natural treatment for the disease of leprosy

brambles in the vineyard, bitterness is spiritualleprosy october 28, 2016 may the lord help us to change poisonous habitsinto life giving wisdom and joy. amen my beloved heartdwellers, i cannot over-emphasizethe power of bitterness. this is such a subtle and pervasive spirit. it taints every blessing in our lives. our health, our thinking, our emotions, ourrelationship with each other, and god. if you have bitterness you are being poisonedevery single day and this virus puts out tentacles

that infect every area of our lives. it is a spiritual cancer which permeates theentire system. for instance, if the bitterness is in ourstomach, it spreads to the hundreds of tiny glands in the body: the lungs, the liver,the pancreas, brain, bones and skin, feet, legs, neck, back arms and hands until thespiritual, physical and emotional body is thoroughly poisoned. is it not written that a, “a joyful heartpromotes healing; but a broken spirit dries up the bones.” proverbs 17:22

and looking at that bone marrow is one ofthe most important substances in our bodies. it produces blood cells. so the very essence of life, our blood, iseffected by bitterness. the longer we live, the more bitterness thathas permeated our being. i am personally convinced that old age isnothing more than accumulated bitterness that has poisoned our entire bodies and suckedthe life out of them; just as cancer feeds on our own bodies and steals all the nourishmentmeant for our health. thank the lord there is a remedy, ‘a joyfulheart,’ but joy means rejoicing, which we cannot do without gratitude and thankfulness.

and this is becoming a supernatural commodity,these days! with all the trials that we go through, wehave to find new ways of relating to our trials, because the old ways are poisoning us. i am coming to understand: bitterness comesin whenever we are irritated, impatient, angry, put-out, judgmental. any negative emotion allows the seed to comeinto our hearts. and a demon comes with it, and then the rootof bitterness is tended and it chokes out the lord's light, his grace and our faith. this happens immediately and without our consent!

this is why demons are so effective when theybring disorder: we react with immediate irritation and in comes the demon of bitterness and seed,along with plenty of fertilizer to get it started. once we allow this seed in and fail to immediatelyrepent and ask for the lord’s mercy and grace to deliver us from it, it is alreadytoo late. in other words, right on the spot, we havegot to stop and get on our faces and ask the lord, "please, lord! i am so sorry! forgive me.

please deliver me of this demon and blot thisseed right out of my heart." we are already infected and beginning to weakenif we let it sit there. negative thoughts also begin to multiply untilwe can no long concentrate on what were were doing because our anger is growing every minute. when we first conceive of these thoughts,we are already infected by the demons of bitterness and a seed is planted, which will grow quicklyand choke out life, inspiration, health, clear thinking, hopeful emotions. and every good thing that we associate withwill be deprived of its goodness the very moment we entertain bitterness.

knowing this, my very first prayer to thelord in the morning is "please, lord, forgive me for my bitterness, help me transform myirritations to joyful gratitude. please deliver me from the demons and theirdedication as well as the seed and roots of bitterness. please bathe my heart in your blood, cleansingit from all unrighteousness." but before i say this prayer, i have to reflecton the occasions of anger, unforgiveness, resentment, impatience, grumbling. and i have to ask holy spirit to please showme my sin. so, these three steps need to be taken beforei ask for deliverance, examining my actions,

feelings and thoughts; forgiving anyone iam holding resentment against, repenting for an ungrateful attitude. because truly the lord allowed these thingsto happen and grumbling or complaining or even anger, for that matter, is not just atthe person who caused the offense, but at god who allowed them to cause it. and this i should do as well, "lord, pleaseheal anyone i’ve given offense to." sharing this with you i recognize that i probablyjump on my own case and am critical of my own self more than anyone outside of myself. i’m seeing, as we are talking, that it isnot good.

i am actually destroying myself with my negativeattitude towards failures - even little ones like clumsiness and mistakes. i try to catch myself. but if i don’t manage that, i can at leastcall the glass stupid! "you foolish glass, you tipped over!" until that is, i get control of this knee-jerkresponse. interestingly, the readings from the missaltoday really brought to light how serious it is to have bitterness:first reading was from leviticus: the lord said to moses and aaron, “when anyone hasa swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their

skin that may be a defiling skin disease,they must be brought to aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. leviticus 13:1-2 the priest is to examine him, and if the swollensore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease, the man is diseasedand is unclean. the priest shall pronounce him unclean becauseof the sore on his head. “anyone with such a defiling disease mustwear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cryout, ‘unclean! unclean!’

as long as they have the disease they remainunclean. they must live alone; they must live outsidethe camp. leviticus 13:43-46 bitterness is the leprosy of our age, guys. notice that god isolated the infected person. bitterness is highly contagious and spreadseasily from person to person. let’s just put ourselves in a leper’splace. you get up in the morning, you have to choosetorn garments to wear, you cannot brush your hair, you must keep your mouth covered atall times.

you live quite a distance from the community,so you cannot socialize with anyone, other than other lepers. anything you touch is unclean, so you haveno occupation. if someone comes near your isolated camp youmust cry out, ‘unclean! unclean!’ when you go into town people run from yourpresence and you continually must cry out “unclean!” and this is the way you live for your entirelife. in those days, there was no cure for leprosy. when miriam and aaron began to talk againstmoses (yes, let's look at the cause of this.

this is so interesting.) because of his cushite wife, for he had marrieda cushite. “has the lord spoken only through moses?”they asked. “hasn’t he also spoken through us?” and the lord heard this. now moses was a very humble man, more humblethan anyone else on the face of the earth. (that's an interesting statement. i wonder who wrote that!) at once the lord said to moses, aaron andmiriam, “come out to the tent of meeting,

all three of you.” so the three of them went out. then the lord came down in a pillar of cloud;he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned aaron and miriam. when the two of them stepped forward, he said,“listen to my words: “when there is a prophet among you,i, the lord, reveal myself to them in visions, i speak to them in dreams. but this is not true of my servant moses;he is faithful in all my house. with him i speak face to face,clearly and not in riddles;

he sees the form of the lord. why then were you not afraidto speak against my servant moses?” the anger of the lord burned against them,and he left them. when the cloud lifted from above the tent,miriam’s skin was leprous —it became as white as snow. aaron turned toward her and saw that she hada defiling skin disease, and he said to moses, “please, my lord, i ask you not to holdagainst us the sin we have so foolishly committed. do not let her be like a stillborn infantcoming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

so moses cried out to the lord, “please,god, heal her!” the lord replied to moses, “if her fatherhad spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? confine her outside the camp for seven days;after that she can be brought back.” so miriam was confined outside the camp forseven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back. numbers 12:1-15 in an instant, the woman ranking highest inthe whole israelite community was turned unclean and isolated from the community.

this is the power of bitterness. and it is highly contagious. just one thought, that’s all it takes, andyou’ve been infected. just like one mosquito bite is all it takesfor malaria, one cough in a closed room to contract the ebola virus. james speaks of it, saying, those who considerthemselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves,and their religion is worthless the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makesgreat boasts. consider what a great forest is set on fireby a small spark.

the tongue also is a fire, a world of evilamong the parts of the body. it corrupts the whole body, sets the wholecourse of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. so, there he's talking about the source. this comes from the devil. all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles andsea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tamethe tongue. it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. with the tongue we praise our lord and father,and with it we curse human beings, who have

been made in god’s likeness. out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. my brothers and sisters, this should not be. can both fresh water and salt water flow fromthe same spring? my brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bearolives, or a grapevine bear figs? neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. james 1:26 & 3:6-12 please heartdwellers, i beg of you: repentof all bitterness and pray for me because i see that poison in my heart.

bitterness causes your cancer to be more painfuland spread. bitterness causes headaches to be worse. bitterness causes your mind to be twistedand thinking to be off. your body, soul and spirit are poisoned bythis just as surely as if you had leprosy. whatever good you wanted to do in your lifewill be greatly compromised by bitterness. when the israelites were in the desert ofshur, three days out from the red sea, they came to a defiled spring. the lord told moses to throw a beam of woodinto the water and it would become sweet.exodus 15

i can’t help but think of the crossbeamof wood jesus had to carry for his crucifixion. it is through the power of the lord’s crossthat we are forgiven and given new life, free from bitterness. moving on to the new testament. while jesus was in one of the towns, a mancame along who was covered with leprosy. when he saw jesus, he fell with his face tothe ground and begged him, “lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” jesus reached out his hand and touched theman. “i am willing,” he said.

“be clean!” and immediately the leprosy left him. then jesus ordered him, “don’t tell anyone,but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that moses commanded for yourcleansing, as a testimony to them.” luke 5:12-14 the lord is so full of compassion. let us come to him repenting and asking himto heal us of the habits of complaining, bitterness, grumbling, and lead us into a new habit ofpraising him for all the lessons he gives us through unfavorable circumstances, knowingthat our holiness is being forged and going

from glory to glory. so, there's nothing, really, to grumble about. it's for our own good that he allows thesethings. at this point, i asked the lord, if he hadsomething he wanted to say. and he said, "no, this teaching is completein itself - only truly hearken to these words and make a resolution in your hearts to putaside all grumbling, resentment, bitterness. make a firm resolution, dear ones. this is the number one inroad for satan toturn your lives sour. he gains your consent when he causes trouble.

your anger is your stamp of approval on hisgift of a bitter seed with a demon to tend it in the garden of your hearts. "can you imagine what the garden of your heartlooks like when it is overgrown with bitterness? may i tell you, it is no longer a garden,rather a tangle of thorns and briars that one cannot walk through, let alone sit downin. there are no flowers there, no fruits, onlyskanky tangles of shrubs with sharp thorns whose tips are poisoned. there is no rest or nourishment in this garden,rather it is a representation of hell on earth. this, indeed, is what becomes of the soulwho entertains bitterness; all life is choked

out. there you will find jealousy, hatred, resentment,depression, judgment, impatience, selfishness, cruelty, retaliation, pride and every noxious,dark thought known to man. when the seed enters, it finds good soil andslowly stretches out its roots. at first the soul may not be aware that somethingin side of them has been compromised. as the demons tend this plant and the rootsspread to different areas of your life, they wait for the opportunity they need to takeover the soul. perhaps it is adultery, or the loss of a child,or unfair loss of a job, cancer or serious disease, false accusation or betrayal.

once the incident occurs, the roots put outshoots that can be felt in resentment and anger. then they become noticeable. they choke out and reject my love, and thesoul becomes more and more bitter and hardened. then the prolific fruit-bearing vines comingfrom the vinedresser, cannot produce choice grapes, because all that is good and healthyfor the plants has been choked out by brambles. thus though you think you are abiding in thevine and bringing forth fruit, in reality you are abiding in the thorns of hell, inbitterness. "come to me, my children.

confess all of those feelings and let us workit out together. let us clear the vineyard and burn the thornbushes in the fires of charity. then i will work with you to restore a fruitfuland fragrant garden that we can walk together in, planning for new life, and bringing forthnew fruit. "we can do this together, if you will. you must make an act of the will and holdto it under all circumstances. we can do this. you can begin today to lead a life of celebrationand thanksgiving, knowing without a doubt that all things work together for the goodwhen you are in me, and i am in you."