GLORY: IF GOD IS MY HEALER WHY OR HOW COME I'M PHYSICALLY SICK?

             

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GLORY: JEHOVAH RAPHA (THE GOD WHO HEALS)

“… For I, the Lord, am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26).  “…Bless the Lord, O MY SOUL: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O MY SOUL, and forget not all his benefits …who healeth all thy diseases; …” (Psalms 103 KJV). “… For by His wounds you were healed…” (1 Peter 2:24 NASB).

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When people think of God being a HEALER they limit HEALING to simply curing diseases of the physical body.   “…  I, the Lord, am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26).  “…Bless the Lord …who healeth all thy diseases; …” (Psalms 103 KJV). “… by His wounds you were healed…” (1 Peter 2:24 NASB).

“…GOD IS SPIRIT…” (John 4:24 KJV).  “… I … am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26). God DOES “NOT” lie! “… God is not a man, that he should lie; He doesn’t change his mind like humans do. Has he ever promised, Without doing what he said?” (Numbers 23:18:24 NLT). “…  I, the Lord, am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26). 

What kind of HEALER? He didn’t HEAL me! He didn’t HEAL my love one! Jehovah Rapha, as YOUR healer, means he AIMS to make you spiritually WHOLE again; first and foremost. “…  I, the Lord, am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26).

Jehovah Rapha sees the priority of SICKNESS from a spiritual perspective. “…God is Spirit …” (John 4:24 KJV). “...God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart…”(1 Samuel 16:7 NASB). God zooms in on the “…hidden (the “sick” part ) man of the heart…” (1 Peter 3:4 KJV).

When Jehovah Rapha sent Jesus; he sent him especially to HEAL. It was time. “… a time to heal…” (Ecclesiastes 3:3 NASB). “… the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost…” (Luke 19:10 NASB).

God, as your HEALER, is concerned with your RESTORATION to ultimate spiritual HEALTH and WELL-BEING. “… Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners…” (Mark 2:17 NASB).

Mankind became terminally ILL after the FALL. “… I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You...” (Psalms 41:4 NASB). “… I will restore you to health And I will heal you of your wounds,’ declares the Lord…” (Jeremiah 30:17 NASB). “…Bless the Lord, O MY SOUL … bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O MY SOUl  …who healeth all thy diseases; …” (Psalms 103 KJV).

RESTORATION to spiritual HEALTH is about repairing the damages, to the SOUL, caused by a sin-sickness. “… Jesus said to the sick man, “Son, your sins are forgiven!...”(Mark  2:5 NASB).

The ACT of HEALING is understood, in some versions of the bible, to mean “deliver,” “save,” “make whole,” or “to thoroughly heal. Jesus’ whole purpose was to HEAL. “….THE SON OF MAN CAME …TO GIVE his life as a ransom for many…" (Matthew 20:28 NIV).  “… Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners…” (1 Timothy 1:15 NASB). “…The Spirit of the Lord … [was] … upon me, because he hath anointed … [him] … to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent … [him] … to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord…” (John 4:16-21 KJV).

Remember, Jehovah Rapha is Spirit and he speaks of spiritual things, including spiritual HEALING. “…GOD IS SPIRIT…” (John 4:24 KJV). “…What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from … [Jehovah Rapha] … so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ….The person WITHOUT the Spirit DOES NOT accept the things that come from the Spirit of God …and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. …” (2 Corinthians 2:12-15 KJV).

To be blind, lame, disabled, and corrupted by disease is NOT limited to the physical body. “… Jesus said to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick … sinners…” (Mark 2:17 NASB). “…All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God…” (Romans 3:23).

A person could be physically healthy, but spiritually and terminally SICK and diseased. . “… Jesus said to them, “… those who … need a physician … are sick … sinners…” (Mark 2:17 NASB).

For example: “… the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God…” (2 Corinthians 4:4 NASB).

Jesus HEALED the spiritually blind, lame, crippled, and dead souls. “… Jesus told them, “Go back to John and tell him about the miracles you’ve seen me do— the blind people I’ve healed, and the lame people now walking without help, and the cured lepers, and the deaf who hear, and the dead raised to life; and tell him about my preaching the Good News to the poor…” (Matthew 11:4-5 NLT).

Therefore, Jehovah Rapha, your HEALER, sent Jesus. “…God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and WITH POWER: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for GOD WAS WITH HIM. And we are witnesses of all things which he did…” (Acts 10:38-39 KJV).

Further, in other versions to HEAL means “to purify from sin” or “treat with medicine or a remedy.” Jesus is the treatment and remedy for the sin-sick soul. “… For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;” (1 Peter 3:18 NASB).

.“… It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick … sinners…” (Mark 2:17 NASB).

How did mankind become unhealthy and diseased by sin? “…through one man (the disease of) SIN entered into the world, and DEATH THROUGH SIN, and so death passed to all men—“(Romans 5:12 KJV).  

God originally created mankind in his “image” and “likeness” which was a state or condition of ULTIMATE health and wholeness? “….LET US MAKE man … after our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26 KJV). “…in his OWN image…..male and female created he them…” (Genesis 1:27 KJV). “…And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground (body), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit); and man became a living soul (soul)…” (GENESIS 2:7 KJV). “….God saw every thing he had made……and, behold, it was very good…” (Genesis 1:31 KJV).

However, “… ONE sinner destroy[ed]… MUCH GOOD…” (Ecclesiastes 9:18 NASB).  NOW “…All have sinned and fallen SHORT of the GLORY (presence) of God…” (Romans 3:23). “… [The disease of] … SIN entered into the world…” (Romans 5:12 KJV). “…SIN IS the transgression of the law….” (1 John 3:4 KJV). “…The wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23 KJV).

The terminal DISEASE of SIN entered the world!!“…God asked the woman, “What have you done?” (Genesis 3:7-13 NLT). “…[his creation of mankind] … “was” very good…” (Genesis 1:31 KJV). But, “… ONE sinner destroy[ed] … MUCH GOOD…” (Ecclesiastes 9:18 NASB).  SUDDENLY, “… [They were] …separated … from God… …” (Isaiah 59:2 KJV). They were NOW “…DEAD in trespasses and sin…” (Ephesians 2:1 KJV). “…Through … [Adam and Eve] … [the disease of] … sin entered into the world, and DEATH through sin, and so DEATH passed to all men—“(Romans 5:12 KJV). NOW “…All have sinned … [or have been terminally affected by sin] … and fallen short of the glory (presence) of God…” (Romans 3:23).

Jehovah Rapha, YOUR HEALER, loved mankind and wanted them healthy and whole again. He also WANTED “THEM” back in UNION with him. Thus, “... God so loved the world, that HE GAVE his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…” (John 3:16 KJV).  “…God ….GAVE his only begotten (specially created) Son…” (John 3:16 KJV).   “…NOT that we loved God, but that HE LOVED US...” (1 John 4:10 KJV). “….HE FIRST LOVED US…” (1 John 4:19 ASV).

God PROVED his loving desire to HEAL mankind: “…not that we loved God, but that he loved us and SENT HIS SON to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John 4:10 KJV).

Jehovah Rapha, YOUR HEALER “…SPARED NOT his own Son, but DELIVERED him up FOR US ALL…” (Romans 8:32 KJV). ^“…God SHOWED HIS GREAT LOVE FOR US by “SENDING” Christ to die for us WHILE we were still sinners…” (Romans 5:7-9 NLT). “…There is no GREATER LOVE than to lay down one’s life…” (John 15:13 NLT).

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE is enough to COVER EVERY disease of SIN. “…Love COVERETH a multitude of sins…” (Proverbs 10:12, 1 Peter 4:8 ASV).

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE HEALS through the forgiveness of every disease of sin, big or small, by cleaning the soul. “…If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to FORGIVE us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness…” (1 John 1:9 KJV).

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE HEALS by ERASING and ERADICATING your record of wrongs and NEVER remembering them again. “…love …keeps NO RECORD of wrongs. …” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 NIV). “…For I will … remember their sins NO MORE…" (Hebrews 8:12 NIV).   

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE, for YOU, is enough to last your WHOLE life and ALL eternity. He has “….loved [you]...with an EVERLASTING love….” (Jeremiah 31:3 KJV). A “…Love …[that] … never FAILS….” (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 NIV).

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE, for you, is so GREAT that he specially created a begotten SON to HEAL you. His SON became a living sacrifice in order to bring you BACK to Jehovah Rapha. “…Christ also hath once SUFFERED for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might BRING US … [back] … to God…” (1 Peter 3:18 KJV).

Jehovah Rapha’s LOVE, for you, NEVER weans, wavers, or is faithless. “… The … FAITHFUL love of the Lord, [for you], NEVER ENDS...!”(Lamentations 3:22-23 NLT).

Jehovah Rapha sent his LOVE through Jesus, our salvation, to HEAL by RESTORING the blind, lame, disabled, and corrupted BACK to the original state of health and wholeness. Therefore, “…Confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and … BELIEVE IN THINE HEART that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be SAVED…” (ROMANS 10:9 KJV). “…For WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVETH unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made UNTO SALVATION…” (Romans 10:10 KJV).  “…For WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED…” (Romans 10:13 KJV). “…REPENT ye therefore, and BE CONVERTED, that your sins may be blotted out …” (Acts 3:19 KJV).

HALLELUJAH to Jehovah Rapha, YOUR HEALER. “…Christ hath REDEEMED us … That the “BLESSING of Abraham” might come on … [US] … through Jesus Christ; that WE MIGHT receive the promise of the Spirit through faith…” (Galatians 3:13-14 KJV). “…The Lord is that Spirit…” (2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV).

“… AS MANY as received him (JESUS), to them GAVE HE … [RESTORED] … POWER (through the INDWELLING SPIRIT) TO BECOME THE “SONS” OF GOD (children of God) … [AGAIN]… …” (John 1:12 KJV).  “…God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son “INTO” [YOUR]… HEARTS…” (Galatians 4:6 NASB). “…The Lord is that Spirit…” (2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV). “…the Holy Spirit gives birth to SPIRITUAL LIFE…” (John 3:6 NLT).

 “… [Jehovah Rapha] … in his grace, freely … [HEALS or] …MAKES US RIGHT in his sight…” (Romans 3:21-26 NLT). “…I am the Lord who demonstrates unfailing love and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth …I DELIGHT in these things…” (Jeremiah 9:23-24 NLT). “…HE DELIGHTETH IN MERCY…” (Micah 7:18 KJV).

“… [Jehovah Rapha] … showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were STILL (diseased) sinners…” (Romans 5:6-8 NLT).  “… [His] … GRACE is sufficient for [you]...” (2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV).  “… [Jehovah Rapha] … SO LOVED the world, that he GAVE…” (John 3:16 KJV). “…NOT THAT WE LOVED… [Jehovah Rapha] … but that HE LOVED US...” (1 John 4:10 KJV). “… [Jehovah Rapha] … FIRST LOVED US…” (1 John 4:19 ASV). “… [Jehovah Rapha] … GAVE his only begotten Son…” (John 3:16 KJV).   

“…I am the Lord, I change NOT…” (Malachi 3:6 KJV).  “…Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8 NIV).

Jehovah Rapha is the GREAT HEALER.  HE HEALS to MAKE mankind WHOLE again and RESTORE them to health and well-being. “…And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground (body), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit); and man became a living soul (soul)…” (GENESIS 2:7 KJV).  

Jehovah Rapha HEALS to return mankind BACK to God’s original, created “image” and “likeness.”  “….LET US MAKE man … after our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26 KJV). “…in his OWN image…..male and female created he them…” (Genesis 1:27 KJV). “….God saw every thing he had made……and, behold, it was very good…” (Genesis 1:31 KJV).

HOW does Jehovah Rapha HEAL and make you healthy and whole again?  “…If any man be in Christ, he is a NEW creature …” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV). “…Jesus Christ maketh thee whole…” (Acts 9:34 KJV). “… [because] … all things are … [MADE] … NEW…” (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV). “…I will put a new spirit in you. …” (Ezekiel 36:26 NLT). “…God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son “INTO” OUR HEARTS…” (Galatians 4:6 NASB).

Therefore, “…May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body …” (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 MSG).

Jehovah Rapha’s POWER and AUTHORITY over the disease of sin is, as witnessed through Jesus, ABOUT “WHO” God is as HEALER. Jesus said: “… I am the Lord who heals you...” (Exodus 15:25 NLT). “… For his wounds have healed ours!” (1 Peter 2:24 NLT).

However, Jehovah Rapha also and especially HEALS emotional wounds and RESTORES the sin-sick soul.

When Jehovah Rapha HEALS the body, the emotions, or the soul they return BACK to their original God-given functions.

When it comes to physical HEALING we all have our questions about why some are physically cured and some are not. I don’t have the answer to that, but I have meditated on some possibilities.

God gave us human will to CHOOSE as we please and he gave us human body to USE as we please.

The physical body WILL NOT and cannot enter into HEAVEN. “… an earthly body made of flesh and blood cannot get into God’s Kingdom…” (1 Corinthians 15:50 NASB).

The physical body WAS NOT meant to last forever.  “… These perishable bodies of ours are not the right kind to live forever…” (1 Corinthians 15:50 NASB).

The physical body is equated with the sinful nature. “…The trouble is with me …I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.  And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I [am] …a slave to the sin that is … within me …” (Romans 7:14-25 NLT).

Unfortunately, the physical body is impacted by the fallen world which includes physical sickness and disease. “… In the world you have tribulation…” (John 16:33 NASB). “… Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows…” (John 16:33 NLT).

The physical body is NOT spiritual and is NOT able to be spiritual. “… following after the old nature leads to death because the old sinful nature within us is against God. It never did obey God’s laws and it never will…” (Romans 8:6-8 NLT).

The physical body is actually DEAD, anyway, because of SIN. “…the body is dead because of sin…” (Roman 8:10 NASB). “… the body without the spirit is dead…” (James 6:26 NASB). “…the body is dead when there is no spirit in it…” (James 6:26 NLT).

The physical body was given to mankind, by God, to USE and to communicate with the natural world. Through the physical body you can ONLY ENGAGE, AND INTERACT WITH everything in the world.

The physical body, the flesh, the sinful nature was the ONLY influence, you had, in regard to who you could become and how you should behaved. However, you were being influenced by the DEAD. “…the body is dead because of sin…” (Roman 8:10 NASB).

 All behaviors or actions that men or women display outwardly originate from the flesh (physical body) or sinful nature. “…the body is dead when there is no spirit in it…” (James 6:26 NLT).

The physical body, flesh or sinful nature corrupted or infected, with sin, the soul/heart of man. It is“… from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts…these … come from within, and defile a person.” (Mark 7:21-23 KJV). The heart “…is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked … who can know it…” (Jeremiah 17:9 KJV).  "… For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man, out of his good treasure, brings forth good things, and the evil man, out of his evil treasure, brings forth evil things." (Matthew 12:34-35 ).

In addition, the physical body is impacted by getting older, aging, normal wear and tear, pollution, misuse, wrong eating, and negative thinking. Man can USE his or her human body as he or she pleases. God won’t interfere, but the physical body is subject to ALL the natural laws.

However, God promises a LONG life on earth and a LONGER life in eternity, but it is up to man to discipline or subdue his OWN body. “… With a long life I will satisfy him…” (Psalms 91:16 NASB). “.. I will reward them with a long life…” (Psalms 91:16 NLT). Thus,“.. by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body…” (Romans 8:13 NASB). “… So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you (the physical body). Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world…” (Colossians 3:5 NLT). “… if you live by its dictates, you will die…” (Romans 8:13 NASB).

Finally EVERYONE has an appointed time to DIE physically. “…it is appointed unto men once to DIE…” (Hebrews 9:27 KJV).

Physical DEATH and physical SICKNESS doesn’t always answer the questions: WHY? Or WHEN?  However, “…MY TIMES are in … [God’s] … hand…” (Psalms 31:15a KJV).  “…MY FUTURE is in your hands…” (Psalms 31:15a NLT). “….To every [thing there is] a season, and A TIME to every purpose under the heaven…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV).  

When you are SAVED the physical body is STILL DEAD. God plans on giving you an entirely NEW body. “…It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power…” (1 Corinthians 15:41:43 NASB).

The spiritually DEAD physical body is EMPOWERED by the Indwelling Spirit, after one is SAVED, in order for a believer to do the work the Lord called them to do. “… If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you…” (Romans 8:9-10 NASB). “…the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works…” (John 14:10 KJV).

Therefore, when it comes to spiritual HEALING everyone who asks and receives is RESTORED to “spiritual” WHOLENESS. .  “… But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God (to become WHOLE again)…”( John 1:12).

God RESTORES the soul, from corruption, by removing the disease of sin and HEALING it through forgiveness in Christ Jesus. “… I will forgive their wickedness …" (Hebrews 8:12 NIV). "…her sins, which are many, have been forgiven …" (Luke 7:47 NASB). “…REPENT …for the forgiveness of your sins….” (Acts 2:38 NASB).

Every SOUL that needs HEALING, Jehovah Rapha will HEAL and blot out every MORAL disease by RESTORING wholeness. “…REPENT ye therefore, and BE CONVERTED, that your sins may be blotted out…” (Acts 3:19 KJV).

Jehovah Rapha, the GREAT Physician, - who HEALS moral corruption, repairs every grievance, and restores spiritual wholeness –will CURE every single time he is asked by faith.“…You can ask for anything in my name...” (John 14:12-14 NLT).

Jehovah Rapha. YOUR HEALER!!! “….You may ask for anything you want…” (JOHN 15:7 NASB). “…You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it...” (John 14:12-14 NLT). “…Ask and it will be given to you…” (Matthew 7:7 NIV). “…everyone who asks receives…” (Matthew 7:8 NIV). “…I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son…” (John 14:13 NIV).

 “…And this is the confidence that we have in him (Jesus), that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us…” (1 John 5:14 KJV). “… [We] … Receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him…” (1 John 3:22 NIV). “…If we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him…” (1 John 5:15 NIV).

True Healing is witnessed and experience through salvation in christ jesus and  manifested (revealed) by the PRESENCE of god through the indwelling holy spirit. “… I, the Lord, am your healer…” (Exodus 15:26).  “…Bless the Lord, O MY SOUL …who healeth all thy diseases; …” (Psalms 103 KJV). “… by His wounds you were healed…” (1 Peter 2:24 NASB).

Jehovah rapha!!!