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Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL180227A
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00:01 The children of Israel,
00:03 as they were traveling through the wilderness, 00:05 they cheered their way by music of sacred song. 00:09 Music is a powerful healer. 00:12 It can bind as a glue, 00:13 and depression and other things as well. 00:15 Today's program is entitled "A for Adoration." 00:19 We'll be right back. 00:42 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living. 00:44 My name is Curtis Eakins 00:45 and this is my beautiful bride of 24 glorious years. 00:51 Your name? 00:52 Paula Eakins as it is taping. 00:54 As it is taping? 00:55 Now, when you see it, 00:56 we probably be in our silver anniversary. 00:58 Whoo hoo. Whoo. 01:00 Okay. Just... 01:01 Just one whoo... 01:02 One whoo is all right. Okay. 01:04 Anyway, but we're glad you're with us again, 01:06 today's program. 01:08 And this is a program that we're doing 01:12 about a acronym called healers. 01:14 So we covered the H, that's herbal medicine. 01:17 We covered the E, that's eating. 01:20 Today the letter is A for adoration. 01:25 Adoration. 01:26 This is a powerful healer. All right? 01:29 And we use in our several references of, 01:32 some of the main references we're using is, number one, 01:34 is of course God's Word. 01:36 He is the standard of truth, God's Word, 01:39 to source all wisdom and knowledge. 01:41 And also our feature author throughout this whole series 01:44 is Alan White, Christian Author, 01:46 we're using her statements as well. 01:48 Then the last, our reference is the clinical studies, 01:51 we're using that as well. 01:53 So those are three tiers of credibility. 01:55 But A for Adoration is a powerful healer, 01:59 so that we can help those people 02:01 safely and effectively 02:03 weighing themselves off of the drug medication 02:07 without those baleful side effects 02:08 that come with as well 02:10 with that knowledge of your primary care physician. 02:14 And also stresses that people go through as well. 02:17 A lot of that adoration is really a part of it. 02:19 So why don't we start off by saying or identifying 02:22 what exactly is adoration? 02:25 Okay. 02:26 Well, let's define the term. 02:28 You know, my grade school teacher 02:29 years ago, she said, 02:30 class, if you don't know what the word mean, 02:33 take the word apart. 02:35 Try to define its components and put it together. 02:37 So adoration, the root word is, 02:40 what I do with you, honey, adore. 02:45 That wasn't a joke. 02:47 So why is the laughter? 02:49 Okay, not sure. 02:51 You're not sure? 02:52 Okay. Adore. 02:53 So okay, I kind of threw you off. 02:55 You threw me off. 02:56 Okay, let me go with the definition. 02:57 Okay, yeah. 02:59 So adore... 03:00 So adore, adoration, break it up. 03:02 AD means to. 03:05 Orore means to speak. 03:09 So, adoration is something that is some... 03:13 something that's audible to speak. 03:15 So therefore, 03:17 and there are three forms of how we can show adoration, 03:21 adoration towards God, and his love and devotion. 03:26 We can do it through music. 03:28 We can do it through the spoken word 03:31 and the last one we can do or show adoration, 03:34 praise through prayer. 03:37 So those are three forms of adoration. 03:39 Now I like to add one more too, is also thought, 03:42 because in order to show adoration, 03:47 you must have a positive thinking process. 03:51 It's hard to show true sincere adoration 03:55 with negative thinking. 03:56 Absolutely. 03:58 So therefore thoughts of guilt, 03:59 depression, grief, remorse... 04:03 We can show adoration but it won't be sincere. 04:06 It won't be from the heart. 04:07 So Jesus said, 04:09 "They honor Me with their lips 04:11 but their heart is far from Me." 04:13 So, the adoration, 04:15 praise towards God 04:17 and honoring Him with all his love 04:19 and devotion etcetera. 04:22 I say, I know they're saying right now, 04:23 then so where is that in the Word of God? 04:26 Adoration? 04:27 Adoration? Adoration? 04:29 Now there are several texts of scripture 04:31 in God's Word about adoration. 04:33 I mean, we can go a whole program just on this. 04:36 If we had to pick one text 04:38 in the Word of God, just one 04:40 and this would be the one is Psalms, Chapter 9. 04:43 Again, we're using our workbook, 04:45 this is a workbook. 04:46 Yes. 04:47 The Seven Prophet Healers. 04:49 So we're talking out with our workbook here. 04:50 And Psalms 9:1-2, they said, 04:54 "And I will and there is thus." 04:56 And David's doing the talk. 04:57 David's doing the talking, all right, good point. 05:00 David says, "I will praise You, O Lord, 05:04 with all my whole heart. 05:06 I will tell of all Your wonders. 05:10 I will be glad and rejoice in You. 05:13 I will sing praise to Your name, 05:18 O Most High." 05:21 I like this one. I like this one. 05:22 let's explain on that a little bit, honey. 05:24 I like it because you know David's making a statement. 05:26 And I think that sometimes individuals, you know, 05:29 as they're starting your day off 05:30 or going through their day, things happen. 05:33 I think when we start our day off with God, 05:35 begin the day with God 05:36 and then just think back always... 05:38 always just think back of the wonders 05:40 of what God has done for you. 05:42 What has He done for you? 05:43 You know, sometimes you just take a piece of paper, 05:45 and take a line down the middle of it, 05:47 right down appraises, write down the negativity, 05:50 your praises should outnumber your negativity, 05:54 because first of all, if we just start off with, 05:57 it woke me up this morning, got me started. 06:00 There you go. 06:01 He put breath in me for the beginning of the day. 06:03 So, oh, don't get me started. 06:06 Adoration to God, He is a awesome God. 06:10 Yes, He is. 06:12 Yes, He is. Yes, He is. 06:13 And you know, a lot of people... 06:14 Sometimes we have to blaze a new trail in our brain... 06:19 Absolutely. 06:21 To praise God. Yes. 06:22 One writer says, our Christian author says that, 06:25 determine to praise God, 06:28 make a determined effort to praise God. 06:33 And when we do that, it increases our will. 06:36 And after a while we can't help but to praise Him. 06:39 Once you make a determined effort 06:41 to praise God. 06:42 And so therefore adoration toward God... 06:44 Now, the music, 06:46 we're gonna highlight the music 06:47 because it's three ways I can say before, 06:49 through music song, through the spoken word, 06:53 and the last one through prayer. 06:54 We're not going to cover all of those of course. 06:56 We're just gonna highlight on the song 06:58 or the singing here in this section 07:00 as far as this is concerned. 07:02 Well, now when I think about music, 07:06 I think about the fact that... 07:07 You know for us, for me, 07:09 in our home, we keep WJOU on, 07:13 which is a Christian network, okay. 07:14 Oakwood University network. 07:16 And my girl, Melissa is the one who host the program 07:19 from 6am to 10am in the morning. 07:22 And just sometime I tell people who will say I'm stressed out, 07:25 I'm going through a lot of stuff. 07:27 I said, you know, put on some spiritual music. 07:30 Now, when we say spiritual music, 07:31 we're not talking about those songs like, 07:33 "I lost my dog, my man, my car, my house," 07:35 those are not the songs. 07:37 That's not gonna work. 07:38 They will not uplift you. Okay. 07:40 That's music, but not the music we're talking about. 07:42 Yeah. 07:43 But music, 07:45 we have a musical mind, you know, 07:46 and the very idea that as we hear those songs, 07:50 as the songs begin our day, 07:51 it really helps to keep us 07:53 in a positive mode all day long. 07:55 Okay. Good. 07:56 And then on top of it, if I'm kind of like, 07:59 let's say for instance, we got a lot of shows going on. 08:03 And let's say we're doing 12 shows, 08:05 like we're doing. 08:06 Like we're doing right now this week. 08:08 So when I get ready to go to bed at night, 08:10 my mind is on the show, the recipe, 08:13 all that stuff is you know, I'll be moving it. 08:15 Okay. 08:17 I have to just put on my water sounds, 08:19 my sounds of nature, praise the Lord. 08:22 And you know what happens to me? 08:23 It knocks me out. 08:25 Like it did last night. 08:27 Yes, it did. 08:28 Did knock me out, okay. 08:30 Yes, it did, yes. 08:31 And I didn't think about anything 08:32 that was going to go on. 08:34 I just let the Lord handle all the business. 08:35 Okay. 08:36 I want to look at another text of scripts 08:38 because we want to highlight God's Word 08:40 as our standard of truth. 08:41 Yes. 08:43 And it's found in Colossians Chapter 3:16. 08:46 Colossians Chapter 3:16 because... 08:47 Another favorite. 08:49 Again, adoration, praise, 08:51 and we're gonna get into a little bit about 08:53 how it can also help with diseases as well. 08:57 So adoration, praise, 08:59 here it is Colossians 3:16. 09:02 "Let the Word of Christ..." 09:04 Now this is a spoken word. 09:05 Remember music, 09:07 spoken word, and prayer, this is spoken word. 09:09 "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly with all wisdom, 09:14 teaching and admonishing one another." 09:18 So now we're teaching other individuals. 09:20 And here it is. 09:22 "In Psalms, hymns, 09:26 spiritual songs, 09:28 singing with grace in your heart to the Lord." 09:34 All right. 09:35 So this is ammunition that 09:36 not just we can sing to ourselves, 09:39 we can uplift ourselves, 09:40 but also admonishing and teaching others 09:43 through the song and musical sounds 09:46 and that's how the children of Israel 09:47 as they were going through the wilderness, 09:49 they cheered their way by music of sacred song. 09:53 That's how they travel through the wilderness 09:55 and it can really banish a lot of gloom and depression, 09:59 everything else as well. 10:00 Well, like you said before, you can't really sing praises 10:03 and also be stressed out at the same time. 10:05 Absolutely, yeah. 10:07 Something goes hand in hand. 10:08 Praise God, that He put you out that way as well. 10:09 We got a graphic 10:11 and I'm gonna put this on the screen here. 10:12 This is coming from an aspiring author, 10:14 our future author that we're highlighting, 10:17 doing this series as well. 10:19 This is coming from the Third Testimonies. 10:22 Testimonies, volume 3, page 172, 10:24 listen to these words, here it is. 10:26 Quote. It's on the screen. 10:28 "Heaven is all health, 10:32 and the more deeply the heavenly influences 10:37 are realized the more sure will be the recovery 10:42 of the believing invalid." 10:44 Heaven is all health. 10:46 So once we realize the heavily influences 10:49 that in itself sets us up to receive the healing 10:53 for those who believe it can store us the health. 10:55 So music, adoration is a powerful healer. 11:01 So how can... 11:02 how can that music, 11:04 how can that improve our health? 11:05 Well, I want to turn to page here, 11:07 I think is in our workbook here. 11:08 There's several things that we're gonna ahead 11:10 and close out. 11:11 Number one, 11:13 music helps to boost our immune system, all right, 11:16 our white blood cell count. 11:17 And also when we hear music, 11:19 it also focuses on the brain, 11:23 the left hemisphere of the brain 11:26 increases with blood flow, 11:28 which also creates more cognitive improvement 11:33 and within 30 minutes, when hearing music, 11:37 so therefore it also impacts cognitive improvement. 11:41 Also, those who are going through chemotherapy, 11:44 cancer patients, 11:45 they have less complications 11:47 during those treatments as well. 11:49 So music can be a powerful healer, 11:51 also dementia as well. 11:53 So it's a very efficacious music, 11:56 a powerful healer. 11:57 In your workbook, we have also of course, 12:00 the spoken word and also the power prayer as well. 12:03 But time is running out on us but I think we're gonna go 12:06 into the kitchen right now, honey, 12:08 and what we're going to have for the audience for today? 12:10 Well, you know, we love to make, 12:12 I mean, I love sauces to go over things. 12:15 So today we're actually gonna do 12:17 a peach strawberry sauce to go over top of our waffles. 12:21 Oh, okay. 12:23 So get your paper and your pencil 12:24 and meet us in the kitchen. |
Revised 2019-10-07