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Isaiah 53:4 – Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases

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 the Holy Spirit has opened your eyes to the word “surely” in the verse, then that will really revolutionize the way the whole passage will be understood.

Notice the first word in the verse? It says, “Surely…” Surely, He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Now, 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 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!

Are you or your loved ones suffering some sickness or pain right now? Then stand on the promise of God and say, “surely, yes surely, Jesus bore that sickness. I don’t care if I still see some symptoms, Hallelujah!”

Thought for the day!
Surely our Lord Jesus has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. And as we believe this truth, surely, our healing and breakthrough will come, even as we are waiting for the manifestation of the healing!

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Matthew 8:3 – He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose. Be made clean!"

It is God’s will for you to be healed! In fact, Jesus always healed the sick who came to Him. The blind, lame, maimed, mute, deaf and demon-possessed—He healed them all! (Matthew 8:16)

Unfortunately, there are some Christians who say, “It is God’s will for me to be sick. God has some purpose, some mysterious purpose for my situation. It is all part of His divine plan and we shall all know in the sweet by and by, the reason why!”

God wants you well. He wants you whole. His will is for you to be healed! He allowed Himself to be beaten and scourged, so that by His scourging—by His stripes, wounds—you are healed! (Isaiah 53:5).

If we are sick, know that God did not give us the disease. But He is aware of it.  Read every healing miracle that Jesus did in the Gospels and see how Jesus is the Lord who heals us. (Exodus 15:26). Hear His gracious words, “I am willing, be healed,” and know that they are as much for us today as they were for the leper!

Thought for the day!
Jesus is the source of all healing. He is gracious and willing to heal us! Lord, increase my faith! Help my unbelief!

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Genesis 8:4 - Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

For 40 days and nights, it rained so hard that the whole world perished, except for Noah and those who were with him in the ark. On the 17th day of the seventh month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat.

In Hebrew, the word “Ararat” means “the curse is reversed”. The waters of judgment receded, causing the ark to rest on the mountains of Ararat, on new ground where the curse is reversed and new life would begin!

When Christ rose from the dead, we were raised together with Him. (Colossians 2:12). We who are in Christ our true ark, stand on resurrection ground where the curse has been reversed (Galatians 3:13), where diseases, poverty and failures have no right! On the resurrection ground we will have a resurrected new life!

Thought for the day!
As Christians, we stand on no-curse ground. If we are in Christ, then we stand in the blessings zone where it is very easy for God’s blessings to rain all over us!

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Galatians 3:13 - Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us

But why did Jesus have to die on the cross, when the capital punishment of Israel during the time of Christ was stoning and not crucifixion?

Jesus hung and died on the cross because He knew the law which says that “anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse.” (Deut 21:23) He wanted to redeem us from every curse of the law, so He went to the cross, “having become a curse for us”. Jesus took all our curses at the cross, so that we can take all His blessings!

So if there is an area in our life in which we feel oppressed or a condition that refuses to heal, say, “Christ has redeemed me from this condition. I refuse it and reject it in Jesus’ name because by His stripes I am healed!” (1 Pet 2:24). Believe it and say it until you see it! The Word will become flesh!

Thought for the day!
With Jesus, every curse in your life stands destroyed. (Rom 8:1). Therefore, expect only the blessings of Jesus to come upon you and overtake you! 

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Revelation 1:8 - “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord

Doctor’s reports are not final. Jesus declares to you, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” He has the first word as well as the final word in your situation. The experts and medical reports don’t!

When Jesus hung on the cross, He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. (Mt 8:17). That is why sickness does not have the final word in our life. Jesus does, because He took our sickness upon His body and paid for our healing with His blood. When Jesus hung on the cross, He took our curse. (Galatians 3:13). Today, we take His place and His blessings fall on us!

So why settle for the curse of sickness or even poverty when the price for our healing and provision has been paid by Jesus? Sickness and poverty do not have the final word in our life. Jesus does, because He redeemed us from every curse! When man says that it is impossible, Jesus says that it is possible.

Thought for the day!
Jesus, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, has the final word in our situation! 

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John 6:57 - Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.

One of the primary ways (apart from Holy Communion) in which you feed on Jesus is when you read your Bible, soaking up everything on Jesus. Before you know it, His divine health flows into your body, driving out every symptom of pain, sickness and disease. Even your discouragement dissolves effortlessly. You find yourself encouraged, refreshed and your darkness giving way to light.

God wants Jesus to be food for us. We feed on Christ by seeing Him unveiled in the Word, (He is the Word!), by seeing and meditating on what the Holy Spirit reveals of His beauty and glory. That is how we enjoy Jesus. It is like having a good meal. And when you do that, Jesus Himself promises that “he who feeds on Me will live because of Me”!

Thought for the day!
There is no way you can feed on Jesus through reading and hearing His Word, and still remain the same. He said, “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63)

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John 1:3 -  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made, that was made.

Any product you buy, will usually come with an instruction booklet which says, “Send only to authorized centres for repairs.” Similarly, when something in your body or life breaks down, you go back to Jesus, your Creator and Maker. You go to Him because God’s Word tells us that “all things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made, that was made”.

The Bible says that in the beginning, God created everything by speaking (Genesis 1), and Jesus was the Word who caused everything to come to pass. (John 1:1–3, 14) So when relationships break down, when your finances are low or when some part of your body isn’t functioning well, you go to Jesus who can fix it and even make it better than before!

When man handles something in you that has not been going well, it is usually not as good as before. But when Jesus handles it, all things become new! (2 Corinthians 5:17). The One who made the heavens and the earth is more than able to make it better than it was before!

Thought for the day!
When something in your body or life breaks down, go to Jesus, your Creator and Maker, who can fix it even better than before!

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Matthew 26:26 - While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of BREAD, and after blessing it, he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; THIS is My body.”

When the disciples were told this, they could practically visualize what it meant because they had lived and walked with this Jesus.  The disciples had seen people with deformities made whole when they touched His body. (Mt 15:30–31)

Even His clothes were soaked with His health! A woman who had a haemorrhage 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, energy and divine radiance, how much more His body!

So that night, when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body,” 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. And when you eat of His broken body with this revelation, you will have life in abundance and the health of the Lord!

Thought for the day!
Believe that Jesus is the true bread from heaven who took your cancer, diabetes and heart disease, etc., so that you can have the supernatural health of the Lord when you eat of His broken body!

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Acts 2:46 –  Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts

Back then in the early church, Christians would meet each other every day, either 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 represents the Holy Communion, and they took it every day!

The truth about receiving the Holy Communion daily is this: If you are sick, you can be made well very soon. This means that you get healthier and stronger from day to day—first thirtyfold, then sixtyfold, then a hundredfold! The more you receive it, the better you become. Isn’t God good?

What if one takes the Holy Communion three times a day, just like they would take medicines! Why not? Why not boost your recovery rate? And the next time you eat the body and drink the blood of our Lord, you can just find your disease totally gone!

Thought for the day!
The more you partake in the Lord’s Supper, the more you boost your recovery rate

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Hebrews 4:16 -  Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

If you are facing a challenge right now, then know that you have a standing invitation from our heavenly Father to come boldly to the throne of grace to “obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need”.

When you are in a crisis and need mercy, God’s Word assures you that you will find mercy when you come boldly to God. Mercy means that you don’t get the bad things you deserve, such as condemnation, poverty, failure, loss, etc.

And mercy is not the only thing that you will obtain when you come boldly to God. You will also find grace. Grace means that you get the good things that you don’t deserve, such as health, protection, anointing, favour, good success and life more abundant.

So come boldly to the One who loves you passionately, unconditionally and with an unending love. Come boldly to Him. He has wisdom far beyond the doctor you highly respect, the lawyer you greatly honour and the best experts you can consult. Come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and grace to help in your time of need!

Thought for the day!
Come boldly to God who knows everything about your situation and has the solution.

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Matthew 18:21-22 –  Then Peter came and said to him, "“Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy times seven” indicating that you forgive all the time!

There is no such thing as a “partial sinner” or “great sinner”. All of us are great sinners but Jesus forgave us and saved us. And when we realize that we are forgiven much, we will love the Lord much. (Luke 7:47)

So if someone has wronged you, tell yourself this: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.” If you say something like, “He does not deserve it,” it makes no sense. Neither did you deserve God’s forgiveness. Forgiveness is not for people who deserve it. If they deserve anything, it is punishment. But forgiveness means that you extend grace and mercy—like how God extends undeserved favour to you.

If you choose to hold on to bitterness, no one suffers but you. You lose your peace, then possibly your health. It is just not worth it. God tells you, “Let go. Forgive them their debts, just as I have forgiven you yours.”

Thought for the day!
When we realize that we are forgiven much, we will love much!

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Romans 4:17 -  God, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Many a time, when we look at ourselves, we don’t see what we can become. But when God looks at us, He sees what we can become by His grace.

When Jesus met Simon, whose name in Greek means “reed”, He changed his name to “Peter”, which means “rock”. But did Peter instantly become someone with the characteristics of a rock—solid, stable and unshakable? No, for a long time, he continued to act like a reed that bends every which way the wind blows.

Throughout his reed-like behaviour, Jesus kept calling him “rock” until one day, the way Jesus “saw” him, began to take root in him. That day, on the Day of Pentecost, Peter stood up to preach and 3,000 people were saved! (Acts 2:41) Peter had indeed become a rock, a pillar in the early church.

God did not tell us to call those things which exist as they exist. What is the point of stating the obvious? It is not going to change anything. No, God tells us to call those things which do not exist as though they did, and they will!

Thought for the day!
God tells us to call things which do not exist as though they did, and they will! Call it the way God calls it! ??