Page 54 - Shalom: The Peace That Comes From Being Whole

2 Cor. 1:20 For all the promises of God in him
are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of
God by us.
We can appropriate those promises by the
wonderful gift of faith. John G. Lake said
that the inevitable law of faith is, “According
to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew
9:29). And, of course, “Faith works by love”
(Galatians 5:6).
My Divine Health Insurance

Our covenant includes not only divine heal-
ing; it includes divine health. In the margin
of my Bible beside the following verse I have
written, “My divine health insurance.”
1 Th. 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Th. 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who
also will do it.
The Holy Spirit, through Paul, in verse 23
places triple emphasis on wholeness, just as
Jesus did in what He said to the woman healed
from the issue of blood in Mark 5:34. He uses
three words to do so. These three words are:
peace, wholly, whole.
I say this verse aloud almost every day like

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