Summary on Natural Physical Health

In summary, all these health principles have been shared to expand your understanding and empower you on natural physical health principles. This chapter on deliverance and healing in physical health areas attempts to provide helpful info with a balance on medical practices that are workable and applicable to Christianity.

Modern medical procedures have not been shared extensively because the information is right at our doorsteps. There are even plenty of “personal MD software” one can buy. I have one myself, a “Home Medical Advisor,” and it's been helpful.

Health care institutions (hospitals, primary care units, clinics, etc.), the media and the academia “worship” modern medicine to the extent of preaching it as our ultimate answer to good health. This chapter was intended to balance this view with reality.

As an informed Christian, with the mind of Christ (active not sleeping), you're at liberty to make your own health care decisions based on whatever you believe is workable for you. You're encouraged to do your part in maintaining your health and arming yourself with appropriate information. You owe it to yourself, to your family, and more importantly to God.

The gift of life is not something to take for granted. It is worth doing your part in arming yourself with the appropriate information in all areas of concern. “ My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge,” Hosea 4:6.

May the Lord bless you and grant you all the wisdom for you and those you're entrusted with. The next subsection covers on supernatural physical health. This is the realm of physical health that is in God's hands. The natural health is in our hands while the supernatural provision is in his hands.

Supernatural Physical Health, God's Part for Our Health Care

Supernatural physical health, faith healing or divine healing is physical health that is enhanced by our walk with God. It is not a license to neglect taking care of ourselves naturally. Rather it makes up for what we're unable to acquire naturally.

Here are two key scriptures some fellow believers erroneously use to imply we've a license to neglect taking care of ourselves naturally.

“These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all ,” Mark 16:17-18 (emphasis added).

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you ,” Luke 10:19.

Even Jesus knew that there's a context were it's God's responsibility to protect us and the context were God has given us the responsibility to protect ourselves. The context were it's God's responsibility to protect us is when in our natural ability and circumstances we do not have the capacity to protect ourselves.

Remember Jesus' three temptations in the wilderness? The most applicable one here is the temptation of putting God to the test. “If you are the Son of God,” Satan said, “throw yourself down from here. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'”

Jesus answered, “It says: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test,'” Luke 4:1-13.

Jesus knew that God would protect him if someone tried to throw him off a mountain. God would continue protecting him from malicious and Satan influenced people until his time was up. Jesus knew that there‘s a context were God works to protect him throughout his life. This is how he was able to respond to Satan that it was not fitting to put God to the test. It was the wrong context for God to protect him.

Putting God to the test is a context where God has given us the responsibility to protect ourselves. God will not be persuaded to take responsibility of protecting us when it is in our natural ability and circumstances to protect ourselves. This also applies to our physical health. There's a context where it's God's responsibility and a context where it's ours.

The context where it's God's responsibility he can even protect us from people who without our knowledge add deadly poison to our food with the intent to harm us. In some cases he chooses the deadly poison to take its natural course of harming us. In other cases it becomes a Daniel experience where no harm touches us. In both cases it's God's responsibility to have the final say.

However when it's in the realm of our responsibility we literally have the final say. Neglecting to do our part is therefore not wise. There is God's principle of sowing and reaping at work. “A man reaps whatever he sows,” Galatians 6: 7.

It is true that the Lord is also able to graciously rescue us from health problems that we may have brought on ourselves through ignorance or carelessness. The wiser option is to opt not to later seek God to rescue us from health problems that we had brought on ourselves. If he doesn't rescue us from such it means he has allowed destruction to take its full natural course. That is why he said, “ My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge,” Hosea 4:6.

However it's worth seeking his supernatural physical health provision all the time. It is his will that we're healthy enough to fulfill our callings and responsibilities here on earth, until our time is over. Physical healing is “the children's bread,” Matthew 15:26. We keep asking for our bread that only he can provide.

We all need the supernatural physical health to supplement our limitedness - some more than others and at different stages in our lives. It is perfectly fitting to seek God's supernatural deliverance and healing from health problems through his supernatural intervention.

While using modern medicine is great sometimes it may not be affordable or it may bring other complications. Plus modern medicine usually comes with its side effects, leave alone the fact that our genetic code widely varies between individuals such that for some certain medicines may just be more poison to their bodies.

Thus our best medicine is seeking God's miraculous or supernatural deliverance and healing in major areas. For major illnesses modern or alternative medical procedures can be followed on a secondary level or in combination with seeking God's supernatural intervention.

There are plenty of scriptures that relate to our supernatural physical health or God's supernatural provisions for our spirit, soul and body. Among them are:

“They drove out many demons and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them ,” Mark 6:13

“Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,” James 5:14

“Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the Lord delivers him in times of trouble…The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from his bed of illness ,” Psalms 41:1-3