Quit Worrying About Your Health!
Worry is a sin. If you’re worrying about anything, you’re out of the will of God, you’re sinning and you need to repent! You can worry yourself sick or even to death. You can make yourself sick worrying when you were perfectly healthy to begin with!
A major obstacle for some people to overcome is the “My daddy had it, my daddy’s daddy had it...” syndrome. It does not matter if the last 40 generations in your family had it, you don’t have to have it. Even if you are “genetically predisposed” to it, God’s healing covenant covers whatever it is. You do not have to suffer the same fate your ancestors did. Even if getting sick is a family tradition, you’ve been redeemed from the aimless conduct handed down in your family (1 Peter 1:18)! Let your covenant, not your chromosomes, determine what happens to you.
The absolute last thing you should do is to keep saying, “It’s only a matter of time until I get it. It runs in the family. I should enjoy my health now while I still have it, because I know what’s coming.” God says that death and life are in the power of your tongue (Proverbs 18:21), and that if you speak something and believe it in your heart, it will be yours (Mark 11:23). So if you believe you’re going to get it and say you’re going to get it, you are going to get it, even if you wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise. This applies to both health and sickness. The same principle works for either – which do you want to expect and say?
Study God’s healing covenant until thoughts of healing crowd out the thoughts of getting and staying sick. This is not mind control; this is mind renewal (Romans 12:2)! You will never quit worrying just by trying harder not to worry. You won’t stop any sin by trying harder not to sin. You overcome sin by filling yourself with God’s Word until you think and act on God’s Word instead of sinning.
You don’t have to worry about your health. Faith will drive worry out, so concentrate on building your faith in what God says about healing. When thoughts of worry come (and they will), speak God’s Word the same way Jesus did to Satan when He was tempted.
You don’t have to worry that you’ll get sick and God won’t heal you. God is perfectly willing to heal you of anything you get, since He already paid the price for it when He sent Jesus to be punished in your place. Do not worry that you will get senile. God’s healing covenant covers senility. Do not worry that you will be confined to a “home” as an invalid who wets his pants and can’t feed himself. God’s healing covenant covers lameness, incontinence and all forms of being crippled. You can’t come down with anything that God won’t heal and hasn’t already made the provision to heal, so quit worrying about it. Quit seeing yourself getting sick. The more you visualize it, the more you’ll speak it and ensure that it will happen. Besides, no one likes being around someone who’s always talking about how sick he will be in the future and how much of a burden he will become in his advancing old age. Quit talking trash and start speaking God’s Word out of your mouth. Stop worrying and start believing.
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