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Section 1—Healing Power and Its Source
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with loving-kindness and tender mercies.”—
Counsels on Health,
168.
The Great Healer
God’s healing power runs all through nature. If a human being
cuts his flesh or breaks a bone, nature at once begins to heal the
injury, and thus preserve the man’s life. But man can place him-
self in a position where nature is trammeled so that she cannot do
her work.... If tobacco is used, ... the healing power of nature is
weakened to a greater or less extent.... When intoxicating liquor is
used, the system is not able to resist disease in its original God-given
power as a healer. It is God who has made the provision that nature
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shall work to restore the exhausted powers. The power is of God.
He is the Great Healer.—
Letter 77, 1899
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A Combined Work
The sick are to be healed through the combined efforts of
the human and the divine. Every gift, every power, that Christ
promised to His disciples, He bestows upon those who will serve
Him faithfully.—
Letter 205, 1899
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The Holy Spirit Renews the Body
Sin brings physical and spiritual disease and weakness. Christ
has made it possible for us to free ourselves from this curse. The
Lord promises, by the medium of truth, to renovate the soul. The
Holy Spirit will make all who are willing to be educated able to
communicate the truth with power. It will renew every organ of the
body, that God’s servants may work acceptably and successfully.
Vitality increases under the influence of the Spirit’s action. Let us,
then, by this power lift ourselves into a higher, holier atmosphere,
that we may do well our appointed work.—
The Review and Herald,
January 14, 1902
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