" And He arose, and rebuke the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm"If we read from verse 37 to 38 we discover that there was a great storm that troubled the boat that Christ and his disciples were in. The approach that Jesus used in handling the storm has a very strong spiritual meaning. For instance, Christ rebuked the wind and we know from scriptures that the winds denotes a spirit , either good or bad. The good spirits are the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the regenerated man and angels while bad spirits are demons, familiar spirits, devils etc. The rebuke Christ issued towards the wind is to halt the operation of the wind which directly affects the sea. We should also note that the sea is a symbol of man. So we see that the rebuke halted the winds operation but did not stop the sea from its rage
This is because the effect of the wind was still in manifestation on the sea- it just like when you turn off the power supply rotating a fan, the fan continues to rotate for a while before it finally stops. This is exactly what happens to a person whom the spirit of infirmity has been driven out from, the effect of the spirit still affects the person for a while before wholeness- thats if the person maintains his or her faith till full recovery any element of doubt will reinstate the evil spirit. The concept of wholeness is this- ones the spirit of infirmity has been rebuked the minister must speak wholeness to the delivered person to bring about restoration to health.
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