Thy Name Is As Ointment Poured Forth
Thy Name Is As Ointment Poured Fourth We will be seeing alot of the scripture stalking about this today! Allow God's allow the balm of gilead anoint you in this reading today and refresh you in Himself. He's right there waiting to pour it all over you today in being right beside Him. Isn't He just like that when we in his company, when it's myself and the Lord saturating Me in that sweet natural anointing that only He brings unto us as He is in our midst. Glory, Glory, Glory Hallelujah ! Unto the Mighty King our Messiah! Our heart's are made of One in Him !
Scripture Reading's : Feed the hungry and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as day. [Isa.58:10 N.L.T].
I will give you back your health and heal your wounds, says the LORD.
"Now you are called an outcast--`Jerusalem[a] for whom nobody cares.' [Jer.30:17 N.L.T]
He heals the brokenhearted,binding up their wounds. [Ps.147:3 N.L.T],
And the LORD will protect you from all sickness. He will not let you suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will bring them all on your enemies! [Deut. 7:15 N.L.T.] But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.[a] And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. [Mal.4:2 N.L.T]. Praise the LORD, I tell myself; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Praise the LORD, I tell myself, never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.He ransoms me from death and surrounds me with love and tender mercies.He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle's! [Ps.103:1-5 N.L.T]. I will be your God throughout your lifetime--until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you. [Is.46:4 N.L.T]
Even the animals--the donkey and the ox--know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand." [Song Of Solomon 1:3 N.L.T]. Or don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.[1Cor.6:19,20 N.L.T]. "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and laws, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you." [Ex.15:26 N.L.T].
Why am I discouraged?Why so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again-- my Savior and my God! [Ps.42:11 N.L.T].
Then words of praise will be on their lips. May they have peace, both near and far, for I will heal them all," says the LORD. [Is.57:19 N.L.T].
"You must serve only the LORD your God. If you do, I will bless you with food and water, and I will keep you healthy. [Ex.23:25 N.L.T. ]. He spoke, and they were healed-- snatched from the door of death. [Ps.107:20 N.L.T.]
He was despised and rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows[a] that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins! But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! [ Is. 53:3-5 N.L.T.]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now we'll go on into more reading's about this wonderful Balm Of Gilead to catch more excitment from the Lord:
Jeremiah 8:22: Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
There is a Balm of Gilead. It has the power to save us from certain death. It can bring hope to the hopeless and healing to that which is incurable. You can even read about it in the encyclopedia where it is described as a honey-like “aromatic resin with medicinal qualities.�
So where is this balm, this honey, this healing medicine? For 14 years of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome I have searched for it, seemingly in vain. My heart echoed the cry of Jeremiah 8:21 & 22 as recorded in The Living Bible: I weep for the hurt of my people; I stand amazed, silent, dumb with grief. Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why doesn't God do something? Why doesn't He help?
After all these years of searching, I think I finally know the answer.
Genesis 37:25 is the first time the Bible mentions this Balm from Gilead. Joseph, the beloved son of Israel, had been attacked by his brothers and thrown into a well. And they (Joseph's brothers) sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites (descendants of Hagar, Abraham and Sarah’s maid; name means “God will hear�) came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm (salve, medicine) and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Unbelievably, Joseph’s brothers went about their business as usual, even with murderous thoughts in their hearts. Ignored by his brothers, God heard Joseph’s cries for help. He sent a band of outsiders (how sad that this is often the case) to rescue Joseph from certain death. [For as the Balm passed by, Judah declared to his brothers that it would be better to sell Joseph into slavery than to kill him. Verses 26 & 27.] Thus, the first application of the Balm of Gilead.
The balm that passed by wasn't simply a honey-like “aromatic resin with medicinal qualities.� The Lord Jesus IS the Balm of Gilead. It was He who passed (whether seen or unseen) with that company that redeemed Joseph from death. But there is more to the meaning of this Balm of Gilead. We already know that Jesus IS the Great Physician and in Him there is healing for all needs. So then why have so many not recovered? Why do we read in Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. The Living Bible reads, though you have used many medicines, there is no healing for you.
Here is the reason why there have been no healing medicines. Here is why our bruise has remained incurable: What was the most precious and powerful of the medicines that the Ishmaelites brought to Egypt? What was that Balm of Gilead that was of such great value?
It was Joseph, Beloved. Joseph [a representative type of Christ] was the Balm of Gilead. He was the one the Lord would use to save not only the people of Egypt and the surrounding nations, but the very nation of Israel itself. Joseph would later testify to his brothers, “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive� (Genesis 50:20).
But there was a price to pay. To be the man God could use to save much people alive, Joseph, like the perfumed extract taken from the Gilead tree, would be crushed, squeezed, refined, purified, even pulverized - not by a feelingless, indifferent God. By a God who is wise enough to know that the perfumed ointment cannot flow until the alabaster box is broken.
The illustration the Lord showed me to demonstrate how and why this is true is one you're not going to believe! God said, "Consider Pesto Sauce!" You make Pesto by putting fresh basil, garlic, olive oil, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese into the food processor and with a sharp, jagged, metal blade pulverize the ingredients until they are a well-formed paste. The results are exquisite. Forget the stuff you buy in a jar off the shelves at the grocery store. Freshly-made Pesto Sauce is - well - divine. You could take those very same ingredients - the basil, garlic and all the rest - and mix them with pasta, but it wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't even be worth eating. All the crushing, breaking, releasing, joining and forming are needed to bring out the full flavor, the full value.
So it is with us.
Beloved, you and I are called to be the Balm of Gilead to each other; to those who follow after us; to the hurting nations; to those inside the Church and out. But to be of any use, to truly be a balm that can bring healing, we must be taken from one form to another. We must be made into a sweet perfume, a honey-like medicine that can flow out to others.
It is through our suffering, Beloved, that this is accomplished. It is because of what we have endured that we can say, “Come, drink of the healing medicines that now flow from my broken places. Come eat of my experiences and find your healing.� Through our struggles and our suffering, we are becoming a Balm of Gilead, just as Joseph before us.
Are you wondering why you are not yet healed? Why there seem to be no healing medicines for your situation? Could it be that you too are now being formed into a sweet-smelling salve that will bring healing to many? Could it be that your alabaster box is being broken, so the sweet perfume of healing can one day flow out to others?
Beloved, God has so many people in need, and so few through whom He can bring forth that healing. Why? Because being crushed, squeezed, refined, purified, and even pulverized is not something we embrace. We look for ways out of our tests. We search for means of escape. But what would have happened if Joseph had found escape from his prison? What if he had not been there “to save many people alive?�
The Lord Jesus could have made a way of escape for Himself from the Cross. He told us there were legions of angels ready to come to His aid. But He did not choose escape. He suffered willingly, that you and I might be spared.
This is the Balm of Gilead - the willingness to allow ourselves to be poured out for the good of others.
What will you do, Beloved? Will you be a Balm of Gilead the Lord can use, even if it means being carried off to a faraway land? Will you allow yourself to be forged in a prison - whatever your prison is - for a greater good than you cannot yet see?
If there is no healing balm in Gilead, as Jeremiah 8:22 suggests, it is only because so few have been willing to answer the call.
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul.
Sometimes I get discouraged,
And think my work's in vain;
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again.
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul.
If you cannot preach like Peter,
If you cannot pray like Paul,
Just tell the love of Jesus,
And say He died for all.
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul. Just simmering and basking in the Lord presence is so much more that as a human being is often time more than i could share unto the Lord , it's all of those unspoken words that beyond comprehension that only he sees deep with in my self that just plunders down to my very soul it's only because of whom I've waited for in my shadows of my room then he showed up and lifted me out of those place to where he only thing that mattered was being with Him and hearing Him and being in that glorious place is where I alway's want to be as he heals as I've surrendered it all before He came in His gentle way. catcmo2006
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