Psalm 95:6
December 13, 2023
FEAST OF SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS – 14th DECEMBER
December 14, 2023
THE 13th OF DECEMBER
BY JESUS’ STRIPES WE WERE HEALED
Who Himself (Jesus) bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed. – 1 Peter 2:24
The apostle Peter reminds us of what the prophet Isaiah prophesied about Jesus, approximately 700 years before the cross but was fulfilled in Peter’s time. How big and awesome God’s love must be for us, to send His Son to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus suffered for all our sicknesses, infirmities, pains and sorrows, removing their cause for all of us. That means that we can build up our faith for receiving healing and to be made whole, in Jesus’ Name.
We died to sin, with Jesus, by faith in Him and in what He did for us. Because we were bought with Jesus’ blood, we do not belong to ourselves anymore but to the One who paid with His life for our sins. We are to remember that we have died to sin so that we might live for righteousness. Because we died with Jesus, we were also healed in the stripes from His body, on the cross. Actually, these were the only recorded stripes, hurts and sicknesses that Jesus ever endured, and he did it for our sake.
SUGGESTED PRAYER
Thank You Father God that because Your Word says that we were healed, it means that I was already healed. And if I was already healed, it means that I am truly already healed now. And because I am to walk by faith and not by sight, I accept the truth that I am healed and I start to walk in the light of this truth, rebuking any symptoms and pains in Jesus’ Name. I have authority in Jesus’ Name and I am using my authority to resist the devil, as Your Word teaches me to do. Glory and honor to Your Holy Name. Amen.
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