God Wants Us To Be Healthy

Starting today we will learn the Word of God about healthy life, so that we will have a healthy body and we are able to use healthy body in order to do the work of God well
I. God wants us to live healthy.
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God wants our body to be healthy, same as our soul is healthy (3 John 1:2) Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
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Often we only think about spiritual things, but actually God also commands us to think about our body health.II. For our body can be healthy, we have to take care of it well.
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God wants our soul, mind and body to be healthy but in order for our body to be healthy we have to care our body well (1 Thessalonians 5:23) May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Everything which is not taken care will be broken, but things that are taken care well will become even better.
For example: Buildings/plants/vehicles etc if they are not taken care well will be broken rapidly.
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Likewise with our body, if it is not taken care well will be rapidly broken. However if it is taken care of well, it will remain healthy or even healthier.
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We have to take care and conserve our body well since the beginning, because everything we do will not show result immediately, but from time to time will show the result/consequence.
People who study, day after day become smarter.
People who trained, day after day become more expert.Likewise people who ignore health, day after day his body become more fragile.
III. If our body is broken, the consequences are:
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We cannot enjoy the blessing God has prepared for us.
Someone who works beyond the body limit and causing him/her to fall ill. Therefore, although he/she owns a lot of money, he/she cannot enjoy life with the money.
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Bring suffering for ourselves and others.
If we are sick, we will suffer and also bring suffering to our family and many others.
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Unable to glorify God (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 1 Corinthians 6:20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
The Word of God commands us to glorify God with our body.If we are often fall ill, then we will not be able to glorify God by testify that God is the God who gives health.Except the disease when God is testing us, or God wants to do great things in our lives (John 9:1-3; 2 Corinthians 12:7-9).

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Unable to do many things
If we are sick, then we will not be able to work well causing our finance to be ruined and our family also suffers.
If we are sick, then we will not be able to serve well causing God’s plan difficult to be achieved in our lives.
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Therefore we have to speak our words with God’s wisdom, so that we experience good things in our lives (Ecclesiastes 10:12).
IV. There are 3 patterns which very influential to health.
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Eating pattern
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There is food that destruct/not good for body. For examples:
Food containing formalin.
Rotten food.
1 Timothy 5:23 Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
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Eating pattern affect our health.
If we like to eat unhealthy food then our body become damaged
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Have a correct eating pattern so that our body become healthy
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Mind and heart pattern
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Mind and heart are very influential to body health. For examples:
Always anxious/afraid
Keep bitterness
Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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Mind and heart pattern decides our body health.
If we always think of negative things, then our body slowly deteriorated.
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Have a correct mind and heart pattern so that our body is healthy.
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Lifestyle pattern
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Lifestyle pattern is very influential to health. For examples:
Psalms 107:17 Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.
Like to sleep late night and lack of sleep causing fall to ill.
Time to sleep, eat and rest is not in order.
Work beyond body limit.
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Our lifestyle pattern decides our health.
If we have incorrect lifestyle, then our body slowly deteriorated.
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Have a correct lifestyle so that our body is healthy.
V. God gives power for divine healing.
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Everywhere Lord Jesus healed diseases
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God also gives power to believers for divine healing (Mark 16:17-18).
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Mark 16:17-18 . 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
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Lord Jesus’ apostles also did divine healing (Acts 3:1-10; 2:43; 5:12).
Acts 3:1-10
Acts 2:43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
Acts 5:12 The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade.
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In our church, there are even many divine healing happened in cell groups. Testify:
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Therefore, for us who already sick we do not to be worried or lost faith because God can grant divine healing.
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However, God wants us to take care of our health, do not do the wrong thing/sin so that we do not experience even worse things (John 5:14).
John 5:14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
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This is why this month we will learn about healthy living in God so that we may live healthily and use our body to do God’s work well.
We believe this lesson will become an important lesson for every of us.
Therefore, pay attention to all the lessons and wholeheartedly do it!!!
Let us learn this lesson wholeheartedly and take care our body well so that we have a healthy body according to God’s will in our lives.