Healing-School Mini-Course Series

Announcing: Working With God To 'Keep Your Healing'

The Healing School Training Mini-Course Series is a series of short classes and (teaching and discussion) that will be offered on the healing-school list. Various members of the leadership core will teach short courses on a topic relevant to praying for the sick and seeing God heal them.

Current Course:

#36 Beginning Nov 3, 2008, Teresa Seputis will teach an 12 week course on

"Working With God To 'Keep Your Healing'" (Details about this mini-course are enclosed below).

This course is a repeat of series #8, originally offered in Jan, 2003. The series will continue beyond the announced course topics.

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Mini-Course #36 Series

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Course #36 description:

Title:

Working With God To 'Keep Your Healing'

Instructor:

Teresa Seputis

Dates:

Mondays, beginning Nov 3, 2008, lasts for 12 weeks

Course Contents/Description:

Have you ever prayed for someone and the seemed to get healed, and then later on the health problem returned? There are multiple factors that can cause that to occur.

Sometimes it happens because of our emotional state. There is a whole branch of medicine dedicated to studying the effects of stress, anxiety, fear, bitterness, etc on our health. They contend that some medical conditions are caused by our emotional or mental state. If God heals this type of physical condition, the emotional/mental state needs to addressed as well. Otherwise they will probably end up with the same condition again, because the thing that caused it has not been dealt with. One of the biggest causes of this type of medical problem is unforgiveness and bitterness, which the bible clearly calls a "sin." So if the person has these types of issues (unforgiveness, fear, anxiety, stress, etc) then they may need to address these as well. This may require inner healing ministry.

Sometimes the sickness recurs because of our spiritual state. It may be related to a spirit of infirmity, a curse, etc. If that spiritual issue is not dealt with, the illness will usually come back.

Sometimes it happens because of our lifestyle or eating habits. In other words, some health problems are caused by improper diet and nutrition. If God heals you and you don't change the habits that caused the problem in the first place, that problem will probably develop again. This course will try to incorporate the relationship between common sense good health practices and supernatural healing.

This teaching series will look at all three types of factors, but it will put the main emphasis on the area of good eating habits, health and nutrition and it will develop these areas in some detail.

Special Note:

I debated whether or not to run this series again since 2/3 of this series deal explicitly with nutrition, proper eating and healthy dieting. In a way, it may seem off-topic for the healing-school. But after seeking the Lord for guidance, I felt like the Lord wanted me to run it now for two reasons.

The first is that in this age of "fast" and "pre-processed" foods combined with advertising for every type of product imaginable, many of us no longer understand what healthy eating is. Either that, or we understand but need to be reminded again, because the media and advertising have swayed us in our eating and health habits. The simple truth is that we need to eat healthy if we want to live in God's health. Also, those who we pray for need to be taught how to change their lifestyle so that they don't keep repeating the unhealthy behaviors that got them sick in the first place.

The second reason is because the timing of the season we are in fits well with nutrition the topics covered here. We are entering the "holiday season" (late November through December), where many of us will be tempted to eat either too much or unhealthily at seasonal parties and special family gatherings. That will be followed by the traditional "diet season" (January and February) where many try to walk out their "new year's resolution" to loose weight or to get healthier. So the info in this series seems to be really relevant to this time of year.

The bottom line is that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and as such, we need to make an effort to take care of them. We need to change the behaviors that make our bodies physically sick. It is great to pray for someone with a heart condition and see God heal them--but if that heart condition is caused by unhealthy diet and they don't change their diet and eating habits, it is only a matter of time until they will make themselves sick again with another heart condition.

God is the God of healing, but He is also the God of health, and He wants us to cooperating with Him in keeping our healing by "living healthy."

The first three lessons and the last one don't deal with nutrition, but lessons 4 to 11 do. Lesson 4 contains some spiritual factors about taking care of our "temples of the Holy Spirit," and then it explains what healthy eating looks like. Lessons 5 and 6 deal with nutritional considerations for some of the most diet-caused illnesses that we are likely to pray for. Lessons 7 and 8 deal with vitamins and minerals and how they effect our health. Lessons 9-11 deal with dieting and healthy weight loss.

If you find it hard to relate to these specific nutrition topics, then you might want to skim those specific lessons instead of reading them in detail. But you should find lessons 1-3, the first half of 4 and lesson 12 relevant to healing even if you have absolutely no interest in nutrition.

(The "Healing-School" list will continue to function as it has been with other discussion as well, centered around topics pertaining to praying for the sick and seeing them healed; but in addition to the "regular stuff" we will be giving and receiving feedback about the information contained in each weeks teaching article.)

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