1. Created in Gods image Designed for righteousness Designed for health

2. God Love Worth Security Significance Love Worth Security Significance = sin death

3. Righteousness 1.You shall have no other gods before me. 2.You shall not make for yourself an idol 3.You shall not misuse the name of the LORD 4.Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 5.Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 6.You shall not murder. 7.You shall not commit adultery. 8.You shall not steal. 9.You shall not lie. 10.You shall not covet Exodus 20:2-17 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." Matthew 22:37-40 Peace Joy

4. Deuteronomy 7:12-15 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. The LORD will keep you free from every disease. for I am the LORD, who heals you." Exodus 15:26

5. Designed for health To love and receive love, security, worth, significance from God To engage appropriately with the world and others for supplemental needs Optimal conditions for physical/emotional health. To miss out on God meeting my basic needs To desperately pursue love, worth, security and significance from the world Optimal conditions for disease and physical/emotional malfunctions

6. God 1.Im empty, gotta get my needs met in the world 2.Use others 3.Misuse things 4.Dont like myself Love Worth Security Significance

7. Instead of loving God, appropriate self-love and loving others We try to use others for our own benefit Not many cooperate Most ignore, resist or oppose our attempt to use them. Anger at others and circumstances Fear of others and of circumstances Anger at ourselves for being so inadequate, pathetic True guilt for the way were living so that we Expect circumstantial punishment Open the door for our physical system to impose sentence within our bodies.

8. Stress Response fight or flight syndrome Anger and fear stimulate the physiological stress response and it has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved stress. (IVF.com) The long term activation of the stress response system can disrupt almost all your bodys processes increasing your risk of obesity, insomnia, digestive problems, heart disease, depression, memory impairment, physical illnesses and other complications. The immune system can run unchecked attacking your own bodys healthy cells. MayoClinic.com

9. James 5:14-16 1.confess your sins to each other 2.and pray for each other so that you may be healed. you sins will be forgiven. 3.Still sick? Ask Elders to pray for you the sick person will become well; the Lord will raise him up.

10. Confession 1 John 1:8-9 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Confess – homologeo – to speak the same thing, to acknowledge or to admit ones sin, When confronted with Gods word describing an attitude or behavior as sin, I agree that my attitude or behavior is sin

11. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. James 5:16

12. Jesus healing When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ. Luke 4:40-41

13. James 5:14-16 Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

14. Deuteronomy 28:15; 20-22 However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

15. James 4:1-6 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."