About a decade ago, I found myself struggling with my health. Bad.

At 40 years old, I was overweight, out-of-shape, sluggish, and tolerated a lot of health issues that I just assumed were part of the natural aging process.

Turns out, I was wrong.

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The first word we see in the Bible for healing is iaomai— meaning “miraculous” and “instantaneous” healing.

This is how we most often envision Jesus healing. This word appears 30 times in the New Testament.

(See examples in Matthew 8:13, Mark 5:29, Luke 8:47, John 12:40.)

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As I began losing weight— for purely cosmetic and personal reasons having nothing to do with my health— the health issues began to evaporate. Almost overnight.

That’s what led me to learn about a second word we see in the Bible that we OFTEN translate as healing: therapeuo.

The word means “to serve, to attend to, or to wait upon menially” and “to heal gradually over time with care” and “to teach how to be well.

This word appears 40 times in the Bible- a bit more than the instant cures we usually associate with miracles.

(See Matthew 4:23-24, Mark 1:34, Mark 6:13, Luke 5:15, Acts 5:16, Acts 8:7, Revelation 22:2.)

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In the Bible we see BOTH kinds of healing.

Understanding why different are present matters SO MUCH, because it shows us what’s accessible to us…

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We have far more control over our health than we’ve been taught.

We’re not victims of the genome- as if some of us got a good shake at the DNA-lottery and others of us didn’t. Science is showing, more and more, that we have far more power than we thought...

And that’s the subject of this talk.

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Next best steps from here…

💙The Healing Workshop (an on-demand course): https://www.jenkins.tv/THW

📘 The eBook = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/ngwEkvjP/checkout

⛓️‍💥 This approach ALSO works for emotional wholeness. Access the Freedom March for concentrated content in this area: www.Jenkins.tv/FM

Advance is a resource (or, set of resources) developed over a few renditions of events, workshops, interactions, and more…

… to equip you to move forward from where you are to where you deeply desire to be in MULTIPLE areas of life.

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It started in an odd way…

… almost an after-thought to an event that was completely unrelated to what Advance became.

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This is the long version of the story…

AND—

A few tips as to how to practically navigate from where you are to where you’re designed to be.

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After a long series of stories and winding tales, listen for three tips—

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✅ Tip 1 = Goals we set must work in the context of every area of life…

Or, to say it another way, goals set in isolation from all your other obligations and opportunities just don’t last.

✅ Tip 2 = Goals are practical…

We reach them by the incremental actions we do each day, many of them so small that we hardly notice them in the moment. Yet, step back months later— and years later— and you can hardly recognize where you are as compared to where you once were.

✅ Tip 3 = Success in those goals = living up to YOUR God-given potential in each area of life— not someone else’s.

That means “success” looks different for each of us…

… and it ALSO affirms that we can be doing stellar in some areas while we struggle in others— neither negating the other.

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For more info about the Advance resources— see the links below:

📆 The Advance planner = www.Jenkins.tv/planners

📓 The Advance book = https://www.jenkins.tv/AB

🚌 Take the 21 challenge / self-study to navigate forward… https://www.jenkins.tv/challenge

💻The Advance (on-demand, online) workshop = Same page as planners = www.Jenkins.tv/planners

📳 The Advance workshop on audio = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/RPLLv2yY/checkout

📳 The Advance audiobook = https://www.jenkins.tv/offers/9t7TFCyf/checkout

📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD

We’re designed to explore and grow. The problem is that as we explore, we bump into pain.

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As a result of pain, we create internal rules— often hidden from our conscious mind that cause us to self-protect going forward. Therein lies the problem—

👉 We “live out” of these rules (read: thought patterns), but we’re often not sure WHY we react the way we do in certain situations.

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In the same way muscle memory creates “automatic” behaviors physically, so also does SOUL memory.

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The takeaway: we may need a new set of rules. The patterns that served us well in the past might not work well going forward. In fact, they may hinder us….

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Next best steps

🎧 Access the previous episode, Photizo — this talk builds on that

📺 Watch the (free) “Emotional Wholeness Checklist” video on the GY6 site: https://www.gy6.online/blog/EWC

💜 Purchase the SOUL WHOLENESS masterclass— https://www.jenkins.tv/SWV

📬 Signup for “The Daily” / e-devotional of the day— www.Jenkins.tv/TD

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