November 25, 2024 • 13 mins
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Ever wondered how investing in your health can lead to spiritual growth? Join us as we explore this profound connection through Melissa's captivating journey with homeopathy. Melissa shares how her 18-month commitment to homeopathy not only healed her 30-year-long allergies but also mirrored the spiritual principles of patience, perseverance, and faith. Drawing inspiration from Galatians 6:9, we discuss the daily disciplines in health and spirituality that yield long-term benefits, highlighting the importance of not giving up and trusting in the process.
We also dive into the challenges and rewards of consistent Bible study. From the struggle of maintaining interest in the Old Testament to finding joy in the Gospels, we emphasize the significance of engaging with every part of scripture. Discover the benefits of live online Bible studies like "My Daily Bread" for daily engagement and community support. Reflecting on modern challenges like instant gratification, we discuss how this impacts the patience and perseverance essential for spiritual growth. This episode offers encouragement and practical insights for anyone looking to invest in their health and spiritual journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, I'm super excited to get back into our
encouragement series.
We're on number five.
What's it?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
about?
Yeah, so to give you a littlerecap, I know I've been doing
this every time, but in caseyou're new to this series, this
was a talk, I guess a discussionwe had at the retreat in May of
2024.
It was wonderful, beautifultime, and I just got to share
(00:31):
about how God has usedhomeopathy in my life to show me
more about spiritual growth,about the character of God, and
it's not at all sayinghomeopathy is godlike or this.
I mean something to beworshipped, but just like
anything else, you know, youexperience something in life and
(00:52):
then you see how it is apicture of some, of, maybe an
analogy of the love of God or aspiritual element.
So I just have, over time,collected these thoughts, and
there are even more.
It's been cool.
I don't even know if I'vegotten to share this with you,
melissa, as people a couple ofpeople have been listening who
really don't know homeopathy buthave seen, you know, stuff on
(01:16):
social media that I'm tagged inand, because it's a spiritual
thing, they're interested, sothey've listened.
And then I've heard otherpeople bringing up other things
like other points we can add on,so we might have to just keep
adding to this.
It's been really fun, though Ifeel like I'm hearing from our
audience about these things, sogo back and listen to the first
(01:38):
four.
Number five today is investing.
Each time you use homeopathy,you are investing in your future
health and in the same way, weare investing in our spiritual
growth to come with everydiscipline that we do now In the
homeopathic world.
(01:58):
We tell people, each time youtreat an acute illness, you are
strengthening your immune system, helping your body respond to
that illness better, reducingthe likelihood of getting that
again or getting it as severely,and really setting yourself up
for a future that is muchhealthier, instead of
suppressing over and over andover or just not addressing it
(02:22):
sometimes too, and over or justnot addressing it sometimes too.
Where, like I remember gettingsinus infections that would last
weeks and weeks and I wasdetermined to not take a ton of
over-the-counter stuff orantibiotics, but I was miserable
and it wasn't going away, mybody still would encounter that
same thing every year multipletimes and not remember, like,
(02:43):
not know how to move throughthat.
Well, so you're doing that andit takes discipline when you
have to take a remedy regularlyor to take care of you, to pay
attention to your own health andmake sure you're sticking to a
plan takes discipline and um.
The payoff, though, is worth it.
So you hear about your journey18 months of uprooting your
(03:07):
allergies, your seasonalallergies, back 20 something
years ago, 30 something yearsago, and you didn't even know
everything you know now.
How long ago was that?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So I had allergies for 30 years.
It was about 10 years ago thatI uprooted them with homeopathy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, I was thinking that doing the math, I'm like
she wasn't even old enough to dothat yet.
Okay, so for 10 years.
But I remember you saying ifsomebody had told you that like
you wouldn't, you couldn'timagine not feeling that way,
because I'd had it for years,yeah, forever.
Um, and then 18 months of yousticking with remedies and now
(03:44):
you don't deal with that anymore.
Um, I think of in our spirituallife, we, the work we do now,
yields long-term benefits, andthere's daily disciplines that
we have to be aware of.
So, um prayer, obviously,spending time with the Lord,
(04:06):
studying the word of God,knowing it.
Um gathering with otherbelievers, so being a part of a
local body, being taught theword of God, being in community
with people.
Um, over time strengthens ourfaith and our knowledge and
understanding of the word of God.
And also, just like ourobedience you and I talk about
(04:27):
this all the time Like ourdiscernment, our obedience, it
grows to a point where you lookback, sometimes years later, and
you don't even notice all thelittle gradual moments, but you
now are witnessing the fruit ofthe disciplines of your life
that you were practicing for allthose years.
So the scripture reference Ihave for that point was
(04:50):
Galatians 6, 9, that says let usnot become weary in doing good,
for at the proper time we willreap a harvest if we do not give
up.
I love that so much becausedoing good by God's perspective
right, not by what we perceiveas good, good does not mean not
hard, or sometimes not painful,or sometimes like you're just
(05:16):
doing the daily mundane things.
But there are practices thatare worth it.
Later and at the proper time wewill reap a harvest that are
worth it later and at the propertime we will reap a harvest.
Like when you think ofagriculture or homeopathy, that
was the, you know, a trigger forme, my life experience.
You can't just will your cropsto grow faster, right, like you
(05:37):
do the work to take care of it,and it does its thing.
It's harvested when it's ready,not when you want it to be
ready.
So it's harvested when it'sready, not when you want it to
be ready.
So that's really that wholepoint, but I'd love to hear any
thoughts or feedback you have.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, so my thoughts are in the word.
So when I decided, or learnedthat how important it was to be
in the word every day, right, Ikept hearing this at church, I
kept hearing this among churchpeople.
You know, be in the word everyday, every day.
And I would go and open theBible and I would be like, where
(06:13):
do you start?
And I would just start I'm a,I'm a kind of a type A, I start
at the beginning and I end atthe end.
And so I would start in Genesisone and I would get through like
maybe Genesis three, and thenI'd be like, well, this is
pretty much boring and I have noidea what they're talking about
.
And I wouldn't go back for along time, or I would say then I
would hear people talk about oh, you know what?
(06:35):
I just I just get into theGospels and I was like you start
like way back here, you don'tstart at the beginning.
So so, ok, fine, I'm going toget into the gospels and and it
was more interesting, made moresense to me than Genesis, right,
and then um or Leviticus, andthen Lord, forgive me for
rolling my eyes Um, but he's gotto know it's not fun to read.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, that doesn't mean we can't learn from it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Jesus is throughout the whole entire Bible Old
Testament too so now I can seethat.
But it took time to get there.
It took time to get excitedabout Leviticus, and, and and
some of these.
You know the the list of names.
I used to skip over it.
Now I read them and so there'sjust um, it took that's my point
(07:27):
is it took time.
It took consistency and timeand now it's like it is
literally bread every singlemorning.
I how I can't live without,without eating every single
morning.
I have to get in there and, um,I do want to share one thing
that I hadn't planned on sharingthis, but that has helped me to
(07:49):
stay to, to become and stayreally consistent, is a live
online Bible study that I attendevery single morning, monday
through Saturday.
It's called my Daily Bread.
Anybody can join, and so it.
I get so excited.
It's.
Those people are like family tome now and I get excited to get
(08:12):
in there and just listen to allthe different perspectives of
the how many people are in?
there, it's growing, it'sgrowing.
So now there's like, um, itfeels like on, there's a couple
different times because we'rethey're all over the world, so
there's different times anddifferent.
Okay, the one I attend is, um,maybe 50 or so, I mean, but not
(08:37):
everybody talks, so noteverybody you know, um.
But that consistency is when I,when backing up, when I first
decided I wanted to get into theword and like I want to learn
it, I want to be, I want to seeGod and I want to see what Jesus
is doing, and, um, and I justcouldn't, I wanted it to happen.
(08:58):
Like that I was like I want toknow this right now, um, but
what I had to learn in maturityand growth and over time is it
takes time.
You better just hold on andjust get into the word every day
and it's going to take time andyou're going to get there
Something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, that is very good.
That specific phrase I hear yousay all the time as you're
teaching people, give it time.
And what did you just say?
The words you.
Well, we can just relisten.
I don't know how it went out ofmy brain already.
Story of my life, um, but sosomething my husband always says
(09:38):
.
He will always say dig the wellbefore you need the water, so
you don't need to always go tothe word thinking I need, like
this lightning strike of a versethat I need today.
Right, we often go with our ownagenda, but consistently in the
word of God, because we neverknow what's to come or for other
(09:59):
people.
Right, we have such a internalview of the world, like we think
of ourselves so much, but wedon't know, like as the body of
Christ, what we will encounter.
Another believer who needsencouragement that maybe what
you read, or the knowledge thatyou've gained or the study that
you've done, the time with theLord, can minister to them,
(10:19):
encourage them, like literallycarrying each other through life
.
And then our prayer lifechanges when you understand,
like who God is.
More, the way that you praychanges it.
Just, it is so important,you're so right about that, and
it takes consistency to buildthat.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Consistency and patience and perseverance, and
so that's something that doesn'tcome easy to.
I think the younger you are,the less you have of that.
One for maturity, but also themicrowave society that we live
in, and these kids have instant.
Everything is instant to thesekids now.
They didn't grow up in a timeLike like I grew up, when there
(11:02):
was literally nothing else to dobut go outside and play in the
water hose.
Yeah, I did nothing to doinside.
So, um, so anyway, persistence,and that's what that's just
like with homeopathy it takespatience, perseverance,
persistence and, um, people giveup.
(11:25):
They give up too soon.
Four weeks, four weeks on aremedy and they're like I didn't
see anything, I quit it.
Dang, dang it, Not enough time.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah Right, and sometimes it's it feels slow.
Yeah Right, and sometimes itfeels slow, but that's also why
(12:02):
we have people on the outside,having somebody help you,
observe, taking notes, lookingback, comparing, and I think
that's also I mean, we've talkedabout some of those points
going having people around youwhy that's really important.
So we'll get there.
But that was just a littleshort and sweet number five out
of 10.
So we have maybe more if wekeep going, but hopefully these
guys, these are blessing youguys and I'm glad we get to
share them this way so morepeople can hear them.
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thank you for sharing your heart and and this, this
has been such an amazing messageand time together, and we'll
see you next time for number six.
Welcome back to Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Hey, Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Brie, I'm super excited to get back into our
encouragement series.
We're on number five.
What's it?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
about?
Yeah, so to give you a littlerecap, I know I've been doing
this every time, but in caseyou're new to this series, this
was a talk, I guess a discussionwe had at the retreat in May of
2024.
It was wonderful, beautifultime, and I just got to share
(00:31):
about how God has usedhomeopathy in my life to show me
more about spiritual growth,about the character of God, and
it's not at all sayinghomeopathy is godlike or this.
I mean something to beworshipped, but just like
anything else, you know, youexperience something in life and
(00:52):
then you see how it is apicture of some, of, maybe an
analogy of the love of God or aspiritual element.
So I just have, over time,collected these thoughts, and
there are even more.
It's been cool.
I don't even know if I'vegotten to share this with you,
melissa, as people a couple ofpeople have been listening who
really don't know homeopathy buthave seen, you know, stuff on
(01:16):
social media that I'm tagged inand, because it's a spiritual
thing, they're interested, sothey've listened.
And then I've heard otherpeople bringing up other things
like other points we can add on,so we might have to just keep
adding to this.
It's been really fun, though Ifeel like I'm hearing from our
audience about these things, sogo back and listen to the first
(01:38):
four.
Number five today is investing.
Each time you use homeopathy,you are investing in your future
health and in the same way, weare investing in our spiritual
growth to come with everydiscipline that we do now In the
homeopathic world.
(01:58):
We tell people, each time youtreat an acute illness, you are
strengthening your immune system, helping your body respond to
that illness better, reducingthe likelihood of getting that
again or getting it as severely,and really setting yourself up
for a future that is muchhealthier, instead of
suppressing over and over andover or just not addressing it
(02:22):
sometimes too, and over or justnot addressing it sometimes too.
Where, like I remember gettingsinus infections that would last
weeks and weeks and I wasdetermined to not take a ton of
over-the-counter stuff orantibiotics, but I was miserable
and it wasn't going away, mybody still would encounter that
same thing every year multipletimes and not remember, like,
(02:43):
not know how to move throughthat.
Well, so you're doing that andit takes discipline when you
have to take a remedy regularlyor to take care of you, to pay
attention to your own health andmake sure you're sticking to a
plan takes discipline and um.
The payoff, though, is worth it.
So you hear about your journey18 months of uprooting your
(03:07):
allergies, your seasonalallergies, back 20 something
years ago, 30 something yearsago, and you didn't even know
everything you know now.
How long ago was that?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
So I had allergies for 30 years.
It was about 10 years ago thatI uprooted them with homeopathy.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, I was thinking that doing the math, I'm like
she wasn't even old enough to dothat yet.
Okay, so for 10 years.
But I remember you saying ifsomebody had told you that like
you wouldn't, you couldn'timagine not feeling that way,
because I'd had it for years,yeah, forever.
Um, and then 18 months of yousticking with remedies and now
(03:44):
you don't deal with that anymore.
Um, I think of in our spirituallife, we, the work we do now,
yields long-term benefits, andthere's daily disciplines that
we have to be aware of.
So, um prayer, obviously,spending time with the Lord,
(04:06):
studying the word of God,knowing it.
Um gathering with otherbelievers, so being a part of a
local body, being taught theword of God, being in community
with people.
Um, over time strengthens ourfaith and our knowledge and
understanding of the word of God.
And also, just like ourobedience you and I talk about
(04:27):
this all the time Like ourdiscernment, our obedience, it
grows to a point where you lookback, sometimes years later, and
you don't even notice all thelittle gradual moments, but you
now are witnessing the fruit ofthe disciplines of your life
that you were practicing for allthose years.
So the scripture reference Ihave for that point was
(04:50):
Galatians 6, 9, that says let usnot become weary in doing good,
for at the proper time we willreap a harvest if we do not give
up.
I love that so much becausedoing good by God's perspective
right, not by what we perceiveas good, good does not mean not
hard, or sometimes not painful,or sometimes like you're just
(05:16):
doing the daily mundane things.
But there are practices thatare worth it.
Later and at the proper time wewill reap a harvest that are
worth it later and at the propertime we will reap a harvest.
Like when you think ofagriculture or homeopathy, that
was the, you know, a trigger forme, my life experience.
You can't just will your cropsto grow faster, right, like you
(05:37):
do the work to take care of it,and it does its thing.
It's harvested when it's ready,not when you want it to be
ready.
So it's harvested when it'sready, not when you want it to
be ready.
So that's really that wholepoint, but I'd love to hear any
thoughts or feedback you have.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah, so my thoughts are in the word.
So when I decided, or learnedthat how important it was to be
in the word every day, right, Ikept hearing this at church, I
kept hearing this among churchpeople.
You know, be in the word everyday, every day.
And I would go and open theBible and I would be like, where
(06:13):
do you start?
And I would just start I'm a,I'm a kind of a type A, I start
at the beginning and I end atthe end.
And so I would start in Genesisone and I would get through like
maybe Genesis three, and thenI'd be like, well, this is
pretty much boring and I have noidea what they're talking about
.
And I wouldn't go back for along time, or I would say then I
would hear people talk about oh, you know what?
(06:35):
I just I just get into theGospels and I was like you start
like way back here, you don'tstart at the beginning.
So so, ok, fine, I'm going toget into the gospels and and it
was more interesting, made moresense to me than Genesis, right,
and then um or Leviticus, andthen Lord, forgive me for
rolling my eyes Um, but he's gotto know it's not fun to read.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Okay, that doesn't mean we can't learn from it.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Jesus is throughout the whole entire Bible Old
Testament too so now I can seethat.
But it took time to get there.
It took time to get excitedabout Leviticus, and, and and
some of these.
You know the the list of names.
I used to skip over it.
Now I read them and so there'sjust um, it took that's my point
(07:27):
is it took time.
It took consistency and timeand now it's like it is
literally bread every singlemorning.
I how I can't live without,without eating every single
morning.
I have to get in there and, um,I do want to share one thing
that I hadn't planned on sharingthis, but that has helped me to
(07:49):
stay to, to become and stayreally consistent, is a live
online Bible study that I attendevery single morning, monday
through Saturday.
It's called my Daily Bread.
Anybody can join, and so it.
I get so excited.
It's.
Those people are like family tome now and I get excited to get
(08:12):
in there and just listen to allthe different perspectives of
the how many people are in?
there, it's growing, it'sgrowing.
So now there's like, um, itfeels like on, there's a couple
different times because we'rethey're all over the world, so
there's different times anddifferent.
Okay, the one I attend is, um,maybe 50 or so, I mean, but not
(08:37):
everybody talks, so noteverybody you know, um.
But that consistency is when I,when backing up, when I first
decided I wanted to get into theword and like I want to learn
it, I want to be, I want to seeGod and I want to see what Jesus
is doing, and, um, and I justcouldn't, I wanted it to happen.
(08:58):
Like that I was like I want toknow this right now, um, but
what I had to learn in maturityand growth and over time is it
takes time.
You better just hold on andjust get into the word every day
and it's going to take time andyou're going to get there
Something.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, that is very good.
That specific phrase I hear yousay all the time as you're
teaching people, give it time.
And what did you just say?
The words you.
Well, we can just relisten.
I don't know how it went out ofmy brain already.
Story of my life, um, but sosomething my husband always says
(09:38):
.
He will always say dig the wellbefore you need the water, so
you don't need to always go tothe word thinking I need, like
this lightning strike of a versethat I need today.
Right, we often go with our ownagenda, but consistently in the
word of God, because we neverknow what's to come or for other
(09:59):
people.
Right, we have such a internalview of the world, like we think
of ourselves so much, but wedon't know, like as the body of
Christ, what we will encounter.
Another believer who needsencouragement that maybe what
you read, or the knowledge thatyou've gained or the study that
you've done, the time with theLord, can minister to them,
(10:19):
encourage them, like literallycarrying each other through life
.
And then our prayer lifechanges when you understand,
like who God is.
More, the way that you praychanges it.
Just, it is so important,you're so right about that, and
it takes consistency to buildthat.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Consistency and patience and perseverance, and
so that's something that doesn'tcome easy to.
I think the younger you are,the less you have of that.
One for maturity, but also themicrowave society that we live
in, and these kids have instant.
Everything is instant to thesekids now.
They didn't grow up in a timeLike like I grew up, when there
(11:02):
was literally nothing else to dobut go outside and play in the
water hose.
Yeah, I did nothing to doinside.
So, um, so anyway, persistence,and that's what that's just
like with homeopathy it takespatience, perseverance,
persistence and, um, people giveup.
(11:25):
They give up too soon.
Four weeks, four weeks on aremedy and they're like I didn't
see anything, I quit it.
Dang, dang it, Not enough time.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah Right, and sometimes it's it feels slow.
Yeah Right, and sometimes itfeels slow, but that's also why
(12:02):
we have people on the outside,having somebody help you,
observe, taking notes, lookingback, comparing, and I think
that's also I mean, we've talkedabout some of those points
going having people around youwhy that's really important.
So we'll get there.
But that was just a littleshort and sweet number five out
of 10.
So we have maybe more if wekeep going, but hopefully these
guys, these are blessing youguys and I'm glad we get to
share them this way so morepeople can hear them.
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Thank you for sharing your heart and and this, this
has been such an amazing messageand time together, and we'll
see you next time for number six.
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