Why are Christians Suffering from Poor Health?

Why are millions of Christians suffering unnecessary poor health and dying prematurely?  Surely, that is not God’s best for us!  (John 10:10 “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”  Perhaps we are not following the basic principles of health that are taught in the Bible.

We slice, dice, chop, blend, hydrogenate, refine, and dismember God’s food until there is little precious nourishment left in it.  We fill it with chemicals, additives and poisons and call it enriched.  Through years of consuming this kind of “food” we turn our God-given bodies that were built for activity into a body who can barely get up off the couch or out of bed in the morning.  Man has polluted the food, air and water supplies with so many man-made poisons that we have subjected ourselves to a never ending parade of stress.  And when we get sick, we ask “Why me?”  We are so bewildered as to how this could happen to us!  So man’s way of dealing with this trauma is to inundate our starving and poorly maintained body with potent drugs to subdue the symptoms of the illness, rather than looking into the underlying cause of the disease.  When drugs do not do the trick, we turn to mutilating surgeries that could be avoided (in most cases) just by going back to God’s natural laws of health. 

Consider the following:

Symptoms do not need to be bombarded with drugs and surgery.  We need to look at what is causing the symptoms – a fact that is sadly missed by the medical world.  We have not looked at history to see that Man’s Food is not better than God’s Food.  History clearly indicates that our health is declining at a rapidly increasing rate – even our children are feeling the effects of bad dietary habits.  We are learning a painful lesson.

But sometimes, God asks us to partner with Him – God does His work – we need to do ours.  Our work is not slated in the latest Pill – there is no magic bullet.  We have to work hard for our health.  Could it be that much of the suffering, illness, tears, pain, and early death are because we are not doing our part? 

Think about it!  God feeds all the birds, but He doesn’t throw the food into their nest – the birds have to go get it.  We have the potential of being vibrantly healthy, yet we have to earn it through our own lifestyle practices.  Don’t blame God for our poor condition.  God gave us free will to make our own choices in life.  Everyday, every meal we have a choice to make.  Choose health by choosing healthy foods that nourish the body instead of ones that destroy the body.

More Christians suffer from lack of education than lack of inspiration.  Too few of us know the guidelines provided in Scripture to nourish the mind and body toward a zesty and fulfilling 80 to 120 years of life.  We assume that by giving thanks over the food, God will bless it to nourish our bodies.  But when we take God’s nourishing food, then strip it of any vestige of nourishment; giving thanks will not turn that adulterated and bankrupt food into something nourishing.  That goes against natural laws.

When a doctor sets a broken bone, he or she does not heal the patient, but rather sets in place the tissue so that God can heal us from within.  The only way you stay well or heal from a health challenge is by nourishing that “God-given life force” within us – the immune system.  When we stop looking to man for the answers and realize that God has given us everything we need to sustain life and health, then we will experience a renewed body and most definitely improved health.

The Hallelujah Lifestyle is not some drastic diet – it’s based on the choice that God must have known that the diet he gave Adam and Eve was best suited for His creation – so we choose to go back to the Garden for our nourishment.  This lifestyle will rebuild your immune system and alkalize your body.  The testimonies are proof enough that this is not an outdated theory – it is alive and working and millions are choosing to prove it works.
It’s your turn now – are you sick and tired enough to give up your old ways, renew your mind (Roman’s 12:2 “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will.”)   Start giving your body the nutrient dense foods and juices it needs to reach for the promised good health of the Bible? 

(From Healing Secrets from the Bible by Dr. Patrick Quillin)