James Is anyone sick?

 

James

Is anyone sick?

All of us know what it is to be sick

Every one of us has been sick from something

How do you define health?

 

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being

and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

 

There is a lot in this world to make us sick and rob us of our peace

Jesus came to make us whole to give us peace

He came healing the sick

So if any one of us is sick, realize God wants to heal you spirit, soul and body

He wants to give you wholeness and peace 

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 I think sums up healing

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

I hope our cry for healing is a cry for our whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Shalom

 

 

Is anyone sick?

 

All of us know what it is to be sick.

 

Every one of us has been sick from something.

 

More than 4 in 5 American adults

(86 percent) take vitamins or supplements,

according to a recent online survey conducted

 by The Harris Poll on behalf of the

American Osteopathic Association.

Jan 16, 2019

 

Americans Spend $30 Billion a Year Out-of-Pocket

 on Complementary Health Approaches

National Institutes of Health

 

All of us are thinking every day of how

to stay healthy or how to get well.

 

So when James asks the question…

 

 “Is any one of you sick?”

 

He has the attention of all of us.

 

How do you define health?

 

Health is…

 

 A state of complete physical, mental and social well-

being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

 

The Hebrew word for Health is…

 

 aruwkah

 

Restoring to soundness, wholeness

Examples Jeremiah 30:17; 33:6

 

In the New Testament, 3 John 2

 the Greek word is hugiaino…

 

 To be safe sound whole

 

I think the word “Peace” in the sense of the Hebrew

word “Shalom” embraces the full meaning of health.

 

Shalom meaning…

 

 Peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity,

welfare and tranquility and can be used

idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye.

 

There are only two places where

the wholeness of health exists…

 

The Garden of Eden and the

Eternal Heaven, the book ends of life.

 

God created us in the garden, the

full expression of health and peace.

 

Before Adam and Eve ate of the

forbidden fruit and got a bellyache…

 

Before they lost their peace and hid from God…

 

They lost the wholeness of their mind.

 

Their sickness started with wrong thinking.

 

I remember working at Jeep, my

 shoulder and arm was in great pain.

 

I would wake up at night in

tears with this extreme pain.

 

One day at work we found out my spot

welder, a large and heavy copper gun

was set up for a man much large than me.

 

After the gun was adjusted to

my size, the pain went away.

 

As long as I was doing the same thing

every day, the pain would come back.

 

I had to do things differently to keep my healing.

 

Finding the answer to our health is not always

easy when we are looking at the symptoms.

 

I think we should understand that God’s

desire of our healing is not to cover up

the pain with an aspirin…

 

 But to bring wholeness to us by getting

to the issues that causes the pain.

 

That is why John says…

 

Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health

and that all may go well with you,

 even as your soul is getting along well.

3 John 2

 

So before we call for the elders as James says…

 

 We need to make sure we see health and

healing as more than taking away pain.

 

Jesus said…

 

"I have told you these things,

so that in me you may have peace.

In this world you will have trouble.

But take heart!

I have overcome the world." 

John 16:33

 

There is a lot in this world to make

us sick and rob us of our peace.

 

Jesus came to make us whole, to give us peace.

 

He came healing the sick.

 

So if any one of us is sick…

 

 Realize God wants to heal you

spirit, soul and body.

 

He wants to give you wholeness and peace.

  

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 I think sums up healing…

 

May God himself, the God of peace,

sanctify you through and through.

May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless

at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

I hope our cry for healing is a cry for our

 whole spirit, soul and body be kept

blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Shalom

 

 

Scripture Reading

 

James 5:13-16 NIV

 

13 Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. 14 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.