Speed Up Your Healing by Changing How You Treat Others.

Hello, I'm Christine Miller and I want to welcome you to today's episode We're excited to join you once again, and we have a live audience today helping us and cheering us on And so between them and you pulling The things out of me that the lord wants me to say you will be blessed And I want to start today by letting you know that god really loves you and he wants you healed His plan for your life is divine health And no matter how long you've been suffering from a sickness or a disease It's not too late to receive from god. He can still turn things around You know, the bible says jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever. He didn't just become good When you first got healed he didn't just become good if you have it for 10 years or even for 20 years He's always good and he always wants you well And so we're looking at some things here that are hopefully going to help you to receive that healing today You know in past episodes we began talking about the truth that christians are redeemed from the curse of sickness and disease however We can have an open door to the devil and one of the areas we looked at was through not walking in love and forgiveness And you know, we have a passage in the new testament that actually gives us the reason Why some are sick and that's first corinthians chapter 11 verses 27 through 31 And it says therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the lord in an unworthy manner Will be guilty of the body and blood of the lord But let him examine himself and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself Not discerning the lord's body for this reason This is the apostle paul writing this for this reason many are weak and sick among you and many sleep And that word sleep means deceased or they have died And so believers paul is saying if you don't discern the lord's body This is the reason why you might be weak or sick or dying prematurely And so we saw this that the way that we receive communion will affect our health Now not properly discerning the lord's body could include of course discerning the physical body of jesus That by his stripes we were healed But I believe this goes a step further and it also includes discerning jesus's spiritual body Who is a spiritual body? Well, jesus is the head the bible says and the church is his body And so the way we treat the church It's like we're treating jesus that way and it's important how we treat the church So I said this before if I was suffering with a sickness and disease that was lingering and lingering and lingering And it was stubborn to disappear even after praying and standing on the word of god The first thing I would examine Is my love walk? And that of course includes forgiveness, which we talked about our last episode So we have to we have to ask ourselves. How are we treating other people? How are our actions affecting those around us? You know what we do does have an effect on other people and Whether good or bad, you know, you can have a positive effect on people and you can have a negative effect on people But jesus takes this personally When we don't treat his people with love and kindness And so it's important and you know Even more important than that sometimes it's easy to walk in love with people in the local church But what about with your husband or your wife? What about with your parents? What about with your children or a close relative, you know, sometimes the closer we are to somebody The easier it is to get out of our love walk with them and think oh, that's okay. That's just how we function You know, I grew up in a household where we use sharp words with one another all the time and it became a habit And so you would talk a certain way and you didn't think anything of it. You just thought this is normal life And of course last episode I talked about how what we do affects our children So the way we were brought up we all just talked a certain way and we thought this is normal And yet I can remember a friend coming over on different occasions and saying Why is your mom mad? Why is this person mad and I say they're not mad and it had to do with the way we talk to one another So you see sometimes you do things that are not right and you don't even know it And so it's good to examine ourselves That's why the bible says examine yourself because we're not really necessarily intentionally trying to do something wrong So it's important that we don't put the wall up now because i'm talking about this But that we make sure that we can get that wall down and get this resolved Why because god wants you well So we have to remember that what we're joined to Will have an effect on them and it's important that what we're saying or doing is bringing edification And not destruction to the person or the situation you know I'm going to forgive somebody and then i'm going to have to forget about it You know think about this Aren't you glad that when your father god forgives you that he forgets about it? I can tell you right now if he's forgiving you he will never bring it up again And if it keeps coming up again in your mind It's probably coming from the devil The devil wants you to be living under a sense of condemnation and guilt so that you can't receive from god But our father does not bring up and rehash the past Because the bible says he forgives and forgets So in the same way if we forgive somebody we have to forget about it Now I realize that you can't necessarily erase your mind You can't erase everything that you've said or done or they've said or done to you but You don't have to keep rehashing it and bringing it up again and again and again and if we bring things up That we say we've forgiven somebody of then we're violating the law of love And did you know there is actually a law called the royal law of love? In james chapter 2 and verse 8 it says if you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture You shall love your neighbor as yourself you do well So loving your neighbor as yourself is the royal law of love And you have to ask yourself do I want someone else talking about me the way i'm talking about them Uh, would we want someone to treat us the way we're treating somebody else? Well, we want someone to be short-tempered with us all the time Taking it further What i'm about to say or do would I say or do it to jesus You know the wwjd what would jesus do? That's an important thing for us to keep in our minds and in our hearts if we're his body Then when we mistreat a member of the body, we're mistreating jesus And jesus made this clear when he was speaking to saul of tarsus. We're going to look at acts chapter 9 verses 4 and 5 It says then he fell to the ground that's talking about saul who later became paul And he heard a voice saying to him saul saul. Why are you persecuting me? And saul said who are you lord? Think about this saul was arresting christians. He was having them put in jail He was persecuting them and he was even getting ready to put some of them to death He so believed that this was the cause of god He had a real zeal against the church of jesus christ And so the last person he thought was talking to him at that moment was jesus And he says who are you lord? And then the lord said I am jesus whom you are persecuting So when saul was arresting and condemning christians to death jesus said Saul was persecuting him And so we can see that how we treat the body is part of discerning the lord's body Are we treating the body the way that we should if I love my fellow church members? I'm going to be careful to share the load in serving in my local church If I love my fellow church members, i'm going to be careful about what I say about them I'm going to be careful about how I treat them You know, we have to discern that we're not an island and selfishness has no place in the church of the lord Jesus christ and really in this world that we're living in today selfishness abounds You know the first time I ever saw somebody post what we would call a selfie I couldn't believe it my jaw dropped because that to me was a form of being self-centered Now we've come so far now. Don't don't throw any sticks at me for saying that because we've all put selfies out there but You know, we've come so far as a society where everything is about us and what we're doing and even what we're eating Like we don't have time to look at pictures of what everybody's eating. We have a work to do for jesus amen So selfishness has no place in the body, but it's abounding in the world around us and you know One thing that will happen is the spirit of the world will always try to get into the church And so we have to be careful that we guard against selfishness And I think one of the reasons that we're seeing more sickness and disease in the church today than we were many decades ago Is because more people are slandering and hurting other people You know, it's popular to slander in the media. It's become popular to slander on talk shows I mean you have entire talk shows devoted to slandering um, and so It gets into the church and it hurts people around us and bitterness and forgiveness have a high price tag what people don't realize is the end result is disease and crippling diseases and Cancers things that are horrible, you know, we have to always ask ourselves. Can I afford to slander this person? Can I afford what i'm about to say or do? Because it's going to have a high price tag on you personally You know, I heard a story one time of a woman who was involved in her local church But she had a bad habit of sowing discord with her words She'd always be talking about somebody saying something negative about somebody and as time went on She was diagnosed with a terminal cancer And this was in a day where they didn't have the modern medications that we have today And so she was left to die And as she was at home suffering in her bed One day the pastor and a group of the church members came over to her home to pray for her You know, that's what love will do even though this woman was difficult for them. They still loved her And so they went to her home. They surrounded her They they were getting ready to pray for her and she stopped everybody. She said now wait a minute She said I realize that for years I have sown cancer into my local church through my words And through my actions and she said now I am reaping cancer in my body And so she asked for forgiveness of the pastor and the people that were there representing the church And when she asked for forgiveness, of course, they forgave her and Jesus forgave her And when they laid hands on her and ministered to her she was instantly healed of cancer I want you to know the way we treat the body has a huge effect on our outcome in our health And so it's exciting to me to hear stories like this though, because even if you get that far gone where you're dying The lord will still heal you if you'll get back into love and forgive those that have wronged you You know one of the greatest Teachings that jesus ever gave us is in mark 11 and in verses 24 through 27 He first teaches us how to pray He said when you pray whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them And you will have them and everybody loves that part of the passage because we all want our prayers to be heard and answered But then he goes on to say and whenever you stand praying If you have anything against anyone forgive him That your father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses But if you do not forgive Neither will your father in heaven forgive your trespasses now, that is a serious passage You know, you can't receive answered prayer if you have unforgiveness toward anybody for any reason And so we know this answered prayer includes healing if you're praying for healing you want to receive it And so I just encourage you forgive people Uh, stop talking negatively or evil of other people. It will not do you any good Eventually what you sow you will reap You know, jesus also taught us to pray when he taught us the lord's prayer as we call it and part of that it says Forgive us our trespasses now anyone who's a good catholic knows this version forgive us our trespasses As we forgive those who trespass against us God wants to forgive us god wants to heal us. We've seen in previous episodes that Forgiveness and healing are a package deal And that's why if you don't forgive and you can't receive forgiveness You also cannot receive healing because it's a package deal So I encourage you today if you have anything against anybody for any reason forgive them Let it go You know, you're the only one who's really suffering the most from it Anyway, and I know you want to be free from the bondage of sickness You want to be free from the bondage of oppression because unforgiveness brings those things into our life You know, the devil's just looking for a crack in the door to get in And this is one of the areas that he can so today I encourage you shut that door and get things right with god Well praise the lord That's all for today If you were blessed by today's episode, I encourage you to like to share this episode and to subscribe to our channel Until next time I want to encourage you that god has a great plan for your life And it's so much bigger than you know. God bless you