Today's "Grace Inspirations" by Joseph Prince is an excellent and very vital message for walking in healing and divine health!
LOOK TO THE WORD, NOT NATURAL FACTS
Numbers 21:9 So Moses
made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had
bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
“Pastor Prince, I know that God is my healer. But why is
this sickness and pain still in my body?” If you have been looking at your
sickness and pain all this while, stop looking at yourself and start looking at
Jesus. Did He or did He not take upon Himself your sickness and pain?
God’s Word declares, “Surely our sicknesses he hath borne,
and our pains—he hath carried them” (Isaiah 53:4, YLT). Since Jesus has already
taken your sickness and pain at the cross, then He cannot “untake” them. Even
if you find it hard to believe that Jesus has paid for your healing, especially
when the pain is unbearable, the truth is that it is still paid for. It is a
finished work!
God is not saying that your sickness does not exist, nor is
He asking you to pretend that it is not there. He is asking you to look
away from the sickness, painful as it may be, and look to the truth that
it has already been judged at the cross in the body of His Son.
Once, while still in the wilderness, the children of Israel
were bitten by deadly desert serpents. The serpents were real. The bites were
painful and deadly. So God told Moses to point the people to the bronze serpent
put on a pole—a picture of the cross (see John 3:14). Bronze signifies
judgment. In other words, the serpent—their problem—was already judged at the
cross.
Those who kept their eyes on the bronze serpent lived. Those
who focused on their wounds died. So stop looking at your sickness. Instead,
look to the cross and see your sickness already judged in the body of
Jesus. Surely He has borne your sicknesses and carried your pains!
That is the truth of God’s Word. And His Word supersedes natural facts.
My friend, you let natural facts rule or establish God’s
truths over your problem by what you choose to focus on. So decide today not to
focus on the facts concerning your problem. Instead, establish the truth of
God’s Word and Christ’s finished work over your problem—and live!
AMEN! Remember always that God's Word is TRUTH (John 17:17)! Whatever is contrary to God's Word in our lives, as 'real' as they may seem, are only FACTS! FACTS are ALWAYS subject to change! The only unchangeable thing is the Word of the Living God! And the TRUTH will change the FACTS every time we stand on it and refuse to give up or give in! AMEN! Here is Hillsong UNITED with "Here's To The One":
Shalom in Him!
