Today's Health Food by Kenneth E. Hagin shows an aspect of walking in health and healing that is very important to know and understand!
We Have a Better Covenant
...he [Jesus] is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. (Heb. 8:6)Under the Old Covenant, the Israelites were servants of God; they weren't sons of God, as we are today. The Bible says concerning us, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God..." (1 John 3:2).
Since God made provision under the Old Covenant for His servants to be healed and well, He has surely made provision for us as His sons. Under the Old Covenant, God said, "...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 fulfill" (Ex. 23:25-26). He made provision for their healing, saying, "...I am the Lord that healeth thee" (Ex. 15:26).
God made provision under the Old Covenant whereby Israel could live out their full length of time down here on earth without sickness and disease. Now since He made that provision under the Old Covenant, and since we have a better covenant established on better promises, I wonder if our covenant includes health and healing (Heb. 8:6)? The better covenant includes all that the Old Covenant had and more, or it's not better.
Know this Bible fact: God has dealt with sickness and disease under the Old Covenant as well as under the New Covenant. Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 8:17, and First Peter 2:24 deal with the disease and sickness problem that faces the Church and the world today. And within those scriptures is God's cure. According to First Peter 2:24, by His stripes, we were healed.
Confession
I am a child of God, a son of God. Since God provided health and healing for His servants under the Old Covenant, He has surely provided health and healing for us - His sons - today!The God of the Bible gets blamed, by some, for every evil thing that happens on the earth! Evil happens because of sin! HE provided the remedy for that sin, and the curse that is the result of it, when He sent His only Son to the earth! Jesus walked as a sinless MAN who obeyed the Word of God and He NEVER suffered sickness and disease! HE was living, as a Man, under the promises and provision of the Old Covenant! WE, because of all that Jesus did, have a new and BETTER Covenant (Hebrews 8:6 above)! HALLELUJAH!!! Nothing that is provided in that Covenant is going to simply fall into our lives, however! WE have a part to play. We must mediate on the provisions of that Covenant (Joshua 1:8) until faith rises from the inside (Romans 10:17). THEN we must put action to that faith and begin to praise and thank HIM for the results! Unbelievers have no right to those promises! Believers who refuse to search the Word and believe the Word will not be able to walk in those promises either. YOU are part of an extremely blessed group of people who LOVE the Word (or you wouldn't be reading this blog!), study the Word of God, believe the Word of God and act on the Word of God! For YOU, THIS has the potential to be YOUR very best year yet! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Lost Are Found":
Shalom in Him!
