01- 31- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (Isaiah 53:4- 5)
HE IS THE LORD WHO HEALS WITH OUR FAITH IN HIM
4- “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5- But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”
It’s not a wrong, false or a bad doctrine and teaching if your pastor believes in healing, because the Bible is filled of God’s demonstrations of His healing power. God showed us how He used His prophets and servants in healing His children by faith. Even the Lord Jesus Christ performed miracles of healing through different people, in different places and in different occasions. He is able to heal us of our physical sickness. We have read over and over in the Bible how the Lord has healed people who were sick physically. God healed people like blind Bartemaeus who came to Jesus for healing. (Mark 10:46- 52) 46- “And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. 47- And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. 48- And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me. 49- 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.” Let me share to you first of all, the sickness and the blindness that God and the Lord Jesus Christ is more interested with; it’s the spiritual blindness of men. The sickness that any doctors, advance medicines and the advance medical technologies could not do and help; it’s the spiritual sickness of man. “It is not enough to come to Christ for spiritual healing, but, when we are healed, we must continue to follow him; that we may do honour to him, and receive instruction from him. Those that have spiritual eye-sight, see that beauty in Christ, that will effectually draw them to run after him.” Matthew Henry- The Bible Collection Suite
In the Book of (John 6:2) “And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.”
