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I had an interesting experience last night I would like to share.
I had an incident about a year and a half ago after using the infamous leaf blower in the yard(I should have run over that thing long ago). I spent most of the day blowing up leaves and dragging away many tree limbs and bags full of leaves. The next morning I awoke to a terrible pain in my left shoulder with numbness running down from my left shoulder, into my upper arm, down to the elbow, into the wrist, thumb, and index finger. The pain was so bad I could not work and actually went to the doctor. The wife will tell you that if I ever do go to the doctor it must be something because I never go to the doctor. I could not lift my left arm at all. It hurt no matter what position I held my arm. Looking at the X-rays, the doctor resolved that I had pinched a nerve at about the 7th vertebra of my back: the nerve that works the left shoulder, left arm, and hand. He gave me some steroids and pain medicine and they seemed to work ok, but the pain has never gone away completely, nor has the numbness in the thumb, index finger, and wrist half way up to the elbow. Its severity comes and goes.
Lately, the wife and I have been taking communion at home on a regular basis. Not every week, but as often as ye shall. We are doing this because we notice little health issues stacking up in both of us. The back issue, some other issues with Barb. We believe that according to scripture, taking the body of the lord (i.e. the bread) in faith will help ward off weakness, sickness, and even early death. This is not some spell or magic thing just acting in faith according to what Jesus, Paul, and Peter said. According to 1 Corinthians 11
1 Corinthians 11:29-30 KJV
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you,
and many sleep.
IOWs if we discern the Lords body, that is if we see and understand why His body was subjected to the many sufferings of beating and crucifixion, then we will not be weak, sickly, and sleep (die young).
Two things here:
1 Peter 2:24 KJV
24 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.
And
Galatians 3:13 KJV
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree:
A brief look at Deuteronomy 28 lists the curses that are included in the curse of the law. It is mostly sickness and bodily ailments. Jesus redeemed us from these curses when He was hung on the cross. He essentially took our sickness upon Himself in the same way His blood redeems us from sins. So we have been taking communion every so often as need arises.
Fast forward to last week. On several occasions I was aware of something crawling around my upper left shoulder. Several times I reached back to swat what I though must be a bug or something. But it was more substantial than a bug. I never seemed to hit anything. But these sensations persisted off and on through the week. I did not pay it much attention and passed it off as more phantom sensations caused by the nerve damage.
So last night I went to bed around 1 AM. I read my Bible (Genesis 48 Exodus 2) and prayed until I went to sleep. I float in and out of dreams mostly non-sense stuff. I am lying on my right side as I almost always do because to lay on that left side causes the shoulder and arm issue to be exacerbated. Suddenly I am aware that something came across the room and is on the bed with me. I am sleeping but I am aware of the movement. At first I think it is Barb coming to bed. I should wake up but I do not. Whatever it is, it is coming from the bathroom side of our bedroom. I do not know how large it is but it is on bed on the bathroom side. I do not know if it was standing or sitting. Whatever it was reached up under the bedcovers (I felt the covers move) and touched my upper left shoulder. Suddenly at the point where it touched there was what seemed to be the movements of a cat-like beastie creature screaming, fussing, and fighting. It seemed to be trying to hold on to my upper shoulder with all its might against the efforts of the other being that came in from the bathroom side of the bedroom. Though I am sleeping, I am totally aware of what is around me and of what is going on. I began to pray in the name of Jesus. Both the cat like creature clinging to my upper arm/shoulder and the other being are gone. I wake up and go and tell Barb what happened. She lays hands on me and prays and I go back to bed. I wake up this morning and all the pain in my left arm and shoulder are totally gone. There is only a very slight numbness in the pad of my thumb and a prickly feeling where that beastie seemed to lay hold on my shoulder.
I attribute this to the slow but steady work of having faith in the body of the Lord while taking communion.
dids
I had an incident about a year and a half ago after using the infamous leaf blower in the yard(I should have run over that thing long ago). I spent most of the day blowing up leaves and dragging away many tree limbs and bags full of leaves. The next morning I awoke to a terrible pain in my left shoulder with numbness running down from my left shoulder, into my upper arm, down to the elbow, into the wrist, thumb, and index finger. The pain was so bad I could not work and actually went to the doctor. The wife will tell you that if I ever do go to the doctor it must be something because I never go to the doctor. I could not lift my left arm at all. It hurt no matter what position I held my arm. Looking at the X-rays, the doctor resolved that I had pinched a nerve at about the 7th vertebra of my back: the nerve that works the left shoulder, left arm, and hand. He gave me some steroids and pain medicine and they seemed to work ok, but the pain has never gone away completely, nor has the numbness in the thumb, index finger, and wrist half way up to the elbow. Its severity comes and goes.
Lately, the wife and I have been taking communion at home on a regular basis. Not every week, but as often as ye shall. We are doing this because we notice little health issues stacking up in both of us. The back issue, some other issues with Barb. We believe that according to scripture, taking the body of the lord (i.e. the bread) in faith will help ward off weakness, sickness, and even early death. This is not some spell or magic thing just acting in faith according to what Jesus, Paul, and Peter said. According to 1 Corinthians 11
1 Corinthians 11:29-30 KJV
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you,
and many sleep.
IOWs if we discern the Lords body, that is if we see and understand why His body was subjected to the many sufferings of beating and crucifixion, then we will not be weak, sickly, and sleep (die young).
Two things here:
1 Peter 2:24 KJV
24 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.
And
Galatians 3:13 KJV
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree:
A brief look at Deuteronomy 28 lists the curses that are included in the curse of the law. It is mostly sickness and bodily ailments. Jesus redeemed us from these curses when He was hung on the cross. He essentially took our sickness upon Himself in the same way His blood redeems us from sins. So we have been taking communion every so often as need arises.
Fast forward to last week. On several occasions I was aware of something crawling around my upper left shoulder. Several times I reached back to swat what I though must be a bug or something. But it was more substantial than a bug. I never seemed to hit anything. But these sensations persisted off and on through the week. I did not pay it much attention and passed it off as more phantom sensations caused by the nerve damage.
So last night I went to bed around 1 AM. I read my Bible (Genesis 48 Exodus 2) and prayed until I went to sleep. I float in and out of dreams mostly non-sense stuff. I am lying on my right side as I almost always do because to lay on that left side causes the shoulder and arm issue to be exacerbated. Suddenly I am aware that something came across the room and is on the bed with me. I am sleeping but I am aware of the movement. At first I think it is Barb coming to bed. I should wake up but I do not. Whatever it is, it is coming from the bathroom side of our bedroom. I do not know how large it is but it is on bed on the bathroom side. I do not know if it was standing or sitting. Whatever it was reached up under the bedcovers (I felt the covers move) and touched my upper left shoulder. Suddenly at the point where it touched there was what seemed to be the movements of a cat-like beastie creature screaming, fussing, and fighting. It seemed to be trying to hold on to my upper shoulder with all its might against the efforts of the other being that came in from the bathroom side of the bedroom. Though I am sleeping, I am totally aware of what is around me and of what is going on. I began to pray in the name of Jesus. Both the cat like creature clinging to my upper arm/shoulder and the other being are gone. I wake up and go and tell Barb what happened. She lays hands on me and prays and I go back to bed. I wake up this morning and all the pain in my left arm and shoulder are totally gone. There is only a very slight numbness in the pad of my thumb and a prickly feeling where that beastie seemed to lay hold on my shoulder.
I attribute this to the slow but steady work of having faith in the body of the Lord while taking communion.
dids
