Kenneth E. Hagin's Faith Food is a devotional that I have used for many years now. It NEVER gets old! Today's message is another vital one for born again believers who desire to walk in the authority that God has given us for THIS life!
"And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?" (Luke 13:16).
The Bible is progressive revelation. It is in the New Testament that we get full light, full truth, and full revelation. There, Jesus plainly taught that sickness is of the devil, not God.
In Luke 13, we see Jesus going into the synagogue on the Sabbath. A woman was there whose body was bowed together in a fixed position. She couldn't straighten up. She may have had arthritis. Jesus called her to Him, and said, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity!"
Then Jesus laid hands on her, and immediately she stood straight. The ruler of the synagogue, like the leaders of some churches today, got angry about it!
Then, as recorded in our text, Jesus elaborated on the fact that Satan is the author of sickness. Jesus made three enlightening statements:
(1) The woman ought to be loosed, she ought not to be bound, she ought to be free from this physical infirmity
(2) It was Satan who had bound her, not God
(3) The reason this woman ought to be loosed was because she was a daughter of Abraham.
Confession: Since Satan is the author of sickness, I ought to walk free from sickness. And Jesus has made the provision for me to do so. Divine health is my covenant right!
Notice that it says above that the Bible is "progressive revelation". This means that the plan of God for mankind is revealed throughout Scripture. When we, as born again believers, spend MOST of our time studying the New Testament, we will be better able to understand the Old Testament. The Old Testament looks forward to the time that WE are living in now! Everything done under the Old Covenant was to get mankind in position for the Messiah and Savior, Jesus, to come into the earth. Once we know the New Covenant and what belongs to us, THEN we can go back and study the Old Testament and see Jesus in every book! AMEN! The plan and purpose of God is revealed throughout all of the Bible. Above we see that His plan, and perfect will for us, is HEALING and HEALTH! AMEN! Continue to study and find out ALL that HE has provided for us. Here, to assist you in that, is Hillsong with "Lost Are Found":
Shalom in Him!
