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Wednesday, July 8, 2026
THE HORRORS OF SIN (2): SICKNESS, DISEASE AND AFFLICTION
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 33:24 [KJV]
The root of sickness is iniquity. There was no sickness before sin came on the scene but as soon as sin reigned, sickness, disease and affliction became the lot of the depraved humanity. Every disease has its root in sin. Yahweh made provisions for everything in the Garden of Eden, but not for healing, because man was not created to be sick. But by one man sin came, and sin brought death, and everything that leads to death, including leukaemia, cancer, AIDS, name it (see Romans 5:12). The Lord Yahushua said, “Thy sins are forgiven thee” is the same thing as saying, “Arise and be healed” (see Matthew 9:6), because both sin and sickness have the same root. Every disease is a curse, and a curse is as a result of sin (Deuteronomy 28:15-68). The Bible calls all forms of sicknesses curses, whether fever, chest pain, bad eyesight, deafness, name it. No other theological or medical explanation can be stronger than what the Bible has to say. Sin is at the root of every disease; and until righteousness takes over, sickness will continue. So let go of sin, so you can enjoy eternal life in your health!
Considering Mark 2:1-10, The episode involving the Lord Yahushua and the paralytic makes a distinct connection between sin and sickness. This effect is often subtle because an illness or a poor, weak, rundown state of health may not be the result of a specific sin. It may be the product of a series of sins committed over many years or a lifetime. Sin is so subtle that a worldly person, examining himself for the cause of his sickness, may never consider sin at all. Not knowing Yahweh, he would have no inclination to look for sin as the cause. Our Saviour certainly connects sin with sickness: “Yahushua said, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.’ . . . Afterward Yahushua found him in the temple, and said to him, ‘See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you’” (John 5:8, 14). It could hardly be clearer: Sin produces sickness, pain, and degeneracy.
James 5:15-16 says, “15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up? and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” This is to buttress the fact that sin is at the root of sickness. Until sin is taken out of the way, recovery may be impossible. And is it not much better to live in divine health? Glory be to our heavenly Father that we can confess sin and have them forgiven and cleansed. Do away with sin so that Satan can have nothing in you as excuse to bring sickness upon you.
REMEMBER: At the root of sickness, disease and affliction is sin.
PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your Word to me today. I repent of any sin in my life. Search me Lord and know me; try my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way of everlasting life in the name of the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!
PROPHETIC RELEASE: The tenure of that affliction in your body is over today. Be healed now and receive grace not to go back to that sin again in the Lord Yahushua’s name Amen!
FURTHER READING:
John 5:1-14
ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Psalms 107:1-108:13; Acts 13:13-31
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