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MENTAL
CREED
1. "We believe mental wellness and
the optimal use of our minds, mental powers and human potential
begins with the fear, love, trust and obedience of God and His Law/Word."
(Proverbs
1:7; Psalm 119:98; Proverbs 2:6; Proverbs 9:9)
2. "Just as we are what we eat physically
we are also what we ingest mentally. Garbage in-Garbage out. We
are the sum total of our thoughts."
(Proverbs
23:7; Proverbs 22:6; Philippians 4:8)
3.
"We believe that to tap our true mental and human potential
and to be at our best we must have a definite major purpose in life.
We believe that man's purpose is not to live by bread alone (the
physical) but by ever Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God."
(Deuteronomy
8:3; Matthew 4:4; John 6:63; Micah 6:8)
4.
"Most anxiety, depression, negative mindset and so called mental
disease is the result of the heart being disconnected from our Creator;
the result of sin in our lives."
(Isaiah
59:2; Matthew 15:18)
5.
"We believe that most of what we call modern day psychology
is not a science but a substitute religion designed to replace God's
inerrant Word with the ever shifting precepts of men. Psychiatry
and brain drugging has its root not in medical science but ancient
Egyptian sorcery. God's people are commanded to come out of these
false systems of this world."
(Revelation
18:4; Revelation 21:8; 1 Timothy 6:20; Romans 1:28)
6.
"The most powerful medicine that God has given us is our mind.
We believe both sickness and high level wellness begins in the mind.
Our minds have the potential to be great healers or great slayer.
Negative thoughts create and exacerbate disease, stymie the immune
system and prematurely kill. Positive thoughts stimulate a powerful
and indestructible immune system and heal and prevent disease more
effectively than any medicine known to man."
(Proverbs
14:30; Proverbs 17:22; Proverbs 18:14; Proverbs 25:19; James 1:6)
7.
"There is a spiritual component to most of our diseases. Many
of our diseases can be traced to sin and lack of forgiveness; holding
onto spiritual garbage of the past. We believe forgiveness is essential
to our physical, mental and spiritual health."
(Matthew
6:15; Matthew 18:21; Romans 12:8; Colossians 3:13; Psalm 51)
8.
"Unlike the heathen who practice emptying their minds into
a void of nothingness, we believe that godly meditation requires
that we entertain, entrance and inculcate God's Word into our mind.
We also believe that positive and encouraging meditations and suggestions
congruent with God's Word while in a relaxed, undisturbed, and unfocused
state not only Is able to reduce much of the stress, tension and
anxiety of living in this world, but also encourages, stimulates
and galvanizes our own body's God given healing and restoration
systems."
(Psalm
1:2; Joshua 1:8; 1 Timothy 4:15; Psalm 104:34; Proverbs 15:4; Proverbs
15:26; Proverbs 16:24)
9.
"We believe that our God given minds are highly sophisticated
servomechanisms that require definite goals to function properly.
Where there are no goals or vision the people perish. We also believe
that daily prayer, Bible study and meditation are essential for
our physical, mental and spiritual health."
(Proverbs
16:9; Proverbs 29:18; Hosea 4:14; 2 Timothy 2:15; Psalm 1:2; James
5:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
10.
"We believe that our God given calling is not to be raptured
or to escape from the world but to transform the world by conversion
and to take dominion of every arena of life under our King Jesus
Christ, guided by His Holy Spirit, and grounded in His Word/Law.
We are called to overcome the world not escape from it."
(Revelation
3:21; 1 John 5:4; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 28:19; Psalm 119:105; 1
Corinthians 10:31; Revelation 22:14)
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