Years ago on one episode of Believer's Voice of Victory, Kenneth Copeland was discussing an aspect of health and healing often neglected in "Word of Faith" circles. He began by explaining that he had struggled with nagging joint pain on and off for quite some time. Being a great man of faith, he would pray and believe for healing and the pain would go away. But it would inevitably come back. After several episodes of this he finally decided that he'd had enough, and he traveled to his mountain cabin to fast and pray until he could get a breakthrough. And while on his fast, he made sure to bring his coffee thermos, because he didn't go anywhere without his coffee.
When Kenneth began praying, it didn't take too long for him to sense that God was speaking to him about his excessive coffee consumption. "Lord," he protested. "I'm here to seek You about this joint pain, not to talk about coffee." And then he proceeded praying again. But again he sensed that God wanted to talk about coffee. After a moment or two of protest, it finally dawned on him tha God was telling Kenneth that the source of his joint pain was his excessive consumption of coffee. So he reduced his coffee consumption down to a reasonable amount, and his joint pain went away and never came back.
It's great to develop great faith for healing and be able to see God move in extraordinary ways, but it's even better to be enjoying abundant health day-to-day and not have to rely on a miracle. Just as God is eager to show His faithfulness in giving us miracles when we need them, He is just as eager -- perhaps more so -- for us to develop wisdom in our daily lives so as to not require a miracle to get ourselves out of trouble.
People understand this concept when it comes to finances, but for the most part we don't seem to understand it where caring for the temples we call our bodies. We pretty much treat our bodies like rental cars, as if we're only using them for a short time but not really that interested in taking care of them for the long haul.
The scriptures say in Hosea 4:6 that God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Indeed, God's people suffer all kinds of sickness and disease not only because of ignorance of the articles of their Covenant, which includes healing, but they also suffer because they abuse themselves. They literally treat their cars, which are replaceable, better than their bodies, which are not replaceable.
So in the next couple of posts or so, I am going to provide some practical and do-able tips in caring for your Temple so that you can -- as Gloria Copeland says -- live long, and live strong.
Stay tuned.
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