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God loves to
heal. He is in the healing business. His Son healed everything He touched,
everywhere he went. Jesus even healed when he wasn't aware of it! A woman
reaching out and touching His garment, years of pain and suffering
dissipated by the force of Jesus' unconscious healing power.
Our bodies
were not created to be sick and diseased; they were created to filled with
vibrant health, clarity of mind, and emotional stability. This can be
evidenced in the living food He has specially designed for us to eat.
Enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, bioflavinoids, and thousands of
other unpronounceable names hidden under the skin of fruits, vegetables,
nuts seeds, and grain.
If you cut
open a cantaloupe and hold it against your ear, you will hear the creative
echo of God's love and smell the sweet aroma of His enthusiastic compassion
for the health and well-being of your body.
Are you sick?
Then reach out to God by faith. Reach out through prayer, believing with all
your heart that He loves you and will lead you beside green pastures and
still waters. By faith, be willing to make changes in how you eat.
Changing your
diet, for some, is the largest step of faith they will make in their entire
life. When we are sick, often food can be an escape from pain. But dear
friend, run into His loving embrace. Allow Him to nourish you spiritually
and physically.
Sickness and
disease are a symptoms of a world whose god is their stomach. A world that
runs after the cravings of the flesh, ignoring the cost to their health. But
you are not of this world—your Shepherd will prepare a table in the
presence of your enemy, whether that enemy be cancer, heart disease, high
blood pressure or whatever it may be. By faith, you do your best, and God
will do the rest.
The following
information will assist you in moving towards a lifestyle of eating that
reflect faith in God, to bring healing and wholeness, a refreshment of His
blessing to you.
Many
steps make a journey. With each change you will feel the difference.
Get the "I can do it attitude." Decide what you can do the do
it. Make it a discipline. Then after a time it will become
part of your way of life. Here are some changes we recommend.
Juicing
If you have
never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice, you simply have not lived.
Strawberry juice mixed with pear, or apple and yam is a taste of ecstasy.
Blueberry juice is a taste of liquid heaven. A mixture of carrot, apple,
beet, celery, tomato, and lemon tastes like a living V8, giving an
energy-boost to the day that is far better than a coffee.
Fruit and vegetable juices are
the cleansers, energizers, builders and regenerators of the human system.
A combination of either fresh raw fruit or vegetable juices will supply
all the enzymes, vitamins and minerals critical to increase vitality!
According to how healthy you
are, the average person is able to assimilate between 1% to 35% of the
nutrients in vegetables. All nutrients of vegetables are locked within the
fibers. A juice extractor is able to extract 70% to 98% of the nutrients
from vegetables. When you pass a carrot through the juice machine, it
effectively separates the juice that is locked in the fibers. In drinking
the juice, the majority of nutrients are absorbed directly into the
bloodstream without the work of digestion. An abundant supply of nutrients
in conjunction with minimum digestive effort is a perfect healing
environment. Try to make some juice each day. Juice can replace any meal.
If you want to lose weight and detoxify, drink juice all day and eat one
evening meal.
Eat
Raw Food
Depending on
the severity of illness, a 30 to 90 day raw-food diet can result in
phenomenal healing. We do not include raw nuts, seeds, sprouts or grains.
These foods are harder to digest, high in protein and calories that will
impede cannibalization. They also do not have the sponge-like, soft,
fibrous qualities that contribute to the cleansing of the colon.
A raw-food diet has two
advantages over fasting. First, it slows detoxification, resulting in a
gentler cleansing crisis. Secondly, fruit and vegetables are filled with
soft fibers that are excellent in cleansing a bowel that has been impacted
with hardened mucus deposits and abused by processed foods. An unhealthy
colon will result in an unhealthy body. It is impossible to expect a body
to heal when the colon is congested with old, dried, impacted mucus,
blocking the absorption of essential vitamins and minerals through the
colon wall.
Surprisingly, it takes more
discipline to live on a raw-food diet than to fast. After two days of
fasting, the digestive system shuts down. Hunger disappears. Ceasing from
the act of eating places a clear perimeter, establishing single-mindedness
and focus. During a raw-food diet, the perimeters can become vague,
resulting in a greater need for discipline. Those of us who find it
difficult to discern between hunger and cravings may find an orange and a
banana unsatisfying. I really feel my body is telling me that I need a
Snickers bar. Or, wouldn't some low-fat cottage cheese go nice with
my cantaloupe. It seems so easy to eat too much or eat the wrong
things during a raw-food program.
The rule to follow is, if
it’s not alive, don't eat it! Don't overeat, and don't be afraid of
feeling a little hungry, it won't kill you. A good rule of thumb is to eat
fruit and juice vegetables. One glass of carrot juice contains about 5
carrots. On a practical level, it is far easier to drink the juice of five
carrots than eat them. Fruit is easy to eat, needs little or no
preparation and is delicious. Small amounts of sprouts are beneficial, yet
should be avoided if combating serious disease. The heavier proteins will
slow the cleansing.
Exercise
Get the
juices flowing in the body. A lazy boy chair just won't cut it. Laziness
is not godliness. Exercising improves circulation, stimulates digestion,
strengthens the heart muscles, improves the circulation of nutrients and
oxygen, increases the elimination of wastes, improves the function of the
colon, cleans and increases lung capacity, lowers triglyceride levels and
uric acid levels, decreases platelet stickiness, increases flexibility,
motor functions and insulin-receptor sensitivity. Exercise improves the
functioning of all the organs and lymph glands. The liquid which cleans
the cells is absorbed by the lymph glands which needs motion to dump
cellular waste. Increased exercise will improve the lymph’s ability to
keep the cells clean.
Go for walks in the fresh air.
Oxygen is needed by every cell of your body. Give it an abundant
supply. Jesus walked to His mission fields, He didn't drive. It is
agonizing to grab your sleeping metabolism by the scruff of the neck and
wake it up. After a few weeks, you will begin to look forward to
exercising, whether it be sports, fast walking, bicycling, jogging or
wrestling in the living room with your kids.
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