Michigan Camp Meeting 2024: As For Me and My House

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The Gospel Remedy: True Keys to Wholistic Healing

Kimberly Azelton

Mike Hess

Philip Mills

How Choice Happens: Tools for Change

New Identity in Christ

Building New Pathways of Change

The Safeguards: Managing Stress

Inspiring the Launch

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2024 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Father in heaven, you didn't make us one-dimensional, you made us whole in the Garden of Eden.

We know that sin broke that wholeness and now the gospel is in the business which you are in the business of restoring us back to the whole physical mental and spiritual that you've called us to be we put this time into your hands we thank you for joining us We ask that you will speak to our hearts and our minds in Jesus name.

I'm from the Lansing 7th day Adventist Church.

I am working on my master's in counseling I'll be a licensed therapist.

I'm not a licensed therapist yet, but I will be in about a year and a half.

It depends on how long it takes me to get the hours.

But I have thoroughly enjoyed learning how to combine mental health with the power of scripture.

And what I've discovered, which is quite obvious if you think about it, the most powerful mental health book is the Bible.

I grew up, 1 just other quick thing, I grew up in Wichita, Kansas going to a church called 3 Angels where my dad, who's a physician, was very involved with Pastor Don McIntosh in doing medical missionary work in our community.

So CHIP for churches was written by my grandma and my aunt in the church I grew up in.

So if you've done the CHIP program, I came out of that.

And so I watched firsthand the power of medical missionary work to change lives.

And I'm really excited about this seminar, and I have the privilege of working with these extremely gifted physicians.

People often call me Pastor Doctor because I'm a pastor and a doctor.

I actually became a pastor first, went through seminary, and was convicted in my studies that God wanted me to combine physical and spiritual healing into 1 life work.

And so I went from Andrews Seminary to Loma Linda, completed residency in family medicine, and then I've been practicing how to combine these things for the last 20-something years.

I have a wife and 6 children and 5 grandchildren, and I just really enjoy helping people to be able to find wholeness.

And it doesn't matter whether the problem's physical, mental, or spiritual, Jesus has the answer.

We're gonna hear from them throughout the week.

And you're gonna introduce yourself, I assume.

I'll try to remember, but he knows me well.

I am also at Lansing with Pastor Phil Mills.

So I run Family and Lifestyle Medicine, a non-profit that is combining gospel and medical evangelism, which you're going to hear all about this week, which is, I'm very excited that we're going to attempt this seminar, because this is a very, very unique seminar.

Now while I'm doing the introduction, is there anyone who does not have a handout?

If you could raise your hands really, really high.

And we have a couple of people that are coming up here.

And he was leading a very routine navigational flight.

He was training, and they were to fly this training navigational flight out of Fort Lauderdale, make this bombing, this practice of bombing, and then head north to the Grand Bahama.

And at 3.45, this experienced pilot, so Charles Taylor, he said, we're off course.

Of course, you know, you plan something routine on a nice clear day when you're not gonna have any issues.

They lost contact for 10 minutes with the tower.

They're trying to figure out how to get in touch.

And then another voice, not Taylor's voice, answers and says, we can't find West.

They were able to intercept some of the conversations that was going on behind the scenes, and they had found out that the flight leader had for some unknown reason turned over the command to another person, another pilot.

So now the most experienced pilot was not in control.

There's 20 minutes of silence and then followed by this just hysteria over the messaging system.

That's the last we've ever heard of Flight 19.

All of these, I see some nodding heads, it's pretty famous.

I have a friend who is a pilot in an airplane, like he's very crazy about airplanes.

And so, have you heard of this graveyard spiral?

That can happen, this spatial disorientation, that even if it's a clear day, you can't tell, you just complete, you think that this way is actually down.

And like your body completely feels that way.

Like all of you right now are spatially oriented.

Like There is so much extensive training that happens with pilots on the spatial disorientation, but they still, it's very difficult, especially when you get very stressed.

So imagine a routine day, like the navigational system, which is a very routine, right?

Does graveyard spirals happen in our lives today?

Came to work super stressed, and there's this new project on the table that I didn't know about, and it just ticks me off the wrong way.

And you don't have any food in the system, so you have super low blood sugar anyway, and then your graveyard spiral just kind of keeps, you know, where did devotions go, right?

By that time, you're so hungry, you're out to a fast food restaurant, but that's not gonna keep you full, because it doesn't have a lot of fiber.

So you eat your biggest meal at the evening and so you get to bed late, you don't sleep well because you have all this food on your stomachs, you get up late and you repeat the whole cycle over again.

These are called reactionary habits and this can be compared to a graveyard spiral.

So notice where in your life you might have these graveyard spirals, these little triggers.

And these are just some of the areas we're going to talk about this week.

This really relates to your medical health and your spiritual and your mental health.

Grief, anxiety, discontent, remorse, guilt, distrust all tend to break down the life forces, invite decay and death.

Some of these early areas, some of these things that we think, oh I can survive, oh I don't need to deal with the grief of such and such.

But then there's still those those seeds of death and decay that God wants to heal.

And you're at this seminar to learn how that can heal.

So on the last 2 pages of your handout, there are a number of different reactionary habits and things that you could identify in various levels of this graveyard spiral.

Series

The Gospel Remedy: True Keys to Wholistic Healing

How Choice Happens: Tools for Change

Transcript

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