His Commands are His Love for Our Healing
When our Lord Command us not to do something, that's His love towards to his children. Abide to his command, that will bring healing to your body!
ENGLISH - DEVINE HEALING
YTM
8/10/20254 min read
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:6-7, NIV)
It had been 52 days since I was laid off on June 18th. At that time, I was the only bread earner to the whole household. When the event happened, I did not feel much of stress, I prayed and proclaimed that God the Father will be my provider, I shall be provided when the time is come.
Days and weeks passed by. I am busy doing little bit of consulting work here and there and get some income to help with groceries. I am also start to refresh my resumes, apply jobs, and put myself on the market for sell. It’s not a good feeling, but I kept telling myself, I will be fine for my God is bigger than my problems.
Months passed, I noticed that I had lost about 10 pounds. I dropped of my regular swimming program as it is too expensive to maintain. I eat unregularly since I am at home most of the time and just grab anything that is available in the refrigerator and pantry. My mind racing 1000 mph every day to think and plan how can I get the income back in place. I slept less during the night and I was excited by many of new business ideas that came into my mind. I read many research articles to fine tune my business plans. As far as I can tell, I am not anxious, I am just excited by this new season.
One day, I was working in the yard and tried to clean up some of the weeds. I felt very tiring. Several days later, I was working with a dear friend to test some business idea and we eat some crushed oil seeds. My friend was completely fine but within one hour, my whole body take on a serious allergy reaction. My throat was hurting, my nose was stuffed, my lungs feel blocked and I can’t breathe very well, my two eye lids swollen up like balls. My eyes are red; and my whole body is on inflammation-- "fire".
As far as I can tell, it's terrible. It’s 5:00 Pm in the evening.
That evening, I was very weak and could not do much but my dear wife fought like a fearless warrior, she prayed hard and warfare to the dark kingdom. I had allergy many years ago but I was healed three years ago and never experience any symptoms during that period of time until this day.
By God’s grace and mercy, 80% the allergy symptom left me around 8:00pm. I can breathe well, my nose cleared up, my body experience peace. I had a good rest that nigh and the next morning, the allergy symptoms are completely gone except dry and itchy eyes were kept.
When we are praying, the Lord bring to us the old memories when I first encountered this allergy symptom. It was about 17 years ago, few years after we move to US. I worked very hard but hardly can keep the bills paid. I realized, these are the same scripts, “I am fearful that I could not provide for the family”, “I have to survive because no one is here to support”, that were hidden in my subconscious mind, that had damaged my health.
The Lord brought the “Cortisol” in my mind. So, I did little bit of research. Here are what I found the link of stress and anxiety linked with allergy through cortisol:
1. Cortisol is a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands, which is the body’s main stress hormone, and has a key role in our ‘fight or flight’ response.
2. Under a temporary situation, such as run from a threat biking dog, it will increase your blood pressure, reduce inflammation by fight against histamine, inhibit immune cells to fight allergens and redirect all the energy to deal with the “current” threat.
3. In a normal occurrence, and when the stressors go away, cortisol levels usually reduce back to normal. Our immune system back to normal duties.
4. While with ongoing stress for a long period of time, our adrenal response become dysfunctional, leading to adrenal fatigue. Under this condition, the adrenals will stop producing sufficient cortisol, histamine levels can sky rocket, resulting in widespread inflammation in the body.
5. When your body is in this highly inflamed state, it is more susceptible to developing allergies, sensitivities and intolerances. Our immune system becomes hypersensitive. The allergy symptoms kick in with higher level.
You see, what’s going on is my disobedience to the Lord’s command in Philippians 4:6-7, that causes the whole drama. Brothers and sisters, do not leave the anxious thoughts in your subconscious mind, that’s the playground of the enemy. That’s why a lot of Christians who can mesmerize and recite this verse daily but if we do not put it into practice, we will not be victorious in this area of our lives.
Proverbs 3:7-8 says: “Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones”.
In this story, what’s the evil in my life?
I did not obey His command and let the anxiety run my mind without controls.
Lord Jesus, I thank you! You are the Word that God Father had given us to heal us. Please help with my anxiety and know you will walk me through this test! Your commands to me are your love to me. Lord Holy Spirit, please help me to embrace your loving commands in my life.
Thank you Lord!