1 Peter 2:24 ‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.’
DAILY READING ; •John 4:27-42; 1 Chronicles 16:7-43; Zechariah5
Ethan Otis Allen, has been called the father of divine healing in America. He was one of the first ministers in America to teach and practice divine healing. His healing ministry was born out of his own personal experience of an amazing miracle.
Born in 1813, in his youth Allen became afflicted with a deadly disease known as consumption or pulmonary tuberculosis. It was believed he would eventually die from the incurable affliction, which kept him in a weakened condition.
In 1846 Allen attended a Methodist meeting in a country schoolhouse. At the close of the meeting, he gave his life to Christ and great joy filled his soul.
In the enthusiasm of his new-found joy, he requested for prayer for divine healing.
As the believers gathered together and prayed for him, Ethan Allen was instantly healed.
Allen went on his way rejoicing, amazed at the mighty power of God he had just witnessed in his life.
Soon he began praying for other sick people he came across and saw miracles of divine healing.
Thereafter, he felt the Lord calling him to a greater ministry of healing. Allen took to spending many days in fasting and prayer and soon began to exercise power to cast out the evil spirits behind people’s afflictions.
Due to dedicating his life to service in God’s Kingdom, Allen experienced greater blessings. From a poor farm boy, he rose to prominence as a Gospel minister who made great impact on his generation. And from someone who had been given up to die as a youth, he lived to a ripe old age of 89 years old.
Jesus is committed to our divine healing and deliverance, so that we can become a channel of His blessings to the world. He paid a great price at Calvary to ensure that nothing and no one cuts short our lives prematurely, so that we can live to declare the works of the Lord in the land of the living.
At the Crucifixion Jesus was given 39 lashes on His back. Today, every disease – including those newly and recently discovered, fit into the 39 categories. What this means is that every disease known to man was represented in the 39 stripes that Jesus bore.
Isaiah 53:5 says that we are healed by His Stripes.
Jesus paid such a great price so that our healing and deliverance can be guaranteed always.
And as Jesus makes a difference in our lives, we are also to go forth and make a difference in our world.
As we have been watered, so are we to water others.
1 Peter 4:10-11 says, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms… so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.”
God doesn’t just want to work in you, He wants to work through you to positively affect the lives of people.
Let us therefore by God’s grace, continually seek ways to serve wherever we go. What we make happen for others, surely, God will make happen for us in greater measures. As we help people experience divine blessings and deliverance, surely, God will open greater doors of blessings, opportunities and abundance in our own lives.
PRAYER: Lord, please enable me to focus on serving You in every way I can and be a blessing to humanity. As I do, I thank You for the speedy release of my own harvests of miracles in Jesus’ Name.
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When God is on your side, anything is possible. WORDBITE 222.
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