Prescription from God

October 8, 2009 > 2 Comments

The past several months I’ve struggled with health issues. I have studied and researched numerous ailments. Too many are vague with no known cause. All are real to the person suffering from the disease.

After a visit to the Doctor and $600 worth of blood tests run (OUCH!) we discovered that I was extremely deficient in Vitamin D and could possibly be suffering from the effects of the Epstein Barr virus when I had mono 3 1/2 years ago.

But I still wasn’t completely satisfied with the diagnosis. So I turned to the Bible to see what it had to say about our health. I was mildly surprised at how MUCH the Bible had to say on this topic!

I wondered if our hearts were right with God and we were living to serve Him and others how our health would be affected?

I wondered if we actually applied Scripture’s solutions we would be healed or at least improved?

Pr 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pr 17:22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

Job 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

Ps 31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Pr 12:4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Are the women in our homes today virtuous!? Look at the definition of virtue:

Moral goodness; the practice of moral duties and the abstaining from vice, or a conformity of life and conversation to the moral law. In this sense, virtue may be, and in many instances must be, distinguished from religion. The practice of moral duties merely from motives of convenience, or from compulsion, or from regard to reputation, is virtue, as distinct from religion. The practice of moral duties from sincere love to God and his laws, is virtue and religion.

Could our actions not only effect our health, but our husband’s health as well!?
Prov 3:7 -8 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Have we ever lived in such a time as now where there is little fear of the Lord? Look at this verse:

II Timothy 3:1-7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Doesn’t sound as if people will be very healthy the closer we come to the Lord’s return does it?

We’ve been told over and over to talk through our problems, figure out why we feel the way we do. But more and more I believe that we are not always to talk through and dwell on our bad moods, our anger and frustration but take our thoughts captive and dwell on Scripture, spiritual music, and prayer.

2 Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Philipps 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

II Corinthians 1:3-4 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Phillip 4:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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