Did you know that your chances of dying of heart disease may be as high as 50%? Your chances of dying of cancer may be as high as 30%?
This article will empower you to beat these statistics.
To understand the concepts of healing, we first need to know:
Why do we get sick?
Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health.
What does this mean?
1. The symptoms of disease (e.g. pain‚ fever‚ and inflammation) are nature’s effort to get better.
2. Disease comes because we are violating God’s physical laws.
How can symptoms of disease be our body’s effort to recover?
Disease is not a negative condition which should be combated and suppressed ('cured')‚ but a self-defensive‚ protective effort of the body to restore health. Pain is our body's way of telling us that something is wrong. Inflammation is a re-constructive process and should not be suppressed. Every acute disease is an effort of nature to cleanse and heal. When suppressed‚ it becomes sub-acute‚ and then‚ with time‚ chronic and degenerative.
How is disease the result of violating God’s physical laws?
Medicine suggests that we are victims of sickness‚ attacked by a bad organism‚ having a bad organ‚ cursed by bad genes‚ etc. In reality‚ illness is most often a result of our own choices not dependent on uncontrollable factors. Disease-causing organisms are scavengers; they cannot find a home in a healthy body with a strong immune system. Bacteria‚ virus‚ or parasitic infection is not the primary cause of disease but rather its result. Even the father of the germ theory‚ Pasteur‚ began to understand the true relationship of germs to disease late in his life‚ when he stated: “The germ is nothing‚ the soil [the condition of the body] is everything‚” meaning that a germ can only thrive in a suitable environment.
God's law is written by His own finger upon every nerve‚ every muscle‚ and every faculty which has been entrusted to man. God in His wisdom has established natural laws for the proper control of dress‚ appetites‚ and passions‚ and He requires of us obedience in every particular; this determines the condition of our health. All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to obedience or to transgression of natural law.
God loves His creatures with a love that is both tender and strong. He has established the laws of nature; but His laws are not arbitrary exactions. Every "Thou shalt not‚" whether in physical or moral law‚ contains or implies a promise. If it is obeyed‚ blessings will attend our steps; if it is disobeyed‚ the result is danger and unhappiness. The transgression of the physical law is transgression of God's law. As sin is the transgression of the moral law‚ disease is the transgression of the physical law.
Florence Nightingale once said‚ “There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.” Disease is merely a departure from normal health. A careful conformity to the laws which God has implanted in our being will insure health‚ and there will not be a breaking down of the constitution. God has pledged Himself to keep this machinery in healthful action if the human agent will obey His laws‚ and co-operate with him. “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God‚ and wilt do that which is right in his sight‚ and wilt give ear to his commandments‚ and keep all his statutes‚ I will put none of these diseases upon thee… for I am the LORD that healeth thee.” Exodus 15:26.
When we realize that disease is the result of transgression of God’s physical laws‚ the cure for it is found in identifying the cause. Remove the cause and we have found the cure.
So what should I do when I get sick?
The greatest cause of human suffering is ignorance on the subject of how to treat our own bodies. In case of sickness‚ the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed‚ and wrong habits corrected. Then‚ nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.
When the abuse of health is carried so far that sickness results‚ we can often do what no one else can do for ourselves:
1. First find out what is causing the disease‚ because disease never comes without a cause. Reason with yourself‚ “What could I have done to become sick?” In the beginning reasoning from cause to effect may be challenging to ascertain but with practice and conscious awareness it will become easy. And then you will be able to say like David‚ “I understand more than the ancients‚ because I keep Thy precepts.” Psalm 119:100.
2. Remove the cause; stop doing the things that made you sick.
3. Assist the body’s efforts to expel impurities by using natural remedies and trusting in God.
4. Lastly‚ do not endeavor to adjust the difficulties by adding a burden of poisonous medicines.
How can I obtain Heaven’s healing?
Christ desires that humanity co-operates with divinity. What human power can do divine power is not summoned to do. God does not dispense with man's aid. He strengthens him‚ co-operating with him as he uses the powers and capabilities given him.
There are many ways of practicing the healing art; but there is only one way that Heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties. Pure air and water‚ cleanliness‚ proper diet‚ purity of life‚ and a firm trust in God‚ these are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate. Fresh air‚ exercise‚ pure water‚ and clean‚ sweet premises‚ are within the reach of all‚ with but little expense; but drugs are expensive‚ both in the outlay of means‚ and the effect produced upon the system.
God is greatly dishonored by the way in which man treats his organism‚ and He will not work a miracle to counteract a perverse violation of the laws of life and health. The Lord has made it a part of His plan that man's reaping shall be according to his sowing.
However‚ it is a safe proposition that after a person has done all in his power to search out and put away the cause of his disease‚ and it is found to be after all‚ that the cause is beyond all human effort to remove. Then‚ if the one sole aim of his healing is the glory of God and the keeping of the commandments of God‚ he may with perfect confidence and full assurance of faith ask the Lord to heal him.
Still‚ while presenting our petitions with earnestness‚ we should say‚ “Nevertheless not my will‚ but Thine‚ be done.” Luke 22:42. We do not know whether the blessing we desire will be best for us or not. Therefore‚ our prayers should include this thought: “Lord if it is for Thy glory that my health be restored‚ I ask‚ in the name of Jesus. If it be not Thy will give me Thy grace to comfort and Thy presence to sustain me.”
So what is the only method of obtaining healing that heaven approves of?
If your doctor were to inform you that to get better you would only have to take eight different pills a day‚ and he gave them to you for free‚ would you try them? The likelihood is you would. Today‚ the Greatest Physician in the universe is offering us eight remedies that one can take everyday and get better and stay well. Moreover they are so simple. Will we accept His offer?
God often uses the simplest means to accomplish the greatest results. Goliath the giant was killed by a small pebble. The power did not come from the pebble‚ but from David’s faith and obedience to God. Naaman the leper was healed by washing in the river of Jordan‚ because by obeying he expressed trust and obedience to God. Today‚ “Jesus Christ the same yesterday‚ and today‚ and forever” (Hebrews 13:8)‚ the only true Physician‚ would like to share with us eight remedies to prevent illness andobtain His healing.
These remedies are better than the orthodox medicines that the world gives because‚ firstly‚ they are free; secondly‚ they work for all; and lastly‚ they have no bad side-effects (only good ones like more energy‚ greater endurance‚ sharper memory‚ younger-looking skin‚ loss of extra weight‚ etc).
How is it possible that the same eight remedies work for all?
Although externally we may look different‚ internally our bodies are governed by the same physical laws of nature. That is why the same plan works for everyone.
Okay‚ so what are these eight remedies that Jesus has for us?
Watch out!
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