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The
Medical
Missionary
Manual
 
- CHAPTER
TWENTY-FOUR -
HEALTH AND MEDICAL MISSIONARY
TEXTS, ARRANGED BOOK BY BOOK
GENESIS
1:29: The original diet.
3:1-3, 6, 11: The fall was because of
appetite and choosing one’s own diet.
3:18: The diet after sin.
7:2: Clean and unclean animals went into
the ark.
9:3-6: The diet after the flood.
25:29-34: Esau sells his birthright.
48:15: Abraham and diet given by God.
EXODUS
16:4, 25: Diet in the wilderness.
22:31: Not to eat dead or decayed
animals.
23:25: The obedient servants of God would
have their food blessed and sickness taken away.
LEVITICUS
3:17: No fat or blood was to be eaten.
7:23-27: Not to eat fat or blood (best
reference on this).
10:8-11: Aaron and the priests not to
drink strong drinks.
11:2-47 (especially 7-8): The clean and
unclean animals.
15:2-13: An example of water as a
cleansing agency in eliminating disease.
17:10, 12, 15: Forbidden to eat the
blood.
26:3-6, 9-10, 14:16, 20-21, 25-26, 36-39,
46: Mental, physical, and moral health are derived from obedience to God’s
laws.
NUMBERS
11:4-5, 31, 33: The quail episode
returned them to a meat diet and brought them disease and death.
12:13-15: Divine healing sometimes is
deferred until the lesson is learned.
19:9, 17-18: Charcoal water was given as
purifying agency.
DEUTERONOMY
7:15: The Lord will take all disease away
from His obedient people and put them on their enemies.
8:1-3: God’s special wilderness diet
for His people was a sanctifying test.
12:23-25: His people were not to eat
blood.
14:3-20: The clean and unclean animals.
28:1-67: Mental, physical, moral health
comes from obedience to all of God’s laws.
29:18-22: Curses upon those who add
drunkenness to thirst.
33:25-27: Promise: "As thy days . .
. so shall thy strength be."
JOSHUA
1:9: Promise: "Be strong and of a
good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy
God is with thee."
4:11-12; 5:11-12: Manna ended when they
entered Canaan; that year they ate the fruit of the land.
1 SAMUEL
2:12-17, 22: The result of a raw meat
diet.
30:11-12: A simple diet when coming off a
fast.
2 SAMUEL
16:1-2: Grape juice in time of sickness.
1 KINGS
17:4, 6, 12; 19:4-8: The progressive diet
of Elijah.
2 KINGS
2:19-22: Salt as a cleansing agency.
5:10-11, 14: Naaman’s healing was
through faith and water applications.
20:1-11 (especially 7): Hezekiah’s
healing was through prayer and a fig poultice.
2 CHRONICLES
16:12-13: Asa sought physicians rather
than the Lord.
PSALMS
4:8: Promise of peace and sleep.
17:15: Promise of satisfaction when
awakened.
21:4: Promise of the gift of life.
23:4: Promise of protection even in the
valley of shadow of death.
27:1-5: Promise of strength from waiting
on the Lord.
28:6-7: Promise blessed by the Lord,
heard supplications; the Lord is my strength.
37:5, 7: Promise of guidance if our ways
are committed to the Lord.
42:8: Promise of God’s lovingkindness
by day and song by night.
51:2-7 (1-13): Herbs and water as
cleansing agencies.
61:2-3: Promise to lead me to the Rock
that is higher then I.
62:1-2: My soul waiteth on God, He is my
rock, salvation, and defense.
63:3: "Because thy lovingkindness is
better than life."
66:18: If I regard iniquity in my heart,
the Lord will not hear me.
90:12: So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
91:1-8, 11-16: He that dwelleth in the
shadow of the Almighty . . . With long live will I satisfy him, and shew
My salvation.
103:2-5: He forgiveth all thine
iniquities and healeth all thy diseases.
103:13-14: As a father pitieth his
children . . . He knoweth our frame.
104:14: He causeth grass to grow for the
cattle and herbs for the service of man.
104:15: Wine makes the heart glad, oil
makes the face shine, and bread strengthens the stomach.
106:14-15: They tempted God and sent
leanness into their souls.
107:17-21: Sickness is from disobedience;
the Lord will help if called upon.
111:5: He hath given meat unto them that
fear Him.
116:3-8: Delivered from the sorrows of
death as a result of calling upon the Lord.
"And ye shall serve the Lord your
God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take
sickness away from the midst of thee." —Exodus 23:25
"If thou wilt diligently hearken
to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in
His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have
brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee."
—Exodus 15:26
"Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases." —Psalm 103:3
"Who went about doing good, and
healing all that were oppressed of the devil." —Acts 10:38
And Jesus went about all Galilee . . .
healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the
people." —Matthew 4:23
- CHAPTER
TWENTY-FIVE -
DIVINE HEALING
AS FOUND IN THE BIBLE
Sin and sickness come from the transgression of God’s
laws. In order to gain physical health we must obey God’s eight health
laws. In order to gain spiritual health we must obey God’s ten moral
laws.
God will not restore to health those who desire it
only that they may continue to sin and dishonor their Creator. To love
obedience is to love health and life. To love sin is to love
degeneration and death.
We, in our own strength, cannot change our sinful,
self-destroying habits, but—wonderful, wonderful truth—Jesus can do
it for us! As we view His great sacrifice for us on the cross, confess
our sinfulness, and surrender to the power of His love, He will come
into our lives and, by His Spirit, do that for us which we cannot do for
ourselves: give us a new mind, a new heart, new attitudes, a new way of
life and—if it be His will, healing—physical healing of our diseased
and weakened bodies.
What are the steps by which we become new creatures
in Christ and receive healing of body as well as of mind and soul? The
Bible tells us of ten:
1 – Go to the Great Physician; only God can heal.
"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all
His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, Who healeth all thy
diseases, Who redeemeth thy life from destruction."—Psalm
103:2-4.
"And the Lord will take away from thee all
sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou
knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate
thee."—Deuteronomy 7:15.
"And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and He
shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from
the midst of thee."—Exodus 23:25.
2 – Accept and believe in His healing power; and ask Him to heal
you if it be His will.
"I am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly."—John 10:10.
"Faith in His name hath made this man strong,
whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this
perfect soundness in the presence of you all."—Acts 3:16.
3 – Trust in Him, be submissive to His will, and
believe that He will heal you if it be His will.
"We know not what we should pray for as we
ought."—Romans 8:26.
"Father, if Thou be willing, remove this cup
from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done."—Luke
22:42.
"Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in
Him: and He shall bring it to pass . . . Rest in the Lord, and wait
patiently for Him."—Psalm 37:5, 7.
4 – Confess your sins to God, ask forgiveness of
those whom you have wronged, and forgive.
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will
not hear me."—Psalm 66:18.
"Confess your faults one to another, and pray
one for another, that ye may be healed."—James 5:16.
"If any man sin, we have an advocate with the
Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous."—1 John 2:1.
"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."—1
John 1:9.
5 – Change wrong habits and obey all of His laws,
through the strength that Jesus gives you.
"If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of
the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt
give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none
of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for
I am the Lord that healeth thee."—Exodus 15:26.
"Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed and walk. . . .
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold,
thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon thee."—John 5:8, 14.
"Go and sin no more."—John 8:11.
"I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."—Romans
12:1.
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and
that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of
God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple
ye are."—1 Corinthians 3:16-17.
"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."—1 Corinthians
10:31.
"I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."—Philippians 4:13.
"If any man will come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me."—Luke
9:23.
6 – Assist nature in cleansing the system and
expelling impurities.
"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."—Psalm 51:7.
"Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of
your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do
well."—Isaiah 1:16-17.
"And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give."—Matthew
10:7-8.
"What agreement hath the temple of God with
idols? For ye are the temple of the living God, as God hath said, I will
dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall
be My people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you."—2 Corinthians 6:16-17.
7 – Use the simple water treatments.
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy
lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot
out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin."—Psalm 51:1-2.
"And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying,
Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to
thee, and thou shalt be clean. . . . Then went he down, and dipped
himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of
God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and
he was clean."—2 Kings 5:10, 14.
"He spat on the ground, and made clay of the
spittle, and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and
said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. He went his way
therefore, and washed, and came seeing."—John 9:6-7.
"Having therefore these promises, dearly
beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."—2 Corinthians
7:1.
8 – Use the simple herbs of the field.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree, yielding seed: to you it
shall be for meat."—Genesis 1:29.
"Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth
to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field."—Genesis 3:18.
"The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth
itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered."—Proverbs 27:25.
"For one believeth that he may eat all things;
another, who is weak, eateth herbs."—Romans 14:2.
"He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle,
and herb for the service of man."—Psalm 104:14.
"And the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and
the leaf thereof for medicine."—Ezekiel 47:12.
"And the leaves of the tree were for the healing
of the nations."—Revelation 22:2.
9 – Thank God for His mercy and grace, whatever may
be the outcome, and give your life into His hands.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."—Isaiah 26:3.
"In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in
quietness and in confidence shall be your strength."—Isaiah
30:15.
"Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart."—Psalm 27:14.
"As thy days, so shall thy strength be."—Deuteronomy
33:25.
"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms: and He shall thrust out the enemy from before
thee."—Deuteronomy 33:27.
"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest."—Joshua 1:9.
"I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:
for Thou, Lord, only, makest me dwell in safety."—Psalm 4:8.
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be
afraid?"—Psalm 27:1.
"The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the
daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me."—Psalm 42:8.
"Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in
Him, and He shall bring it to pass."—Psalm 37:5.
10 – Do all in your strength to lead others to the
cross of Jesus and to His healing power. Abundant health is promised to
those who do this.
"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry . . .
bring the poor . . . to thy house . . . and that thou hide not thyself
from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,
and thine health shall spring forth speedily."—Isaiah 58:7-8.
Note: If giving a single Bible study on this subject, read only one
(or occasionally two at the most) of the texts from each of the ten
sections listed above.
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