Excerpts from Greg Mohr: Your Healing Door, Chapter 2: “Jesus Took it for Us”
Jack Hayford III describes the atonement’s complete package for covering the needs in every area of man’s life in his notes in “Kingdom Dynamics”, taken from The Spirit Filled Life Bible:
In Christ’s suffering and death, He bore more than our sins. The penalty for sin is death, but Christ did not need to suffer as He did to provide atonement. This chapter tells us why He suffered. He suffered to bear our griefs and sorrows and He suffered for our peace and healing (v. 5). Surely atonement for sin is our greatest need; yet God, sending His Son to suffer and die, provided more than an escape from judgment (from sin): He provided for abundant life beginning today.
Jesus could have died as an innocent sacrifice without all the additional suffering. The Hebrew words for “griefs” and “sorrows” that Isaiah 53:4 says He bore for us literally mean “sicknesses” and “pains.” Thank God that He bore our sins on the cross. But the fullness of the atonement included His bearing our sicknesses and pains as well!
Once we get a revelation of Jesus’ bearing our sicknesses as well as our sins through His atonement for us on the cross, receiving healing becomes no more difficult than receiving forgiveness of sins. Kenneth E. Hagin describes his understanding of this vital wisdom key for receiving healing in his book, How to Keep Your Healing.
He writes: After I read in my Bible that Himself took my infirmities and bare my sicknesses, I decided there wasn’t any need for both Him and me to bear them, and I’ve been free ever since!
Let me share with you an example that emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appropriating healing as part of the atonement. There is a real difference between these two situations: 1) going to a bank officer and requesting an unsecured loan that you are not sure will be granted; and 2) going to the same bank and presenting a check to the same bank officer to withdraw money that is already on deposit in your account. If you are requesting an unsecured loan from a bank, you have no assurance you will receive your request. However, if you are making a withdrawal from your account that has sufficient funds on deposit to cover your check, you can be absolutely confident of receiving your request.
Many Christians are praying for healing in the same way they approach that loan officer at the bank—with no assurance their request will be granted because they fail to see what they have on deposit in their spiritual account. Prayer for healing must come on the same basis as prayer for forgiveness of sins—Jesus’ atoning sacrifice for each of us that placed unlimited forgiveness, healing, and peace of mind into our spiritual account.
For my Kids out there 