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For Streamlining Health & Healing

I want to help my readers streamline their healing and the stewardship of their health.

“Streamlining health & healing” means getting on track and staying there. Making choices that give us peace in our spirits and creative healing power in our bodies and souls.

Within that mission, I’m keen to provide well documented and powerful resources.As I discuss food, understand that, in every possible case, it must be grown in a way that honors God’s Creation—certified organic and non-GMO (genetically modified or engineered). Please note that organically grown foods and non-GMO foods are labeled in a specific way and I posted descriptions and photos of these labels at:

Then, if you go to the home page of http://www.slamthedooroncancer.com/?p=1703 at www.slamthedooroncancer.com and click the “Resources” tab at the top of the page, you will find the book appendices there including “Food Nutraceuticals” and “Spice Nutraceuticals”. You are welcome to copy and paste these into a word processing document and save or print out to take shopping with you.

These are the appendices Three and Four of the book and they give you lists of foods that contain molecules known to detoxify, inhibit inflammation, boost immune system, stimulate apoptosis (cell suicide) and/or Natural Killer Cells, inhibit proliferation of tumor cells, inhibit invasion of tumor cells to other tissue, inhibit angiogenesis (growth of tumor blood supply).

The information in appendix three (foods) was compiled from numerous sources including but not limited to the books: Foods to Fight Cancer by Beliveau and Gingras (both PhD’s) and Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by Servan-Schreiber (M.D. and PhD and long time cancer survivor).

God created us individually and provides materials we can use individually. Our needs for health management in this modern world are not a surprise to Him.

The information in appendix four (spices) was compiled from the work of Dr. Bharat B. Aggarwal, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer as the lead writer of a NIH manuscript entitled: “Molecular Targets of Nutraceuticals Derived from dietary Spices: Potential Role in suppression of inflammation and Tumorigenesis”.

Chapter Eleven of my book, Slam the Door on Cancer and Lock It Out of Your Life, is entitled, “Embracing the Power of Food. The term “nutraceutical” is used to compare the impact of God-made substances to “pharmaceutical” or man-made chemical substances.

Here’s a comparison of God-made & man-made “medicine”

We are designed with the most powerful healing mechanisms within our very complex and ever-changing bodies. God-made medicine adjusts perfectly.

• Nutraceuticals:
o Molecules NATURALLY occurring in food. God-made to match God-Created bodies.
o Selected over the course of history for survival support.
o NO SIDE EFFECTS
o Synergy or antagonism between molecules by design not accident.
(“Over-dosage” extremely rare or non-issue because food and body are coordinated naturally.)

Man absolutely cannot make medicine able to “not do harm” in our complex bodies. Even disease organisms eventually outsmart synthetic drugs.

• Pharmaceuticals:

o Created in a laboratory—synthetic

o Selected in a laboratory (with profit as part of motivation)
o PROUNOUNCED SIDE EFFECTS (really “other equal effects”)
o Synergy or antagonism due to chance and rarely recognized. Dosage and coordination with other substances often an issue.

In the next post, I will share more about my own protocols but insist that my readers do not copy me unless they tune into God to find out what He “prescribes” for them individually. He assures us through Jeremiah: “For I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not harm you. Plans for you to reach your expected end.” Jer 29:11 His plans might or might not include a brilliant surgeon.

If your plan matches God’s, you will move forward in perfect peace. How I wish more people would consult with the Lord BEFORE making treatment decisions rather than jumping into the first thing suggested or prescribed and then hurrying to get on numerous prayer lists. We cannot muscle God into cooperating with something we’ve chosen without consulting with Him first. God is “driving the bus” on our healing journey.

You may also find the current post at www.slamthedooroncancer.com informative.

The Focus For Powerful Prayer 2 of 3

By Jacquie Woodward

Powerful Prayer Focuses on God’s goodness and grace rather than our own faith.

The first post of this series of three discussed the critical importance of concentrating on the goodness of God when we pray rather than on our own worthiness (apart from Jesus’s finished work) or our own level of faith. We saw in Scripture that Jesus said we only need faith “as a mustard seed–the smallest seed” to receive what we need from prayer. This post looks at where we get our mustard seed (and much more) faith so that we enjoy powerful prayer.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God( ( Romans 10:17)

Translation contrasts: The first is a popular modern translation and the second is Young’s LITERAL translation which word for word considers the original languages Greek for the NT and Hebrew for the OT. Greek has more complexity than English so that modern translations often oversimplify to the point of missing the true meaning.

Mark 11:21-25 (NIV and many other modern translations)

21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
23 “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins. (NOTE: This is before Jesus’s crucifixion/resurrection.)

Mark 11:21-26 (YLT) (from original Greek)
21 and Peter having remembered saith to him, `Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.’
22 And Jesus answering saith to them, `Have faith of God; . . . (also translated as “the God kind of faith)

Faith is a continuous gift from God through His Word (both logos and rhema) or (Scripture and God’s ‘still small voice in our spirit). Where does faith come from? Can we conjure it up under our own power?

17 So belief (faith) cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
“word” = #4487 Strong’s “Rhema” (rhematose) or “God’s/Christ’s spoken word” we still receive. )

Two of many Scriptural examples of successful/powerful focus and answered prayer:

I hope you take time to study this woman’s focus which she thought and, some accounts say, spoke. She prophesied based on her faith and didn’t even realize she was doing it. Words and thoughts are the most powerful things in the universe that God SPOKE into existence.

ONE: Mark 5:24-34 (NIV) 24 So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him.
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.
26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.
27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”
29 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?'”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” (NOTE: This is only time Jesus calls a woman “daughter” in his ministry.)

This woman’s focus was NOT on her own faith but on Jesus’s grace. She was a Jew and had been considered unclean by others for 12 years—isolated and discouraged by earthly means of healing. She probably knew Hebrew Scripture and, therefore knew Malachi 4:2 (NIV) 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. “ Thus she was strengthened by having heard God’s Word recited aloud throughout her early life as well as hearing of Jesus’s ministry as He walked the earth as her contemporary.

TWO: Matthew 8:5-13 (NIV) This man understood Jesus’s authority against the enemy and we must remember that Jesus paid for and passed that authority to His followers of which we are members.

5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.
6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.”
7 Jesus said to him, “I will go and heal him.”
8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those following him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.

SEEING God’s grace with our spiritual eyes is a constant and consistent prayer regardless of where we are or what we are doing.

Neither of these persons seeking healing were focused on their faith. They were totally and completely focused on Jesus and His compassion. Neither was conscious of their own faith but they were aware of His grace—indeed of God’s grace and faithfulness. “Grace” means”undeserved favor”. We can’t DO enough to deserve it but Jesus did it for us.

When we see His grace, He sees our faith.

He loves us and wants to lavish His love and mercy on us.

He also wants to inhabit our worship of Him. Worship and praise opens the interface between the earthly realm and the heavenly realm.

Water Heals!

By Jacquie Woodward

“Bathe Daily INSIDE as well as OUTSIDE with pure water.

In this post I share an excerpt from my book, Slam the Door on Cancer and Lock It Out of Your Life. The subject is thirst and health and applies to ALL health aspects. Even if you have read the book, I urge you to “refresh yourself” by again visiting this critical subject.

Thirst No More

Remember when I talked about the amazing impact words have upon water referring to the book, The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto? Water we take in has an amazing impact on us as well. Our bodies are largely water. The “healthy state” implies that we must keep the water content of our bodies properly distributed. Hydration is the single most important element of good health because it facilitates all normal body functions.

In all my research, one of the most fascinating resources was Dr. F. Batmanghelidg, M.D.’s, Water for Health, for Healing, for Life. The tag line in the title is “You’re Not Sick, You’re THIRSTY!” Dr. “Batman” (his chosen nickname) spent his incarceration as an Iranian prisoner of war treating fellow inmates for stress related diseases. He kept careful records of his work so he could share his conclusions. The “take away” points of this book in our context include:

1. “Dry mouth is not the only sign of dehydration.” Don’t wait until you are thirsty to drink water. “It is now crystal clear that the human body has many different ways of showing its water needs.” I list other signs of thirst later.

2. Water is not only “life sustaining” but also “life giving” in its nature. 3 Water is not inert as Dr. Emoto’s crystals reveal; rather it holds within it far more cosmic truth than we have realized even though Scripture is rich with lessons regarding “living water”– lessons often interpreted too figuratively. Water constantly transports life-giving elements to every cell and transports life threatening toxins from every cell. We have seen in Emoto’s crystals, that it is somehow part of our soul as well as body.

3. People are deceived “thinking that tea, coffee, alcohol, and manufactured beverages can substitute for the pure natural water needs of the body.” “Dr. Batman” says this assumption is “an elementary mistake, particularly in a body that is stressed. It is true that these beverages contain water, but most also contain dehydrating substances such as caffeine . . . ”when you drink coffee, tea, or even a beer, your body gets rid of more water than is contained in the drink.” We know that only pure water contains oxygen and hydrogen, which is the only material in a beverage our blood and lymph fluid can use.

We must keep water “flowing” through our bodies constantly to avoid “stagnation”. Doctors Guyton and Hall, in The Textbook of Medical Physiology, 11th Ed., explain, “The kidneys must continually excrete at least some fluid, even in a dehydrated person, to rid the body of excess solutes that are ingested or produced by metabolism. Water is also lost by evaporation from the lungs and the gastrointestinal tract and by evaporation and sweating from the skin. Therefore, there is always a tendency for dehydration, with the resultant increased extracellular fluid sodium concentration.” Additionally there is a threshold for drinking at a certain sodium concentration in the extracellular fluid. “Water intake restores extracellular fluid osmolality (movement through membranes) and volume toward normal.” Earlier, when we were discussing the various receptors on cell membranes, I mentioned that one of them was a pump requiring oxygen to generate energy. That pump relies on proper sodium concentration in the fluid between cells. “Dr. Batman” adds, “All living and growing species, humans included, survive as a result of energy generation from water.”

Hydration is important to “putting the inflammation fire out” in our bodies and drugged up beverages have the opposite effect

All Drinks are NOT Used by Our Bodies as Water

Media is packed with energy booster drinks hyped to overcome that “afternoon slump” capitalizing on the everyone-does-it lifestyle. Even the pink ribbon disease marketing campaign now participates in this health counterfeit. “Dr. Batman”, however, can save us some grief and money as he teaches regarding feeling tired without a plausible reason. He says, “Water is the main source of energy formation in the body. Even the food that is supposed to be a good source of energy has no value to the body until it is hydrolyzed by water and energized in the process.” Until recently, car batteries required monitoring of their water level to keep the current flowing. Now they are “closed cell” so water is not lost. We saw in previous chapters that electrical energy generation at the cellular level is an essential life process. Guess what, we still have to monitor and maintain our body’s “battery” water level. Pure water or liquid “Foo Foo Dust” for energy boost? No contest!

“Dr. Batman” also gives other body thirst signs such as unreasonable irritability, dejection, feelings of inadequacy, autoimmune maladies and depression. He also discusses short attention span, quick temper, flushing, shortness of breath, cravings for manufactured beverages and alcohol, feeling “heavy headed” and disturbed sleep as “body thirst” signals. Many of these things are linked to acid/alkaline imbalance from dehydration triggered situations in the body such as loss of amino acids (proteins) and insufficient absorption or loss of certain minerals and the absolute need for essential vitamins and fatty acids.” Nearly every book or study I’ve read points out that cancer thrives in an acidic body environment and even perpetuates that condition as it progresses. Drs. Batman and Budwig compliment each other well.

The several references in this post are endnotes in the book, Slam the Door on Cancer and available by request through the “information tab” on this blog.

God’s Relentless Love Assures Our Real Health Hope

By Jacquie Woodward

A “Fly-Fishing” Demonstration of God’s Relentless Love

A metaphor for God’s Grace!

I’m late posting this week because, on a whim, my husband and I took off a few days to go fly-fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains. We were blessed to rent the perfect cabin in the perfect place although I have no idea how I happened upon that particular booking via Internet. There are very few cabins setting right on a good trout stream and God winked and put us in one. He will do that, you know . . . and He can use anything to bless us. He’s that kind of Daddy and I wish I’d know that truth about Him my entire life because I’m certain I would have “skipped cancer” had I known how much He loves me.

But the cabin is not the subject of my post. Take a look at some of the photos I’m sharing in this post and wonder with me as I stood in those creeks with cold clear water swiftly moving by in countless breathtakingly beautiful swirls and falls and pools –wonder with me how the water supply remains so steady and profuse.

Order NOT Chaos

I would gently swing my rod and “throw” my fly pattern upstream a short distance. It would “dead drift” on top of the current in quite reliable ways amidst what many observers might consider to be chaos. And if I looked away for an instant, how did the fish know to take the fly just then adding even more thrill to the event? Soon I realized there was no chaos at all but great principles of hydraulics and quantum principles at work and if I put the fly in the same place twice (rarely unfortunately) it would drift predictably.

Where was all that water coming from so constantly and steadily and, in fact, exhilaratingly? Stand in a clear mountain creek and be very quiet and still, and Creation will literally sing to you and you will realize things about yourself and your God that you hadn’t considered for a very long time if ever. Further, you will see a demonstration of the very nature of the Creator and His perpetual demonstration of His grace. He could have drained water from high to low places on earth without making the process beautiful and reassuring, but He is the kind of Daddy who pours out His love in every single thing He Creates and sets in motion for His kids. He obviously enjoys thrilling us and, I think, surprising us by surpassing “necessity”.

Those rushing creeks demonstrate the constancy and consistency of God’s forgiveness, mercy, peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and LOVE . . . His limitless GRACE. It cleans us inside and out. It heals us because we know Him and the power of His unconditional love. It tunes us to His everlasting frequency—the resonance of His entire Creation and every “song” His Son sings to hold it all together. (See Paul’s epistles and Hebrews).

The impact of the redemptive “work” of Jesus is as cleansing, perpetual, lavishing, and dependable as that rushing creek

Move WITH the Principles God set in place

water and even more beautiful. Let’s say it clearly and be healed: It is NOT our own worthiness, intelligence, works, righteousness, or effort but it is our embracing of Jesus Christ as our Savior and Healer and King and Shepherd and Friend that stands us in the waterfall of God’s unconditional love and mercy.

Being in that Grace changes our “want to” certainly. We slowly but surely “want to” please our loving Daddy God. Grace

comes before our own efforts not after. Did you get that? God’s unconditional Grace is a cause rather than a result of our living righteously. We can never be wholly righteous except “IN Jesus”. It is His robe of righteousness we can wear but we cannot earn that right by works and actions. It happens by submitting to Him in love knowing we are unworthy. Again, the creek can teach us this truth. Moving about in rushing waters (even fairly shallow ones) is a challenge. Moving with the current is possible. Moving against it is asking for trouble. Testing where you step before committing to the move is important. A good staff in your hand is quite helpful. Setting out impetuously gets us wet and messes up the pool of water for quite a while. Moving with Grace is pure joy! Creeks are great teachers because the Creator made them orderly not chaotic. Life is the same way.

God didn’t have to make every detail beautiful, but He loves blessing us.

In this blog we consider a great deal of God’s Logos (written) and Rhema (spoken) Word; however, God speaks to us constantly within His Creation and we can know that we know that we know Him—Daddy God—surprising, thrilling, loving, forgiving, healing, providing. We cannot fully embrace the amazing nature of our God, but we can ALWAYS be present in that rushing stream and be completely immersed–resting in His saving Grace as though each of us were His “only child”. I couldn’t “see it with my mortal eyes”, but my spirit knew full well that I was really not standing in clear water but in water re-claimed and restored and pure because of a more powerful flow—the everlasting waterfall of the cleansing blood of our Lord. That rushing creek is beyond description but it is a mere metaphor for the Lord’s Grace. God’s relentless love is our REAL HEALTH HOPE.

All Healing is Miraculous

By Jacquie Woodward

All healing is miraculous. We see it shortly after birth when the umbilical cord heals and drops off. We see it as children with our first skinned knee. We see it every day of our lives and yet we seriously doubt our innate ability to heal from “disease”. “Medicine” is not a healer….it can be an emergency mechanism to hold status quo or improve status quo until the body’s innate healing mechanisms can “kick in”. A surgeon can remove tissue and sow us back up, but he or she cannot actually make the remaining wounded tissue heal. But we do heal and we take it for granted.

On the other hand, many of us default to counting on and crediting “medicine” with healing. I hope you will watch the short video here to gain a more powerful perspective and to be encouraged.

Here, I want to share an excerpt from some conversations I had regarding empowering perspectives we can have facing disease. How we see ourselves and the challenges a critical illness throws into our path. I hope you will visit my online television page at www.gve-tv.com/Jacquie_Woodward where there are 18 short videos and some other videos I hope will encourage you. I am NOT selling anything in any of these short videos. They are meant to encourage and inform. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

When I was battling cancer, I was emboldened by the testimonies of others who had kicked cancer’s butt. I wasn’t looking for “temporary victory” as I saw in the word, “remission”. I was looking for and found full blown health. I hope to encourage others to set such a goal because it is always reachable.

I believe it’s important to realize that others have come all the way through the kinds of challenges we face.