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Heavens 23 September 2015: Wednesday daily devotion
THE WAY
OUT
Memorise: Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
devils: freely ye have received, freely give. - Matthew 10:8
Read: Matthew 10:5-8 (KJV)
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and
commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city
of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Bible in one Year: Leviticus 10-11, 1 Corinthians
7:17-40
Our Lord Jesus Christ has many names and titles. The purpose of these names is
to enlighten the eyes of our understanding to the reality of His person. One of
such names is The Way. In John 14:6, the Lord Jesus revealed this truth about Himself to us:
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me.”
What does the Lord mean when He says He is the Way? If you need to get to a
location and you are at a loss on how to get there, the wise thing to do is to
ask people at your current location the way out of where you are in order to
get to where you wish to go. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Way out of the
unpleasant situation you are in presently. He is also the Way into the new
location of your choice. The Bible reveals Jesus as the Way out of sickness (1 Peter 2:24). In Acts 9:32-35, Peter visited some believers living
in Lydda and met Aeneas who had been bedridden for eight years. He simply
introduced him to Jesus Christ, and Aeneas followed the Name of Jesus out of
sickness into divine healing and health.
The Name of Jesus is also the Way out of death (Acts
9:40-41). Our Bible reading shows that the
sick, the lepers and the dead can follow the pathway of Jesus out of their
circumstances. Anyone who has an appointment with death can be delivered by the
following the Name of Jesus, because Jesus is the way out of any situation
having to do with death. Some 276 sailors, soldiers and prisoners were lost at
sea for fourteen days and faced sure death in the hands of a violent hurricane
called Euroclydon (Act 27:12-44). For fourteen days, their souls were overwhelmed with the fear of death
and they could not eat anything. They all would have died but for the presence
of Paul who bore the Name of Jesus amongst them. The Lord sent His angel of Paul
to show them the way of escape from the clutches of death. The Lord showed them
that their salvation depended on them remaining in their sinking ship which was
at the mercy of the winds (Acts 27:31)! The pathway that goes through Jesus led them through the valley of the
shadow of death, and not one soul among them was lost (Act 27:44). Do you have an early appointment with
death that agents of darkness have fixed for you? In the Name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, that appointment with death is cancelled! Has sickness drawn you
so close to death? In the Name of Jesus, you shall not die but live! You shall
recover in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point: Father, quieten every storm that wants to deliver death to
my life, family, business or ministry now, in Jesus’ Name.
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