The will of God for your life is that you live all of your days well and whole. Sickness is not from God, that’s a Bible fact. But, there’s more than one side to living in health and wholeness. There are at least two sides. There is the natural side and there is the spiritual side. It’s not really a matter of choosing between the two. Both realms, natural and spiritual are designed to work together. One minister said these words, “The natural plus the supernatural together make an explosive force for God.” That saying is true. In today’s blog, we take a look at why you need both working in your life in order to partake of health and wholeness.

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To Enjoy Health Respect God’s Laws

1 Timothy 5:23 (ESV) — 23 (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

• People have misused this verse for many years now.
• They use the verse as a justification for the use of alcohol.
• It’s not what the verse is saying at all.
• The water quality back in that day was poor.
• It was causing Timothy to have stomach issues.
• So Paul says, use a little wine for the sake of your stomach.
• Notice what he didn’t say.
• He didn’t say, ‘Timothy, you need to use your faith in God and believe Him for your healing.’
• Timothy’s stomach condition was not a matter of divine healing but of divine health.
• In this case, the answer was on the natural side, not the spiritual side.
• It was the water that was causing the problem.
• If the Lord did heal Timothy, he would have gone right back and got sick again when he drank the water.
• So the adjustment that he needed to make was not a matter of faith.
• It was a matter of changing what he was putting into his mouth.
• For years, I’ve taught the following healing principle:
  

  You cannot violate laws of nature and get God’s power to work in your body.

• If your lifestyle is causing you to have physical problems or is leading to sickness or disease in your body, then divine healing is not your answer.
• You have to make sure that you are not violating God’s laws of health and wholeness.
• That’s why Paul told Timothy, ‘Change what you are putting in your mouth.’

God’s Healing Power Is Not A Crutch for Poor Eating Habits

• If you are experiencing health problems and you’re endeavoring to believe God for your health and it’s not working maybe it’s because of what you are putting into your mouth.
• Maybe your diet needs to be adjusted.
• I learned this principle years and years ago.
• I was a young Christian and I was believing the Lord for my healing.
• Many times when I was attacked with cold symptoms, the Lord healed my body.
• But, there was one time when nothing worked.
• I was going through an extensive period of fasting before God.
• One day during this period, I got sick and I asked the Lord to heal me.
• The first day went by and nothing happened,
• The second went by and again, nothing happened,
• The third day went by with the same result.
• I went to the Lord over this failure to receive and these were His words.
• “Break your fast.”
• I was actually offended by these words and resisted this direction.
• The Lord said, “Son, If I healed you today, you would walk back outside and the first germ you encounter would jump right back on you and you’d be sick all over again. Now, break your fast.”
• This time I obeyed Him and drank some orange juice and immediately I was better and I pulled right up out of that sickness.
• You see, I had fasted so much that I compromised my immune system.
• That’s exactly what we do.
• We eat whatever we desire at the moment.
• And our poor eating habits work against the way our body was designed to function.
• We violate God’s laws of health and wholeness.
• Everyone’s system is different.
• My system is different than yours.
• It’s different than my wife’s Sharon’s system.
• Recently, I had to make a switch in my diet.
• It was mostly fairly good, filled with fruits and vegetables.
• But I started to experience some symptoms.
• And I had to make a further adjustment to my diet.
• The very first day of eating the new way, the symptoms disappeared.
• You have to work in line with how God made your body and how it changes as you age.
• That’s divine health.
• Once the change is made, you have a right to go to God if your body is attacked with sickness.
• Because now it’s a foreign outside attack and just not a self-inflicted gunshot wound to your health.

God Made Your Body to Work a Certain Way

• What we are going to be talking about today is divine health – not divine healing.
• Divine healing is what you need after your divine health has been compromised, broken down or attacked.
• Divine health is working with God’s universal laws for your body.
• God made your body to work a certain way.
• You cannot violate these areas, you cannot violate the laws of nature and have everything be okay.
• Your body, your physical body is a house that God gave you to live in, a very gift from His own hand.
• God wants you to take care of that gift that He gave you.

Are You a Gambler with Your Health?

• I addressed this topic in a blog post a few years ago.
• That post speaks of gambling with your health and that small section is included here.
  

  Are you gambling that you can live unhealthy and get away with it? Are you gambling because you read some story about some 106 year old man who smoke and drank and cussed and oh nothing was wrong with him. Well that guy gambled and won as far as lifespan goes but how many gambled and lost. What is the percentage do you think? For every one of those who rolled the dice and won, how many do you suppose died without living out their full length of days? Are you a gambler? Cigarette smoking will cause cancer. Lack of exercise will affect your body. Unhealthy eating habits will bring you down. Are you a gambler? The fact is your body is a gift from God so whose money are you playing with exactly?

• Also, in that post-Dr. Colberts Seven Pillars for Good Health are laid out.¹
• Check out his book and check out the post.

Call to Action: The statement is true; the natural and the supernatural make an explosive force for God. Align yourself with His Word and His laws and you will experience health, healing, and wholeness.

Question: What kind of physical changes have you made in your life which caused you to experience a greater quality of health? Please leave your testimony in the comments section below.

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