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Seventeen years ago, my fingers hurt so much that I couldn\u2019t button my shirt or pick up my grandbabies. A rheumatologist diagnosed it as osteoarthritis, a chronic disease that, she said, could only be maintained (not healed) via drugs. She prescribed Vioxx. My husband said to me as we drove home, \u201cNow we know the name of the symptoms, and since we know THE NAME that is above ALL names, the name, osteoarthritis, must bow to the name of Jesus. We pray for wisdom and will believe God guides us in what to do, not to just ease the pain, but for your complete healing.\u201d He prayed those words from God’s Word (God’s remedy book for so much that ails us) in Philippians 2:9. We just didn’t have a peace about having that prescription for Vioxx to be filled, and, it\u2019s a good thing because a couple of years later Vioxx was taken off the market because over 60,000 patients died from taking it. (BTW, God’s wisdom led us to natural supplements and the pain was gone within 90 days. All glory to God!)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not advocating that we shouldn\u2019t take medicine. Combining our faith in the healing power of God with the wisdom of the medical field can be God’s way for our healing to come. When we are really sick, and beyond our faith, we may need to go to a doctor for help. If he finds an infection, he’ll prescribe a remedy and write a prescription for us. He knows and expects the medicine to help us get better. He wants to help us get over the issue so we take it, then wait for it to work.<\/p>\n

Now, think about how much God wants us to apply His Word to, not just healing our bodies, but restoring our souls and having an entire life of His abundance and success. We talk about what God\u2019s Word says. We think about His Word. But often we don’t actually \u201ctake it\u201d and act on what it says. God, our Great Physician, has prescribed what we need in His Word. The fact is taking His prescription (or not) to love, forgive, trust, and hope (His characteristics) will determine how long we wait for success.<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t know where to start, we can start with the simplest of all \u201cprescriptions” for success. It is God\u2019s BIG ONE \u2013 a commandment, which is sometimes difficult to swallow, but the single most important one for a life of blessing and abundance. It\u2019s simple to remember because it basically boils down to one word: love. This one word contains the essence of all the other commandments we\u2019ve ever been given. It says: \u201cLove the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself\u201d (Luke 10:27). That\u2019s the prescribed medicine we need to take daily\u2026\u2026religiously.<\/p>\n

Learning to wait well with patience involves learning how to put into practice the regularity of living as a child of God. It means putting into practice those things we already know: \u2022 Loving
\n\u2022 Forgiving \u2022 Believing \u2022 Doing what God says to do.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, we want to love as You love, forgive like You forgive and honor You with our hearts in every way. Use us as a testimony of grace, kindness, and love to those around us. I pray for a double portion of favor and blessing in our lives! In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seventeen years ago, my fingers hurt so much that I couldn\u2019t button my shirt or pick up my grandbabies. A rheumatologist diagnosed it as osteoarthritis, a chronic disease that, she said, could only be maintained (not healed) via drugs. She prescribed Vioxx. My husband said to me as we drove home, \u201cNow we know the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,12418,173,12419,12420,3770,283,12421,12422,12423,3672,12424,12425,12426,1493],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faith","tag-gods-manual","tag-healing","tag-healing-power-of-god","tag-infection","tag-love-the-lord-your-god","tag-luke-1027","tag-medical-field","tag-osteoarthritis","tag-prescribed","tag-prescription","tag-symptoms","tag-take-medicine","tag-vioxx","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}