What does EGW write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Ministry of Healing, S. 143"
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Christ's ministry serves as the ultimate example for high-quality medical missionary work, where healing and teaching are inseparable components of the gospel. Believers are called to use nature's simple remedies and the power of faith to bring restoration to both the soul and the body. True healing requires that the afflicted cease violating God's laws and commit themselves to the Great Physician under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Divine Method of Healing and Restoration
Christ, the great Medical Missionary, is our example. Of Him it is written that He “went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.” . In His service, healing and teaching were linked closely together. Today they are not to be separated.
We should let the afflicted understand that in Him there is healing balm for every disease, restoring power for every infirmity. His disciples in this time are to pray for the sick as verily as His disciples of old prayed. And recoveries will follow, for “the prayer of faith shall save the sick.” . We need the Holy Spirit's power, the calm assurance of faith that can claim God's promises.
For the sick we should use the remedies which God has provided in nature, and we should point them to Him who alone can restore. It is our work to present the sick and suffering to Christ in the arms of our faith. We should teach them to believe in the Great Healer.
There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way that Heaven approves. God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties. Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying.
In the kindest and tenderest manner nurses are to teach that he who would be healed must cease to transgress the law of God. He must cease to choose a life of sin. God cannot bless the one who continues to bring upon himself disease and suffering by a willful violation of the laws of heaven.
Read the Scriptures carefully, and you will find that Christ spent the larger part of His ministry in restoring the suffering and afflicted to health. ... Like Him, be “found going about doing good.”
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