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uh from our last meeting we really had a
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i want to help leaders in
singing one song let's say one song so
that we will come our speaker
sister jillian who is with us already
so i don't know which song you wish us
to sing anybody with a quick choice we
can sing as we welcome our speaker
anybody with a quick choice that you
wish us to sing as we welcome our
speaker
okay so let me check out for one
so that we can sing and welcome our
speaker to
talk to us and then uh we can be
thinking about
welcoming our friends our
all that we are connected to cindy yeah
so
we can sing checking for a
two nine zero two nine zero
all right i'm there
yeah so
is a g-lan tune that for us give me the
thought
give me the key
oh soul are you weary
and troubled no
light in the darkness you see
you know it
i know the chorus so let's you'll sing
the stanza i'll be singing the chorus
amen
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all right so
i'm getting myself ready here hold on
okay
all right let's let's sing together
oh soul are you weary
and troubled
no light in the darkness you
see there's light for a
loop at the savior
and life more abundant and free
turn your roof on
your eyes upon jesus
no food in his wonderful
face and the
things of earth will grow strangely
deep in the light of his glory
and
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through death into life everlasting
he passed and we follow him there
for more than conquerors we
are
turn your eyes upon
jesus look full in his wonderful face
and the things of earth we
grow strange redeem
in the light of his glory
and grace
his word shall not fail you
he promised
believe he may know we'll be
well then go
to a world that is dying
is perfect salvation to
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your eyes upon jesus
look full in his wonderful face
and the things of us we
go strange redeem
in the light of his glory
and grace
turn your eyes upon jesus
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look full in his wonderful
face and the things of
earth will grow strangely
in the light of his glory
and grace
amen amen amen
amen so we thank god for this time we
had
and we have signed there was a wonderful
song for our wonderful peace
and we shall still have moments of
music and intelligence of music to sing
together
so whenever you are tuning in from
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keep on praying for our speakers and for
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and we're getting started by the grace
of god we shall be found ready when the
master
you know returns so get ready allow me
to
offer this wonderful session to our
speaker
after this prayer shall we pray
our heavenly father thank you so much
you're wonderful your graceful
pleasures the day you will appear in the
clouds
the strange things and happenings in
this world
will grow strangely
shall lose sight of the troubles and
tribulations of this world
we shall lose sight of the oppressions
we shall lose sight of their sufferings
and disease
without pray that god in heaven at this
moment that we have been present
presented to
we pray that god in heaven as the
speakers will be coming
and at this time as your servant sister
jillian
is going to speak to us i humbly pray
because the god in heaven
that you will fill her with the holy
spirit
the same way you feel all the servants
and will you feel the future
the same way you feel the same way you
feel
all suffering that honesty and sincerely
out of heart
serve you may you fear sister jillian
just pray to speak to us and god
you have moved clouds and you have both
moved every other thing in this universe
at your command and we now pray
that you also move troubles away
connectivity issues away
that god in heaven everybody will be
able to tune in
and buy your blessing to get that which
is your way
may you hear your prayer this time walk
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we pray jesus for your name amen
god bless you so much i want to welcome
you sister jillian
may god use you as he has always been
using you
to speak to us and at this moment
are through health so
welcome
and thank you so much for the warm
welcome
and thank you for this uh this song
that's
my favorite song
so i thank you so much for the
opportunity to
share again with you it's indeed a
blessing
to have god use me as a
vessel and to be a partaker
in his saving work so
i'm waiting to
never mind i got it thank you so much
okay
so i believe you can see my screen
all right got it so
today we are going to talk about
sickness and disease
and um i liked the picture that came
with it
the the bug that you see there
is very common i think you can identify
what that is
it's a mosquito and i'm going to give
a quick story as to why i decided to
choose
this particular picture
after that i will pray and then we'll
continue the lesson for today
so when i was young i was uh when i was
a little child
i i
i lived and grew up in kenya in a
a place called kericho and so while we
were there
one time um in the quest
to be kind to god's creation and to be
nice to nature i was outside playing
with my friends
and then i saw this mosquito that came
and landed on my arm i looked at the
mosquito
and as um not too long
after it landed on my arm i
i saw it um sticking its needle like
antenna into my skin and then there was
that
pain that comes with it but then
i ignored the the the urge to
take it off of my skin i didn't want to
kill it i wanted to be nice to the
mosquito so what i did
is i let it sit there and it
finished its business and then it flew
away
so as you all know
the consequence of getting a mosquito
bite in kenya can be
deadly and not long after i was beaten
by that mosquito i suffered
malaria i was i was sick for
a long time and since that time
i am not friends with mosquitoes anymore
because i know what they can do so
that's why i saw that picture and i
thought this is this would be a very
cool
um exemplification of my experience when
i was
little and this is pretty much what
happens
sometimes is we allow ourselves to be in
compromising positions thinking
that you know we just need to be nice to
our friends so
it's okay to indulge here and indulge
there
i don't want to hurt someone's feelings
because that person
is seemingly important to me and then we
end up having to pay the consequence of
such indulgences in ill health or
sometimes even in death
so before i go too far i would like us
to bow down our heads for a word of
prayer so that god can help me
to teach that which he has put in
my lips to teach so let's pray
our dear father in heaven we come to you
once again
with thanksgiving in our hearts we thank
you lord because you have blessed us
with life
you have blessed us with um with good
health
and the fact that you have given us a
chance
at another day is is evidence
of your goodness your faithfulness your
mercy and your everlasting love
and so dear lord i ask that you will
speak through me may you put your word
in my mouth
and may everything that comes through
these lips that i have only bring
edification to
everyone who is listening either on this
platform
or um through the internet
and any other platform that they could
be using may your name be glorified in
everything
and may your will be done now and
forevermore in jesus name i pray
amen
so the focus of today is sickness and
disease
and it could be possible that as you
look at that
title you're probably wondering what is
the difference
between the two why do we have to have
sickness and disease
as the title of the presentation so the
book of
james chapter 5 verse 14 to 15 says
is any sick among you let him call for
the elders of the church
and let them play pray over him
anointing him with oil
in the name of the lord and the prayer
of faith shall save the sick
and the lord shall raise him up and if
he have committed sins they shall be
forgiven
him so i saw this verse and i thought
it's
it's very interesting and the reason i
say it's interesting
is that jesus says that if there is any
sick
among you if you are sick
the solution is not to go and look for
the physician
and i'm not discounting the importance
of doctors by the way
i think doctors are important i believe
they are very important
so are all health care workers but god
speaks of elders of the church he speaks
of prayer
he speaks of anointing and then he says
that the prayer of faith shall save the
sick
and the lord shall raise him up so
raising up denotes the fact that this
person
was lying down so you rise up from a
lying down position
or from a sitting position that also
can put the idea in your mind that this
person is not only sick
but is inactive so they're just
stuck there for that moment and if this
person has committed any sins
they shall be forgiven him and then
verse 16
says confess your faults one to another
and
pray one for another that ye may be
healed the effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man
availeth much as i was studying
this verse i looked upon the confession
of the false
this is not talking about the
it's it's not talking about confessing
as the way we pray to god asking him to
forgive our sins because it's only god
who can do that it's only god who can
forgive
our sins and the transgression of his
law only he can forgive
only he can bring that forgiveness that
is needed
but when when one has done
wrong to the body temple and we have
learned that
the temp the body that we have is the
temple of the holy spirit
that is the dwelling place of god and so
any transgression of the
any of the laws of health eventually
leads to pretty much offending god
himself so we need to look at it in that
particular context and so
when someone is taken ill or when
someone is sick laying on a bed
and thinks that maybe there is something
they may have done
that caused them to be in that position
and in many cases
it is the breakage of
of um the law that you know whereby you
have to control yourself
indulgences in appetite especially in
indulgences in overwork
working too much to the point where you
don't get sufficient rest
or eating certain combination of food
which causes fermentation in the stomach
things like those need to be discussed
among god's people and the reason why
that helps is because
that when when that confession is done
then one can be able to to know that
they have
done something wrong and then because of
that
cause then a solution can be sought
and the person can be able to repent and
turn away from that kind of behavior
therefore getting healing
so it's interesting how god has
a method of healing for his people it is
important that when dealing with the
sick
when dealing with those who are not
feeling
well as many like to put it
that questions or the right questions
are asked about their lifestyle what is
it that they do
what time do they sleep how much food do
they eat when do they eat it
and for what reasons do they eat what
form of dress do they have
is it constricting the waste because if
that is happening
then of course you will know that there
will be problems with circulation
so discussing things like that can help
in identifying the cause
of whatever disease that person might be
suffering from
and then you can be able to come up with
the right solution for the problem
otherwise what happens then is just a
hit and miss kind of treatment whereby
the symptoms are taken care of but the
underlying causes
are not dealt with
so what is health i will go over a few
things that we have discussed
before just so we can refresh our minds
and then we will use that as a
foundation of
what we are learning today
so we discussed that health is the
presence of wellness
and the absence of disease
so that follows that disease then
is the absence of wellness when someone
asks you how are you doing
and you say i'm fine or i'm well
that means that you feel fine you know
you don't feel
sick you are energetic there is no
disease
in your body therefore that you know of
at least
health is the excellent performance of
all the cells
tissues organs and body as god intended
them to perform
and so when there's disease in the body
the cells
tissues and organs do not give a hundred
percent
performance and we discussed this at a
point
when we talked about drugs
and how drugs decrease the vitality of
the organs
so every drug that's taken into the body
is going to affect
the liver especially because the liver
is the detoxifying
organ and so when it is loaded with
chemicals and
poisons it overworks and therefore it's
um its vitality is decreased
all right so where there's disease in
the body the cells
tissues and organs do not give hundred
percent performance as they are supposed
to
health is also the condition where
all the organs of the body performs
all the organs perform their duty
to the maximum potential
and so the presence of disease in the
body decreases the potential
in performance so if for example
the let me let me use a different organ
let's say the heart
the heart is the muscle that sits right
under the rib cage
on your chest so when when the heart
muscle is supposed to be
pumping all the blood that it gets you
know
when the when the heart gets blood into
it
it is not meant to sit there that blood
is supposed to go in
to the heart and out into the heart and
out and that is how you get the heart
beat
to do to to do you get that heartbeat
because of that pumping action it's
receiving and
and expelling receiving and expelling
receiving and expelling
so when there is good health in the body
the heart beat will be within normal
range
but then when there is a problem with
the heart
what is going to happen is it is not
going to pump very well
so either you will have the heart
beating too fast
abnormally too fast or it might be
beating too slow
or it might be missing beats in between
whereby it beats it stops and then it
beats again
so the beats are kind of erratic they're
beating it's beating here it's beating
there it's
it's not the regular order that god had
created it to beat
therefore every organ that god has put
in our body
every tissue every cell is supposed to
give 100 percent performance it's
supposed to serve you
so that you have the energy to go ahead
and serve
others but then when when those organs
do not do their job as they're supposed
to do
then we talk of the presence of a
disease in the body
so when we look at sickness and disease
we find that
a person may not feel any pain or
sickness and yet be diseased
it is very very possible
that a disease can be forming in the
body or can be present in the body
without a person feeling
any symptoms whatsoever and that is
that is majorly the reason as to why a
lot of people are
careless in how they live careless in
what they eat and when they eat what
time they sleep
they are careless because they do not
immediately feel the consequence of the
breakage of any of the laws of health
they do something wrong here and they
feel fine
they do something else wrong over there
they feel fine
and so they go through life breaking
several laws of health and it does not
show
itself in any symptomatic format
so it is sad that many people become so
deceased in their body
beyond recovery except there be a
miracle before
they realize there is something
seriously
wrong with them so this means that
the body can actually have a disease
that's developing
and that is getting worse over a course
of time
but then the person feels okay
you meet them you say how are you they
say i am fine
i'm doing well i don't know if you've
ever been in situations where
you probably had a friend with you
and then the next minute you hear he's
gone it was not a road accident
he just died like that or
someone was okay and then the only
symptom they gave was
maybe a tummy ache or
a headache and then they're gone it is
possible that in some of those cases
there was some underlying disease that
did not
exhibit itself in the form of a symptom
and so the person felt fine
through their life they felt just fine
up until the point
where the body cannot take it anymore
and so it succumbs
to death
you may have heard someone who was
shocked to find out that kansa had made
fearful inroads in his or her body
cancer is one of the
diseases that really has caused a lot of
damage in this society
in that we live in in the whole whole
world
cancer is to be feared and to be dreaded
and the reason is that when cancer is
developing
you don't know a person doesn't feel
bad the person feels just fine but
the the cancer is making inroads it
could start in one part of the body
and then by the time they start feeling
symptoms it has metastasized or it has
moved from one part of the body to
another
and so many times you will hear that
what has taken this person to the
hospital
is just a feeling of
maybe dizziness it's very vague symptoms
that
end and end up um leading a person to
seek
a doctor and so when they get to the to
the hospital then they find out oh there
was something much bigger that was going
on in the body that they did not know
about
i have a story of this young boy
who was playing baseball with his
friends
and so he was about nine years old he
was playing baseball with his friends
and as he was playing his father was
there his mother was there and so what
the the parents of the other children so
they were playing baseball
and uh for those of you who are familiar
with baseball it's a
it's a game where a ball is thrown
and then uh someone else who has a
a bat or a stick uses that stick to hit
the ball
and then someone else runs and catches
that ball so
that is simply how it works so
in this particular case the boy was
the one who was waiting to hit that ball
with the stick
so he was standing there and
the ball came for some reason the ball
he missed the ball he missed to hit it
with with his stick
and the ball hit him right on the head
and as soon as it hit his head the boy
fell down
and so just like any concerned parent
this boy
um was lying there and the parents
rushed
to his side to see what was wrong
and unfortunately the boy did not wake
up
as soon as he fell like that he was he
just stayed there
he wasn't moving he wasn't responding to
them
and so the parents were very fearful of
what may have happened like did did the
ball crash
and uh crash the the skull
or you know break it or did the ball do
more damage to the to the
to the head and so they took him
from there they rushed him to the
hospital at the hospital
x-rays were done tests were taken the
boy was admitted
given a hospital room
and the doctor found out that
the way the ball came and hit his head
that was not the reason as to why he
passed out
that was not the reason he passed out
what
actually was going on is at the moment
when
the ball hit his head at that exact
moment
was when um
there was a rapture in his in his brain
of some vessel and that vessel
was connected to a tumor that was in the
brain
now the parents had no clue that
there was a tumor in the brain had it
not been
for that ball hitting his head this
tumor could have become worse
and would not even have been discovered
because the boy just felt fine he had
gone to play
so uh to cut the long story short um
the doctors decided to take care of the
tumor
because the the impact of the ball on
his head was not deadly it was not
supposed to cause any problem
and so um they went in they did surgery
went in
removed the tumor and the boy is fine to
this day
so this is how this is how cancer goes
it just makes inroads within the body
there's a lot of
stuff that is that happens before
any symptoms show up before a person
really goes to the hospital and just
like teeth
let me let me digress a little bit
i would i would um i would
guess that many of us probably
do not go to visit a dentist unless we
have a toothache
that symptom of a toothache is what
leads us to seek
dental care that is positive possibly
true
a very few people actually visit uh
dentists because
their dentist just needs to clean their
teeth and all that stuff
and so our bodies have been created in
such a way
that um they can our bodies can
withstand a lot of pressure and a lot of
abuse
before they succumb to whatever is going
on
so without a person's knowledge there
could be a disease that is making
inroads or that is progressing in the
body and
unless the symptoms come out this person
may not go out to seek any
any help and by the time they come to
realize
they find that the cancer probably stage
three stage four
which is very advanced stage cancer
so there's a difference between sickness
and disease and we're going to talk
about that
um today we generally call a person sick
when they exhibit
symptoms or
so um let's say for example you go to
visit
a friend who you have heard is sick in
the hospital
you go and you ask them how are you
doing and they will start giving you
symptoms
right they will start telling you oh i
have a headache i've been feeling
nauseated
and i can't seem to eat anything that
sits in the stomach so
i end up vomiting it out they give you
symptoms
and so that's why we say we are going to
visit a sick person
and you know the person is sick because
of the symptoms that are exhibited
from what is underlying in the body
a person may have a diseased action in
some organ of the body and yet
that action may differ so slightly from
the healthy
action so as not to be noticed by them
or anyone else
that is how disease works so whereas
sickness
is the symptomatic um
the the symptomatic aspect of
a disease the disease itself
as we discussed earlier may be
progressing without the person's
knowledge without the person even
ever knowing about it so the person may
not notice and because
the particular person does not notice it
they will not be telling anybody
so we could be in a huge in in a huge
field so many people in one field and
everyone says they are feeling fine but
it is possible some
in that same group might be suffering
but they don't know it so that is why
establishment of the presence of a
disease in the body comes with tests
sometimes numerous tests to check the
norm against the presenting facts
when when a person visits the hospital
the first thing that happens of course
after registration and after you know
you've been checked in
is you will see a nurse or some medical
personnel coming to check your vital
signs
they will see how you're breathing they
will listen to your heart
they will check your your pulse they
will do all those
um checks they will check your eyes and
all those things
they want to see if there is anything
objective
that they can go with to figure out what
is wrong with you
if nothing can be picked up from those
kind of symptoms
if there is no fever and the heart rate
is fine the respirations are fine
you're breathing normally your heart is
beating just fine
if all those things are okay what may
the doctor may
look for is blood tests so they may
order a blood test to be
taken or to be done when your blood has
been taken
it's tested against you know many things
to rule out any possible problems
and so from there the doctor may come
back and say
your blood work looks fine there doesn't
seem to be any problem
your white blood cell count is fine your
red blood cell count is fine
everything is fine your good fats are
fine your your bad fats are fine
so when a person has a disease in the
body
the fact that it doesn't show itself in
symptoms
makes it very difficult sometimes even
for
doctors to figure out what could be the
problem
because the person feels okay and they
could be showing
only maybe one vague symptom and i
discussed this with you the other day
a person tells you i have a headache you
a person can have a headache for many
many reasons
many many reasons the other one is
my stomach hurts so the stomach can hurt
for
so many other reasons if if someone is
nervous the stomach is going to hurt
if they're hungry they will be having
hunger
pangs so the stomach can hurt because of
hunger the stomach can hurt because of
food poisoning if someone has
the flu they can suffer from stomachache
if someone has gas problems they can
suffer from stomachache
so ulcers can cause stomachache so
stomachache
can mean a whole host of diseases
so if someone shows up in a hospital
with just one presenting symptom
everything is fine the temperature is
fine the
um breathing is fine the heart is doing
well
and then the only symptom is stomachache
if after doing blood work and after
doing all tests
a doctor realizes i can't seem to find
anything
wrong with the stomach
at that point the doctor can make a
decision to just give
a medication just to take away the pain
but as we have found out if there's a
disease
in the stomach it will progress even
with the absence of even with the
absence of
symptoms
so sickness is a danger signal that
nature
hangs out hangs out in other words shows
out or exhibits when a person has
left her path or his path
and is standing on forbidden ground
so i i do not want to say that sickness
is good it's not good
to be sick but let me also say that
it is it's a nice thing when your body
gets to a point where it says hey what
you're doing is not
right you need to stop you have been
doing wrong and if you do not correct
one two three things
then that is going to be the result
and as we've discussed because of
symptoms
people seek help from a doctor from
medical missionaries
um a lot of people that's when they pray
those who are not used to praying often
they remember to pray when they get sick
it reminds me of i just remembered this
story
which i'm going to share with you um
there's this one place where i was
working
and the
the people that i interacted with over
there i'm not going to mention names or
the place or whatever
but the people that i was interacting
with were very happy to let me know
that they they have no belief in god
they don't believe in god and so they
didn't want any mention of god in the
house or
reading of the bible there and so
uh with that you know work continued
for a while and then one time the
one of the people became sick one of the
people who professed
non-belief in god became sick and
when when that person became sick
i remember the plea
to pray to god please pray to your god
to help to help me to get well
so when people get sick they remember
that there is a god even when they do
not believe
that he exists somehow they remember
you know they remember that there is a
god and they need help
so sickness is is is a way to help
a person to turn back to god and to do
what is right to seek the help that they
need so that their body can be
fine again so when you visit a person
that is sick you will ask him
or her how or she feels how do you feel
how are you and then comes a description
of symptoms such as headache malaise
malaysia's
the feeling of tiredness feeling tired
abnormally tired and for an extended
period of time
nausea vomiting stuff like that
oftentimes the person may be lying on a
bed
either in a hospital or at home and
sometimes they could be up and about
doing things
but they are pretty much pushing
themselves against what their bodies
really want to do
and so you ask them how are you feeling
and then they will respond
and tell you i'm not feeling very good
and sometimes
the person may not even be able to
explain how they are feeling you know
you know how sometimes someone will say
i'm just not feeling good so then you
you ask how exactly are you feeling i
don't know i can't
describe it but it's just not i'm just
not myself i don't feel
okay i don't feel good so that's
what we usually hear
the bible says in the book of
psalms actually in the book of
um yes in the book of psalms the bible
says that fools
because of their transgression and
because of the iniquities are
afflicted that means that they are
affected
by continued or often repeated
pain either of body or
of mind so repeated pain
here and there going in and out of
hospitals
for reasons that could have been avoided
i know there are some times where uh
accidents happen
people get into problems for faults that
are not their own
but aside from that there are situations
whereby because of deliberate turning
away
from what is supposed to be done on the
right thing
a person ends up suffering pain for
extended periods of time
in the book of psalms chapter 14 and
verse 1 it says
that the fool has said in his heart
there is no god
they are corrupt they have done
abominable works
and there is none that do with god
that's what god says
and so a rejection of god in the life
can happen even while
going to church let's not
uh lie to ourselves especially those of
us who
are in the church or we've chosen to
follow christ
let's not lie to ourselves that just the
fact that we belong
to a church we are members of a church
therefore we are christians and our
salvation is sure
no a person can reject god
and decide to turn away from his law
through their lifestyle the things that
we do speak more of who we are and who
we believe in
than the things that we say a mere
profession of faith in god
does not qualify one to be a christian
so that tells us are you ready to hear
this
that tells us that it is possible to be
in the church
and yet be a fool in other words
not have any belief in god and be a
church
member and an outstanding one at that
because it's very easy to lie to people
around us
but we cannot lie to ourselves we cannot
lie to god
what do we do when nobody is looking are
we men
and women of integrity do we do the
right thing even when nobody's looking
do we um do we work in
integrity like job did that's the
question that we need to ask ourselves
the lifestyle of a person will tell more
than the words he or she
says there was one time
when um we went to visit someone and
while standing we were a group of people
that went to visit uh this friend of
ours
and so we were standing at the entrance
of the house
or of the apartment so we were waiting
to be
let in because the door was locked as we
were standing there there were people
who are coming and going
and this one lady stopped by
and looked at a girl who was standing
there and said
you look like you're a christian and so
i
just out of curiosity i asked so what
makes you think that she's a christian
and she said the way you're dressed just
the way
you're dressed tells me that you you're
a christian and so she asked am i
correct or am i wrong
and the girl went ahead and said she
she's a christian
so the things that we do can tell others
that we are christians we don't
necessarily need to go around telling
people
oh my name is so-and-so i and and i i am
saved
i'm not saying there's anything it is
not like you should tell people you're
not saved
but hopefully after the
profession of being saved our actions
then will
show that we are saved but jesus
in his life on earth
he went about doing good he went about
healing the sick and cleansing the
lepers
and he was preaching the good news of
salvation
by his lifestyle
people came and followed him and
there are some who even went ahead and
worshipped him because they said this
this has to be god i mean who else is
going to do all these things that
that he does and so the things that we
do
the things that people see us doing with
our hands
or the things that we speak with our
mouth our lifestyle
says so much of who we are and who
or what we believe in in the book of
ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 11 it also
says
that because sentence against evil work
is not
executed speedily therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully set in them
to do evil have you have you ever
wondered
if what would have happened if as soon
as someone drinks alcohol
or any fermented drink or any strong
drink as soon as that happens that
person drops dead
how many drunkards would we have in the
world
if as soon as someone drunk anything
takes a sip of anything fermented they
drop down
i believe there will be not many people
who
would indulge carelessly in alcohol
because they would know this this is
really bad
but the reason as to why we have so much
disease
in this world is because
death doesn't come very quickly when the
laws of health are violated
and death doesn't come as soon as
someone
violates the ten commandments of god any
one of the ten commandments of god
so you you find that a person chooses to
lie today and realizes oh
i didn't die so i guess it's okay to lie
again
or it's okay to break any other
commandment because
i didn't die yes the wages of sin is
death but looks like
i still have a chance and so he
um that kind of thinking creating us
what i would call deceptive
thinking so that we we
we tend to think that if
i go down the wrong path a person starts
to say if i can go down this wrong path
i can choose to turn around
after i have had my fun after i have
experienced whatever pleasure it is that
i'm seeking i will turn around and i
will come back
i will be okay but many times
death happens before that decision is
made and sometimes
the people that uh or the person that
you become
later on as a result of bad decision
making
does not allow you to come back and do
what is right
the person you become tomorrow does not
necessarily
help you to be a better person today so
it's important that the choices we make
today
will allow us to make better choices
tomorrow
it goes like that we cannot say we will
go down the wrong path and then with the
hope
that at some point a light bulb is going
to go off in our heads
and we will start doing what is right
ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 12 also
says that though
a sinner do evil 100 times and his days
be
prolonged yet surely i know that it
shall be well with them that fear god
which fear before him the bible also
says in the book of job chapter 28
28 that the fear of the lord brings
wisdom
and departing from evil is understanding
so uh i would like you to think about it
this way
and uh i will share a story to help you
with that
i have a friend long time ago
i call him friend because of
the the length of time that i came to
know him and how many times we crossed
paths
so he was a caretaker at one of the
apartment
complexes that i lived in in the past
and i was very concerned for him
at the time i was still in school and so
i tried to speak to him concerning his
habit of smoking
i told him you know when you smoke
you're really damaging your body you
need to stop smoking
and this is what he told me he said
i have smoked since i was 19 years old
at the time we were talking he was 70
years old
he said all these years i've smoked i'm
alive look i'm still alive
and i'm very strong i'm the one who's
cleaning this whole complex for you
and so he didn't see the reason for
stopping to smoke because he said
he has hit 70 years he's still okay
and so he didn't see any need to turn
around and start leaving a right
and let me also add that the fact that
he
he moved down that path for so long
became so difficult for him to start
turning around at an
old age so
that's why the bible says that a sinner
may do evil 100 times and his days be
prolonged a person may be
indulging in in wrong behavior
and still live a long time does that
mean that the wrong behavior is good
does that mean the smoking is good no
it's not it is wrong
to smoke it is wrong to do anything
against the laws of god
therefore um what i would like you to
think about
right now is
what what things in your life
do you do that you know are not right
but you do them because you have not
seen any consequence
of what it is that you're doing what
things are those
have you done them ten times have you
done them
100 times at the point when you reach a
hundredth time
it becomes very difficult to go back and
do the right thing
because you you ha you have accustomed
your body or your mind
to go down that path
but there is hope because the fear of
the lord
not only brings wisdom but understanding
so to fear god gives you wisdom okay
and understanding is only begotten
from departing from evil turning away
from whatever evil things that you're
doing or that a person is doing that
so let's think about that let's ask
ourselves that question
and seek to do that which is good to
live our lives in the fear of the lord
in ecclesiastes chapter 8 and verse 13
it says it shall not be well with the
wicked
neither shall he prolong his days which
are as a shadow what do we know about a
shadow
a shadow it doesn't last very long and
it's moving it's not steady
right and that is because he feared not
before god therefore violating the laws
of health
does not go without a price there is
nothing
that we can ever do that violates any of
the laws of health
that will not be paid for later on
let's not lie to ourselves to think that
just because we feel okay then there is
nothing wrong with our bodies
many times we uh the the body starts to
show those symptoms
at a later age so this friend of mine
who had been smoking since he was 19
not long after he told me that he's okay
i realized that he actually had been on
drugs
several drugs and i didn't know about
that but one time when you when he did
not come out to clean
the apartment complex i went to visit
him
at where at his apartment where he was
living and i saw so many
bottles of different medications that he
was taking
he had taken those for so many so many
years
and he i didn't know that so
um he was taking one drug to take care
of his heart
the other one was for his lungs the
other one was for his muscles his
muscles were deteriorating
at some point he had to have his leg
amputated so he
his health really went downhill towards
his
old age and it was difficult for him to
walk
eventually he stopped working because he
could not move around
to clean up and to take care of the
place
where we lived at the time so
this is something that we can we can
take away
with us that we need to
fear god so much that whatever it is we
choose to put into our body
will be that which brings glory and
honor to god
let's not think that it's okay to
violate one law
and because we don't experience any
symptoms then
that is okay and we are fine so the
conclusion
for today's presentation is that every
choice we make
is either putting us in the side of life
or
on the side of death the side of disease
or the side of wellness
looking at that we may be thinking that
we are just talking about food what goes
into our mouth
no it's every choice we make
including what we look at with our eyes
what we listen to with our ears
what we touch what we smell everything
we think about
yesterday we learned that diseases do
come from
our minds many of the diseases that
people suffer from
come they originate in the mind so it's
even important
what we do well thinking what we think
about
in the mind that is very important
because our thoughts
do determine our destiny and if we're
not careful
we could be going down the wrong path
without knowing
so what choices will you make you have
the choice of life
you have the choice of death you have
the choice of wellness
you have the choice of disease which one
do you prefer which one would you like
my prayer is that
we will choose life we will choose to be
well
so that we can be able to serve god
the days that he has given us on this
earth
let's have a word of prayer before we
get into the questions
dear father in heaven i
am seeking your face because we've
learned that every choice we make
either puts us on the side of life or on
the side of death
on the side of wellness or on the side
of disease but it is not your intention
that we should live lives full of
disease and
lives full of pain and suffering and
sorrow
you want us to live lives that are full
and abundant
prosperous lives with good health so
that we can
be able to be of service to others
so lord i ask that you will help us to
make right choices
help us to choose life help us to choose
to be healthy
and not only do we need help
in the choices that we make but we pray
that you will
plant in us a love for that which is
good
so that the rest of our lives we will
only be happy when we do the right thing
and when we do wrong things father may
we in the sadness and
suffering and sorrow that we we we may
exhibit i pray that that will help us to
turn around and do that which is right
but lord we just want to follow you
and to obey your laws that you have
shown us in your word and we cannot do
that on
our own may your holy spirit help us
because that is what you have promised
the spirit of truth
who you have sent to our hearts lord may
we
not grieve him by the decisions that we
make
i pray this believing and trusting in
jesus name
amen amen
so it's my prayer that god will help us
to
make what is right the choices that are
right before him
so that we can do his will so we can
obey him
the rest of our lives
does anyone have any questions
i think we might be able to take one or
two questions
so i see a question here in the chat
what's next for someone who has been
making wrong choices
and now sickness has hit him or her
now uh there is hope
there is hope the bible says that in the
time of ignorance god
winked god winks when we are ignorant
sometimes we do not we do not know that
what we are doing
is injurious to our health for a long
time
i i drank tea i drank coffee
just because it was served to me so i
drank it
but then when i started experiencing
a headache i would experience headaches
and sometimes i would get blackouts
with those headaches when i went to the
doctor
the doctor simply asked me the question
do you drink tea i said yes do you drink
coffee i said yes
and then he told me stop i went home
and i stopped i literally to this day i
don't drink tea
i don't drink coffee and so the
headaches just went
with that so for the question that
i see here for a person who has been
making wrong choices
and is now sick the
the crucial thing that needs to happen
is to identify the cause of the sickness
if they can identify the cause of the
sickness
and they choose to do what is right
they will be well god has promised it
that when we turn away from doing that
which is wrong when we turn away from
doing evil
then we receive healing so
um there is hope there is hope
however i will also mention that
there are times especially when there's
so much damage that has been done to the
body over an extended period of time
and so a person starts being sick and
the
sickness is as a result of a chronic
condition
in the body and chronic i mean
diseases such as diabetes high blood
pressure
it's chronic meaning that it is extended
it stays there for a long time
because the organs are suffering right
they've been suffering
for a long time so that is where we see
uh situations where the person needs to
get
under intense therapy and i know people
who
were diabetics were using insulin and
were using
um sometimes oral medications from the
doctor
but when they received healing from god
through nature i'm talking of natural
remedies their condition was overturned
and they do not need insulin anymore
they do not
take any oral medication but that takes
a lot of discipline
and a lot of obedience to what god is
saying
the problem with uh with us humans is we
like to enjoy pleasure you know we like
the thing that tastes good in our mouth
that's what we want to eat even if
sometimes that thing might be injurious
to our health
so turning away from that habit or that
behavior that is causing you harm
will bring healing and then after you
have turned away
you need to continue working on the path
of obedience and on the
path of doing that which is right so
that you can maintain
the health or the good health
amen amen elder franklin um
the other question i see is why is it
that people stop immediately when a
doctor says
stop and take so long to respond to god
[Laughter]
wow this is this is a very good question
i
i think maybe maybe it's because
people don't take god seriously and god
has said
in his word when we went through the
book of genesis a little bit of the book
of genesis
we found that when eve when adam and eve
were told not to eat
of the fruit in the midst of the garden
they were told that if that happens they
will surely die
eve goes ahead and partakes of the fruit
after the serpent says you shall not
surely die
and so he take she takes the fruit she
takes a bite she and then she chews it
and eats it
and guess what she didn't drop dead
and so she started thinking oh maybe
maybe the serpent was right i didn't die
so we there's a verse that we read which
says
that because judgment is not executed
speedily
judgment from god i mean is not executed
speedily
the hearts of men are set in them to do
that which is evil people
choose to do right
because they probably are expecting or
they see
immediate response or immediate rewards
for doing that which is right
or they choose to do wrong because they
don't see the consequence
at least not immediately but then when
the doctor says
you need to stop drinking tea
because they have been sick they have
been suffering
they just want to experience wellness
right they want to do that which is
right so
so that they can enjoy good health so
when i was discussing
sickness and disease sickness is when
you see the symptoms
so people see the symptoms and then they
go to
the doctor and then the doctor tells
them stop drinking tea stop drinking
coffee
then they stop all right
but god god is not only talking of
sickness
god talks of diseases diseases can be
present
even without the exhibition of symptoms
so when god tells people do this and do
that people don't take it seriously
because they don't
see the symptoms they don't see the
problem with it until it's too late
to turn around and do that which is
right
so my prayer is that we will take god
seriously
and do what is right whether we see the
reward for it
right then or not but we do it because
it's the right thing to do
the next question is can we mix the
natural remedies and the medicine
manufactured
that's a good question so
um i will give you a story
to make that maybe will help answer this
question
there was one there was one lady who
was suffering from a very bad
iron deficiency anemia and the the
reason as to why she was
she had iron deficiency was a problem
that she had
with her liver so her liver was
suffering
and her girl blood also was suffering
and she also had other
diseases that were going on in the body
but
they created that condition of iron
deficiency
anemia and the way the doctors dealt
with it
is the doctors used to do iron
transfusion through the veins
in the hospital if you've ever had iron
transfusion through your veins it
is not a good experience it hurts it's
very very painful to have iron straight
up in your veins
and so that would cause her to be sick
for a very long time
and sometimes she would be in the
hospital for months
continuously because of how the body
responds to this
iron infusion so when i came to learn of
that condition that she had
i suggested to her taking plant-based
supplements and i knew about the
plant-based supplements because i also
was
suffering from iron deficiency anemia
at that time and the reason
my reason was different from herbs but
to take care of it
i decided to take the i the plant-based
um the plant based supplement
now the plant-based supplement to iron
deficiency
was not causing the adverse effects
that usually come with the pills that
are prescribed from the doctors
such as constipation um the major one
actually is constipation which can be
really really bad so
i suggested that she takes it but since
i knew that she was already taking other
medications from the doctor
i told her take this supplement the one
that we
we bought with her i told her take this
supplement to your doctor on your next
appointment
and ask your doctor if it's okay to take
this supplement
in place of the iron infusion plus
the medication that you're already
taking all right
so that's what she did the doctor said
it was okay
to give it a try so they gave it a try
and after about uh three months of
taking the plant-based
supplements her iron levels went up
and it actually helped to take care of
other
conditions that she had in her body so
right now she is actually fine she's
fine the color came back to her body the
yellow skin color that she had
as a result of the liver problems
disappeared she has a beautiful color on
her skin now
so the reason i'm sharing this is
is that if someone is already taking
medication from
the doctor natural remedies
should be used in con should i say
in consultation with the doctor the
reason
the reason is that there are some
conditions
which if a person is withdrawn from the
medication
immediately it will set them back
really really far but letting the doctor
know that you want to start
these natural remedies can help the
doctor to anticipate
any problems that may come as a result
of
of withdrawing from that medication
but i would also like to add that
natural remedies will not hurt you
taking natural remedies is not going to
hurt you
but withdrawing suddenly from certain
medications can cause
adverse effects on the patient depending
on what medications they are and how
long they've been taking it
and the condition that they're suffering
from so it's good to let the doctor know
um i have found this natural remedy i
know i have to take this medication is
it okay
if i drop the medication or can we
reduce how much i'm taking
while i do this on the side and then the
doctor is aware
so that in case something was to happen
the doctor then can advise
increase these many vegetables or take
this much
juice instead of you know to to
counteract the effect of the other
medication that you're taking so i hope
that
answers your question so there are
people who uh
were taking insulin for example for
for the diabetes and once they
discovered natural remedies
they were using the natural remedies as
they were
decreasing the use of insulin not that
they stopped insulin all together no
they decreased it as they increased the
natural remedies
so that the use of insulin was not
needed at some point after an extended
use
of the natural remedies so i hope that
answered your question
and then
i see there's one other here i don't
know how much time i have
but i will address this last question
i met an old lady who was suffering from
arthritis
we all know that with animal products
even if you are on medication you will
not get well
that's true on explaining this he or she
vowed never to stop this but honestly
requested for treatment
how can she be helped well you know
one thing i like about god is he he
doesn't force the will
he gives us free will he gives us
choices
so we have life we have death we have
wellness we have disease
if a person wants to enjoy good health
their sacrifices they're going to have
to make they will have to give up what
is
injurious to their to their body they
will have to walk away from
things that they've enjoyed eating for
a while so this uh
precious old grandma
probably is not willing to give up the
the meat or whatever animal products
that
she could be using and this
and that is perfectly okay every
patient has a right to accept treatment
or to refuse treatment but by refusing
to stop
they have rejected the treatment
they have rejected the treatment there
is no reason to
um
there is no reason to treat something
and the person is going to go back
to what caused them to be sick in the
first place
it reminds me of of a man who
who had a heart surgery at some point
because his heart got sick
his lifestyle was very indulgent
he ate food that was not healthy
he didn't like to exercise at all and he
was
type what is called type a personality
type a meaning
um high temper high very high tempered
person
and did not want to ever hear what
opinion a person has
if it was not his way so
after some time of course he became sick
his heart
gave way he had to undergo
what is considered or what is called
bypass
surgery but then the doctor told him
that he needed to correct his lifestyle
he needed to stop
eating some things he needed to exercise
but he was not willing to do that so as
soon as
the surgery was done he went home he
of course was on medication for some
time
and this is the other thing those
medications will take away the symptoms
after some time and then many people
after the symptoms have gone
they decide oh i'm okay i don't even
need to finish the dose
so that's what this ma this man decided
to do
once the symptoms were gone he went back
into
eating whatever he wanted whenever he
wanted however much he wanted
he just went back to the previous
lifestyle unfortunately
this did not last very long he landed
back in the hospital again
and this time around he did not come out
alive
he died so
there's really nothing much we can do if
a person chooses
to keep on the path of destruction
there's nothing much you can do you can
advise you can keep pleading with them
you can keep
um praying for them and with them
with the hope that they will turn around
but there's really nothing much you can
do after that it's their choice
and they can choose right they can
choose wrong they can choose
wellness they can choose disease it's
really up to
up to her so i think that marks the end
of our
session today and
if there are any other questions you
you're free to
send them in i think through elder moses
you can receive questions that could be
asked afterwards
and uh brother shem
also can help out if there are any
questions you can ask through those two
and then if i get them we can address
them tomorrow
at this point i would like to head back
to the
to the moderators before we close
thank you so much
thank you so much thank you so much
that's so powerful and we really thank
god that
he has spoken to us through you it is
critically important to
keep the notice of our lives and get to
know what we are to do at what time
so thank you for tuning in my dear
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help when you get to meditate on them
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and you make it so interesting so i
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note
of the times because at exactly 7 30 we
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shall we pray even as we come to the
closure of this first session
our heavenly father thank you so much
for speaking to us
through your servant sister jillian
thank you because you have put your word
in her mouth
thank you so much because it has just
come in time
to pray you give us strength to always
heal and beware
of the world's enticing gifts that is
giving
which are quite detrimental and not very
healthy
we are praying this day that us we shall
always be learning
it will be for the identification of the
saints
and always move us closer to you only
and only if we shall
get to take action on them maybe with us
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