He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
The verse belongs to a psalm that teaches the need to appreciate God's goodness, mercy, and love. It pictures people afflicted because of transgression and iniquity, whose soul loathes food and who draw near to the gates of death, crying to the Lord in trouble and being saved out of distress when He sends His word to heal them and deliver them from their destructions. The sent word is God's word acting as an instrument of healing and deliverance, bringing life and power, so that healing and deliverance from death come from God through the power of His word. Through His word Jesus healed disease and cast out demons.
The sent word was God's message of warning sent through Jonah to Nineveh, bringing healing and deliverance from destruction. The Ninevites had long sat in spiritual darkness and in bondage in affliction. When the Ninevites cried to the Lord in trouble and turned to God, His sent word healed them and delivered them from the destruction hanging over them, so the repentant city was spared and the glory of His grace was revealed among the heathen. Though the predicted overthrow of Nineveh did not come to pass, the warning message was truly from God and accomplished the purpose He meant it to do.
God is remembered when sickness comes and human strength fails and life slips away, He never turns from the soul that in sincerity seeks Him for help, and He is a refuge in sickness as in health. God will be a present help to those who turn to Him, confess their backsliding, and seek His help in every time of need. In caring for the sick, prayer is to be joined with practical effort, and after doing their best people may look to God for His presence and healing, since trust in the great Healer and hope in what He can do benefit the sick.
When a patient survives a crisis, the physician should thank God in prayer with the patient and point the patient to Christ, who pities the sufferer and gives wisdom and skill to those who ask.
The verse belongs to a psalm that teaches the need to appreciate God's goodness, mercy, and love. It pictures people afflicted because of transgression and iniquity, whose soul loathes food and who draw near to the gates of death, crying to the Lord in trouble and being saved out of distress when He sends His word to heal them and deliver them from their destructions. The sent word is God's word acting as an instrument of healing and deliverance, bringing life and power, so that healing and deliverance from death come from God through the power of His word. Through His word Jesus healed disease and cast out demons.
The sent word was God's message of warning sent through Jonah to Nineveh, bringing healing and deliverance from destruction. The Ninevites had long sat in spiritual darkness and in bondage in affliction. When the Ninevites cried to the Lord in trouble and turned to God, His sent word healed them and delivered them from the destruction hanging over them, so the repentant city was spared and the glory of His grace was revealed among the heathen. Though the predicted overthrow of Nineveh did not come to pass, the warning message was truly from God and accomplished the purpose He meant it to do.
God is remembered when sickness comes and human strength fails and life slips away, He never turns from the soul that in sincerity seeks Him for help, and He is a refuge in sickness as in health. God will be a present help to those who turn to Him, confess their backsliding, and seek His help in every time of need. In caring for the sick, prayer is to be joined with practical effort, and after doing their best people may look to God for His presence and healing, since trust in the great Healer and hope in what He can do benefit the sick.
When a patient survives a crisis, the physician should thank God in prayer with the patient and point the patient to Christ, who pities the sufferer and gives wisdom and skill to those who ask.