Living a Healthy Life

WHO WROTE THE BOOK “A MORE EXCELLENT WAY”?
When I introduced Pastor Henry Wright to all of my friends two years ago, I knew that Henry had not written the book, but that it was transcribed from his teaching tapes. I did not pay attention to who had done this work, and to me it made no difference, since we were looking for the truth and it finally had come out in book form. But some time ago I was contacted by a ministry in Alaska, “Wellspring Ministries of Alaska,” and a pastor on their staff asked us to send them our information on “Arrested Development Spirits,” which we did.

Some time later, I was sent a book from them entitled, “Biblical Foundations of Freedom,” written by Art Mathias. Because of the enormous amount of material that I am constantly receiving, the book was placed on a stack for future reading, when I could get to it. After sitting on this stack for a few weeks, the Holy Spirit strongly moved upon me one Sunday night to take a look at it.

Once I started to read it, I was shocked, filled with joy, surprised, that this was a follow up on the book by Henry. A More Excellent Way is a text book telling you what your problem is and how to get out from under it, but this book went much deeper into detail, and particularly spells out how the different demons work and how they support each other. When I read it I found out that I myself was manipulated by demons without even knowing it. Suddenly, this book became “must reading” for me.

THE REST OF THE STORY
Art Mathias is a Christian business man living in Anchorage, Alaska. He had been a Christian for many years, having graduated from a Christian College with a degree in Bible and psychology. In 1977 he was injured in an accident, which caused three discs to rupture in his neck. His right arm and shoulder atrophied to the point where he had little strength or use of them.

The doctors told him that he would never regain the former strength, or full use of his arm. In 1998 he had surgery to fuse four vertebrae in his neck, and after the surgery the severe cramping in his arm and shoulder was gone, but he found that almost everything he touched or ate caused him to hurt. The tips of his fingers and toes were numb, and the numbness was progressing up his arms and legs. His nerves were dying in his toes and fingers and he was now allergic to almost all foods and clothing.

The man was miserable and could not enjoy life, regardless how much money he had. He was diagnosed as having Environmental Illness (EI). The Mayo Clinic diagnosed him with “small fiber neuropathy” and predicted that it would progress up his arms and legs until it reached a vital organ and then he would die.

It was at this low point in his life (1999), that his sister sent him 15 audio cassettes from a week long seminar that Pastor Henry Wright had conducted. As he listened to the tapes and had them transcribed, he began to apply the principles taught by Henry which resulted in his healing.

Prior to listening to the tapes, two different pastors had laid hands on him and prayed for him, but he was not healed. Art came to understand that because of unrepentant sin in his life God could not heal him without violating his own holy nature. Art learned through the teaching of Pastor Wright that there is a connection between sin in the life of a human and disease attacking the body.

Here is what Art said about this issue:

“In my resentment and unforgiveness, my body had produced too much adrenalin which had weakened my immune system – thus allowing the allergies. The allergies were causing my nerve endings to die, to the point that the doctors believed the process would cause my death within a few years. After I forgave others and myself, God healed my nerve damage, restored my right arm and shoulder completely, and healed all my allergies. My health was restored!”

The literal transcription of the audio cassettes was barely readable and hard to understand. In January, 1999 Art called his long time friend, Linda Follett, and told her what had happen to him. Linda herself had been dealing with Environmental Illness, plus Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), Fibromylagia, and other chronic illnesses for about ten years. Art asked Linda to transcribe and edit Pastor Wright’s seminar tapes and as she worked on them she too was completely healed of her illnesses. Linda now enjoys good health. When Henry came to Anchorage in June and July, 1999, to hold healing seminars, the initial edition of a More Excellent Way was available to the public for the first time.

Now you know the exciting story of how this book came into being. As Art and Linda worked on this project, they applied the teaching to their lives and God healed them.

When people saw the dramatic changes in the lives of Art and Linda, they asked, “How did this happen?” Art began to share his story and this was the beginning of his ministry called “WELLSPRING MINISTRIES OF ALASKA.”

A NEW BOOK
In March 2000 a new book was birthed, “BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM.” As Art, and the team God gave him, began to minister in Alaska and other places, they saw the need to write down in more detail the different understandings and steps to prepare the sick person spiritually to repent and have different kinds of evil spirits cast out. If you have purchased and read the book “A More Excellent Way,” there is no doubt in my mind that you should purchase this new book by Art Mathias to make your understanding and ministry more complete. If you have not seen any of the books, you owe it to your health to purchase Pastor Wright’s book first and prepare yourself to be healed and set free from all ailments.

In his book, Art is dealing with “ACCUSING SPIRITS, PRINCIPALITY OF BITTERNESS, UNLOVING SPIRITS AND THE SPIRIT OF FEAR.” As I read the sections on these spirits, I realized that unknown to me, these spirits had continued to operate in my life, even after my deliverance. Satan had sent these demonic beings to attack me from the outside, and worked with such subtlety that I did not even know that these emotions of anger, bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness and rejection were present in my life. I believed that I was clean, when in reality I was “spiritually dirty.” The result has been that my joy has not been what it should have been. I have been tired and worn out and just dragging for the last few years.

As I read these pages the Holy Spirit shined his light in my life, and very quickly I drove out these spirits from around me and immediately I received relief and I realized that for a long time the Devil had been stealing my joy and power.

The Holy Spirit told me to share this with my church, and so far I have preached three sermons on the subject. Here is my sermon outline of the third message in this series that I did on June 30, 2002: RLJ-827 1

SIN MUST BE DEALT WITH!
As we all know the coming of the Antichrist kingdom is just around the corner. In order to fight the enemy, we must be saved (born again), filled with the Holy Spirit, free from demons and have a healthy body! What happened in Art’s and Linda’s lives is that they dealt with their sins, and their bodies were healed. But here is a very important thing to understand:

THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THEY LIVE HAS NOT CHANGED. THE POLLUTION IN THE AIR IS THE SAME, THE MATERIAL IN THEIR CLOTHING HAS NOT CHANGED! WHAT HAS CHANGED IS THAT THE HOLY GHOST IN THEM HAS BOOSTED THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM TO A HIGH LEVEL, THAT IT REBUFFS ALL ATTACKS FROM THE OUTSIDE!

This is what Jesus promised his followers some 1900 years ago and that promise is still good: