Healing and Health: The Biblical and Scientific Power of Thought

I'm Michelle and I'm so very deeply grateful to be able to share with you this weekend some principles from my

king who is the great physician an incredible designer of the human body now in our conference this weekend I'm

going to be addressing several questions and the first question is why do Christians get sick according to isaiah

53 verse 5 it says that by His stripes we are healed and made whole it says he was wounded for our transgressions he

was bruised for our guilts and iniquities and the chastisement needful to obtain peace and well-being was upon

him and with the stripes that wounded him we are healed and made whole now some people will say well that's only

talking about spiritual healing so let's have a look at Matthew 8 verse 17 which referred to that scripture in Isaiah it

says and thus He fulfilled that which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah he himself took in order to carry away our

weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases so when Jesus died on the cross he accomplished two things and

those things are symbolized when we celebrate communion the first thing that we do is we take the cup and that

represents his blood which was shed for the forgiveness of sin and then we take the bread and the brains not for for for

forgiveness of sin the bread was for his body that was broken for the healing of our diseases as it sees in that

scripture he was wounded by His stripes we are healed and made whole and so on the cross Jesus took our sicknesses and

as children of God we have a covenant of healing and divine health now with that in mind I asked the question why then do

Christians get sick another question is who does God actually hold responsible for the health

of the church a doctor or a pastor in other words who does the Bible instruct you to go to first when you are sick

well I see in Scripture that it says the church leadership in James 5 verse 14 it says as anyone among you sick he should

call in the church elders and they should pray over him anointing him with oil in the Lord's name and the pray that

is of faith will save him who was sick and the Lord will restore him so my first question was why do Christians get

sick and my second main question is when Christians do get sick why are they not

getting healed after being prayed for Psalm 103 verse 3 indicates that God wants to heal all of our diseases the

translation and the amplified bible sees every single one now with that in mind a huge survey was done in many churches

across the world several years ago to find out how many people are actually being healed of their diseases after

being prayed for and the result worldwide regardless of church denomination was between 2 and 5 percent

so that's less than 5 percent so although there's a covenant of healing and divine health that's available to

board born-again children of God Christians are getting sick and 95 to 98% of them are not getting healed after

being prayed for statistically there is no difference between Christians and unbelievers when it comes to diseases

and the members of congregations and churches across the world are plagued with biological diseases and

psychological problems and the church doesn't seem to have many real answers because hardly anybody is getting healed

after being prayed for and so what happened as a result is that God's people turn to the world for help and

now there are just as many Christians in doctors psychologists and psychiatrists officers as they are

unbelievers and today the doctors have become the healers and the psychiatrists and psychologists the pastors of this

world and if you read in Ezekiel chapter 38 oh sorry 34 verse 24 and Jeremiah 23

verse 2 you'll see that God is rather ticked off about that those chapters provide a stinging rebuke to God's

process and the church leadership who failed their mandate to take care of the sick and the flock now I'm not against

the medical profession otherwise obviously I wouldn't be a doctor myself there is a place for the medical

profession but I do have to say that the worldly doctors psychiatrists and psychologists of today are a result of

the frustration of the failure of the Christian Church and the problem is that we don't understand disease even from a

biblical perspective as I a chapter 5 in Isaiah 4 verse 6 is that we have gone into captivity and we are perishing

because of our lack of knowledge and for many years in ministry the subject of disease and healing and why people are

not being healed has not been fully understood and so in the ignorance most pastors are farming out their people to

the world system of professionals because they haven't mastered the understanding of health and disease in

the Bible for themselves and God's people are being sent to the world for help when the answers are right there

in the Word of God to set you free and by God's grace I'd like to show that to you this weekend as believers we have

been given a mandate to preach the gospel to heal the sick and to sit the spiritual and physical captives free and

to unselfishly lay down our lives for others as outlined in Isaiah 58 Luke 19 and in mark 16 and according to Ezekiel

34 verse 10 the day is coming when we will have to give an account before God for those he has brought into our lives

to lead and how we have fulfilled mandate that he gave to us God gives an awesome responsibility to pastors in the

church and he is mandated that we be the ones who are the healers of the sick the ones who bind up the wounds and heal

the brokenhearted and for that reason he established the equipping of the Saints for ministry for that reason he gave us

the gifts of discerning of spirits of healing and miracles so that his people can be tended to healed and delivered so

in this conference I hope to bring teaching that would equip pastors and those in the church leadership and those

with a heart for the healing ministry with the tools of the trade so to speak so that we can responsibly care for the

body of Christ according to the mandate that is given to us now it's not only the church that's failing in the area of

disease but also the medical profession I don't know if you know this but with all the advanced medical technology and

all the drugs that we have available to treat diseases today over 80% of biological diseases are incurable in the

medical field apparently the psychologists and psychiatrists are doing even worse the

World Health Organization said that there has been zero advancement in mental health care in the last thirty

years and according to the Journal of American medicine the medical community has long given up on the possibility of

curing incurable diseases and the journals are filled with the phrase there is no cure so another question I'm

going to address is why are diseases incurable towards the end of my medical training and while I was working full

time here in the hospitals in South Africa I began to realize that the medical profession didn't have many real

answers either I would walk through the wards we for example we had our patients with heart problems diabetes cancer and

many other devastating illnesses and I would think to myself what are we really achieving here and the honest answer was

very level obviously we do our best to treat patients with the medical drugs that we

have but you see when it comes to people who have chronic diseases such as high blood pressure or cancer or diabetes for

example the medical drugs that we use to treat those diseases don't cure the disease they just manage it in other

words they may alleviate the symptoms for a little while and maybe slow down the progression of that disease but the

underlying disease is still there and the person will still die of that disease or the complications of it and

the final straw for me was one day at the Pretoria academic hospital I had a 48 year old patient lady and she

had kidney failure and I had to be the one to call in her husband and her children and explain to them that they

had to say goodbye to their mother because she had about two weeks left to live because that's how long it would

take for the toxins to build up in your body and cause multi organ failure and it's not easy to to say that to anybody

and obviously when I broke the news to them they broke down they were crying they were devastated and they were

pleading with me and saying is they not any other Avenue we can explore can you refer us to somebody for a second

opinion and I had to say I'm sorry even if you were in New York or London and the best medical care available this

disease is incurable and I'm sorry there's just no cure and as I said those words I could just feel them falling

flat to the ground and I felt so convicted and that day I went back home to God and and with a heavy heart I said

father I studied medicine for seven years and I think of all the nights that I had

to work and study through the night because I had such a desire to help people which I believe you put in my

heart but after all that hard work and after all that study that's the best answer I'm gonna give 80% of the time

I'm sorry there's no cure and so I said father surely there has to be more to it than the

you are the great designer and the creator of the human body so after seven years I obviously still don't know

anything so please teach me teach me how to really help people with their physical and psychological diseases and

thankfully he did I spent 18 months studying the latest medical research as well as the Bible and the Lord brought

incredible teachers across my path both in medical science and in ministry for example dr. Caroline leaf and pastor

Henry Wright had were the the people I learned the most from in in my early days and the Bible became alive with

Revelation for me and what has been so exciting is that the latest discoveries in medical science line up with the

principles of God's Word and so the knowledge and insight that I gained radically and outrageously changed my

whole career as a medical doctor as I began to apply the principles that I was learning to my surprise I saw my

patients fully recover from diseases that were supposed to be incurable for example stage four cancer heart failure

addictions allergies and many many more and so I was finally able to help bring disease eradication in the true sense of

the word and not just management of diseases with drugs that don't solve the problem in the long term and so I had to

redefine my whole approach to health and healing because what they are doing out there in the world is just not working

[Music] okay sorry I was a bit behind in the slides and what I learned lead to the

writing of a book which is called healing begins with sanctification of the heart as well as the making of a DVD

series cool no diseases incurable which as Chris mentioned will be available to you and throughout this conference now

just want to say that this knowledge and insight is not unique to mean it is exploding globally doctors all over the

world are tapping into these principles and the amounts of people recovering from

so-called incurable diseases is second to none in the history of medical science literally thousands of people

worldwide who were on death's doorstep with devastating incurable diseases are completely well today because of the

knowledge and insight that I'm about to share with you our goal in this conference is to take the mystery out of

diseases I'm going to take you into the foundation of all diseases and I'm going to explain from both a medical and the

biblical perspective why they develop and what is necessary to make an incurable disease curable the title of

this conference is a very bold statement which is no disease is incurable and that's also a very realistic statement

and during the course of this weekend you will see why to those of you who've been given a death sentence in terms of

a serious medical diagnosis I'd like to encourage you that there is hope the knowledge that you will gain here this

weekend will literally save your life having said that God's perfect will is actually not healing that's his plan be

his perfect will is that you don't get sick in the first place so we are not just here for those of you who are sick

but for the rest of you who don't have an illness at the moment because the same principles that you apply to bring

healing are the same principles that if you will learn them now and apply them to your lives now will prevent disease

many of you will not get diseases that would have come upon you down the road had you not received this knowledge okay

so I'd like to begin this first session of our conference this evening with a startling discovery that's been made in

latest medical research and that's that 87 to 95 percent of all diseases have been traced back

- what goes on in our thought life when some people say it's all in your head they may be meaning it to something

negative or derogatory but it actually couldn't be more accurate what's now been shown in research on the brain from

the past 25 years is that everything that goes on in your thought life is converted into a physical reaction and a

massive body of research has now shown that what they call the mind-body connection is real what that means is

what we think affects us spiritually emotionally intellectually and physically for every thought that you

meditate on there's a physical reaction in your body in the form of electrical current that

travels along the nerves in your brain and the production of various hormones and chemicals that flow throughout your

entire body in response to those thoughts so what you think affects your whole body I'm going to show you how

your brain and nervous system heart and blood vessels immune system in the Crean system which is your hormones

gastrointestinal system bones and muscles are all directly affected by the thoughts that you meditate on long-term

every time you meditate on a thought it is actively changing your brain and body in either a positive or a destructive

way if you are bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ as 2 Corinthians 10 verse 5

instructs and you are meditating on whatever is true pure lovely of good reports and praiseworthy

in other words something positive as Philippians 4 verse 8 says your brain is going to convert those thoughts into a

reaction that will produce health in your body and that's exactly what the Word of God says sorry this thing

doesn't always work there we go in proverbs 17 verse 22 it says a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful

mind works healing and during this conference you're going to see that there's an incredible amount

of medical truth that is tucked into that scripture a thought may seem harmless but if it becomes toxic even

just a thought can become spiritually emotionally and physically dangerous when you start listening to those toxic

thoughts of fear anxiety worry stress anger rage resentment bitterness and forgiveness jealousy a low self-esteem

self-hatred guilt condemnation and so on your body is secreting chemicals and hormones in response to those toxic

thoughts that are counterproductive to your health and peace your brain is converting those thoughts into a

physical reaction that is leading to the development of disease in your body and during this weekend you're going to see

exactly how that that happens now the messages in this conference are going to be a little different than maybe what

you had been used to in your churches and that I will be sharing from the Word of God and the Word of God is is the the

same two core of everything that we teach but they will also be a medical flavor coming through obviously because

I'm a doctor and it's my passion when the Lord first called me into full-time ministry I wondered what role could I

possibly have to pay as a doctor in the fivefold ministry but what the Lord revealed to me over time is that it's to

be a teacher to teach the Word of God now what's very interesting and in fact ironic is that the original Greek word

for doctor means teacher so there you go so this evening what I'd like to do is to take you on a short journey into

medical science because there's some important background knowledge that you need to be able to understand how

disease develops as a result of your thought life and then later on when I get back into the Bible you're going to

be amazed at how scientifically accurate the Word of God is in his air for verse 6 God said my

people perish for lack of knowledge now ignorant is a form of knowledge but it can be dangerous to our health and

people are literally dying because they don't know how to use their brains properly they don't know that they are

destroying the intellectual emotional and physical health with the toxic thoughts and so since 87 to 95 percent

of diseases are a result of what goes on in our thought life it's necessary for me to begin by briefly explaining to you

how your brain works how thoughts form and how your thoughts can become toxic leading to the development of disease in

your body ok can I ask you all just to put your hands together like that ok that's about the size of your brain

maybe a little smaller than you thought now how the brain works is the right side of the brain controls the left side

of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body so when I'm moving my right hand

the left side of my brains working when I'm moving my left hand the right side of my brain is working so with that in

mind it means that only left-handed people are in their right minds ok now many I'm only joking okay now from

for you to be able to understand how your brain works the first thing I need to do is explain to you what memory is

now your brain is basically made up of a collection of nerves a simple picture of a nervous shown on the screen and if you

use your imagination a little bit you can see that that nerve looks a little bit like a tree it's got a trunk and

it's got branches now you are taking in information from the environment around you all of the time through your five

senses for example as you are sitting there you are taking in information through your eyes as you look at the

colors and the pictures and the images on the screen at the same time information is pouring into your brain

through your ears as you listen to me speak this information going to your brain from your skin for example is

feel the texture of the chair or the cushion that you're sitting on and there's a lovely smell of coffee in the

air so these information going to your brain from your nose and if some of you are eating there's information going to

your brain from your taste buds and so information from all five senses what you are seeing hearing touching smelling

and tasting is continuously pouring into your brain now your brain has to be able to process and store that all that

information that's pouring into it and how it does that is by building branches on the nerves in your brain a new branch

is made to hold every new piece of information so what memory is is it's the information that is stored on the

branches of those nerves now as you continue to think on a particular thought more branches will grow the

connection between those branches and the nerve trunk gets stronger and that memory becomes more permanent so in

other words the more you think about and meditate on a certain thought the more you are going to reinforce it so the

more branches that you have on a particular nerve the stronger that memory will be now your brain performs

400 billion actions per second of which you are conscious of only 2,000 and this just

goes to show how incredibly intricate and complicated God created us in Psalm 139 verse 14 it says that we are

fearfully and wonderfully made and I do have to say that after studying the human body one conclusion that I have

come to is that its designer is indescribably awesome there were many many times in medical school in the

lecture halls where you could hear a pin drop as we all set stunned after the professor or lecturer explaining a

certain process of how the human body works imagine you were a mechanical engineer and you had to build a machine

that performed four hundred billion actions per second with everything happening in precisely

the right order at precisely the right time within a fraction of a nanosecond while that's your brain now part of

those 400 billion actions per second is growing branches on the nerves where memory is stored now the average human

brain has about a hundred billion nerves and each nerve can grow between 15,000 and 200,000 branches and that's an

enormous amount of information to give you a more tangible understanding of how much information 15,000 to 200,000

branches is you can fit the knowledge of an entire metric subject on just one nerve and so if you did seven subjects

for mitrik you only needed seven nerves to pass but you don't just have seven nerves you have a hundred billion nerves

now I just shared a few of these facts with you just to give you a glimpse of how phenomenal your brain truly is and

in fact neuroscientists have calculated that the total amount of storage space that you have for information in your

brain is three million years so God gave us a decent brain you have an infinite capacity for learning and you will never

run out of storage space for new information God said he made you in His image and he literally gave you the mind

of Christ so never again can you turn around and say that you are stupid or think that you don't have a great mind

because you have an amazing brain many people have been misled to believe that intelligence is something that you are

born with that you either have the ability to be clever or you don't they believe that intelligence is fixed that

it's preset and it's not going to improve but it's good news to know that that's not true your intelligence

develops according to how you determine it to develop it's dynamic and it goes hand-in-hand with learning how to use

your brain correctly intelligence is something that develops throughout your entire lifetime where the more you use

your and the more you think properly the more intelligent you're going to become and

in fact you can improve the performance of your brain by up to 75% just by learning how to think correctly now why

am I going on about intelligence medical research has now shown that the more intelligence you become the healthier

you become what they are showing is that intellect and physical health is directly linked another month that many

people believe is that your brain degenerates and your nerve cells die as you grow older but it's also good news

to know that that's not true the brain is the only organ in the body that doesn't age it matures like a good old

wine so with correct use your brain should become more and more efficient as you become older but if you don't use

your brain you won't improve as you age and that's unnatural because your brain was designed in such

a way that it naturally becomes more and more brilliant the more that you use it dr. Caroline leaf tells the story of a

patient of hers who was an 80 year old pilot and he was forced to retire from flying because his eyesight had

deteriorated and he didn't think about going to retire in an old-age home what he decided to do is he went back to

university to study to be a chartered accountant and at the age of 84 he qualified as a chartered accountant

that's four years later and he went back to work at his new job and ladies and gentlemen that is what we should all be

doing let me tell you a secret from science you mustn't retire you must refire because the more that you

stimulate your brain the more you will develop your thinking skills and the more intelligent you are going to become

God gave you an incredible brain and all you need to do is learn how to use it correctly so I've shared with you that

you have three million years worth of space in your brain now I don't know how much of your brain you think you are

actually using but if you haven't been thinking properly you are only using about 0.00

1% of your brain for intellectual performances most people don't use more than 6 to 8% of the brains in their

entire lifetime in fact Albert Einstein who was one of the most intelligent men who ever lived only used between ten and

eleven percent of his brain but what is important is not how much of your brain you are using but how you are building

the information on that nerve cell in other words what type of memories are you building

are you building good memories that are healthy for you or are you building bad toxic memories that cause disease well

the quality of the information or memory stored in your brain depends on the quality of your thought life if you are

meditating on thoughts of fear anxiety bitterness hatred and so on your brain is full of toxic memories that are

making you sick that's a real photo of what the nerves look like in your brain now if you use your imagination a little

bit you can see that it looks like a forest of trees so I'm going to call the nerves in your brain that store your

memories the trees of the mind now you can see these that dark pets at the bottom of the picture which the arrow is

pointing to is a memory that looks thick and dark and that's because it has lots of branches so that's a very strong

memory so what you're actually looking at now is a picture of a thought that somebody has spent a lot of time

thinking about and they built a strong memory with lots of branches all right now the nerves on the top of the picture

as you can see only have a few branches and so those are weak or poor memories now that strong memory at the bottom of

the picture could be a good memory of information that you used to enhance your life or it could be a bad toxic

memory which the Bible calls a negative stronghold in your mind and so when you think on toxic thoughts

toxic memories are physically built into the nerve networks in your brain now what I'd like to do is to give you a

very brief anatomy lesson on important areas of your brain that you need to know about to be able to understand how

a thought forms so welcome to medical school just for three minutes now that sausage-shaped area there that

circled in green is called the corpus callosum it's the part of your brain that you use to meditate on and analyze

information in other words you use your corpus callosum for thinking so we'll call it your thinker so say to the

person next to you you use your thinker to think now what I found very interesting when I was first

studying the brain is that they've actually discovered of a physical structure in your brain that functions

as your free will and it's situated right there in the front of your thinker that area above your thinker which is

now circled in green is called the cortex of the brain and that's where the trees of your mind are located in other

words all your memories from birth to death are stored there on the branches of the nerves

okay now that area of the brain now circled in green is called the hypothalamus that's a very important

part of the brain for you to learn okay I'm going to be talking about the hypothalamus all of the time because it

connects the mind to the body it's the area of the brain that converts everything that's going on in your

thought life into a physical reaction so if your thoughts are for example positive and godly your hypothalamus

will convert those thoughts into a physical reaction that will produce health and prevent disease but on the

other hand of your mind is dominated by toxic thoughts such as fear anxiety bitterness hatred and so on

your hypothalamus is going to sit in motion a series of physical reactions through

the mind-body connection that's going to lead to the development of disease so one more time everybody say the

hypothalamus is the mind-body connection say it with me the hypothalamus is the mind-body connection okay those were

just the points I wanted you to get okay so let's talk about how a thought forms and can become toxic I explained to you

that information from the external world comes into your mind through your five senses which is sight hearing touch

smell and taste so your five senses is the contact between the external world and the internal world of your mind and

so information will come in through your senses for example through your eyes as light waves or through your ears and as

sound waves and then those lights and sound waves are converted into an electric current that travels along the

nerves in your brain and that electric current is the thoughts and the pictures in your mind now you may have thought of

as of your mind and thoughts are something that is out there but your thoughts are physically in your brain in

the form of millions of chemical reactions and that electric current which travels along the nerves in your

brain and so your mind is physically in your brain now once that electric or that information enters your brain in

the form of an electric current it will travel through various areas until it reaches your free will which remember is

in the front of your thinker now at the free will is where you decide to either accept a thought in other words to spend

time thinking about it or to reject a thought in other words to check it out your mind so for example let's say

you're a man who struggles with lust a good looking woman walks into the room and that information comes into your

brain through your eyes in the form of light waves those light waves are the in convo converted into an electric

which travels along the nerves in your brain through various areas in your brain until it gets to your free will

and when that information which is traveling as an electric current gets to your free will your free will has to

make a choice is it going to allow your brain to think on those lustful thoughts of that woman or are you going to use

your free will to reject those thoughts well if you make a decision with your free will to reject that thought before

you spend much time thinking about it that information literally becomes hot air and that thought doesn't penetrate

your mind and brain any further now remember that that sausage-shaped area in your brain is your thinker it's the

part of your brain that you use to think on and analyze information and your thinker is activated under the direction

of your free will so if on the other hand you made a decision with your free will to accept that lustful thought and

to spend time thinking on it immediately your corpus callosum will shift into high gear and it will start to think and

in this case to fantasize about the woman now as your thinker is thinking on those thoughts chemicals carrying that

information will shoot into the trees of the mind which are situated in the cortex of your brain and you begin to

build memory now remember I explained to you that you build memory by growing branches on the nerves and so while you

are meditating on that lustful thought and fantasizing about that woman you are building a memory or a tree of lust in

your brain the more that you meditate on those thoughts the more branches you grow on that tree of lust and the

stronger that memory or that stronghold in your brain will become now you also build good thoughts by exactly the same

process for example say you decide to sit and study the Word of God that information will come through your eyes

if you're reading the Bible or through your ears if you're listening to sermon and it enters your brain in the

form of light and sound waves which are then converted into an electric current which travels along the nerves in your

brain and so that information is now in the form of a thought it travels through various areas of your brain until it

reaches your free will and at your free will you're going to decide whether or not you're going to meditate on that

information so for example say it's a Sunday and the pastor's going on a bit long and it's hot and you're feeling

lazy and and you don't feel like putting in the effort to listening to that information from the Word of God you can

make a decision with your freewill to reject those thoughts or to half listen and so what will happen is that

information will become hot air and it won't penetrate your brain and any further and it won't be of any benefit

to you but if on the other hand which I hope is the case now you decide with your freewill that you are interested

and you want to listen to this information coming from the Word of God what will happen is your thinker will

shift into high gear and you will begin to meditate on those thoughts while you are thinking on that information from

the Word of God what is happening as chemicals carrying that information are shooting into the cortex of your brain

with the trees of your mind are located and you are beginning to build memory now say you go home and then you

meditate on that information every day in a quiet time what happens is the more you meditate on those scriptures for

example from the Word of God the more branches you build on those trees those memory trees in your mind and the

stronger that memory in your brain becomes so in summary what I have shared with you so far is that if you reject a

thought by the decision of your freewill it will literally become hot air and it won't penetrate your mind and brain any

further on the other hand if you choose to think about that information it's going to shift on to the nerve

branches and the trees of your mind and the memory will be built good thoughts result in the building of a good memory

and negative thoughts results in the building of a bad toxic memory and so every single thought whether it is

positive or toxic goes through exactly the same cycle when it forms the only difference is that the thoughts cause

different quantities of chemicals to be released and so as a result memories that are built from negative toxic

thoughts look very different to a positive healthy memory when you meditate on the Word of God or you think

on whatever is true pure lovely of good reports and praiseworthy a positive healthy memory will be built in your

brain now this is another real picture or real photograph of the brain but just from a different view and that thick

area there that the arrow is pointing to is a strong memory that has lots of branches it's a good healthy memory and

it's also an intelligent memory now when you examine these healthy memories under a microscope they actually look like

nice healthy lush trees and so from now on I'm going to refer to these healthy memories that are built from good

healthy positive thinking as lush trees now when you meditate on toxic thoughts such as fear anxiety anger bitterness

and so on what happens is those toxic thoughts cause certain chemicals to be released in either excessive or

insufficient quantities and so because the chemicals in your brain are produced in incorrect quantities it changes the

structure of the memories that are built in your brain from those thoughts and so a toxic memory is being built that has a

different type of chemical structure to a positive memory now if you have any background in chemistry you'll

understand that when the chemical structure of our molecule changes it changes the electrum

magnetic field around it and so because the structure of a toxic memory changes it has a different type of

electromagnetic field that actually looks heavy and dark now this is obviously not a real slide of the brain

showing a dark electromagnetic field because I can't show you electromagnetic fields using a simple computer with a

projector you need a more sophisticated imaging machine that shows electromagnetic fields but that's just

in a picture or an illustration to help you picture a toxic memory that is built in your brain that has that heavy dark

electromagnetic field around it now when you examine these memories under a microscope

they actually look like toxic thorn trees so from now on I'm going to call these toxic memories thorn trees toxic

thorn trees of anger hate bitterness and so on will grow like weeds and occupy space in your brain and make you sick so

depending on what you think about you are either building healthy lush trees in your brain which are good memories or

you are building toxic thorn trees now every time you think on those thoughts excuse me those pre-existing memories in

your brain are going to be reactivated so for example let's say you have a pre-existing memory in your brain which

is a toxic thorn tree of portunus towards your mother-in-law you have one of those mother-in-law's that all the

jokes talk about every time you think on those thoughts those pre-existing memories in your brain are going to be

reactivated so say you have this pre-existing memory in your brain of bitterness towards your mother-in-law

and once again she offends you and at that moment what will happen is that a toxic thought of unforgiveness will come

to your mind now while you are busy meditating on that unforgiveness and fuming and steaming over what she's done

to you you are building more bronze that thorn tree our bitterness in your brain and so you are reinforcing it and

making it stronger but also sorry while you are meditating on that unforgiveness the hypothalamus secretes chemicals that

shoots into the trees of your mind we all your pre-existing memories are located and what those chemicals do as

they flow through the trees of your mind is they generate a wave of electricity and we'll call that the breeze through

the trees and that breeze through the trees reactivates those pre-existing memories or in our example it

reactivates that thorn tree of putting us towards your mother-in-law and so it brings all those pre-existing thoughts

or into your conscious mind of all the other things that she did to upset you and wronged you and offend you in the

past now what happens when those thorn trees are reactivated is that the thorns on that tree squirt out toxic chemicals

that begin to make you sick now once again you're looking at a real photo that was taken of your brain or sorry

somebody's brain while while they were thinking those white streaks they are the chemicals that are being squirted

out from the memory trees of the mind after they had been activated by that breeze through the trees and so

if toxic thoughts dominate your thought life every time you think that breeze through the trees is going to reactivate

those thorn trees in your brain which will then squirt out toxic chemicals that cause sickness in your body also

every time you think about that negative thing you reinforce that toxic thorn tree by building more branches which

makes that thorn tree stronger now the same applies to a healthy memory for example one that was built from

meditating on the Word of God whenever that memory is reactivated for example by thinking on those scriptures again

the leaves on that last tree will cause the release of healthy chemicals just for your interest the medical term and

for them our endorphins in kiff Alan's serotonin and dopamine which are chemicals that are very healthy for you

they uplift you they make you feel good and they bring about healing but in these positive healthy chemicals

intellect flourishes and with it mental and physical health that's what the latest medical research is saying but

who else said that thousands of years ago well God did in Proverbs 4 verse 22 22 he said my son attend to my words

consent and submit to my sayings and let them not depart depart from your sight but keep them in the center of your

heart for they are life to those who find them healing and health to all their flesh and that is a hundred

percent medically correct because when you think on the Word of God you build lush trees in your brain that

squirt out healthy chemicals that have been proven to bring about healing and health literally to your flesh now with

all that I shared with you so far some of you may be thinking oh dear I've been thinking on toxic thoughts of fear

anxiety worry stress bitterness and forgiveness and so on for years I must have a whole forest of toxic thorn trees

in my brain I remember when I did a conference in our home church in Bulawayo

following that I did three days of free consultations for the people in our church and there was one lady who had

only heard part of the teaching on the brain and as she walked in I could see that she was very very stressed and she

when she sat down I said to her what's the matter and she said doctor my whole brain is a

thorn bush and and you may feel that way you may have literally spent your entire life for 40 50 60 or more years putting

toxic thoughts in your brain and you may have a whole forest of toxic thorn trees but I have something very encouraging to

share with you in just four days of thinking correctly you can remove the thorns from those

toxic thorn trees and you can create new healthy memories over them within 21 days you can literally detoxify your

brain and change its whole neuro chemical structure through your thought life simply through changing your

thinking you can change your brain from looking like the picture which has lots of dark thorn trees to looking like the

picture on the right which has lots of healthy intelligent memories so for example if you decide to reject those

thoughts of unforgiveness hatred bitterness and anger and so on through genuine repentance releasing and

forgiveness you can change that memory and the structure of those thorn trees what they actually have proven in the

laboratory is that chemicals that are released from healthy lush trees of faith hope love peace and so on are

stronger than the toxic chemicals that are released from toxic thorn trees of anger hate bitterness and so on what

those healthy chemicals do is they flow through those toxic thorn trees of anger and bitterness and so on and what they

do is they literally physically remove those thorns so for example when you repent for your bitterness and you

forgive the chemicals that are released in response to those thoughts will literally cut off the thorns on that

thorn tree of bitterness so that it will no longer affect you now the memory will always be there for example you'll

always remember what your mother-in-law did to you but because you're forgiving that thorn tree of bitterness will no

longer affect you or make you sick because it no longer has the thorns that release those toxic chemicals and that

applies to any toxic thorn tree or for example a low self-esteem guilt self-hatred rejection and so on when you

make a decision to reject those toxic thoughts and to change your thinking to the way that God thinks as described in

his word a new healthy memory will be built on top of those old toxic thorn trees so

you can change and grow your brain at will through thinking you can choose to deal with those toxic thorn trees and

build new healthy memories over them now in science they call this process of building new memories over old toxic

thorn trees they call a treat re transcribing those memories nearer plastically but the Bible simply calls

it renewing the mind have you ever heard of that in Romans 12 verse 2 it says don't be conformed to this world

fashioned after and adapted to its external superficial customs but be transformed and changed through the

entire renewal of your mind by its new ideals and its new attitudes so that you can prove for yourself what is the good

and acceptable and perfect will of God and in Ephesians 4 verse 23 it says be constantly renewed in the spirit of your

mind having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude and as you can see renewing your mind is a physical process as much

as it is a mental and spiritual process when you choose to confront your old toxic thinking patterns and recognize

how they affect your life and you choose to renew your mind which means to change your thinking to the way that God thinks

a new healthy memory will be built on top of that old toxic thorn tree that healthy memory will produce healthy

chemicals that will remove those thorns from those old toxic thorn trees and they will help your body heal as well as

prevent disease so your brain has an incredible capacity to change rewire grow and heal and you can literally

remodel the memories in your brain simply through changing your thinking now we all know about the brain inside

our heads but did you know that we also have a smaller brain inside our hearts a brain is basically a collection of

nerves I explained when I began you have a hundred billion nerves in your brain inside your head but your

heart also has a collection of 40,000 nerves which function independently from the nerves in your brain in your head

and it's what science calls the brain in the heart now this heart brain works hand-in-hand

with your free wills decision-making remember I explained to you that your free will is what you used to either

accept or reject thoughts and what the heart brain does is it literally advises the free will what to do and it's

proving to be a real intelligence force but behind the intuitive thoughts and feelings that you experience the many

brain of the heart literally functions like a conscience that heart brain is that still small voice

it's that gentle nudge a voice of warning it seems to be the voice of the Holy Spirit

now I'm not teaching this as biblical doctrine although the are scriptures that say that the heart is the seat of

moral conscience but just from the scientific study of the functions of the heart brain it seems that the Holy

Spirit speaks to our spirit through our hearts and so we need to listen to that heart brain because the heart brain

knows what's good for you what the heart brain does is it advises your free will on what to do with the thoughts in your

mind and it helps you to make the right decision as you're about to make a decision with your freewill what happens

is there's what they call a feedback loop we a thought will drop down to your heart and sorry a message will drop down

to your heart and then the heart will send a message back to your free will advising you accept that thought it's

good for you or reject that thought it's bad for you now your heart will advise your free will on what to do but it's

still ultimately up to your free will to make the choice the battlefield of your mind is that your free will this is

where you're going to decide to either listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit advising you from your heart or to

listen to your flesh which is your carnal sinful nature so for example say somebody does something to offend you

and an angry thought of unforgiveness and bitterness comes to your mind what will happen when that thought gets to

the free will as a message will drop down to the heart and the heart will send the message back advising you

reject that thought take it captive to the obedience of Christ and release and forgive because it's not good for you

now the free will has been advised by your heart and what's the right thing to do with that thought but it's still

ultimately up to the free will to decide are you going to forgive that person and reject that angry thought who are you

going to spend time meditating on it well if you make a decision with your freewill to listen to the voice of your

heart and you reject that angle angry thought and choose to forgive that person

what your heart will do is secrete a chemical called ANF which stands for atrial natriuretic factor now anf is the

peace chemical that literally calms your whole body down and it makes you feel at peace it's very good for you it

motivates you it helps your brain to function more efficiently and it produces health in your body

and so when our heart is at peace releasing that peace chemical we are at peace but on the other hand if you make

a decision with your freewill not to listen to the voice of your heart and you decide that you are not willing to

forgive and you are angry and that person is going to pay for what they did and you're going to repay evil with evil

what will happen is you will build a toxic thorn tree of bitterness in your brain but also because you didn't listen

to the voice of your heart the heart doesn't produce that peace chemical a and if instead what the heart does is it

causes an imbalance in your whole body chemistry we all the organs in your body go into a toxic state of disease that

will eventually lead to a disease and one thing I have learned through studying all of this is my goodness me

obedience to God is not something to be taken lightly because when you choose to ignore that quiet prompting of the Holy

Spirit in your heart it has serious adverse effects on your health whereby your whole body

of rhythm you see your heart is not just a physical pump that pumps blood it's what they call the body's strongest

oscillator what that means is that it has the ability to pull every organ system of the body into its own rhythm

and that rhythm can be peace or chaos peace means health chaos means disease which will eventually become a disease

and so with all that background on the brain and the heart brain let's have spent some time in 3 John

verse 2 it says beloved I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers

now after studying the brain I've received a tremendous amount of Revelation from the scripture now in a

biblical context your soul consists of your mind will and emotions now early and our teaching in the brain I showed

you that your mind is physically in your brain your thoughts exist physically in your brain in the form of that electric

current which travels along the nerves now you also learned that your freewill is also physically a part of your brain

remember it's right there in the front of your thinker and so we can say that your freewill is physically a part of

your mind now I don't have much time to teach on emotions but emotions are basically produced in response to your

thoughts and they exist in your body in the form of chemicals that are also housed in an area of the brain called

the deep lemak system so they they there are chemicals that are produced in response to your thoughts so if your

thoughts are positive and godly you're going to have positive and godly emotions such as love joy peace and so

on but if your thoughts are negative and sinful your emotions will be the same for example you will feel anger or fear

and so on now those chemicals of emotion that are produced in response to your thoughts will flow throughout your

entire body and they bind to receptors on the surface of your body cells and that's how you physically feel that

emotional reaction okay but the point that I'm basically making is that those chemicals of

emotion also exist physically in your brain in that area called the the the hippocampus and deep limbic system and

so we can also say that your emotions are a part of your mind now from a medical standpoint with that all that

said I can use the word mind and soul interchangeably because they mean the same thing

now I said when I began that they've discovered in latest medical research that what it was going on in your

thought life in other words your mind your brain will convert into a physical reaction and so if your mind is full of

good healthy thoughts the hypothalamus is going to convert those thoughts into a healthy physical reaction but if your

mind is full of toxic thoughts your hypothalamus will convert those thoughts into a home for physical reaction that

will lead to disease so basically the message of 3 John verse 2 is this to the extent that your mind in other words

your soul prospers so your body which is your health will prosper so both medical science and the Bible

are teaching us that the quality of your life and health is brought about by the quality of what you are thinking

think about that Joyce Meyer always says think about what you are thinking about your life is an expression of your

thoughts that's why the Bible says in Matthew 12 verse 34 to guard your heart for out of it flows the issues of life

if your thought life is a mess your life and health will be amazed the devil deceives people into thinking that the

source of the misery and problems is because of what is going on around them in their circumstances but actually it's

due to what's going on inside you in your thought life if your thoughts are positive and godly your life will

prosper and you will enjoy good health you will prosper and be in health as your soul prospers you will prosper and

be in health as your mind will and emotions prosper I've quoted the scripture many

times but let's have a look at it properly in 2 Corinthians 10 verse 4 and 5 it says for the weapons of our warfare

are not physical they are not weapons of flesh and blood but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and

destruction of strongholds that's talking about pulling down those toxic thorn trees in your brain in as much as

we refute arguments and theories and every proud and lofty thing that it would set itself up against the true

knowledge of God as we lead every thought away captive to the obedience of Christ and so the Bible is warning us in

that Scripture to be careful what we think about you must never allow a thought to go unchecked you need to

bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and as you can see there's an enormous reality to this from

both a miracle and biblical perspective you are going to become what you think when translation and proverbs 23 verse 7

says as a man thinks in his heart so does he become and that scripture alone as an indication of how vital it is that

we are careful what we think about because thoughts are powerful they have creative ability and they can shape your

life we tend to be lazy about something when we don't realize how important it is to pay attention to it and it's

essential that you realize that your life and health will not get sorted out until your mind gets sorted out right

thinking is a vital necessity because you cannot have a positive life and a negative mind so if you remember one

thing from the session of the bread on the brain let it be proverbs 23 verse 7 and allow

it to impact your life because as you think in your heart so do you become what you think is what you get for

better or for worse it's entirely up to you so if you want to change your life if you're not happy with the state of

your health what have you got to do change your thinking in Joyce Myers book power thoughts that she released there's

a quote which says whatever you hold in your mind will attend to occur in your life if you continue to believe as you

always have you will continue to act as you've always acted if you continue to act as you've always acted you will

continue to get what you've always gotten so if you want different results in your life or your work all you have

to do is change your mind now the devil also knows that the mind-body connection is real by the way he understands the

human body better than any doctor or PhD on this planet and he knows that if he can manage to control your thought life

he can control your body chemistry and cause disease and in the conference over these next two days I'm going to show

you exactly how that happens I'm going to show you step-by-step how your thoughts lead to certain hormonal and

chemical reactions in your body that ultimately leads to the development of disease it's about time that you know

what your enemy knows about you so that you can defeat him at the onset ladies and gentlemen you don't have to suffer

from disease or die before your time is up if you've been told that you are doomed

to repeat the patterns in your family that you are a victim who is controlled by your genes or your biology or that

you cannot transcend the influence of your environment you've been lied to and need to hear the truth because research

conducted by respected scientists and doctors all over the world has shown that your brain really can change grow

and get better and you can change the quality of your health simply through changing the quality of your thinking

now running closely with neuroscience which is the study of the brain and how to fix the body and that's all that I've

been teaching from is a new science called epigenetics you can look it up on the internet what they are showing in

Epogen peter near tics is that our thoughts and perceptions remodel our genes and not

the other way around and now the reality of the Scriptures a man thinks in his heart so is he begins to hit home

because your thoughts can even affect and change the DNA in your genes and so when you have a toxic thinking pattern

that not only affects you causing disease in your body but it can also affect your genes whereby you get a gene

defect that can be passed on to your children resulting in them also getting that disease and so a common question

that immediately arises from this teaching on the brain is that if 95% of diseases are a result of what goes on in

our thought life then how can a baby or a two-year-old for example have a disease but in that case that disease is

genetically inherited and I'm going to be explaining genetically inherited diseases and how to deal with them on

Sunday morning and I'm going to show you how when you change your thinking not only does your body heal but also your

genes heal and as a result it prevents those diseases from being passed on to your children and if you inherited a

gene defect from your parents we're going to show you how you can deal with it so it no longer affects you but

epigenetics is really showing us the power of our thought life and how it affects who we are an amazing discovery

is that our genes can be switched on and off by the thoughts that we choose to meditate on and that changed the common

understanding that our genes control and determine who we are and what we become recent research has disproven the myth

that our genes shape us our thoughts affect which genes are switched on and therefore we shape our genes and that

means that we are not nor have we ever been victims of our biology and the implications of that are obvious we need

to start taking responsibility for our choices and our health we no longer have an excuse to submit to disease because

we can rise above it and overcome it and so if you sick you've got to take responsibility with the help

of the holy spirit to change your thinking and to renew your mind with the Word of God so that you can pull down

those toxic thorn trees in your brain now what's extremely interesting is that they are tracing back specific diseases

to specific toxic thinking patterns so you don't get sick just because of toxic thinking in general there's a specific

toxic mindset behind a specific disease and in my book and DVDs I explained those different thought patterns and the

disease's that they caused and I'll also be sharing that with you throughout this conference for example I'm going to be

explaining the toxic mindsets behind allergies cancer diction's depression diabetes high blood pressure and many

many diseases that commonly affect us today and so you'll have the opportunity to find out what the toxic mindset is

behind the disease that you suffer from and we'll help you to deal with it but in the meantime start to become aware of

what you are thinking think about what you think about it takes a lot of discipline you'll find to become aware

of what you're thinking and you'll be amazed at how lazy you've actually been when it comes to your thought life

because we just let whatever toxic thought pops into our mind roam around in our head and then we wonder why we

are sick meanwhile if you would just control your thought life you would be so much happier healthier people who

prosper and be in health as your souls prosper so don't sit back and be passive watch out for what's going on in your

mind say to yourself what quality of memories am i building in my brain what does that breeze through the trees

reactivating what am I thinking how am I feeling when a thought pops into your mind listen to that advice from that

still quiet voice of the Holy Spirit from your heart if their thoughts good for you then think on it on purpose if

it's not good for you take that thought captive to the obedience of Christ and check it out

control your mind with your free will reject those toxic thoughts so that they become hot air and don't penetrate your

brain any further because if it gets into your brain and grows a thorn tree you're going to have to work that much

harder at renewing your mind so that it no longer affects you except those good uplifting thoughts from the Word of God

and as I said think on them on purpose push that information into the trees of your mind and grow those branches

because that's excellent you are building healthy good intelligent memories remember I say to you the more

strong healthy memories you build the healthier you become and the more intelligence you become so God gave you

a phenomenal brain purposefully use it to your advantage make your thoughts life-giving not life-threatening the

Bible season Philippians 4 verse 8 it says whatever is true whatever is worthy or honorable just pure lovely or lovable

whatever is kind winsome or gracious if there be any virtue and excellence if there is anything worthy of praise think

on these things and fix your minds on them so the Bible even tells you what to think about it says think on good things

why because as you think in your heart so do you become again and Joyce Myers book power thoughts there's a quote

which says watch your thoughts for they become words watch your words for they become actions and watch your actions

for they become habits what's your habits for they become character and what's your character for it becomes

your destiny in other words what's your thoughts it becomes your destiny as a man thinks in his heart so does he

become dr. Caroline leaf is one of my greatest and favorite teachers in medicine that's a picture of her on the

screen if you've never heard of her and she's actually a Nixon barbarian and she's involved in this cutting-edge

research on the brain and leading it in fact and and she made the statement she said as we think the brain has the

ability to change itself for better or for worse the recognition of this is a gigantic and significant leap in the

history of mankind with the help of the Holy Spirit you can renew your mind and break the chains that have been limiting

your development into the victorious overcomer that God created you to be because your mind is fully under your

control and you can use your amazing brain to help your body heal as well as prevent diseases in your life