Receive Your Healing - He Took Our Sicknesses (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you so much for joining us today for these few moments in God's word and prayer. It's always our joy to come to you and spend this time with you. This week, we're talking about receiving divine healing, as we go back to some familiar scripture texts and remind ourselves of the Lord who is our healer and then pray together to receive healing. Today, we look at Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 and 5, the prophet Isaiah is speaking about what the Lord Jesus would do for us on the cross and in verses 4 and 5 he says, "Surely He, that is the Lord, has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted." Verse 5 says, "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him and by His stripes, we are healed." Now Isaiah is giving us details or insights into the specific things that the Lord Jesus would do at the time of His death on the cross and we are zeroing in on one of those aspects. He says in verse 4, "Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." Now if you do a little study in the Hebrew, it's really talking about bearing our sicknesses and carrying our pains. The word ‘griefs’, you can see in the footnote, it means sicknesses and the word ‘sorrows’ literally means pains. And we can be confident that's the right way to render it because in Matthew chapter 18 and verse 17, when the gospel writer Matthew is quoting Isaiah 53, verses 4 and 5 in Matthew chapter 8 verses 16 and 17, Matthew quotes it like this. He says, "Surely He has borne our sicknesses and taken away all our diseases or infirmities." And he also talks about the Lord Jesus healing people of all the sickness and disease and delivering them from demonic possession and saying He did it to fulfill Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 and 5. So, we can be sure that on the cross Jesus took our sicknesses and diseases. Now, the logical thought is this. Everything Jesus did on the cross, He did it not for Himself, but He did it for you and me. Everything Jesus did on the cross was a substitutionary work. He did it so that we won't need to do it. There is no point in two of us paying for the same sins. And similarly, there's no point for both of us carrying and bearing the same diseases. So, here's the basis for our healing. Jesus took my sicknesses, Jesus took my diseases and therefore, by His wounds, I have been healed. Because He took it, I refuse to take it. Because He bore it, I refuse to bear it and the consequences by His wounds, that is by His suffering, there is healing made available for you and me. That's why Peter in 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 24 gives it in the past tense, "By whose stripes you were healed or you've been healed." So, that's the basis and that's the strength of our faith. He took it so I refuse to take it in my body. So, let's pray with that and we must also resist every sickness, every disease on the basis of Christ's work on the cross. Let's do that, Father, we thank you for what the Lord Jesus did for us on the cross. He provided for our healing, He provided for our wholeness, He provided for our total well-being. And so, Father, in Jesus' name, on the basis of that finished work, I command every sickness, every disease, every infirmity in body and mind to leave each one of those listening. We resist it, we expel it, we drive it out, we command sickness and disease to leave, pain in the body, the mind, emotions, we command it to go and we declare wholeness and healing to body and mind because Jesus provided for it and we simply receive it, in Jesus' name, Amen.

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