Sep. 18, 2022

The Partnership of Healing and Wisdom (18 September 2022)

Introduction - Every living Christian sooner or later becomes interested in healing, because everyone at some time or another experiences some kind of weakness due to disease, or accident, or the simple failure of body parts. The Christian church has in view healing through the laying on of hands, which is a powerful tool yielding lots of success. This is only one of God's multi-faceted arsenal of tools to keep us healthy. God wants us to employ all of his tools so we can have the greatest amount of wholeness. The more we experience this, the more our faith grows and the more able we are to help other troubled members of the human race. These tools for wholeness are found in His wisdom.

Proverbs 4:20. My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. 21 Don't lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body. NLT

This summer my wife and I heard the wonderful testimony of a high school classmate of hers who had been healed of terminal cancer. It was the worst type you could imagine, involving her intestines, heart, and lungs (ping pong ball-sized tumors in both lungs). She of course prayed, and had her church friends praying, and had people lay hands on her for healing. In addition, she sought wisdom, feeling that God had directed her to seek it as well as doing the familiar spiritual prayer we usually do. She learned about juicing, that is, extracting the water and nutrients from fresh vegetables and fruits using a juicer machine. It is a relatively simple process. She began doing this daily, along with doing all that her doctors (who really gave her no hope because they had never seen anyone recover from stage four cancer) told her to do. In the following weeks, she oddly began outliving the predictions they had made for her lifespan and couldn't explain the curious images they saw on their scans. She kept steadily recovering and, 9 years later, is a vibrant, whole woman with an amazing testimony and enormous faith for others. She is still juicing today! The two books which helped her are: Radical Remission and Fiber Fueled. She probably tapped into this one small, easily unnoticed bit of advice from God;

Genesis 1:29. Then God said, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food." NLT

A simple message: Eat plants, as many as you can get your hands on!

Genesis 9:20 All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scuny along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power. 3 1 have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables. NLT

A simple message: Eat animals, birds, and fish!

1 Timothy 5:23 Don't drink only water. You ought to drink a little wine for the sake of your stomach because you are sick so often. NLT

A simple message: Drink water, but include with it a little wine!

Conclusion: The charismatic/pentecostal church probably needs to expand its knowledge of alt the wisdom that is available concerning the simple foods God has available for us to live on. We have drifted so far from these simple provisions and substituted for them substances which man has changed into things our body doesn't recognize. We would do well to embrace the disciplines of simple eating and keep practicing the excellent spiritual truths we know concerning fasting, prayer, anointing with oil, spiritual warfare, positive confession, etc. Some writers recognize that cancer, which is a modern-day scourge, is really a deficiency disease. It is absolutely true that God has provided for us all that we need to live strong healthy lives! We don't need to be chemical scientists to succeed at this!