"The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance."
Take some time and really think about or mediate what your inheritance is as a believer in Jesus. When you got "saved" or became a believer what came with the package?
Those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21
Definition of this word in verse 21.
to save, (SOZO SOTERIA) keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
- one (from injury or peril)
- to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
- to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue
- to save in the technical biblical sense
- negatively 1b
- to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment 1b
- to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance
I used to have a very limited understanding of what I was saved from. I thought saved meant saved from an eternity in hell. Because I didn't understand that the word for salvation SOTERIA includes salvation from the devil ripping me off, so I didn't recognize that I didn't have to allow the enemy to steal from me.
Now I take the time and find out what God's Word says about all the benefits of being saved. I now understand that Eternal Life begins the moment you are God's child and as sons and daughters of the Most High we have an blessed inheritance.
But aren't we expected to "suffer" as Christian? For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him Philippians 1:29
I too used to believe this meant to suffer from disease or sickness but this word for suffer. Although this word can include sickness it does not have to mean this. Look at verse 30 as well.
Verse 30 "since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have."
This word for struggle means:
- an assembly,
- a place of assembly: especially an assembly met to see games
- the place of contest, the arena or stadium
- the assembly of the Greeks at their national games
- hence the contest for a prize at their games
- generally, any struggle or contest
- a battle
- an action at law, trial
The enemy of our souls is like a roaring lion going around devouring those he sees as weak or uninformed about his or her inheritance. The Word of God says to submit to God, RESIST the devil and he will then flee from you. But WE have to do the RESISTING. ( 1 Peter 5:8 and James 4:7)
Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
So I'm including this list of scriptures on healing so you can take some time (me too!) and mediate on God's Word to stir you faith to believe this is part of your inheritance in the Lord.
I also would challenge you to read aloud these scriptures over and over to yourself because we know the Word says that faith comes by hearing AND by hearing the Word of God. Do you know why that is repeated? (It seemed redundant to me for years) It is repeated because many of us have heard things that have caused "faith" in the wrong things.
Yes, you can have faith in the wrong things because you have been listening to the carnal things (just hearing all the ads for flu and cold season is a good example) So if we want faith in what God's Word says we need to HEAR that. See? Faith comes by hearing AND hearing the Word of God.
And said, 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 (Exodus 15:26).
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you (Exodus 23:25).
And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you (Deuteronomy 7:15).
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 forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases (Psalm 103:1-3).
He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes (Psalm 105:37).
My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Proverbs 4:20-22).
He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 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 (Isaiah 53:3-5).
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Matthew 8:17).
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 (1 Peter 2:24).
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38)
