Tuesday 17 March
READ: Luke 13:10-16
MORE LESSON: John 8:36
Yesterday, we read about a man who was a regular worshipper in Church but still under the influence of unclean spirit (demon). In today's reading, Jesus took particular note of a woman who was also a regular attendee of a local church assembly and was bent over by an infirmity. She had been in that state for eighteen years. It appears the Church authority had given up on her matter and maybe the woman had also resigned to fate. But one good thing about her was that she did not forget God. She did not accuse God for her predicament, but kept going to Church until the day that Jesus picked her out of the congregation, and said to her; Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity (vs. 12). Then He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight.
It is unfortunate that in our generation, some people stay away from Church because they have one infirmity or the other. Some stay away from the gathering of believers in order to hide their infirmity. There are those that have been pushed out of Church because some brethren cast aspersion on them owing to the infirmity in their body. Although this woman's infirmity was visible to all, she did not stop coming to Church. It was therefore easy for the compassion to Jesus to flow toward her. To the ordinary eyes, that woman had an infirmity that bent her over; doctors may have treated her but to no avail. In addressing her case, Jesus spoke to the root, identifying who or what was responsible for her trouble: ...And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?: vs 15 & 16. For eighteen good years she was under the excertion of Satan but all kinds of medication were being administered on her.
Such predicaments abound in our time: many diseases and afflictions that people carry around are the works of demons. Unfortunately, the people do not know nor understand that they are under the excertion of Satan. Not all sicknesses and diseases are demonic, but some medical conditions and predicaments people are battling with have demonic roots and may manifest any of the following characteristics: 1)Despite intense medication, the trouble keeps re-occurring; 2) the exact root causes are difficult to identify; 3) their occurrence could be seasonal, and particularly at crucial times and seasons of the person's life. 4) When prayers are made, the matter seems to abate and once prayer ceases, it re-surface. For such afflictions, medications alone cannot work:. you need the counsel and touch of Jesus Christ, the Great Physician. He is forever alive to attend to the health of anyone who calls upon Him. He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction: Ps.107:21.
Prayer/Action
* Give God thanks for His power to deliver all that are afflicted.
* Ask God to send His Word and deliver you from every form of satanic attacks today.
PROPHETIC PRAYER
In the name of Jesus, disturbances will disappear from my life today and I shall live in peace.
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