Open Heavens Devotional for August 12 2021

 Open Heavens Devotional for August 12 2021

DIVINE HEALING

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Matthew 8:14-15

14.  And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

15.  And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

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For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

Matthew 9:21  

There are sicknesses that are not ordinary, but rather, are demonically inflicted. Orthodox medicine is in capable of curing such sicknesses. Even traditional medicine with its spiritual backing is limited in such cases because witch doctors bow out when they are warned by the demons in charge of such sicknesses not to interfere. In Luke 13:11-16 , there is a story of a woman who was bound by the spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. Our Lord Jesus revealed Satan as the mastermind behind the womans affliction in verses 15-16 of the passage: 

“The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

“Luke 13:15-16”

God is still in the business of curing diseases - be they demonic or not demonic. He said in Jeremiah 32:27 

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”

God who created the human body can resolve any problem that arises in it. God can fix any problematic part of the human body. He has replaced kidneys, lungs, livers, faulty eyes and so on, in the past and He is still in that business of healing. There is no sickness too small to attract Gods attention and there is none too big as to intimidate Him. It is left for every individual to develop his or her faith to the point where it would attract the hand of God to perform the healing miracle. The woman in our memory verse of today said If I may but touch his garment, I shall be wholeand she was made whole indeed. Jesus Christ laid His hands on the mother-in-law of Peter who was sick of what someone may call ordinary fever, and she was made whole as seen in todays text. Remember, the sickness some people called ordinary has claimed millions of lives in history.My prayer is that you will receive divine healing today, in Jesus name.