April 9, 2023 … Deep, Deep Healing …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2023 - Day 99 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from tDon Moen singing … Jesus You Are My Healer … poignantly singing of how Our Lord, King Jesus, is the ultimate healer of our sin. 

Jesus statue in Brazil lit up as our "Healer" on Easter in 2020 

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Highlight Passage: … Isaiah 53:5 [NLT] … 

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.  …  

… Two Disciples run to Jesus’ tomb. 

Highlight Passage (Context): …  Isaiah 53:4-6 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+53%3A4-6&version=NLT

… God, thru Isaiah, prophesies, the Messiah to provide healing for our sin.                          .        

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Reference Passage: … Exodus 15:26 [NLT] … 

26  “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”. 

… God’s promise, thru Moses, to heal God’s people if they (we) are willing to obey His word.   

Reference Passage: … Psalm 103:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+103%3A1-3&version=NLT

King David sings of our God healing our diseases  ...  

Reference Passage: … Matthew 8:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus heals and rids many of evil spirits to fulfill the prophesies long ago of Isaiah.        

Reference Passage: … James 5:14 [NLT] … 

14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 

… God’s faithful, thru James are exhorted to bring their (our) sickness to the Elders in His church and pray for the Lord’s healing grace.

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 2:24 [NLT] … 

24 … Who 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.  

… Jesus was the healer of all our sins by dying on the cross.      

                                                                                                                     

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg … AT THIS LINK …   tells about the famous statue of Jesus in Rio de Janeiro being lit up to look like a Physicians healer during the Covid Pandemic (see photo), reminding the people of Brazil and the world, that Jesus is the ultimate healer of all diseases. 

And if my readers have taken in the linked song and the Scriptures above, we all need to remember that Jesus went to the cross and died to be the healer of our ultimate disease of sin.  And today, on Easter, we, who believe in Christ’s work on the cross, remember what our Lord did by shedding His blood to heal us forever of our diseased nature as sinners.   Do I sense you sharing a thankful “HALLELUJAH” with me. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for shedding Your blood to heal me of my sins.      

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to declare a thankful “Hallelujah” to our Lord for being our healer.       …  Amen               . 

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