I used to suffer migraines and stomach pains each time
my menstrual cycle comes.
Just before I got saved and have come to known Jesus' as a Healer,
I always thought menstrual cycle problems are part of one's life
and destiny. lolx!
Deep inside each time I felt the pain, I kept asking myself,
is this really part of being a woman? Why is this so?
Is this a curse???
Last time, if I have mine, I could no longer go to work.
I just stayed home the whole day feeling all the pains with tantrums,
bad moods,mood swings.
Meaning, there was no life inside of me.
Then I started to think life sucks if every month
I was going to feel that way.
I googled hoping to find answers.
Some results just gave me a lot of "something-to-dos" but
none of them have really given me a solution.
A long and lasting solution...
I know wordly advice will give you, take painkillers, go to doctor,
have a rest, sleep well, "don't worry-it's part of getting old" ,
drink a lot of water, take yoga,etc.
Deep inside, I knew I didn't get enough of those advices.
I wanted more answers different from the norm.
Something that is permanent and cannot be shaken.
At the back of my mind, someone's telling me,
"Menstrual problems are not part of you...seek for more answers."
Getting tired of it all...
I turned to Jesus a year ago.
The results?
Well, I didn't get an instant healing.
Right now, as I'm typing this,
I have my menstrual cycle.
And why am I blogging this?
It's because...
I can tell, that slowly, He is healing me.
I have not suffered migraines and stomach pains for a year now.
Although
I can still feel some pains on some parts of my body
...like on my back..legs..and shoulder.
But none of those pain can stop me from going to work right now,
or having some fun later tonight.
And no, I don't take painkillers !
:)
Deep inside.. I know He is really healing me.
And for now.. each time I feel some pains here and there.
I boldy confess,
"BY JESUS STRIPES, I AM HEALED!"
Let me say it again..
"BY JESUS STRIPES, I AM HEALED!"
and again..
"BY JESUS STRIPES, I AM HEALED!"
and again..
"BY JESUS STRIPES, I AM HEALED!"
Isaiah 53:5
"But He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquites.
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him.
AND BY HIS STRIPES, WE ARE HEALED!"
Yes, it's on the Bible.
And that's something to back it out.
As you know, I'd rather believe in the Bible,the words of GOD.
than the words of men.
The words of men can tell you, You have cancer, expect to die..
You have this disease and that...prepare the money for your medications.
There's no medicine that can heal you. Better have dialysis..
go to US for high quality medications,etc.
Well, I can say, It's really up to you.
You can believe the words of the world.
Or believe in the word of GOD.
REad this again..
Isaiah 53:5
"But He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquites.
The chastisement of our peace was upon Him.
AND BY HIS STRIPES, WE ARE HEALED!"
I don't know.
I really feel so much power in these words.
Why would the Bible say it?
God must have known that in this world, we are meant to be sick.
But in God's world...although you are sick, you can be healed!!!
Thank you Jesus.
For healing me!
If you are a non-believer and is sufferring from any disease.
Just say this.
"Jesus, I don't know who You are or what you can do to my health or disease.
But please, I pray, come to me and heal me.
I know you have longed for me to come back to you.
Here I am, please take me.. and be in control.
The world can give me so much confusions and frustrations.
But You are my peace..and my healer.
Pls. stay with me...
I pray, In Jesus name...
Amen!
Just say it..
Your faith can heal you..
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
The 12 Wells And 70 Palm Trees
I come to God for HEALING..now Jesus caught me in this trap.
I'm stuck in Jesus for healing and I'm loving it!
Thank you Jesus!
Exodus 15:27
27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.
Would you like to know an important biblical key to divine health? It is found in today’s verse, which comes right after God says, “I am the Lord who heals you.” He said this to His people after He brought them out of Egypt. (Exodus 15:26)
The wells of water and palm trees speak of refreshment. They paint a picture of an oasis in the desert. The Israelites rested and were refreshed there. But why the numbers 12 and 70?
There are no insignificant details in the Bible. The 12 wells of water and 70 palm trees represent anointed ministries that refresh you with God’s Word. So if you want to know Jesus as the Lord who heals you, sit under anointed preaching of God’s Word because when His Word goes forth, it will heal you. His Word is medicine to all your flesh! (Proverbs 4:22)
How did I make that connection? Let the Bible interpret the Bible. Matthew 10:1 says that when Jesus had “called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.” He sent out the 12 and said to them, “And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons...” (Matthew 10:7–8)
Then, in Luke 10:1, the Lord “appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go”. He also said to the 70, “And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” (Luke 10:9)
In other words, Jesus anointed the 12 and then the 70 disciples to preach God’s Word and heal the sick. Today, if you want refreshment, if you want health and healing, don’t sit under ministries that tell you that God doesn’t always want to heal and that He sometimes gives you diseases to teach you lessons. Instead, sit under anointed ministries that preach the good news and practice healing the sick. My friend, that is how you can begin to walk in divine health!
I'm stuck in Jesus for healing and I'm loving it!
Thank you Jesus!
Exodus 15:27
27Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters.
Would you like to know an important biblical key to divine health? It is found in today’s verse, which comes right after God says, “I am the Lord who heals you.” He said this to His people after He brought them out of Egypt. (Exodus 15:26)
The wells of water and palm trees speak of refreshment. They paint a picture of an oasis in the desert. The Israelites rested and were refreshed there. But why the numbers 12 and 70?
There are no insignificant details in the Bible. The 12 wells of water and 70 palm trees represent anointed ministries that refresh you with God’s Word. So if you want to know Jesus as the Lord who heals you, sit under anointed preaching of God’s Word because when His Word goes forth, it will heal you. His Word is medicine to all your flesh! (Proverbs 4:22)
How did I make that connection? Let the Bible interpret the Bible. Matthew 10:1 says that when Jesus had “called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.” He sent out the 12 and said to them, “And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons...” (Matthew 10:7–8)
Then, in Luke 10:1, the Lord “appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go”. He also said to the 70, “And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” (Luke 10:9)
In other words, Jesus anointed the 12 and then the 70 disciples to preach God’s Word and heal the sick. Today, if you want refreshment, if you want health and healing, don’t sit under ministries that tell you that God doesn’t always want to heal and that He sometimes gives you diseases to teach you lessons. Instead, sit under anointed ministries that preach the good news and practice healing the sick. My friend, that is how you can begin to walk in divine health!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Healthier, Stronger Each Day
Here's another powerful message from Pastor Prince.
I will just make this as one of my testimonies.
Just before I got saved I was sickly.
I get sorethroat,bad headaches, coughs and get real sick every now and then.
But when I drew closer to Jesus and asked Him to be my healer, he never disappointed me. And I know He WILL never disappoint me.
That's why to boost up more of my immune system I do Holy Communion everyday.
Even before I go for a clubbing and right after, I'd still do it. :)
And today, I'm proud to say I'm well and getting stronger each day!
Read on and enjoy your healing!
Acts 2:46
46So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
Back then in the early church, Christians would meet each other every day, either corporately in the temple or from house to house in smaller groups. And when they met in their homes, the Bible tells us that they would break bread. That’s the Holy Communion, and they took it every day!
Now, I am not saying that you must take the Holy Communion every day. But if you feel led to and you want to, go ahead! The thing about taking the Holy Communion daily is this: If you are sick, you can be made well on a gradual basis. This means that you get healthier and stronger from day to day — first thirtyfold, then sixtyfold, then a hundredfold!
You see, while you can receive healing through the prayer of faith (Mark 11:24), it sometimes puts pressure on you because it requires you to believe that you receive it all — complete healing — the moment you pray. There is nothing wrong with the prayer of faith, but you may find yourself saying, “I must believe I receive it all, now! I must believe I have it all, now!”
But the Holy Communion allows you to receive a measure of healing every time you partake in faith, so that you get better and better. The more you take it, the better you become. There is no pressure to believe that you receive it all at once. Isn’t God good? He meets you at your level of faith!
Now, there are cases I know of in our church, in my family and in my own life, where the manifestation of healing is immediate and complete. If it happens that way, praise God! But if not, don’t worry. The more you partake, the better you will become.
I know of people who take the Holy Communion three times a day, just like they would medicine! Why not? My friend, if you are very sick and you are diligently taking your medication three times a day, why not give the Lord’s Supper the same amount of attention? Why not boost your recovery rate? And the next time you eat the bread and drink the cup, you may just find your disease totally gone!
I will just make this as one of my testimonies.
Just before I got saved I was sickly.
I get sorethroat,bad headaches, coughs and get real sick every now and then.
But when I drew closer to Jesus and asked Him to be my healer, he never disappointed me. And I know He WILL never disappoint me.
That's why to boost up more of my immune system I do Holy Communion everyday.
Even before I go for a clubbing and right after, I'd still do it. :)
And today, I'm proud to say I'm well and getting stronger each day!
Read on and enjoy your healing!
Acts 2:46
46So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,
Back then in the early church, Christians would meet each other every day, either corporately in the temple or from house to house in smaller groups. And when they met in their homes, the Bible tells us that they would break bread. That’s the Holy Communion, and they took it every day!
Now, I am not saying that you must take the Holy Communion every day. But if you feel led to and you want to, go ahead! The thing about taking the Holy Communion daily is this: If you are sick, you can be made well on a gradual basis. This means that you get healthier and stronger from day to day — first thirtyfold, then sixtyfold, then a hundredfold!
You see, while you can receive healing through the prayer of faith (Mark 11:24), it sometimes puts pressure on you because it requires you to believe that you receive it all — complete healing — the moment you pray. There is nothing wrong with the prayer of faith, but you may find yourself saying, “I must believe I receive it all, now! I must believe I have it all, now!”
But the Holy Communion allows you to receive a measure of healing every time you partake in faith, so that you get better and better. The more you take it, the better you become. There is no pressure to believe that you receive it all at once. Isn’t God good? He meets you at your level of faith!
Now, there are cases I know of in our church, in my family and in my own life, where the manifestation of healing is immediate and complete. If it happens that way, praise God! But if not, don’t worry. The more you partake, the better you will become.
I know of people who take the Holy Communion three times a day, just like they would medicine! Why not? My friend, if you are very sick and you are diligently taking your medication three times a day, why not give the Lord’s Supper the same amount of attention? Why not boost your recovery rate? And the next time you eat the bread and drink the cup, you may just find your disease totally gone!
Friday, August 22, 2008
A Fearful Expectation of Judgment vs A Confident Expectation Of Good
I loooove this messages and revelations in here that I keep listening to it again and again and again! This makes me more life conscious now than ever and bold in drawing closer to Jesus! (There's a part 2 uploading now.Will post later on)
Friday, August 1, 2008
Look To The Word, Not Natural Facts
Numbers 21:9
9So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
“Pastor Prince, I know that God is my healer. But why is this sickness and pain still in my body?” If you have been looking at your sickness and pain all this while, stop looking at yourself and start looking at Jesus. Did He or did He not take upon Himself your sickness and pain?
God’s Word declares, “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains — he hath carried them…” (Isaiah 53:4, YLT) Since Jesus has already taken your sickness and pain at the cross, then He cannot “untake” them. Even if you find it hard to believe that Jesus has paid for your healing, especially when the pain is unbearable, the truth is that it is still paid for. It is a finished work!
God is not saying that your sickness does not exist, nor is He asking you to pretend that it is not there. He is asking you to look away from the sickness, painful as it may be, and look to the truth that it has already been judged at the cross in the body of His Son.
Once, while still in the wilderness, the children of Israel were bitten by deadly desert serpents. The serpents were real. The bites were painful and deadly. So God told Moses to point the people to the bronze serpent put on a pole — a picture of the cross. (John 3:14) Bronze signifies judgment. In other words, the serpent — their problem — was already judged at the cross.
Those who kept their eyes on the bronze serpent lived. Those who focused on their wounds died. So stop looking at your sickness. Instead, look to the cross and see your sickness already judged in the body of Jesus. Surely He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains! That is the truth of God’s Word. And His Word supersedes natural facts.
My friend, you let natural facts rule or establish God’s truths over your problem by what you choose to focus on. So decide today not to focus on the facts concerning your problem. Instead, establish the truth of God’s Word and Christ’s finished work over your problem — and live!
9So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
“Pastor Prince, I know that God is my healer. But why is this sickness and pain still in my body?” If you have been looking at your sickness and pain all this while, stop looking at yourself and start looking at Jesus. Did He or did He not take upon Himself your sickness and pain?
God’s Word declares, “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains — he hath carried them…” (Isaiah 53:4, YLT) Since Jesus has already taken your sickness and pain at the cross, then He cannot “untake” them. Even if you find it hard to believe that Jesus has paid for your healing, especially when the pain is unbearable, the truth is that it is still paid for. It is a finished work!
God is not saying that your sickness does not exist, nor is He asking you to pretend that it is not there. He is asking you to look away from the sickness, painful as it may be, and look to the truth that it has already been judged at the cross in the body of His Son.
Once, while still in the wilderness, the children of Israel were bitten by deadly desert serpents. The serpents were real. The bites were painful and deadly. So God told Moses to point the people to the bronze serpent put on a pole — a picture of the cross. (John 3:14) Bronze signifies judgment. In other words, the serpent — their problem — was already judged at the cross.
Those who kept their eyes on the bronze serpent lived. Those who focused on their wounds died. So stop looking at your sickness. Instead, look to the cross and see your sickness already judged in the body of Jesus. Surely He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains! That is the truth of God’s Word. And His Word supersedes natural facts.
My friend, you let natural facts rule or establish God’s truths over your problem by what you choose to focus on. So decide today not to focus on the facts concerning your problem. Instead, establish the truth of God’s Word and Christ’s finished work over your problem — and live!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Power From His Body To Yours
Matthew 26:26
26… “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Can you imagine the Lord sick, nursing a cold or fever while He walked on earth? No, our Lord Jesus was never sick! He was vibrant, full of life and full of health. When He told His disciples, “Take, eat; this is My body”, they could practically visualise what it meant because they had lived and walked with this Man. They had seen people without hands, without feet, made whole when they touched His body. (Matthew 15:30–31)
Even His clothes were soaked with His health! A woman who had a bleeding condition for 12 years — no doctor could cure her — was healed immediately when she touched the hem of His garment. If the hem of His garment was soaked with His health, vibrancy, energy and divine radiance, how much more His body!
You know, some of the most encouraging verses in the gospels are these: “And as many as touched Him were made well” (Mark 6:56), for “power went out from Him and healed them all”. (Luke 6:19) I love those verses! That is our Jesus!
The Bible says that they put sick people along the streets, and Jesus walked around and touched them and healed them. Now, you see movie stars doing this: They run here and there, they slap their fans’ hands, but nobody gets healed. Wherever Jesus walked, whoever He touched, He healed. Picture this: A trail of people. Those in front of Jesus are lying down, but those behind Him whom He has touched are leaping with joy and following Him! That is how Jesus healed the sick.
So that night, when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body”, as He broke the bread and gave it to His disciples to eat, they knew what it meant. They were probably thinking, “We are going to ingest His health into our bodies! Hallelujah!”
That is what you must believe when you partake of the Holy Communion. It is not just a ritual or symbolic act. No, you must believe that He is the true bread from heaven who took your cancer, diabetes and heart disease, so that you can have His supernatural health. And when you eat of His broken body with this revelation, you will have life in abundance and the health of the Lord!
26… “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Can you imagine the Lord sick, nursing a cold or fever while He walked on earth? No, our Lord Jesus was never sick! He was vibrant, full of life and full of health. When He told His disciples, “Take, eat; this is My body”, they could practically visualise what it meant because they had lived and walked with this Man. They had seen people without hands, without feet, made whole when they touched His body. (Matthew 15:30–31)
Even His clothes were soaked with His health! A woman who had a bleeding condition for 12 years — no doctor could cure her — was healed immediately when she touched the hem of His garment. If the hem of His garment was soaked with His health, vibrancy, energy and divine radiance, how much more His body!
You know, some of the most encouraging verses in the gospels are these: “And as many as touched Him were made well” (Mark 6:56), for “power went out from Him and healed them all”. (Luke 6:19) I love those verses! That is our Jesus!
The Bible says that they put sick people along the streets, and Jesus walked around and touched them and healed them. Now, you see movie stars doing this: They run here and there, they slap their fans’ hands, but nobody gets healed. Wherever Jesus walked, whoever He touched, He healed. Picture this: A trail of people. Those in front of Jesus are lying down, but those behind Him whom He has touched are leaping with joy and following Him! That is how Jesus healed the sick.
So that night, when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body”, as He broke the bread and gave it to His disciples to eat, they knew what it meant. They were probably thinking, “We are going to ingest His health into our bodies! Hallelujah!”
That is what you must believe when you partake of the Holy Communion. It is not just a ritual or symbolic act. No, you must believe that He is the true bread from heaven who took your cancer, diabetes and heart disease, so that you can have His supernatural health. And when you eat of His broken body with this revelation, you will have life in abundance and the health of the Lord!
Power From His Body To Yours
Matthew 26:26
26… “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Can you imagine the Lord sick, nursing a cold or fever while He walked on earth? No, our Lord Jesus was never sick! He was vibrant, full of life and full of health. When He told His disciples, “Take, eat; this is My body”, they could practically visualise what it meant because they had lived and walked with this Man. They had seen people without hands, without feet, made whole when they touched His body. (Matthew 15:30–31)
Even His clothes were soaked with His health! A woman who had a bleeding condition for 12 years — no doctor could cure her — was healed immediately when she touched the hem of His garment. If the hem of His garment was soaked with His health, vibrancy, energy and divine radiance, how much more His body!
You know, some of the most encouraging verses in the gospels are these: “And as many as touched Him were made well” (Mark 6:56), for “power went out from Him and healed them all”. (Luke 6:19) I love those verses! That is our Jesus!
The Bible says that they put sick people along the streets, and Jesus walked around and touched them and healed them. Now, you see movie stars doing this: They run here and there, they slap their fans’ hands, but nobody gets healed. Wherever Jesus walked, whoever He touched, He healed. Picture this: A trail of people. Those in front of Jesus are lying down, but those behind Him whom He has touched are leaping with joy and following Him! That is how Jesus healed the sick.
So that night, when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body”, as He broke the bread and gave it to His disciples to eat, they knew what it meant. They were probably thinking, “We are going to ingest His health into our bodies! Hallelujah!”
That is what you must believe when you partake of the Holy Communion. It is not just a ritual or symbolic act. No, you must believe that He is the true bread from heaven who took your cancer, diabetes and heart disease, so that you can have His supernatural health. And when you eat of His broken body with this revelation, you will have life in abundance and the health of the Lord!
26… “Take, eat; this is My body.”
Can you imagine the Lord sick, nursing a cold or fever while He walked on earth? No, our Lord Jesus was never sick! He was vibrant, full of life and full of health. When He told His disciples, “Take, eat; this is My body”, they could practically visualise what it meant because they had lived and walked with this Man. They had seen people without hands, without feet, made whole when they touched His body. (Matthew 15:30–31)
Even His clothes were soaked with His health! A woman who had a bleeding condition for 12 years — no doctor could cure her — was healed immediately when she touched the hem of His garment. If the hem of His garment was soaked with His health, vibrancy, energy and divine radiance, how much more His body!
You know, some of the most encouraging verses in the gospels are these: “And as many as touched Him were made well” (Mark 6:56), for “power went out from Him and healed them all”. (Luke 6:19) I love those verses! That is our Jesus!
The Bible says that they put sick people along the streets, and Jesus walked around and touched them and healed them. Now, you see movie stars doing this: They run here and there, they slap their fans’ hands, but nobody gets healed. Wherever Jesus walked, whoever He touched, He healed. Picture this: A trail of people. Those in front of Jesus are lying down, but those behind Him whom He has touched are leaping with joy and following Him! That is how Jesus healed the sick.
So that night, when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body”, as He broke the bread and gave it to His disciples to eat, they knew what it meant. They were probably thinking, “We are going to ingest His health into our bodies! Hallelujah!”
That is what you must believe when you partake of the Holy Communion. It is not just a ritual or symbolic act. No, you must believe that He is the true bread from heaven who took your cancer, diabetes and heart disease, so that you can have His supernatural health. And when you eat of His broken body with this revelation, you will have life in abundance and the health of the Lord!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Redeemed From Every Type Of Sickness
Galatians 3:13
13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
The One who cleansed lepers, opened blind eyes and made the lame to walk took your sins, sicknesses and every curse when He hung on Calvary’s tree. The curses that were meant for you because of your sins fell on Him instead. He was cursed in your place to redeem you from every curse that comes as a result of breaking God’s laws.
What are these curses? They are listed in Deuteronomy 28. It is a long and detailed list. Don’t get frightened when you read the curses, but rejoice because Christ has redeemed you from every single one of them, including curses of sicknesses!
Are you stricken with tuberculosis, fever or inflammation? (Deuteronomy 28:22) Christ has redeemed you from every one of these conditions!
Do you have painful boils, tumours or an itch which doctors say cannot be healed? (Deuteronomy 28:27) Christ has redeemed you from every one of these conditions!
Perhaps yours is a serious and prolonged sickness. (Deuteronomy 28:59) It doesn’t matter — Christ has redeemed you from every prolonged sickness!
“Well, Pastor Prince, you have covered tuberculosis, fever, itch… but what about my disease? It is not covered in Deuteronomy 28. Did Jesus forget my disease?”
No, His work is perfect! Look at Deuteronomy 28:61: “Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed.” That covers everything. So if Christ has redeemed you from this curse, then He has redeemed you from every type of sickness! I don’t care what new type of sickness the world discovers — Christ has redeemed us from every type of sickness!
Now, if you have a particular sickness, say, “This (name the sickness) is part of the curse of the law. But Galatians 3:13 says that Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore, I have been redeemed from (name the sickness)!” Believe and confess this every day, and as surely as Jesus took every curse of sickness, your healing will break forth!
13Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),
The One who cleansed lepers, opened blind eyes and made the lame to walk took your sins, sicknesses and every curse when He hung on Calvary’s tree. The curses that were meant for you because of your sins fell on Him instead. He was cursed in your place to redeem you from every curse that comes as a result of breaking God’s laws.
What are these curses? They are listed in Deuteronomy 28. It is a long and detailed list. Don’t get frightened when you read the curses, but rejoice because Christ has redeemed you from every single one of them, including curses of sicknesses!
Are you stricken with tuberculosis, fever or inflammation? (Deuteronomy 28:22) Christ has redeemed you from every one of these conditions!
Do you have painful boils, tumours or an itch which doctors say cannot be healed? (Deuteronomy 28:27) Christ has redeemed you from every one of these conditions!
Perhaps yours is a serious and prolonged sickness. (Deuteronomy 28:59) It doesn’t matter — Christ has redeemed you from every prolonged sickness!
“Well, Pastor Prince, you have covered tuberculosis, fever, itch… but what about my disease? It is not covered in Deuteronomy 28. Did Jesus forget my disease?”
No, His work is perfect! Look at Deuteronomy 28:61: “Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed.” That covers everything. So if Christ has redeemed you from this curse, then He has redeemed you from every type of sickness! I don’t care what new type of sickness the world discovers — Christ has redeemed us from every type of sickness!
Now, if you have a particular sickness, say, “This (name the sickness) is part of the curse of the law. But Galatians 3:13 says that Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Therefore, I have been redeemed from (name the sickness)!” Believe and confess this every day, and as surely as Jesus took every curse of sickness, your healing will break forth!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Surely!
Isaiah 53:4, YLT
4Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains — he hath carried them,
While waiting for the manifestation of their healing, some people find it hard to believe that Jesus really took their sicknesses and pains, just as He took their sin and shame.
If you are one of them, don’t feel condemned. Your Father in heaven understands. That is why He put the word “surely” there when He said, “Surely, My Son has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains.”
Once, my daughter Jessica was crying all night because she was not feeling well. She had been sick for a few days. I was in my study and I took out my Bible. The Lord led me to Isaiah 53:4 where it says, “Surely He has borne…” I know the Hebrew here. It means, “Surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.” So I said, “Surely, He has borne Jessica’s sickness…”
But it was like the verse was just not real to me. Her cries seemed more real. Then, all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to a word in the verse that really revolutionised the way I saw the whole passage.
Notice the first word in the verse? It says, “Surely…” Surely, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. But look at the next verse: “He was wounded for our transgressions...” Every Christian knows and believes that Jesus was wounded for our sins, yet the word “surely” is not put here but in the earlier verse. I think that God knew that we would find it hard to believe that Jesus also bore our sicknesses and carried our pains, so He put the word “surely” there to help us believe!
When I saw that, I put my Bible on the floor, stood on it and said, “Father, you know I don’t mean any irreverence, but I am standing on Your Word. Surely, Jesus bore her sickness and carried her pain! I don’t care if I can still hear her crying. Surely, Your Son, Your beloved Son, bore her sickness and carried her pain! Hallelujah!” That night, the breakthrough came. That night, little Jessica was healed.
Surely, He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains. And as you believe this truth, surely, your healing and breakthrough will likewise come!
4Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, and our pains — he hath carried them,
While waiting for the manifestation of their healing, some people find it hard to believe that Jesus really took their sicknesses and pains, just as He took their sin and shame.
If you are one of them, don’t feel condemned. Your Father in heaven understands. That is why He put the word “surely” there when He said, “Surely, My Son has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains.”
Once, my daughter Jessica was crying all night because she was not feeling well. She had been sick for a few days. I was in my study and I took out my Bible. The Lord led me to Isaiah 53:4 where it says, “Surely He has borne…” I know the Hebrew here. It means, “Surely He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains.” So I said, “Surely, He has borne Jessica’s sickness…”
But it was like the verse was just not real to me. Her cries seemed more real. Then, all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit opened my eyes to a word in the verse that really revolutionised the way I saw the whole passage.
Notice the first word in the verse? It says, “Surely…” Surely, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. But look at the next verse: “He was wounded for our transgressions...” Every Christian knows and believes that Jesus was wounded for our sins, yet the word “surely” is not put here but in the earlier verse. I think that God knew that we would find it hard to believe that Jesus also bore our sicknesses and carried our pains, so He put the word “surely” there to help us believe!
When I saw that, I put my Bible on the floor, stood on it and said, “Father, you know I don’t mean any irreverence, but I am standing on Your Word. Surely, Jesus bore her sickness and carried her pain! I don’t care if I can still hear her crying. Surely, Your Son, Your beloved Son, bore her sickness and carried her pain! Hallelujah!” That night, the breakthrough came. That night, little Jessica was healed.
Surely, He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains. And as you believe this truth, surely, your healing and breakthrough will likewise come!
Receive The Word God Has Sent To Heal You
I always come to God for healing..Now , I feel more active, hyper and alive than ever!
No more migraines and me being sickly is history!
Thank you Jesus!
Sharing a wonderful message for the day from Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church, Singapore!
Enjoy and proclaim your healing! It's all yours!
Receive The Word God Has Sent To Heal You
Psalm 107:20
20He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Your Bible will do you no good if you leave it on your bedside table, gathering dust. It will do you no good to hold it like a teddy bear when you are facing your “giants”. But God’s Word will do you a lot of good when you receive it as truth and speak it as truth! Then, you will surely see your healing and deliverance from every evil condition sent to destroy you!
The Bible says that “He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions”. Now, when God wants to heal you, what does He do? He sends His Word. Before God delivers you from your destruction, He sends His Word.
Are you still waiting to experience the blessing of healing that Jesus died on the cross to give you? Don’t feel condemned. Your Father in heaven loves you and wants you well. But how does your healing come? By you receiving His Word on healing that He has already sent you. His promises of healing are all there in your Bible. But have you received them?
During one of my church services, a lady took out her handphone and started sending text messages to her friend who was at home dying of cancer, every scripture and almost every key point that I was preaching that day. I was telling the congregation to just confess the healing scriptures over their sicknesses, no matter how bad their conditions were. I even told them to say, “By Jesus’ stripes, I am healed” (Isaiah 53:5), 1,000 times a day. The lady got so excited that she told her friend to confess it 10,000 times a day!
Her friend, on seeing the text messages, simply received the Word of God and confessed it. That very same week, when she went back to the doctor, the doctor could not find a single trace of cancer in her body!
Never underestimate the power of God’s Word. The lady was healed because she received God’s Word. She could have left her handphone on her bedside table, but she did not. She picked it up, read the Word, confessed it and received her miracle. God sent His Word and healed her, and saved her from her destruction!
No more migraines and me being sickly is history!
Thank you Jesus!
Sharing a wonderful message for the day from Pastor Joseph Prince of New Creation Church, Singapore!
Enjoy and proclaim your healing! It's all yours!
Receive The Word God Has Sent To Heal You
Psalm 107:20
20He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
Your Bible will do you no good if you leave it on your bedside table, gathering dust. It will do you no good to hold it like a teddy bear when you are facing your “giants”. But God’s Word will do you a lot of good when you receive it as truth and speak it as truth! Then, you will surely see your healing and deliverance from every evil condition sent to destroy you!
The Bible says that “He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions”. Now, when God wants to heal you, what does He do? He sends His Word. Before God delivers you from your destruction, He sends His Word.
Are you still waiting to experience the blessing of healing that Jesus died on the cross to give you? Don’t feel condemned. Your Father in heaven loves you and wants you well. But how does your healing come? By you receiving His Word on healing that He has already sent you. His promises of healing are all there in your Bible. But have you received them?
During one of my church services, a lady took out her handphone and started sending text messages to her friend who was at home dying of cancer, every scripture and almost every key point that I was preaching that day. I was telling the congregation to just confess the healing scriptures over their sicknesses, no matter how bad their conditions were. I even told them to say, “By Jesus’ stripes, I am healed” (Isaiah 53:5), 1,000 times a day. The lady got so excited that she told her friend to confess it 10,000 times a day!
Her friend, on seeing the text messages, simply received the Word of God and confessed it. That very same week, when she went back to the doctor, the doctor could not find a single trace of cancer in her body!
Never underestimate the power of God’s Word. The lady was healed because she received God’s Word. She could have left her handphone on her bedside table, but she did not. She picked it up, read the Word, confessed it and received her miracle. God sent His Word and healed her, and saved her from her destruction!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Rejoice, O Barren!
Rejoice, O Barren!
Isaiah 54:1
1“Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not laboured with child!
Barrenness. What a frustrating and painful condition. Yet, God’s Word in Isaiah 54 to those who are experiencing barrenness is “Rejoice!”
Why? Because in the previous chapter, it tells us that the chastisement for our peace fell upon Jesus. (Isaiah 53:5) The word “peace” here in Hebrew means completeness, soundness, health and prosperity. In other words, all these benefits are yours today because Jesus has already been punished at the cross for your peace. That is why you can start rejoicing.
So God wants you right now, in whatever area you are barren in, to start rejoicing as if the fruit or yield you want to see has already come. He wants you to start thinking, speaking and acting as if the barrenness is no more.
If you are financially barren, start planning for what you would do when your finances increase. I am not saying that you go out and spend recklessly, but start making plans for wealth and increase. The time to do this is when you are still in what your natural eyes see as a barren stage.
You may say, “But Pastor Prince, you don’t understand, the banks are chasing me!”
God says, “Rejoice because you are the prosperous one in Christ.” In Christ, you are already blessed with every spiritual blessing, including prosperity. (Ephesians 1:3) “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9)
If you are sick, start planning to do what you have not been able to do. Don’t rejoice only when the healing manifests and the pain is no more. Rejoice now in your healing because Jesus has already borne your diseases and carried your pains, and by His stripes you have already been healed. (Isaiah 53:4–5)
Whatever barren situation you are in, rejoice and tell God, “Father, because of the sacrifice of Your Son, I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. You have already given me everything. So I am going to act like it is so and rejoice!”
Isaiah 54:1
1“Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not laboured with child!
Barrenness. What a frustrating and painful condition. Yet, God’s Word in Isaiah 54 to those who are experiencing barrenness is “Rejoice!”
Why? Because in the previous chapter, it tells us that the chastisement for our peace fell upon Jesus. (Isaiah 53:5) The word “peace” here in Hebrew means completeness, soundness, health and prosperity. In other words, all these benefits are yours today because Jesus has already been punished at the cross for your peace. That is why you can start rejoicing.
So God wants you right now, in whatever area you are barren in, to start rejoicing as if the fruit or yield you want to see has already come. He wants you to start thinking, speaking and acting as if the barrenness is no more.
If you are financially barren, start planning for what you would do when your finances increase. I am not saying that you go out and spend recklessly, but start making plans for wealth and increase. The time to do this is when you are still in what your natural eyes see as a barren stage.
You may say, “But Pastor Prince, you don’t understand, the banks are chasing me!”
God says, “Rejoice because you are the prosperous one in Christ.” In Christ, you are already blessed with every spiritual blessing, including prosperity. (Ephesians 1:3) “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9)
If you are sick, start planning to do what you have not been able to do. Don’t rejoice only when the healing manifests and the pain is no more. Rejoice now in your healing because Jesus has already borne your diseases and carried your pains, and by His stripes you have already been healed. (Isaiah 53:4–5)
Whatever barren situation you are in, rejoice and tell God, “Father, because of the sacrifice of Your Son, I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. You have already given me everything. So I am going to act like it is so and rejoice!”
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Healthier And Stronger Each Day
Healthier And Stronger Each Day
Acts 2:46
46So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.
Back then in the early church, Christians would meet each other every day, either corporately in the temple, or from house to house in smaller groups. And when they met in their homes, the Bible tells us that they would break bread. That’s the Holy Communion, and they took it every day!
Now, I am not saying that you must take the Holy Communion every day. But if you feel led to and you want to, go ahead! The thing about taking the Holy Communion daily is this: If you are sick, you can be made well on a gradual basis. That means you get healthier and stronger from day to day — first thirtyfold, then sixtyfold, then a hundredfold!
You see, while you can receive healing through the prayer of faith (Mark 11:24), it sometimes puts pressure on you because it requires you to believe that you receive it all — complete healing — the moment you pray. Nothing wrong with the prayer of faith, but you may find yourself saying, “I must believe I receive it all, now! I must believe I have it all, now!”
But the Holy Communion sets you free to receive a measure of healing every time you partake in faith, so that you get better and better. The more you take it, the better you become. There is no pressure to believe that you receive it all at once. Isn’t God good? He meets you at your level of faith!
Now, there are cases I know of in our church, in my family and in my own life, where the manifestation of healing is immediate and complete. If it happens that way, praise God! But if not, don’t worry — the more you partake, the better you will become.
I know of people who take the Holy Communion three times a day, just like they take medicine! Hey, why not? If you are very sick and you are diligently taking your medication three times a day, why not give the Lord’s Supper the same amount of attention? Why not boost your recovery rate? And the next time you eat the bread and drink the cup, you may just find your disease totally gone!
Acts 2:46
46So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart.
Back then in the early church, Christians would meet each other every day, either corporately in the temple, or from house to house in smaller groups. And when they met in their homes, the Bible tells us that they would break bread. That’s the Holy Communion, and they took it every day!
Now, I am not saying that you must take the Holy Communion every day. But if you feel led to and you want to, go ahead! The thing about taking the Holy Communion daily is this: If you are sick, you can be made well on a gradual basis. That means you get healthier and stronger from day to day — first thirtyfold, then sixtyfold, then a hundredfold!
You see, while you can receive healing through the prayer of faith (Mark 11:24), it sometimes puts pressure on you because it requires you to believe that you receive it all — complete healing — the moment you pray. Nothing wrong with the prayer of faith, but you may find yourself saying, “I must believe I receive it all, now! I must believe I have it all, now!”
But the Holy Communion sets you free to receive a measure of healing every time you partake in faith, so that you get better and better. The more you take it, the better you become. There is no pressure to believe that you receive it all at once. Isn’t God good? He meets you at your level of faith!
Now, there are cases I know of in our church, in my family and in my own life, where the manifestation of healing is immediate and complete. If it happens that way, praise God! But if not, don’t worry — the more you partake, the better you will become.
I know of people who take the Holy Communion three times a day, just like they take medicine! Hey, why not? If you are very sick and you are diligently taking your medication three times a day, why not give the Lord’s Supper the same amount of attention? Why not boost your recovery rate? And the next time you eat the bread and drink the cup, you may just find your disease totally gone!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Redeemed From The Curse Of Sickness!
SURELY, Jesus has bore all our diseases!
Yeah! God wants us well! Sicknesses and all kinds of diseases
doesn't come from Him because He has sent His only Son to redeem us from it all.
Thank you Jesus!
Yeah! God wants us well! Sicknesses and all kinds of diseases
doesn't come from Him because He has sent His only Son to redeem us from it all.
Thank you Jesus!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Healing Stripes
The stripes of Jesus provide the source of healing. We have two passages of Scripture that use the word stripes, Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24.
Volumes of books and tracts have exhausted our libraries, but few discuss the meaning of the "stripes" and their relationship to our healing. The application can be made after the depths of truth are known.
Although some theologians interpret Isaiah 53 in only a spiritual application, the text clearly shows it is incorrect to exclude a physical application also.
The two words "sorrows" (Heb. "makob") and griefs (Heb. "choli") refer to physical pain, sickness and disease. Included with the transgressions and iniquities, Jesus was wounded and bruised for our full salvation.
The word "makob" literally translated "pain" can be found in Job 33 and Jeremiah 51:8.
The literal translation of "griefs" (choli) is disease in 2 Kings 1:8, Job 30:18, 2 Chronicles 21:5. Choli translated literally as "sickness" is found in Deuteronomy 7:15, 1 Kings 17:17 and Isaiah 38:9.
"With his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). The word "stripes" in Hebrew is "kawborah." The literal meaning is to be black and blue. The King James Version translates it five different ways: "blueness" (Proverbs 20:30), "bruise" (Isaiah 1:6, "hurt" (Genesis 4:23), "stripe" (Exodus 21:25), and "wound" (Psalms 38:5).
"Stripes" describes the markings received by a beating with rods (Proverbs 10:13) or with leather straps (Exodus 21:25). In the Greek, "stripes" ("molops") literally means black eye. These two words combined define "stripes" as a bruise (discolored blood under the skin), a mark (welt marks), a wound (an abrasion) and a stripe (a scourging).
With this in mind, let us see the deeper meaning of "stripes." After Jesus' arrest, He received a number of beatings while being mocked and ridiculed. They "buffeted," "smote" and "did strike" Him. The word "buffet" (Greek, "kolaphezo") means to strike with a fist (Mark 14:65). To "smote" (Gk "daero") is to beat until the skin is broken (Luke 22:63). To "strike" Him (Gk "rapizo") means to slap with your palm or to smack with a club, from the root "rapis" meaning "rod," (Mark 14:65, John 19:3).
Jesus literally "bare our sicknesses" (Matthew 8:17). Every beating and blow to the Saviors' body was for our healing.
When your body receives a bruise, the blood capillaries under the skin are broken. The bruise colors your skin, leaving a mark. This "mark" is a sign that you have an internal injury.
Jesus had such marks. He was punched in the face, beaten with clubs and scornfully slapped until blood flowed internally and externally. These "stripes" brought us healing.
Trying to appease the hatred of the Jewish leaders, Pilate had Jesus scourged. The cruel whipping with the Roman whip was unbearable. Historians tell us most victims died in the process. The metal chips and pieces of bone attached to the whip cut through skin like a razor. Josephus tells us that a certain Jesus, son Ananias, was brought before Albinius and "flayed to the bone with scourges." Eusebius narrates that certain martyrs at the time of Polycarp "were torn by scourges down to deep-seated veins and arteries, so that the hidden contents of the recesses of their bodies, their entrails and organs, were exposed to sight" (cf. Leon Morris, NIC, The Gospel According to John, [1971], p. 790).
John the Baptist called Jesus the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29). Jesus is our sacrificial Lamb, but the religious leaders of the day did not think so. In fact Isaiah says "they rejected Him and esteemed Him not" (Isaiah 53:3,4).
One of the priestly duties was to execute the sacrifices. This was an exhaustive task under the sacrificial system. Part of the responsibility was the to examine the animals to be sacrificed. The animal would first need to pass the external examination, checking for abrasions or bruises. If detected the animal was rejected. In the cases of sheep they had to be shaved (Isaiah 53:7). Once the animal passed the external test, it was slaughtered and given a brief autopsy to examine the internal organs for discoloration. This process guaranteed the animal was in a totally "pure" and acceptable sacrifice (Malachi 1:8,13,14).
The priests rejected Jesus because the coming Messiah was not a suffering one from their view point. The rabbis, both then and today, interpreted Isaiah 53 as referring to the nation of Israel as a whole.
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice as the writer of Hebrews declares. He was internally and externally pure! For He had no sin, not in His deeds or in His nature.
Jesus also wore a crown of thorns (Judean thorns were hard as nails, measuring up to 2 inches in length) and carried a cross beam weighing over 100 pounds. Both of these bore marks in His body increasing His suffering near death.
Jesus was bruised (shed blood) internally and externally suffering for sickness. This is described by Peter when he quotes Isaiah 53 in his epistle, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree ... by whose stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). The word "sins" is the Greek word "hamartia," meaning to miss the mark. It means the enability to hit the target.
Jesus' "stripes" were the marks He endured for our healing. He not only took our sins and sickness through His "stripes" or "marks," but He became our "mark."
Each deadly blow to Jesus body was a "mark." The body of Christ was beaten beyond recognition, bruised by blasting fists, battered by clubs and broken by lashes.
He was broken and spilled out. His brokenness was for our Breakthrough. He became the "mark" when we missed the "mark." Not only did He hit the target, He became the target. He is the target we must aim for. But even when we miss the "mark" we have an Advocate, one who goes on our behalf. He hit the target by being "marked" in His body for you.
Two thousand years ago on a lonely hill side called Golgotha, Jesus became a "marked" man as the perfect substitute for us. When we say by His "stripes" we are healed, it was His suffering in His body that brings us a healed body.
Volumes of books and tracts have exhausted our libraries, but few discuss the meaning of the "stripes" and their relationship to our healing. The application can be made after the depths of truth are known.
Although some theologians interpret Isaiah 53 in only a spiritual application, the text clearly shows it is incorrect to exclude a physical application also.
The two words "sorrows" (Heb. "makob") and griefs (Heb. "choli") refer to physical pain, sickness and disease. Included with the transgressions and iniquities, Jesus was wounded and bruised for our full salvation.
The word "makob" literally translated "pain" can be found in Job 33 and Jeremiah 51:8.
The literal translation of "griefs" (choli) is disease in 2 Kings 1:8, Job 30:18, 2 Chronicles 21:5. Choli translated literally as "sickness" is found in Deuteronomy 7:15, 1 Kings 17:17 and Isaiah 38:9.
"With his stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). The word "stripes" in Hebrew is "kawborah." The literal meaning is to be black and blue. The King James Version translates it five different ways: "blueness" (Proverbs 20:30), "bruise" (Isaiah 1:6, "hurt" (Genesis 4:23), "stripe" (Exodus 21:25), and "wound" (Psalms 38:5).
"Stripes" describes the markings received by a beating with rods (Proverbs 10:13) or with leather straps (Exodus 21:25). In the Greek, "stripes" ("molops") literally means black eye. These two words combined define "stripes" as a bruise (discolored blood under the skin), a mark (welt marks), a wound (an abrasion) and a stripe (a scourging).
With this in mind, let us see the deeper meaning of "stripes." After Jesus' arrest, He received a number of beatings while being mocked and ridiculed. They "buffeted," "smote" and "did strike" Him. The word "buffet" (Greek, "kolaphezo") means to strike with a fist (Mark 14:65). To "smote" (Gk "daero") is to beat until the skin is broken (Luke 22:63). To "strike" Him (Gk "rapizo") means to slap with your palm or to smack with a club, from the root "rapis" meaning "rod," (Mark 14:65, John 19:3).
Jesus literally "bare our sicknesses" (Matthew 8:17). Every beating and blow to the Saviors' body was for our healing.
When your body receives a bruise, the blood capillaries under the skin are broken. The bruise colors your skin, leaving a mark. This "mark" is a sign that you have an internal injury.
Jesus had such marks. He was punched in the face, beaten with clubs and scornfully slapped until blood flowed internally and externally. These "stripes" brought us healing.
Trying to appease the hatred of the Jewish leaders, Pilate had Jesus scourged. The cruel whipping with the Roman whip was unbearable. Historians tell us most victims died in the process. The metal chips and pieces of bone attached to the whip cut through skin like a razor. Josephus tells us that a certain Jesus, son Ananias, was brought before Albinius and "flayed to the bone with scourges." Eusebius narrates that certain martyrs at the time of Polycarp "were torn by scourges down to deep-seated veins and arteries, so that the hidden contents of the recesses of their bodies, their entrails and organs, were exposed to sight" (cf. Leon Morris, NIC, The Gospel According to John, [1971], p. 790).
John the Baptist called Jesus the "Lamb of God" (John 1:29). Jesus is our sacrificial Lamb, but the religious leaders of the day did not think so. In fact Isaiah says "they rejected Him and esteemed Him not" (Isaiah 53:3,4).
One of the priestly duties was to execute the sacrifices. This was an exhaustive task under the sacrificial system. Part of the responsibility was the to examine the animals to be sacrificed. The animal would first need to pass the external examination, checking for abrasions or bruises. If detected the animal was rejected. In the cases of sheep they had to be shaved (Isaiah 53:7). Once the animal passed the external test, it was slaughtered and given a brief autopsy to examine the internal organs for discoloration. This process guaranteed the animal was in a totally "pure" and acceptable sacrifice (Malachi 1:8,13,14).
The priests rejected Jesus because the coming Messiah was not a suffering one from their view point. The rabbis, both then and today, interpreted Isaiah 53 as referring to the nation of Israel as a whole.
Jesus was the perfect sacrifice as the writer of Hebrews declares. He was internally and externally pure! For He had no sin, not in His deeds or in His nature.
Jesus also wore a crown of thorns (Judean thorns were hard as nails, measuring up to 2 inches in length) and carried a cross beam weighing over 100 pounds. Both of these bore marks in His body increasing His suffering near death.
Jesus was bruised (shed blood) internally and externally suffering for sickness. This is described by Peter when he quotes Isaiah 53 in his epistle, "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree ... by whose stripes ye were healed" (1 Peter 2:24). The word "sins" is the Greek word "hamartia," meaning to miss the mark. It means the enability to hit the target.
Jesus' "stripes" were the marks He endured for our healing. He not only took our sins and sickness through His "stripes" or "marks," but He became our "mark."
Each deadly blow to Jesus body was a "mark." The body of Christ was beaten beyond recognition, bruised by blasting fists, battered by clubs and broken by lashes.
He was broken and spilled out. His brokenness was for our Breakthrough. He became the "mark" when we missed the "mark." Not only did He hit the target, He became the target. He is the target we must aim for. But even when we miss the "mark" we have an Advocate, one who goes on our behalf. He hit the target by being "marked" in His body for you.
Two thousand years ago on a lonely hill side called Golgotha, Jesus became a "marked" man as the perfect substitute for us. When we say by His "stripes" we are healed, it was His suffering in His body that brings us a healed body.
..And by Jesus stripes--Candice is healed!
Before the accident:
After the traumatic accident:
I came across this website about a loving who have stood the test of time and still
believed in Jesus..
The story is quite tragic but as you read along, you will know how God's works and ways
will come to astonished us. It's just amazing!
More details from Bryan, Candice's loving husband's website.
A PRAYER FOR CANDICE
After the traumatic accident:
I came across this website about a loving who have stood the test of time and still
believed in Jesus..
The story is quite tragic but as you read along, you will know how God's works and ways
will come to astonished us. It's just amazing!
More details from Bryan, Candice's loving husband's website.
A PRAYER FOR CANDICE
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Call It Forth!
Romans 4:17
17… God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
“Pastor Prince, I feel the pain in my body. How can I go around saying that Christ has redeemed me from this sickness? How can I say that by His stripes I am healed?”
Well, God’s way is to call those things that are not as though they are. And because you are made in God’s image, you can also call those things that are not as though they are.
When God wanted to make Abraham a father of many nations, what did He do? He changed the way Abraham talked. At that time, Abraham did not even have a single child from Sarah because she was barren. So how could he become a father of many?
God changed the way he talked by changing his name from Abram to Abraham, which means “father of many nations”. (Genesis 17:5) Just imagine: From then on, every time he met someone, he would say, “Hi, my name is Father Of Many Nations.” Every time dinner was ready, Sarah would call out to Abraham who was out in the field, “Darling… Father Of Many Nations … dinner is ready! Father Of Many Nations…” You can just hear their neighbours saying, “They want a child so much they have gone mad!” But God changed the way Abraham talked, so that he called forth what God saw him already blessed with.
You know, when Jesus saw the man with a withered hand, He did not say, “My goodness! It is so withered!” He said, “Stretch forth your hand!” (Matthew 12:13) He called forth what He wanted. He looked at the paralytic and said, “Rise, take up your bed and walk!” (Matthew 9:6) He did not see the way it was in the natural. He saw the way God meant it to be and He called it forth.
Genesis 1 tells us that in the beginning, there was darkness over the face of the whole earth. God saw the darkness and He said, “Light be!” And light was. God called forth what He wanted and it became so! If it were you or me, we would probably have said, “Whoa! It is so dark!”
My friend, despite the pain, call forth your healing. It is pointless to state the obvious. No, change the way you talk. See the way God meant it to be, and start calling forth your healing and wholeness!
17… God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
“Pastor Prince, I feel the pain in my body. How can I go around saying that Christ has redeemed me from this sickness? How can I say that by His stripes I am healed?”
Well, God’s way is to call those things that are not as though they are. And because you are made in God’s image, you can also call those things that are not as though they are.
When God wanted to make Abraham a father of many nations, what did He do? He changed the way Abraham talked. At that time, Abraham did not even have a single child from Sarah because she was barren. So how could he become a father of many?
God changed the way he talked by changing his name from Abram to Abraham, which means “father of many nations”. (Genesis 17:5) Just imagine: From then on, every time he met someone, he would say, “Hi, my name is Father Of Many Nations.” Every time dinner was ready, Sarah would call out to Abraham who was out in the field, “Darling… Father Of Many Nations … dinner is ready! Father Of Many Nations…” You can just hear their neighbours saying, “They want a child so much they have gone mad!” But God changed the way Abraham talked, so that he called forth what God saw him already blessed with.
You know, when Jesus saw the man with a withered hand, He did not say, “My goodness! It is so withered!” He said, “Stretch forth your hand!” (Matthew 12:13) He called forth what He wanted. He looked at the paralytic and said, “Rise, take up your bed and walk!” (Matthew 9:6) He did not see the way it was in the natural. He saw the way God meant it to be and He called it forth.
Genesis 1 tells us that in the beginning, there was darkness over the face of the whole earth. God saw the darkness and He said, “Light be!” And light was. God called forth what He wanted and it became so! If it were you or me, we would probably have said, “Whoa! It is so dark!”
My friend, despite the pain, call forth your healing. It is pointless to state the obvious. No, change the way you talk. See the way God meant it to be, and start calling forth your healing and wholeness!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Philippians 2:9–10
9Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth.
Whatever is troubling you, if it has a name, it must bow to the name of Jesus! Cancer must bow to the name of Jesus! Poverty must bow! Shame must bow! The Bible tells us that God has highly exalted Jesus and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow!
That is exactly what happened when a severely demon-possessed man saw Jesus. The demons in him — called Legion for there were many of them — not only got down on their knees, begging Jesus not to torment them, but they also fled when Jesus commanded them to go. The man was left whole, healed and in his right mind. (Luke 8:26–35)
That is the power of the name of Jesus because that is the name of the one who died for you, who rose again and today is at the right hand of God, for you! That is the name which is above every name, at which every knee must and will bow!
Whatever is troubling you, if it has a name, it must bow to the name of Jesus! Cancer must bow to the name of Jesus! Poverty must bow! Shame must bow! The Bible tells us that God has highly exalted Jesus and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow!
That is exactly what happened when a severely demon-possessed man saw Jesus. The demons in him — called Legion for there were many of them — not only got down on their knees, begging Jesus not to torment them, but they also fled when Jesus commanded them to go. The man was left whole, healed and in his right mind. (Luke 8:26–35)
That is the power of the name of Jesus because that is the name of the one who died for you, who rose again and today is at the right hand of God, for you! That is the name which is above every name, at which every knee must and will bow!
John 14:13-14
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. {14} If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
Mark 10:49-52
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. {50} And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. {51} And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. {52} And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way
Friday, March 28, 2008
1 Peter 2:24
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.
Jesus Heals A Blind Man From Madagascar...
The touching story of Jesus healing a man born blind. Imagine being able to see your wife for the first time after 30 years of marriage. This story depicts the miracles of Jesus around the world in the festivals of Celebrate Jesus International.
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Ezekiel 36:26-27
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. {27} And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, says the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Isaiah 55:10-11
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: {11} So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Jesus Heals...
Jesus heals cancer. Jesus heals asthma. Jesus heals skin problems. Jesus heals every sickness and every disease. It is Gods will to heal you. It is not Gods will for you to be sick. Jesus heals heart problems. Jesus heals lung problems. Jesus heals sinners as well as believers. Jesus has the power to heal. Jesus has the authority to heal. Jesus heals. There is no sickness or disease that is more powerful than Jesus. Jesus said whatever you desire when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it. This includes healing. Jesus heals AIDS. Jesus heals arthritis. Jesus is interested in healing small ailments as well as major diseases. Jesus heals poor vision. Jesus restores lost hearing. Jesus heals the lame. Jesus heals the dumb. There is no prerequisite for receiving healing from God. Only believe. Jesus heals insomnia. Jesus heals mental and nervous disorders. Jesus conquers problems with demons. Gods will is for you to be healthy. God loves you. Jesus died for your sins. Jesus was whipped for the healing of your physical body. By His stripes you were healed. Surely he carried your sickness and bore your pains and by His stripes you were healed. Jesus heals sexually transmitted diseases. Jesus heals all parts of the human body. Jesus is The healer. Jesus rose from the dead. Jesus is still alive and well today and is seated at the right hand of the Father. Jesus is making intercession for us right now. The same Jesus that healed 2000 years ago, still heals today. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. God never changes. God is love. Jesus came to do the will of his Father. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were sick and oppressed of the devil. It must have been the will of the Father to heal the sick. God never changes. Jesus is the same. Jesus is alive and functioning in the earth. Christians are the body of Christ. Christ is the head and we are the body. If we lay hands on the sick they shall recover. Our hands are the hands of Christ. We are His body. The hands are part of the body. Jesus heals circulatory diseases. Jesus heals accident victims. Jesus heals, Jesus heals, Jesus heals.
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