The Lord that Heals Us
Part 1
Dearly beloved of God, God wants us to be in good health. It is not His Will that we are overcome by sickness, including the Coronavirus. God formed our bodies with the capacity to heal themselves. Our bodies are fearfully and awesomely made.
For example, when God designed the human body, He made it with systems like the immune system with the lymphatic glands, which secrete hormones that fight disease, and white corpuscles that fight infection, red corpuscles that scab over wounds, organs that filter out impurities, and systems that expel them in the bowel, urine, and through the skin pores, etc..
God designed the body with DNA, which is an information code. Information is information, not matter or energy. This information produces every function in the body. Scientists do not understand where the information came from or how it got there.
“We can look high or we can look low, in books or in journals, but the result is the same.The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system” Behe said.
God wrote the information code and made the immune system that keeps us alive. This is only one example of how fearfully and wonderfully made we are.
By the way, how much information are we talking about?
Carl Sagan, using mathematical calculations, computed that one cell’s worth of genetic information approximates 4,000 books, each having 500 pages, with 300 words per page. That is just in ONE CELL.
If the DNA in one human cell were stretched out and connected, it would be more than 7 feet long.
The moon is 240,000 miles away. He calculated that if all the DNA in a person’s body were placed end-to-end, it would extend to the Moon 552,000 times. That's a lot of information. Yes indeed, we are fearfully and awesomely made!
Healing is God’s Will for us whether we receive it naturally or by the power of His spirit.
Psalms 103:3: “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.”
Healing can be physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.
Psalms 147:3: “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Proverbs 17:22: “A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
Beloved, the healing of our emotions is needed by all of us at one time or another. There is no joy in living with a broken heart; it dries the bones. He is willing to heal our broken hearts.
God sent His Son so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. That includes good health and healing when we need it.
I Peter 2:24: “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Jesus Christ paid for our sins and our sicknesses.
The memorial of communion reminds us of Jesus Christ’s accomplishments. The bread is a symbol of his body and the price he paid for our healing.
The contents of the cup symbolize the new covenant in his blood, and when we drink it we are to remember what he accomplished by his shed blood.
Both the bread and the cup represent what he accomplished for us.
Jesus Christ bore the punishment for our sins, which was death. We were healed by the stripes laid on him by the whippings, and beatings he suffered. In communion there is a remembrance of these things.
Many are weak and sick, and many are falling asleep because they do not properly judge what the Lord accomplished by his suffering and death for us.
Beloved, another avenue for the sick to be healed is by prayer. God made it available to pray for the sick to be healed.
James 5:14-16: “Is any sick among you? 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: 15 and the prayer of faith [believing] shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
Fear not, dearly beloved, our Heavenly Father’s Will is that we have good health, and if we lose it, He has provided the means for us to regain it, whether we are healed by natural means or by supernatural means.
Dearly beloved, God cares for you, so cast your cares upon him. He is able to do what He says He will do, and He will willingly do it; it is the good pleasure of His will to heal us.
Live in peace, having undisturbed believing knowing that He is always present to deliver you whenever you may need it. You are His dearly beloved.
(In part 2 we will discuss another avenue of healing.)