He carried our sickness and pain. Why did He do that? In fact, the Hebrew rendering of it is that He caried it so that He could carry it away. He carried it so that we do not gave to carry it. He carried it so that in the place of pain, sickness that we could walk in healing and health and wholeness. This healing is in all realms, spiritually, emotionally and physically. Most times we look at the spiritual aspect of it and we look at the aspect of forgiveness but the Lord is extending it and the cross declares it in all realms, emotionally and physically as well. So, what was prophesied in Isaiah chapter 53, verses 3, 4 and 5, we see the fulfillment of it in the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus. When He touched and healed people, the gospel writer Mathew testifies in Mathew chapter 8 saying, He did this so that it might be fulfilled what Isaiah wrote. In effect, he was saying, He is going about healing but He is going to do something on the cross, take our pain and sickness on the cross. In 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 24, we see the fulfillment of it where apostle Peter points to the cross and what has already happened on the cross, ‘who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.’ Today, we have this access by grace through faith to walk in healing and divine health, to exchange all the symptoms of sickness whether it is emotional oppression or something spiritually we are feeling oppressed or physical symptoms of sickness or disease. We have this opportunity and privilege to go before the Lord and in exchange for it, receive total healing and wholeness. Shall we pray, Father, we thank you that you have given us this opportunity. We thank you for the cross which gives us this exchange of healing in place of pain. Today, we come before you as people who need this healing in our lives, whether it be our emotions or physical needs, we pray that you will heal us today. We declare that by your stripes we are indeed healed and we choose to walk in divine health and healing, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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