Psalm 103:3 AMPC
Who forgives [every one of] all your iniquities, Who heals [each one of] all your diseases
Psalm 129:3 AMPC
The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
Isaiah 53:5 AMPC
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.
John 19:1 AMPC
So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged (flogged, whipped) Him.
What a great privilege I had to pray and marvel in the small church of flagulation in the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jesus surrendered Himself to the cruel lashings of the Roman soldiers.
Anyone who has watched Passion of the Christ will be able to visualise the agonising reality of what Jesus suffered there.
His back was ripped open like a ploughed field as those metal pieces and bone fragments of the Roman whip ripped into His flesh.
We wince in horror at the thought, don't we?
Yet each lash, creating deep wounds opon The Saviour, brought us healing.
How strange is that!
The Bible is very clear that we are healed by the stripes of Jesus.
Many times I've claimed the healing that is offered through those wounds:-
Twice with Bell's Palsy, ulcer issues, times with breathing problems and on and on, the healing comes via His Wounds.
It is a precious promise to place in your spiritual armoury.
God is faithful to each of His promises.
Today, claim it for those you know and for yourself.
Father, I come to claim the healing stripes of Jesus for:......
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