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!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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
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