March 2024

Last month I shared with you about the importance of believing and receiving your physical healing. In a newsletter printed by the world renown Mayo Health Clinic, they were talking about something that is called the “Placebo Effect.” A placebo contains no active medication, but is used on patients who believe they are being treated with real medication.

In a series of experiments, doctors filled capsules with sugar or flour and prescribed them to patients who were told they were receiving potent medicine. The patients believed the pills would make them well; many of them started improving almost immediately. Thei response is called the “Placebo Effect.” The placebo sometimes brings better results than real medicine because the patient believes it is better. Medical reports document that the “Placebo effect” has been used successfully to treat coughs, headaches, insomnia, allergies, blood pressure, and numerous other diseases.

Some people receiving placebos even reported side effects of the drug they thought they were receiving, and in some cases, their use had to be terminated gradually to prevent withdrawal symptoms. All of these responses to placebos occurred because the patients believed they had received experiments scientifically document the tremendous power of believing. New medicines now have to be compared to placebos before the FDA approves them. The power of believing is much more profound when connected to God’s Word.

You physical body was created by God to respond to messages received from your brain. There are chemicals in the brain called endorphins that, when activated, kill pain in a manner similar to narcotics. Other brain chemicals known as neurotransmitters affect how you think, feel, and behave. The Bible says in Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Your words affect your brain, which influences your body chemistry and ultimately, your physical health.

Proverbs 18:14 tells us, “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity…” Another version says it this way, “The spirit of man will hold off, or hold in his infirmity…” In other words, what you believe will either hold in or hold off an infirmity. The Bible, as well as scientific research, confirms what Jesus declared 2,000 years ago, “…as you have believed, so let it be done for you…” (Matthew 8:13)

Jesus said in John 15:7, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” Then Jesus said in Mark 11:23-24, “.. whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” 

The following article, entitled “Patient Knows Best,” appeared in the August 1991 issue of The Reader’s Digest: “A person’s answer to the question, ‘Is your health excellent, good, fair, or poor?’ is a remarkable predictor of who will live or die over the next four years according to new findings. A study of more than 2,800 men and women, 65 and older, found that those who rate their health ‘poor’ are four to five times more likely to die in the next four years than those who rate their health ‘excellent.’ This was the case even if examinations show the respondents to be in comparable health.

These findings are supported by a review of five other large studies, totaling 23,000 people, who reached similar conclusions, according to Ellen Idler, a sociologist at Rutgers University, and epidemiologist, Stanislav Kasl of Yale University School of Medicine, co-authors of the new study.”

People that have an image of themselves being in poor health will talk poor health. Even though they may be in good health, they seem to live out the reality of the image they have of themselves, even unto death. This is revealed in Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”  What you believe and speak not only affects your body, but your immune system as well. Your words become either a blessing or a curse to you.

Jesus put it this way in Luke 6:45, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” The Apostle Paul said God’s Word is in your mouth, then in your heart, (Romans 10:8)

I am convinced from my study of the Word, that your own words can change your immune system for better or worse. The words you speak are vital to your health and well-being. I believe there are some diseases that will never be cured unless people learn to speak the language of health that the body understands. God’s Word is infused into your by giving voice to His Word with your own mouth. This is the language of health your body understands, and it will respond to it.

I believe a continual affirmation of God’s Word in faith will build into your immune system a supernatural anointing that is capable of eliminating sickness and disease in a natural manner. God’s Word is the original healing medicine. Proverbs 4:22 informs us that God’s Word is “medicine” to our flesh, taken on a daily basis will produce the best results in your body. Psalm 107:20 tells us that God sent His Word and healed them!

I want to encourage you that if you are in need of physical healing in your body, to spend time each and every day, praying in the Holy Spirit, and believing you have received it. Stay in faith. Stay in the Word. Keep INCREASE ON YOUR MIND, KEEP SPEAKING INCREASE, and the right things and making the right confessions of faith. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; and remember “God loves you; we love you and JESUS IS LORD!”

In the Service of Our King,

Darrell G. Harrelson

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