Healing Stripes

It is Monday morning 15 November, the year 2021, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

“And by His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5

And then we go to 1 Peter 2:24, exactly the same scripture:

“…by whose stripes you were healed.”

The beating that our Lord Jesus Christ took before He was crucified, on His back, the Bible says by that bloodshed we can receive our physical, mental and spiritual healing.

The doctors can do an operation but Jesus has to do the mending... I want to clarify something, quite clearly, right at the beginning: I have no problem with doctors. A medical doctor was one of my most faithful prayer partners for many years before Jesus called him home. I love doctors, I respect them. I have even medical people in my own family but I want to tell you that Jesus Christ is ultimately our Healer.

A couple of years ago, a young lady came to the farm with her husband. She was the mother of two young children. She had been told, by the doctors, that she had stage four cancer. Her body was riddled with cancer and she was to go home and make herself comfortable. We anointed her, we prayed the prayer of faith and God has completely healed her - He is the Healer.

Now, if we look at James 5:14:

“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith “ - you see there is the point - “will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.”

But I want to tell you I have also been in the healing line myself. In the 2009 we had a huge men's conference on this farm, Shalom. On the Saturday morning (how could I ever forget it) after I had finished preaching, I came down the steps and I was under the platform, praying for a few farmers who had come from Australia. All of a sudden, I felt light-headed and I collapsed - I had a heart attack. They brought me to the house, I had a second one in the garden.

My blood pressure went to zero... My youngest daughter Jilly is a nurse, she said to the family: “Dad, is dying.” Well, I want to tell you, they called in a helicopter. They evacuated me to Pietermaritzburg and as that helicopter was taking off, it went over the crowd and I saw tens of thousands of men, hands raised in the air praying for me. I got to the hospital, landed on the helipad and saw a heart specialist. He said, “There is something wrong Mr Buchan.” He said: “There is nothing wrong, you are completely healed!” I was preaching the next day.

Go out today and trust the Lord Jesus Christ for your healing. He is the ultimate healer.
Goodbye.