Friday 10:17 PM
BY HIS STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED
There are certain truths in Scripture that become even more powerful when we stop looking at one verse by itself and begin tracing that truth through the Word of God.
Healing is one of them.
Peter writes:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.”
1 Peter 2:24, NKJV
Notice those words carefully:
“You were healed.”
Peter is looking backward.
He is standing on the other side of Calvary, looking back at something Christ had already accomplished through His suffering.
But Peter did not originate this language. He was reaching back hundreds of years to the prophet Isaiah.
ISAIAH SAW IT BEFORE THE CROSS
Isaiah prophesied:
“Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows...
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4–5, NKJV
Isaiah was looking forward prophetically toward something that had not yet happened historically.
He saw the suffering Servant.
He saw the wounds.
He saw the bruising.
He saw our transgressions and iniquities being dealt with.
And he declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
But then something extraordinary happens when we come into the Gospel of Matthew.
JESUS DEMONSTRATED IT
Matthew tells us:
“When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.”
Matthew 8:16, NKJV
Then Matthew tells us why this matters:
“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.’”
Matthew 8:17, NKJV
Don't miss that connection.
The Holy Spirit, through Matthew, takes us directly back to Isaiah 53 while describing people being physically healed by Jesus.
That means we should never reduce Isaiah 53 to physical healing alone. The chapter clearly deals with something much deeper, our sin, transgression, iniquity, peace, and the substitutionary suffering of Christ.
But neither should we remove bodily healing from the passage.
Matthew doesn't allow us to do that.
Matthew connects Isaiah's prophecy directly with Jesus healing the sick.
Then we come to the cross.
JESUS PAID THE PRICE
Peter says:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.”
The Greek word translated “stripes” in 1 Peter 2:24 is mōlōps. It refers to a wound or bruise produced by a blow.
Think about what Christ endured.
He was beaten.
He was scourged.
He was mocked.
He was wounded.
He was crucified.
But Peter wants us to understand that His suffering was not meaningless.
Christ was suffering for us.
This is why we must keep healing centered in Christ rather than turning it into a formula.
Our faith is not in saying the perfect words.
Our faith is not in our ability to generate enough emotion.
Our faith is not even faith in faith.
Our faith is in Jesus Christ and His finished work.
THEN PETER LOOKS BACK
Here is what I find so powerful.
Isaiah 53:5:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah is looking prophetically toward Calvary.
Matthew 8:17:
“He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”
Jesus is standing in history demonstrating the compassion and healing power of God.
Then comes Calvary.
Jesus suffers.
Jesus bears our sins.
Jesus sheds His blood.
Jesus declares:
“It is finished!”
John 19:30
And afterward Peter writes:
“By whose stripes you WERE healed.”
Do you see the progression?
ISAIAH LOOKED FORWARD.
MATTHEW SAW JESUS DEMONSTRATE IT.
CALVARY STOOD IN THE CENTER.
PETER LOOKED BACK.
The cross stands between:
“We are healed”
and
“You were healed.”
That is worth meditating on.
THE CROSS CHANGES OUR PERSPECTIVE
Before Calvary, Isaiah was prophetically looking toward the suffering Messiah.
After Calvary, Peter was looking backward at what Christ had accomplished.
And this is where our faith must remain anchored.
When we pray for healing, we are not trying to convince an unwilling God to become compassionate.
We are looking to Jesus.
Jesus said:
“He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
John 14:9
What did Jesus do when the sick came to Him?
He healed.
What did Peter later preach about Jesus?
“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Acts 10:38, NKJV
Jesus revealed the Father's heart.
FAITH COMES BY HEARING
This is why continually hearing God's Word matters.
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17, NKJV
And Proverbs tells us:
“My son, give attention to my words... For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Proverbs 4:20–22, NKJV
We give attention to His Word.
We keep His Word before our eyes.
We allow His Word to enter our hearts.
Faith grows as we hear what God has spoken.
Then we pray from that place of confidence in Christ.
Not confidence in ourselves.
Not confidence in a formula.
Confidence in Jesus.
There may be times when we pray and do not immediately see the manifestation we are believing for. That is when we continue trusting God rather than allowing circumstances to become greater in our hearts than His Word.
Abraham gives us this pattern:
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.”
Romans 4:20, NKJV
Our eyes may see one thing.
Our bodies may tell us another.
Circumstances may shout loudly.
But faith keeps returning to Christ and His Word.
KEEP THE WHOLE GOSPEL TOGETHER
First Peter 2:24 does something beautiful.
It brings together:
Sin.
The cross.
Righteousness.
Healing.
We should not separate what Peter deliberately placed together.
Christ “bore our sins.”
We have “died to sins.”
We are to “live for righteousness.”
And Peter declares:
“By whose stripes you were healed.”
The center of all of it is not us.
The center is Jesus Christ.
So when you need healing, don't merely look at the sickness.
Look to Jesus.
When symptoms speak loudly, return to the Word.
When fear tries to take hold, return to the Word.
When circumstances appear contrary to what you have prayed, return to the Word.
Let faith arise through hearing.
Let patience have its work.
Keep your eyes fixed upon Jesus.
Because Isaiah looked forward and declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Matthew watched Jesus demonstrate the healing heart of God.
And after Calvary, Peter looked backward and declared:
“By whose stripes YOU WERE HEALED.”
The cross stands between those two statements.
And that changes everything.
PRAYER
Father, thank You for sending Jesus Christ to bear our sins in His own body on the tree. Thank You for His wounds, His blood, His sacrifice, and His finished work.
Help us keep our faith anchored in Christ rather than circumstances, feelings, fear, or formulas.
Let Your Word become life within us. Let faith rise as we hear Your Word. Give us perseverance when the answer is not immediately visible, and teach us to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus.
We receive Your Word with humble and believing hearts, and we give You all the glory.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
If you know someone who needs encouragement concerning healing today, share this with them. Remind them where to look, not merely at the sickness, but to Jesus Christ and His finished work.
Isaiah looked forward. Peter looked back. The cross stands in the middle.
BY HIS STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED
There are certain truths in Scripture that become even more powerful when we stop looking at one verse by itself and begin tracing that truth through the Word of God.
Healing is one of them.
Peter writes:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.”
1 Peter 2:24, NKJV
Notice those words carefully:
“You were healed.”
Peter is looking backward.
He is standing on the other side of Calvary, looking back at something Christ had already accomplished through His suffering.
But Peter did not originate this language. He was reaching back hundreds of years to the prophet Isaiah.
ISAIAH SAW IT BEFORE THE CROSS
Isaiah prophesied:
“Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows...
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4–5, NKJV
Isaiah was looking forward prophetically toward something that had not yet happened historically.
He saw the suffering Servant.
He saw the wounds.
He saw the bruising.
He saw our transgressions and iniquities being dealt with.
And he declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
But then something extraordinary happens when we come into the Gospel of Matthew.
JESUS DEMONSTRATED IT
Matthew tells us:
“When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.”
Matthew 8:16, NKJV
Then Matthew tells us why this matters:
“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.’”
Matthew 8:17, NKJV
Don't miss that connection.
The Holy Spirit, through Matthew, takes us directly back to Isaiah 53 while describing people being physically healed by Jesus.
That means we should never reduce Isaiah 53 to physical healing alone. The chapter clearly deals with something much deeper, our sin, transgression, iniquity, peace, and the substitutionary suffering of Christ.
But neither should we remove bodily healing from the passage.
Matthew doesn't allow us to do that.
Matthew connects Isaiah's prophecy directly with Jesus healing the sick.
Then we come to the cross.
JESUS PAID THE PRICE
Peter says:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.”
The Greek word translated “stripes” in 1 Peter 2:24 is mōlōps. It refers to a wound or bruise produced by a blow.
Think about what Christ endured.
He was beaten.
He was scourged.
He was mocked.
He was wounded.
He was crucified.
But Peter wants us to understand that His suffering was not meaningless.
Christ was suffering for us.
This is why we must keep healing centered in Christ rather than turning it into a formula.
Our faith is not in saying the perfect words.
Our faith is not in our ability to generate enough emotion.
Our faith is not even faith in faith.
Our faith is in Jesus Christ and His finished work.
THEN PETER LOOKS BACK
Here is what I find so powerful.
Isaiah 53:5:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah is looking prophetically toward Calvary.
Matthew 8:17:
“He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”
Jesus is standing in history demonstrating the compassion and healing power of God.
Then comes Calvary.
Jesus suffers.
Jesus bears our sins.
Jesus sheds His blood.
Jesus declares:
“It is finished!”
John 19:30
And afterward Peter writes:
“By whose stripes you WERE healed.”
Do you see the progression?
ISAIAH LOOKED FORWARD.
MATTHEW SAW JESUS DEMONSTRATE IT.
CALVARY STOOD IN THE CENTER.
PETER LOOKED BACK.
The cross stands between:
“We are healed”
and
“You were healed.”
That is worth meditating on.
THE CROSS CHANGES OUR PERSPECTIVE
Before Calvary, Isaiah was prophetically looking toward the suffering Messiah.
After Calvary, Peter was looking backward at what Christ had accomplished.
And this is where our faith must remain anchored.
When we pray for healing, we are not trying to convince an unwilling God to become compassionate.
We are looking to Jesus.
Jesus said:
“He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
John 14:9
What did Jesus do when the sick came to Him?
He healed.
What did Peter later preach about Jesus?
“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Acts 10:38, NKJV
Jesus revealed the Father's heart.
FAITH COMES BY HEARING
This is why continually hearing God's Word matters.
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17, NKJV
And Proverbs tells us:
“My son, give attention to my words... For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Proverbs 4:20–22, NKJV
We give attention to His Word.
We keep His Word before our eyes.
We allow His Word to enter our hearts.
Faith grows as we hear what God has spoken.
Then we pray from that place of confidence in Christ.
Not confidence in ourselves.
Not confidence in a formula.
Confidence in Jesus.
There may be times when we pray and do not immediately see the manifestation we are believing for. That is when we continue trusting God rather than allowing circumstances to become greater in our hearts than His Word.
Abraham gives us this pattern:
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.”
Romans 4:20, NKJV
Our eyes may see one thing.
Our bodies may tell us another.
Circumstances may shout loudly.
But faith keeps returning to Christ and His Word.
KEEP THE WHOLE GOSPEL TOGETHER
First Peter 2:24 does something beautiful.
It brings together:
Sin.
The cross.
Righteousness.
Healing.
We should not separate what Peter deliberately placed together.
Christ “bore our sins.”
We have “died to sins.”
We are to “live for righteousness.”
And Peter declares:
“By whose stripes you were healed.”
The center of all of it is not us.
The center is Jesus Christ.
So when you need healing, don't merely look at the sickness.
Look to Jesus.
When symptoms speak loudly, return to the Word.
When fear tries to take hold, return to the Word.
When circumstances appear contrary to what you have prayed, return to the Word.
Let faith arise through hearing.
Let patience have its work.
Keep your eyes fixed upon Jesus.
Because Isaiah looked forward and declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Matthew watched Jesus demonstrate the healing heart of God.
And after Calvary, Peter looked backward and declared:
“By whose stripes YOU WERE HEALED.”
The cross stands between those two statements.
And that changes everything.
PRAYER
Father, thank You for sending Jesus Christ to bear our sins in His own body on the tree. Thank You for His wounds, His blood, His sacrifice, and His finished work.
Help us keep our faith anchored in Christ rather than circumstances, feelings, fear, or formulas.
Let Your Word become life within us. Let faith rise as we hear Your Word. Give us perseverance when the answer is not immediately visible, and teach us to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus.
We receive Your Word with humble and believing hearts, and we give You all the glory.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
If you know someone who needs encouragement concerning healing today, share this with them. Remind them where to look, not merely at the sickness, but to Jesus Christ and His finished work.
Isaiah looked forward. Peter looked back. The cross stands in the middle.
Friday 10:17 PM
BY HIS STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED
There are certain truths in Scripture that become even more powerful when we stop looking at one verse by itself and begin tracing that truth through the Word of God.
Healing is one of them.
Peter writes:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed.”
1 Peter 2:24, NKJV
Notice those words carefully:
“You were healed.”
Peter is looking backward.
He is standing on the other side of Calvary, looking back at something Christ had already accomplished through His suffering.
But Peter did not originate this language. He was reaching back hundreds of years to the prophet Isaiah.
ISAIAH SAW IT BEFORE THE CROSS
Isaiah prophesied:
“Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows...
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4–5, NKJV
Isaiah was looking forward prophetically toward something that had not yet happened historically.
He saw the suffering Servant.
He saw the wounds.
He saw the bruising.
He saw our transgressions and iniquities being dealt with.
And he declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
But then something extraordinary happens when we come into the Gospel of Matthew.
JESUS DEMONSTRATED IT
Matthew tells us:
“When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.”
Matthew 8:16, NKJV
Then Matthew tells us why this matters:
“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.’”
Matthew 8:17, NKJV
Don't miss that connection.
The Holy Spirit, through Matthew, takes us directly back to Isaiah 53 while describing people being physically healed by Jesus.
That means we should never reduce Isaiah 53 to physical healing alone. The chapter clearly deals with something much deeper, our sin, transgression, iniquity, peace, and the substitutionary suffering of Christ.
But neither should we remove bodily healing from the passage.
Matthew doesn't allow us to do that.
Matthew connects Isaiah's prophecy directly with Jesus healing the sick.
Then we come to the cross.
JESUS PAID THE PRICE
Peter says:
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree.”
The Greek word translated “stripes” in 1 Peter 2:24 is mōlōps. It refers to a wound or bruise produced by a blow.
Think about what Christ endured.
He was beaten.
He was scourged.
He was mocked.
He was wounded.
He was crucified.
But Peter wants us to understand that His suffering was not meaningless.
Christ was suffering for us.
This is why we must keep healing centered in Christ rather than turning it into a formula.
Our faith is not in saying the perfect words.
Our faith is not in our ability to generate enough emotion.
Our faith is not even faith in faith.
Our faith is in Jesus Christ and His finished work.
THEN PETER LOOKS BACK
Here is what I find so powerful.
Isaiah 53:5:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Isaiah is looking prophetically toward Calvary.
Matthew 8:17:
“He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”
Jesus is standing in history demonstrating the compassion and healing power of God.
Then comes Calvary.
Jesus suffers.
Jesus bears our sins.
Jesus sheds His blood.
Jesus declares:
“It is finished!”
John 19:30
And afterward Peter writes:
“By whose stripes you WERE healed.”
Do you see the progression?
ISAIAH LOOKED FORWARD.
MATTHEW SAW JESUS DEMONSTRATE IT.
CALVARY STOOD IN THE CENTER.
PETER LOOKED BACK.
The cross stands between:
“We are healed”
and
“You were healed.”
That is worth meditating on.
THE CROSS CHANGES OUR PERSPECTIVE
Before Calvary, Isaiah was prophetically looking toward the suffering Messiah.
After Calvary, Peter was looking backward at what Christ had accomplished.
And this is where our faith must remain anchored.
When we pray for healing, we are not trying to convince an unwilling God to become compassionate.
We are looking to Jesus.
Jesus said:
“He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
John 14:9
What did Jesus do when the sick came to Him?
He healed.
What did Peter later preach about Jesus?
“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”
Acts 10:38, NKJV
Jesus revealed the Father's heart.
FAITH COMES BY HEARING
This is why continually hearing God's Word matters.
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17, NKJV
And Proverbs tells us:
“My son, give attention to my words... For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.”
Proverbs 4:20–22, NKJV
We give attention to His Word.
We keep His Word before our eyes.
We allow His Word to enter our hearts.
Faith grows as we hear what God has spoken.
Then we pray from that place of confidence in Christ.
Not confidence in ourselves.
Not confidence in a formula.
Confidence in Jesus.
There may be times when we pray and do not immediately see the manifestation we are believing for. That is when we continue trusting God rather than allowing circumstances to become greater in our hearts than His Word.
Abraham gives us this pattern:
“He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.”
Romans 4:20, NKJV
Our eyes may see one thing.
Our bodies may tell us another.
Circumstances may shout loudly.
But faith keeps returning to Christ and His Word.
KEEP THE WHOLE GOSPEL TOGETHER
First Peter 2:24 does something beautiful.
It brings together:
Sin.
The cross.
Righteousness.
Healing.
We should not separate what Peter deliberately placed together.
Christ “bore our sins.”
We have “died to sins.”
We are to “live for righteousness.”
And Peter declares:
“By whose stripes you were healed.”
The center of all of it is not us.
The center is Jesus Christ.
So when you need healing, don't merely look at the sickness.
Look to Jesus.
When symptoms speak loudly, return to the Word.
When fear tries to take hold, return to the Word.
When circumstances appear contrary to what you have prayed, return to the Word.
Let faith arise through hearing.
Let patience have its work.
Keep your eyes fixed upon Jesus.
Because Isaiah looked forward and declared:
“By His stripes we are healed.”
Matthew watched Jesus demonstrate the healing heart of God.
And after Calvary, Peter looked backward and declared:
“By whose stripes YOU WERE HEALED.”
The cross stands between those two statements.
And that changes everything.
PRAYER
Father, thank You for sending Jesus Christ to bear our sins in His own body on the tree. Thank You for His wounds, His blood, His sacrifice, and His finished work.
Help us keep our faith anchored in Christ rather than circumstances, feelings, fear, or formulas.
Let Your Word become life within us. Let faith rise as we hear Your Word. Give us perseverance when the answer is not immediately visible, and teach us to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus.
We receive Your Word with humble and believing hearts, and we give You all the glory.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
If you know someone who needs encouragement concerning healing today, share this with them. Remind them where to look, not merely at the sickness, but to Jesus Christ and His finished work.
Isaiah looked forward. Peter looked back. The cross stands in the middle.
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