Open Heavens October 9, 2008

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Psa 64-66

SUPREME DISINFECTANT

MEMORIZE: "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" (1 Peter 2:24)

READ: Exodus 1 Peter 2:22-25

“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” (1 Peter 2:24). Another benefit of the New Covenant is total healing. When Jesus was being beaten by a professional scourger, His body was broken, and blood oozed out from it. That was the price He paid for us to receive divine healing, and maintain divine health. By the grace of God, I have enjoyed divine health for 32 years without an injection, tablet or any other form of medication. If you can trust Him and live in obedience, divine health can also be yours. According to the above verse, although divine health is provided for by the New Covenant, any believer who is yet to die to the flesh, and become alive to righteousness may find it in-accessible. This simply means that the extent to which you can benefit from divine health is dependent on how righteous you live on a daily basis. A compromising believer cannot enjoy the provisions of divine health, no matter how much the fellow stands on healing scriptures! Sin makes void the covenant.

There is tremendous power in the blood of Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:11 says it is the means by which believers overcome the devil. The New Covenant also provides for us to overcome the enemy and adverse circumstances. In 1977, we travelled to Ilorin for a Congress. The town was hit by an acute water shortage. The only water available for bathing was found at a dirty stream. A brother fetched me a bucket of water from the stream. It was dirty and stinky. He apologized that he could not find something better; and offered a bottle of izal disinfectant to kill the germs. I appreciated the effort he made to get that water. I was about to pour some izal into the water when God said, “Son don’t mix izal with the water. I want to send you as my ambassador to all nations of the world. As you go from one nation to another, the water you will meet in some of those places, will be worse than this. The blood of Jesus is a better disinfectant. Plead the blood on the water and all the germs will die”. Going by sight, I would never have dared because you needed no microscope to see the germs. Yet by faith I obeyed. It has been over 30 years now since I have repeatedly proved the efficacy of the blood of Jesus as I criss-cross continents. The blood can equally work for you. Have you been making the best use of this super disinfectant?

ACTIONPOINT: Thank God for the blood of Jesus. Apply it on water, food, on your family, business and against the enemy.