You Are Healed!

Do you know what you are saying when you say you are healed?  Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines heal/healed this way: 1. a. to make sound or whole. b. to restore to health. 2. a. to cause (an undesirable condition) to be overcome: mend. b. to patch up. 3. to restore to original purity or integrity : to return to a sound state. Synonym = cure.  Wow!  It always amazes me how different a word you "know" can look when you read the definition.  Today we are going to focus on definition number two above.
 

The Bible is an excellent source of healing scriptures and stories!  Let's look at what the Bible says about being healed.  Psalms 107:20b says, "He sent forth His Word and healed them."  We know God/Jesus is the "Word" because of John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Isaiah prophesied healing because of Jesus when he said, "4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried away our sorrows, yet we consider him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds* we are healed." (*Some translations say stripes.)  1 Peter 2:24 says, "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed."

We are also redeemed from the curse of the law.  Galatians 3:10 says, "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'"  If you want to know what the curse(s) of the law are, check out Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  If you don't think your particular sickness/issue is listed there remember in Matthew 16:19b Jesus says, "whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." And in Deuteronomy 28:61 it says, "The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law until you are destroyed."  In other words, we are redeemed from every kind of sickness or disaster.

Jesus always healed the sick.  The bible says many times that "He healed them all."  For more encouraging healing stories you can look up the following: (some of these deal with the "healing"/redemption of sins along with physical healing.)

1. Jesus heals a paralytic Matthew 9:1-8
2. The healing of two demon possessed men Matthew 8:28-34
3. Jesus heals many Matthew 8:14-17
4. Jesus heals the sick Matthew 4:23-25
5. Jairus's Daughter brought back to life Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56
6. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead John 11:1-44
7. Jesus heals a man who was born blind John 9:1-41
8. Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus Matthew 20:29-34; Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43

 These are just a few examples of God's healing power.  It didn't stop when the Bible was done being written; god is still Jehovah Rafah our healer today.  The Bible also says in James 4:7, "Submit yourselves, then, to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."  Or as the Doughnut Man says, "Submit to God (Say Yes Sir!). Resist the devil (Hold it right there!). And he will flee from you (And he will run away)."

Blessings!

 ~S*

 PS. You are healed!!!