I love those times when God’s Word leaps off the pages in the Bible. Has that ever happened to you?
One day I was reading Psalm 107:20, “He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” “His Word” seemed to leap off the page and made me realize the Word is truly alive. It felt so real to me that my body jumped backward as it felt like the Word came toward me. At that moment I received revelation knowledge of God that His Word is Jesus and He came to earth for me. While spending time with God, He revealed to me that He sent His only Son to earth in order to heal, deliver, and rescue each one of us from destruction (sickness, pain, and even death).
To understand Psalm 107:20 it is important to look at the verse in context as well as the original words in either Hebrew or Greek. The Hebrew word for “healed” in the scripture is “rāp̄ā” meaning to heal, repair, cure, and make whole. The Hebrew word for “deliver” is “mālaṭ” meaning to deliver, rescue, preserve, and save. This scripture is saying that Jesus came not only to save you from your sins but to heal your body, repair anything that has been damaged, to cure you of any disease and make you whole.
Psalm 107 is a song of thanksgiving to God, who was merciful to His people and gathered all who were lost. It provides an understanding of Israel’s history and their restoration from exile in Babylon. The psalm provides an understanding of what destruction and distress the Israelites experienced and how God delivered them. These verses say they were hungry and thirsty, and when they cried out to the Lord, He delivered them out of their distress. When they sat in darkness and under the shadow of death in chains and bondage, they cried out to the Lord and He saved them out of their distress. As they drew near to the gates of death because of their transgressions, sin, and rebellion, they cried out to the Lord and He delivered them.
Psalm 107:20 not only says that He delivered them from all they were going through, but also that God healed them. I can only imagine how being held in chains and beaten by the Egyptians would have caused emotional and/or physical wounds. I believe that after the Passover (the night before the Israelites left Egypt by sacrificing an unblemished lamb and putting the blood on the doorposts), they were not only protected by the 10th plague (death of the firstborn), but they also experienced healing in their bodies. As they left Egypt and walked toward the Promised Land, no one was feeble.
While reading Psalm 107:20, the Holy Spirit reminded me of John 1:1-3, 14. Jesus is the Word and He came to earth as a man in order to rescue, deliver, heal, and give us abundant lives. Many think of Jesus as the baby in the manger at Christmas time or on the cross at Easter. It is important to remember that Jesus existed in Spirit form in the beginning. Genesis begins with God creating the Heavens and the earth and the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the waters. After speaking the world into existence, God says in Genesis 1:26, “Let Us make man into Our image, according to Our likeness.” Who is Us? It is God, the Father; God, the Son; and God, the Holy Spirit.
These scriptures revealed to me that Jesus existed in Spirit form in the beginning and came to earth so that I didn’t have to experience the traumatic brain injury that plagued me for 13 ½ years. As Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection became more real to me than my symptoms, I fully understood Psalm 107:20. God sent His Son, Jesus, to earth to die for, not only the sins of the world, but to provide healing as well. He came to lift the brain injury off of me, so that I could live free from this disability and experience the abundant life only He could provide.
I pray you get revelation knowledge of who Jesus is and why He came. I pray you are set free from bondage and delivered from any emotional or physical sickness, pain, disease, or disability. Let the Word of God come alive inside of you so that you will know that Jesus came specifically to deliver you from your distress.
Thank you, Lord, for sending Jesus!
~Donna Jones