54. HEALTH       --page 475--

         A faithful ambassador is health (Pro.13:17).
         Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (3Jn.2).

         1. Cleanliness is Godliness!
         2. Vigorous exercise seems to create energy, rather than use it up. During exercise the circulatory and respiratory systems are stimulated and the blood begins to surge through the body, oxygen and nutrients are fed to the cells of the tissues and the accumulated waste products are removed.
         3. The mental and emotional fatigue that comes at the end of a trying but sedentary day can be miraculously dispelled with a little physical exercise.
         4. One of the most pleasant things about exercise is its effectiveness as a tranquilizer--it seems to literally drain away the tensions as you go!
         5. Exercise reduces blood pressure. High blood pressure is often a forerunner of heart disease.
         6. Exercise results in a bigger, stronger heart. The more the heart or any muscle is exercised the bigger and stronger it becomes.
         7. Don't exercise beyond your capacity, and never indulge in strenuous exercise too soon after eating.
         8. Some doctors estimate that emotional causes contribute to as much as 90% or more of all illness.
         9. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear? (Pro.18:14).
         10. Your body is for use--not abuse.
         11. Don't tell your friends about your indigestion: "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
         12. A doctor is a man who tells you that if you don't cut something out, he will.
         13. The body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip.
         14. Health is wealth.
         15. To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
         16. Prevention is better than cure.
         17. You are what you eat, and if you eat poison you're going to turn into poison yourself!
         18. Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
         19. Cleanliness is not next to Godliness!--It is Godliness!
         20. Cleanliness is not next to Godliness, but a part of it! Cleanliness is a good witness and testimony.
         21. Better no Home than a dirty one!
         22. There's no excuse for dirt!
         23. It doesn't take money to clean a house!--It just takes elbow grease and a little hard work!
         24. If people are dirty on the outside, there's something wrong with them on the inside as well.
         25. The Lord's servant is worth more than his money: Don't be penny-wise and flesh-foolish!
         26. So-called "nervous strain" is a very common symptom of spiritual struggles. "Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee!"
         27. It's better to stay healthy than to have to be healed.
         28. Proper diet, proper exercise, proper rest and proper living will keep almost anyone healthy.
         29. Help us to let You take good care of us, Lord, and to give You all the cooperation we can by getting proper rest, proper exercise, proper diet and proper living!
         30. A fence at the top of the cliff is better than a hospital at the bottom!--An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
         31. Work on the ounce of prevention now, rather than worrying about the pound of cure later.
         32. You're the Lord's property and you'd better take good care of His property.
         33. The Lord made you to like to eat what you need, and not to like what you don't need, providing you haven't for years perverted your taste through wrong eating.
         34. Exercise is one of the prime requisites for good health.
         35. You just cannot violate God's health rules with impunity, any more than you can violate His moral rules or His law of love!
         36. Fear causes more sickness and more mental illness than anything else in the World.
         37. The principles of good health: Eat right, exercise right, sleep right and live right.
         38. It takes work to keep healthy!
         39. God wants you to live for Him--and as long as possible!
         40. You can't appreciate health unless you've been sick!
         41. It's against God's rules of health and happiness to work seven days a week, and God won't bless it!--Unless it's fun!
         42. Health is a special blessing of God. You can only demand it if you're obedient.
         43. God is the Creator of all things and can solve and heal anything! Through following His truth and His Law of Love, He can spare us from all mental and spiritual diseases.
         44. Only people who know and trust the Lord can really be in good health because they're the only people who don't have to worry.
         45. God put within your body little sensors, to want and enjoy things you need, and to reject things you shouldn't have or don't need.
         46. You can't expect to claim God's promises for health while you're disobeying His Word by abusing your body with overwork, exhausting exertion and heavy strains.
         47. You may be a whole lot more useful to the Lord with a faceful of boils, or a whole lot more humble and believing with a whole body covered with boils like Job was, than if the Lord would heal you too soon!
         48. Faith eliminates the greatest causes of disease and ill health, and these are fear and tension.
         49. A fence at the edge of the cliff built now will save us from having to dig a graveyard at the bottom later!
         50. Direction for Body Use: If left sitting too long, will tend to sag and settle on its bottom. Shake well daily in fresh air and sunshine.
         51. Be wise--exercise!
         52. Do you always remember to pray over not only your food but your drinks? The Lord not only prayed for the bread but He also prayed for the wine.
         53. You'll get away with defying God's natural laws no easier than you'll get away with defying His spiritual laws.
         54. God's natural laws are the same, regardless of culture, sex, nationality, East or West!
         55. Get on a regular schedule, a regular sleep schedule of seven to nine hours of sleep a night regularly. Get regular get out times as well--at least an hour of good strenuous physical exercise outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine.

         (See also No.190, 330C, 353, 569, 599, 609, 737, 805, 831, 878, 882, 920, 956, 1138, 1215, 1220, 1299, 1313, 1315, 1407, 1434, 1493, HH3, Childcare Handbook 1.)

         56. EXO.15:26 And said, If thou will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord Thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
         57. EXO.23:25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
         58. PSA.107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
         59. PRO.12:18b The tongue of the wise is health.
         60. MIC.6:13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.
         61. 1CO.3:16,17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
         62. 3JO.2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.


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