To Your Health, Gods Way

[Steve Jaynes]

To live with health we have to look at what God’s Word says about being healthy. The Scriptures say that God has giving us eternal life.KJV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Before we had eternal life we had death, a result of Adam’s sin. Something to keep in mind is that eternal life is NOT in our earthly bodies. We will get new spiritual bodies that will be incorruptible or be immortal.KJV 1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.What then is our goal for healthy living? It is not to make our bodies live forever. That’s never going to happen. God has a better plan. The goal is for our earthly bodies to be in health so we are blessed and can therefore serve God and by love serve one another.KJV 3 John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.God wants us to be healthy and God has a plan and a way for us to be healthy and I will show you that, but first lets look at these verses from 1 Timothy 4:7&8.KJV 1 Timothy 4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.We are to refuse profane and old wives’ fables and the best way to do that is to keep our heads into The Word. By reading and thinking about what does the Word say. That is the exercising of our minds to thoughts of what does the Word say. This builds a true vital relationship with God. Bodily exercise profits some. I am all for exercising our bodies and eating good food so that we can serve God and by love serve one another. There is some profit here but the greater profit is in exercise thyself rather unto godliness. One key to healthy living is to live according to the wisdom God’s Word provides us. That is to renew our minds to what the Word says and to walk in love and to live love.KJV Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.To stay in God’s Word is to live in health. We should not think that we are so smart and have all the answers. Instead we should reverence God and His wisdom. In the Bible the words naval and belly are symbols of health, since the baby is nourished in uteri thru the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord carries the blood and life is in the blood. (Lev 17:11)Also the words marrow or bone marrow is symbols of health in the Bible. Most of the blood products are formed in the marrow which is inside the bones. Marrow is wet which means healthy. In the Bible the words “dry” bones means sick marrow and eventually death.If you want to get into a health kick, get into God’s Word that the real health kick.KJV Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;The word early means earnestly and diligently as if you were thirsty in the desert and needed water. That how we should go after God.2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.That is how you get health, by thinking about God. What we believe and what we confess or speak with our month is critical to our health. (Remember Rom. 10:9&10)These are some thoughts from my weekly teaching “To Your health, Gods Way”. For the complete teaching you can download the teaching from the web site. www.howtoreadthebible.net