(Fifth part)
Memory verse (1Pet 2:24): " Who Himself 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 ".
When Jesus got striped 2008 years ago, that day he purchased our healing. He was striped for your diseases and sicknesses then. Your healing was purchased that day and it's eternal. So your healing is older than you. The issue is not how long you have been sick, it’s how long your healing has been waiting for you to take. Sicknesses and diseases were curses as consequences of sin. Jesus’ sacrifice catered for both sin and the consequences of sin. You can’t be forgiven and you still be punished for the sins you committed.
When believers stop focusing on the cross and begin to follow what is happening in the world, it does not take long before they begin to think like the world. You look around you and all you see is sicknesses, plagues with all secular definitions and justifications. Don’t focus on what you see around you, it does not matter what is happening to other people, you are not other people, you are a child of the most high God, you are in the world but you are not of the world, Focus on the cross, focus on what is happening in the kingdom of God. If YOU ARE THE CHILD OF THE KINGDOM, THEN WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE SHOULD BE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR KINGDOM (Mtt6: 9).
If God’s kingdom is in you, then how can the things of another kingdom have a place in you? This happens because many children of God have not learned to focus on God’s kingdom in them; they focus on what is out there in the world then the world begins to influence them negatively. And then they begin to think like the people of the world, they begin to confess like the world and they begin to suffer like the world.
My dear ones, let me let you know that what happens in the world has nothing to do with what is in your life, you are not of the world, so the world should have nothing to do with you. Don’t allow the world and the things of the world to dominate you. There’s a faith that overcome the world. You need to walk in faith so that you don’t give place to disease in your life (1Jn5: 4-5). By his stripes you were healed, so stay healed forever.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ You are blessed not cursed ”
