People get strange sicknesses every year, like the bubonic plague, legionnaires disease, leprosy (yes, it’s still around), and obscure ones like encephalitis lethargica where people suddenly can’t stay awake. Between 1917 and 1930, patients who presented with encephalitis lethargica had a 50% mortality rate from the sudden onset illness. We just don’t hear about these illnesses very often, because it was rarely overhyped by our media and we don’t all work in medical field where many strange conditions do occur and are discussed more frequently. If we knew of the wide swath of various ailments that people are infected by every year, we’d all be hypochondriacs or worse, cyberchondriacs.
In medical school, doctors-in-training often acquire sickness when learning, it’s called medical school syndrome and it can include minor symptoms, like rashes, itches, burning and various, more serious symptoms that med students had learned about at some point in their training. Some medical students actually die from weird illnesses that have long been dormant in average communities and sadly, many die by suicide.
While most speculate that this is related to the high-stress situation of the medical training and environment, I have come to learn that there is something more spiritual that causes these condition and deaths. There is a spiritual connection between medical student and practitioner suicides and the sickness and death that med students are surrounded by. Suicide and infirmity are contractable spirits. If you want to read more, about death curses, I wrote an article last week to explain what I have come to know as death curses and the spirit of death here.
Dr. Oliver Howes and Dr. Paul Salkovskis, 1998 paper in The Lancet
The strange sicknesses that are constantly being reported of ebola outbreaks, deadlier version of pneumonia found in China that may be the bubonic plague, and a new foot and mouth disease found, once again, in China.
These new media releases of old sicknesses making a comeback are likely inflated. In a time when pandemic reports are causing people who are already freaked out about a virus to have more unfounded fear and anxiety when new media reports are release about old illnesses that were once very deadly. It is simply fear porn, in my opinion. What is the answer to fear? Love.
A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22
Old Diseases, One Cure
Why am I talking about all this sickness and death? Because I once was tormented by it, had irrational fear about it, and succumbed to the idea that I was going to die early from it. Jesus Christ healed me of it! In my testimony, I recall how I felt how I was likely going to die at an early age because of my father’s health (cancer) and my family history with depression, diabetes, asthma and other medial issues. But I was cured in to 2018. You read that right, I was cured!
Smith Wigglesworth
My faith and belief in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior is now my ongoing daily regimen of medicine. I no longer need to prescribe to anything else. My body is healthy, my heart is healthy and my mind has never been healthier! I have faith that He keeps me in perfect health and peace. No more depression or anxiety, no more pains that keep me up all night, no more fear that I will die an untimely death. I rebuked the fear of dying! Jesus offers this same peace to all those who believe in Him.
When you know that you have a heavenly home that is being prepared for you and you know without a doubt that you have an almighty everlasting Father in Heaven who loves you – those fears simply fade.
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3
Have Faith!
Don’t focus on or spread evil reports, don’t listen to evil media and news updates that ooze out fear and anxiety in every direction, and don’t give any attention to people who offer no hope in our present time. These only add to worry, and we are not to worry. Besides, you have a very good chance of not dying today! Jesus Christ is King!
In Christ,
Darrell B. Jones
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.
Psalm 118:17