Jesus The... || Part 4
Jesus The… || Part 4, Day 3
Genesis 22:1-14 NLT
Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.” “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.” So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together. When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!” “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.” Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
Jesus the Provision means He provides for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing.
Beloved, from the time of Abraham all the way to the time of Jesus, and even to our present time, God has been healing people. When Jesus walked this earth, one of the main things that marked His ministry was healing.
Malachi 4:2, “But for you who fear My name, the Son of Righteousness will rise with healing in His wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.”
But that was while Jesus was on this earth. At that time, He had not gone to the cross. What does the cross have to do with my healing? The Bible tells us in Galatians that Jesus has redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Galatians 3:13-14 (NLT), “But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When He was hung on the cross, He took upon Himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing He promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith.”
The curse is what brought sickness and disease. The curse is what causes depression and other metal illnesses. The curse is what causes anxiety and fear. The curse is what causes emotional breakdowns and insanity. But the Bible says that Jesus hung on that cross and took all of this and much more upon Himself. Why? So we could have His righteousness and the blessing that comes with it.
1 Peter 2:24, “He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.”
John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
John 8:36, “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”
Beloved, today the presence of the Lord is here to heal us from any and all sickness, disease, pain, and illnesses. He is here to heal you mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Today, allow your faith to be stirred to believe God for everything He has for you today.