LIGHT FOR HEALING AND HEALTH (7)

“Beloved, I PRAY that you may PROSPER in all things and be in HEALTH, just as your soul prospers” – 3 John 2

The totality of the human personality is meant to receive and embrace LIGHT for HEALING and HEALTH: “Beloved, I PRAY that you may PROSPER in ALL THINGS and be in HEALTH, just as your soul prospers” (3 John 2). John the Beloved was praying the Father’s Heart for his immediate audience and Believers in all generations, concerning Divine Health. In contemporary times, at individual, family, communal, national, and global levels, life is littered with diverse diseases and sicknesses. There have been outbreaks of influenzas, epidemics, and pandemics. There are increasing high prevalence of diseases of all kinds – infectious, deficiency, hereditary, and physiological, but God has purposed that His children be blessed with sound health in a prospering soul, and with balanced, all-round prosperity – “prosper in all things”!  

A few years back, COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the hearts of nations, bringing mighty nations to their knees, and stagnating the physical, economic, and social lives of millions of people globally. It accentuated both physical sicknesses and mental illnesses, making the latter a severe concern the world over. Discouragement and despair led to depressive states of health and deterioration in people’s quality of life. Amidst the ravaging plagues, God opened the treasures of His Word and released the Power of the Holy Spirit to perfect the healing and health of His people. What was demanded from Believers were for us: To meditate in God’s Words of Healing and Health; to pray in faith and be prayed for, believing for complete healing and health – spirit, soul (mind), and body; and to observe the disciplines of healthy living.

A healthy lifestyle involves more than a physically fit body, free of injury and illness. Health is meant for our entire being – spirit, soul and body. God’s Perfect Will is our Holistic Health: “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1The.5:23). Holistic conveys the idea of seeing things as an integrated whole and not just as a sum of their parts. Conventional medicine often looks at the body in sections of individual symptoms and parts rather that the whole system it really is. Holistic health examines the whole person: spirit, mind, and body. Holistic Health aims for overall balanced well-being. It cares for the whole person, covering physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual dimensions.

Our Heavenly Father desires that we be holistically healthy – spirit, mind, and body – our entire being basking in His Presence. He wants us to experience the healthiest life possible, and enjoy every moment we invest on earth without wasting resources, or falling into negative, downward spirals. In times of need, let’s turn to the Bible for comfort, encouragement, faith, and prayer support, while praying for others to prosper in all things and be in health, just as their souls prosper.