Topic:Total Preservation
Text: Psalms 91:1-10

From today’s devotional passage, we can deduce two kinds of evil: physical evil (illness, disease, poverty, accidents) and the evil that has to do with the soul. The passage teaches that not only will God preserve us from all evil; He will also preserve us from the evil that is spiritual in nature. To preserve is to eliminate elements of corruption, permanently. So God is saying that He would remove, permanently, anything that stands to deform you.

For example, if God wants to preserve anyone, He would first arrest the corruption that may already exist in him, and then eliminate it. Thereafter, He ensures that those elements of corruption do not return into that person. For example, if God wants to preserve in divine health, the first thing He will do is heal the sufferer, just the same way we preserve meat by first removing the maggots in it. If you are ill, God will remove the bacteria of the illness from your system and heal you by His stripes according to I 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.” He can also heal you by His words according to Psalms 107:20, “He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” Healing is a gift from God and it is not something we struggle for. If you want to receive healing, you can have it today. He has to heal you before He can preserve you in divine health. After healing you, He will make sure that illness and diseases do not return to you. He has promised to do this if you obey Him.

The Lord says, in Exodus 15:26: “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” He is saying that, after healing you, He will make sure that sickness does not come to your body again provided you obey Him. God wants you to go from the realm of healing to the realm of divine health. Maintain a healthy relationship with God and you will begin to enjoy divine health.

Memory Verse: I 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.”