Winning the Spiritual War for Your Health

My testimony and background in health

How and why Satan influences our food

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)

Health statistics

-1/2 women and 1/3 men will get cancer in their lifetime. (british journal of cancer). This number was around 5% in the early 1900s.

- More than 30% of all cancer deaths can be linked directly to diet

- Cancer is the number 1 disease children die most from now.

-Over 70% of all Americans are obese or overweight according to the CDC. 50% are obese or severely obese.

-Caloric intake has remained the same since 1999 but obesity has shot up 30%.

- Children with autism has gone from 1/150 in 2000 to 1/44 in 2018. At current rates, 1/3 of all children will be diagnosed on the autism spectrum by 2050.

-Type 2 Diabetes (which accounts for 90-95% of diabetes and which is dietary and largely preventable) has doubled in the past 20 years.

-Heart disease is the #1 killer in america.

-Sperm count is down 50% in last 60 years according to a 1992 study. Not just count but quality - which also impacts fertility.

There is a lot of money to be made in us being sick.

-Heart disease drugs make Big Pharma approx $76 billion a year.

-Diabetes $29 billion (which is projected to be almost $80B by 2026)

-The cancer industry is worth $120 billion

-The weight loss industry is worth approx $78 Billion

Billions and billions of dollars spent on treating illness. What if the means of preventing it was close to free?

Why is this happening?

Our food has changed drastically since about the 1950s.

We went from whole foods grown in the earth in normal conditions, to processed foods with all sorts of new chemicals, preservatives, additives, and toxins that have limited human safety testing.

(many of which only get banned decades after theyve been consumed publicly)

-Our meat is mainly now raised in extremely inhumane conditions.

Proverbs 12:10 The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel. (NLT)

Much of this is out of greed and there is a spirit behind greed.

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

1 Timothy 6:10

The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.

But we can combat it. The Holy Spirit empowers us and leads us into all truth.

As David wrote in Psalm 118:17

I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD.

Satan attacks our food because health is very important to God.

So much so that a large portion of Jesus’s miracles were of physical healing.

Our body is considered to be His Temple

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (NIV)

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

1 Corinthians 10:31

Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

-No one building a longlasting home uses cardboard instead of wood or in maintaining their car uses dirty gas and never changes the oil…

-We upkeep those things and we should most certainly upkeep His temple as well.

Food can’t defile us spiritually, but it can destroy us physically.

Some try to to use this verse to discount eating healthy

Mark 7:18-20

Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?

- Just watch Supersize Me and see how that verse isn't to be interpreted that way

- People who believe that fail to see the difference between moral defilement and physical defilement and think this verse talks about both.

Unfortunately many people eat unhealthily until they get sick, and ask God “Why aren’t you healing me?” and sometimes they even lose their faith in the Lord.

Proverbs 19:3

A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the Lord.

Philippians 3:19

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.

It is true that God can still supernaturally heal us still today, but that doesn’t mean there is no need to do what we can to be healthy. (it’s similar to our financial spending habits and what proverbs says about hardwork)

Jesus healed the woman who had the flow of bloodwith His power. She tried seeing physicians for years of her life, who likely told her to maybe change her diet, take this natural remedy, etc.

Paul told Timothy,

“No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.” 1 Timothy 5:23

John told Gaius (3 John 1:2)

Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.

We should be as healthy in body as we are strong in spirit.

God wants His temple to be clean physically, to be used spiritually.

Practical Steps to Better Your Health:

1- Start learning about true health.

-Go on YouTube today and search “How to Eat Healthy”. Start reseaching and learning and reading some books. Dr. Josh Axe has great info and is a believer.

-It’s hard to truly stay consistent without you yourself knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing.

-The knowledge will pass on for generations and your kids will benefit greatly from it

Think of this:

The entire human body has completely new cells every 7 years. Physically you’re practically a new person in 7 years.

Epigenetically, our decisions are passed on through generations. Certain genes will turn on and off depening on our dietary choices.

A woman’s gut flora is passed onto their babies. The gut biome is essential in digestion and energy. In many people it’s destroyed by processed foods and over prescribed antibiotics.

This isn’t just for us, this is for our children and our children’s children.

2- Eat Whole Foods. Cut down massively on fast food.

-Oily, processed, low quality foods are built for flavor not for health. They cause heart disease, fatty liver, obesity, diabetes and more.

⁃ They even have chemicals that make you feel hungry even when you're full. (High fructose corn syrup)

3- Limit white flour and sugar intake.

-Excess sugar gets converted directly into fat cells. Starches get converted into sugar.

-It spikes insulin, which makes you lethargic and tired, and puts strain on the pancreas.

-Processed starches also cause fatty liver disease. Which is extremely common unfortunately.

4- Eat more fruit and start juicing fresh fruits and vegetables. (nature’s candy)

-Apples are great to cleanse your intestines

-Galacturonic acid (found only in grapefruit) has the ability to break up and dislodge fatty plaque buildup in the arteries and remove it completely from the body.

-Juicing is ultra high nutrition minus the calories. Its potent and extremely cleansing to the body.

5- Start walking or jogging regularly.

2 Powerful Steps to Transform Your Health:

1- Water fast and juice fast.

Fasting improves stem cell regeneration.

Studies show that even just a 3 day fast increases HGH levels by 300%. A 10 day fast increases that to 1250%

72 hour fast completes resets your immune system

2- Colon cleansing

⁃ Cleveland Medical Center Hospital discovered bad bacteria and fungus work together to create digestive plaque.

Focus on the health of vital organs

A reminder for us all:

Health is great, but godliness is greatest.

1 Timothy 4:8

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Mark 8:36

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?

Don’t let your focus on physical health supersede the focus on the health of your soul which lasts forever.

Our body is a temporary tentas Paul calls it will be transformed into a glorious body at the resurrection of the righteous, as the Bible says.

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

Despite how unhealthy you are physically - your soul will last forever. We will all be judged according to the righteousness of Christ.

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