Personal Responsibility For Healing

Many of us have heard horror stories of things that happened in the “prayer lines” — those times when someone failed to get healed, was viciously accused by the prayer-leader of not having faith, and how that person left crying, angry, or otherwise. Sad to say but those stories are often true and do actually happen. While the prayer leader may have been well-intentioned it is safe to say that the effects of their words and actions were not just ineffective but actually detrimental. I suggest there is a much better way to operate in this setting or situation, but this way carries over into all aspects of life — it is the Way of Personal Responsibility.

In any prayer situation with others it is safe to say that usually one party (the supplicant) approaches the other (prayer leader) for prayer. The supplicant obviously has a need that they don’t feel is adequately addressed without the assistance of others, which is the reason they sought help. Common sense also dictates that if the supplicant were able to solve the need on their own that they would not have sought help, which tells us that they are in a place of lack. Presumably the prayer leader is in a place of plenty in that area of need, or at least is in less lack, and so the supplicant requests prayer intending the blessing to go from the place of higher influence to lower influence. And so the prayer occurs.

When the prayer occurs there is one vitally important detail the prayer leader must be aware of — that they are responsible for providing the solution. Certainly God is the one ultimately responsible, but on an earthly level God has given us responsibility to bring heaven to earth and so it is the job of the prayer leader to do just that. What this means is that ALL failure in the situation, if blame MUST be apportioned, goes to the prayer leader. Why? Because the supplicant never had it to begin with or they wouldn’t have sought prayer. Thus, any lack of heaven’s breakthrough in the situation is the responsibility of the prayer leader to address, solve, and resolve the matter.

I find it quite sensible to take this approach for a few reasons. First, if one looks at the bible verses where someone was healed by their own faith they directly approached Jesus and usually had a solution in mind but just needed Jesus to give them an extra boost in prayer. There is not a single time Jesus said to someone “your faith has made you well” where they had no pre-formed notion of how this wholeness might occur. When he didn’t say it one can assume their faith did NOT make them well, and therefore most of the time it was not the supplicant’s faith that brought the solution, and anyone else would be wise to adopt a similar mindset.

Second, I have named this the Way of Personal Responsibility for a reason. I have little to no control at all over the lives of others. I cannot make them believe things a certain way, speak, act, or think a certain way, and as such I am the only person whose beliefs, thoughts, and actions I control. If as prayer leader I believe Heaven needs to come to Earth I cannot depend on any other person to provide enough God-power in the situation, as I am the one who is being sought for just that very thing. Therefore it is my responsibility to provide it and I never know when I will be called on for that task. I might be healing someone in a grocery store or a coworker, and it might be nowhere near a highly-anointed church prayer-line where people are getting blessed left and right. If someone needs a touch from heaven I can only count on myself to carry it. Thus I must choose actions that line up with that belief and when all is said and done I can know that I did my all.

By corollary it also means that if in that situation as prayer leader I FAIL to provide the touch from heaven under no circumstances may I begin blaming the other person and at NO point EVER do I tell that person the nine reasons why they failed to be prepared enough for me to pray for them. Obviously they were unprepared or they wouldn’t need prayer in the first place.

It is time that we each individually take a step up in our personal spiritual responsibility. People blame others for heaven failing to manifest as a cover for their own feelings of inadequacy, fear, disappointment, and shame. Blame-passing over why prayers were not answered is not fruitless but rather is poisonous. If heaven is going to manifest it begins with a look at one’s own self not at anyone else in the visual range, and as I and everyone else do this more and more I firmly believe we will see a shift in not just the way we approach prayer with others but the end results as well.

And Your Foot Shall Not Be Taken

I have a friend who has even struggling with health issues for a while. Diabetes led to kidney failure and a number of months back he developed a bad ulcer on his heel. This ulcer has been pretty problematic for him, and the only real blessing I can see in it is that the diabetes has caused such numbness from neuropathy that he can’t feel it. Although it’s also how he got the ulcer in the first place.

I have been praying with him for his foot somewhat regularly, and about a month ago I noticed some signs about his foot-health that were really concerning. Without going into gory details basically the tissue in the foot was slowly dying. My guess at that time was that if something radical didn’t happen then he was going to lose the foot. After I told him this exciting and uplifting news we went back into prayer for complete restoration of the very troubled appendage. The result? Just two days later he was emergently admitted to the hospital.

After meeting with a cluster of doctors at his bedside they all left except one remained behind. This surgeon informed him that he was going to lose his foot and that they would do surgery in two days. As you can imagine, my friend was having one of the worst moments of his life. But it seems that God had other plans. A pastor friend of his had been reading Proverbs that morning and he read a verse that struck a resounding chord within him.

“For The Lord will be your confidence, and your foot will not be taken.” Proverbs 3:26

He called our mutual friend to give him this word, which elated him significantly. Here, God was telling him to place his confidence in Him and that his foot would NOT be taken. My friend did this and took this word to heart. The next day another surgeon from another discipline walked into his room and said “Your circulation in that leg is too good. We aren’t going to take the foot.”

He underwent a few more weeks of treatment in the hospital and left with his foot doing much better. They even started him on special oxygen treatments to speed tissue healing, which they had not been doing prior to the most recent hospitalization. When I heard this story I felt very encouraged. You see, I knew what it was that I saw, and while I had been standing in faith, it was still quite difficult to look at the natural appearance of things and continue to believe for healing. Yet even when things got worse still, it was not too late. God chose his own moment in time to turn the situation around.

This was not only encouraging to me, but I felt this is testimony that is meant to bring encouragement to all people. You see, every individual has things they are believing, hoping, or even just wishing to receive from God. He is the God of Always Enough, and has limitless supply to meet every need. I was reminded through this that the situation does not matter, no matter how dark or horrid it may appear, there is a bright life-giving outcome that God has planned for me and those that I love, and he has planned the same for you.

It is too soon to give up and quit. Perseverance is what wins the race and gains the prize. Push through that problem. Push past that doubt. Ignore the voices of fear & limitation. You don’t know, but the next push, the next prayer, the next hour might contain the answer you have long been waiting to receive. You will make it through.

Kingdom Training Schools: A Vision of Things to Come

In the Old Testament there were prophets that ran together in groups. Some surmise that these were ‘schools’ of Prophets, and maybe they were. Jesus himself taught his disciples in a group that one might call a ‘school’, and rightly so. For Jesus both did AND taught with authority, and his disciples were with him most everywhere he went. But the one thing I think that is sometimes overlooked in the busy process of learning to be disciples is that Jesus actually TAUGHT.

Over the span of his three year ministerial-seminary-with-internship, Jesus sent his students on multiple learning-intensives involving self-study. The first time he sent his twelve out, and then later on he sent out seventy-two. Presumably the first twelve actually worked with some of the others in the group of seventy two on that second intensive course, taking those who were the slowest and most shy and helping them branch out into the experience of the course material as any good Teaching Assistant ought to do.

In addition to these learning intensives, Jesus offered a scholarship program for his ministerial training, having sufficient funds in the Trust that he assigned his TA with the highest marks in Accounting manage the accounts (Unfortunately this particular student kept a second set of books, but that’s somewhat beside the point). Jesus did not turn his students away on account of a lack of money because he saw to it (as did his Father) that all of their needs were met.

In the midst of reviewing this training school that Jesus ran, one could pay attention primarily to the didactic learning that took place, focusing on such scripture passages as the Sermon on the Mount, the many parables he told, and his monologue at the Last Supper just before they entered their Senior Immersion. And in truth, that is what much of the Church seems to have focused on in our Seminaries and Colleges and with our Masters and Doctorates in Divinity and Theology. But if we do that we miss out on a key theme running throughout the Gospels – Jesus both did AND taught.

One thing that no one can deny is that the teaching Jesus did included a lot of demonstration and hands-on learning. Jesus was big on having his students experience the things he spoke about, not just sit there and listen to him prattle on about grand ideas with no actual fruit to show for them. Jesus was actively involved in pushing his students into experiences with God that stretched their understanding of who God is and what God is like, and also what God would do in and through them.

When Jesus went up on the Mount of Transfiguration, he took some students with him to experience the Glory. When he went to raise Jairus’ daughter and Lazarus, he had students with him then as well. Jesus was very clear that the Gospel of the Kingdom involved manifestation of things Heavenly into the Earth-realm. For this reason the Lord’s Prayer contains a prayer of command – “Come, your Kingdom, and BE DONE, your will, on Earth as it is in Heaven!” Jesus expected of his students that his teaching would not just alter their minds but would cause literal physical substance to manifest at their command.

And we can see that this is true from what Jesus taught. The first time he multiplied the loaves among thousands of people they multiplied at Jesus’ hands. The next time they multiplied while in the DISCIPLES’ hands. Jesus was demonstrating to them that they, too, could manifest the Kingdom in power. And when they later were discussing the matter of not having enough bread, he rebuked them for completely missing the point of his object lesson. Jesus wasn’t just interested in starting a religion – he was transforming people to become vessels of Glory that would release that glory in tangible form. When a temple tax was required, a coin was taken from a fish’s mouth. When a lake proved too far to go around, Jesus began walking on it, and when he came upon his disciples in a boat, he teleported them to the far side. Yes, Jesus was as interested in teaching through experiences to manifest the supernatural realm in the earth as he was chatting about spiritual sounding ideas.

Knowing that Jesus taught this way, I find it no surprise that so many ‘Schools of the Supernatural’ are springing into being around the U.S. and probably around the world. But having been in one of them myself and having observed smatterings of the curriculum of others, I wonder how much is actually being taught in these schools compared to what Jesus taught his students. From where I sit, it appears that we are busy learning to finger paint in Kindergarten compared to the Masters-level thesis-writing that Jesus had his students doing.

I feel very strongly and have for years that God is trying to take us into a new level of Kingdom experience. God is trying to graduate us from Kindergarten, through first and second grade, and even skip us up a few grades into Middle School. I believe and feel in my spirit that there is a wealth of abundance of learning and experience to be had and to be caught if we would avail ourselves of Heaven’s Curriculum. As we look at stepping into a new grade and new levels, the questions I have are the same ones I always ask: What does it look like? and How do we get there?

I had a vision a while ago where I was a part of a school that seemed like it was in an old city with streets made of stone – one I perceive to be located somewhere in Europe based on its feel. We were in an old house that had a yard in the back and the place was filled with students. We didn’t have a set curriculum, per se, but we did have some things we were actively pressing into and practicing. Worship with music was certainly part of the plan, but it wasn’t by any means the main venue of each day. Meals were communal and each part of the house had a training purpose. There was a ‘playground’ out back that had a set of dividing walls, each with a picture painted on it. The goal of the pictures was to stand in front of one of them and then practice teleporting to one of the OTHER pictures. The different pictures (painted by one of those present in the vision) served as focal points for the teleportation. One of the walls in the dining area was full of items which had been attached to the wall by faith – plates, spoons, etc. Another wall next to it was available for people to try and walk up it. Food was prayed over and it would be expected that God would either provide the food in some fashion or other (whether it was delivered by someone, bought with faith-found money, multiplied in front of us, or otherwise appearing from Heaven), or we would fast. Mind you, fasting was not mandatory, but it was just the way we did things. No one in the vision felt like they had any major sickness, and while lean times might have been the order of the day, it was a time of intensive spiritual training for things to come.

Looking back at that vision now, I don’t yet see many of the pieces that God showed me in that vision, but what I do have is the revelation — that it is possible to actively LEARN to engage and perform the supernatural by faith, and that we as the Body need to learn how to do this and activate our gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like.

Imagine a scene where one of these higher-level Miracle schools is in action. Think of a storefront church building that’s grown too big to be a home church but isn’t large enough to be a mega-church yet. If a passer-by looked through the window when the school was in action, what might they see? What one might see are not only the things Jesus did – walking on water, raising the dead and cursing fig trees, but much more.

Maybe the meeting would start with worship. Perhaps it would start with testimonies. The attention would focus on Christ. It would start with focusing on Him, as the King of Kings is the central figure of every gift and empowerment of the Spirit. From there the school would break up into practice teams. Each team might discuss a certain miraculous power and what the Bible says about it, what God has been showing them in personal revelation, and comparing and discussing to reach a deeper understanding. These revelations and new truths could be added as curriculum material for the future and for the other practice teams to use later. The teams would each then transition into a learning lab where faith is put into action.

In one of the learning labs, viewers might see kiddie-pools full of water and students with their pant legs rolled up, shoes off, stepping onto the water to see if it holds. If they break through the surface and it doesn’t hold their weight, they stop, spend a moment re-centering and refocusing on what God has told them – things like “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.” and ‘Jesus said I would do GREATER works than these”. After spending moments or minutes they would try again.

Over in another corner one might see people practicing with multiplying food by faith. In yet another corner one might see a group with flashlights and searching everywhere – their hands and arms, the ground, their pockets. Every now and again one might pick something up, motioning and shouting excitedly. It appears it might be a gemstone by the way it glints in the light. Did that just appear? And where did that sparkly dust come from on that woman’s hands? Miracles of apportation in action.

On one wall there would be a series of paintings – possibly ones that were painted during the worship time. There is tape on the floor in front of each picture that is in the shape of a person-sized box. Students are just standing there staring at the pictures and sometimes closing their eyes. It rapidly becomes clear what this lab is about when one student translocates himself from one picture to another!

Heading around back one might see a group tending a small garden plot – but with no tools other than their mouths. Speaking to the plants, the group is telling them to grow whole, healthy, and for all weeds to remain ungerminated in their seeds. Worms and ladybugs would be welcomed to the plot and all harmful insects would be rebuked and sent elsewhere. Leaf blight and dry fungus could not flourish, and the fruit of such a plot would certainly be large in size and plentiful in number.

A field trip might take the class to a local funeral home where families receive back their dead by the power of God, or to a hospital cancer unit where tumors fall off in front of one’s eyes. Or even to a burn unit, where skin grows back on a victim’s arms and legs in seconds at the utterance of the name of Jesus.

And with so much faith in the air, certainly in a place like this there would be no sickness, no disease, no disability. And with the faith to see gemstones appear, there could be no lack either, for whatever need arises would be met with faith equal to the task, and the solution would manifest before the eyes of the one in need.

Why all the focus on the miraculous? The gift of Miraculous Powers (note that it’s plural, not singular) is possibly one of the most neglected gifts of the Spirit at this juncture in history. Much is known about faith already – the Word of Faith movement saw to that. Asuza Street brought with it, among other things, a revival of tongues and interpretation. Entire volumes have been written on discernment and casting out of demons since the days of Derek Prince. The Healing movement has flourished mightily since the days of John Wimber. The Latter Rain movement brought a resurgence of prophets and the gift of prophecy, word of knowledge, and word of wisdom. Of all of these, the gift of miraculous powers stands alone without understanding, yet if the Church were honest with herself, Jesus spent possibly more of his time doing miracles than anything else. Of Jesus’ own confession, Capurneum was a place where he did many miracles, and the Book of John states that more miracles were performed by Jesus than could fit in all the books in the world.

What is clear at this point is that it IS possible to actively learn and engage in order to perform the supernatural by faith. The Church as a whole are expected by Jesus to learn how to do this and activate the gifts of prophecy, healing, miraculous powers, and the like far more than before.
In my own life and those of personal friends I can list miracles we have experienced: apportation of objects including gemstones, feathers, and oil; translocation in time and space; spirit travel on earth and in heaven; gravity defying miracles; multiplication of objects (including food); levitation; mind-reading; weather control; and raising the dead. I know that all these things and more can be caught and/or taught, and I also know that God is releasing greater revelation, authority, and understanding to the Body at this time to walk in these things in a much greater measure.

There is an ever-present danger that must be addressed to balance out the pursuit of the Miracle realms. It is possible to find a group of people who have a high level of operation in various miracles, anointings, and giftings, and some who have a lot of faith in these many areas, and to do so in order to create a school like that I have described above. This actually might be an idea that would advance the school’s supernatural journey rapidly, but at the same time there is a risk. Quantity of miracles without depth of character is a pitfall that has ruined people before, and without care will do it again. “Where there is no guidance the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Psalms 11:14. Without a multitude of counselors who can see areas of weakness – both of the individual and the group, it is almost guaranteed to fail before it has even started. These counselors are not present to be fault-finding or blame-seeking, but rather to serve as an early warning system for problems so that they never grow too big. As it says in Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” It is best to avoid destruction, and while pride is not the only character flaw that causes problems, the entire issue is avoided by means of vigilance.

An additional problem in developing this type of school is the money. While one might locate the right teachers and group facilitators, it is impossible to make promises that students will learn this or that, guarantees that can be made in public schools, but not in Kingdom schools. That said, is it ethical to charge tuition with no guarantees? Additionally, these things can be taught, but they can’t be bought. This is a difficult thing, but the vision still remains within me. I do believe we are reaching a time where schools such as this will develop into supernatural communities, and those currently in existence will increase and expand, exemplifying a new wave of power-packed supernatural encounters such as most people have only dreamed.

I envision communities of people where teleporting, flying, and manifesting money and resources by faith is a daily occurrence. Where rescuing children from sex trade is simply a matter of teleporting into the holding area and teleporting thirty people back out with you. Where there is no real lack among them because it can be created at will based on the needs present. Clothes, shoes, money, whatever one has need of is available because those in these Haven communities know how to manifest the abundance out of heaven into the earth so that there is no needy among them. I envision properties that are portals of heaven into earth like nothing we have yet seen. Moravian Falls, Redding, Prayer Mountain in Korea, none of those hold a candle to what I see possible when the right people come together in one heart and one mind seeking after the supernatural workings of God to manifest life with love and demonstrations of the Spirits’ power.

When I think of all the human struggles and issues that could rise up and the difficulty that having a cohesive group living in one accord like that would pose, I say to myself ‘It would take a miracle’, but I can’t let go of the idea in my spirit that God really WANTS us to live in that kind of realm of the flow of the Spirit. Until then, I will continue to press forward into the goodness of my Father, knowing that He is building in us all a blueprint of the things that He is doing, and knowing that as I follow the portion of that blueprint God is laying on my heart and piecing my page together with others God is calling and preparing, that together we will be able to construct a spiritual city in the earth whose Architect and Chief Builder is God.

Juicing: That Thing People Do

There are a great many ideas out there about juicing – what it does and doesn’t do, who should and shouldn’t do it, what juicer to use. There are even people who focus on ‘food combining’, which deals with what foods do and do not mix well together from an enzymatic and digestive perspective. While I will not attempt to tackle the topic of food combining at this time, the other items listed above are sort of need-to-know information for anyone who is interested in juicing, or even for someone who has heard about it but isn’t sure they’re ready to try it yet.

The basic premise of juicing is this – there is a limit to the amount of food you can chew and eat. Juicing breaks down the outer cell wall of the plant and releases the inner ‘guts’ of the cell – the juice. It is here that most of the nutrients are to be found, and juicing allows you to consume these nutrients without having to eat the rest of the fruit or vegetable. The benefit of this is that you can increase your intake of vitamins, but not necessarily have to increase the amount of food you eat.

We all know that vitamins are ‘good for you’, but the reality is that we don’t usually have a great grasp on the relationship between our food and the nutrients it provides. In addition, every ‘new’ health study that someone publishes tells us something completely different. One week coffee is highly addictive (which it actually is) and is being touted as the worst food item for you and the next it’s the best cancer-killing agent out there. Another week broccoli becomes the item of choice – high in calcium and other phytonutrients. A few months later someone else will invariably publish a study saying that it has high levels of toxic mycoproteins that flangellate the insubriate pentarid of the upper gentarium ellipsoid. And since no one knows what the gentarium ellipsoid is, but the article makes it sound like having it flangellated is a really bad thing, everyone starts avoiding broccoli. But when it comes down do it, there seems to be very little new information about nutrition out there that would truly shock anyone who knows many of the basics.

Vitamins as a whole are required for your body to live. If you have a deficiency of any nutrient your body will attempt to compensate, but at some point in time you will get sick. The only way to correct this is by obtaining adequate quantities of that nutrient. I have talked to a good many people who are under the misconception that ‘eating a balanced diet’ is sufficient to obtain these nutrients at adequate doses. Due, in part, to our horrid farming practices as a nation, and the way in which we strip the soil of nutrients instead of replenishing them, as well as the on-demand sale of goods which causes us to pick fruit weeks and weeks early and pretend they are ripe, we eat low-nutrient foods. The density of vitamins and minerals increases as a fruit or vegetable ripens, and short-changing that natural ripening process cheapens the VALUE of the food even if it doesn’t alter the price.

One way to fix this is to take multivitamins, and depending on which one you take, this is a good idea. However, some of these vitamins were created artificially in a lab and the body is not able to utilize them in the same as if they were straight from nature. Other ingredients, such as certain kinds of calcium and iron, are not compounds the body has enzymes to digest, even if the label states that ‘calcium’ is in the product. This means that you have to be choosy not just about your food, but about your multivitamins. Juicing can help solve this problem.

Juicing does a few things all at once. By breaking the cell walls down, as mentioned above, it makes the nutrients readily available. Additionally, because the bulk of the cell walls are not there the body can consume a higher quantity of the juice (much of it is actually just water, which the body can process rapidly). The more juice, the more vitamins. Juicing ALSO causes enzymes to be released into the body in greater proportion. Enzymes are used for most chemical processes in the body, and the number of enzymes limits the quantity and speed that other functions in the body can take place, including digestion. Using the enzymes present in the juice, the body can actually digest and absorb other food even better than normal! Not only that, but the body is able to process foods in liquid form much more easily than solids due to the configuration of the digestive system. Thus, juicing leads to a higher rate of absorption even if the same quantity of nutrients were eaten by normal means. Finally, juicing causes a natural detoxification in the body, removing harmful substances that you didn’t even know were there.

As for who should juice – there are very few people who would be harmed by juicing. Those specialty cases are generally those who have severe hormone imbalances that are freak genetic events, caused by surgery or physically traumatic accidents, etc. This specific and limited group of people may lack certain abilities that a normal human body may possess that would allow for cell repair, and in their cases, depending on the nature of the injury, juicing could significantly worsen their condition, especially if they have a propensity towards toxicity of any vitamins. Diabetics are at risk with juicing, but those risks can be mitigated if done properly and depending on the type of diabetes. Type 1 diabetics simply do not have the insulin-producing capacity of a normal pancreas, and truthfully ought to consult an endocrinologist prior to any significant juicing, as this could seriously alter their body chemistry. Type 2 diabetics need to be careful, and also ought to consult a physician, but the risks are greatly reduced IF DONE PROPERLY.

What a Type 2 diabetic needs to know, which doctors will rarely ever tell you, is that Type 2 diabetes is actually curable. Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance at the cellular level, NOT by a lack of sufficient hormones produced by the pancreas. This is a dysfunction that is usually linked to obesity and other generalized overload of the body from toxic substances in our environment. Juicing, when done right, will cause the body to lose weight as well as remove these toxins from the body. As this occurs, the body will be able to heal itself, insulin resistance will reduce, and the body may simply cease to be diabetic any longer. While juicing is not a guarantee of this, it is a high likelihood. Type 2 diabetics must pay attention to the quantity of sugars they consume during their juicing process, and it is best if one juice-fasts instead of eating other foods as well, in order to both offset the blood sugar increases and to reduce calories faster (accelerating weight loss). This can be done by choosing juices that are heavy on vegetables but low on starchy vegetables. Fruits are not bad, contrary to popular belief, but it is important to closely monitor blood sugar during this process, and make adjustments to the juice ingredients as needed.

Supplements such as chromium (also chromium picolinate), cinnamon, and broken-cell-wall chlorella can help manage and reduce blood sugar, and can be used during a diabetic’s juicing process to help manage blood sugar levels. As always, this advice is not in any way to take the place of that of a licensed physician, but can be used to help you know what questions to ask. Keep in mind you may need to find a doctor that actually knows something about the subject, as this isn’t something that is really covered in medical school and like the rest of us, doctors are often guessing if they haven’t specifically learned about the subject.

Juicers themselves come in two main types, although there are a great number of companies out there. The two main types are masticating and centrifugal. Masticating juicers basically crush and slow-grind the ingredients in a manner that does not heat them up to the same temperature that centrifugal juicers do. This means they maintain a higher level of enzymes comparatively, as few enzymes are destroyed by the juicing process. This type of juicer is also nauseatingly slow and usually cannot juice large quantities. If someone is planning on juicing a glass or two at a time, and maybe is retired, or really dedicated, or has a ton of free time, or is paying someone else to do it, then a masticating juicer is really a fantastic idea. Even refrigerated, this juice will maintain its benefits longer than a centrifugal-juiced juice. Centrifugal juicers basically spin really fast and shred the food into tiny bits, spinning out the juice from the pulp. They work really fast and usually can juice large quantities of juice at one time. Due to the speed, they do destroy more enzymes than the masticating, but still provide far more benefit than not juicing at all. This juicer is great for those of us who want to be healthy but need to juice larger quantities of juice at one time and who don’t have an hour or more to give to the process every time they want a few glasses of juice. It will require a bit more produce than masticating, as masticating juicers often have slightly drier pulp due to better extraction, but I personally have never noticed a significant difference on a day-by-day basis on the amount of produce used.

Juicing and drinking immediately (read that as ‘drinking within 15 minutes of juicing’) generally will provide the highest benefit, but juicing and drinking within the next day or so will still be healthful. In my person opinion, after 2-3 days have passed you really need more fresh juice, but it is okay to juice a larger quantity and store some in the fridge. My wife and I both work and we don’t have the time (or if we do we aren’t willing to make the time) to juice each glass individually each time we are going to drink juice, so I usually juice a half-gallon at a time and we drink it over the course of about a day. As my wife is on a heavy juice-detox program right now, she is drinking the majority of that juice, and if both of us were drinking heavy quantities we might need closer to a gallon daily between us for our health goals.

We were discussing this the other night and decided to test it out to see what the difference in benefit was between fresh juice and day-old juice. I made some fresh juice and we decided to muscle-test it versus the rest of the juice we had from the day before still sitting in the fridge. Both juices tested positive for us, meaning that our bodies were stronger as a result of touching the juice, but the difference between the day-old and the fresh juice were noticeable! If nothing else, it has made a believer out of me for the juice-and-drink philosophy!

In the end, not everyone will find juicing is right for them. Some find it more expensive, although we have found that the more we juice, the less we spend in food costs. We shop smart to make that happen, but the end result is we pay less. Some will find they can’t or won’t make the time, and others still don’t have the ability due to lack of a juicer or inability to obtain one, or other social constraints which prevent them from juicing. Still others won’t, not for any of the above reasons, but because they are afraid to step out and try something new. If you have any interest in juicing whatsoever, or even just in better health, take that scary step. Borrow a juicer, pick one up at a yard sale, buy one off Craigslist at a discount, but give it a try. If you don’t like the recipes you’re using, try something different. Give juicing a fair attempt – not because juicing is worth it, but because you’re worth it.

And if you have had any success with it, have hints or tips for the rest of us, or even have questions, please comment and share. We’re all partial-experts, and when we share, we all grow.

Personal Responsibility For Healing

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Kingdom Training Schools: A Vision of Things to Come

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