{"id":1523,"date":"2021-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2021-02-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:00:00","slug":"the-bible-and-your-health-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/the-bible-and-your-health-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bible and Your Health (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last half century, doctors have come to understand and emphasise the correlation between mental and physical health. Yet the Bible talked about it over three thousand years ago when King Solomon gave us these four proverbs: <\/p>\n<p>(1) <i>\u2018A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.\u2019<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>(2) <i>\u2018A cheerful look brings joy to the heart; good news makes for good health.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a015:30\u00a0<sup>NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>(3) <i>\u2018Kind words are like honey\u2014sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a016:24\u00a0<sup>NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>(4) <i>\u2018A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person\u2019s strength.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs\u00a017:22\u00a0<sup>NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>These Scriptures could be summed up like this: a faith-filled attitude (focusing on what\u2019s good instead of what\u2019s bad), laughter (the ability to rejoice), and spoken words of encouragement have a profound effect on your health (and the health of those around you). What\u2019s the antidote for stress? Serenity! What\u2019s the remedy for fear? Faith! And where do serenity and faith come from? God! <\/p>\n<p>David was in bad shape when he wrote, <i>\u2018I begged the Lord for mercy, saying, \u201cWhat will You gain if I die, if I sink into the grave?\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a030:8\u20139\u00a0<sup>NLT<\/sup>) We don\u2019t know whether he was stressed-out mentally, or if he was physically ill. But God intervened, and later in the same psalm David wrote, <i>\u2018You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have\u2026 clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises to You and not be silent.\u2019<\/i> (Psalm\u00a030:11\u201312\u00a0<sup>NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt about it\u2014your thinking has a profound effect on your health!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last half century, doctors have come to understand and emphasise the correlation between mental and physical health. Yet the Bible talked about it over three thousand years ago when King Solomon gave us these four proverbs: (1) \u2018A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.\u2019 (2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}