Welcome to the month of April 2017: Our Month of Divine
Health
Beloved,
I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy
soul prospereth. 3Jn.1:2
Beloved,
I welcome you to the month of April 2017 which God has graciously named to us
our month of Divine Health. Please understand that He does not say divine
healing but divine health. In other words, God’s perfect will for us is not to
manage our health in such a way that we fall sick and seek healing from
infirmity. Sickness was never in the plan of God for man from the beginning.
Sickness was an interruption into God’s excellent creation to corrupt it as a
consequence of sin.
In
Genesis 1:31, we are told that after God had carried out His work of creation,
He looked at all that He had made and concluded that they were very good. This
goes to prove that God did not include sickness and consequently healing in His
original plan for man.
In
addition, when God first mentioned what He separated for man as his food in
Gen.1:29, medication was not in the package.
The
question is how did medication come in? In Genesis 3 we see the sad story of
man rebelling against God and thus sinning when he allowed himself to fall for
the deceit of the devil through the serpent. The consequence of this sin was
death. The death was not just a physical death even though it eventually
culminated in it. It was a spiritual death resulting from the separation of man
from the source of his sustenance - God. This is why Apostle Paul declared in
Romans 3:23 that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. To come
short of God’s glory meant that man who was originally created to be and look
like God was now reduced to a mere mortal subject to corruption which presents
in gradual decomposition and eventually death. From 1Cor.15:20-22, we are made
to understand that the sin of Adam passed on to all men. The only one who
escaped this curse was the Lord Jesus Christ because of his supernatural
conception.
Consequent
on the foregoing, sickness which is a manifestation of the curse of death
became the norm among mankind. This explains why the destruction of sickness is
a very visible part of the redemption package. A look at scripture would show
that when Jesus Christ first came, about seventy percent of his works among men
was healing of sickness and disease.
1John
3:8 shows us that Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil
of which sickness is major since about seventy percent of His miracles were
miracles of healing. Even after His resurrection, the early Church fathers
continued this legacy of healings because it is the will of God to perfect his
creation. See Acts 3:1-16 and 5:12-16.
We
therefore understand that healing was part of the redemptive package for which
Jesus Christ died on the Cross of Calvary. We can therefore conclude that God’s
perfect will for man is divine health and not necessarily to heal him when he
falls a victim to sickness.
Sickness
was introduced to man by Satan after man fell from the glory of God and became
a slave to sin and therefore a child of the devil. Herbs and other kinds of
medicines were introduced to manage fallen man’s health because of the
consequence of the sin of man a major part of which is sickness and disease.
When God began to introduce divine health to man after the fall, it was done as
a covenant. He first found a man called Abraham with whom he covenanted and made
custodian of the blessing of mankind from God. You will find this account in
Gen.12:1-4. He promised Abraham that out of His seed the entire world would
bless themselves. This truth was clarified by the Apostle Paul in Gal.3:16 when
he said:
Now
to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He sayeth not, to seeds, as of
many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
He
further emphasized in verses 17 to 18 of the same chapter that the covenant
that was confirmed before of God in Christ could not be annulled by the law
which came more than four hundred years after and make the promise of divine
healing and health which were in the covenant package of no effect. Even the
law was put in place to enable the descendants of Abraham who were to a large
extent damaged through slavery learn how to live again as free men in a
community God considered civilized.
Consequently,
God’s will for us through Christ and accessible by the Abrahamic covenant of
the blessing is total healing and eventually divine health depending on the
level of light we can access through the eternal life relationship Jesus came
to restore to us. In John 5:24, the Lord said if we hear His word and believe
in God because of it, we can access eternal life and will pass from death to
life. Eternal life is a relationship as He shows us in John 17:3. It is the
knowledge of God through Jesus Christ whom he sent.
Within
the package of eternal life; is a sickness free life and the ability to destroy
the works of the devil which includes sickness. This is why Jesus Christ and
all who believe in him can destroy the works of the devil. We are said to be
the light of the world just like Christ in Mt.5:14-16 and that the means by
which we shine our light is the good works which we do that the world can see
and glorify our father in heaven. In John 1:1-5, we come very clear with the
truth that the dominion of light over darkness is instant and unquestionable.
Every time we show up with light and understanding from the word of God, the
darkness of ignorance in that area gives way and people can walk in the liberty
for which Christ came into this world and died and was buried and raised from
the dead eventually by the glory of God!
To
this end therefore, this month of our Divine Health, we shall be looking at a
series I title: “UNDERSTANDING OUR RIGHT TO DIVINE HEALING AND HEALTH IN THE
COVENANT OF GRACE”.
As
I welcome you to this great month you have long waited for, I want to start by
first introducing everyone who is yet to take advantage of the redemption story
of the Lord Jesus Christ through the New Birth experience to do so right away
because that is the basis on which we can take advantage of the work of God in
Christ Jesus. If you are reading this resource and are yet to take advantage of
the sacrifice of the Lord and desire to do so now, you can do so right away by
saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again though
the ministry of the Holy Spirit:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a
sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the
dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour
and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus
Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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