WISDOM AND HEALING
I was doing
touchup in the high roller rooms at one of the local hotels. My knee started
hurting, then my thigh, then my back. I forgot to just ask for wisdom from the
Lord on what it was and what to do to make it go away. I took ibuprofen and
was handling it myself. The pain subsided somewhat, but it wasn’t going away. I
persevered on my own for about two weeks and it was wearing me down. I finally
woke up spiritually, took it to the Lord and asked my roommate Jane to pray for
me. I went off to work like every other day. Only this day I got the revelation
of what was causing my pain and the revelation of how to get rid of it.
As I sat down
on the floor to patch and touch up the baseboard and then crawled along to the
next spot, I got the news flash – I was sitting in a scrunched down position
with both legs tucked under me to the side and I was bent over. I put my legs
on the other side and the same exact pinch happened on the other side and I
realized I’d been sitting and crawling in this position for about two weeks, 7
hours a day. No wonder I was having pinches and pain. I made a conscious effort
to change how I was positioning myself and the pain dissipated and is nearly
gone.
Just because
you don’t have an instant miracle of healing, doesn’t mean God’s not healing
you. He’s given us many ways to get pain free and to get healed up.
God designed
our bodies to heal themselves. If we take care of our bodies, natural healing
comes faster.
Also, a key I’ve learned is that certain
sicknesses and diseases and demons too need specific environments to thrive in,
so changing our bodily environment on the inside will cause the disease to die
or the destructive evil spirit to leave.
There’s much
to learn about healing but whenever we get sick there is always one thing we
should do first and that
is: take it to the Lord in
prayer. Ask Him, “Should I go to the doctor? Ask someone to pray for me? Drink
more water and take a couple aspirin? What should I do, Lord?”
We ask for His
wisdom on what to do to get healed. God wants us to be healthy, so He’s glad to
give us His wisdom.
James 3:17
says: “The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and
easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and
without hypocrisy.” And James 4:2 says: “Ye have not, because
ye ask not.” So we need to ask.
If we’re
unsure about really hearing from the Lord
or unsure of what we think He answered, then we can ask a trusted
Christian friend to corroborate or at least pray.
God says of
himself, “I am the Lord that healeth thee” (Ex 15:27). Whether it be through a
doctor, a prescription, a miracle, a dietary plan or just change your position
on the floor like I had to do, a healthy body and a sound mind (2Tim. 1:7) are
important in God’s good plan for our lives.
Love, Carolyn
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