I will intercede for Irene.  Remember how sick I was in 05?  Blood was leaking into my skin …. you all prayed for me including Chip. Isa 53 delivered me.  It is God’s guarantee.  God makes the scriptures to move from the spirit to the mind then to the heart by divine revelation.  Then it manifests in the flesh.  Our part is to believe the scriptures and to speak / meditate on them.  Jesus said if you love me keep (hold on / value / cling) my word.

Matt 8:17 >>  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bore [our] sicknesses.

What does it mean that Jesus took / bore our sicknesses ?  If Jesus bore them on the cross at the same time he bore our sins then just as we have the guarantee of forgiveness we also have His assurance of healing.  Mat 8:17 quotes from Isa 53.  I have copied this from the Hebrew English Interlinear version called JPS1917 – it is the version the Jews use today.  The Jews do no believe in Messiah Jesus and do not believe in healing through the finished work on the cross.  But they translate Isa 53 accurately as our KJV and NIV water down the literal Hebrew here.  God asks who believes our (Father / Son / Holy Spirit) report?  When we believe we are accounted righteous just as believing Abraham – by faith.  That’s why Jesus called just the bent over woman daughter of Abraham (there were many other women there that he did not call daughter) and he said ought not this woman be healed – ought in Greek is dei, meaning by divine decree.

Isa 53

1 ‘Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him. 3 He was despised, and forsaken of men, a man of pains, and acquainted with disease, and as one from whom men hide their face: he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely our diseases he did bear, and our pains he carried; whereas we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed. 6 All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, though he humbled himself and opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before her shearers is dumb; yea, he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and with his generation who did reason? for he was cut off out of the land of the living, for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due. 9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich his tomb; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.’ 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to crush him by disease; to see if his soul would offer itself in restitution, that he might see his seed, prolong his days, and that the purpose of the LORD might prosper by his hand: 11 Of the travail of his soul he shall see to the full, even My servant, who by his knowledge did justify the Righteous One to the many, and their iniquities he did bear. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion among the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the mighty; because he bared his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

As believers we believe our Lord Jesus took our sins on the cross.  We are forgiven!  But do you see here the 3 times it says how Jesus bore also our sicknesses?  Why did He do that?  He is our wonderful savior, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  He says my shalom I give you – shalom is completeness, wholeness, wellness …

Father I pray for Irene in Jesus name.  I pray the finished work on the cross by the eternal lamb of God, Jesus, as written in the scriptures bring Shalom to Irene and by His stripes Irene is healed.  I pray the Word of God come alive in Irene’s spirit, soul and flesh in Jesus name.  Amen.

Guy