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Despite everything we do in life, it is God who prolongs a person's life. It is not His plan to cut short any of our lives. Jer 29:11 tells us God's plan for the Jews and indirectly for us as well. So what's the point of having a short life when we cannot enjoy God's plan to the fullest?
Isaiah Chapter 53 verse 10 " But it was the Lord's good plan to crush him and filled him with grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have multitude of children, many heirs (those who receive Christ are called heirs according to the promise given to Abraham). He (the believers) will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's plan will prosper in his hands."
So it is said that God's plan for us is to prosper us and part of that prosperity also includes long life. LONG LIFE! Through the finished work on the cross we shall have long life!
Jesus wants to give us healing see Isaiah Chapter 53 verse 5
(NLT) "But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed!"
Or the more common version "By His stripes we are healed!!!"
He was flogged, he was wounded for our transgressions. So because of our sins He took the physical abuse and in turn, healed us through the punishment. What a divine exchange! How presumptious of us believers who accepted the work on the cross to put faith in the world's vitamin C...we should have the ultimate vitamin C that the world has no claims to....Our Vitamin Christ!
Do not get me wrong. I do take Vitamin C because this body is given to the Lord and I am a steward of the body. However, the moment when the hope of healing is based on worldly remedies alone only serves to put us on the equal footing with the unbelieving world. We have the promise of God of healing through His son, that is the healing of both spiritual and mental, then will come the healing of the body. Jesus heals those who believes in Him, He cannot impose on those who do not believe him (read: Matt 13:58).
I also personally believe that the discover of medicine is the work of God for prolonging life therefore the medicine is to help on top of believing God for healing. Of course God heals miraculously as well since I have seen it work during my church service and I recovered from my knee reconstruction much faster than anybody else (my cousin's boyfriend took a few months and I walked around 1 month after the operation without aids)
We should look to divine intervention in our health and our healing when sickness strikes. I believe our sickness comes from stress, from condemnation of not doing enough so that we work more, do more. But once we put our faith and our hope in Jesus' provision, our El Shaddai, then the stress would have no hold on us, and if no stress took hold on us, then we are set up by God to receive divine health!
Fear is the root of all evil for fear cause us to do more, to make schemes so as to protect our well being and our influences. Fear causes us to view others with ulterior motives. Fear causes us to stop believing in our Father's unseen power but to based on our efforts which we can feel. If we cannot even add one more hair to our head, what's more our efforts to create a peaceful existence on earth?
As we remember our Lord's sacrifice on the cross this Friday, pause and think about the things Jesus has done in order for us to enjoy life to the fullest for He came not to be served but to serve. To serve us with what? Did we think about that? What should He served us with so that we can enjoy life? In one word: "Shalom".
Be Greatly Blessed, Highly favored, Deeply Loved and May you all live to be 120~!
Isaiah Chapter 53 verse 10 " But it was the Lord's good plan to crush him and filled him with grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have multitude of children, many heirs (those who receive Christ are called heirs according to the promise given to Abraham). He (the believers) will enjoy a long life, and the Lord's plan will prosper in his hands."
So it is said that God's plan for us is to prosper us and part of that prosperity also includes long life. LONG LIFE! Through the finished work on the cross we shall have long life!
Jesus wants to give us healing see Isaiah Chapter 53 verse 5
(NLT) "But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed!"
Or the more common version "By His stripes we are healed!!!"
He was flogged, he was wounded for our transgressions. So because of our sins He took the physical abuse and in turn, healed us through the punishment. What a divine exchange! How presumptious of us believers who accepted the work on the cross to put faith in the world's vitamin C...we should have the ultimate vitamin C that the world has no claims to....Our Vitamin Christ!
Do not get me wrong. I do take Vitamin C because this body is given to the Lord and I am a steward of the body. However, the moment when the hope of healing is based on worldly remedies alone only serves to put us on the equal footing with the unbelieving world. We have the promise of God of healing through His son, that is the healing of both spiritual and mental, then will come the healing of the body. Jesus heals those who believes in Him, He cannot impose on those who do not believe him (read: Matt 13:58).
I also personally believe that the discover of medicine is the work of God for prolonging life therefore the medicine is to help on top of believing God for healing. Of course God heals miraculously as well since I have seen it work during my church service and I recovered from my knee reconstruction much faster than anybody else (my cousin's boyfriend took a few months and I walked around 1 month after the operation without aids)
We should look to divine intervention in our health and our healing when sickness strikes. I believe our sickness comes from stress, from condemnation of not doing enough so that we work more, do more. But once we put our faith and our hope in Jesus' provision, our El Shaddai, then the stress would have no hold on us, and if no stress took hold on us, then we are set up by God to receive divine health!
Fear is the root of all evil for fear cause us to do more, to make schemes so as to protect our well being and our influences. Fear causes us to view others with ulterior motives. Fear causes us to stop believing in our Father's unseen power but to based on our efforts which we can feel. If we cannot even add one more hair to our head, what's more our efforts to create a peaceful existence on earth?
As we remember our Lord's sacrifice on the cross this Friday, pause and think about the things Jesus has done in order for us to enjoy life to the fullest for He came not to be served but to serve. To serve us with what? Did we think about that? What should He served us with so that we can enjoy life? In one word: "Shalom".
Be Greatly Blessed, Highly favored, Deeply Loved and May you all live to be 120~!
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