God's Prescription for Healing : Five Divine Gifts of Healing

by Gills, James P.

• ISBN13: 9780884199472
• ISBN10: 0884199479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Charisma Media

Summary

If God can forgive your sins, protect you, sustain, nourish, comfort, and renew your body, mind, and spirit... His method of healing and your idea of healing may differ greatly. By deepening your faith, you will come to know God's purpose for your life, your suffering, and your healing. Only by spending time with the Creator will you be able to understand these mysteries. As a human being, you are incapable of total comprehension of how your body works. But your Creator has that insight. That is what keeps you humble and dependent. In the world today, many would try to claim control and manipulate science and nature. Faulty thinking widens the spiritual chasm, separating man and God. Don't allow fear to exploit your physical condition. Know that God is greater than what you are facing! Book jacket.

Author Biography

James P. Gills, M.D., is the founder and director of St. Luke's Cataract and Laser Institute in Tarpon Springs, Florida

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	xvii
The Design for Healing	xvii
The Need for Understanding and Appreciation	xix
Purpose	xxi
This Book	xxi
PART I -Natural Healing
1 An Intelligent Design-and Designer	1	(3)
2 Disease and Healing	4	(3)
The Basics	5	(2)
3 Irreducible Complexity, Impeccable Design	7	(8)
The Magnificent Cell	9	(1)
DNA	10	(2)
The Human Body	12	(1)
The Awesome Eye	13	(2)
4 Examples of Design for Balance, Repair, and Cure	15	(19)
Skin Healing	16	(2)
Corneal Healing	18	(4)
The Immune System	22	(2)
Understanding the Immune System	24	(15)
Innate (nonspecific) immunity	25	(1)
Adaptive (specific) immunity	26	(2)
Tissues and organs of immunity	28	(1)
The main goals	29	(1)
The double-edged sword-when things go wrong	29	(5)
5 Designed for Health	34	(5)
PART II- Assisted Healing
6 Physician-Assisted Healing	39	(26)
Medical Science, the Physician, and Healing	40	(7)
The example of cataract surgery	41	(6)
Genetic Engineering	47	(4)
The Issues of Care and Cure	51	(2)
Cure and Healing	53	(3)
Understanding and respect	54	(1)
Knowledge and competence	55	(1)
Compassion	55	(1)
Activity replacement	56	(1)
Assurance	56	(1)
The Physician As Healer	56	(3)
Limitations to Assistance	59	(3)
The Meaning of Collective and Personal Responsibility	62	(3)
7 You Are Your Own Best Physician	65	(14)
Physical Alignment	67	(1)
Prevention of Disease	68	(1)
Health and Wholeness	68	(5)
Proper nutrition	69	(1)
Exercise	70	(1)
Complementary methods	71	(1)
Choices	72	(1)
God's Wisdom Confirmed by Science	73	(1)
Conclusion	74	(5)
PART III - Inner Healing
8 Mental Alignment With the Creator's Design	79	(22)
Mind and Body, Body and Mind	83	(1)
Worry, Anxiety, Fear	84	(7)
Managing the Negative Emotions	91	(4)
Laughter-life's therapeutic medicine	92	(3)
Mental Healing	95	(1)
Personality	95	(1)
Hope As an Antidote	96	(5)
9 The Prescription for Inner Healing	101	(15)
Prayer	102	(4)
Fellowship	106	(3)
The Blessed Mind-set	109	(7)
10 Spiritual Alignment With the Creator's Design	116	(16)
Obstacles to Alignment and God's Inner Healing	118	(4)
Pride	118	(2)
A critical spirit	120	(1)
A spirit of envy	121	(1)
The Great Physician	122	(7)
Repentance	123	(2)
Salvation	125	(1)
Forgiveness first	126	(2)
After the honeymoon	128	(1)
Resting in the Bosom of the Trinity	129	(3)
11 Unveiling the New Heart	132	(10)
Spiritual vs. Natural	133	(1)
Love	134	(1)
Loving God = Inner Healing	135	(1)
The Purpose of Our Lives and Eternity	136	(3)
Two Penetrating Insights	139	(3)
12 The Healing of the Word	142	(7)
PART IV - Improbable Healing
13 Improbable Healing in the Scriptures	149	(9)
Improbable Healing in the Bible	151	(14)
Healing and appreciation	151	(1)
Forgiveness, purpose, and "direction"	151	(2)
Cleansing and compassion	153	(1)
Favoring the neglected	153	(1)
Restoration and hope	154	(2)
Improbable healing and our understanding	156	(2)
14 Modern Examples of Improbable Healing	158	(11)
Improbable Deliverance From Addiction	165	(4)
15 How Do We Seek an Improbable Healing?	169	(4)
PART V- Ultimate Healing
16 Designed for Eternity	173	(9)
Three Feasts and Three Courts	174	(2)
Graduation Day!	176	(1)
A Beautiful Design	177	(1)
How Will He Reward You?	178	(1)
The Facts About Rewards	179	(2)
A Date to Keep!	181	(1)
17 Eternity's Anointed Purpose for Life	182	(6)
The Temporal, the Eternal	183	(1)
Motivated by Hope or Despair?	184	(2)
Our Perspective: Living in Light of Eternity	186	(2)
18 A Walk Through Glory	188	(9)
Good-bye, Trouble and Sorrow!	189	(2)
Inconceivable Blessing	191	(1)
Can Anything Be Added to This?	192	(5)
Conclusion: Final Words	197	(12)
Hearing God Think	197	(1)
The Lord Has a Plan for Your Cut Finger, and for Your Life!	198	(2)
Healing and Wonder	200	(1)
Pride	201	(1)
Alignment to God	202	(1)
God's Prescription	203	(2)
S.T.O.R.G.E.	205	(1)
My Prayer for Heather	205	(4)
Notes	209	(12)
Bibliography	221