Good Friday - This is a blog leading up to Metro Praise's Easter Service on April 24th, 2011. The purpose is to give a short Word to prepare people's hearts for the next season at Metro Praise and to help all grow closer to Jesus.Today's Word: "Jesus Took Our Sickness"
When God first created Adam and Eve, they were perfect and there were no sickness, but after they sinned suffering and death entered the whole world. Deuteronomy 28 teaches that mankind was placed under a curse in his body because of this sin and this curse is manifested as illness and disease.
This does not mean that when children are born sick or when someone gets ill that they are "sinful," but rather we all as human beings suffer from imperfection in our physical bodies because of sin, thus sin in our bodies leads to sickness, and some sickness ends in death.
When Jesus was being tortured and beaten by the Roman government, God the Father was pleased. Why? Because God the Father allowed the punishment and whippings of Jesus to purchase for mankind the healing they needed from their sicknesses and diseases.
Peter said, "He himself bore our sins' in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; 'by his wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24).
Mankind may not be able to fully understand how this happened, but the Bible clearly teaches that by Jesus’ stripes we are healed from all of our sicknesses. Today, anyone who is sick can come to Jesus and ask for healing and, if they believe and do not doubt in their heart, they will be healed!
Are you sick? If so, come to Jesus and declare your healing in His name and by His stripes- He is still a healer!
Reading: Isaiah 53 & James 5:14-16
Metro Praise Easter Service will be April 24th at 9am & 11am at 4323 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL. 60641
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