Sexual Healing

“So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed.” (Joshua 5:8)

Long before Marvin Gaye made famous the song Sexual Healing of the 1980s, God had an even more powerful story in the Book of Joshua. Before the children of Israel could go into the Promised Land they had to be circumcised with knives made from The Flintstones (Joshua 5:2), and then they had to wait not for Fred and Wilma to come home, but until they all received their sexual healing. Circumcision is the unkindest cut of all and it is painful, bloody, and personal.

Spiritually, God requires us to be circumcised in the heart to remove all the rough edges and hardened arteries of the flesh and SELF before we can enter and receive the blessings of the Promised Land. Circumcision requires giving up the old sinful ways of life in order to draw us closer to God. Consequently, we must wait until we are healed before we are ready for our mission. If we launch out too early, we may risk infection or disease and will not be effective in our calling for God's kingdom.

God is Yahweh Rapha, the God who heals all our diseases (Psalm 103:3), and He wants each of us to walk not just in sexual healing, but in His divine healing over the five dimensions of our bodies, souls, spirits, relationships and finances. The children of Israel fought only two battles when they were coming out of Egypt, but they fought 39 battles in the Promised Land beginning with Jericho. In order for each of us to enjoy the benefits of living in the Promised Land, we no longer have to shed our foreskins like our forefathers, but we must be prepared to wage war against the devil and his crew, against poverty, sickness, disease, witchcraft, debt and oppression.

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