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Ministry of Healing

First light low over still water — the opening image of the Ministry of Healing section

Many things contribute to good health — cheerfulness, fresh air, exercise, diet, and our relationships with other people. Crucial also is a personal relationship with the Creator who gave us life.

3 John 1:2 — Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

According to the writer, many things contribute to good health — cheerfulness, fresh air, exercise, diet, and positive relationships with other people, to name a few. Crucial also is a personal relationship with the Creator who gave us life and everything we need for health and happiness. In this book Ellen White deals with sickness of the soul and the healing balm to be found by trusting God for all things. Written in simple, beautiful language, Ministry of Healing will point you to a life full of joy and gladness — a life in touch with the Source of healing power.

A diagram of what contributes to health — cheerfulness, fresh air and exercise, diet and temperance, and relationships with others and with God.

Named in the bookNot one of them is a remedy on its own. They are the ordinary conditions under which a body was made to live.

Need of education in health principles

Education in health principles was never more needed than now. Notwithstanding the wonderful progress in so many lines relating to the comforts and conveniences of life, even to sanitary matters and to the treatment of disease, the decline in physical vigor and power of endurance is alarming. It demands the attention of all who have at heart the well-being of their fellow men.

Our artificial civilization is encouraging evils destructive of sound principles. Custom and fashion are at war with nature. The practices they enjoy, and the indulgences they foster, are steadily lessening both physical and mental strength, and bringing upon the race an intolerable burden. Intemperance and crime, disease and wretchedness, are everywhere.

(Ministry of Healing, p. 126)

3 John 1:2 — 'Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth' — set over the Time Is At Hand emblem

Body and soul togetherThe prayer is for health of body measured against the health of the soul — the two are not treated as separate concerns.

What should we do when disease comes upon us?

In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.

(Ministry of Healing, p. 127)
Ministry of Healing page 127 — 'In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected' — set on a plain dark panel

Cause before cureFind the reason, change the conditions, correct the habit — and only then assist nature in the work she is already doing.

Also in this section: The Temple You Live In takes up 1 Corinthians 6:19 and the body God owns by creation and by redemption.

If this study has raised something you would like to talk through, the team reads every message: ask a Bible question, or send a prayer request.

On the health of body and mind together, Growing Stronger: The Second Dimension takes up the same verse, 3 John 1:2, and what it asks of us. For the wider condition behind so much of our sickness, Mental Health Failure turns to Isaiah 1:5.

First published at https://timeisathandlive.org/ministry-of-healing/ministry-of-healing — Time Is At Hand Evangelistic Ministries. The rest of the Ministry of Healing section — health, healing and the whole person — is on the ministry's own site, along with the full library of Bible studies at timeisathandlive.org.

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