GOD’S MEDICINE AND YOUR

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HEALTH—PART 1

Medical science tells us there are

many incurable diseases, such as some

forms of cancer, arthritis, heart disease,

and AIDS, just to name a few. Even

though there are no known medical

cures for many diseases, God’s Word is

a supernatural cure and offers

supernatural hope to all who are

afflicted.

The Bible is the Manufacturer’s

handbook revealing how to take care of

what God has made. In the book of

Proverbs, God reveals some vital

information concerning your health and

well being:

My son, attend to my words;

incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Let them not depart from thine

eyes; keep them in the midst of

thine heart. For they are life unto

those that find them, and health to

all their flesh. (Proverbs 4:20-22)

What you believe generally

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determines what happens to you in life.

Your words are building blocks that

determine your life and future. Your

words set the cornerstones of your life,

and you live within the confines of that

boundary you create with your own

words. Situations, circumstances, and

conditions are all subject to change, but

with the support of your words you can

establish them in your life forever.

The following article, titled “Patient

Knows Best,” appeared in the August

1991 issue of The Readers Digest:

A persons’ answer to the

question, ‘Is your health excellent,

good, fair or poor?’ Is a remarkable

predictor of who will live or die

over the next four years according

to new findings.

A study of more than 2800

men and women 65 and older found

that those who rate their health

‘poor’ are four to five times more

likely to die in the next four years

than those who rate their health

‘excellent’. This was the case even

if the examinations show the

respondents to be in comparable

health.

These findings are supported

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by a review of five other large

studies, totaling 23,000 people,

which reached similar conclusions,

according to Ellen Idler, a

sociologist at Rutgers University,

and epidemiologist Stanislav Kasl

of Yale University School of

Medicine, co-authors of the new

study.

People who have an image of

themselves being in poor health will talk

about poor health. Even though they

may be in good health, they seem to live

out the reality of the image they have of

themselves even unto death.

What you believe and speak not

only affects your body but your immune

system as well. Your words become

either a blessing or a curse to you.

There is probably no other truth

more important to healing and health

than these verses admonishing us to

keep God’s Word in our hearts. This is

the basic principle of calling things that

are not. This one principle could be the

key to your being a partaker of God’s

provisions concerning your health.

Calling things that are not is the

principle by which Abraham became

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fully persuaded. Paul said Abraham

believed God, "... who quickeneth the

dead, and calleth those things which be

not as though they were” (Romans

4:17).

Paul was referring to Genesis

chapter 17 where God changed Abram’s

name to Abraham, which meant “father

of nations, or multitude.” This was the

means He used to teach Abraham to call

into reality what he did not yet have in

his possession. God had established it

by promise, but Abraham had to call it

into reality by mixing faith with God’s

Word (Hebrews 4:1-2).

Every time he said, “I am

Abraham,” he was calling things that

were not yet manifest. Abraham didn’t

deny that he was old. He didn’t go

around saying, “I’m not old,” because

he was old. But he said, “I am

Abraham” (Father of Nations). This was

God’s method of helping him change

his image, and it caused him to be fully

persuaded. Faith came by hearing what

God said about him.

Just as Abraham, you also must call

those things which are not yet seen in

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the natural, if you are to live in the

reality of God’s promise. For God uses

unseen spiritual forces to overcome

natural things. I Corinthians 1:27-28

says, “God hath chosen ... things which

are not, to bring to nought things that

are.” Your part is to speak what is true

according to God’s Word.

David said, “I believe, therefore have I

spoken...” (Psalm 116:10). Quoting David,

Paul wrote, “We have the same spirit of faith,

according as it is written, I believed, and

therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and

therefore speak” (II Corinthians 4:13).

When it comes to divine healing

this is a vital principle. For God’s Word

is life, health, and medicine to all your

flesh. Psalm 107:20 tells us that God,

“... sent his word, and healed them, and

delivered them from their destructions.”

(Notice that God did not send His Word

to heal, but He sent His Word and

healed.)

The truth is that by Jesus’ stripes

“... ye were healed” (I Peter 2:24). Your

healing is a complete work as far as

God’s Word is concerned. Yet you must

be fully persuaded of it and call it into

manifestation.

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HEALING IS IN YOUR MOUTH

One way to administer God’s

medicine to your body is to keep God’s

Word in your mouth. Paul said, “The

Word is nigh you even in your mouth

and then in your heart.” But, instead of

calling things that are not, most people

make the mistake of calling things the

way they are and by doing so they

establish present circumstances.

Many years ago, I heard about a

lady who had a fever continually for

several months. Doctors couldn’t find

anything wrong physically. They

questioned her thoroughly and

discovered that when she got upset

about anything, she would say, “that

just burns me up.” She used that phrase

several times a day.

The doctors were not sure if it had

anything to do with her condition or not,

but they asked her not to use the phrase

anymore. Within weeks, her body

temperature was normal.

Now let me ask you, how many

times have you said, “Every time I eat

that, it makes me sick... My back is just

killing me... Those kids make me so

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nervous... I’m trying to take the flu...”?

Your own words are giving instructions

to your body and it will be greatly

influenced by those words. It may even

shut down your immune system.

God’s method is to call for health

even though it is not yet a reality in your

body. Speak to your body and call it the

way God said in His Word: healed. This

is a way to exercise your God-given

authority over your body.

APPLY SPIRITUAL MEDICINE

To exercise your authority over

your body, God’s Word must be

allowed to become part of you. This

process is called “receiving the

engrafted Word.”

When you declare God’s promises

concerning your healing, you are

establishing God’s truth even though it

is not yet a reality in your body. This is

not denying that sickness exists. It is

denying sickness the right to exist in

your body.

Just as you would take medicine

into your physical body to aid healing

by physical means, so you must receive

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God’s Word concerning healing into

your spirit for supernatural healing. Just

as medical science aids healing through

physical means by administering

medicine into the physical body, God’s

medicine provides divine healing by

administering the promises of His Word

through the human spirit. God’s Word

can heal your body, but it does it

through spiritual means.

Although it is a spiritual cure,

God’s Word is like any other medicine

in that it must be applied on a regular

basis. You apply God’s Word to your

individual circumstances or situation by

the confession of your mouth. No one

else can do it for you. James

admonished us to “... receive with

meekness the engrafted word, which is

able to save your souls” (James 1:21).

God’s Word becomes engrafted into

your heart as you speak it. It is first in

your mouth, then in your heart ... this is

God’s order.

The r i g h t e o u s n e s s w h i c h i s

o f faith ... says... The word is nigh thee,

even in thy mouth, and in thy heart...

(Romans 10:6- 8, paraphrased). Nothing

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builds your faith more than declaring

with your own voice what God has said

about you in His Word.

When you declare God’s promises

concerning your healing, you are

establishing God’s truth even before it

is a reality in your body. Let me say it

again, this is not denying that sickness

exists. It is denying sickness the right to

exist in your body. It is taking your

rightful position as one who has been

redeemed from the curse of the law and

delivered from the authority of darkness

(Galatians 3:13; Colossians 1:13).

Some people who have

misunderstood this principle try to deny

what exists. But there is no power in

denying what exists. The power is in

calling for healing and health, and you

do that by mixing faith with God’s

Word.

If you are sick, you don’t deny that

you are sick. Then on the other hand,

you don’t want to always be confessing

your sickness. Denying sickness will not

make you well; yet, confessing sickness

can establish you in your present

circumstance and give you a mindset of

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fear.

Make a decision to mix faith with

God’s Word and call for God’s

promises to be manifest in your body.

The mixing of your faith with God’s

Word will cause you to be fully

persuaded. When you become fully

persuaded, healing is the result.

MARANATHA!

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Document Outline

- God's Medicine and Your Health - Part 1

- 1 God’s Medicine and Your Health—Part 1

- Healing Is in Your Mouth

- Apply Spiritual Medicine

Table of Contents

God's Medicine and Your Health - Part 1

1 God’s Medicine and Your Health—Part 1

Healing Is in Your Mouth

Apply Spiritual Medicine