This topic seems to be controversial yet it is the foundation behind what this ministry is all about.  From a personal standpoint, I couldn't understand why I wasn't well.  Why, even though I had been a Christian for so many years, I wasn't getting better, only worse in my health.

So I ventured out into this teaching by Pastor Henry Wright, at Pleasant Valley Ministries, and found what I was looking for.  I saw the connection between sin and sickness, life and death, truth and lies, and more.

At this time, I began writing a journal which later turned into a book of my journey from fear to faith called "A Matter of the Mind."  I had to come to grips with the realization that most of my problems started with my thoughts rooted from a spirit of fear. Later I realized how my body responded to thoughts and saw the parallel in my own life. 

I pray this information proves to be helpful for you to understand the truth behind the mind-body connection (Sin and Sickness.)

Why are people sick (even Christians?)

Where there is no peace, the body is sick.  Peace is the "stuff" we need to be healed and stay healed.  When we have peace our body's chemical's balance out.  When we have peace, we don't worry, fret, stress out, fall into depression, anger, jealousy, and the like.  And as you know each of these things listed does not produce peace!

The Bible says to follow after peace.  And at the end of most of the letters written, it says, "peace be with you."  Even Jesus said this in his parting as he ascended up to God, "My peace I leave with you."

Peace is what causes homeostasis - balancing of our chemicals.  Disease is a direct result of imbalanced chemicals, that is why we are given drugs, to balance out chemicals.  There is a better way!  God's way.

We need to take our peace - "The God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."   We need God's peace to sanctify us, to run through our blood and our thinking, so that our body's are not condemned with disease.

III John 2:  "Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

When our soul prospers (which is our mind, will and emotions) our body will respond with good health.  If our mind is filled with wrong thinking, our body will respond with poor health. When our heart is at peace, without guilt or condemnation, our body is at peace resulting in good health.

Is Disease from a curse?

The blessings and cursings are revealed in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26.  The scriptures say that if we obey Him, we shall be blessed, if we don't, we shall be cursed.  And as we see the listing of curses, they are diseases AND situations.

God says that if we listen to Him and line up with Him, He will bless us by taking away the diseases that our disobedience caused.  (Deuteronomy 7:12-15).

There is one scripture that sums up all obedience scriptures as found in  Matthew 23:38-40 and Mark 12:29-31.  "We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind, and love our neighbor as ourselves, upon these two commands hang all the law and the prophets."

When we "love" God, ourselves and neighbors, we "DO" all the laws and commandments of God.  This is where the breakdown is.  We don't!  We can't seem to get past the crabby neighbor, or the mean boss, or forget and forgive those who hurt and abused us as children, or even if God really loves us.  All these things play in to our lives, resulting in our health.

How is this remedied?

Christ redeemed us!  Galatians 3:13-14, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."

Isaiah 53:5 and I Peter 2:24 tells us that by Jesus' stripes (his scourging and beating) we are healed.

Why are Christian's still sick then?

The provision of healing must be appropriated through confession and repentance of sin, sanctification, prayer and ministry.  Just as each individual must appropriate salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, so each individual must appropriate their healing provided by Jesus' stripes through faith in Jesus Christ.  But more than faith is required for healing of disease.

Disease is a curse.  Proverbs 26:2 says that to every curse there is a cause.  The cause is sin and evil spirits.  The cause (sin and evil spirits) of the curse (disease) must be dealt with before the blessing (healing and health) comes from God.

"As you have believed, let it be done unto you….."  (Matthew 8:13) comes to mind.  In my own healing, I first had to believe I could be healed.  I had to believe God's desire for me was to be healed.  I had to believe that God did not give me a disease.  I had to believe God existed, God loved me and God was in charge.  All these things I did not even see!  I was taught that our disease is from God.  I was taught that we are not healed because we don't have enough faith.  I have heard countless individuals say that their disease has brought them closer to God.  That is not what God intended.  But God uses all things to draw us to Him, including being sick, but that was not His choice.  He wants you to draw to Him because you want to, not because you have to.  And when we say God gave us the disease we make him evil.  Remember, our diseases come from our own sin.  Jeremiah 5:25 says, "Our sins and iniquities prevent good things from happening to us."

I had to believe it was possible for me to be healed, then mixed with truth of my own sin, and confession began the sanctification process.  It is a process.  Many can be healed by miracles, but I have found that if the sin issue wasn't dealt with in that individual after healing by a miracle, they end up getting it back!  Cancer is an example.  It seems that when people go into remission, it comes back - it's because the sin issue of bitterness, self-hatred, and unforgiveness was never dealt with.

We need to participate in this process.  Confession of faults and sins are needed in order to be healed.  James 5:16 says "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another and you shall be healed."  John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

It's not enough to only believe, the devils even believed!  But as Christians, we believe by taking action to receive forgiveness of sins confessed.

God does heal:

Our job as believers is to believe, believe the whole word!  All of it, not just the parts we like.  We need to believe that obedience brings health.  We need to believe that we are healed when we put into action the conditions for healing.  This has nothing to do with salvation.  Once you have received Christ into your hearts as your Lord and Savior, that puts into motion the ability to live out what God wants for you.  (I believe that a person who truly has received Christ, is saved for all eternity, because they'll whole desire will be to live for Him not for self.)

Matthew, Mark, Luke John and Acts demonstrate the power and will of God to heal through the many recorded miracles, signs and wonders.  God showed us that healing is available because Jesus bore our sicknesses in His body on the cross.  (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 8:16-17; Matthew 12:15; Matthew 14:14; Matthew 14:36: Luke 4:40-41; Luke 6:17-19; Acts 10:38; Acts 5:12-16.)

Romans thru Jude emphasize the sanctification of the believer.  The putting off of the old sinful nature and putting on of more and more of the nature of Christ through the work of the Holy spirit.  Part of the reason for this emphasis on sanctification is to show that without sanctification there will not be the healing of disease, because it is the lack of sanctification (sin and spiritual problems) that is causing the disease. (I Thessalonians 4:3: 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Corinthians 3:18; Ephesians 4:21-23 and rest of chapter; Ephesians 5:26-28, Deut. 7:11-15, 2 Corinthians 7:1.)

Healing is the fruit of repentance.

Deuteronomy 7:11 Disease prevention is keeping the Word.  Here are other scriptures to look up and study.  Let the WORD teach you!

Scripture

Meaning

I Corinthians 15:34

Hosea 4:6

Isaiah 5:13

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 and 15

Proverbs 26:2

Job 3:25

Psalm 103:3

Isaiah 26:3

John 14:27

II Corinthians 10:5-6

II Timothy 2:23-26

I John 4:18

Ephesians 5:26

Proverbs 12:4

Romans 7:17 and 20

Jeremiah 5:25

Isaiah 59:1-2

I Peter 2:24

Along with believing, then confessing our sins, we now need to identify any spirits that may be hindering our lives with disease.  When Jesus came upon someone who had an evil spirit, they weren't happy or healthy, they were tormented and sick!  Jesus didn't give them a maintenance program, he cast them out! 

Then you may have the question, "How can I have an evil spirit being a Christian?"  Let me answer it this way, "We shouldn't be so concerned if the Christian has an evil spirit but rather does the evil spirit have a Christian?" 

Evil spirits are:  Deaf and dumb spirit (Mark 9:25); spirit of fear (II Tim. 1:7) Antichrist spirit (I John 4:3).

A strong man is an evil spirit.  Satan's palace is the person he inhabits.  Luke 11:21-22 talks of the strong man, but a stronger can take him.  And that stronger one is you!  One who walks in authority of God's word, taking hold of the enemy of God and getting rid of it.

In the case of bitterness, there are seven underlings (spirits) that are established because of bitterness.  When bitterness takes root (Hebrews 12:15) and springs up, it brings forth the following: 

Spirit

Dialog

Unforgiveness

"I am not willing to forgive the offense against me.  I remember what has been done to me" (Unforgiveness gives bitterness the open door to reside, resulting in the following six spirits.)

Resentment

"I don't like him.  I will never forgiven him for what he did to me.  (Resentment keeps the ill will in place.)

Retaliation

"It is time to get even.  He should pay for what he did.  I am going to make him pay for what he did."

Spirit

Dialog

Anger/Wrath

It waits for retaliation to become strong, and then acts out.

Hate

This person begins to think, "He does not deserve to live"

Violence

This is anger and hatred in action

Murder

May be actual murder, meditated murder which is from the heart (gossip)

Remedy?

Each sin we allow into our lives is a direct result of unforgiveness to some degree.  The door is opened to the enemy to come and go as he pleases.  II Tim. 2:24 "The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will."

When you recognize what is happening, you can recover yourselves by repentance.

Satan wants our blood:

Leviticus 17:11 "The life of the man is in the blood."  Satan knows that by drying up our blood, it will result in many illnesses.  When the blood dries up in our bones, it results in autoimmune diseases such as allergies, bone disease, rheumatoid arthritis, crone's disease etc.  All autoimmune disease is a result of the blood drying up in the bones.  "A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." (Proverbs 17:22)

Our spirit is broken because of offense.  It came from many years ago, up until today. 

Forgiveness is the antidote for the bones drying up. Forgiveness causes us to get right with God.  Forgiveness is what God brought through the sacrifice that Jesus gave.  God knew that by balancing out our hearts in truth with him, it will keep our bodies balanced for a good healthy life.

What will you choose? 

Prayer:   "Father, this teaching is by far one of the hardest to comprehend yet it is the most important to understanding sickness.  Many instances in the Bible you indicate that sin and sickness are related.  You told the lady at the well, "go and sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you."  And to the lame man, "thy sins be forgiven, rise and walk."  So we need to come to a realization that this is true for us today.  I pray that this dear saint believe who you are, believe you are God who loves them, believe you want to heal them, believe you exist!  And I pray that they also recognize the sin within them and confess and receive forgiveness.  If they have to forgive others, help them to do so Lord.  Restore their bodies to homeostasis Lord.  Balance out the chemicals in their brain Lord.  Restore the blood to their bones.  Establish peace into their hearts and minds.  And help them to identify any spirits that may 'have them' Lord.  Let them not fear any thing they see but know that you need them to see so they can be cleansed, purged and healed.  I ask for an anointing of your Holy Spirit to manifest himself in them, filling them with healing, truth, love and peace.  I ask you to give them strength to walk out their sanctification, hand in hand with you.  Let them understand that their job is to believe and confess.  Your job is to heal, deliver and restore.  Grant them peace now, in Jesus name, Amen."

If you need help to identify evil spirits in your life and become free from them, you are welcome to contact this ministry at truthfrees@mindsync.com.