Stripes

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STRIPES
Isaiah 5:14 “...”his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:” (Isaiah 53) “...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 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.”
  Should we, who have entered in and out of many sorrows, expect that God who gave his only begotten Son to an agonizing death on the cross for our iniquities, think it strange that He should be slow in answering halfhearted prayers? 
Angels have  crossed our path unrecognized because we did not pause in our daily pursuit of earthly happiness to seek the face of God. There is a reason that God commands us to be continually in prayer. He tells us to be prepared in season and out of season; going often into a closet for dedicated, uninterrupted talking with Him. He hears and answers the fervent prayers of the righteous. Our Lord has known all sins, felt all pains so that we may have a more abundant life.
  Isaiah 53:5 “...the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (1 Peter 2:24) “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Whatsoever we ask the Father in Jesus’ name will in nowise be withheld from us. Asking and faith are the keys. The rod and stripes are the purification.

  2  Corinthians 6:1 “We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (4) But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. Know God, know peace. Amen. 07-08-2020 BLL


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