MEDICAL VALUE

Many are crying today – “We wish we were in Europe; “We wish we were in America”; “Oh, if only we were very rich!” Why? Because they face health challenges and consider the Western world to be places where medical expertise is readily available. But according to Jeremiah 8: 19-20, such people are only provoking God to anger by being envious of those who are in a “far country”:

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 8:19-22

There is nothing in a far country that is not available in Zion.

God is asking, “Why are you wishing you were somewhere else? Why are you running after native doctors and crying after specialists? Is not the Lord in Zion, is your king not at hand?

There is nothing in a far country comparable with what Zion has to offer. There is a balm in Gilead but the people are still battered, buffeted, oppressed and shattered because the Balm has been ignored and the Physician has been disregarded.

To paraphrase the scripture quoted above, God is saying, “I am hurt, I am bothered, I am affected. These people don’t recognise the physician nor do they appreciate the balm, that is why they remain in their sickness”.
Who is this Great Physician?

THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

In the story of the man sick with palsy, Jesus introduced himself as the physician the sick have been waiting for. He said He has come to call the sick and to heal them:

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:12-13

In this account, Jesus introduced Himself as the great physician. That is why we say, ‘In Jesus’ name every knee must bow.” He has paid the price for your total health and His blood is the seal of your redemption. Matthew 20:28 gives us another picture of the great physician:

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Job 33:21-24 also gives an understanding of Jesus Christ as a ransom for your well being -

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

Jesus gave Himself as a ransom for many and when you are born again, you are numbered among those many.
You are freed from the torments of the destroyer because God has found a worthy ransom in Christ - the pit cannot hold you and no sickness can consume your flesh or make your bones stick out.

I have presented to you the great physician, the worthy lamb of God, the acceptable ransome for the life of many, Jesus Christ the son of the living God.

I will present to you, one of the vital balms that He personally prescribed for you to enjoy health and vitality. This is what is called the Holy Communion, the miracle meal - no sickness or disease can escape its power or potency.

When you understand the great physician and you embrace the great prescription, you enjoy great deliverance.

THE GREAT PRESCRIPTION

It is not enough to have a specialist as your family doctor, you must also be willing to embrace his prescription in order to enjoy the benefits of his expertise. In the same way, if you accept Jesus as your redeemer and physician, you must take what He prescribes.

This is what He came to offer:

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 6:51-57

Jesus has introduced Himself as the physician, now He introduces to us, the balm for our total health.

Eat His flesh and drink His blood, you will not experience any disease throughout your stay on the earth.

Jesus said when you eat His bread and drink His blood, you will live by Him. In other words, “I will live in you. I will live out my life inside you. You will be possessed with my strength; you will carry my kind of grace and exhibit my kind of vigour (Jn. 6:56-57 paraphrased).

I am not bragging, I am only making my boast in the Lord: my body has never received drip once. Just recognise the Great Physician, embrace His great prescription and you will live a great life.

Jesus offered Himself to infuse life and replace death in the lives of men. Eating His flesh and drinking His blood, is like having a blood transfusion in the hospital.

BLOOD TRANSFUSION

In the field of medicine, we understand that there is a process called blood transfusion and people go through it to maintain their health under certain conditions. This can used to explain what happens at the communion table.

For Jesus to say, “drink my blood and eat my flesh so you can live by me,” means that the communion represents a spiritual blood transfusion.

There is a transfusion of eternal life, that is, divine life replacing natural life. I like to describe it as a union between the immortal and the mortal - immortality swallowing up death in our mortality. What is being transfused is not natural, but spiritual, so medical science may not be able to appreciate it. The communion is the highest form of spiritual ministration as far as health is concerned for … the life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:14). Sister Akinbode’s testimony clearly attests to this:

“I had been coughing persistently for the past 4 years. During the communion service, the Bishop said, ‘You are taking the blood of Jesus and you are eating His flesh, the communion will be a blood transfusion unto you, take and be free in Jesus’ name.’ I caught the word, ‘blood transfusion’. Immediately this dawned on me, I took the communion and the cough stopped instantly. Now, I can sleep freely without coughing. I am really free from the oppression of the devil and his torments. Today, I am completely whole and free from the bondage of the spirit of cough.”

Jesus said he that eateth me, even he shall live by Me; meaning, “shall live like me.” The implication of this is that whatever could not survive in the physical system of Jesus is not permitted to survive in your body. Jesus refers to His flesh as meat indeed! That means it is the ultimate medication and His blood which is “drink indeed,” is the ultimate treatment. The manna the Israelites ate in the wilderness for 40 years preserved them through all the hazardous weather. There was no record of fever, typhoid, malaria, heartache, kidney failure etc. and Jesus said that manna is nothing in value compared to what He has presented to us. His flesh and blood is not in the class of manna, it is far superior to what they ate in the wilderness.

When you are spiritually transfused, Jesus is simply transmitting His order of life into you.

So, if Jesus was not a victim of fever, HIV, cancer, leukemia, heart disease, etc., then when you are transfused with His blood, whatever could not be found in Him will no longer be found in you. This truth is what Brother Ogbogwu used to eradicate an embarrassing skin disease that had plagued him for 10 years:

“In 1985 I discovered that I had this skin discoloration but I did not know what its name was. I ignored it, until 1990 when it began to come out seriously and became embarrassing. I consulted my family doctor who said it was a skin disease and said I should go for a skin test.

Last year I came down to Lagos and joined this ministry. In one of the Thursday communion services, Bishop Oyedepo said, ‘Whatever you want God to do for you through this communion, just declare it’ and I said ‘God, this skin disease that has been on me for 10 years, I want it flushed out.’ I took the Holy Communion and went home. Later, I began to notice that I was purging. My system was flushing a lot of things out of my body. I wondered what was happening, it made me uncomfortable.

I came back for another communion service and the Holy Spirit said to me ‘Speak that the Lord may dry up everything that is called skin disease on your skin’. So I said, “Lord I want everything on my skin to be dried up” and that was the end. Today, everything called skin disease has disappeared and my body is looking fresh."

Only fools doubt proofs. Living by Jesus means that you will not be living on your own anymore, you will be living the Jesus-kind of life here on earth.

DIVINE ENGRAFTING

Apart from spiritual blood transfusion, the miracle meal is also a spiritual design for a divine engrafting. Jesus said, He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me (Jn. 6:56-57). This means that as you partake of the flesh and the blood, you are grafted into the Son, so it is the life of the Son that begins to flow in you. Therefore, whatever cannot handle the Son can no longer handle you.

I would like you to see yourself in a laboratory, as it were, when taking the communion. Remember Jesus said He is the vine and we are the branches (John 15:5). So, as you eat and drink the miracle meal, see the angelic technicians regrafting you into the Vine so that the life of the Vine begins to flow freely into your system. This means that every anti-redemptive thing will go out of your system as you ingest His flesh and blood.

Now with this picture of engrafting in your mind, let me ask you the following questions:

If Jesus was on the earth, can you imagine Him being tested positive for HIV? Can you imagine Him testing positive for an enlarged heart or kidney failure? Can you imagine any biological reason that could have made it impossible for Jesus to have children? Just read Mrs. Olukunle’s testimony and see how she overcame 10 years barrenness with the miracle meal:

“In 1987, I did the family planning programme and stopped it in 1989. At our expected time for another baby, it refused to come. Everything got stagnated for ten years.

In 1998, I attended the Word of Faith Bible Institute (WOFBI). I was able to understand the Word more than ever before.

I believed in the blood of Jesus. So, at every communion service I would ask God to remove blockage and dryness in my womb.

In October 1999, my husband and I read the book, Satan Get Lost! as the book of the month. After reading the book, God spoke to him one night, after the family altar, to go on 7 days fasting and prayer, rejoicing in Him. He told me and I encouraged him to do it. He did it and finished on a Wednesday. We came for the communion service the next day, after which I missed my period. In the course of the pregnancy, I was asked to do a scan and it was shown that the baby was coming breech. This normally causes fear, but with the Word of God, I was not afraid. I believed that God who knew how I conceived, will see me through, so I began to confess safe, normal and quick delivery.

On the day of delivery, I took the communion and with the Word of God revealed from Romans chapter 1:16, I received power and was delivered of a bouncing baby girl safely. I even left the hospital same day."

Jesus is the Vine, you are the branches. He came as an extension of the Father and He was operating by the energy of heaven. Now He has connected us to Himself by the mystery at the communion table. The communion is not some form of religious snack, it is what grafts you to the eternal dimension of life where the challenges of this world have no more power over you; where the enemy can reach you no more.

Smith Wigglesworth had an unusual insight into this mystery in his time and was taking the miracle meal daily. Till the time he galloped to the other side at the age of 87, he did not suffer any form of breakdown.

Jesus said in John 6:58 that he that eats His flesh shall live forever. That means you are not programmed to die of sickness and disease. That is why believers do not die, they only sleep. So expect that on the day you are going, you will go with a smile after blessing your children’s children to the third and fourth generation.

The miracle meal is not just designed to heal disease, it is the only known medium for dealing with the harassments of death.

FIELD OF SPECIALISATION

In this chapter I have introduced to you the Great Physician and His great prescription. Let us now examine the coverage of His expertise.

Again, in the medical world, there are specialists who handle different kinds of sickness and when you go to one consultant, he says, “Well, that’s not my field, I will refer you to somebody else.” But such is not the case with the Great Physician as we see in the scriptures. The Bible records that,

When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
Matthew 8:16

Also, in Matthew 12:15 we read that,

great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

Jesus healed all that were sick. “All” means everything, less nothing. So this physician is a general in the field of medicine. No wonder when He gave the disciples power, He instructed them to go after “all manner of sickness and all manner of disease” (Matthew 10:1). Jesus is an all-manner physician who does not need to refer cases to anyone else. He is the end of all human search for total health. There is no one else to refer to after Him.

The Great Physician is concerned about your total well being. In 3 John 1:2 God says,

“I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

He is saying here that He cares about your life here on earth and wants you to succeed, flourish and live a healthy life.

3-DIMENSIONAL EFFECT

From the prayer of Apostle Paul in 1Thessalonians 5:23, we understand that man like God, is three dimensional and God is interested in all three parts of man - his spirit, soul and body:

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess. 5:23

The miracle meal is one of the Great Physician’s covenant provisions for ensuring that you be in health and prosper in your spirit, soul and body.

A Healthy Spirit

Sin is a sickness of the spirit and the soul that sinneth shall die (Ezek. 18:4). To prevent such death, God has given us an antidote for sin-

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb. 9:22

The blood of Jesus is God’s antidote for sin. In Hebrews 9:13-14 we read that:

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

The blood of Jesus has power to sanctify our conscience and by doing so, He helps us to maintain a healthy spirit. The blood of Jesus helps to flush the conscience of His people from every dead work. When Jesus Christ inaugurated the Holy communion before His departure in Matthew 26:26-28, He described His blood as “the blood of the new testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins” (Vs. 28).

When you take the miracle meal, the blood of Jesus has power to terminate every bad habit you want dead in your life. Since the life of the flesh is in the blood, it means that your lifestyle is traceable to the blood that runs in your veins. So whatever habit has been impossible for you to humanly deal with can be overcome by the blood of Jesus running in your veins.

See how the blood worked in the lives of these two people:

FREE FROM THE SPIRIT OF LAZINESS!
“I’ve always known myself to be a weak person. I couldn’t do strenous jobs and the little I do, I get tired very quickly. Twice, I collapsed just because I fasted till 6p.m. I also fainted during a march-past in school.

When I got to the higher institution, I often missed my early hour lectures, because I always woke up late. I felt very sleepy almost every time It was terrible, but I couldn’t help it. My parents and sisters complained, but I just couldn’t stop the terrible habit! My second name became ‘Ole’ (the Yoruba word for lazy).

On Thursday, 8th of August (during the communion service), the Bishop said, ‘if you’re not ready to work, don’t take this communion, it is an energy giving drug.’ I caught that. And that was it! My life changed!

I began to wake up at 5a.m., I hardly have any siesta now. I can’t comprehend where this strength came from! I now work very hard at home and everybody now respects me. I know it is the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in my sight!” — Akinyoyenu, D.

FREE FROM DIRTY HABIT
“Eleven years ago, I realised some funny behaviour I had. Whenever I finish a meal, I found myself vomiting the food and eating my vomit.

As a child, I wasn’t irritated much, so it just cleaved to me, until I could not control it anymore. It then occurred frequently and at anywhere. At times I will be in the company of friends and it will just seize me; I had to excuse myself or soil the floor with it.

As an unbeliever then, I had no power to put this habit under control; I did not even know it was an affliction.

Early this year, I contacted Christ and everything in me changed. But this affliction did not stop because I didn’t take it for an affliction.

During one of the mid-week services, the Bishop talked about the blessings and curses of Deuteronomy 28 and he concluded by saying ‘Anything that is not in Christ that is in you is an affliction of the devil’. Then I reasoned within myself, ‘This must stop’. But it did not. Of all I did, it did not stop either.

During the Easter Sunday service, the Bishop gave 50% discount on all Dominion Books as a blessing. I had longed to buy the book The Blood Triumph, which I couldn’t due to the crowd at the Bookstore.

The following Tuesday Communion service, I sat next to a friend and as we were discussing, a boy walked up to her and handed a brand new copy of The Blood Triumph to her. I desired to read the book, in fact I was obsessed with it.

Before she finished writing her name on it, I had asked her to lend me the book. She was adamant and refused, but I pleaded and finally forced her against her wish and she did.

That night, I woke up and glanced through its chapters. The next day I read it and studied it again.

Of all I remembered while studying the book, the Bishop said, ‘The blood is God’s last card’. Then it struck me! ‘If all have failed, the blood can and will heal me of this age-long affliction’.

I took some water, prayed over it and declared it to be the blood. I sprinkled my room, myself and drank the rest of it, prophesying that the blood cannot fail, Jesus has taken my infirmities, I am not a thief. This affliction is not mine, I return it to the sender.

Till today, that dirty habit has never appeared again. Praise God, the blood triumphed again!” — Dan-Amudo, F.

When Jesus was on the earth, no sin was traceable to Him. He even stood up and asked the crowd one day, which one of them could convict Him of any sin (Jn. 8:46). Jesus was the sinless lamb of God. It was in His blood to live right and pure, truthful and faithful. As Paul put it, He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. 5:21). It is this same Jesus whose blood is transfused into you when you partake of the miracle meal and He said,

He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him and as the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by [like] me
Jn. 6:56-57

A Healthy Mind

When Jesus was on the earth, everyone was amazed at His wisdom. He had a unique mind and displayed an enviable dimension of wisdom. It is recorded in Matthew 13:54 and Mark 6:2 that people who saw His actions and heard Him speak were astonished and remarked,

From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto Him that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mk. 6:2

The blood of Jesus in the miracle meal has power to transform your mental faculty from ordinary to extraordinary among your peers.

After His resurrection, Jesus sat to eat with His disciples and took bread, broke it and gave it to them. As He did so, their eyes were opened and they KNEW Him (Lk. 24:30-31 emphasis mine). Their understanding was enlightened. Jesus gave them bread (His flesh) and as it entered their mouth, it affected their soul that is, their mental faculty. The miracle meal guarantees a productive mind that will make people marvel at your understanding.

Healthy Body

Finally, the communion guarantees a strong and unique body: For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come (I Cor. 11:26). As often as you take the miracle meal, you are showing and telling the world, “He died my death so that I can live His life. He was broken for me that none of my bones shall ever be broken. His body was battered, so that my own should be kept intact.” This is what Mrs. Ifezue tapped into that prevented her from having a caeserean operation:

“In the ninth month of my pregnancy, the doctor insisted that I must do an X-ray. After doing it, the report came that my pelvis is narrow, the baby was too big and I will not be able to make it by natural birth. So I raised the report up and prayed.

After praying on the report, I went to the doctor’s office declaring that I was not going to do any operation. I went home and told my husband, who said, ‘Whose report would you believe?’ I said, ‘The Lord’s report.’ He said, ‘Let us go for communion service.’ When I came for communion service, Pastor Faith Oyedepo was ministering and it was as if she was talking to me as she said, ‘Whose report would you believe?’ My husband just looked at me and laughed. Immediately, I was convinced that as soon as I take the communion, every yoke would be broken. And as I did, all my nerves became relaxed.

The week after, I was in the clinic and another doctor attended to me, referring to the report that I won’t make it without an operation because the baby was too big. Nevertheless,I declared again that I will make it because I know the God I serve. Then I went on a fast the next day and worshipped God in a way I had never done before. After the worship session, I went into labour. Before we got to the hospital, the baby came out right there in the car. When we arrived at the hospital, the baby’s weight was checked, it was 4.2kg. The doctors were surprised, that I had no tear nor cut. I was examined for internal bleeding but there was none. God did it and I give Him all the glory.”

This woman had something to show all the medical personnel just as Jesus said that as often as you eat His flesh and drink His blood in remembrance of Him, you will have something to show for it. You will be showing the validity of His death till He comes; whatever He died for will be evidenced in your life to show that He did not die in vain.

Covenant Toast For Total Health

When Jesus said “this is my flesh”, He was saying, ‘I am giving you my divinely prepared body for your own weakly one. In John 4:31, the disciples were hungry and went to town to buy some food. When they returned, they met Jesus preaching and they implored Him to take some food but Jesus said they should not bother, He could go on without food. He said, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about” (Jn. 4:32 paraphrased).

In the days of the early Christians, sickness was a stranger in their assembly because they were addicted to partaking of the flesh and the blood of Christ on a daily basis. This mystery gave them mastery over every sickness and disease.

The great prescription of the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is the Great Physician’s covenant toast for your total health, spirit, soul and body.

This Great Physician is not just experimenting, He is the manufacturer of man,

for all things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made
John 1:3

Jesus is the Great Specialist in handling His great products. In Him was the light and that light was the light of men, and that light shines in darkness, and darkness cannot comprehend it (John 1:5).

Virtue always flowed from Jesus. People touched His clothes and they were all healed.

They only touched His clothes, not even His flesh and they were healed. Now you are not just touching, you are eating His flesh and drinking His blood,: so, your case is settled!