The keys to life and health
David Johnston
The Keys to Life and Heal
One of the biggest concerns on your mind is ‘How can I live a long, happy and healthy life?’ You might not be fully conscious of this concern…but it’s there! So, how can you get it! What do you have to do to live a long life filled with health, happiness and peace? Surprisingly, the Bible has A LOT to say about the keys to life and health. With just a cursory scanning of the bible and you will find verses like… The fear of the Lord prolongs life. Proverbs 10:27Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live. Proverbs 11:19The righteous flourish like the palm tree… They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green. Psalm 92:12-14 I have spent many years studying and pursuing spiritual, physical, and emotional health. From my personal studies I have developed a series of messages entitled, “The Keys to Health and Life” that I am presenting at CrossPoint Church (Sunday @ 10 AM & 6 PM) during the winter and spring of 2008. Below I have listed the titles to my messages along with a key verse for each talk. In the coming months I will be writing a full page blog on each of the topics listed below. I believe that if you follow the keys listed below that you will have a happy and healthy life.
Key # 1: Turn Away From Evil Proverbs 3:7-8 Fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh
and refreshment to your bones.
Key # 2: Become a God Chaser Jeremiah 29:11, 13For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope…You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Key # 3: Treat Your Body as God’s Temple I Corinthians 6:19-20Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Key # 4: Laugh A Lot!! Proverbs 17:22 (AMP)A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Key # 5: Hang with Friends John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Key # 6: Play Out the Child in You Matthew 18:3-5Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”.
Key # 7: Live God’s BIG DREAM for Your Life Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)Where there is no vision, the people perish
Key # 8: Seek God’s Wisdom with all your Heart Proverbs 3:13, 16Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who understanding. Long life is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.
Key # 9: Give Your Life Away to Serve God & Others Matthew 16:24-25Jesus said, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Key # 10: Give your Wealth Away to Bless Others II Corinthians 9:6-8Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully... for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Key # 11: Give the Gospel Away to Save Others Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Key # 12: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize- God Psalm 16:11
The Keys to Life and Heal
One of the biggest concerns on your mind is ‘How can I live a long, happy and healthy life?’ You might not be fully conscious of this concern…but it’s there! So, how can you get it! What do you have to do to live a long life filled with health, happiness and peace? Surprisingly, the Bible has A LOT to say about the keys to life and health. With just a cursory scanning of the bible and you will find verses like… The fear of the Lord prolongs life. Proverbs 10:27Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live. Proverbs 11:19The righteous flourish like the palm tree… They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green. Psalm 92:12-14 I have spent many years studying and pursuing spiritual, physical, and emotional health. From my personal studies I have developed a series of messages entitled, “The Keys to Health and Life” that I am presenting at CrossPoint Church (Sunday @ 10 AM & 6 PM) during the winter and spring of 2008. Below I have listed the titles to my messages along with a key verse for each talk. In the coming months I will be writing a full page blog on each of the topics listed below. I believe that if you follow the keys listed below that you will have a happy and healthy life.
Key # 1: Turn Away From Evil Proverbs 3:7-8 Fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh
and refreshment to your bones.
Key # 2: Become a God Chaser Jeremiah 29:11, 13For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope…You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Key # 3: Treat Your Body as God’s Temple I Corinthians 6:19-20Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Key # 4: Laugh A Lot!! Proverbs 17:22 (AMP)A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Key # 5: Hang with Friends John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Key # 6: Play Out the Child in You Matthew 18:3-5Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven”.
Key # 7: Live God’s BIG DREAM for Your Life Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)Where there is no vision, the people perish
Key # 8: Seek God’s Wisdom with all your Heart Proverbs 3:13, 16Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who understanding. Long life is in her right hand, in her left hand are riches and honor.
Key # 9: Give Your Life Away to Serve God & Others Matthew 16:24-25Jesus said, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Key # 10: Give your Wealth Away to Bless Others II Corinthians 9:6-8Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully... for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
Key # 11: Give the Gospel Away to Save Others Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Key # 12: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize- God Psalm 16:11
You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore