UNFORCED RHYTHMS OF GRACE, DAY 165
Pastor Gabriel Prosper
Streams of Grace Global Ministries
‘He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes’ (Psalms 105:37).
Over 2.5 million Israelites left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God’s will for His people today—all healed, healthy, and whole. Matthew 8:17 tells us that Jesus healed all “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” The final fulfilment of this prophecy by prophet Isaiah, however, happened on the Cross of Calvary, where Jesus died for us.
The Matzah (a flat bread eaten by the Jews during the Passover) is a good object lesson of what Jesus’ body symbolizes. According to the Law, the bread was to be unleavened, baked, pierced with holes and stripped. Unleavened bread is one made without the leaven (yeast).
No leaven was used because leaven in the Bible represented sin, and Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God. And His sinlessness is why He is able to take our sins upon himself in our place.
Unleavened bread is a picture of Jesus’ holiness, purity, and sinlessness. His life and sacrifice were unleavened.
Leaven is a symbol of death and decay. The rise of dough is only possible by means of the natural process of decay caused mostly by yeast. Therefore, if Adam had not fallen, there would have not been anything known today as the leaven bread. Nonetheless, what Adam activated to the downfall of the entire human race has now been completely dealt with in and by the sacrifice of Jesus. (We are to humbly receive what Jesus has done).
The bread is also called “the bread of humility,” “the bread of affliction” or “the bread of humiliation.”
The baking of the bread is the picture of how Jesus’s body was burnt because the full fury of God’s wrath against our sins fell on Him. This fire was supposed to fall on us, but it fell on JESUS instead. Halleluiah!
The pierced holes and stripes on the bread is a picture of how Jesus’s side as well as His hands and legs were pierced. These holes and all of those merciless stripes He bore on His body, so that our bodies might be made whole.
Beloved, as you partake of His body during The Communion, know and believe that His body was broken so that yours can be vitally whole. When you partake in this spirit of faith, something happens to your body: you become strong, healthy and you get to experience long life vitally.
Say this with me: JESUS’ BODY WAS BROKEN, PIERCED AND STRIPPED FOR ME! HE BORE THE HEAT OF ALL MY SINS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, AND GAVE ME DIVINE LIFE! THIS ZOE LIFE IS AT WORK VITALLY IN ALL THAT CONCERNS ME IN THE NAME OF JESUS! THIS ZOE LIFE, WHICH IS SUPERIOR IN QUALITY AND SUPER-ABUNDANT IN QUANTITY IS AT WORK IN MY FINANCES, HEALTH, PROSPERITY, SUCCESS, ABUNDANCE, MINISTRY AND FAMILY IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME!
Pastor Gabriel Prosper
Streams of Grace Global Ministries
‘He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes’ (Psalms 105:37).
Over 2.5 million Israelites left Egypt healed, healthy and whole. That was and still is God’s will for His people today—all healed, healthy, and whole. Matthew 8:17 tells us that Jesus healed all “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” The final fulfilment of this prophecy by prophet Isaiah, however, happened on the Cross of Calvary, where Jesus died for us.
The Matzah (a flat bread eaten by the Jews during the Passover) is a good object lesson of what Jesus’ body symbolizes. According to the Law, the bread was to be unleavened, baked, pierced with holes and stripped. Unleavened bread is one made without the leaven (yeast).
No leaven was used because leaven in the Bible represented sin, and Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God. And His sinlessness is why He is able to take our sins upon himself in our place.
Unleavened bread is a picture of Jesus’ holiness, purity, and sinlessness. His life and sacrifice were unleavened.
Leaven is a symbol of death and decay. The rise of dough is only possible by means of the natural process of decay caused mostly by yeast. Therefore, if Adam had not fallen, there would have not been anything known today as the leaven bread. Nonetheless, what Adam activated to the downfall of the entire human race has now been completely dealt with in and by the sacrifice of Jesus. (We are to humbly receive what Jesus has done).
The bread is also called “the bread of humility,” “the bread of affliction” or “the bread of humiliation.”
The baking of the bread is the picture of how Jesus’s body was burnt because the full fury of God’s wrath against our sins fell on Him. This fire was supposed to fall on us, but it fell on JESUS instead. Halleluiah!
The pierced holes and stripes on the bread is a picture of how Jesus’s side as well as His hands and legs were pierced. These holes and all of those merciless stripes He bore on His body, so that our bodies might be made whole.
Beloved, as you partake of His body during The Communion, know and believe that His body was broken so that yours can be vitally whole. When you partake in this spirit of faith, something happens to your body: you become strong, healthy and you get to experience long life vitally.
Say this with me: JESUS’ BODY WAS BROKEN, PIERCED AND STRIPPED FOR ME! HE BORE THE HEAT OF ALL MY SINS, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, AND GAVE ME DIVINE LIFE! THIS ZOE LIFE IS AT WORK VITALLY IN ALL THAT CONCERNS ME IN THE NAME OF JESUS! THIS ZOE LIFE, WHICH IS SUPERIOR IN QUALITY AND SUPER-ABUNDANT IN QUANTITY IS AT WORK IN MY FINANCES, HEALTH, PROSPERITY, SUCCESS, ABUNDANCE, MINISTRY AND FAMILY IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME!
THE UNFORCED RHYTHMS OF GRACE (URG) is a daily devotional authored by Pastor Gabriel Prosper, President and Senior Pastor of Streams of Grace Global Ministries.
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