Author: debo

James chapter 3 talks about the tongue having great power. I encourage you to read and reread the whole chapter! If we are Spirit controlled, the Spirit of God on the inside of us is more powerful than our flesh (if we make the choice to yield to Him), so we can keep our tongue in check. We have the ability to fill our hearts with the right stuff, so that the overflow will be the right stuff! Because, out of the abundance of our heart our mouths will speak. (Luke 6:45, and Matt 12:34)

Prov 21:23 says this – he who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from trouble. If we want a healthy body, we have to have a healthy soul (thought life). III John verse 2 says, “I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your SOUL prospers.” Souls (our mind, will and emotions) prosper when their heart is full of God’s Word. We make the choice to renew our mind to the Word, and take any thought that doesn’t line up with the Word of God, and bring it into captivity. The book of Proverbs is filled with great faith building scriptures about the tongue and your health. What we say really does matter. So how do you rate your health? My answer is, strong and getting stronger! I hope that is your answer too!

How can we speak the language of health? We hear the language of sickness all around us. We get infused with thoughts of sickness by the media, the enemy of our souls (the devil), and by watching people we know suffer through sickness. Even kids books talk about the elderly in terms of sickness instead of health. We have to make a deliberate attempt to change that in our homes and families. When a commercial on TV says it’s flu season, our kids are used to me saying, not at this house. We can speak the language of health by engrafting God’s Word into our own mouth! God’s Word should be in the forefront of our life all the time! We can do this by listening to it on pod casts or by being in church listening to preaching, by reading God’s Word to our children and ourselves, even by taping scripture verses about healing on our bathroom mirror or on our dashboard. It also means that we talk about healing and health at meal times, when we pray before we eat. We can speak the Word over our meal, and pray that the promise of God’s Word is that he would bless our food and water and remove sickness from the midst of us. Mainly, I encourage you to saturate yourself with the Word, by daily being in the Word. It really is such a powerful tool that God has given us, if we will choose to use it.

Intro:
Don’t you love feeling good? Being healthy is wonderful. Health is something we take for granted until sickness knocks on our door. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. This week will be week 2 of emphasizing good health, and talking about healing. I’m so thankful for the Word of God which encourages us to live in divine health and for the example of Jesus, who, while he was on the earth who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the enemy. I love encouraging believers to rise above the worlds thought that sickness is inevitable or that old and sick are words that have to go together. We can’t get too much of God’s Word on healing! I encourage you, to believe for health and wholeness in your life.

How would you rate your health? There was a study done in the Reader’s Digest a few years back that had some remarkable statistics regarding the answer to that question. It concluded that the answer to that questions was a remarkable predictor of who will live longer. It said that those who say their health is poor were more likely to die within the next four years than those who rate their health as excellent. The interesting aspect to the study was that every one of the respondents was in comparable health. Interesting indeed!

What we believe and what we say has great affects on every part of our life! Proverbs 18:21 confirms this that life and death are in the power of the tongue. What we speak and believe dramatically affects our physical health. What we can do as believers is to have an abundance of God’s Word and His principles in our heart and our mouth, because out of the heart, the mouth speaks. Believe, speak and expect positive changes to happen in our body and our immune system.

Even as I am writing these words, I’m sure many of you are thinking of great Christians that you know that have suffered through all kinds of sicknesses and maybe even died. We don’t have every answer, but what is good to remember is that Jesus came to give abundant life, and it is the devil who comes to kill, steal and destroy. (John 10:10) We do live on an earth that has a curse, but praise God for the wisdom of godly doctors who practice medicine – it is proof that God will continue going to great lengths to have the body of Christ healthy. God made the biggest sacrifice and went to the greatest length of all with His son dying on the cross so we could have life in Him. Although the work was completed, there are still many who the devil inflicts with disease. That is the devil’s M.O. (method of operation), and he doesn’t give up just because we are nice, godly people. In fact, he often picks on us harder because he knows he will get many to believe that it is God’s will to be sick. With that kind of confusion going on in the body of Christ, the devil has a hay day. The saddest part of that whole scenario is that people often believe it and consequently lose heart because God is made out to be the bad guy, and the giver of sickness and disease. Jesus’ desire really is to have it be on earth as it is in heaven as He taught us to pray in the Lord’s Prayer. Heaven is disease free, and for Christians, the earth should be disease free as well.

It would be easy to stay on the topic of healing for a long time, because God’s Word has so much to say about it. Once I get on a roll, I like to keep on rolling! So let’s keep talking about healing!

I had a great revelation some years ago when my oldest daughter and I were talking about pain tolerance. I’ve always been quite proud of the fact that I’m a pretty tough cookie and have a high tolerance for pain. She just mentioned that she wanted to have no pain tolerance, because she didn’t want to tolerate any pain in her life. The light bulb went off in my brain. Duh! Why tolerate pain? We really should be so in tune with our bodies that the moment anything tries to malfunction, we act on it immediately. We rebuke and resist pain immediately. With a high pain tolerance, what do we often do? We tolerate pain, we accept it, we live with it, we treat it as normal. As believers, we should immediately take our stand that Jesus took our pain for us, so we can live unlimited by physical pain. Jesus did the suffering for us, so we can enjoy a healthy life. In my case, my oldest child led me to the truth!

What have you been tolerating in your life? Have you made up your mind because something runs in your family that you will probably have it too? (Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, dementia, Alzheimer’s are some of the biggest fears) I want to challenge you, don’t let those thougths settle in your mind. They are against Christ, and need to be captured. Just like we don’t just tolerate pain, don’t tolerate living in the fear of getting some disease that is common in your family. Stand against it, and choose to let your thoughts and your mouth line up with the belief in your heart that God is your healer, and that Jesus paid the price for you to walk in health. We have to contend for good health – with what we think, what we read, what we believe, and what we put in our bodies.

In Mark 16:19 and 20 right after Jesus gave “The Great Commission” it says that Jesus was taken up into heaven. Verse 20 says something astounding that shows immediate obedience gets results. It says… then the disciples went out and preached everywhere and the Lord worked with them and confirmed His Word by the signs that accompanied it. People got saved, healed and delivered because the disciples obeyed the message Jesus gave them. God places a high premium on obedience. He tells us to not only hear the message but to be doers as well.(James 1:22) So healing isn’t just so I can feel good, it is for others too! God wants us to obey His Word, not only so we get saved, healed and delivered, but so we can see as many as possible come into His Kingdom and be saved, healed and delivered. It is all about the Kingdom of God. His great commission isn’t just a good suggestion, or even just a good idea. It is God’s will for us; that we go about, just like Jesus did, doing good and healing all who were/are oppressed of the devil. It might feel scary, but Jesus promised He would never leave us or forsake us. He will be with us. To me that means, you’ve got this! Its like God saying, go for it! We can do it, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and great things can happen in us, to us and through us!

It is good to remember why Jesus came, and what He told us, his disciples, to do when He left. He came so that we can be in relationship with God, and live the abundant life. Abundant life includes living and walking in health. Then, He left us with instructions. The Great Commission describes perfectly what we are to be doing as believers. We are to go into all of the world and preach (share or tell) the gospel. He gave us the authority to use His name and go about doing good, just like He did. Luke 4:18,19 is not only what Jesus did on the earth, but it is now our scripture –

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon us, and He has anointed us to tell the good news to the poor, to proclaim freedom for prisoners, recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed and proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Jesus came to destroy the enemy’s work, and it is up to us to enforce His victory. We can’t live nonchalantly, with the attitude whatever will be, will be. We are on this earth to protect and preserve it…..we are called the salt of the earth, and that is what salt does. We have to contend for good health! Just because healing is God’s will, doesn’t mean it will happen automatically. We have to believe that Jesus provided it for us, and then begin walking in it. Every day, we are getting stronger. Every day, our body is receiving the healing of the Lord. Every day, we walking toward divine health.

If you are dealing with sickness or disease right now, a great revelation is one that Abraham came to understand. How could it be that he would be the father of many nations? Even when it looked like the promise of God was not ever going to happen, he called those things which were not, as though they were. Abraham became fully persuaded that God would do what He promised. He spoke the promise every time he said his name – I am Abraham, the father of many. He declared the truth, regardless of the circumstances.

We can do the same…. let the weak say, I am strong….let the poor say, I am rich……let the sick say, I am well. I call my body well! If you notice, the Bible doesn’t say, let the weak say I feel strong, it says to say I am strong. The war that goes on in us is that when we don’t feel healed or rich, we don’t feel like we can say that we are. Remember what the Bible says, call those things that are not, like feeling sick, as though they are, healthy and well. The truth is the Word. Jesus said, my Words are truth in John 17:17. The alternate reality is that you might have contrary symptoms, but you are on the path to health. No weapon formed against you will prosper. I encourage you to call your body well.

Let’s do some sickness prevention by keeping God’s Word with our mouths, today. Here are some good things to speak: Jesus wants me well. He made provision for me to walk in health all the days of my life. Jesus bore my sins and sicknesses in His body on the tree so that I can live an abundant life, free from sickness and disease. The stripes Jesus took on His back carried my sickness and my pain so I don’t have to carry them. God sent His Word and healed me. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, lives within me and quickens (makes whole) my mortal body. I attend to God’s Word and incline my ears to His sayings. I keep them in the midst of my heart, for they are life and health to all my flesh. The life of God flows within me bringing healing to every fiber of my being. I am redeemed from the curse of the law. Jesus reversed the curse on my behalf. Every cell that does not promote life and health in my body is cut off from its life source. My immune system is strong, and my new blood line in Christ is free from sickness and disease. I resist and rebuke any symptoms that attack my body. I stand firm in the Word, declaring the promise that the Lord has blessed my food and water and has removed sickness from me. A long, healthy, fruitful life is mine because I am made new in Christ. Let’s believe it and walk in faith today. Faith is believing what God says, more than what we see. It’s believing something you can’t see yet based on what God has promised! We were never meant to live on this planet without the Word of God. It’s our instruction manual and our lifeline.

I am pretty sure that you are like me, and love feeling good! Being healthy is wonderful. Health is something we take for granted until sickness knocks on our door. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your dailyeword. We are going to talk about healing for the next two weeks. I’m so thankful for the Word of God which encourages us to live in divine health and for the example of Jesus, who, while he was on the earth who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the enemy. I love encouraging believers to rise above the common world’s thoughts that sickness is inevitable or that old and sick are words that go together. I encourage you, to believe for health and wholeness in your life.

This week I will be emphasizing healthy living. It is so much better to prevent a sickness than to have to recover from one. I can hear you saying AMEN to that! Eating healthy food and moving your body, are two great keys for a long, healthy, fruitful life. Another important key is remembering that the words we speak have the power of life and death. This is such a vital truth that works both negatively and positively. In Mark 11:23, Jesus said that we have what we say. What are you saying? Believing and speaking the language of health has life long benefits. This week we’re going to talk about God’s Word being medicine and bringing health to our flesh. It is amazing how many scriptures in the Bible talk about healing. God sent His Word and healed them (Ps 107:20). Proverbs 4:22 says that God’s Word is life to those who find them and health to all their flesh. Isaiah 53:4,5 says that by His (Jesus’) stripes, we are healed. I Peter 2:24 says that by His (Jesus’) stripes we WERE healed. It is a past tense done deal! Jesus made provision for healing as well as salvation when He died on the cross. In Matthew 9:5 Jesus asks the question, which is easier, to forgive sins or heal a body? Jesus made it clear that both are covered by the cross. Don’t you love his answer? Jesus spoke to the paralyzed man and told him to rise and walk. Sins were remitted and his body was healed. Continuing in Matthew chapter 9 we see the woman with the issue of blood, the ruler with the sick daughter, the blind, and the those who couldn’t speak, all received healing. It is not the well that need the healing, Jesus said in Matthew 9:12, but the sick. Jesus was moved with compassion and just kept doing what He was sent to do, proclaiming the good news, curing all kinds of disease and every weakness and infirmity.

Just like we would faithfully take vitamins or medicine directed by the doctor, let’s daily receive the provision of the cross and believe and practice God’s Word to prevent sickness and live in health and wholeness.