KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 12:38 KJV “That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

God has always desired the deliverance, peace, and well-being of all men.  The angels that appeared to the shepherd who were watching over the flocks by night, on the night the Lord Jesus was born, sang and said, “glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will towards all men.” Luke 2:14. Unfortunately, men keep trusting in other things and forsake the Lord.

In our key scripture, the Lord asked who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? (According to Isaiah 53:1.) What is the report of the Lord? His report is about the great redemptive work of our Lord Jesus. Jesus is God’s sacrificial lamb for all mankind. Isaiah wrote, “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed”. This is God’s report about  the great substitutionary work of Jesus.

The Lord asks who will believe His report? Who would wholeheartedly accept that the Lord Jesus has paid the price for our sins. Paid the price for our healing. He has paid the price for our shame and reproaches. He says all who will believe in His report, would experience the saving power of God. 

There are so many men who have no peace, defeated and accustomed to pain, diseases and all kinds of unbearable conditions. They ask where is the solution to our woes? Why should they keep suffering? The truth is, they have so trivialised what God has revealed and said so much that, the reality of what God has done for us is like a fairy tale. The Bible says God is not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it, Has He spoken and would He not make it good.? Numbers 23:19.

He says that anyone who believes in Him would not be put to shame Rom 10:11. Every written word of the scriptures is God’s love letter to us. His heart follows whatever He says with passion, ready to honour His word, if only men would be ready to believe and trust Him. History and experiences have proven that all who trust in the Lord experience His goodness and come back with praise unto the Lord.

CONFESSION

Thank you, heavenly father for your love for all mankind. I am most grateful to you for giving us your son Jesus, who took our place of sin and punishment and brought salvation to all. He bore our sicknesses, that we might not bear them. He became sin that we would become the righteousness of God in Him. I believe every report of the Lord, and so experience the hand of his power in my life.

FURTHER STUDIES

Isa 55:11 KJV “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

2Co 1:20 KJV “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”