Introduction to Biblical Healing

Biblical Healing – Introduction

(Part One in a series of Biblical Healing teachings)

First and foremost, I am humbled to be presenting God’s Word in a manner that I have known yet did not previously carry it out to fruition.

Please note that the information presented within is NOT of my opinion but from numerous sources - too many to list. However, I will try to let you know when I offer an opinion. 

Disclaimer (I borrowed from the Internet):

The information on this site is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content is for general information purposes only. I make no representation and assume no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in or available through this article, and such information is subject to change without notice. You are encouraged to confirm any information obtained from or through this web site with other sources, and review all information regarding any medical condition or treatment with your physician. NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS ARTICLE.  

The fun part is that some of the information you may disagree with, which is OK but I ask only one consideration – if you disagree with any of the information then do the research and prove what is presented to be wrong. What I mean about research is not an opinion piece (webMD) that supports your argument, but true scientific data collaborated across all communities.

You see, everyone has an opinion and as allegedly quoted by Adolph Hitler:

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

As you will learn later, I was led into learning the truth about health because I believed the lie that was big enough and told frequently enough that I, along with most of the world, believed it.

Again, welcome. The first question that I have for you is “Why are we here” OK, think Biblically and eternally, why did God put us here?

The answer lies in Matthew 28:19:

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”

For that reason we must start here to establish motivation and purpose before the proceeding with the follow-on presentations. You see, what I really want to discuss won’t fit in one presentation effectively but we can start here.

So let us first establish some basic truisms:

•         What does not strengthen our immune systems weakens it

•         There is not one prescription drug that heals*

•         God design our bodies to be self-regulating and self-healing

•         The medical industry does not profit from healthy people

•         The FDA was not created to protect us citizens

•         The Hippocratic Oath “Do No Harm” is no longer a requirement

•         General Practitioners are taught today to “manage disease” not “cure”

•         Medical Schools teach one course in Nutrition

•          "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." – Hippocrates

•         Inflammation is the root cause of all diseases

•         National Institute of Health is comprised of 80+ pharmaceutical companies

•         Being Healthy is our natural state

•         God’s Word is Truth

*Antibiotics appropriately prescribed and appropriately applied may be an exception)

Professional writers suggest one to focus on a maximum of three points but I have this problem – I tend to deviate and go off on tangents so who knows where we travel but I must meet three goals:

First: As Christians, why is our health so important since I have salvation?

Second: Why do I need the Bible when I have doctors, health insurance, and prescription drugs galore?

Third: Does the Bible really prescribe health guidance AND healing remedies?

OK, so let’s return to my opening question and recall your answers to – Why did God put us here by remember what the apostle Paul say about a believer’s body?

“Don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.” (1 Cor 6:20)

So, how can we honor God with our bodies?

Do you realize that being healthy is our natural state? Being healthy is what God intended for us.

Besides, how can we be effective disciples if we are not in the best of health?

Yes, many of us have personally witnessed individuals within our church family being Christ-like while suffering through personal tribulations, some terminal - so I am not suggesting that God cannot use us if we are not perfectly well. Quite the opposite.

So then, what is our motivation to follow a path of health and healing?

 Well, let’s pose that question a bit differently. If our health as Christians is not important to us, or to God, then why did God give us plants for our medications (Ezekiel 47:12 and Revelation 22:2)?

“The fruit will be for food and the leaves for healing.”

“The leaves were used for medicine to heal the nations.”

Then why did God provide specific foods as in 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.”

Then why was healing part of Jesus’s ministry?

“I will give you back your health and heal your wounds,” says the LORD. (Jer 30:17)

Also in Luke 9:1:

“One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases.”

Obviously we can cite instances in Scripture all night but one observation I find interesting is that almost every time Jesus healed spiritually He also healed physically.

So, if physical health was important to Jesus then should it not be important to us!

Also, as we will learn later in this discussion, as we segue from this introduction; there are 1,031 references in Scripture to “healing/anointing” oils - oil producing plants and their healing applications.  (Healing Oils of the Bible by David Stewart, Ph.D.)

So the question for each me, and perhaps other Christians is:

“why do I not consult the Holy Bible first for health and wellness direction instead of first running to the doctor’s office?”

Well, speaking for myself that is for something I need to pray about.

So then, who is responsible for our health? In comparison, could we ask who is responsible for our salvation?

Pastor?
Church?

Family member?

Spouse?

Friend?

Nope, I alone am responsible for my health and my salvation.

But then what role does the medical profession have on my health?

Well, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ 2014):  

• The United States spends more on health care as a percentage of GDP than other developed countries, but Americans are less healthy.
• America spent more than 17% of its gross domestic product on medical care and drugs in 2014. Yet our life expectancy at birth was only 78.8 years according to the latest data available--lower than most developed countries.
• World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems ranked the USA 37th, just two above Cuba.
• It's a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year.
• Nearly 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to FDA-approved prescription drugs. That's twenty-five times the number of people killed by H1N1 swine flu (even if you believe the CDC's numbers). So where's the big warning about the dangers of prescription drugs? Why isn't the CDC warning Americans about an "epidemic of dangerous drugs" that poses a far greater threat to your health? (Natural News)
• The Mayo Clinic lists acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) as one of the major causes of acute liver failure—and the most common cause of liver failure in the US. Within days of taking a very large dose of Tylenol, acute liver failure can develop. 
• Tylenol overdose may overwhelm the liver's defenses and cause liver damage or even liver failure. Liver failure can be fatal; the only known cure for acute liver failure is a liver transplant.  
• It is estimated that acetaminophen poisoning calls exceed 100,000 per year. Studies indicate that acetaminophen overdose results in over 56,000 injuries, 2,500 hospitalizations, and an estimated 450 deaths per year. (For more information on Acetaminophen poisoning visit eMedicalHealth.)

OK, Healthcare in America is deadly and Tylenol leads the list, but what about our individual habits? Are we making ourselves sick?

According to The Makers Diet by Jordan S. Rubin, our everyday habits and practices just may be leading us down the path to dis-ease! And one can be sure that this list is just a sampling list.

•  Staying out of the sun
• Going to bed after midnight
• Never letting them see you sweat
• Taking Megavitamins
• Consuming Fluoride (toothpaste, mouthwash, drinking water)
• Using artificial sweeteners
• Showering every day
• Swimming in chlorinated pools (drinking & bathing)
• Not breast feeding babies
•  Getting tattoos
•  Getting all of your immunization shots
• Traveling in airplanes frequently
• Exposing to EMF
• Using commercial hygiene and antibacterial products
• Taking lots of medications
• Getting cavities filled with mercury
• Over-doing aerobic exercises
• Wearing contact lenses / receiving implants
• Living in a toxic homes
• Wearing synthetic fabrics
• Breathing with shallow breaths
• Not fully chewing food
• Using plastic food storage products
• Eating non-organic foods
• Wearing tight clothing
• Electing surgery to remove “unnecessary body parts”
• Visiting your doctor often

(I suggest that you read the referenced book to learn the validity behind each of these points.)

Now we are going to learn about Essential Oils (EO's) as related to Anointing oils. As an introduction to these oils, a quick comparison between EO’s and pharmaceutical drugs is in order.

The information below derived from Health Impact News, 2019, comparing Essential Oils to pharmaceutical drugs.

• Drugs and oils work in opposite ways. Drugs toxify. Oils detoxify.
• Drugs clog and confuse receptor sites. Oils clean receptor sites.
• Drugs depress the immune system. Oils strengthen the immune system.
• Antibiotics attack bacteria indiscriminately, killing both the good and the bad. Oils attack only the harmful bacteria, allowing our body’s friendly flora to flourish.
• Drugs are one-dimensional, programmed like robots to carry out certain actions in the body, whether the body can benefit from them or not. When body conditions change, drugs keep on doing what they were doing, even when their actions are no longer beneficial.
•  Essential oils are multi-dimensional, filled with homeostatic intelligence to restore the body to a state of healthy balance. When body conditions change, oils adapt, raising or lowering blood pressure as needed, stimulating or repressing enzyme activity as needed, energizing or relaxing as needed. 
•  Oils are smart. Drugs are dumb.
• Drugs are designed to send misinformation to cells or block certain receptor sites in order to trick the body into giving up symptoms. But drugs never deal with the actual causes of disease. They aren’t designed for that purpose. While they may give prompt relief for certain uncomfortable symptoms, because of their strange, unnatural design, they will always disrupt certain other bodily functions. Thus, you always have some side effects.
• Oil molecules send information to cells and cleanse receptor sites so that they bring your body back to natural function. Oils are balancing to the body. Drugs are unbalancing to the body.
•  Oils address the causes of disease at a cellular level by deleting misinformation and reprogramming correct information so that cells function properly and in harmony with one another.
• With drugs, misinformation is fed into the cells so that some temporary relief may be obtained, but there is never any true healing. 
• Drugs only trade one kind of disease for another.
•  Because essential oils properly applied always work toward the restoration of proper bodily function, they do not cause undesirable side effects. They are feeding the body with truth. 
•  Drugs feed the body with lies. While no amount of truth can contradict itself, it doesn’t take many lies before contradictions occur and the body suffers ill effects.

Are you getting to see the difference between God's plan compared to the world's plan for your health and wellness? From the above comparison would you opt for God's anointing oils or man's pharmaceutical drugs?

Again, the purpose of this discussion was to establish motivation for you to continue on your quest of reaching optimum health; and purpose by disclosing that only you are responsible for your health. The “Biblical Healing” series should help influence you on your path to freedom from dis-ease! Always discuss your medical concerns with your medical physician but remember something very important - they were all trained by the pharmaceutical industry.