This may not go over well
anyway, healing often requires forgiveness (by the sick person)
which people have trouble doing.
Wow, I'm so ashamed to say that I've read this entire thread,
which is so lacking in Scripture but so full of unbelief.
Jesus
marveled at only two things afaik.
Those were..
You knew it wouldn't go over well, because people don't like
to think that they may have contributed to their ills. I dont
care to think that I've been a fool either, but I have/am
OBVIOUSLY we can and do.
Since
He said we reap what WE sow.
(Sow to the flesh and reap... what?
Sow to the spirit and reap..)
Who am I to argue with Jesus.
Can't tell you the number of my friends who are diabetic and
could be cured but cannot lose the weight (which we all know
is very hard because most of us here sow to that gluttony ourselves,
I ate an entire container of cheese spread since yesterday, just
munching)
Then there's stress (not living in the peace, not going to the Lord,
taking everything to Him in prayer)
There's unforgiveness... (How can your father forgive you, if you
cannot forgive your brother?)
Theres the preservatives, hormones and antibiotics in our foods

Then you have that fast reckless lifestyle many of us live (lack
of sleep, peace, veggies etc)
Then there's the alcoholism, drug abuse...
And dont forget the biggy.. white SUGAR!
I could go on, but yeah..
Yes, Strong in Him, I think it's very different here in the States.
Our physicians even get incentives from the pharmaceutical
companies if they prescribe certain drugs.
Doc had me on paxil ten years ago for anxiety, it didn't work,
and not only that but it made me have these electrical zappy
things happen in my head (it was spooky) Told him to just
put me back on my old meds and he wouldn't. He tried to get
me on that same but newly formulated med, and I ended up
leaving the office with no relief, and
thirty pounds overweight
from that darn med I'd been on!
And you should see the exorbitant number of commercials
we have to sit through from drug companies. If you dont
have an ailment, they'll convince you of some goofy one
they've thought up.
Our doctors get paid if you keep coming back.
And it seems like babies are no longer delivered
in the natural way, but the c sections seem to
be 'necessary' more of the time.
A study in Australia found a perinatal mortality rate of 5.9/1,000 out of 3400 planned home births (Kitzinger 41).
Joseph C. Pearce states in his landmark book Evolutions End that homebirthed babies have a
six to one better chance of survival than a hospital-birthed child (117).
A study in the Netherlands done in 1986 on women who were having their first babies showed these results: out of 41,861 women who
delivered in the hospital, the perinatal mortality rate was 20.2/1,000. Of 15,031 women who delivered at home with a trained midwife, the rate was 1.5/1,000 (Kitzinger 44).
So I am very thankful that God is helping me to overcome my
gluttony and any other foolish habits/lifestyle, and all I can
do is appeal to His mercy because He did tell me, that I'd
reap what I sow.
Have mercy on us Father.
