We are asking Jesus for one person from each parish to pray 5 decades of the Holy Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet with us daily. Please pray that these people join us in spreading Divine Mercy. In addition if you feel lead by the Holy Spirit to join us; are blessed by this Apostolate and are able please consider giving a $1 a month to help us do works of mercy as a group. Individually we are limited, together we are unlimited in our potential. God bless, Todd
Jehovah-Rophe
We have seen God as God Almighty, as Lord, as Master, as the Trinity, as our Provider. Now we see God as our healer. Jehovah-Rophe means "Jehovah heals". In Exodus 15, we see that Pharaoh and His army have just been destroyed in the Red Sea and the great celebration of that victory. Three days later, Israel comes to the springs which were at Marah and the following story was revealed starting in verse 22.
"And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And He cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed Him a tree, which when He had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them.
And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee (Jehovah-Rophe)."
From the beginning it was God's desire that we have life and health.It is a Sacrament of the Church. He gave Adam and Eve a world where sickness and disease did not exist. When Adam disobeyed God and gave His authority to Satan, sin, sickness, disease and death entered into the earth. Because of this, mankind has been ravaged by every form of sickness and disease that can be thought of and by some that are as yet unidentified.
Thus, throughout the Bible, we find God expressing His will to heal His people. He reveals himself here in Exodus as the God who heals us and gives us health. He shows us that this comes from listening to Him, being obedient to His voice (His Word). This leads to health.
Psalms 103:1-5 states, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases: Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles." Part of the benefits of God include a health plan that is divine in nature, that works by faith in His word and by the words of our mouth.
When you get sick, do you confess the promises of God believing that they are true and receiving them as your own? Or, do you confess your sickness and give it charge over your life? Proverbs 18-21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." Remember Psalms103 and the satisfying of our mouth with good things.
Proverbs 4:20-23 states, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life." Exodus 15 says the same thing. What is God trying to tell us about His word?
Remember that Jesus was God incarnate. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Jesus is the Word of God because of the sacrifice He made at the cross and at His whipping He became for us the fulfillment of Jehovah-Rophe. Isaiah 53:4-5 prophesies of Jesus saying, "Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem His stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed."
I Peter 2:21-24 says, "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed himself to Him that judgeth righteously: 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." Note that "we were healed by His stripes" is past tense. Our healing was accomplished by Jesus two thousand years ago at the cross! Jehovah-Rophe came in the person of Jesus and in the spirit realm at the cross bore all sickness and disease for all mankind.
This is real for me because by faith in His Word, I was cured of asthma in 1997 and have not used an inhaler since. Galatians 3:13-14 says of Jesus, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." Part of the curse of the law was every sickness and disease. Deuteronomy 28:61, in the list of the curses of the law, states, "Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed."
Romans 3:21-22 says, "But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference."
Thank God for the medical profession and the commitment to healing and health! I believe the members of the medical community receive the desire to fight sickness and disease from God himself. I also believe that when faith is fully applied in the medical field, we shall see miracles that we have not even dreamed of seeing.
This is an excerpt from the ebook "The Covenant of Grace and Mercy" which can be read in its entirety on this site via the page index. Todd
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