I really love this from today's "Faith Food" devotional by Kenneth E. Hagin:
Covenant Blessing
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy
bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of
thy days I will fulfil. — EXODUS 23:25,26
As long as Israel walked in the covenant, there was no
sickness among them. There is no record of a premature death as long as they
kept the covenant. No babies, no young people, no middle-aged people died. With sickness
taken away from the midst of them, they lived their whole lives out without
disease, and then they just fell asleep in death. When it was time for them to
go, they would lay hands on their children, pronounce blessings upon them,
gather their feet up into bed, give up the ghost, and go home.
What does that have to do with us? God is the same God now
that He was then! The Bible says that He does not change. God was against sin
in the Old Testament (Old Covenant), and God is against sin in the New
Testament (New Covenant). God was against sickness in the Old Testament — and
God is against sickness in the New Testament. God made provision for healing in
the Old Testament — and God has made provision for healing in the New
Testament!
Confession: I love and serve the Lord my God as a New
Covenant believer. Jesus has taken sickness away from the midst of me. If He
tarries His coming, the number of my days I will fulfill!
I have so enjoyed going through "Faith Food" again this year in Morning Prayer! Some of the earliest lessons that we learned concerning what belongs to us as members of the family of God and Covenant partners with Him are revealed here and it has been a great review of what we KNOW so well! Here is Hillsong with "Who You Say I Am":Shalom in Him!
