God's Health Plan

3John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

God wants us to be healthy. In His Word there are many laws and principles that He gives us to help us to keep healthy. Below I have listed some verses and thoughts, Search the scriptures, to see if these things are true, hold fast to those that are true.

Gen. 43:28; 47:9. Old age alone does not bring poor health.

Gen. 48:1, 17-19. Jacob had clear mind in sickness.

Gen. 49:33. At the age of 147 years, he was able to gather up his own feet into the bed.

Deut. 34:7. At 120 years, Moses’ eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Joshua 14:10, 11. Caleb had full health at 85 years.

Deut. 28:22, 27-29, 60, 61. Other nations had diseases.

Ex. 15:26; Deut. 7:12-15. If the Israelites had obeyed God, He would have taken all sickness from them.

Ex. 16:3-13. Israel lusted for flesh.

Num. 11:4. Mixed multitude began the complaint.

Num. 11:4-6. Despised food from heaven; wanted flesh.

Num. 11:31-33. With flesh came disease.

Ps. 78:18; 106:14, 15. Also leanness of soul.

1 Cor. 10:6. We should not lust after evil things as they lusted.

Isa. 4:1. Diet a test of the true believers in the last days.

Zech. 2:8. God’s people are as dear to Him as the apple of His eye.

Isa. 53:4, 5. Christ bore our infirmities.

Matt. 8:16, 17. Shown by His healing the sick.

1 Peter 2:24; 3 John 2. Our health as well as forgiveness of our sins purchased by the blood of Christ.

Matt. 9:36, margin. Christ feels every tired feeling of His people.

Ps. 41:3, margin. Regards the sick in mercy.

1 Cor. 6:19, 20. Human body purchased by Christ’s blood.

Rom. 12:1. Bodies should be a living sacrifice.

2 Cor. 7:1. True sanctification embraces a clean body and a pure mind.

Rom 12:2. Which will not conform to the world.

1 Cor. 10:31. Will eat and drink to God’s glory.

Dan. 1:8. Will not defile the body.

1 Cor. 3:16, 17. God destroys those who defile the body.

Divine Agencies In Healing
Jas. 2:20. "Faith without works is dead."
Mark 1:30, 31. Healing in Christ’s touch.
Matt. 8:7-13. His word healed the sick.
John 9:11. At times combined rational remedies.
Heb. 9:10. Law taught divers washings.
2 Kings 5:10, 11. Elisha taught continual bathing as a curative agency.
2 Kings 20:5-7. Hezekiah given rational remedies.
Mark 6:13. Disciples anointed sick, healed them.
Jas. 5:14-16. Fervent prayer, confession of sins, and anointing with oil, classed
together in healing.
Mark 5:23. Hands laid on the sick.
Matt. 17:21. Sometimes fasting as well as prayer required.
Num. 12:13-15. Healing is sometimes deferred till God’s lesson is learned.
Job 42:7-10. Job was healed when he prayed for those who had misjudged him.
1 Kings 13:3-6; Luke 17:11-19. Wicked people sometimes healed when God can
be glorified thereby.