Chapter 2 -
The causes
of the illnesses
When searching for a reason
behind a disease, we may find that the answer eludes us: even though we know that
many illnesses are caused simply by a bad way of life, bacteria or viral
infections, there are also diseases that do not seem to be caused by any
logical reason. Their cause seems to be unknown.
Reasons causing diseases - that we do not always take into
account - are at least such factors as our feelings, heredity, but also
illnesses connected with occult objects and curses. Below, we will study these
causes, starting with the two latter ones that are rare in the Western
countries but still subjects that need to be discussed.
OBJECTS
When it is a question of the
causes of illnesses, we should note that an illness may sometimes be caused by
an object used in occultism. If there are objects used in idol worshipping
(occultist literature, statues, jewelry, souvenirs - especially from countries
where sorcery is widely practiced) in our home, they may be bases for evil
spirits and cause diseases, depression, and attacks of the enemy. Many of these
objects can be neutral, but if magic spells are connected to them, they always
burden the home, and this burden will not be raised until the object in
question has been destroyed:
For example, images of owls
symbolize occultism in the East. Isaiah 34:14 "there the night creatures
will also repose..." The translation of the King James Bible uses the word
"owl" in the place of "nocturnal animals". In Hebrew, it is "the
ghost of the night ". If you have many pictures of owls in your home, ask
yourself why. Generally, homes where there are images of owls also house plenty
of illnesses.
Two girls who
lived together caught the flu again and again one winter. They were always
sick. A friend of them told them about the occult objects in their home and
suggested that they get rid of the owls. The girls were skeptical but decided
that it was worth a try. They destroyed the owls, quickly experienced healing
and remained healthy for the rest of the year.
When we are disobedient towards God and bring these pictures and
objects into our homes, our disobedience offers Satan grounds to torment us.
Each object of the wrong religion that has been used in practicing occultism
must be burnt, broken, destroyed...
Each object brings within it a spirit into your home and thus you have
called evil spirits to affect you and your family. They act against Jesus, the
family, and moral standards. The husband of the house is regarded accountable
before God for this. Quarrelling, controversy, diseases, and disturbed dreams
often testify the existence of occultist objects and materials. (1)
How can we then be freed from
the strain of these objects? The answer is to destroy all objects and to pray
freedom from them and the evil powers of the enemy in the name of Jesus. The
people in Ephesus really did this: they brought all occult literature together
and burned it. If they had not done this, they would not have been freed from
their occult shackles, but now they were able to simply break the connection.
- (Acts 19:19) Many of them also which
used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men:
and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of
silver.
CURSES
- (Pro
26:2) As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse
causeless shall not come.
In some cases, people may be
ill or experience oppressive or inexplicable anxiety due to curses recited by
others. In some countries, sorcery is considered normal and very ordinary and
people are suffering from it. A problem with curses is that often their origin
and background is not easy to recognize, unless the person him/herself has
specific information about a person who has something against him or her.
For example, the next letter describes
this issue well:
I
have just recovered from a terrible attack of the enemy. Bleeding, heart
disease, palpitation, and exhaustion. My whole being was in a state of
collapse. Suddenly, I remembered in prayer to pray against all psychic powers
that were focused upon me (a psychic 'prayer'). In faith and by the power of
the blood of Jesus, I cut it off myself, and the result was amazing. Suddenly,
my breathing became normal, the bleeding stopped, the exhaustion disappeared,
all the pain left, and life returned to my body. Since that moment, I have been
refreshed and become stronger. God let me know that my condition was due to a
group of betrayed souls in opposition against me who directed their 'prayers'
against me. God has used me to release two of them, but the others are still in
a terrible abyss. (2)
And how can we be freed of
curses and attacks of the spiritual realm? The power is in the name of Jesus.
If you suspect that your problems are caused by a curse, command the curse to
be broken and those evil powers causing it to leave in the name of Jesus
Christ. You can also ask God for special protection against anger and ask God
to break all the connections between you and the attacks of the evil spirit
world. You can do it like this, for example:
In the name of Jesus Christ,
I break all curses that have been set against me. At the same time, I command
in the name of Jesus Christ all demonic powers and illnesses to leave me and
the life of my family, never to return.
And Lord, dear
heavenly Father, I ask that You give me protection against anger and that You
break all connections between me and the attacks of the spirit world. I also
wish to bless those people who have spoken badly about me and cursed me. In the
name of Jesus. Amen."
HEREDITY
One cause of illnesses can be
heredity. In the same way as spiritual abilities (you hear about special
families of seers), the tendency towards certain characteristics, sins or
suicide, for example, and also certain diseases can be handed down from one
generation to the next. In fact, each of us can inherit blessings and curses in
the spirit world that will affect our lives. Often, the negative issues are
based on sins practiced by parents or ancestors, oaths (for example, Mormon or
freemason oaths) or curses that have been passed against the family. All of
these can cause certain diseases.
One spirit that we have
successfully driven out is the spirit of heredity. Sometimes, a curse has been
laid against a family, and if you examine the family history far back enough,
you may notice that at some stage people say, "Now I remember: father of
grandfather was cursed", and that curse has been passed on to the present
generation.
In one meeting
that we held on the West Coast, there was a young man who came from a family of
twenty-four children and FOURTEEN OF THEM WERE DEAF! What does this indicate?
Surely that the deafness was caused by the spirit of heredity, since the
conditions at birth could not have been so similar as to cause the children to
become deaf; the cause was in the hereditary factors of the family. Who messes with
these genes? The devil does!
So, the spirit
of heredity had been passed on in that family from one generation to the next.
We put our hands on the young man; we bound Satan in the name of Jesus and by
the power of God. Then we drove out the spirit of heredity and asked God to
create new eardrums for him. The young man must have had faulty eardrums or no
eardrums at all, because he started to hear for the first time in his life! (3)
How can the chains be broken?
In this issue too, freeing starts with two basic issues: confessing sins and
then commanding the powers of the archenemy to leave. In this case, however, we
must bring to light the sins of our parents or ancestors (Lev 26:40-42,
because it is a question of spiritual gifts or illnesses, for example, that
have been handed down), confess them and resign from them. When this has
been done, we can command the powers of the archenemy to leave and ask God to
heal our life (you can, for example, put your hands on you or anoint the
place where you wish the healing power of God to touch you). You can use
this prayer, for example:
Heavenly Father, I confess to You
all the sins of my ancestors and parents, (such as sorcery, spiritualism,
spirit healing, immorality, wrong oaths...) and resign from them. Thank You that
I can be free from the effect of these sins and from all the evil spirits by
the atonement of Jesus. Thank You that my spiritual legacy comes from Christ
and not from the sins of my ancestors. Amen.
Satan and all evil spirits, I have confessed
to God the sins and wrong oaths of my ancestors and parents and resigned from
them. Now, you have no legal right to this, because through the blood of Jesus,
these issues have been forgiven and their effect has been broken. Therefore, I
command you now in the name of Jesus Christ to leave me, never to return!
FEELINGS
- (Pro 17:22) A merry heart does good
like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.
One cause of illnesses can simply
be our own feelings. It has been known for some time that a human is a
psychosomatic system and that negative feelings can impair the health of the
body. Doctors have estimated that 70% or even more of all physical illnesses
are caused by feelings. In other words, they arise from the fact that feelings
- when they continue for a long time - reduce our resistance to various
diseases. We are giving our bodies the burden of carrying the feelings in our
souls.
Diseases
belonging to this group may be, for instance, heart diseases, high blood
pressure, arrhythmia, apoplectic strokes, asthma, breathing difficulties,
headache, backache, rheumatoid arthritis, disorders of the colon, stomach
ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, sexual incompetence, menstrual disorders,
certain skin diseases and allergies, cancer, tuberculosis, thyreotoxicosis,
diabetes... They may be connected with previous intense negative feelings.
However, real life is like
this. The majority of my patients do not come to me because they suffer from
horrible diseases, such as made up by the scriptwriters in Hollywood. Actually,
I estimate that as much as 85% of the persons to whom I offer medical
assistance come to me because of more meaningless reasons: they come because of
gastric ulcers, high blood pressure, or a weak heart. The primary reason for
the existence of these illnesses is not the fact that my patients have splashed
away in the Ganges, but the fact that the suffer from one or several of the
feelings outlined in this book: anger, worry, guilt, depression. (4)
Dr. Paul Tournier presents a
good example of the issue in question in his book Ihmisen parantamisesta
(Medecine de la personne). He presents how lowered immunity of a person may be
caused by negative feelings. The person mentioned in this example got abscesses
every time he had been arguing with his wife. Tournier’s book presents several
similar cases in which the consequences of intense feelings have appeared as
different kinds of diseases:
One day, a sick person came
to me. Let us call him Sigismund. While bandaging him, I asked whether he was
engaged in some dangerous work or had quarreled with someone. Sigismund said no
and that he was happy.
I told him that
I had recently had abscesses too, both times a day after I had been in a bad
mood, and that they had burst soon after I had recognized why there were there
in the first place.
At this point,
Sigismund blurted out, "It is the same with me. I always get an abscess after
having quarreled with my wife. I have noticed the pattern, but I have not dared
to speak about it, because I thought it was only a coincidence; after all,
abscesses are caused by microbes."
What Sigismund did not know - because in
popular books about medicine this is never mentioned - is that that the staphylococci
that cause abscesses are ordinary microbes, present in each of us all the time,
but not always leading to an infection. Therefore, it is wrong to say that the
staphylococci cause abscesses. The bacteria do, indeed, promote the process,
but the real cause are issues that hamper one’s immune system and thus promote
the development of active microbes. (5)
Okay, we know now that some
diseases and pains of the body can be connected with our moods, but what about
it? The answer is that this issue does not have much significance, at least
from the point of view of the past (except if God wants to expose our wrong
attitudes in the past and also wounds of the soul that may have been caused by
some arduous experiences: God indeed often starts healing first from the level
of the soul and memories, and saves the body for later). In other words, it
is often no use to dig up the past, especially if we have been forgiven through
the blood of Jesus Christ.
What is much
more important is who we are now and what our current attitude is: is it an
attitude that promotes our health and, what is most important, is it an
attitude that is in line with the will of God?
Especially
important attitudes are gratitude and blessing of other people, that were
mentioned above. If we are grateful to God for everything and bless everyone
instead of cursing people and the conditions (bless also yourself, because it
is not right to curse yourself), there will be no room for the wrong attitudes.
The benefit of blessing and being grateful is also that these attitudes raise
us above misguided anthropocentrism and egocentricity (which may very well be
the most common cause of depression) and are, in any case, useful for our
health.
- (1 Thess 5:18) In every thing
give thanks: for this is the will
of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
- (Ps 118:24) This is the day which
the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
- (Col 2:6,7) As you have therefore
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in him:
7 Rooted and built
up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving.
