THE LORD YOUR HEALER
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 your Healer. Exodus
15:26
This was God's first healing
covenant with His people. Some Hebrew scholars say this verse should be
translated in the permissive tense - "I will allow" instead of “I
will put," in which case it would read, “I will allow none of these diseases
upon thee, which I have allowed upon the Egyptians." God finishes by
saying, "For I am the Lord your Healer." The Hebrew says, “I am
Jehovah Rapha." Two or three million children of Israel had left Egypt
believing God. They went out of Egypt with silver and gold, and the Bible says
there wasn't one feeble person among. But God put a few conditions on this
covenant between Himself and His people: “If thou wilt diligently
hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in
his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments..." You see, even back
then in the first healing covenant, there was a correlation between hearing and
being healed. One of the conditions for receiving the healing benefits of
Jehovah Rapha is giving ear to His commandments. There is a direct connection
between hearing and being healed. Also, notice God didn't say, “I will be the
Lord your Healer," or "I was the Lord your Healer.” He said, “I am
the Lord your Healer.” We find in James 1:17 that God never changes. James said
there is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning” with God. If He was the
Lord who healed His people back then, He is the Lord who still heals His
people today. He is still saying, “I am the Lord who heals you. I am Jehovah
Rapha."
Prayer: By faith confess the Lord as
your healer, and declare that by the stripes of Jesus you are healed.
Scriptural Reading: Exodus 15:22-27
