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The Ministry of Health and Healing
“He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.”
“When He utters His voice,
There is a multitude of waters in the heavens:
‘And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain,
He brings the wind out of His treasuries.’”
Psalm 147:16; Jeremiah
10:13.
It is by His power that vegetation flourishes, that every leaf
appears, every flower blooms, every fruit develops.
The mechanism of the human body cannot be fully understood.
It presents mysteries that baffle the most intelligent. The pulse beats,
and breath follows breath, but not as the result of a mechanism that,
once set in motion, continues its work. In God we live and move
and have our being. The beating heart, the throbbing pulse, every
nerve and muscle in the living organism, is kept in order and activity
by the power of an ever-present God.
The Bible shows us God in His high and holy place, not in a
state of inactivity, not in silence and solitude, but surrounded by ten
thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of holy
beings, all waiting to do His will. Through these messengers He is
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in active communication with every part of His dominion. By His
Spirit He is everywhere present. Through the agency of His Spirit
and His angels He ministers to His earthly children.
Above the distractions of the earth He sits enthroned. All things
are open to His divine survey, and from His great and calm eternity
He orders that which His providence sees best.
“The way of man is not in himself;
It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.”
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart. ...
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.”
“The eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy,
To deliver their soul from death,