Heaven's Healing | Natural Remedies Part 3

10. Let's Get Practical

HOW TO CHANGE?

Address Your Health or It Will Address You
In 2006, in Beijing‚ a 35-year-old Chinese man‚ wanted by police on gun charges‚ surrendered himself after hiding in a cave constructed at the back of his house for eight years. After eight years‚ in spite of the possibility of a death sentence‚ the man finally gave himself up to police after no longer being able to cope with the "psychological pressure."
The harvest of our lifestyle habits inevitably reaps itself in the condition of our health. If we choose not to change bad habits‚ we are as the man hiding in the cave pretending to be free when really in bondage to the inevitable.
Delay is the worst enemy for reform. It is essential to examine where you fail‚ and then commence the work of reform earnestly without delay one small step at a time. Make an effort to carefully preserve the remaining strength of your vital force‚ by lifting off every transgression of Yahuwah's physical and moral laws. The timing of your reform will tell in favor of your success; delay and neglect will only make it more difficult.

Ask For the Grace of Yahuwah
The most profound and long-lasting changes in our behavior come as we look to Yahuwah for help. Never are we to lose sight of Him. "Without Me," Yahushua says, "you can do nothing." Remember this (John 15:5). When you know Yahushua personally, the Holy Spirit of Yahuwah will dwell in your heart. As such you will have a source of strength and power to make great changes in your life.
If you are conscious of an area in your life that needs to change, talk to Yahuwah about it and commit the change you desire to make to Him. When you depend on His strength and not your own, He will never fail you.
If you are sick and want to recover‚ the change must be dramatic and complete. Ask in faith for the strength of character needed to make the reform and Yahuwah will give you the power to will and to do. The Word teaches us, "I can do all things through Yahushua which strengtheneth me." (Philippians 4:13).
We need to learn that the blessings of obedience‚ in their fullness‚ can be ours only as we receive the grace of Yahushua. It is His grace that gives us power to obey the laws of Yahuwah. It is this that enables us to break the bondage of evil habits. This is the only power that can make us and keep us steadfast in the right path.
Yahuwah in His wisdom has created human beings with all the potential to grow and change. The greatest thing any person can do to improve his habits is to submit himself to his Creator. As he does this he will begin to grow into the likeness of Yahushua Himself who kept all His Father's moral and physical health laws.

Adopt the Right Mindset

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." —Proverbs 23:7
What you think, say, see, smell, feel and taste is all dependent on how you choose to think of it in your mind. If you determine by the grace of Yahuwah to love health reform you will love it. If you approach it with skepticism and dislike, it will feel, look, smell, and taste to a great extent according to what you think.

Good Health Is a Habit‚ Not an Event
An "all or nothing" mentality is the way to defeat. If you are unable to do everything all at once or always‚ do not fret, you don't need to overwhelm yourself. Simply adapt one change at a time, once you get used to it, quickly get started on another good habit.
Every step you take towards health will do you good. If you slip‚ do not quit. It is what you do most of the time that counts. It is not the odd times but the habitual tendency that determines good health.
One of the differences between people and animals is the way they acquire behavior patterns. Animals follow instinct. This knowledge and behavior is inherited. In contrast‚ although tendencies are inherited, humans follow learnt behavior. Most of what we do‚ we do because we learnt it somewhere. Habits are convenient‚ since once we establish them‚ we don't have to deliberate about everything we do.
The good news is‚ once you follow a healthy lifestyle for long enough‚ it will become a rewarding habit to help keep you on track with much less effort and planning. Consistency is key, and the more often you engage in the habit, the stronger yet easier it becomes.

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
—Thomas A. Edison
We cannot be too often reminded that health does not depend on chance. It is a result of obedience to Yahuwah's laws. Obedience to these laws is by no means a restriction of liberty, it really is an inestimable blessing that frees us from all fear of illness.
You are to "look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). The exchange you make in the denial of selfish desires and inclinations is an exchange of the worthless and transitory for the precious and enduring. This is not sacrifice, but infinite gain.


"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahuwah, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Yahuwah, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of Yahuwah." —Romans 12:1, 2, emphasis added