Using sound scriptural and scientific observation, Dr. Henry W. Wright leads the reader on a journey of personal responsibility, identifying root causes to specific diseases and offering pathways of healing and wholeness that were never meant to remain dormant in the body of Christ. Here, you will understand why mankind has disease, identify specific blocks to healing, and discover spiritual pathways to health. Tens of thousands have experienced healing through the discernment found in A More Excellent Way when nothing else was working.
An invaluable resource in understanding the spiritual dynamics behind diseases of the spirit, soul, and body, this book is a must-read for spiritual leaders, health-care professionals, and individuals everywhere! Marty Mahaffey dissects the meaning of love from differing lenses and encourages spiritual growth through Christ-like action. Through personal author commentary and biblical examples, readers can gain a broader perspective on the Gospels of Jesus, while Bible verses nurture hope, faith in belief in God.
Both tradition and the status quo should be open to challenge for the best course of action. This is necessary when it comes to business and personal relationships. In this book, we confront some common relationship pitfalls. I did a seminar in New York City in an off-Broadway theater that was donated to our ministry for two days.
In my audience was a doctor from New York. At the end of two days, he came up to me and said, I am a member of the medical community here in New York City. I have been here listening to you for two days. When you say that disease management is the best that the medical community can offer, you have been very generous to our industry. The best we could only hope to achieve is disease management.
It would be good if we could do that. Recent national statistics show with all modalities of treatment for cancer, including surgery, chemotherapy, vitamins, supplements and all the various types of therapies, the average life extension was only one year. That one year of prolonged life came at great expense and with tremendous pain and suffering. Psalm says the Lord not only forgives us of all our iniquities, but He heals us of all our diseases.
It doesnt say, He helps us manage all our diseases. Let me say something to you: I couldnt heal a fly with a toothache. I do not have any powers; I am just a sheepherder. I am not a healer; I am just a guy. As a minister, I cannot teach a gospel that makes God less than omnipotent; I have to hold out for that.
I also have to hold out that God is omniscient. He knows everything: past, present and future. I also have to hold out that He is omnipresent. He is available worldwide, all the time, everywhere. The fourth area that I have to hold out for is something you have probably not heard a lot about; God is also omnificent, all creative, ever able to fix that which needs to be fixed.
Being omnificent makes Him. He is God of all gods. He is the Creator of all flesh. He is the Sustainer of all mankind. He is in love with you and I am in love with Him. I hope you are too! It is not that God cannot heal you, or that He doesnt want to. The problem is that man does not understand disease. We have gone into captivity and are perishing either because of lack of knowledge or just no knowledge at all.
God said to the prophet Isaiah, My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge. Hell hath enlarged herself and swallowed them up and all of their fame into the depths of hell.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
My people in the earth are going into captivity because they have no knowledge. Hosea says Gods people perish because of lack of knowledge. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea So whether its lack of knowledge or no knowledge, All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way Isaiah I would like to make sure we change that, if we can. My investigation over the years from the Scriptures, practical discernment and review of scientific and medical evidence, has unearthed many spiritual roots and blocks to healing. In fact, the basic principles that, when applied, will move the hand of God to heal, are the same principles that, when applied, will prevent disease.
The very same principles that you can apply in your life to move the hand of God to sustain you, to heal you and to deliver youif you start applying them now in your life even if you do not have a diseasemay keep you from getting that disease in your lifetime. Deuteronomy 28 and Exodus 15 say because of our obedience to God and His Word and our fellowship with Him in the covenant, He will put none of the diseases of Egypt upon us. Exodus That is a valid promise even today.
So either we are going to continue in promise or we are going to teach bondage. Today, I stand percent not for disease management, but for disease eradication and prevention on a regular basis, if at all possible. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: 15And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah It is my prayer that you will and can receive this. I consider this to be my ministry and a gift to you. I desire to feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Paul instructed Timothy, And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his [the devils] will.
In this teaching, I can give you enough information and enough knowledge so you will be able to come before God and so the work of sanctification, healing and deliverance can begin for you and your loved onesyour friends and your families.
Remember, I told you that my purpose is to sow seedto leave behind a foundation for God, by His Spirit, according to the Word of God and according to knowledge that is available both from the scientific and medical communities and from the Word. My purpose is to bring you to a place where you may recover yourself from the snare of the devil.
One day, someone said, I believe God gave me my disease. I am closer to Him because of it. I had someone else say, Well, I just believe my disease is from God it just teaches me how to be humble. Its my thorn in the flesh, but His grace is sufficient for me. Could be, but I asked him if he was going to a doctor. He said, Oh, yes. I asked, Why are you going to a doctor? He said, So I can get well. I said, You hypocrite! How dare you interfere with Gods will in your life by going to a doctor?
I was ministering in a Church of Christ in southern Maine many years ago and the head deacon came up to me after the service.
It had been a powerful service that lasted 3 hours. This deacon had injured himself. He was moaning, groaning and complaining, so I said, Would you mind if I pray for you? Maybe God would heal you of that pain. He said, Oh no, brother, I do not want any prayer; this pain reminds me of the sufferings of Christ and what He did for me on the cross. It is a constant reminder of what He did for me. I looked at him and said, Suffer on, brother! I think that sometimes we create theologies based on our lack of knowledge.
The beginning of all healing of spiritually rooted diseases begins when you make your peace with God, and accept His love once and for all, accepting yourself and accepting others. And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
Leviticus Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. If you do not love yourself, you cannot love your neighbor.
You may pretend you do. If you do not love yourself, then you cannot love your neighbor, because you are unable to receive their love. The inability to give and receive love today is a tragedy. If someone were to come up to you, give you a big hug, give you a million dollars and say you were the best thing since peanut butter, could you receive that?
Could you receive it without feeling guilty? We have been so tragically victimized in the family that it is amazing we are even here today. The failure in all family problems begins with the man. The salvation of the whole family should begin with the salvation of the father and husband of the home.
God did not create woman to be the spiritual leader of the home, He created the man to be. The Bible says the head of the woman is the man. The head of the man is Christ and the head of Christ is the Father. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Ephesians Many women today are having real problems; 85 to 90 percent of my those we minister to nationally is female.
God has used me to heal more females than you can imagine. Gods first ministry is to the fatherless and the widows, not to how many Scriptures you can read in your Bible even though it is important to be in the Word to build your faith. James says: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. That is sanctification. Pure religion is when you begin taking care of the fatherless, taking care of the widows and keeping yourself unspotted from the world.
I deal with many people whose fathers are still alive but they are fatherless. I deal with many women whose husbands or ex-husbands are still alive yet they are spiritual widows. The fallout and the diseases coming upon us because of these sins are of great magnitude. I think the world will come to a well church faster than it will come to a sick church. There is more to salvation than being saved from hell. The gospel message includes day by day blessings. I believe it is Gods will to bless people.
Faith vs. Fear Many people struggle with faith. Maybe you are sick with a disease and have been told you do not have enough faith. Maybe you have been listening to some of these people who teach you need to do something to get more faith. The Bible says every man and woman has been given a measure of faith. You have enough faith. You could always pray, Lord, increase my faith; however, you have enough if you only believe. You are going to have to determine the difference as to whether you are following God from your head or your heart.
If we follow God out of our head, we are all in trouble. My poor head pitches a fit most of the time. If I did not have the Word of God down in my spirit, mixed with faith by the Holy Spirit who lives within me, my life would be a wasteland. My poor head sometimes pitches a fit with the Word of God.
We need to be continually renewed by the washing of the water of the Word. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Ephesians And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Ephesians For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Romans says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. In Hebrews, we are told faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews Do you have hopes or are you hopeless? Do you have something burning on the inside that represents hope about something in your life, about. Do you? Then you have faith, because faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen. If it has already come to pass, do you need hope? Do you need faith?
I was hungry this morning; I am no longer hungry. I ate. I no longer need hope or faith regarding my lunch. I am dreaming about dinner. Fear is the substance of things not hoped for, the evidence not yet seen. Do you know how many of Gods people are in fear faith, not real faith? You may be in fear faith and think it is real faith, but if you were in real faith, you would not have the problem unless you did not understand why you had the problem.
I deal with fears such as phobias, paranoia, delusions, projections, anxiety, panic, panic attacks, phobic realities, agoraphobia, claustrophobia and mother-in-law phobia. Fear projects into the future. Faith also projects into the future, does it not? Fear involves projection, number one, and then displacement, which is avoidance.
God has taught you in the Word from the Old Testament all the way through the New Testament, you do not run from an enemy. When you study the warfare garments in Ephesians , you do not find anything for your backside! You do not run from an enemy in your life and you do not hide from your mother-in-law. You do not hide from your enemy. You do not hide from fear of disease.
You do not hide from your disease. You do not go disappear down inside. It is time for you to come up and take your place in the land of the living once and for all. What is the worst that can happen to you, anyway? You can die and go to heaven, so what is your problem? What are you afraid of? In the Church, we sometimes attack each other. That is an autoimmune disease!
The sign out in front of your church, the one you see as you walk in the front door, says, Hallelujah, Love One Another. You will know them because of the love they have one for another. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John You are our Father and You have redeemed us from Egypt. Yet they were destroying each other and God would not protect them or hear them.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Yes, we come and we worship You with the songs of David, and we come before You, and yes, You are our LORD, our God, and we love to come, we love to pray, we love to fast, we love the law, we love, love, love but, why havent You healed us?
That is the question of Gods people in Isaiah Do you know what God said? Yes, Ive watched you fasting and praying, but you pray for strife and eat each other alive. I have caused My ears to become deaf to you. What is Isaiah saying? God is saying: you want My blessings but you do not want My friends; you do not want My sons and daughters. I was talking with someone the other day who was kind of chewing about someoneyou know, gossiping. I looked at them and I said, How dare you say that about a friend of Jesus?
Do you realize that person is a friend of Jesus? What do you think Jesus thinks about you talking that way about His friend? Do you think Jesus is our friend? Do you think I have a Scripture to stand on? He said, I no longer call you servants, I call you friends John , among many others. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Friends do not talk about each other. Friends build each other up. Friends cover with loveperfect love covers a multitude of sins. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. In Galatians 6, we are told if a brother be overtaken in a fault, those of you who consider yourselves spiritual, restore such a onenot stone him by sundown.
Restore such a one in a spirit of meekness and consider yourself also, lest you be tempted in like manner and fall away in the same type of bondage. Then, we are told to bear one anothers burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians My purpose is to sow seed into your hearts. Whether God gives the increase or not, I do not know. I do not know you. I do not live inside your body; you do.
I do not know if you are going to get lost in the desert between Egypt and the Promised Land or not. I am sure going to lay some stuff on youI am going to bring you some insight and I am going to bring you some discernment. I promise you I have the fruit to prove, nationally, that God has honored this teaching. Many times I know disease. Even when I do not know the person and do not know the circumstances, I know what is behind the disease spiritually. I was able last evening to tell a person the secret parts of their heart.
So they could recover themselves into right standing with God and be healed. That is the fruit of this ministry. When people are in captivity by the devil, they do not know it. They do not understand. No one has told them. Read 2 Timothy to the end of the chapter in the Majority Text otherwise known as the King James : But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. He gave them pastors according to His own heart to teach them with knowledge and understanding.
What am I doing with you? Giving you knowledge and understanding and discernment. Say this with me: Promise without discernment is still bondage. The last verse of Hebrews 5 says one who is able to handle strong meat is one who, by reason of exercise of his senses, is able to discern both good and evil.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. I think, ladies and gentlemen, that we have been so God-conscious that we have forgotten discernment concerning evil. A sign of maturity is not just knowing good, but knowing evil as well, so you know what is of God and what is not.
That is a sign of maturity. I am not into sin consciousness. That produces condemnation. I am into conviction, and that requires discernment.
All condemnation is of the devil. All conviction is of God. They both say the same thing, but there is a wrong spirit behind one and a right spirit behind the other. If you are under condemnation, you are trying to hide from the problem. If you are under conviction, you are running to face the problem.
Have you been there? Have you done that? Communion In dealing with autoimmune disease, 1 Corinthians is an example of a block, not a root, but a block to healing: 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lords body. Many of Gods people were weak. Could that be like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? A little exhaustion?
When we get into the fear, anxiety and stress teaching in a later chapter, Ill show you where exhaustion comes from in the human body, other than from a hard days work.
Some people are sick; some are sickly. Does the word sickly mean sick to you? What about and many sleep? It does not mean they sleep in church; it means they die premature deaths. Because they do not rightly discern the Lords body. There are two realities of the Lords Supper or Communion. The first is that people are sick and weak and die premature deaths because we have eliminated one-half of communion.
I may bump into some of your theology but, if I do, I sure do love you and I hope you love me, too! It splits right down the middlethose who believe God heals today and those who do not believe God heals today. It is a dispensational issue. Communion, or the Lords Supper, represents two realities: the shed blood which is the cup and the bread which is His broken body.
The Bible says without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Hebrews For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. So His shed blood makes forgiveness of sin possible because He was the sacrificial Lamb that allows us to appropriate forgiveness from God our Father.
It is by His shed blood we have the penalty paid for sin. Many people are appropriating the blood for the curse. However, it is Jesus broken body that paid the penalty for the curse to fulfill the law that says, cursed is he that hangeth on a tree.
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. Deuteronomy Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: Galatians It is by His stripes we were healed and we appropriate that today to our lives.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. If we come to a Communion service and partake of the cup and the bread, but we deny healing and deliverance as part of the atonement today, we eliminate the provision of God in our lives as human beings apart from salvation and eternal life in that day.
For that reason, because we eliminate the broken body but celebrate it and do not believe it, we cannot partake. For that reason, many of us are filled with disease and insanity today, because we have said in our hearts that healing passed away two thousand years ago; yet we still participate in the sacrament of Communion, which represents its reality for today.
If you do not believe it, you do not have to worry about it happening. But be carefulignorance is a form of knowledge and so is unbelief. If you do not believe God heals today, do not worry about it; He wont. If you do not believe that God heals today, then He will not. According to your faith be it unto you!
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. I have taken this position: many times we have disease among Gods people because we have eliminated one-half of the provision of the Communion and the sacrament of Communion the Lords Supper. Now, the other aspect of 1 Corinthians has to do with us eating each other alive.
This is not discerning the Lords body. Who was the Lords body apart from what He did at the cross? Who else, if not the Lords body in the earth today: the Church? We are the body of Christ. When we go to Isaiah, we read: Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. This has to do with Gods people, the Old Testament Church.
He is not talking about the heathen; he is not talking about Gentiles. He is talking about Gods people and, ladies and gentlemen, Gods people blow it and sin. We fall short of the glory of God continually in some areas of our lives. Hebrews says, Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Hebrews When you are around someone who falls short of the glory of God, it means they have spiritually dumped all over you.
They have defiled you, they have violated you and they have demonstrated part of their old nature. What are you going to do with it? Eye for eye, tooth for tooth? That passed away! Jesus did away with eye for eye and tooth for tooth when He said, Youre going to love them. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Matthew If we have bitterness, if we have rejection, if we have unloving spirits, if we have hatred, it is ping-pong time and then slam-dunk, right?
Many times our lives are like a massive ping-pong game: I am going to get you before you get me. That root of bitterness will keep you from the blessings of God. God, speaking by the prophet Isaiah, says: Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah 2. This is a conversation from Gods people to Him: We have been fasting and praying. We need some help. Help, God! It looks like the heavens are brass.
Youre not listening. Youre not listening; You are not answering our prayers. We have been fasting, we have afflicted our soul and You do not even pay attention. You take no knowledge. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
God goes on and talks about the fast Hes called us toit is not absence of food and water. Many people quote verse 6 out of context to try to prove fasting and prayer will move Gods hand to heal and deliver you. Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
I do not find it in the Scriptures. I do not find it there; quite the opposite. In fact, in verses of Isaiah 58, the fast that God has called us to is that of service to others in love. Could it be we have mixed up fellowship with petition? Could it be we misunderstand that God is not just interested in being our Provider, Hes interested in being our Father?
The Lord is interested in being our Savior, our spiritual Husband forever. That is why we are called the bride of Christ. There is a marriage supper; do you all teach that in your church? In any seminar where I am dealing with disease, almost everyone is on a wide variety of drugs. That is what you have going for you in todays world and with every drug you are taking there is a component called side effects.
One of the things I do in ministry is, before you receive ministry, my staff does a general intake and a medical intake. In the medical intake, we want to know all the medicine and drugs you are taking. Each of those drugs. You may be struggling with what seems to be a disease, but instead it may be the side effect of a drug.
I tell you, I cannot minister to side effects. I tried years ago and found out I was wasting my time. We are very careful in determining in a persons life what they are dealing with, which is actually the root problem of disease and not the side effects from a drug they are taking. Do you know how many pastors are trying to help people get free of diseases and are, in effect, ministering to the side effects of drugs and wondering why God is not healing the problem?
There is no healing for the side effects of a drug. Adverse reactions to prescription drugs are the fourth-largest cause of death nationally. It is a Pandoras Box of hell. We will teach you about pharmakeia and sorcery. Now, if you are taking prescription drugs, do not let me condemn you. If thats where youre at, thats where youre at. They are serotonin enhancers. When serotonin is released off the dendrite ends in the body, the drugs block the return, thus prolonging the effectiveness of it.
It is out there longer, which gives the person a sense of well being. The key issue that we need to deal with is: Why do we have a serotonin deficiency?
A serotonin deficiency will cause depression. One of the things I deal with in this ministry is the over- hyper- or under- hypo- secretion of neurotransmitters. For example, manic depression may be associated with an underproduction of serotonin caused by a genetic defect producing a wide range of highs and lows from manic to depressive.
It is non-genetic and it is not the same as an anxiety disorder. Prozac and other drugs used to treat depression are designed to increase your self-esteem. A lack of self-esteem is the root problem. Lack of self-esteem, self-rejection, self-hatred and guilt are very damaging to the human spirit and are many times caused by a father,. Somewhere, there has been a lack of nurturing in childhood. Also, read many miraculous healing stories of testimonies of god doing the impossible.
The problem is spiritual, psychological and biological disease and what can we do about it and where is God in it today. This book is designed to be an insight into a problem and its solution: disease prevention and eradication.
A must read book on miracle testimonies of god within the book. Such as testimonies of god healing incurable diseases. The book, A More Excellent Way download, is on the cutting edge of a problem and its solution and give you increased knowledge and understanding to your situation and your disease problem by understanding the different types of diseases and their causes.
Touch of God International Ministries is wanting to stop disease and to better equip the saints and the Church to defeating spiritual, psychological and biological diseases.
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