Health of body and restoration of the sick depend on the faith, submission and obedience of the suppliant and are the prerogative of God. God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.”1

A recognized author from the 1800s, AT Jones, well respected for his contributions to our understandings of “righteousness by faith” declares:

“Health reform, as such, is to be practiced by faith in Christ. And when our people get to that place where they will live health reform by faith in Christ, then they will live righteousness by faith in Christ. Any one who does not live righteousness by faith in Christ, cannot live health reform as God has given it. One is just as really a matter of faith as the other. Did not God give it? Has he not prescribed it? Is he not the source of it? Does he not intend to be not only the author but the finisher of it? Then is it not of faith? Read Romans, fourteenth chapter, and note especially the last verse, and the last words of that verse,—'Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.’ And this is spoken of eating and drinking, too. Well, let us get hold of it that way, and apply it that way, and then that will bring in a better practice of health reform among us.”2

This means I carry out in faith that which I know to be the best according to God’s revealed will and I rest in confidence that God will do the rest. Another author says it this way: “If the sick and suffering will do only as well as they know in regard to living out the principles of health reform perseveringly, then they will in nine cases out of ten recover from their ailments.”3 The implication is, 90% of the diseases from which we suffer are related in some way to our lifestyle practices, good, bad or negligent. Can we expect or ask the blessing of God on poor management of the physical resources with which He has endowed us? Can we expect Him to save us from ourselves despite an ambivalence over His instructions regarding the preservation of our bodies from disease? Can I in good faith pray for healing while continuing the lifestyle practices which brought disease? On the other hand, is worry about illness reasonable if I have done all in my knowledge and power to be a diligent custodian of my physical endowments?

To better understand this, a realization of the involvement of God in our existence is relevant. Did He just create everything and then leave it to run all on its own, like a perpetual motion machine? Has God made me so very intricate and complicated only to hand off the maintenance of this precious body machinery to me? Or is He at work keeping it all in order? His word declares to us that: “He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;” that: “in him we live, and move, and have our being;”4 And that He is: “upholding all things by the word of his power”5 The reason why all things continue is that: “he is strong in power; not one faileth.”6 There is not a breath you take, nor a move you make, that is not a blessing directly from God at that very moment. Were it not for Him, all life would disintegrate. Feel for your pulse! Have you noticed the hand of God in your life today?

“The mechanism of the human body cannot be fully understood; it presents mysteries that baffle the most intelligent. It is not as the result of a mechanism, which, once set in motion, continues its work, that the pulse beats and breath follows breath. In God we live and move and have our being. Every breath, every throb of the heart, is a continual evidence of the power of an ever-present God.”7

Reach down and find your pulse; that predictable throb is God at work in your life. Do you trust Him?

And so, the question arises, If He sustains me in everything I do, is He not just as able to make me well as to sustain me in sickness? And what would make the difference? I believe His words in Exodus 15:26 have the answer:

“If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.”8

So long as we cooperate with God, obeying His instructions for the care of our bodies and souls, He can do for us that which we cannot do for ourselves. Notice that the freedom from disease and the healing come in the context of obedience. Conversely, we put Him at a disadvantage, in caring for us, when we violate the natural laws governing our existence. Can we do in faith that which we know harms or is not the best for us and expect Him to override our misdoings?

What do I do if I find myself at the receiving end of blessings removed? Of disease and a need for healing? Of God keeping me alive, but just barely?

We often think of faith healing as supernatural in character and in results. And while I believe God has some miraculous intervention He would like to do for us, His chosen way of working is in cooperation with simple divinely inspired remedies and in adherence to His natural laws.

“Natural means, used in accordance with God’s will, bring about supernatural results. We ask for a miracle, and the Lord directs the mind to some simple remedy. We ask to be kept from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, that is stalking with such power through the world; we are then to cooperate with God, observing the laws of health and life. Having done all that we possibly can, we are to keep asking in faith for health and strength. We are to eat that food which will preserve the health of the body. God gives us no encouragement that He will do for us what we can do for ourselves. Natural laws are to be obeyed. We are not to fail of doing our part. God says to us, ‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure’ (Philippians 2:12, 13).

“We cannot disregard the laws of nature without disregarding the laws of God. We cannot expect the Lord to work a miracle for us while we neglect the simple remedies He has provided for our use, which, aptly and opportunely applied, will bring about a miraculous result.

“Therefore, pray, believe, and work.”9

And God’s remedies are not always predictable or the same every time. Take for example the two instances of the healing of bitter waters mentioned in the Bible. For Moses, a tree had to be cut down and thrown into the water. For Elisha, a vessel of salt to be poured in to the water was prescribed. Both enjoyed the blessing of God, but the solution varied. Following God by faith brings blessing. Likewise, the healing of leprosy in the Bible shares the blessing of healing amongst many different interventions of remedies. Naaman is told to go dip in a muddy river seven times, Miriam goes out on a period of quarantine, ten lepers are sent on a

run and find relief, and several are simply touched by the hand of God as He walked on earth. And while the apparent solution varied, the involvement of faith remained the same--men did what God asked.

So, ask in prayer, apply simple remedies, follow natural law and expect healing as providence sees best. Thus, faith in healing is like faith in redemption.

Righteousness by faith is obedience by faith. We do what God has said is right and His power sustains us and saves us from the wages or results of our sin. Health reform by faith is obedience by faith to all God’s health laws and instructions. We do what God has said is right and His power sustains us and saves from physical death and disease.

“When we bring our lives to complete obedience to the law of God, regarding God as our supreme Guide, and clinging to Christ as our hope of righteousness, God will work in our behalf. This is a righteousness of faith, a righteousness hidden in a mystery of which the worldling knows nothing, and which he cannot understand. Sophistry and strife follow in the train of the serpent; but the commandments of God diligently studied and practiced, open to us communication with heaven, and distinguish for us the true from the false. This obedience works out for us the divine will, bringing into our lives the righteousness and perfection that was seen in the life of Christ.”10

Faith it is, and in faith I am to act, and by faith I experience health.

And what is it that I am to live on (in faith)?

“If fruits, vegetables and grains are not sufficient to meet the wants of man, then the Creator made a mistake in providing for Adam.”11

Today is that food only “sufficient” if I add to it supplements? (of ... protein, vitamins, dead animals, bottled fats, refined sugars, glyco-nutrients...?) If we do what God has prescribed, can we not expect His blessings of health?

The garden of Eden is not the only time that God got involved in our actual menu. In the wilderness God gave, what to many minds might seem a very monotonous diet--one thing on the menu for 40 years. Where’s the variety in that? But what is the lesson from that menu? God said that He prescribed that particular diet for a purpose. The purpose was said to be to “prove” them. “Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.”12 The proving revealed their hearts. They rebelled against the diet. They said: “our soul loatheth this light bread.”13 This incident became an immortal lesson for all generations to follow of Israel’s failure to enter into a righteousness by faith covenant with God. This incident of refusing the menu is referred to as the “provocation”14 “To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.”15 They did not like the diet that God had provided for them and which He had promised to bless. After all, it was He who was giving them every breath of air, why not trust Him on the food too? That would be like us turning our noses up at fresh fruits and vegetables, “loathing” them, and requesting a menu

change (probably to something health destroying but appealing to a perverted appetite). We must have faith in our food and choose food by faith. Food God has chosen for us. Look at what Romans 14 says and note that it is in the context of food. (I removed all the commas that were in this paragraph according to my computers advice 

“It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”16 How do I apply this to food? Only eat that which in good conscience you can believe will add to the health of your body and spirit—the Creator’s diet! “Then God said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.’”17 “and you will eat the plants of the field.”18

Perhaps we need a little of the attitude, “God said it, I believe it, that settles it for me!” Do right and expect health! “Without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”19

One famous faith healing experience in the Bible is when the people of Israel were bitten by poisonous serpents. Moses was instructed to make a serpent out of brass and hang it on a pole in front of the congregation. All who had been bitten, if they looked at the serpent, in faith, would live. “The command came to Moses to lift up a brazen serpent on a pole, and to tell the people that if they would look upon it, they should live. Suppose that one had said, ‘O, my wounds are too grievous. I am so full of fever and suffering that I cannot raise my eyes. Wait till I am a little better.’ Could he get better without following the directions? -- No, he would only grow worse and worse, and die. The only remedy was to fasten his eyes on the brazen serpent. The instruction was, "Look and live," and every soul who did this was healed.”20

Jesus used this as an example of salvation in the New Testament. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life.”21

Faith is following the directions.

And if we have a righteousness that is not by such faith, what kind of righteousness do we possess? And if we have health that is not by a faith that follows the directions of God, what kind of health do we have? And what are we most apt to substitute for faith?

“He says, ‘Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you.’ He promises to come to us as a Comforter to bless us. Why do we not believe these promises? That which we lack in faith we make up by the use of drugs. Let us give up the drugs, believing that Jesus does not desire us to be sick, and that if we live according to the principles of health reform, He will keep us well.”22 What pill do you take for salvation? And do we keep going to the doctors of the Philistines to see if we are well or not?

Drugs do not cure disease, they do not heal. Or if they seem to, they do so only partially or slightly. And really, to be only partially healed, is not to be healed at all. “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,”23 God sees through this and is not really pleased with the whole charade. “For my people have committed two evils; they have

    

forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”24

Who is your healer? And if not God, are you really healed? Who do you want to be your healer? The Bible comments on building in a way that I think is instructive to our whole discussion of healing. “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”25 If it is not God building the house, who is doing it? If it is not God watching the city, who then is the watchman? “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;”26 If it is not God who has healed you, then who did you entrust with the care of your blood bought body? Who we turn to in time of illness shows who we honour or worship.

“If any among us are sick, let us not dishonor God by applying to earthly physicians, but apply to the God of Israel. If we follow his directions (James 5:14, 15) the sick will be healed. God's promise cannot fail. Have faith in God, and trust wholly in him, that when Christ who is our life shall appear we may appear with him in glory.”27 The Bible comments on a king who exemplifies this principle. “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.”28

But what if we have exhausted all our options and no recovery has come?

“Why is it that men are so unwilling to trust Him who created man, and who can by a touch, a word, a look, heal all manner of disease? Who is more worthy of our confidence than the One who made so great a sacrifice for our redemption? Our Lord has given us definite instruction through the apostle James as to our duty in case of sickness. When human help fails, God will be the helper of His people. ‘Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.’ If the professed followers of Christ would, with purity of heart, exercise as much faith in the promises of God as they repose in satanic agencies, they would realize in soul and body the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit.”29

Are we ready to give up on the world and let God be our healer? And how do we get this healing?

“The Lord has given me light that when the Israel of today humble themselves before Him, and cleanse the soul-temple from all defilement, He will hear their prayers in behalf of the sick and will bless in the use of His remedies for disease. When in faith the human agent does all he can to combat disease, using the simple methods of treatment that God has provided, his efforts will be blessed of God.”30

When we do our part in faith God can do His part in faith too. But, what if it is not in God’s will to heal us? What if He sees that it is not in our best interest to return to life. Hezekiah is a good illustration of this principle.

“In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.”31 Wouldn’t it be just lovely to know, not only when you are going to die,

but that you were assured of the accomplishment of the task of setting your house in order— being a guaranteed inheritor of salvation. Not Hezekiah, “Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.”32 At this God was not insensitive to Hezekiah’s wishes, however misdirected. “Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.”33

But what of the additional fifteen years? During that lingering time Hezekiah sold the nation out to the Babylonians, raised a son, Manasseh, who would apostatize and actually take the life of the prophet Isaiah. The point is, Hezekiah did not know when to die! Now I am not making a point for dying, but, in God’s providence and wisdom, there is a time for everything, a time to live and a time to die. “A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;”34 We don’t want to be so eager to maintain our own life here on earth that we resort to unhallowed means to achieve our existence. “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.”35 All must be on the altar, ready to live or sacrifice as God in His all-knowing providence shall indicate.

And what if God decides not to heal us? “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”36 Just trust in Jesus, He has your best interest in view. Do you believe that? “Often your mind may be clouded because of pain. Then do not try to think. You know that Jesus loves you. He understands your weakness. You may do His will by simply resting in His arms.”37

Health by faith necessitates transformation by faith. The heart must be in it or it is of no avail. “All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience.”38 Given a new heart, we will want to engage in life preserving health reform. “Those who would work in God’s service must not be seeking worldly gratification and selfish indulgence. The physicians in our institutions must be imbued with the living principles of health reform. Men will never be truly temperate until the grace of Christ is an abiding principle in the heart. All the pledges in the world will not make you or your wife health reformers. No mere restriction of your diet will cure your diseased appetite. Brother and Sister Maxson will not practice temperance in all things until their hearts are transformed by the grace of God and they shall wear Christ’s yoke and have Christ’s meekness and lowliness of heart.”39 Following good health practices because you “have to” only makes you into an enemy of God. It is not health by faith. It makes God out to be an arbitrary tyrant. “A sullen submission to the will of the Father will develop the character of a rebel.”40 “The man who attempts to keep the commandments of God from a sense of obligation merely--because he is required to do so--will never enter into the joy of obedience.” In fact, “He does not obey.”41 True faith, in regard to health, is the whole-hearted engagement in the practices of healthful living while looking to God for strength and life.

It really comes down to motive. Paul, in the Bible, is a good illustration of the true motive which must underlie health by faith. “At the time of his conversion, Paul was inspired with a longing desire to help his fellow men to behold Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God, mighty to transform and to save. Henceforth his life was wholly devoted to an effort to portray the love and power of the Crucified One. His great heart of sympathy took in all classes. ‘I am debtor,’ he declared, ‘both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.’ Romans 1:14. Love for the Lord of glory, whom he had so relentlessly persecuted in the person of His saints, was the actuating principle of his conduct, his motive power. If ever his ardor in the path of duty flagged, one glance at the cross and the amazing love there revealed, was enough to cause him to gird up the loins of his mind and press forward in the path of self-denial.”42

In many respects, the only limit on your health is your faith. Jesus has said, “According to your faith be it unto you.”43 A story that is illustrative of this point is of a father whose son was possessed of a demon. Jesus, “asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him:” The man then showed his lack of faith, “but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.” Jesus knew that the child was not going to be healed without faith—faith that this man did not have. “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” At this the father realized that it was his unbelief that stood between his son and healing, “And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”44 If we are having difficulty believing, this should be our prayer too, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”

Healing and health are dependent upon faith; Jesus knew this. It was people’s lack of faith that limited His healing ministry, as it does today. “And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”45 He was known to say, “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”46 How often do we stay away when we could have life if we only came to Him in faith, believing that He does not want us to be sick, following His instructions and claiming His promises. “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”47 Can we believe that by His stripes we are/were healed?

We need more faith, but how? “So, then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”48 When do we have time for the word? “And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”49 And then we will become strong in faith, not wavering, “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”50

One of the things we need to believe, have faith in, or, in other words trust, is the instruction God has given us regarding health found in the writings of His prophets. “Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.”51 And what kind of prosperity are we talking about here? How about prosperity in health? “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”52 So you read the instruction, in faith practice it and leave the results, by faith, in the hands of God. In the words of AT Jones: “Well, then, you must eat good victuals in order to have good blood.... Therefore the Lord has told us what is good to eat. Here is the rule: Find out what God says is good to eat; ... Then

thank the Lord for it, eat it with a glad heart. And THEN LET IT ALONE.... Be sure that it is good, and good for you, and when you have eaten it, let it alone. Of course it will not digest right when you are bothering it all the time, and keeping it from digesting. Let it alone.

Having thanked the Lord for it, and asked His blessing upon it, believe that His blessing is upon it. Why do we ask the Lord to bless our food and bless it to its intended use, and then not believe that He does it? Where is the faith in that? That is not health reform. Let us quit it.”53

The insightful statement, “According to your faith be it unto you.”54 goes both ways. You will receive no greater results than your faith encompasses, be it good or be it otherwise. “If you are in constant fear that your food will hurt you, it most assuredly will.”55 How instructive is that! And how about this? “Disease is sometimes produced, and is often greatly aggravated, by the imagination. Many are lifelong invalids who might be well if they only thought so. Many imagine that every slight exposure will cause illness, and the evil effect is produced because it is expected. Many die from disease the cause of which is wholly imaginary.”56

AT Jones goes on in his comparison of healing to salvation. “Health reform, then, is just as certainly—I do not say as much but as certainly—a part of God’s plan of salvation as righteousness by faith. He wishes us our souls prosper; but how can our souls prosper without righteousness by faith?—They cannot do it. He wishes above all things that we may prosper and be in health even as our souls prosper. Then how can our health prosper as he wishes it without health reform by faith?—It cannot do it.”57 Can you make yourself righteous? Can you make yourself healthy? Can you have a settled faith in the righteousness of Christ? Can you have a settled faith in the outcome of health you experience upon diligently following all God’s health instructions for you? Salvation is freedom from sin (which is disobedience). “No one can believe with the heart unto righteousness, and obtain justification by faith, while continuing the practice of those things which the Word of God forbids, or while neglecting any known duty.”58 Likewise, true health only comes in freedom from sin (which includes disobedience to natural health laws). Are you willing for God to save you, not only from your moral sins, but from your transgressions of His natural laws—are you willing to have a salvation that includes not only forgiveness, but a will and strength to do the right things?

The healing message of God is a classroom, a lesson book, for the saving message of God! It is righteousness by faith in action. “From the simple Bible account of how Jesus healed the sick, we may learn something about how to believe in Him for the forgiveness of sins. Let us turn to the story of the paralytic at Bethesda. The poor sufferer was helpless; he had not used his limbs for thirty-eight years. Yet Jesus bade him, ‘Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.’ The sick man might have said, ‘Lord, if Thou wilt make me whole, I will obey Thy word.’ But, no, he believed Christ’s word, believed that he was made whole, and he made the effort at once; he willed to walk, and he did walk. He acted on the word of Christ, and God gave the power. He was made whole.”59 “Well then, I say again that the object of health reform is not merely for health’s sake, and that that is not God’s view of it. When it is practiced and taught anywhere merely for health’s sake, it is not meeting God’s mind. Of course, the person who practices it will have better health, but will he be prepared for what it is to prepare him? —No. Getting

people ready to meet Jesus Christ, to be translated, ready for the Lord,—that is the Lord’s idea and purpose in health reform.”60

Now suppose in the past you have ignorantly (or not so ignorantly) transgressed the natural health laws of life established by God and are now reaping the results of ill health. What then? Well, God has a solution. If you return to Him in contrition and obedience, His promise is, “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,”61 In such case we have a job, a duty, we are to work to recover the loss. “Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”62 We are to replace bad habits with good ones. “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:”63 If in the past we have doubted God’s methods of healing, are we now willing to take His Power, and “Break off our sins by righteousness”?

I am reminded of a dear lady who was a member of the team which hosted one of our health seminars. While she was helpful and worked hard in the meetings, her personal acceptance of the health message was superficial. This all changed a year later when she received a diagnosis of cancer. Now she was all ears, now the health message was a priority. All of a sudden, she was a believer and diligent to apply all the information she could get. And she did adopt standards of healthy living, and she was blessed of God, and she did have a remission in her cancer. And was she delighted. But as time went on and things seemed to be all good in the health department, she let her standards down, it was then that the cancer returned, and it returned with a vengeance, and her funeral was a sad one.

We are talking here about health by faith, a faith that intelligently applies the remedies given. We trust in God and in the wise implementation of His guiding principles for our health. Having done all in our power to align ourselves with God’s principles of life, we commit the keeping of our health to Him and rely on His strength to be happy whatever the apparent results. As with salvation we can say, "Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling."

In conclusion, there is no health or salvation in neglect of faith-based health reform. God includes health with salvation. Salvation is by truehearted obedient faith. Health is by truehearted obedient faith. There is no salvation in disobedience. The is no health in disobedience. A saving relationship with Jesus is a healing relationship with Jesus. Do you want to ask God to give you complete faith in His health care plan for you? Do you want Jesus to be your all-encompassing Saviour today of mind, body and spirit?

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14 Psalms 78:17,18.

15 Psalms 95:7-11.

16 Romans 14:21-23.

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24 Jeremiah 2:13.

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26 Psalms 103:3.

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28 2Chronicles 16:12.

29 White, E. G. (1889). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association.) {5T 196.2}.

30 White, E. G. (1909). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {9T 164.1}.

31 Isaiah 38:1.

32 Isaiah 38:2,3.

33 Isaiah 38:4,5.

34 Ecclesiastes 3:2.

35 Mark 8:35.

36 Habakkuk 3:17,18.

37 White, E. G. (1905). The Ministry of Healing. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {MH 251.3}.

38 White, E. G. (1898). The Desire of Ages. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {DA 668.3}.

39 White, E. G. (1993). Manuscript Releases, vol. 20 [Nos. 1420-1500]. Silver Spring, MD: Ellen G. White Estate. {20MR 112.3}.

40 White, E. G. (1897, July 22). “Christian Temperance.” The Signs of the Times.{ST, July 22, 1897 par. 11}. 41 White, E. G. (1900). Christ’s Object Lessons. Review and Herald Publishing Association. {COL 97.3}.

42 White, E. G. (1911). The Acts of the Apostles. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {AA 246.1}.

43 Matthew 9:29.

44 Mark 9:21-24.

45 Matthew 13:58.

46 John 5:40.

47 1Peter 2:24.

48 Romans 10:17.

49 Deuteronomy 11:19.

50 James 1:6,7.

51 2Chronicles 20:20.

52 3John 1:2.

53 JONES AT. "The Home Missionary, vol. 5", 1893, p. 25, para. 554 {November 1893 ATJ, HOMI 231.11}.

 54 Matthew 9:29

55 White, E. G. (1871). Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {2T 530.1}.

56 White, E. G. (1905). The Ministry of Healing. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {MH 241.2}.

57 Jones AT. "The Home Missionary, vol. 5", 1893, p. 144, para. 695) {HOMI November 1893, p. 10.6}.

58 White, E. G. (1958). Selected Messages Book 1. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. {1SM 396.2}.

59 White, E. G. (1892). Steps to Christ. Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association. {SC 50.1}. 60 Jones AT. The Home Missionary, vol. 5", 1893, p. 182, para. 737 {HOMI November 1893, p. 12.18}.

61 Joel 2:25.

62 Daniel 4:27.

63 Matthew 3:8.