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THE COVENANT OF HEALING
THE WORD
TEXT: Exodus 15:22-27
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GIFT AND A COVENANT
God gives GIFTS OF HEALING and God keeps a COVENANT OF HEALING, and
there is a difference between them.
While the covenant is in itself
a gift, the difference is that A GIFT COMES COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE,
and UNDER A COVENANT, GOD IS PLACING HIMSELF UNDER AN OBLIGATION.
With the words, I am the Lord who heals you, we're hearing the heart
of God overflow with something other than a gift.
He is placing
Himself under an obligation; He didn't have to do it.
That He does
it is a gift, but what is available within this covenant becomes a
point of availability to all of us.
As precious as gifts are when
they arrive by surprise, HERE'S SOMETHING THAT GOD TELLS US WE CAN
LIVE IN.
He's committed Himself to us on these terms.
THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE ALREADY FLOWING
This covenant of God's great love does not need to be turned into a
covenant of law, as though God needs to be reminded of what He has
voluntarily obligated Himself to.
THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE ALREADY
FLOWING OUT OF A HEART OF LOVE TOWARD US.
We don't need to come
insistently, stamping our feet before the throne of the Almighty to
get His attention and say, "Lord, You said!"
This covenant was
RECEIVED BEFORE THE LAW, PROVIDED FOR IN GRACE, and PERSONIFIED TO
US IN JESUS
GOD'S LOVE IN HEALING is available to us on a CONTINUING basis, BY
COVENANT.
For I, He says, am the Lord, your Healer.
When God uses
the expression, I AM, it always refers to the TIMELESS EXPRESSION OF
HIMSELF, His Person toward us.
A WAY OF HEALTH, NOT JUST GETTING HEALED
The covenant of healing TRANSCENDS WHAT MAN CAN DO, but DOES NOT
DISQUALIFY it.
Man, in his fallen condition, is always going to need
more than the resources of his own technology and discovery.
WE NEED
THE LORD, we need a covenant that we can live in.
It is an ignorant application of Scripture that if you really trust
in God, you never draw on the provisions of doctors and medicine,
resources with which God has blessed man.
The fact is, since Satan
comes to kill and destroy, ANYTHING THAT WORKS AGAINST DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION DOESN'T COME FROM THE DEVIL.
Medical treatment isn't
outside the will of God, but neither is it the sum of the expression
of what He can do.
Neither should it be the first point of reference
for the covenant of God toward you.
People who understand the covenant of healing don't just look to
being healed; they live in the FLOW OF THE LIFE OF THE HEALER
HAPPENING IN THEM and then, happening THROUGH THEM.
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF AS HEALER IN THE MIDST OF ATTITUDE, NOT ILLNESS
God's covenant of healing wasn't manifested during an epidemic,
plague or physical affliction.
In fact, nobody is sick.
THEY'RE OUT
OF WATER.
But what is evoked by their circumstances reveals their
NEED FOR A HEALER of something DEEPLY INTERNALIZED and MANIFESTED IN
THEIR ATTITUDINAL RESPONSE TO THE SITUATION.
They did what people always do: They griped and murmured.
They
turned to the person in charge and complained.
THEIR COMPLAINT
BETRAYED THE DEEPEST SICKNESS in man, manifested in:
NEGATIVE RESPONSE to that which tries him; and
LASHING OUT AT PEOPLE instead of crying to the
Lord.
While it's true that Moses did cry
unto the Lord, that might not have
been because he was any smarter,
just more desperate.
ATTITUDE ISSUES ARE AT THE HEART OF
HUMAN SICKNESS
What is manifest in these people at
this point is so characteristic of
every one of us, depending upon the
degree that we have learned to
discipline our BEHAVIOR, our
ATTITUDES and our TEMPERAMENT.
There
are people who appear to have no
bitterness or irritation, who think
they are navigating circumstances,
but in fact, they aren't.
They INTERNALIZE.
They may not be spewing the venom
of bitterness, but inside they're churning with the
same thing.
They REPRESS their irritations.
It only takes the
right kind of fuse to burst them open in a given
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