Today I want to share with you from Joseph Prince's "Grace Inspirations" devotional:
BY JESUS’ STRIPES YOU ARE HEALED
Isaiah 53:5 …The chastisement for our peace was upon
Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
You know, one of the biggest outcries
against Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion Of The Christ, was that it was too
violent, especially the part where Jesus was scourged.
Let me tell you this: It was not violent
enough! The Bible says that at the cross, Jesus’ visage was marred beyond that
of any man. (Isaiah 52:14) In the movie, even after all the beatings, the actor
James Caviezel, who played Jesus, still looked quite handsome.
But the reality is that when Jesus hung
on the cross, He had “no form or comeliness…there is no beauty that we should
desire Him”. (Isaiah 53:2) He was beaten to a pulp until His face looked like
jelly hanging out!
In the movie, when they scourged Him,
only a small portion of His bones was exposed, so it was still quite tidy. But
the messianic psalms say, “The plowers plowed on my back; they made their
furrows long” (Psalm 129:3), and “I can count all My bones. They look and stare
at Me”. (Psalm 22:17) All His bones were exposed!
My friend, He was thinking of you when
the soldiers tied Him to the scourging post. As they raised their whips, He
said, “Let it all come on Me!”
But what came on Him was not just the
whip stripping the flesh off His bare back, but your sicknesses and diseases.
Each time He was whipped, every form of sickness and disease, including
arthritis, cancer, diabetes, bird flu and dengue fever, came upon Him. “The
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.”
Today, healing is your right because
Jesus has paid the price for your healing. So if the devil says, “You cannot be
healed,” just declare, “Jesus has paid for my healing. Disease has no right to
be in my body. I am healed in Jesus’ name!”
Every curse of sickness that was
supposed to fall on you fell on Jesus instead. He bore every one of those
stripes, so that you can walk in divine health all the days of your life. The
price has been paid so that you can rise up and get out of your bed of
affliction!
This is so perfectly said that I am not going to even comment on it except to say that JESUS does NOT want us to watch those scenes in complete sorrow for what He went through, but on complete and eternal gratitude that what He did was NOT in vain! BELIEVE and RECEIVE and it will be complete joy and delight to HIM! AMEN! Let's not allow the enemy to steal from JESUS the joy of our salvation, deliverance, healing, boldness and boasting of all that HE has done! Here is Hillsong with "Children of the Light":
