#5 - YESHUA HEALS
Hosea 6:1 - "... He will heal us ..."
Ezekiel 47:9 - " ... everything will live where The River goes."
- 6 minute read -
What is your picture of Heaven?
While each of us may have specifics of what our experience will be when we find ourselves there, based on Scripture there are some facts we know about Heaven -
*** Yehovah ALONE is in charge! The uncountable hosts of Heaven obey His every command. Heaven is fully under Yehovah's command - Isaiah 36:17
*** In Heaven there is no death, mourning, crying or pain - Revelation 21:4
*** Every created thing will be in agreement to worship Yeshua and Him alone - Revelation 5:13
*** With Yeshua utterly present there in Heaven, there will be fullness of joy and delights forever more - Psalm 16:11
*** There are places there - designed and made by Yeshua so that we can experience living as part of Yeshua's household, designed for us to to experience being with Yeshua without any interuption or interference
*** Even when humankind might say or do awful things in response to our relationship with Yeshua, for those who prefer Yeshua and following Him now - in Heaven they will receive crowns (2 Timothy 4:8, Revelation 4:10) and great rewards (Luke 6:23)
Everything ordered in the the good and loving will of Yehovah? No death, mourning, crying or pain? Together with those that put Yeshua first? Fullness of joy and delights forevermore? Uninterupted relationship with Yeshua with no interference? Rewards for choosing Him? ...
YES, PLEASE!
SIGN ME UP!
But here is Truth many followers of Yeshua have not fully processed ... WE HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THIS NOW !!!
HUH?
If Heaven is where Yeshua is ...
... and if I am born-again and Yeshua is present in my spirit ...
... then HEAVEN IS IN MY HEART (SPIRIT) !!!
... NOW !!!!!!!
Even better... it is YESHUA's desire that we experience HIM (and the good of Heaven that accompanies Him) in greater and greater measure HERE ON EARTH ...
He even taught us to pray for this, "Father ... what YOU want (Your will) - may it be done HERE ON EARTH as it is in Heaven - Matthew 6:10."
Further, in a letter Yeshua dictated to John to be sent to a CHURCH (in other words - to people who had already accepted Yeshua and believed and received Him into their hearts/spirits), Yeshua said, "Behold! I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in! - Revelation 3:20"
If Yeshua was already in their lives, in their heart/spirit - WHAT door was He knocking on, wanting to gain entry?
Here is the picture from the beginning of this blog:
Yeshua, already in the core circle (heart/spirit) of a believer's life, is knocking on the door of our will, emotions and mind (together called our SOUL).
The more we invite Him in to reign over all areas of our will, emotions and mind - the more He has access to touch and heal and take us from disorder - DIS-ease, and put us into HIS order ... now experiencing peace in that area of our life because that part of us in now in agreement with Him and fully under HIS authority.
Doctors learned some time ago that the #1 cause of DIS-ease (sickness) is STRESS.
What is the source of stress?
Anything that is not in agreement with how Yeshua set things up and wants them to be!
THEREFORE - the MORE things are arranged in our lives in the order HE wants things to be - the LESS stress we have, and the less disease we experience !!!
Thus, Exodus 15:26 says:
If you will earnestly heed (yield to, obey)
the Voice of Yehovah, Your God ...
I will but none of the DIS-eases (judgements) on you
that I put on the Egyptians -
For I AM YEHOVAH - THE GOD WHO HEALS YOU!
The more we yield to Yeshua's voice (instructions) in our mind, our will, and our emotions, and the more they are under HIS headship --> Then- the less stress we will have, and therefore we will have less DIS-ease (sickness) in our soul and in our body!
AND EVEN BETTER YET - In Heaven is the headwaters for the RIVER OF LIFE (Revelation 21:4) that flows from His Throne of Grace. Remember - Yeshua and His Kingdom (Heaven) are now "at hand (Matthew 10:7)" - living in the heart/spirit of those He has redeemed!
The headwaters of the River of Life is now in us who believe and follow Yeshua!!!
When Ezekiel saw Yeshua's River of Life flowing once again from Jerusalem, He was given a vision of what it looks like when this amazing River touches dry, dead, earth. Suddenly what was dead flourished with life! And, He heard Jehovah declare -
EVERYTHING WILL LIVE
WHEREVER THE RIVER FLOWS
Ezekiel 47:9
Are there areas of our lives that are dry, dead and consist only of the stuff of Earth?
The Jewish Scriptures prophesy that the Anointed One - The Messiah - would open up the path for us to find healing. Isaiah 53:5 says, "By His stripes we are healed." The word "stripes" has with it the idea of the sacrifice bound to the altar, the cords pulled so tight as to make "stripes" - places where the skin rips open and bleeds. Yeshua took the punishment that should have fallen on us, satisfying God's judgement against us. Now, instead of being under the judgement of Yehovah (which definitely can cause dis-ease), at peace with Him, He wants to repair / heal the damage our wandering from Him inflicted on our souls and bodies.
PRAY - "Yeshua, I want your River of Life to well up from where You have taken up residence in me, in my spirit. Please flow into my will, emotions, mind and body. I yield to YOUR touch - what YOU want to do in every area of my life. May You - pictured as The River of Life - wash OUT of me all the gunk that is not of You. And would You please wash INTO me Your Ressurection Life so that my will, emotions, mind and body can be put into the order YOU desire, so I can follow you and exalt You the way YOU have in mind in YOUR will. And I pray that I would see what You spoke - that as You are exalted in my being - ALL PEOPLE - Jew and Gentile - will be drawn TO YOU !"
SONG - Heal Me
Lamb - a Messianic Music group made up of a Messianic Congregational Leader's kid - Joel Chernoff, and a redeemed gentile rebel rocker - Rick "Levi" Coghill - produced some of the best early Messianic music, much of it Scripture set to melody. Well established as Messianic Music makers, in 1981, on their "New Mix" album (released by Sparrow Records) they released 10 songs that while still connected to Messianic Jewish themes - the music more reflected the rock 'n roll and folk background in which they grew up. "Heal Me" is a song on that album that reminds us of how our Father Above tenderly and fervantly cares about the pain we experience. It is one of only a very few songs that quotes Psalm 56:8 asking God to keep and remember the bitterness of tears we have cried, asking Him to "put [all] my tears in Your bottle." Lamb puts this prayer in song and declares The Truth that bring peace, "For You alone can help me!"
CLICK SONG TITLE ABOVE FOR ANOINTED VERSION OF THIS SONG.
Late in the night watches laying on my bed
My thoughts meditate Lord on You, on You
Then I remember the things You have done
My help in time of trouble and need
Oh how my soul follows close behind You
Thy right hand holds me
and keeps me from ruin and destruction -
Under the shadow of Thy Wings I sit
And lift up my hands in Your Name
Heal me O Lord and I'll be healed
Save me and I'll be save-ed
Put all my tears in Your bottle
For You alone can help me!
The days of a man, they resemble the grass
They blossom like a flower in the field, in the field
Then the wind blows and the bloom disappears
Leaving no trace on the ground
But His love is faithful and rests upon me
And all of those who love
in His righteousness endure forever -
He understands all the things that we are
Keeping in mind we are dust
Heal me O Lord and I'll be healed
Save me and I'll be save-ed
Put all my tears in your bottle
For You alone can help me!