Medical Missionary Work Simple Remedies & Emergency Situations

BIBLE:

“...Heal the sick...”  (Matthew 10:8)
 
SOP:
“We have come to a time when EVERY MEMBER of the church should take hold of medical missionary work. The world is a lazar house filled with victims of both physical and spiritual disease. Everywhere people are perishing for lack of a knowledge of the truths that have been committed to us. The members of the church are in need of an awakening, that they may realize their responsibility to impart these truths...” {7T 62.1}
 
“The medical missionary work given us to do means something to every one of us...” {CH 320.3}
“Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to apply them.  It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.” {MH 127.2}

“The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort that many are not willing to give. Nature's process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow.” {MH 127.3}

“There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but there is only one way that heaven approves.  God's remedies are the simple agencies of nature that will not tax or debilitate the system through their powerful properties...”  {5T 443.1}

“Christ left the courts of heaven that He might minister to the sick and suffering of earth. We must cooperate with the Chief of physicians, walking in all humility of mind before Him. Then the Lord will bless our earnest efforts to relieve suffering humanity. It is not by the use of poisonous drugs that this will be done, but by the use of simple remedies. We should seek to correct false habits and practices, and teach the lessons of self-denial. ...”  {MM 85.2}
 
“Nature's simple remedies will aid in recovery without leaving the deadly aftereffects so often felt by those who use poisonous drugs. They destroy the power of the patient to help himself...”  {2SM 281.3}

“The Lord has given some simple herbs of the field that at times are beneficial; and if every family were educated in how to use these herbs in case of sickness, much suffering might be prevented, and no doctor need be called. These old-fashioned, simple herbs, used intelligently, would have recovered many sick who have died under drug medication.” {2SM 294.1}

“God has caused to grow out of the ground, herbs for the use of man, and if we understand the nature of those roots and herbs, and make a right use of them, there would not be a necessity of running for the doctor so frequently, and people would be in much better health than they are today.”

--Letter 35, 1890 (To a worker in an overseas field).”  {2SM 297.9}

“...I wish to say that the medical missionary work is God's work...take hold of the medical missionary work, and it will give you access to the people….their hearts will be touched as you minister to their necessities...” {CH 533.3}

“Christ appointed His disciples. Let them labor as evangelists, scattering our publications, and talking of the truth to those they meet. Let them pray for the sick, ministering to their necessities, NOT WITH DRUGS, but with nature's remedies, and teaching them how to regain health and avoid disease.”  --Testimonies, Vol. 9, pp. 171, 172.
 
“As you relieve their sufferings, you will find opportunity to speak to them of the love of Jesus.”  --Counsels on Health, p. 533. (1901)  {Ev 523.5}
 
QUESTIONS FOR ALL OF US TO ASK OURSELVES:
1: “There is a great work to be done. Are you doing all you can to help? God has given us a commission which angels might envy. Medical missionary work is to be done. Thousands upon thousands of human beings are perishing. The compassion of God is moved. All heaven is looking on with intense interest to see what stamp medical missionary work will assume under the supervision of human beings. Will men make merchandise of God's ordained plan for reaching the dark parts of the earth with a manifestation of His benevolence?” {MM 131.2}
 
2: ARE WE PREPARED FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS?
“The first thing they must do is to make themselves practical, all-round useful men and women, who in an emergency can do the work necessary to be done...” {SpM 54.6}
 
 
THINK OF SOME MEDICAL EMERGENCIES THAT MAY COME UP… 
WHAT WOULD YOU DO? 
WOULD YOU BE EQUIPPED?
WOULD YOU BE PREPARED?
 
SOP ABBREVIATIONS:
2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2
5T = Testimonies For The Church, Volume 5
7T = Testimonies For The Church, Volume 7
CH = Counsels on Health
EV = Evangelism
MH = Ministry of Healing
MM = Medical Ministry
SpM = Spalding and Magan

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