James P. Gills - Gods Prescription For Healing: Five Divine Gifts of Healing

Dr. Jim Gills has provided a very valuable service in writing this book. It is a welcome and vital resource for a correct Christian understanding of sickness and healing. Few people in this world have studied the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of healing like Dr. Gills, and this important book reveals lifelong quest of searching, studying, and learning. He will take you on journey where you will end up marveling at natural healing, learning how maximize assisted healing, aligning yourself with God to achieve inner healing, struggling to understand those improbable healings, and rejoicing that the destination for all believers is ultimate healing. Dr. Gills gently points in the direction we should all go because someday we will all face sickness and suffering. This book integrates the whole-person principle in a unique and effective way. I highly recommend it for anyone dealing with sickness. Read this book, but more importantly, use it and apply it.

JAMES A.A VERY,M.D., FACP, FCCP
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
VNS-NEW YORK HOSPICE, NYC

Dr. James P. Gills, world-renowned eye surgeon, has written a magnificent book on healing based on the Word of God. My son, give attention to my words... for they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Prov. 4:20, 22, emphasis added).

How can we search for cures? The causes and cures for disease are available to us through understanding the Creators unique, intelligent, and irreducibly complex design of our bodies and minds. This book beautifully underlines Gods prescription for our healing by discussing details of that design.

Dr. Gills recognizes that our ultimate healing of salvation is a gift of grace from God. This grace also provides our daily healing. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me (Ps. 50:15).

From the cellular to the celestial, Dr. Gills carries our hearts through the healing process. Reading this book and the attendant Scriptures can bring healing and joy to you.

J. JAMES ROWSEY,M.D.
DIRECTOR OF CORNEAL SERVICES, ST. LUKES CATARACT AND LASER INSTITUTE

This is, in my opinion, Dr. James Gills best book to date. It is stunning. Amazing. Full of practical advice, put lovingly but firmly, this book has the potential to change ones life at nearly every levelphysically, emotionally, and spiritually. It is an affirmation of biblical teachingfrom Creation to redemptionand makes nonsense of Darwinism while extolling common sense to the hilt. I would literally say that every person should read this book.

DR. R. T. KENDALL, TEACHER, AUTHOR, AND
FORMER PASTOR, WESTMINSTER CHAPEL, LONDON

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GODS PRESCRIPTION FOR HEALING by James P. Gills, M.D.
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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked AMP are from the Amplified Bible. Old Testament copyright 1965, 1987 by the Zondervan Corporation. The Amplified New Testament copyright 1954, 1958, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked THE MESSAGE are from The Message: The Bible in Contemporary English, copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

Scripture quotations marked TLB are from The Living Bible. Copyright 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved.

Cover design by Eric Powell
Interior design by Terry Clifton

This book is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of medical advice and treatment from your personal physician. Readers are advised to consult their own doctors or other qualified health professionals regarding the treatment of their medical problems. Neither publisher nor the author takes any responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, action, or application of medicine, supplement, herb, or preparation to any person reading or following the information in this book. If readers are taking prescription medications, they should consult with their physicians and not take themselves off of medicines to start supplementation without the proper supervision of a physician.

ISBN-13: 978-0-88419-947-2 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-59185-286-5 (paperback)
E-book ISBN: 978-1-61638-730-3

Copyright 2004 by James P. Gills, M.D.
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gills, James P., 1934
Gods prescription for healing / James Gills.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-88419-947-9 (hardback) -- ISBN 0-88419-947-9
1. Healing--Religious aspects--Christianity. I. Title.
BT732.G54
2004 234.131--dc22 2003027758

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I initially found the inspiration for this book while I watched my friend Jamie Buckingham fight cancer. In the year and a half before his death, he learned that his life was one of just Jamie and Jesus. During that period, I observed Gods five gifts of healing in Jamies experience, which culminated in his ultimate healing when he went to be with the Lord.

This book contains a deep concept of Gods provision of life and healing, which is determined by His profound DNA design contained in, and originating from, a single, microscopic cell. So, it is with wonder and appreciation that I acknowledge the Creator and His intelligence, wisdom, and grace.

I am grateful to my wife, Heather, my family, and the family of staff at St. Lukes for all their support and love. My thanks to those who assisted in the writing and research of this bookGary Carter, Steve Johnson, and Susan McIntosh. I appreciate Carol Noe for her encouragement at the genesis of this project, as well as all the editing and publishing staff at Siloam for their work.

The Creators plan for you, and His design that realizes that plan, asks for acknowledgment and thanksgiving in every heart. There can be no healing without them.

CONTENTS

A s an intern at Johns Hopkins, I was deeply impressed when I would walk on the neurosurgical wards and see the CEOs and crown princes of various places with tons of money, fame, and advanced degrees, all dying of malignant brain tumors. It was at that point that I recognized that all of the wealth and fame in the world is not to be equated with good health. Any of those people would gladly have given every title and every penny for a clean bill of health, but it was too late. How often do we stop and ask ourselves about the importance of our health, and how often do we try to do anything about it?