Daily Bible Portion (Monday)
Daily Bible Portion - 2 of 7
"She Bears Seed"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 12:1-13:59, 2 Kings 4:42-5:19, Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, 5:1-43)
Regulations about Infectious Skin Diseases
(Leviticus 13:34-36)
Where does disease come from? The body, soul and spirit are all interconnected as the following passage in 3 John confirms.
Our thoughts and emotions combine with our will to form our soul. They all must act as one/echad in unity. Our beliefs form the cornerstone of how we see things, which impacts how we store information. What we know is based on how we interpret data from our senses. It is important to remember as we relate to our fellow man that we may sometimes be in the wrong or the other may simply see things differently. Healthy relationships require flexibility to see things from many different perspectives regardless of our position or personal belief, this is why God gave us His word - the measuring line for all truth in our lives.
Freewill is what produces action based on the thoughts, emotions and beliefs we have encountered, whether good or bad. Feelings are the sensory data. When we use the terms "I saw," "I heard," and "I felt," these express emotions that are the result of what we believe about that sensory data. It is imperative we not allow our imaginations to speculate things which are not true. For example, what we interpret to be someone who appears to be angry may instead be a person who is sad or just squinting to protect his or her eyes from the glaring sun. The key distinction between feelings and emotions is that emotions, as opposed to reason, are the subjective reactions involving psychological and physical changes that fuel feelings (the capacity for both emotion and sensibility) with a belief system. If that belief system has been programmed with negative data, the body functions on negative instead of positive responses, which affect the whole day and lifestyle.
Emotions start from the womb. At the 24th week a baby can hear and begin to distinguish sounds. DNA is silent intelligence and RNA (ribonucleic acid) is the transmission of that data. Every thought, impulse, emotion and belief impacts both the RNA transmission and the DNA programming. For example, if a person expects rejection or is bitter that expectation will affect how they see, hear and feel.
Examples of unrighteous emotional roots are spirits of fear, anger, jealousy, bitterness and sorrow etc. These have the ability to influence us. They could come as a result of our ancestor's iniquities(sins) or by us having come into agreement with the ruler of the kingdom of darkness through innocent or willful sin (transgressions). Scripture tells us our battle is not against human beings (flesh), but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm (Ephesians 6:10-12). There is a connection between our spirit man and our soul (our mind, will, memory and emotions), and as such we can fall prey to becoming one with thoughts the adversary would have us think. Disease can be an outflow of these unclean influences.
In the last study Shemini we looked at the Scripture instructing us not to bow down to other gods or we will reap the curse of that sin. Scripture says that the sins/curses of the fathers who have bowed down and served other gods and their idols flow to the third and fourth generation. "You shall not bow down to them [other gods] nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me" (Exodus 20:5 NKJ). The old nature, unclean actions, thoughts and behaviors, can transfer from one generation to a succeeding third and fourth generation. Disease can be an outward sign of this as many conditions like different forms of schizophrenia, heart disease, some cancers, and alcoholism can be the consequential results of previous generations. In other words, iniquities are the generational sins (curses) we participate in if we come into agreement with them. Life is in the blood. We are the result of our parent's blood coming together. We are flesh of their flesh. Iniquities can show up as predispositions to unloving personality characteristics such as those mentioned earlier; that of fear, anger and sorrow. It is as if their voices call out through the memory of the blood and, if we listen, we become one spiritually and psychologically with them inheriting the same wrong mindsets and choices that our ancestors had (Leviticus 17:11).
Deuteronomy 28 records the blessings that flow when we follow God's ways, along with the curses that come against us if we do not. Quoting from Pastor Henry Wright's book A More Excellent Way,
"Diseases in our lives can be a result of a separation from Him [God] and His Word in specific areas of our lives. God would have to become double minded, would have to become evil in condoning evil, in order to bless us in our sins."
Therefore God is as faithful to the curses as He is faithful to the blessings. Iniquities that flow to the third and fourth generation are listed in the form of curses. Deuteronomy 28 teaches us that illnesses can come as a result of innocently transgressing His ways through lack of understanding or by not obeying His food laws or in general by refusing to obey His teaching. Other diseases such as mental and/or emotional breakdown, barrenness or reproductive problems, breakdown of marriage and family alienation, continuing financial insufficiency, accident-proneness, history of suicide, unnatural or untimely deaths in families all come from transgression against God's teaching and instruction.
Any thoughts we have that do not match how God thinks or what He would say is a form of insanity. If we are allowing fears and phobias, envy, jealousy and so on to manifest in our lives – that is insanity. We have become one with things that are not of God's Kingdom and if they are repeated over time they will become part of our physiology. Thus we tend to say, "That's just the way I am."
continued tomorrow...
"She Bears Seed"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 12:1-13:59, 2 Kings 4:42-5:19, Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, 5:1-43)
Regulations about Infectious Skin Diseases
(Leviticus 13:34-36)
Where does disease come from? The body, soul and spirit are all interconnected as the following passage in 3 John confirms.
3 John 1:2 "Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers."
Our thoughts and emotions combine with our will to form our soul. They all must act as one/echad in unity. Our beliefs form the cornerstone of how we see things, which impacts how we store information. What we know is based on how we interpret data from our senses. It is important to remember as we relate to our fellow man that we may sometimes be in the wrong or the other may simply see things differently. Healthy relationships require flexibility to see things from many different perspectives regardless of our position or personal belief, this is why God gave us His word - the measuring line for all truth in our lives.
Freewill is what produces action based on the thoughts, emotions and beliefs we have encountered, whether good or bad. Feelings are the sensory data. When we use the terms "I saw," "I heard," and "I felt," these express emotions that are the result of what we believe about that sensory data. It is imperative we not allow our imaginations to speculate things which are not true. For example, what we interpret to be someone who appears to be angry may instead be a person who is sad or just squinting to protect his or her eyes from the glaring sun. The key distinction between feelings and emotions is that emotions, as opposed to reason, are the subjective reactions involving psychological and physical changes that fuel feelings (the capacity for both emotion and sensibility) with a belief system. If that belief system has been programmed with negative data, the body functions on negative instead of positive responses, which affect the whole day and lifestyle.
Emotions start from the womb. At the 24th week a baby can hear and begin to distinguish sounds. DNA is silent intelligence and RNA (ribonucleic acid) is the transmission of that data. Every thought, impulse, emotion and belief impacts both the RNA transmission and the DNA programming. For example, if a person expects rejection or is bitter that expectation will affect how they see, hear and feel.
Examples of unrighteous emotional roots are spirits of fear, anger, jealousy, bitterness and sorrow etc. These have the ability to influence us. They could come as a result of our ancestor's iniquities(sins) or by us having come into agreement with the ruler of the kingdom of darkness through innocent or willful sin (transgressions). Scripture tells us our battle is not against human beings (flesh), but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm (Ephesians 6:10-12). There is a connection between our spirit man and our soul (our mind, will, memory and emotions), and as such we can fall prey to becoming one with thoughts the adversary would have us think. Disease can be an outflow of these unclean influences.
In the last study Shemini we looked at the Scripture instructing us not to bow down to other gods or we will reap the curse of that sin. Scripture says that the sins/curses of the fathers who have bowed down and served other gods and their idols flow to the third and fourth generation. "You shall not bow down to them [other gods] nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me" (Exodus 20:5 NKJ). The old nature, unclean actions, thoughts and behaviors, can transfer from one generation to a succeeding third and fourth generation. Disease can be an outward sign of this as many conditions like different forms of schizophrenia, heart disease, some cancers, and alcoholism can be the consequential results of previous generations. In other words, iniquities are the generational sins (curses) we participate in if we come into agreement with them. Life is in the blood. We are the result of our parent's blood coming together. We are flesh of their flesh. Iniquities can show up as predispositions to unloving personality characteristics such as those mentioned earlier; that of fear, anger and sorrow. It is as if their voices call out through the memory of the blood and, if we listen, we become one spiritually and psychologically with them inheriting the same wrong mindsets and choices that our ancestors had (Leviticus 17:11).
Deuteronomy 28 records the blessings that flow when we follow God's ways, along with the curses that come against us if we do not. Quoting from Pastor Henry Wright's book A More Excellent Way,
"Diseases in our lives can be a result of a separation from Him [God] and His Word in specific areas of our lives. God would have to become double minded, would have to become evil in condoning evil, in order to bless us in our sins."
Therefore God is as faithful to the curses as He is faithful to the blessings. Iniquities that flow to the third and fourth generation are listed in the form of curses. Deuteronomy 28 teaches us that illnesses can come as a result of innocently transgressing His ways through lack of understanding or by not obeying His food laws or in general by refusing to obey His teaching. Other diseases such as mental and/or emotional breakdown, barrenness or reproductive problems, breakdown of marriage and family alienation, continuing financial insufficiency, accident-proneness, history of suicide, unnatural or untimely deaths in families all come from transgression against God's teaching and instruction.
Any thoughts we have that do not match how God thinks or what He would say is a form of insanity. If we are allowing fears and phobias, envy, jealousy and so on to manifest in our lives – that is insanity. We have become one with things that are not of God's Kingdom and if they are repeated over time they will become part of our physiology. Thus we tend to say, "That's just the way I am."
continued tomorrow...