DCLM Sincere Milk 14 September 2023 — The Wounded Healer
DCLM Sincere Milk 14 September 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — The Wounded Healer
Topic: The Wounded Healer
Text: Isaiah 53: 1- 5
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Key Verse: “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5
Message
Jesus Christ is the Wounded Healer. Our key verse declares it “but he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities… and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5) Jesus has the ability to heal our wounds because Himself also had been wounded. He was wounded for our sins and beaten with many stripes; so He knows what it is like. The wound inflicted on us by sin, Satan and self can only be healed by Jesus. The sins of stealing, fighting, telling lies and doing many bad things can be healed (taken away) by Jesus. Satan who makes us to disobey God every time and the flesh that makes us proud and not submit to God are like wounds that need to be healed.
Jesus is the only One who can heal these wounds because He had also been through the pains. When Jesus was on earth, He healed many people of their sicknesses and diseases and they were always looking for Him to deliver men from the oppression of Satan. He is still the same today as He was when He walked on the earth. Though wounded, Jesus is our Healer. Ask Him to come and take away those wounds of sin and sicknesses, He will set you free.
Further Reading: 1 Peter 2:24
Prayer for today: Lord Jesus, please, heal my wounded body, soul and spirit as I surrender my life to You now.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
