This is a
personal testimony, experienced today. I was washing my car in the afternoon,
and at the end of the cleaning when I was tiding up, I had this sting in my right
thigh. I thought it might have been some hair getting caught and was getting
pulled on. Then I had another sting. The initial pain was actually stronger
than a tangled hair. So in my mind I though, my God! there might be a spider in
my pants, and its biting me!!! By this
time I have had multiple stinging sensations. So I started slapping my leg
repetitively in multiple locations hoping I would have killed the spider by my
machine gun slaps. I quickly took off my
pants, and then found a dead wasp rolling out of my leg. (Actually I just slapped it unconscious, after
I tried to pick it up to study it, It was actually still alive.) Immediately I
took hold of the truth of Luke 10:19.
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy, nothing will harm you. Luke 10:19.
And as God
said nothing will harm me. I started commanding my skin to be completely whole,
and not be affected by this, according to what the word of God said. I told the
pain to go, and I washed my wound with some soap. By this time there were
mosquito welt looking thing on my leg, There was 6 of them total near my knee
and thigh, Thank God it didn’t go higher!
As I mixed
faith into what God said, There is no pain, and no itchiness. For a lack of a
better word, it feels like I have not been stung. Its even better than a
mosquito bite as that is itchy. This was like normal. And before the hour, the swelling
and welts is completely gone.
3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Acts 28:3-6
Whilst this is no snake, I felt that this was a minor episode like that of Paul’s when something poisonous bit him. No harm came to him, because the word of God is truth.
After this episode, I was thinking, if Ella my little daughter was stung, I would have wanted the bites to be on me rather than on her. And God told me, that’s how he feels about us getting sick and hurt. And that is the reason, Jesus took our sickness and infirmities, our pain and hurt away from us at the whipping post.
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. 1 Peter 2:24
Jesus was whipped so that the scriptures could be fulfilled, that by him being whipped, all our sickness and pain He has paid for, just like our sins are paid for at the cross. As sickness was paid for, this is the reason Peter instead of quoting Isaiah 53:4 word for word, he changed the tense, from “By whose stripes you ARE healed” (Isaiah 53:4) to “By whose stripes you WERE healed.” (1 peter 2:24)
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