Not Half Way, Not Your Way, But God's Way

By John Beresky

Regarding faith, a playwright once said, 'Men still have faith, but today men do not have faith in God. Men have faith in the doctor.' That playwright lived to be ninety-five years old. We need to learn from God's people who lived long. Ask yourself this question: what did Noah or Abraham or Moses or Joshua do to achieve health and longevity? I'm sure they did nothing halfway or their way, but they did things God's way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641916103

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Not Half Way, Not Your Way But God’s Way

Dr. John Beresky

Copyright © 2018 Dr. John Beresky

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Dedicated to

the abundant and victorious life

of Jesus Christ

The Cause of All Disease

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee. Seventy-two curses are mentioned.

—Deuteronomy 28:15

Most doctors err in their treatment; in endeavoring to assist nature, they weaken the body with their prescriptions.

—Maimonides

The cause of all disease is lowered resistance. Each person has his own level of resistance, his immunity, which changes according to the factors that influence it. These influencing factors fall into three main physical categories—structural influences, chemical influences, and emotional influences—and superseding these physical categories, the spiritual influence governed by God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

Enough worship, praise, and prayer can overcome a poorly disciplined physical life; however, one would surmise that a disciplined worship, prayer, and praise regimen would lead to a more disciplined physical life. Most Christians who are ill do not worship, pray, and praise God enough, that’s why they are ill.

In the natural, all activities ultimately affect the chemical aspect of our three main categories. Food, microbes, minerals, sunlight, and even rest have their subtle sway over the chemical aspect of our physical being, for we live in a sense physically, and we die physically on the cellular level. Atoms construct molecules, and molecules construct cells, which in their multitude become tissues. The atomic vibratory rate builds this molecule, which builds cells, and these atomic particles depend on electromagnetic energy for their direction and control. The Holy Spirit works by this electromagnetic energy but is not electromagnetic energy. The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit.

Electromagnetic energy is measurable, physical. The Holy Spirit reigns with miracles, health, and healing and works by worship, praise, prayer, actions, and words.

On the atomic level, lack of holiness, lack of godliness, lack of worship, prayer, and praise lowers vibrations and lowers resistance, which leads to sickness and disease. When the resistance levels fall into the diseased state, electromagnetic changes take place on the atomic level, which retards repair and prevents growth and renewing of molecules, cells, and tissues. All health and healing must take place first in the Holy Spirit realm and then in the electromagnetic, atomic, molecular, and cellular realms. This order proceeds from God with rivers of living water. All healing is Holy Spirit healing. God-simple and God-effective treatments quicken the Holy Spirit, the electromagnetic, the atomic, the molecular, and the cellular event and need to be encompassing for a long enough time or with vibrant and miraculous power in order to bring about the desired effect of health and healing. Christians do not worship the Lord, pray, praise, speak, or act enough on God’s behalf. Faith demands a spiritual work ethic, a métier that is blessed by God.

Yet paramount to the cure for any disease is discovering the cause of the disease. The cause of the disease brought about the lowered resistance; therefore, changing the harmful activity of the cause is the prime step in allowing the Holy Spirit to work in delivering the cure. In most cases, lowered resistance accrues from more than one cause. A number of minute indiscretions multiply themselves into the big cause, which then in their multitude leads to lowered resistance, disease, and poor health. The chronically ill person usually has need of change in several different life areas. They have missed the mark far and often. They need to bring forth fruit meet for repentance. Just as a good tree brings forth good fruit, good health comes from cultivating, watering, pruning, dunging, and protecting the tree of life, your body. Good health comes only from cultivating and maintaining good health practices over time.

If the cause of lowered resistance, poor immunity, continues, the disease will continue, and all first causes stand in the way of spiritual neglect, which then leads to physical neglect. Whatever God touches, He makes like Him. Whatever man touches, he makes like him.

Neglecting God and seeking man for healing leads to becoming like man. Seeking God for healing allows God to touch and change the corruptible into the incorruptible. The principle, therefore, demands the removal of the cause of the disease. Can it be any other way?

Treating the symptoms of disease does not remove the cause of the disease. Pruning the branches, grafting on new branches, does not help the tree with poor soil and rotten roots. All symptomatic treatments are doomed to fail. In symptomatic treatments, because the root cause of the disease is not addressed or recognized, the disease becomes worse and progresses to its inevitable end, transforming itself into legions of symptoms or into multitudes of related diseases. For example, since the cause of arthritis is rarely addressed, a host of painkillers are prescribed, muscle relaxers, anti-inflammatories, herbs are recommended until the pain and stiffness override the nostrums; the kidneys, the liver, and the intestines are destroyed by the side effects of the harmful drugs. Arthritis may be a diagnosis, but it is not a cause. Don’t mistake the diagnosis for the cause. Arthritis is a symptom.

This idea of treating the cause of any disease seems like simplicity itself, but because something seems simple does not mean that it is easy. Finding the cause of any disease combines the Holy Spirit’s discernment eyes, which peer behind the symptoms and illuminate the corners of the world of causality with artful thought, scientific knowledge, and wisdom. Spirit, skill, imagination, and persistence are required, but mostly finding primary causes requires worship, prayer, praise, humility, repentance, joy, and love. Begin with the big idea of the removal of the interference to health and healing, and when this elimination takes place, the power that made the body heals the body. That power is God. That removal of the true interference must first ensue. You might ask, where is the interference?

The interference to health and healing might abide in the spiritual man, it might abide in the emotional man, it might abide in the chemical man, and it might abide in the structural man, the brain, the spine, or the extremities. But the true cause of lowered resistance is generated by man’s intemperance by living apart from God’s intentions for man. The cure for all disease emanates from God’s innate life, giving the Holy Spirit power, which should flow through the Spirit-filled man, to quicken man and to heal man; but the interference must first be removed. The body through the Holy Spirit, which dwells in the saved man, self-diagnoses, self-repairs, and self-heals. The true healing comes when the supernal and superseding Holy Spirit encounters the disease and quickens the flesh by the power of God.

Since the sick flesh becomes new, whole, and revivified, the healing can be lost only through the negativity of a poor faith walk, dissipated living, or poor choice of words.

This age of quasi-scientific medicine readily admits that it does not know the cause of any disease. The television authorities stand with the best medical journals in confessing that given any disease, the cause has bewildered their best scientific minds, and given that same disease, there is no known (to them) cure; learn to live with it. And God help anyone who might espouse a cure. Quasi-scientific medicine frankly admits to treating symptoms. If all symptomatic treatments are doomed to failure, why not seek the treatments of those supernatural and natural doctors who know the cause and have a cure for all disease: Doctor God, Doctor Jesus, Doctor Holy Spirit, and God’s nine best doctors.

Although broadly speaking there are certain benefits from knowing that all disease manifests itself through the three main physical categories of emotion, structure, and chemistry, the real and true cause of all disease abides in the breaking of the spiritual and the natural laws, which have their basis in God’s immutable precepts.

These precepts have life based upon them. They are peculiar to the simplicity of obeying God’s nine best doctors who are involved in all that sustains, revitalizes, and heals. All disease accrues from neglecting to consult and to comply with the prescription of God’s nine best doctors. All health depends upon seeking, consulting, and satisfying these nine best doctors.

Man is an effect of God. God is the cause, man is the effect. When man breaks God’s laws by attempting to become a cause, God breaks man until he becomes an effect. The more man becomes an effect of God, the more God will allow him to be His Cause because then God begins to trust the humble man. All nature and all of God’s nine best doctors are health effects of God. Since they are the effects of God, they innately have God’s power in them. This power of God then becomes a cause. To try to affect nature or to attempt to circumvent His creation without His assent means that man endeavors to become a cause. If man continues to endeavor to become a cause by playing God or denying the power thereof, he will be cursed.

When dealing with God, we report for duty and hearken unto His voice. God is first. God cannot be usurped. The king will always sit on His throne, and we are to worship Him daily.

By neglecting one or more than one of God’s nine best doctors, man neglects the creator of life and all that He has created. Thus, man’s resistance to disease plummets because the Holy Spirit, his electromagnetic, his atomic, and his emotional and physical being becomes gross and apart from Him. When the grossness occurs, the atomic particulars cannot be formed into molecules and cells, repair cannot take place, and sickness and disease predominate. Unlike a mechanical car, the body has repair capabilities.

Man, through the power of God and the Holy Spirit vibrates or quickens. During the 60’s it was said that so and so had good or bad vibes. The person’s frequency then was either up or down, loving, kind, reaching to God’s realm, or malevolent, confused, discordant and near to the devil’s realm. As Jesus stood on the Mount of Transfiguration, and as he became an instrument and an effect of God’s love, light, and life, he was filled with the quickening power of the Holy Spirit. His face and garments became radiant. To say that He had good vibes is an understatement. His radiance touched those who stood there with Him and they could see into the Holy Spirit realm. No sickness, no disease, no negativity could live in Him because of the quickening power of the Holy Spirit that illuminated Him. Jesus allowed God’s love to flow freely through Himself. He became an effect of God and then God allowed Him to be His cause.

Our frequency might drop as a result of our needs at any one time. Each individual’s frequency might be affected by several spiritual and physical forces. Worship, prayer, and praise quicken. Sin, sickness, and the devil depress. God is light, life, and love. The devil is darkness, death, and hate. When we accept Jesus as our Savior, we receive a new Spirit and will live forever. Our fleshly bodies reflect the course of our faith walk and our holiness and, therefore, our nearness to God. Jesus was never sick because He was always in God’s presence. Our flesh continuously changes frequency to the measure of the Holy Spirit reflected in us. Our needs affect us because they must be dealt with. Our deeds affect us more because they are more manifestly involved with our faith walk. When the Holy Spirit increases in us either by His largess or because of our seeking Him, we then live in the world of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit drives sickness and disease out of our bodies. Like Jesus, we live in perfect divine health. The simplicity of the concept is the truth of the concept. All health depends on our consulting with and following the prescriptions of God’s nine best doctors. When we neglect these nine best doctors, our frequency falls; we become sick as we contact the netherworld of suffering and sickness.

May I introduce you to God’s nine best doctors? Please greet Doctor Prayer (the cornerstone of health and healing), Doctor Triple Crown (forgiveness, joy, and love), Doctor Oxygen, Doctor Water, Doctor Rest, Doctor Elimination, Doctor Sunlight, Doctor Exercise, and Doctor Food.

Day by day, as a man lives, his needs change in accordance with the demands made upon his body both over time and in the immediate. Some days require more of Doctor Rest. Some days require more of Doctor Oxygen, and still other days require Doctor Triple Crown. When a person needs one of these doctors more than the others, it seems easier to fulfill the one doctor’s prescription than to seek out and substitute a secondary doctor for help. If rest is needed, does it make sense to eat more? Doctor Rest going unfulfilled over time leads to decreased resistance and sickness and disease. If Doctor Exercise becomes important and the person flabs around watching TV or working too hard, substituting Doctor Food for Doctor Exercise leads to sickness and disease over time. The key idea is balance and the healthful life. Healthful and balanced living begins by doing what God instructs a person to do through Doctor Prayer.

The cornerstone of health and healing prayer is God’s vitamin C—Vitamin Christ. Doctor Prayer guides the person into health and healing by leading the person to the correct doctor that is required to satisfy the demands at a particular time. How the healthful life might be lived depends on how well and how much prayer time is spent each day. In the most difficult act we do, we do nothing but everything in prayer. This quickening and leading prayer sustains us until the answer comes as a still small voice by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Doctor Prayer keys the door to the Holy Spirit. Prayer, when it is accompanied by love, has miracle-working power. And the prayer that is strong, long enough, spoken in faith, and encompassed by forgiveness, joy, and love supersedes the physical essentials; in prayer, the Holy Spirit acts to heal the body and bring health, and when the Holy Spirit descends, it is important to ask the Holy Spirit if something should be done on the physical level as well.

Then God answers and shows the way by showing where the sick person missed it. He may lead by the Spirit by saying Drink of my water, or Rest, or Breathe deeply of my pure oxygen, or Eliminate the junk from your life, or Forgive.

All of the spiritual actions and the correct God-blessed physical actions revivify the spiritual and the physical body by driving sickness and disease out of the body and increasing the resistance by allowing the One who made the body to heal the body. The resistance of the body increases in accordance with increasingly leading a holy and God-ordained and Holy Spirit-led life. Those who are led of the Spirit shall be called the sons of God. All healing is Holy Spirit healing. All healing depends on the love, the light, and the life brought to the altar. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.

The Garden of Eden

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof’ the world, and they that dwell therein.

—Psalm 24:1

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

—1 Corinthians 3:16–17

Begotten by God and gifted with the glorious Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve enjoyed their lives in a type of heaven on earth—and Utopia, if you will—an earthly paradise with much pleasure and with little care. Life in the Garden of Eden surpassed, in its heavenly qualities, the glory that was Rome. Imagine how they lived surrounded by that verdant landscape of unspeakable abundance that was created by God for their well-being, for their health. Adam and Eve were the beings created by God in his own image as it says in Genesis 1:27.

Each minute of time found them in harmony with God and found them in harmony with His creation. While tending the garden that God had planted, they talked prayerfully with Him as He instructed them and guided them in the earthly aspects of their lives. They breathed the oxygenated air of the garden, drank of the sparkling living waters of spirit and of liquid, worked in the sun, which God had placed in the heavens to give life to the physical planet, giving them food for the sustenance of their physical bodies. As a consequence of their work in the garden, in the evening they must have rested. If they breathed and ate and worked, they must have eliminated the harmful waste materials associated with a corporeal existence. Spiritually, Adam and Eve talked with God, joyed in their circumstance, and, due to their closeness to the Father, reflected His love through them. If there were any conflicts between Adam and Eve, they must have been minor and, therefore, quickly forgiven. Before the fall, their lives were simple and glorious, godly and free from sickness and disease, delighting in the harmony of God’s creation. Naked and not ashamed, Adam and Eve were ingenuous in their world when suddenly slithering along slid the subtle serpent who said there was a better idea. What better idea could there have been than the one they were already living?

The fall of man brought with it the curse of the original sin and expulsion from the garden. We are their children, and we wander this earth as exiles from the garden forced in our wanderings to contend daily with the wiles of the enemy. But wait a minute! Hold on! Didn’t Jesus die for our sins and for the original sin, for our sickness and for our diseases? Since He came and died for us, didn’t He give us the Holy Spirit? So that means that once again we are free through the power of the Holy Spirit to talk to God and to receive His communication as Adam and Eve had done in the Garden of Eden before the fall. In this sense, we find ourselves with the greatest gift and with the greatest blessing of life in the Garden—prayer—communion with God. This Holy Spirit transforms us and the immediate world around us into a veritable Garden of Eden. The Holy Spirit gives us wisdom, quickens us, transforms us and our world, heals us, and gives us health. Where does good health come from? From God through the Holy Spirit and from the things that He created for our health and healing.

God created us, and since He created us, He alone knows how to heal us. Surgery is not healing. Surgery cuts out a sick part, but if the cause of the sickness is not removed (repentance), that person will need another surgery in five to seven years. Surgery buys time until the person figures out what they were doing wrong in order to need to change their behaviors. Healing occurs only when we abide in Him, change in the way He wants us to change, and do what God originally ordained in the garden for our health and our healing.

Here again is that most important question: where does good health come from? Does good health come from surgery or from medication? Good health, is it genetics, which is a type of luck? No. Good health and healing comes from the Holy Spirit and from doing healthy things. We need to be better stewards of our bodies. Sickness comes from doing unhealthy actions. What actions bring health?

The clues lie in the Garden of Eden. We need to do the healthy things that Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden before the fall. On December 6, 1996, the Lord impressed these words to my mind. Most people are not synchronized to the Lord or to His creation. In other words, we need to consult daily with God’s nine best doctors.

These nine doctors are always on duty, they make house calls, and they give free consultations. Do you know of any doctor that has a 100 percent success rate? God’s nine best doctors head a list entitled God’s Holistic Doctors, and since we need to act more like we are synchronized to God and to His creation, we need to consult only with holistic practioners—God’s nine best doctors.

Here is part of God’s holistic plan for health and healing as presented in the Garden of Eden by God’s nine best doctors. May I introduce you to these doctors individually?

1. Doctor Prayer—And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself (Genesis 3:9–13). This is prayer, talking to God and receiving an answer from God in a personal way. This occurs in this age because of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. A two-way street has been reconstructed between the Father and His sheep. Doctor Prayer, the cornerstone of health and healing.

2. Doctor Triple Crown—Forgiveness, joy, and love. Adam and Eve as husband and wife evoke the image of any two people that live in proximity to each other on a daily basis. Offences happened, whether real or imagined. They then needed to ask for forgiveness and to forgive. After forgiveness comes joy, and joy stands on the threshold of love. There can be no health or healing without Doctor Triple Crown.

3. Doctor Oxygen—Created by God, mankind breathes and needs oxygen in order to sustain and bring health to him. And God said, ‘Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.’ And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth (Genesis 1: 6–7).

The word firmament is translated as expanse or something spread out. Not exactly the sky but more encompassing like the heavens and the atmosphere. The atmosphere, in which oxygen is created and destroyed by life on earth, envelops humans like the ocean envelops sea life.

4. Doctor Water—And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). Water like oxygen and like the other substances and activities in the Garden were created by God as part of man’s sustenance.

5. Doctor Food—And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (Genesis 1:29).

6. Doctor Sun—And God said, Let there be light: and there was light, and God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Yes, He saw the sun, nay, He created the sun, and He saw that it was good (Genesis 1: 3–5).

7. Doctor Exercise—And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it (Genesis 2:15). Physical labor, a type of exercise, meant that man was to be kept physically fit.

8. Doctor Elimination—Since Adam and Eve were corporeal, they worked, breathed, drank; in short, they lived; therefore, they must have eliminated the toxins that accrue and are associated with a physical