Healing And Christ’s Death
“Why am I not healed?”
This is a question I have heard numerous times. It is also one I address in several YouTube videos for that reason. If you or anyone you know is struggling with this, please check out the answers found there.
The Psalmist gives us a graphic but powerful agricultural imagery for us to understand the violent suffering Jesus endured for OUR healing. When you read this passage, meditate on why God used words associated with farming to describe what Jesus bore on our behalf.
“The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long” Psalm 129:3.
It does not say beat or hit but it says plowed. Plowers drag a sharp plow that digs into the soil to break up the dirt and make deep furrows to prepare for the seeds to be sown and irrigated. When He was scourged by the Roman soldiers, it was as if His whole back had been plowed.
The Plowers Plowed…
Victims of Roman flagellation were scourged using a whip made up of several long leather thongs embedded with shards of broken bone, metal, and hooks. With each stroke, the thongs would wrap around the victim’s body, and the shards would lodge in his flesh. When it was jerked away, the flesh of the victim would be ripped off and left in shreds making deep long furrows across his back.
By the time our Lord’s tormentors were done, I believe there wasn’t a single sliver of skin left on His back. It was no coincidence that the Psalmist used the language of sowing to describe Jesus’ horrific scourging.
Psalm 22, a messianic psalm, tells us that even His bones were exposed and stared back at Him. (Ps 22:17)
Hear this loud and clear. Christ took your diseases upon Himself. He did it for you! Say it aloud in your prayer of thanksgiving for your healing.
Link Between Healing And Christ’s Death
When Christ’s back was lashed into furrows, He was allowing the seed for your specific healing to be sown. Whether it is high blood pressure, a tumor, cancer, asthma, or any other disease, Jesus’ suffering and sacrifice speak of how the price for your healing HAS been paid in full.
You are so loved by your Heavenly Father that He sent His Son to die for your sins and to take your suffering upon Himself so you can walk in healing.
Reach out in faith. Began to pray healing scriptures over yourself as God’s Word is yes and amen. Print out these PDFs and pray these scriptures in a prayer of thanksgiving back to your Healer.
Faith For Your Healing
If you feel like you have no faith to believe for your healing, Jesus tells us that even faith as small as a grain of mustard seed is sown, it will grow. (Luke 17:6)
It is not about how strong your faith is, it is about the soil those seeds of faith will be planted in. You prepare the soil with the Word of God and His promises. That is what builds your faith.
As we look at Christ’s death let us take it one step further to help solidify your faith for healing.
Watch this video where I explain the connection between Christ’s death and our healing.
The Heaviness That Christ Endured
Have you ever heard of Broken Heart Syndrome? It has been around for centuries, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that the medical profession recognized it as a medical condition
This condition is brought on by an adrenaline rush that happens shortly after a severely stressful situation. The left ventricle of the heart takes on a cone-like shape that resembles the shape of a pot the Japanese use to capture octopuses called ‘tako-tsubo’ which means ‘fishing pot for trapping octupus.’ Tako tsubo cardiomyopathy is now Broken Heart Syndrome’s medical name.
It is a sudden temporary weakening of the myocardium (the muscle of the heart). This weakening can be triggered by emotional stress such as the death of a loved one or by extreme stress which leads to acute heart failure. A study completed by Harvard Medical School provided the definitive part of this subject.
Perhaps you know of someone who was married for several decades and died shortly after the death of their significant other. This is not an uncommon scenario. People often say that person died of a broken heart.
What Christ endured physically on the cross was beyond intense. But I believe that the heaviness that He endured when He took upon Himself
ALL OUR SINS
ALL OUR GUILT
ALL OUR SHAME
It had to be more than any physical heart could bear.
If anyone ever questions if God ‘still’ heals today – point them to Hebrews 13:8. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”
Thank God for healing above and beyond what we could hope or think. “Now unto Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” Ephesians 3:20.