Seven Blessings of the Passover by Steve Munsey

Author:Steve Munsey [Steve Munsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2016-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING and life-changing blessings of observing the Passover is found in Exodus 23:25—“And I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” God will literally take illness and disease away from you.

There are numerous examples of this specific blessing. I have already mentioned the story about Hezekiah, found in 2 Chronicles 30 and 2 Kings 20. When Hezekiah became king, he reestablished the passover offering. At the time, he was thirty-nine years old and dying. God healed Hezekiah, extended his life, and killed his enemies. Hezekiah became a very wealthy man in the next fifteen years.

King David is known to have observed the Passover with his offering, and God took away the physical and mental sickness that plagued him. Notice these selected verses from Psalm 116: “I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live…. I was greatly afflicted…. What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people…. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD” (verses 1-2, 10, 12-14, 17).

Many times David acknowledged his illness and God’s delivery: “O LORD my God, I cried out to You, and You healed me” (Psalm 30:2, NKJV).

History’s Pages

As both kings Hezekiah and David understood, God Almighty wants His children well and healthy. Divine health was always God’s plan for mankind, long before the Passover blessings were established.

When we examine Adam’s life in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, we find that he was healthy and had dominion over everything. Sickness entered the human race after Adam’s sin. God created Adam healthy, a perfect act of creation. We find no record of sickness until after sin entered the world, but from that point we find numerous instances of people who were healed. In fact, the Bible is filled with glorious accounts of miracles.

Exodus 15:26 explains God’s plan for the children of Israel: “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, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”

Jeremiah 30:17 promises, “‘For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord.”

The Word of the Lord declares that God sent His Son, and because Jesus came, no sickness has any legal right over you. Throughout the ministry of Jesus, Scripture reveals many occasions when He supernaturally intervened in the lives of men and women. From turning water into wine at Canaan to raising Jairus’s daughter from the dead, He brought help and hope to desperate lives.

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