Faith and Health

Faith and Health http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blogfaith-and-health.html We believe Genesis 1-26 when it says, "Then God said, Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us." We believe that God made us in his image, not to be sick and suffer through a life less than He intended for us. en-us NYK RSS Feeder Prayers for 2020 http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2020/01/03/prayers-for-2020/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 07:31:17 -0500 SpecialÂthanks to Christ Centered Chiropractic for the content below. Blessing from their leadershipÂDr. Ben, Dr. Rob, Dr. Sheri, Vicki, and Jen. <h1 data-content-field="title">10 POWERFUL PRAYERS FOR 2020 â CHANGE YOUR LIFE, YOUR BUSINESS, AND PROTECT YOUR FAMILYâS FUTURE</h1> Â <ol data-rte-list="default"> <li> <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/praying.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 360px; height: 414px;" />Trust-fall prayers.Â At some point like Jesus you have to say to the Father, âInto your hands I commit my spiritâ (Luke 23:46).Â Take a year and give it all up to God.Â Say, âFather â itâs your home, itâs your family, itâs your money, itâs your business, itâs your body, and my life is yours â Iâll go anywhere you want me to go since youâve promised to always go with me.â Â </li> <li> Go Big or Go Home Prayers.Â Big people are not inspired by small vision.Â Itâs not just another year of many, but the first step of one life.Â Going for it in life really matters. Life is designed to be lived abundantly. </li> <li> Pray for God-Vision (Not people vision).Â The Bible says, âWithout prophetic vision, the people shall perishâ (Prov 29:18).Â Prophetic means, a vision from God (Not a vision from man). ÂÂÂ </li> <li> Pray for provision.Â With every prophetic vision there is provision.Â God will not send you down a path without also making sure the necessary resources are provided. You can move forward with certainty and unyielding hope when its more clear that your life, your work, and your ministry are glorifying God. </li> <li> Pray praise.Â Ultimately, weâre here to praise God, represent Him on the earth, be a co-laborer with Him, and expand His territory. Example praise prayers; âLord, I honor you, I exalt you, I magnify you, I lift you up, I bless you, I glorify your name; which is above all names, rulers, powers, and authorities.â </li> <li> Thank you, thank you, thank you Prayers.Â This is such a big one.Â Even people that donât believe in God will throw up a prayer now and then in times of trouble.Â Thereâs a little catch thrown into the process here in Philippians 4:6-7 where it says to pray âwith thanksgivingâ. and then the peace of Godâ.âÂ ÂÂÂÂBefore you pray, while you pray, and as you wrap it up â give thanks.Â </li> </ol> âBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, withÂthanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;Â7ÂandÂthe peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesusâ (Phil 4:6) Thankfulness for what Heâs done and acknowledging that if Heâs done great things for you and this world in the past; Heâs willing to do it again.Â We can be thankful that He doesnât forsake the righteous, our God never fails.Â He is a friend that is closer than a brother.Â He will not leave your nor forsake you.Â Heâs with you wherever you go. <ol data-rte-list="default"> <li> Daily household Prayers.Â As Joshua famously said, âAs for me and my house, weâre going to serve the Lord.âÂ Pray for those you love out-loud, for them to hear, every day you can.Â Thatâs where the magic happens at home.Â </li> <li> Pray for the other team.Â Ouch! Praying for enemies is a really, really tough one.Â Yet, Jesus points out that even the most-evil people on the planet pray for the ones that love them.Â He says, âBut I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,Âthat you may be sons (and daughters) of your Father in heaven.â </li> <li> Blues Brothers Prayers.Â Jake and Elwood Blues, âThe Blues Brothers,â could overcome any obstacle, defeat any challenge, meet any deadline, and do the impossible because as they declared, âWeâre on a Mission from God.â Jesus said that all authority has been given to Him on heaven and on earth (Mt 28:18-20).Â He then tells us, âTag youâre itâ - go and fulfill the great co-mission.Â </li> </ol> If youâre on the co-mission from Jesus youâre on a mission from God â and can go into the future knowing you have power and authority.Â <ol data-rte-list="default"> <li> Pray for the Word.Â This is your most powerful tool for 2020. Jesus used the Word to defeat Satan in the wilderness because no military ammunition forged by men can truly overcome our most powerful enemy.Â Check out what this weapon can do: âThe word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joins and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heartâ (Heb 4:12).Â </li> </ol> <h2>ÂÂ Pray for the desire and ability to better read, memorize, utilize, and equip others with the Word.</h2> God Made A Mistake! http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2017/01/10/god-made-a-mistake/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:37:27 -0500 <h1 style="text-align: center;">God Made a Mistake !</h1> If all you do is read headlines or titles, the one above certainly will rile you up if you believe in God.  Assuming that everyone reading this does believe in God, then allow me to explain the sarcasm of my title.  No, I do not actually believe God is capable of making a mistake. I make this inflammatory title statement to call into question our healthcare actions that seem to be predicated on the idea that we were somehow made imperfectly. <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Bible-with-candle.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 400px; height: 225px;" />Let’s start with Genesis 1:26 from the New Living Translation (NLT) Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” I notice that God did not say “&hellip;somewhat like us”, or “&hellip;like us, but a little less perfect than us.” He said “&hellip;in our image, to be like us.” Now, I’m going to take a “leap of faith” here and say that I doubt God suffers from any chronic illness or requires medications to get through the day. After all, God is perfect. But if we were made in his image to be like him, then why do 68.1% of the population in the U.S. take prescription medications according to a recent study published in the journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings? Why is it that most Americans suffer from one chronic ailment or another? Why do we feel that we were made so badly that our children need over 50 vaccinations just to prevent disease? Illness and sickness are so accepted that we spend about 18% of this nation’s gross domestic product on healthcare.  From a faith perspective, the answer is simple. If we were made perfect, then it would take a man-made interference to separate us from perfection. This separation would lead us to sickness, pain and ill health. Now I know that some of you may be saying, “Do you mean to say that my sickness is my fault?” No, that is not what I’m saying. Fault or blame for illness is a subject for a completely different time. What I am saying is that only separation from the way God intended us to exist could be the cause of sickness and disease.  Let me give an example. God gave us clean fresh air to breath. However, if we run into a burning building and breath in the smoky air, we will eventually succumb to smoke inhalation.  In a much slower sense, if you smoke, or breathe polluted air for most of your life, there will also be a negative health consequence.  Now, while the smoking would be a lifestyle choice, breathing polluted air may be a result of where you live and not under your immediate control. So, although the question of blame is best left for another discussion, any interference with the God given process for how we are suppose to function leads to health consequences. On a more common scale, do we really believe that all the drugs we are putting into our body do not interfere with the normal perfect God-given process for our bodies? Did God make us deficient in the chemicals we add to our systems? Did God make us weak, so that the only way we can deal with a difficult life situation is with anti-depressants? Did he make us so that we need drugs to sleep, to wake, or to produce children? Most of health care today is nothing more than the treatment of conditions that we should not have in the first place. While I fully understand the need for emergency care in an accident or crisis, most of care today is chronic long-term drug treatment. In fact, if you watch the drug commercials on TV, you will notice that almost none talk about curing an issue so you will not need that drug anymore. Most all commercials talk about controlling your symptoms and continuing to take that drug, presumably forever. Is our state of caring for each other in our medical system as God intended? I think not! As a chiropractor, I have dedicated my life’s work toward correcting man-made interference to the human nervous system. I know that the controlling system of our body is the nervous system and that any interference to that system will result in poor health. I do not treat people’s pain or conditions.  I remove interference to the God-given ability of the body to heal itself. When I do this, people heal. I do not and will not take any credit for that healing. Only God heals. My purpose is to remove the one type of physical interference I am trained to correct. I see every patient as a perfect expression of God’s creation. It is the interference to this expression that has resulted in poor health.  My job is to remove that interference!  God did not make a mistake. We do when we think we know better than He how to heal. God does the Healing http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2015/10/29/god-does-the-healing/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:02:28 -0400 <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/baby-God-Heals.jpg" style="width: 480px; height: 621px;" /> After looking at the picture of me holding one of my two 6-day-old granddaughters in my office, I noticed the sign above my head that reads, "We move the bone, God does the healing". Upon reflection I realized the miracle that I was holding was created by God.  He gave her everything she needs to be 100% healthy.  The only thing that could prevent health would be interference in the God-given abilities she was born with. This is why she received her first chiropractic adjustment at less than 5 minutes old. I wanted to remove any man-made interference called subluxations which were created by a very medicalized birth process. I realize that a chiropractic adjustment does not heal. I do not heal. All healing comes from God.  My only job, and the one to which I have dedicated my life to, is to detect, locate and correct the interference to the God-give abilities from subluxations. Mother and babies are doing well, they are subluxation free and are expressing their God-given innate health. I am blessed to be able to play a part in this by removing interference from His healing. God Bless, Dr Bob If God made us - why do we interfere? http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2015/09/24/if-god-made-us-why-do-we-interfere/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:41:27 -0400 <h3><img alt="God heals - We adjust at Braile Chiropractic in Marietta Georgia" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Hands-family-cross.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 376px; float: right; margin: 6px;" />Psalm 139:13-14  New Living Translation (NLT) </h3> <h4>You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.</h4> <h4>Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.We were made.</h4>   Many years ago I wrote a short article called " <a href="https://georgiachiropractic.com/page/PowerThatMadeTheBodyHealsTheBody.html">The POWER that made the body HEALS the body - For all Those Who Consider Themselves Christians and Don't Believe that God Creates Junk</a> ."  In this article I questioned why mankind consistently has a lack of faith in Gods creation. I raise the question, "Are we not created in the image of God? Since God loves us didn't He make us with everything we need for health, happiness, and a fulfilled life?"   I was reminded of this again as I received my daily bible verse from YouVerse. The verse was Psalm 139:13-14 listed above. If you have never read my article, please take a few minutes and open the link.  It will make you think, it could make you angry, and it just might change the way you look at life and health.  What Would Jesus Do About Measles? http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2015/09/17/what-would-jesus-do-about-measles/ Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:02:24 -0400 <h1> What Would Jesus Do About Measles? </h1> by Marco Cáceres ... the problem with Dr. Offit’s reasoning is that it assumes that allowing children to catch measles and allow their God-given immune system to fully engage and ultimately give them life-long immunity to the disease is somehow abusive . He assumes that doctors and scientists and pharmaceutical companies have come up with a clever way to improve on God’s creation and allow the human immune system to effectively stave off infectious diseases—as if those diseases were not also another one of God’s inventions, probably designed to occasionally test and strengthen the immune system to enable humanity to thrive. <a href="http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2015/06/what-would-jesus-do-about-measles/" target="_blank">Click here to read this full article</a> (Dr. Bob - I found this article and thought our readers would find it intersting. You probably know how I feel about this.  you can not improve on God's perfection.) One Gift from the Lord http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2015/03/24/one-gift-from-the-lord/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:41:06 -0400 If the Lord were going to give you one great gift in your life what would it be? <img alt="Christian Chiropractor Dr Braile in Marietta Atlanta Georgia" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/despair-400.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 331px; float: right; margin: 6px;" />Would it be riches? Would it be fame? Would it be power? Would it be confidence? Would it be comfort? Or would He give you the ability to save? It has taken me 59 years of my life to recognize that He has given me the greatest gift of all.  Through all the hardships of family, work and life, He has always given me the opportunity to serve, and save. My wife will tell you that she was in a bad place when we met. She will say that I rescued her.  I feel it is the other way around. In essence, with His help, we saved each other. My children are adopted and came from unfortunate backgrounds. He gave us the opportunity to save them from the life that would have been much less. We have an amateur animal rescue were we have saved animals of many kinds who would have been doomed. They now get to live out their lives with food, stability, and comfort. And as a chiropractor, I get to serve and save people every day.  Although they may not always know what would have followed, I am blessed to know that an adjustment changes the course of their life from that point forward. All of these things do not always bring material rewards. There are many times in my life when I questioned these choices and asked why it was so hard.  But now I know that the things of this world were not the promise He made to me.  I now know that the gift I have b<a name="_GoBack"></a>een given was far greater that I could ever imagine.   I am thankful that I have had the blessing of being able to save. God or Science http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2015/02/19/god-or-science/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:43:10 -0500 <h2 style="text-align: center;">God or Science</h2> <img alt="God or Science from Braile Chiropractic in Marietta, West Cobb GA" src="http://intentblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/god-and-science-300x215.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 215px;" /> Because something can be explained by science, does not mean that it is not of God. For it is He who set up gravity, He who set the laws which suspend the stars in the heavens, and He who made the forces to combine the smallest of elements. So do not ask, "Is it God or science that heals?" For the master craftsman always uses His best tools. The First Christmas http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2014/12/03/the-first-christmas/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:02:12 -0500 The First Christmas <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/nativity-620.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 389px;" /> Around 2000 years ago the baby Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. This blessed event would have been looked upon quite differently if seen from a medical perspective. Let us examine some so-called "modern" thinking about this event. What a big risk our Heavenly Father took when He sent His Son to us in the way He did. First of all, the Virgin Mary was much to young to bear such an important child. Plus, no tests were performed to see if she was even capable of carrying the child full term. Also, Mary was not adequately prepared. She attended no birthing classes, did not practice her breathing, nor did she read up on the birth process. It should also be noted that some safety procedures were ignored during this pregnancy. I mean, no blood tests were done, no obstetric examinations, no ultra sound, or even the listening and monitoring of the child`s heart beat. And surely, for such an important baby, an amniocentesis should have been done! Not even the proper regime of vitamins were given to the mother for her nutrition. When you think about it, we`re taking a major risk here. And just think of the terrible conditions for the birth itself. Certainly that stable was not sterile. And with all those animals in the same room it`s a wonder there wasn`t a major infection. Not even simple clean sheets, or a surgical masks for the three Wise Men were used. And I`m quite sure that Mary was not on the proper delivery table with her feet in the stirrups. If that`s not bad enough, common medical practice was ignored from this point on. Certainly an important woman like Mary should have been given some pain relievers or a spinal block to help ease her discomfort. Of course an episiotomy should have been called for to help out. I`ll bet that a set of clamps weren`t even available in case of need. Not to mention the lack of fetal monitoring equipment in case an emergency cesarean was required. I mean this whole procedure sounds like a nightmare. From this point it still got worse. No surgical instruments to cut the cord, no silver nitrate for the baby`s eyes, no fetal intensive care unit, no alcohol rubs, no temperature control cubicles, no suction of the child`s nose or throat, none of the modern safety precautions that should have been used. The more I think about it, the more I`m convinced this entire procedure was a menace to the mother and child. Someone should be liable for mal-practice in a case like this. With the state of things as they were, I`ll bet the child Jesus never even got His required vaccinations! I don`t know,... but if it were up to modern medicine, this should have been done much differently. God sure took a big chance..... ... or just maybe we need to rethink the things we think are necessary, and stop interfering with normal God-given miracles. Â Cherish the miracles we all receive this holiday season, Dr Bob Belief that we can be healthy http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2014/05/29/belief-that-we-can-be-healthy/ Thu, 29 May 2014 13:22:45 -0400 <img alt="Faith and Healing God's way at Braile Chiropractic Marietta GA" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Wall-faith-sayings.png" style="width: 640px; height: 210px;" /> The plaques and writings on the walls of our clinic offer an inspirational message, but they also offer a literal one.   The three that come to my mind are: <ul> <li> “With God all things are possible.” </li> <li> “We move the bone God does the healing.” </li> <li> “Faith makes all things possible not easy.” </li> </ul> These are more than just nice words, for they are a truth and a basic when it comes to health. Over the years I have been blessed to see people heal from things they were told would take their lives.  I certainly do not claim to heal them as healing comes from a source far above me.  But it is that same Power that created us, that heals us. When someone is healed from something they did not expect, they often refer to it as a “miracle”.  It is interesting to note that when someone heals from something they expected to recover from, they do not call that a miracle.  I submit that it is your belief system that determines if something is called a miracle. If we truly believed that “all things are possible”, then why would we doubt that we can be totally healthy?  I meet people daily who insist they can be somewhat better, but have a liturgy of excuses why they must continue to have the health issues they have.  Many of the excuses sound like these: <ul> <li> It’s hereditary; everyone in my family has it. </li> <li> There’s nothing that can be done for ( fill in the blank ), I just have to learn to live with it. </li> <li> It’s just seasonal allergies. </li> <li> It’s stress, or I’m depressed. </li> <li> At my age, I’m expected to have these things. </li> <li> If I take my medication, I have it under control. </li> </ul> If all things are possible, why do we accept excuses for not being healthy?  In Mathew 9:22 Jesus says, “your faith has healed you.”  In several places in the bible Jesus makes this same statement. He did NOT qualify his statement by saying, “you can heal if you go a live a life without stress, or if you had different parents, of if it is not allergy season.” As a chiropractor, I understand that I do not heal or cure anyone.  As one of our wall plaques clearly states, “We move the bone, God does the healing.”  Understanding where all healing comes from, and having faith that all is possible, removes the fear that a health issue cannot be concurred.   Blessed to be a chiropractor. http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2014/03/17/blessed-to-be-a-chiropractor/ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:03:32 -0400 Sometimes God just gives you a message that you have to write down and act on. <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Dr-Bob-Baby.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 533px;" /> I Cannot Save You - I Cannot Heal You http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2013/02/10/i-cannot-save-you-i-cannot-heal-you/ Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:40:49 -0500 <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Braile-Adjust-med-lights-sm.jpg" style="width: 300px; height: 501px; float: right; margin: 6px;" />As a Christian, I know that I cannot save you.  Only Christ can do that.  I can, however, lead you to Christ where you can be saved. Most Christians see it this way and understand that they do not actually save people.  God Saves! For me healing is the same way.  As good as a chiropractor as I might be, I cannot heal even the simplest of problems.  In fact, no doctor can heal or cure you. There has never been a doctor at any time in any place who has healed or cured anything. Who heals you ask?  The answer is the same, God does.  You see, if I could heal, then I could walk into a funeral home, give a great adjustment to a corpse and the person would rise and walk again. What is required for healing is the one thing that only God puts in you, Life itself.  So what do I, or any doctor for that matter do?  Well the best we can do is to remove obstructions from that God-given ability to heal, that everyone already possesses. Each one of us can heal just as long as there is life in our body.  The human body is a wonderful creation of mechanisms that control every aspect of health and healing.  As a chiropractor, I remove interference to the nervous system that controls all function in the boy, thus allowing the body to heal.  Even a surgeon, faced with a patient with a bullet wound, can only remove the bullet, the obstruction to healing.  Then it is up to the body’s own God-given ability to heal the wound caused by the surgeon. People often underestimate the amazing ability God has built into our bodies to heal and be healthy. All too often we, as a society, turn to drugs and procedures that do not heal and in fact decrease health.  Fear, and lack of faith in our God-given healing power are often the reason that people turn outside first, instead of looking for a healing answer within. For over 30 years I have been blessed to see what many may call miracles. People call them miracles because they did not expect the result.  I just call it another day in the office.  Maybe it is because I expect miracles.  I see life itself as a miracle.  My job is simply to remove interference from the God-given ability to heal, and watch the “miracles” unfold.   Many Pray but Few Listen http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/07/30/many-pray-but-few-listen/ Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:54:13 -0400 Many Pray – Few Listen. Nowhere is this more true than with health. I have noticed over the years that one of the things that people pray for the most is health. In many Sunday church services, there is a time where the congregation prays for the health of people in their church, community or family. One of the most heart wrenching prayers has to be one where someone is praying to God for help with a health problem they themselves are suffering with. <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Praying-with-masks.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 332px;" /> I can recall years ago a young couple that came to me in search of an answer for a very painful spinal problem the young man was experiencing. They mentioned that they felt God had sent them in to see me. The young man was scheduled to have surgery in four days, and he had come to me as a last resort. Since he had never been to a chiropractor before, he was skeptical, as are many people new to chiropractic.  After performing an examination and x-rays I determined that although he was in a lot of pain, the underlying cause of his problems was actually a relatively common problem that we see in my office and that correction would not be overly difficult. I explained to him and his young wife that I felt fairly confident of a positive outcome, as I had seen this type of problem many times before. I then asked him if he wanted to start care immediately. I was a little disappointed when he did not want to start care but said that he would need to pray on this further. After all, he did say he felt God had sent him to me, so in my mind what else was there to wait for? I then expected the young couple to go home and pray on the situation. To my surprise, they grabbed my hands and started praying with me right there. Since I’m always up for a good prayer, I was happy to join in. In their prayer, they asked for God's guidance on where they should go. I thought to myself that God had already given them that answer. Then they asked for an solution for the young man’s problem. Again, my thoughts were that this prayer had just been answered for them. Then they asked for God to create a healing in him for this problem. Now since I believe only God heals, this prayer has been answered since the moment the young man came into this world. After they finished their prayer, they then left without receiving any care. I felt that maybe my explanation was inadequate, or I had failed them in some way, as I was sure that the young man could be helped and could be spared the ordeal of spinal surgery. Fortunately, the next day they returned, he started care, and within two days he was feeling good enough to cancel the surgery. He went on to have a full recovery. Additionally, his wife also started care. She was unable to conceive after trying for several years. Within a few months of chiropractic care, she became pregnant. I mention this story to make a point about how many people pray. It has been my experience that many people pray, but only want to hear the answer they expect. I’ve heard prayers by people asking for a drug to help them, when in my opinion; God has given us a body that produces all the internal chemicals we need. Additionally, many people are not open to help that God places before them because it may be outside their preconceived ideas on healthcare. God often offers help in directions that some are not open to look into. Years ago, I heard a short story of a small hungry boy growing up during the great depression who would often go without food and would turn to God in prayer. The story reports that the boy said, "When I pray to God to give me a chicken, I almost always go hungry. But When I pray to God to give me the strength to catch me a chicken, I almost always eat." Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth and leave us insufficient to be healthy. He gave us everything we need to be healthy our entire lives. Our bodies were created in his image and therefore with all the magnificent abilities to keep us healthy. The more anyone studies the human body and its function, the more in amazement we are. We realize how great this creation is. Yet we should also realize how little we really know about it. I have seen people pray for their blood pressure or diabetes, while totally neglecting their weight or diet. I have seen people pray for relief from pain, while leading a sedentary life and not wanting to be active at all. I have seen people pray for many thing related to health, while leading lifestyles that created the health problems they are experiencing. God gave us the “good fruits” of the earth. He gave us clean air for our lungs. He gave us clean blood streams and organs to filter out impurities. He gave us the ability to move and be active. Maybe the answer to many of our health problems isn’t that we are lacking in some pill, some surgery, or some new technology. Maybe the answer to our prayers is, and always has been available for us all along. Maybe we are just not listening. Questions of Faith http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/06/21/questions-of-faith/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:00:51 -0400 <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/heaven-cluds-sm.jpg" style="margin: 6px; width: 330px; height: 236px; " /> Do we have more faith in our science, than belief in our faith? There are questions that we need to ask ourselves to see if our belief systems are where we claim they are. <ul> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> If God made us in his own “likeness” did He do such a poor job of making us that we are suppose to break down, get sick and be unhealthy?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> If Genesis 6:3 says, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Then why are we considered old not much more than half way at age 65?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> Did God forget to give us what we need to be healthy by not giving us vaccinations until man created them a few hundred years ago?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> Did God not give our children a good enough mind that we should have to give them drugs to calm them down and allow them to think properly?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> Why did God send his son Jesus to us in such unsanitary conditions before the invention of hospitals, antibiotics, doctors, and surgical procedures?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> When doctors can no longer help someone, and they believe the patient will die, why do they say, “It’s in God's hands now.”  - When wasn’t it?  </li> <li style="margin-left: 1in; "> If Jesus said, “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick,” then why do we bring babies to physicians for well-baby checks?</li> </ul> God gave us everything we need to be healthy. Many of man’s health issues are due to choices we make, both as individuals and as a society, that impact our health.  Chiropractic respects the fact that the body, by design is a self healing, self regulating organism. The focus of chiropractic is to remove nerve interference to the body, and allow the God given abilities to work the way they were intended. When this happens healing occurs.  Some call this healing a miracle. We know that all healing is a miracle; because that is the way it was intended to be.  God Wants You To Be Healthy http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/06/11/god-wants-you-to-be-healthy/ Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:19:18 -0400 The above words are not mine. I heard these words at a sermon given by David George, a missionary evangelist, (<a href="http://www.davidgeorgeworldministries.org/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; border: none; color: rgb(97, 0, 9); ">www.davidgeorgeworldministries.org</a>) at Trinity Chapel (<a href="http://www.trinitychapel.org/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; border: none; color: rgb(97, 0, 9); ">www.trinitychapel.org</a>) on May 30, 2010.  The title of his sermon was "He is Able, But Is He Willing?" Without recanting the entire sermon, one of the key points David George included in his sermon was that "God wants you to be healthy." In this sermon, pastor David used many scripture verses to demonstrate that God does indeed want us to be healthy.  He also refuted one common myth that I have heard people say, "It's God's will for me to be sick." Pastor David noted that if being sick is God's will, then why do sick people try to get healthy?  If being sick is the will of God, if that is truly what He wants, then trying to be healthy is against God's will.  This is certainly not the case. <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/womanondock.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 252px; height: 380px; " />Pastor David’s point was very succinct, and very much in line with my beliefs that God not only wants us to be healthy, but He made us to be healthy. The more you study the human body, the more you appreciate the wonders of this creation that many of us take for granted.  As I went through my chiropractic education, and I learned the details of human anatomy and physiology, I was constantly amazed at just how magnificent the human body is. We have within us, everything we need to live a healthy life. Our bodies have all the mechanisms and systems needed to be healthy, and to remain that way.  There is a saying in chiropractic that goes, “Nature needs no help, just no interference.”  If we think about this, we could just as easily say, God needs no help to keep us healthy, just no interference. Following this thought, if He wants us to be healthy, and has provided us with everything we need to be healthy, then the only way we can lose our health, is if we interfere with “God's way”.  Now before you react to this, I am not suggesting that we get sick because of our sins, or because of any willful turning away from God.  (I'm sure that is possible, but I will leave that discussion to theologians.) What I'm suggesting is that God has created us according to His plan.  He has given us a world to live in that we are perfectly suited for.  It is only when we stray from His plan that our health suffers. For example, look at the air that we breathe. God gave us clean, fresh air to breathe.  If we pollute our air and breathe in poisons, our health will suffer. As individuals we may not make a conscious decision to breathe polluted air.  But when we do breathe polluted air, it is obviously not what God intended, and our health suffers. Let's look at another example. God gave us this wonderful earth to grow fresh food for us to eat.  Yet today, most of our diets consist of a large percentage of processed and radiated food, genetically altered food, and food with chemicals and additives that we were never intended to eat.  No I'm not suggesting that eating this food is a sin, (again I leave that discussion to others), but I am suggesting that since this is not what God intended, it is not healthy. This concept also applies to our physical lives, such as the work we do, or the activities we either engage in, or fail to engage in.  It also applies to our emotional states, such as stress.  There are many areas in which we live out lives different from the way I believe God intended. One such area where I believe we have grossly strayed from the way God intended is in our own blood streams.  As a population, Americans take far more medications and drugs of all kinds than any other nation in the world.  According to a study out of Boston University in 2006, "In a given week, an average of 82% of adults in the U.S. are taking at least one medication, 29% are taking five or more."  Probably even scarier is the fact that according to this same study, "In any given week, 56% of children are taking at least one medication and 27% take two or more." I am sure that God did not create us, and yet forget to give us a bunch of chemicals in order for us to be healthy.  Now I'm not suggesting that if you are reading this you should throw away all your medications.  But I am asking if we have gone too far.  Was it God’s plan for us to become the most drugged society in the history of mankind? Allow me to suggest that we look at health from His plan and ask ourselves if we are following it.  I've attended many a Sunday church service that included prayers for members of the congregation who were sick.  I do believe in the power of prayer, and that people do heal because of it. I also believe that He has already answered most of those prayers in our basic design. Genesis 1:27 says, "So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them." Since this is true, then would God have created us with so many defects that we were supposed to get sick and require medication for the rest of our lives?  I’ll assume God does not get sick, and since we are created in His likeness, that we were created to be healthy. I also know that all health comes from God.  Having been a doctor for 32 years, I can unequivocally state that I do not heal or cure anyone.  I have always believed that what I do is remove interference from the God given ability to be healthy.  God gave us everything we need.  Therefore, I am in agreement with David George that “God wants you to be healthy”. Miracles http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/05/29/miracles/ Tue, 29 May 2012 14:06:40 -0400   <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> When speaking of healthcare, what is a miracle? If we see someone who has a terminal disease suddenly get up and walk away disease free, we call that a miracle. However, if we see someone with a paper cut heal, we usually think nothing of it. But isn’t that just as much of a miracle?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> In Mark 2:11, Jesus told a paralytic man “Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!” We see this as an obvious miracle.   We view it this way because we do not expect paralytics to be able to stand up and walk. We also see this as a miracle because of the time frame in which this happened.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/lookingtowardheaven.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: left; width: 326px; height: 245px; " />Take for instance a cancer sufferer. If one morning, we hear that this person went from death’s doorstep to total health, we would exclaim it a miracle. However, if that same person spent months in treatment and eventually beat their disease, we might not call it a miracle, but instead sound health care.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> If indeed all healing comes from God. Then all healing should be viewed as a miracle. We should not limit our view of a miracle by the type of disease, the timeframe, or the circumstances by which the healing took place.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> I am blessed to see miracles all the time. However, I do not only consider those cases where an unexpected healing happened to be a miracle. I also consider the normal expected healings to be a miracle.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> When I was still an intern in chiropractic school, my very first patient was a young girl with asthma. I was nervous and unsure of myself, but I did what I was trained to do, and delivered a specific scientific chiropractic adjustment. The next day, she came into the clinic and told me that her asthma had completely disappeared. In fact, she never had another episode with it again. I thought I had witnessed a miracle.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> After years in practice, I have been blessed to see many asthmatics completely recover while under my care. Most were not a one day response like my first patient, but they felt that a miracle had happened.  Were these any less of a miracle, because some of them took quite a bit longer to respond?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> Life itself is a miracle. Why do we commonly distinguish between what we call a miracle and what we term as normal healing, just based upon our human timetable, or understanding of severity? If all healing is truly a miracle, then there should be no difference between the healing of a cut and the healing of a long term debilitating disease. The only difference would be our faith in the ability for this miracle to work in a particular person.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> It is for this reason that I do not like to see people just accept their health problems. I believe that the words, “I have learned to live with it”, are some of the worst words anyone can speak. I also believe the concept of controlling a health problem with drugs for the rest of someone’s life is selling themselves short. If we believe the best we can do is to “manage” a problem, then we are convinced we can not heal, and there is no chance for a miracle. Since “all things are possible with God”, why lower our expectations when it comes to the miracle of healing?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> All healing is a miracle from God. Expect a Miracle!</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> Praying for Healing http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/05/27/praying-for-healing/ Sun, 27 May 2012 08:09:32 -0400 <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/uploads/Praying-woman.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 250px; height: 375px; " />I have often noted that people do a lot of praying for healing. In most cases this prayer is for some kind of physical healing from some sort of ailment or condition. At the church I attend, there is always a portion of the service dedicated toward praying for others and much of that is praying for healing in others. We know that Our Heavenly Father hears all our prayers. But, I have often observed that some people believe that those prayers have not yet been answered, and that they are waiting to get an answer. In many cases people who continue to suffer wait and pray patiently hoping for a resolution to their health problem. It has always been my belief that God answers all prayers immediately, and continually. The problem is that we are sometimes unwilling, or unable to hear or accept the answer. <blockquote> Many of you have probably heard the old story of a man who was stranded on his rooftop in the midst of a rising flood. He prayed to God to save him. While he was praying, a rescue boat pulled up to his house and the people in the boat called to him. He refused to get in the boat saying that God would rescue him. He then continued to pray as the waters continue to get higher. Then, a helicopter came over the house and a line was dropped down. Again, the man refused to accept help, saying he was waiting for God. Shortly after this, he drowned. Upon arriving in heaven, he asked the Lord why he was allowed to drown even though he had prayed continuously for help. The Lord answered, “I did answer. I sent you a boat and a helicopter.” </blockquote> Many people act very much the same way when it comes to their health. They pray for healing, yet they ignore an answer that is readily available. I can remember a young man and his wife coming in to see me years ago. He was suffering from terrible pain and was scheduled for spinal surgery in just a few days. In looking him over I determined that he had a problem that was commonly seen in my office, and I felt that he could be helped. When I told him this he said he and his wife would need to pray on this. He then began to pray right there in my office. He asked God to direct him on where he needed to go Unfortunately, after the prayer he left the office. It struck me that he was already in my office, and that maybe God answered this prayer already by having him find his way to our clinic. Yet somehow, his skepticism about chiropractic care, coupled with his faith in the medical model of care prevented him from seeing that God had, figuratively, sent him a boat and a helicopter. A day later, he returned, started care, was able to cancel surgery, and eventually have a full recovery. All healing comes from God. And since with God, everything is possible, then all healing is possible. There is no disease entity known to man that has not at some time undergone “spontaneous remission”. Even the most hopeless of cases has healed in certain people. We need to see that God has given us a magnificent body with all the things needed to be healthy. What is needed is that we listen to what he is saying and stop being stuck on the rooftop while refusing to see the help that is available. I believe that the answer to our prayers for healing has been given to us before we even uttered the words. The problem is that we are sometimes unwilling or unable to hear, or accept that answer. The God-given power that made the body, heals the body, and it doesn’t happen any other way. Drugs in the Bible http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/05/25/drugs-in-the-bible/ Fri, 25 May 2012 08:00:09 -0400   <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> <img alt="" src="https://georgiachiropractic.com/images/drugsinbible.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 290px; height: 290px; " />Did you know that the word “drug” does not appear in the Bible?</div> Additionally, only in certain translations does the word “medicine” appear. Most of the translations that use the word medicine do so in a common language way such as “a taste of his own medicine”. In contrast, Young’s Literal Translation of Proverbs 17:22: says, “A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, and a smitten spirit drieth the bone.” The word, “Pharmacology” does not appear in the bible. Or does it? Galatians 5:19-21 says; “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, (21) Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Did you know that the word “witchcraft” as used above actually comes from the Greek word pharmakeia? According to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, “Pharmakeia is a Greek word that appears several times in the New Testament, including the Epistle to the Galatians and the Book of Revelation. It is frequently translated as "witchcraft" or "sorcery." In a published interview on September 8, 1972, Billy Graham was asked the question, “What part can organized religion play in combating the growing drug problem?” He answered. “The word "pharmacia," which is a Greek word that we translate in the Bible "witchcraft" is the root word that we get the word drug from. And, there is a relationship of some sort.” There is much discussion as to medicines being either good or bad for us as a society. But we must couch this discussion in several facts. Americans take more drugs than any other society. In fact we take more drugs than any society in the entire history of mankind! Unfortunately, America is far down the list of healthiest nations according to the World Health Organization. We could continue both a biblical and scientific argument on the usage of drugs and their effects forever. But the one overlying question that I believe is never answered is this. Did God really make us so poorly that we should need all the chemicals we artificially put into our bodies just to experience the health He gave us?   Did God make a mistake and forget to give us things we need to resist disease, or feel good? My answer to this question is what has continually driven me in my chosen profession of chiropractic. I believe that we have health inside of each and every one of us. All we need to do is to remove man-made interference to experience that God given gift of health. As a doctor, I do not claim to have all the answers. But I do know where the answers are!   Health Comes From Above Down and Inside Out http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/05/24/health-comes-from-above-down-and-inside-out/ Thu, 24 May 2012 09:53:59 -0400 Dependant upon which translation you read, Genesis 1: 26 starts off by saying one of the following: <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <ul style="list-style-image: url(http://images.nowyouknow.com/mybullet.gif); font-family: Arial, Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); " type="disc"> <li> Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.</li> <li> Then God said, Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.</li> <li> And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:</li> <li> Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;</li> </ul> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> <img alt="" src="https://braile.net/Braile_Chiropractic/Faith_finger.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 290px; height: 290px; " />The key phrase here is at the end of this where each of the translations say, “our likeness” or “to be like us”. Unless you believe that God was only speaking about physical appearances, we can assume that God meant that we should be like Him in both form and structure.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> Regardless of how you feel about the book of Genesis and the story of creation of man, the fact remains that the human body is a mastery of creation. Science shows that we have all the defenses and systems to remain healthy throughout the course of our lives, which should be 120 years according to Genesis 6:3.  “And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> I do not believe that God intended those years to be filled with sickness, disease and frailty. Yet, as a society, we consider a person who is 65 years old to be a senior citizen, and someone over 80 to be old. Did God intend for us to spend half of our lives sick and dependant on some form of man made chemical medication?</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> If such is not the case, then we must look to where we, as individuals, and a society, in general have turned away from God and resulted in our predicament. Now, I for one, do not believe that most people get sick because of some sin they may have committed. However, I do believe that in the absence of following the way God intended for us to live, the absence of this leads to the absence of health.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> I disagree with the concept that people “get sick”. Just as the absence of light is darkness, the absence of health is sickness. Darkness does not invade light and cause it to be dark. When light leaves the result is that you are left with darkness. In the same vane, when health leaves what remains is sickness, in its many forms and with many names.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> I could write volumes of books on this idea, but the intent of this short article was to raise questions and get you to seek your own answers. My life and my practice are based upon the premise that healing only comes from above. We, as doctors of all kinds, have one fundamental responsibility. That is to remove whatever interference we can find that is getting in the way of the God-given natural healing abilities.</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; ">  </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "> In future issues of this newsletter, we will look at more of these God given abilities and question some of the processes that we, as a society, impose on ourselves that may well be interfering with our health.</div>   <hr style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " /> In case you are wondering about the picture in this article I'll explain what this is. I was given the wooden hand as a new office gift by a Christian Chiropractor who was attending a talk I was giving. One of the themes of my talks is always, "The Power that made the Body, Heals the Body". When I was given this wooden hand the index finger was pointing up. It immediately inspired me to think that this little "sign" could be used to keep my practice members focused on Who Heals. This sign and hand proudly sits on the mantle in our clinic's education room for all to see.   Welcome to Faith and Health Blog http://www.georgiachiropractic.com/blog/faith-and-health/2012/05/23/welcome-to-faith-and-health-blog/ Wed, 23 May 2012 16:22:33 -0400   Welcome to the Faith and Health  blog.  I am Dr. Bob Braile and  I am a Christian, Husband, Father, and Chiropractor (in that order), who has been greatly blessed by our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. I, and many of my colleagues who also feel their lives have been blessed by Christ, have decided to not hide our beliefs behind some man-made unwritten rule that says that you can not express your beliefs in a professional healthcare setting. <img alt="" src="https://braile.net/Braile_Chiropractic/FaithandHealthImage.jpg" style="margin: 6px; float: right; width: 400px; height: 267px; " /> This blog, and the newsletter that coincides with it are designed to put the science of healthcare to the test of biblical truths. In future issues we will discuss what is real science and what is pseudo-science. We will look to see if there are biblical confirmations, or contradictions for the health care practices of today. We believe Genesis 1-26 when it says, “Then God said, Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.” We believe that God made us in his image, not to be sick and suffer through a life less than He intended for us. We also believe that science should not be in conflict with our faith. The fact that a process is scientific does not mean that it is not from God, as it is He who set the universe up to work the way it does. However, in man’s own arrogance, we sometimes use pseudo-science to think that we know better than the creator how to care for our bodies. Some, if not many of the health care views I hold, you may not agree with. That is alright with me. You need to follow the path that you believe you are led to follow. As for me, this is the path l will follow. I can suggest for starters, that you read something I was inspired to write many hears ago when I first was lead to the Lord. It is called " The Power That Made the Body, Heals the Bod y". The sub-title is, " For all Those Who Consider Themselves Christians and Don't Believe that God Creates Junk ." I believe you will find this of interest, and it will give you a good insight as to where I am coming from.  All I ask is that you keep an open mind.