Miracles Down Under
Also, I have an update for you about Tania, the young lady that I met on the streets of Melbourne. Stine, our Bible worker has been staying in contact with her and encouraging her spiritually. God is really doing great things with her!! She is so very open for God’s guidance.
Stine and Tania had briefly studied and talked about the Sabbath a little bit. Stine also sends her occasional text messages on Sabbath to tell her what she has been doing, which keeps the Sabbath concept before her mind.
You may remember that Tania works in a high-end fashion shop in the Melbourne CBD. One day her boss decided to change her schedule and gave her less working hours in order to save money. Now, instead of five working days, she was scheduled to work only three, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Tania is learning to hear God’s voice. She prayed and asked God to show her if there was anything He wanted of her. In silence, she listened to hear His voice. She felt God impressed her with the thought: “Do not work on Saturdays.” Tania took this so seriously that she went to her boss and told her she did not want to work that day!
Isn’t that amazing! Tania is not yet a true Sabbath keeper and she has barely started to study the Bible with Stine our Bible worker, and yet she is so open for God’s voice that she acted upon His counsel on her own!
Friends, God is still at work! Please remember to pray for Highwood. We really need your thoughtful and faithful prayers. Our team is on the front line. And thank you for your support.
Highwood Spirit
Kelly is a young Jewish lady who came to Highwood Health Retreat to deal with some health and emotional problems. Though she was not very religious, she had been educated in private Jewish schools and had retained some Jewish values and a general belief in God.
While at Highwood, Kelly found the staff to be kind and personally interested in her. Soon she developed a friendship with our team who had many opportunities to talk with her about Jesus and the love of God. Peter, one of our volunteers took her and the other guests on a walk one Sabbath and had some excellent time to share with her. Kelly also spent a good bit of time with one of our cooks.
One day Kelly got a message that really disturbed her. Iris (our nurse) encouraged her to pray about the matter. Kelly also remembered that someone had told her to thank God even before seeing the prayer answered.
Kelly went out for a walk by herself and prayed earnestly, and thanked God for answering. As she walked back in the health retreat, she received a new text message – a clarifying message in harmony with what she had prayed for. She eagerly found Iris and told her what God had done for her! Kelly had started to experience the power of prayer in a mighty way. Iris suggested she thank God right then and there. Iris listened as she prayed a simple prayer of thanks.
Kelly sensed God’s love tugging on her heart. That evening a group of the staff and guests were gathered together to say goodbye to a volunteer who was leaving Highwood the next morning. Kelly openly told about her answered prayer, and while they all knelt to pray for safe travel, Kelly prayed a lovely prayer of faith. When the session ended (on Wednesday), Kelly was enjoying her time at Highwood so much that she didn’t want to go home. She asked if she could stay a few more days. In spite of a serious need for a few days rest, the staff agreed that she could stay. She spent the Sabbath, attended church with our team, and left the following Monday morning.
As she left she wrote the following lines to the staff. “I had such a wonderful time at Highwood. I got so much more than I even expected and I am so enormously grateful to all the staff here for making my stay so beneficial, peaceful, safe, educational, spiritually eye-opening and, of course, heart-opening.” Kelly left Highwood with Steps to Christ, Desire of Ages, The Great Controversy, and a few cook books. Stay tuned…
Get Your Exercise!
It turns out that one of the best ways to beat cancer is to take regular exercise. People who stay active have half the risk of dying from any disease, including cancer. Recent studies show that those who burn fewer than 2,100 calories a week were 48 percent more likely to die from disease than those who burnt more than 12,600. For cancer survivors, daily exercise could extend their lives even further.
Regular exercise has already been shown to lengthen life, but now research reveals that regular exercise can extend the lives of cancer patients. A recent study used data from more than 1,000 men who had cancer and studied their physical exercise including walking, stair-climbing and sports. Those with cancer and those with heart disease showed nearly 50% less deaths from either cause. Researchers said that physical activity should be promoted to those with these diseases.
It is also known that physical activity helps with arthritis and circulatory diseases. And because exercise improves the respiratory and immune systems, they are linked to extended lifespan and reduce the chance of getting cancer in the first place. A 2010 UK study showed that incidence of breast cancer, uterine cancer and colon cancer were all increased with less than the recommended minimum exercise.
“If those who are sick would exercise their muscles daily, women as well as men, in outdoor work, using brain, bone, and muscle proportionately, weakness and languor would disappear. Health would take the place of disease, and strength the place of feebleness.” Medical Ministry, page 297
“Let the patients be shown the necessity of practicing the principles of health reform, if they would regain their health. Let the sick be shown how to get well by being temperate in eating and by taking regular exercise in the open air…” Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 444
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