But when evening came, they brought unto him many demonized–and he cast out the spirits with a word, and all who were sick he cured: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself our weaknesses took, and disease bare. (Matthew 8.16, 17, Rotherham) There are preachers in today’s pulpits [...]
But when evening came, they brought unto him many demonized–and he cast out the spirits with a word, and all who were sick he cured: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself our weaknesses took, and disease bare. (Matthew 8.16, 17, Rotherham)
There are preachers in today’s pulpits that say that Matthew 8.17 was meant to only apply to Jesus’s earthly ministry and that a 21st century Christian has no business believing that it’s applicable for the Body of Christ today. Phooey on that.
In 1995-1996 I suffered through enough tests and trials to make anyone’s hairs stand on end. Things were so bad that one of my buddies, a Word of Faith guy who wouldn’t dare speak a negative word over anything, started calling me Job. One of those tests was in the form of hypothyroidism. I don’t remember exactly why I went to the doctor (hadn’t been since before I was ten), but he performed a routine blood test and discovered that my thyroid was a great deal out of whack.
He prescribed synthroid and told me that I’d be taking it the rest of my life (hypothyroidism is supposed to be a lifelong illness). I took the pills faithfully every day and went in for a blood test every year to regulate the medicine. I did that for a number of years.
On April 19, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. I applied Matthew 8.17 in prayer to that illness (don’t ask me why it took me until 2005). Below are the results of my latest blood test. I haven’t taken synthroid or any other thyroid medication in years.
[Note: A lot of Full Gospel Christians call a positive doctor's report an "evil report" on the basis of Numbers 13.32 ("And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out"). My doc is a great guy and if this test had come out positive, it wouldn't have been an "evil report." God called the spies' report evil because he had already told them that the land was theirs to possess and they repudiated that promise. God didn't promise anything to the giants or my doctor.]
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