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"Our Savior Heals"

By Bobbie Jean Merck            

healing received by revelation of god, his word and will

“Who has believed our message? To whom will the LORD reveal his saving power?  My servant grew up in the LORD's  presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.  He was despised and rejected — a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief.  We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.  Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down.  And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins!  But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace.  He was whipped, and we were healed!”   (Isaiah 53:1 – 5 NLT).

When I first heard that message I was astounded.  I was baptized in the Holy Spirit September 21, 1969.  Shortly thereafter our pastor was expounding on this scripture before we, as a congregation, would partake together the Lord’s Supper.  This word became revelation for the first time in my life.  What awe and joy flooded my soul.

One word in particular became magnified to me at that time.  Peace!  “…He was beaten that we might have peace….”  Peace!  I determined to study that word in the Hebrew.  Was I blessed!  One of its major meanings was also tranquility.  “Tranquility,” I thought and whispered, “tranquility”.  

At that time my life was anything but tranquil.  Oh! The good journey had begun the moment I was baptized in the Holy Spirit by the Lord Jesus Christ.  But this was to be more than a giant step.  I had taken tranquilizers for five years.  Perhaps they “deadened” the inner turmoil while they were in effect.  But the instant their time-effects were completed, I had to face the turmoil.  The tranquilizer did not heal the root or the fruit.

“Could I have peace again?”  Yes, I could, I knew!   I rose up, went to the medicine cabinet, and took out the bottle of tranquilizers.  I then watched each pill being flushed down the toilet, never to take another tranquilizer.

You see, when I had revelation on His word that our Jesus Christ was beaten that we could have peace, and then I discovered it also meant “tranquility”, I said to myself, “tranquility? tranquilizer?”  Then I knew, Jesus Christ was “the” biggest tranquilizer I could take!  Peace and joy filled my soul as I received Jesus Christ as my peace.

This was my first experience of receiving healing from God because I had revelation of His Word and consequent faith to believe and receive.  The journey has been beautiful.  On each and every occasion I can and do “take” Jesus Christ as my peace, my tranquilizer, and the turmoil ceases in Him.

healing received by god’s mercy

Yes, in God’s mercy I had received miracles and healings as a child.  I was premature and consequently birthed with some serious conditions.  The doctors told my parents that if I lived to be seven years of age, I would continue to live.  They prayed, as well as others, and I lived.

I was born with a deformed stomach.  In 1968, hospitalized and tested, I was told I would have to lie down on my right side for 30 minutes after each meal for my food to digest and process for the rest of my life.  But!  I had learned “by His stripes we were healed.”  I was and I am miraculously healed and have no deformed stomach since the early seventies.  All glory to God!  What a Savior!

healing received by faith in god and his word

May I share this occasion with you?  Thank you.  Personally, I have learned that yes, we are each given “the measure of faith”, and that measure does ever-increase as we follow on to know the Lord and the Word.  I learned that in the early 1970’s. 

A woman came to our church and gave her testimony.  She shared that she had not even taken an aspirin for 44 years, but had trusted the Lord.  As I heard her my heart leaped for joy.  I made a decision determining that I would “be that woman for I, too, would not even take an aspirin for 44 years.”

What happened?  In about two weeks I became very sick with a high fever and had to “go to bed.”  But no!  I was not going to the doctor and neither was I taking “an aspirin”.

I got worse and not better and I did have to be taken to the doctor!  He diagnosed a severe case of strep throat, prescribing strong anti-biotics and sent me home and to bed.

            What happened?  I had made the good and right decision, but I had displaced faith.  Where?  I had faith in the woman’s testimony.  On that occasion I was thinking of her and her testimony.  Yes, testimonies should and do encourage us, but, only faith in God and His Word bring the results. 

            HEALING RECEIVED BY FAITH IN HIS STRIPES

            Allow me to share another milestone with you.  In June 1974 someone plowed into the back of my car.  The police officer became indignant when I refused to take the offender to court.  I innocently told him I was a Christian and because First Corinthians Six told me not to do that, I couldn’t.  You see, I placed my confidence and trust in God.

            I immediately had severe symptoms from the accident.  But, I was still growing in faith.  After suffering about two weeks I agreed to go to the doctor.  Upon examination he diagnosed a severe whip lash.  He then placed a collar on my neck, gave me a prescription for tranquilizers (which was never filled), and gave further instructions for the recovery process.

            I went to the Wednesday night church service and as I was playing the organ I felt like a giant sitting on that organ bench, positioned for all to see and wonder.  Suddenly, I said to myself, “What am I doing sitting here with this yoke of the devil on my neck, playing this organ in this church who has and believes as their four major tenets of faith that God saves, baptizes in the Holy Spirit, heals, and that Jesus is coming?”  I then said, “I will go to that altar at the close of the service and God will heal me.”  Faith was speaking.  The decision was made and I was determined.

            I will be brief.  I did go to the altar and kneeling across from me was one of my newly delivered and saved Sunday school students.  I said, “Ken, lay your hand on my head and pray and the Lord will heal me.”  In shock he said questioningly, “He will?”  And I said, “Yes, He will”, as I was removing the screaming velcro fastened huge collar from my neck.  Ken did and the Lord did.  I was instantly healed and walked out with the ‘yoke of the devil’ under my arm.

            The next morning I awoke with every symptom screaming at me.  My body was racked with pain.  I went to my ‘secret place’ in my home and lying on the floor I cried to God, “What meaneth this?  I know I was miraculously healed last night!”

            I was immediately in the spirit and saw the back of Jesus as He was crucified and all the torture leading to the cross.  I saw his back, his flesh ripped and torn and in the condition of ground-up hamburger meat, down to the scratches on His back bones.

This was June 1974.  As I prepared to minister in March 1976 I learned in my study, the reality of that beating and that I had indeed correctly seen in the spirit what I had no natural knowledge of.

            Then I heard the voice of God say to me, “That was the price paid for your healing.  You can receive it or reject it.”

            Weeping uncontrollably I said, “Oh, Lord, forgive me, forgive me.  I believe.  I receive.”  I was instantly pain free.

            The Lord then spoke a powerful revelation to me.  “They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy”  (Jonah 2:8).  God had given a miracle and Satan was tempting me by putting “lying vanity and false and fake symptoms upon my body.”  Because I immediately turned to God and not to the symptoms, the Truth destroyed the lie.  Oh Saints!  Our God reigns and we face an already defeated enemy!

            Healing is Received by his word and confession

“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions”

 (Psalm 107:20). 

Briefly… in 1984 I was diagnosed as being near-sighted and a mono-vision-contact was given.  That means one eye with the contact inserted saw at a distance and the other eye with no contact was focused for far-sightedness.

I  immediately began to confess, “as it was with Moses so it is with me.  My eyes shall not grow dim and neither will my strength be abated.  I have 20/20 vision.  Thank you, Lord.”

In June 2001, after 17 years of standing on faith in His Word I was healed and  have not and do not wear a contact and do not have Wal-Mart glasses for reading.

“Our great desire is that you will keep right on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.   Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent.  Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God's promises because of their faith and patience”  (Heb 6:11-12 NLT). 

Love, Faith and Patience equal three ingredients that produce healing and a miracle. 

            jesus christ is the resurrection and the glory!

            The finale:  After 35 years of believing God and yes, faced with temptations, tests, and trials such as are common to you, the big one came.  At this time I will only say, a massive stroke resulting from an artery at the back of the neck, running at my spine, and inoperable and 99% blocked struck.  But God!  Prayer!  And family and friends praying for me!  35 years of my trusting Him!  And I am stronger today than ever.  Miracles and healings occurred.

            Satan cannot curse whom God has blest!  Life conquers death!

            “O death, where is your sting?   For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power”  (First Corinthians 15:55b-57 NLT).

            Dear sweet people, all of this is written for your encouragement and to declare the wonders of our God.  Indeed, all things are possible for and with Him.  He hastens to perform His Word.  The Holy Spirit seeks to exalt, magnify and glorify Jesus Christ.  He has called us into His kingdom to share His glory!

            Then Job spoke again:

  “ God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing.  He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight.  He shrouds his throne with his clouds.   He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundaries for day and night.  The foundations of heaven tremble at his rebuke.  By his power the sea grew calm. By his skill he crushed the great sea monster.   His Spirit made the heavens beautiful, and his power pierced the gliding serpent. These are some of the minor things he does, merely a whisper of his power. Who can understand the thunder of his power?”   (Job 26:7-14 NLT).

 Max Lucado has said:

Love hung on a cross.

All heaven stood to fight.

All nature rose to rescue.

All eternity poised to protect.

But the Creator gave no command.

“It must be done…”  He said, and withdrew.

The angel spoke again.  “It would be less painful…”

The Creator interrupted softly,  “But it wouldn’t be love.”

            Oh!  How we love Him!  Thank you, Father!  Thank you, Jesus!  Thank you,    

            Holy Spirit!

            love never fails!

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