HIS WILL IS TO TAKE SICKNESS AWAY AND FULFILL OUR DAYS
When we read in the Bible that God says, “I will,” we need
to understand that God is telling us what He desires and wants for us. He asks,
“Do you want to know what My will is? This is it.” In the original texts, God
jumps directly to the action, which we find after the “I will.” “Put none
of these diseases on thee,” “Take sickness away,” and “Fulfill
your days” are three phrases to focus on.
The first phrase is in Exodus 15:26: “I will put
none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for
I am the Lord that healeth thee.” In this verse, “put” is a Hebrew word that
means “place, set, bring to pass, lay upon.” Part of the meaning of this word
is “consider.” God wouldn’t even consider laying any of these diseases on us.
It wouldn’t even cross His mind! I found the following on some of these
diseases:
God doesn’t put disease on us; it is His will that none
afflict us. If they do, then there is a cure. Going to God and reminding Him of
His will is certainly a good place to start. And especially since in the very
same verse, He says: “I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
The next phrase to look at is in Exodus 23:25: “I will take
sickness away from the midst of thee.”
The word “take” means “remove, to cause to depart, to come
to an end, reject, abolish, pluck away, to turn off, behead, withdraw, and be
without.” Those are powerful words, and those are what the Lord God, our
Creator, wants to do to ANY sickness that attacks us
from within or without.
The last verse to look at is Exodus 23:26: “The number
of thy days I will fulfill.” We use the phrase, “they died
before their time.” There is a time set for each of our lives, and the Bible
says it is when the number of our days have been fulfilled. But let’s look at
what that word “fulfilled” really means.
It’s the Hebrew word “male’,” which means accomplished,
replenished, overflow, satisfied. It means fullness,
abundance, complete. It means to fill any vacant place with abundance,
like in Genesis 1:22, “fill the waters in the sea, or Exodus 40:34 “the glory
of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.” It’s also used of satisfying the soul, i.e.,
the desire, the hunger. It means to do anything fully or thoroughly. In
Jeremiah 4:5 “male’” is translated, “cry out fully, i.e., strongly. All of
these great attributes are God’s will for fulfilling
our days here on earth.
The above three “I will”
verses are great ones to focus on and repeat back to our Lord out loud. Slowly
re-read the paragraphs above, pausing at each definition of God’s action word.
Think about what the Lord is really saying to you. Put the verse in your own
words, then pray like God told Isaiah to pray:
God says to Isaiah in chapter
43, verse 26: “Meet me in court! State your case and prove that you are right.”
That’s the Contemporary English Version. The Amplified reads: “Remind me [of
your merits with a thorough report]; let us plead and argue our case
together. State your position, that you may be proved right.” And in the
KJV: “Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified” (Isa. 43:26). Sometimes I do like Mary did, and say to the
Lord: “Be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38).
If we can believe, we receive. “Jesus said unto him, ‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible
to him that believeth.’” (Mark 9:23).
WE’RE SO THANKFUL THAT GOD GAVE US THE GIFT OF THE LIVING
CHRIST. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Love, Carolyn
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