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The Holy Bible: Scripture Quotes From The Holy Bible

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation. Introduction
By His stripes I am alive and well today. At the time I was born again I was bleeding from my nose and mouth, and when I would go to the bathroom I would see traces of blood. I didn't need a physical exam to know that something was seriously wrong in my body. I was so happy to be saved and free from drug addiction and alcoholism that I was willing to accept the fact that I was dying.
Then I heard a preacher on television boldly say that by His stripes we were healed. I had never heard that before! I listened …show more content…

The word health used in this passage is the Hebrew word marpe which means medicine according to the Strong’s[1] Exhaustive Concordance. 04832. marpe', mar-pay'…literally medicine, or a cure. So we could read this verse with that understanding:
For they are life unto those that find them, and medicine to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:22
We have a prescription given to us by the Great Physician Himself! Just as you would read the instructions on a medicine bottle and take the medicine accordingly, so should we be obedient in taking in God’s Word. If the instructions on a medicine bottle say to take it three times a day, then that is what is necessary for the medicine to do its work.
The Word of God is our medicine. If we will take our medicine daily as prescribed by our heavenly Doctor, then it will daily do the necessary work to bring or keep healing in manifestation. Don’t let reasoning, medical statistics, or any diagnosis take away the power of God’s healing Word through Jesus’ stripes.
Again, the book of Proverbs says:
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Proverbs 3:7-8

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