Healing Promises (19 page)

—P
SALM
22:14

I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.

—P
SALM
22:17

See Jesus Judged For Your Sake

To see God’s grace toward us when we are sick is to see what Jesus did for us at the cross. Just as it was important for the Israelites to eat the lamb roasted before they walked free the next day, God wants you to see His provision for your healing—Jesus, the true Lamb of God—“roasted”. He wants you to see Jesus SMITTEN by His judgment for your deliverance and redemption.

See Jesus carrying your symptoms and diseases on His own body. See Him taking one lash after another until His back was shredded to ribbons. See Him falling again and again under the brutality of the scourging, only to rise again and again for more beating until ALL your diseases were healed!

Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
and our sorrows He carried.

—I
SAIAH 53:4, NASB

But the Lord was pleased to crush
Him, putting Him to grief.

—I
SAIAH 53 :10, NASB

See Jesus Smitten With Your Diseases

My wife, Wendy, broke out in hives once. The itch was so bad that she couldn’t sleep for several nights, and medication didn’t help much.

Her breakthrough came when she saw how much Jesus suffered for her to be well. While tossing and turning in bed one night, she pictured Jesus on the cross, smitten with her disease. She saw His hands nailed to the timber, and the Holy Spirit impressed this upon her heart: “At least you can scratch, He couldn’t.” Tears welled up in her eyes. By morning, she was healed!

Beloved, see His grace toward you in His willingness to bear
all
your sicknesses and pains. SURELY He has healed you!

Jesus
was

judged, burnt, smitten

and crushed.

The price
for

your health and wholeness

has been paid!

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of
the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him
with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith
will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up…

—J
AMES 5:14–15

And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly.
Then His sweat became like great drops of
blood falling down to the ground.

—L
UKE 22:44

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.

—I
SAIAH 53:5, NIV

…the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

—I
SAIAH 10:27

See Jesus Crushed For Your Wholeness

Why does the Bible talk about anointing the sick with oil? Is there something magical about the holy anointing oil? No, my friend. When we anoint our sick bodies with oil, we are simply releasing our faith in Jesus’ finished work. He was crushed for our iniquities so that we can be made whole.

Before anointing oil can be made, olive fruit must be crushed in a press. Likewise, before healing can be dispensed to us, Jesus had to be crushed. His crushing began at Gethsemane, which means “oil press”, and continued at the scourging post, ending only with His death at the cross.

Beloved, whenever you use the yoke-destroying anointing oil, see Jesus crushed for your healing. See the agony that He endured in order for His healing grace to be righteously bestowed upon you!

And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that
power had gone out of Him, turned around in
the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”
But His disciples said to Him, “You see the
multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who
touched Me?’” And He looked around to see
her who had done this thing. But the woman,
fearing and trembling, knowing what had
happened to her, came and fell down before Him
and told Him the whole truth. And He said to
her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.
Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

—M
ARK 5:30–34