“Take it, it’s Yours!”
OCTOBER DEVOTIONAL
Isaiah 53:4-6
“Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
It was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.”
1 Peter 2:24
“He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right.
By His wounds you were healed.”
God wants you healed…
Many Christians today live with the mentality that it is impossible to live a life full of perfect health or zero ailments. They believe that only once we get to Heaven will we be fully set free of sickness and illness. After all, here on earth, God uses sickness as trials for us, and won’t take them away if it is not in His will, right? WRONG.
These people are poorly mistaken, and are sadly missing out on many wonderful things that God has for them! The truth is that, as Christians, we no longer have to suffer from sickness, illness, or subpar health. When Christ died on the cross, He took upon Himself every result of sin to set us free. Sickness is a result of sin, therefore Jesus died on the cross so that we no longer have to live with it.
To live a fully healthy, well, and whole life as Jesus intended is not only to live life physically healthy, but mentally healthy as well. This current generation of teenagers and young people is the most mentally plagued age group statistically. Whether it be depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, or insecurity, it is absolutely not God’s will for you to carry any type of mental illness! By Jesus’s stripes, you were already healed.
He already did it…
The Scripture from 1 Peter says, “By His wounds, you WERE healed.” Were healed- past tense! Jesus already did the work for us, so why are you still allowing yourself to carry illness and disease? In John 10:10 it says that “the thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy,” And that is exactly what the enemy does to some Christians when it comes to their health and wellbeing! The enemy is a liar, and wants you to believe that you have to suffer with disease or ailments, when the truth is that you were already healed!
You must take hold of what is rightfully yours, and begin to claim your own healing.
Speak it out…
Proverbs 18:21
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
and those who love it will eat its fruit”
Begin to speak it out! Death and life are in the power of the tongue, so stop claiming things like “I’m depressed,” or “I don’t feel good.” Instead, begin to speak out what the Bible says is true, and what you know to be lawfully yours through Christ. Begin to say things like, “Thank you Jesus that I am healed!” or “In Jesus name, depression and anxiety have no hold on my life.”
I assure you, you will see results in no time.
Live a long & healthy life!
To live a life plagued with sickness or mental illness as a Christian is to make Jesus dying on the cross unimportant. Don’t allow Christ to have died on the cross for you in vain; receive everything He has laid out for you!
Live a perfectly long, healthy, mentally sound, and full life- just like God intends for you to!
