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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Jesus blessed the little boy’s lunch and fed 5,000 men, besides women and children. Jesus only performs miracles when they are genuinely needed. The people were hungry. And He cared to feed them. He still cares about the hungry. But He wants us to care for them too. Stop eating out, especially on Sabbaths! Invite guests to your home and feed them, says Pastor Flemons. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, continued discussing the REFRESHING Way lifestyle and its therapeutic value in protecting the endocrine system. He focused on the value of water for hormones. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – June 18 – June 24
Worship Sunday – Who Are My Brethren? – Monday – The Invitation; Tuesday – Peace, Be Still; Wednesday – The Touch of Faith; Thursday – The First Evangelists; Friday – Come Rest Awhile; Saturday, the Sabbath – Give Ye Them to Eat [All topics per Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – US Hospitals Still Using Too Many Antibiotics; Monday – Stop Stressing Jesus Out; Tuesday – How Diet Affects the Endocrine System; Wednesday – Fresh Air, Rest and the Endocrine System; Thursday – Exercise and the Endocrine System; Friday – Self-Control and the Endocrine System; Saturday, the Sabbath – Drink Water for Your Hormones
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Words of Encouragement
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 3:5-6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“If men today were simple in their habits, living in harmony with nature’s laws, as did Adam and Eve in the beginning, there would be an abundant supply for the needs of the human family. There would be fewer imaginary wants, and more opportunities to work in God’s ways. But selfishness and the indulgence of unnatural taste have brought sin and misery into the world, from excess on the one hand, and from want on the other.
“Jesus did not seek to attract the people to Him by gratifying the desire for luxury. To that great throng, weary and hungry after the long, exciting day, the simple fare was an assurance not only of His power, but of His tender care for them in the common needs of life. The Saviour has not promised His followers the luxuries of the world; their fare may be plain, and even scanty; their lot may be shut in by poverty; but His word is pledged that their need shall be supplied, and He has promised that which is far better than worldly good,–the abiding comfort of His own presence.
“In feeding the five thousand, Jesus lifts the veil from the world of nature, and reveals the power that is constantly exercised for our good. In the production of earth’s harvests God is working a miracle every day. Through natural agencies the same work is accomplished that was wrought in the feeding of the multitude. Men prepare the soil and sow the seed, but it is the life from God that causes the seed to germinate. It is God’s rain and air and sunshine that cause it to put forth, ‘first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.’ Mark 4:28. It is God who is every day feeding millions from earth’s harvest fields. Men are called upon to co-operate with God in the care of the grain and the preparation of the loaf, and because of this they lose sight of the divine agency. They do not give God the glory due unto His holy name. The working of His power is ascribed to natural causes or to human instrumentality. Man is glorified in place of God, and His gracious gifts are perverted to selfish uses, and made a curse instead of a blessing. God is seeking to change all this. He desires that our dull senses shall be quickened to discern His merciful kindness and to glorify Him for the working of His power. He desires us to recognize Him in His gifts, that they may be, as He intended, a blessing to us. It was to accomplish this purpose that the miracles of Christ were performed.
“After the multitude had been fed, there was an abundance of food left. But He who had all the resources of infinite power at His command said, ‘Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.’ These words meant more than putting the bread into the baskets. The lesson was twofold. Nothing is to be wasted. We are to let slip no temporal advantage. We should neglect nothing that will tend to benefit a human being. Let everything be gathered up that will relieve the necessity of earth’s hungry ones. And there should be the same carefulness in spiritual things. When the baskets of fragments were collected, the people thought of their friends at home. They wanted them to share in the bread that Christ had blessed. The contents of the baskets were distributed among the eager throng, and were carried away into all the region round about. So those who were at the feast were to give to others the bread that comes down from heaven, to satisfy the hunger of the soul. They were to repeat what they had learned of the wonderful things of God. Nothing was to be lost. Not one word that concerned their eternal salvation was to fall useless to the ground.
“The miracle of the loaves teaches a lesson of dependence upon God. When Christ fed the five thousand, the food was not nigh at hand. Apparently He had no means at His command. Here He was, with five thousand men, besides women and children, in the wilderness. He had not invited the large multitude to follow Him; they came without invitation or command; but He knew that after they had listened so long to His instruction, they would feel hungry and faint; for He was one with them in their need of food. They were far from home, and the night was close at hand. Many of them were without means to purchase food. He who for their sake had fasted forty days in the wilderness would not suffer them to return fasting to their homes. The providence of God had placed Jesus where He was; and He depended on His heavenly Father for the means to relieve the necessity.
“And when we are brought into strait places, we are to depend on God. We are to exercise wisdom and judgment in every action of life, that we may not, by reckless movements, place ourselves in trial. We are not to plunge into difficulties, neglecting the means God has provided, and misusing the faculties He has given us. Christ’s workers are to obey His instructions implicitly. The work is God’s, and if we would bless others His plans must be followed. Self cannot be made a center; self can receive no honor. If we plan according to our own ideas, the Lord will leave us to our own mistakes. But when, after following His directions, we are brought into strait places, He will deliver us. We are not to give up in discouragement, but in every emergency we are to seek help from Him who has infinite resources at His command. Often we shall be surrounded with trying circumstances, and then, in the fullest confidence, we must depend upon God. He will keep every soul that is brought into perplexity through trying to keep the way of the Lord.
“Christ has bidden us, through the prophet, ‘Deal thy bread to the hungry,’ and ‘satisfy the afflicted soul;’ ‘when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him,’ and ‘bring the poor that are cast out to thy house.’ Isa. 58:7-10. He has bidden us, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.’ Mark 16:15. But how often our hearts sink, and faith fails us, as we see how great is the need, and how small the means in our hands. Like Andrew looking upon the five barley loaves and the two little fishes, we exclaim, ‘What are they among so many?’ Often we hesitate, unwilling to give all that we have, fearing to spend and to be spent for others. But Jesus has bidden us, ‘Give ye them to eat.’ His command is a promise; and behind it is the same power that fed the multitude beside the sea.
“In Christ’s act of supplying the temporal necessities of a hungry multitude is wrapped up a deep spiritual lesson for all His workers. Christ received from the Father; He imparted to the disciples; they imparted to the multitude; and the people to one another. So all who are united to Christ will receive from Him the bread of life, the heavenly food, and impart it to others.”
(This study is based on Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-13 and chapter 39, “Give Ye Them to Eat” in The Desire of Ages (DA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake. . .
“You have five organs that help you eliminate toxins,” says Pastor Flemons. They all depend on water for the process. “Your colon needs water for defecation. Your liver needs water for detoxification. Your kidneys need water for urination. Your skin needs water for perspiration. And your lungs need water for respiration.”
Toxins cause the body systems to be imbalanced. And disease is the result. One of the greatest imbalances that is affecting the general population is the imbalance of the hormones, which is our endocrine system.
For example, because of a lack of water toxins that build up in the endocrine system cause autoimmune diseases, which attack the body system. More commonly, people end up with either Hoshimoto’s thyroiditis, a hypothyroid disease, or Graves’ disease, a hyperthyroid disorder.
Without adequate water, blood sugar cannot be regulated. The only difference between stored sugar and usable sugar that helps provide energy is water. Stored sugar is water-depleted sugar. When water is added, it becomes usable sugar. When energy is needed and there is no water to convert the stored sugar to usable sugar, a burden is placed on the adrenals.
When the sugar is too high, water helps to lower or normalize it. Otherwise the pancreas is strained to do it without water. Signals are sent to cause excessive thirst in the body’s effort to get the water it needs. Thus excess sugar can be eliminated through urination.
Remember that the endocrine system operates on hormones. Without enough water, all of your hormones will be unbalanced. Your sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone), which are made by the ovaries and testicles and the adrenal glands, will not properly function.
You don’t have to look like you are in the desert, dying of thirst, says Pastor Flemons. Watch the color of your urine to determine if you are getting adequate water. If your urine is colorless or nearly colorless, you are drinking adequate water. If your urine is yellow, you are dehydrated. Dehydration means toxins are building in your body, and you are in danger of disease.