GYC 2016: When All Has Been Heard

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Living Free: Building a Better Brain, Body, and Habits – for Good!

Vicki Griffin

1. How Urgent is This Message?

2. God’s Peace Plan

4. Making Health Practical

5. Leaders Lighting The Way

3. Mindset Matters

Zeno Charles-Marcel

6. Principles of Health – A Call to Balance

This message was presented at the GYC 2016 conference, When All Has Been Heard, in Houston, Texas.

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So even if your brain is so full you can't think anymore, the pictures are really pretty.

My name is Vicki Griffin and I'm going to have prayer right now and then we will get started.

Father in heaven thank you for this time that we can have together what an amazing healing God you are and we thank you and ask you to be with us give us heart energy help our minds to work and give me the words I need father for each 1 here that your spirit may just drive home what each 1 needs.

So the PowerPoint that you are going to be seeing is not yet available.

But I want you to know that we have these balanced, I'm Vicki Griffin, the Health Ministries Director for the Michigan Conference, and we have these beautiful tracks, they're glow track size and this size, with 24 different topics, and what the Lord has called my department to do is to produce really beautiful scripted PowerPoints for you to use to win souls and gain decisions for Christ.

Well researched, beautiful, you can use them in your home, they're editable, you can take them to your home country and put them in your native language, which is amazing.

So I just want you to know about that and that these are available to you.

Because what good is it if it's just me running around talking?

No, God has something for you to do for his kingdom and it's my job to prepare materials for you that you can use in soul winning.

So today we're talking about foods for thought.

We're taking a look at food, mood, addictions, and the brain.

And as we begin today, I just will tell you, those of you who are new here, I know that I look kind of like a librarian type, okay, that has it all together, but I was a runaway.

I started running away from home when I was 5.

In a crazy life, I developed bulimia for 20 years, And God is in the saving business.

And now I am the health and temperance director hired to put the devil out of business.

And so I want to hire all of you to be subcontractors to go out and win souls for Christ, amen?

Now I want to open today with 1 of my favorite Bible stories and it's found in John chapter 5 and it's the story of the man at the pool of Bethesda and the way that the story opens is pretty amazing.

How many years had that man been sitting at that pool, waiting for his miracle, paralyzed from the neck down with no 1 to help him?

And the story opens with a picture of Jesus coming to this man, and it says that Jesus saw him.

And he saw that he had been there a long time.

So for some of you, any of you who yourself or know someone who's had an addiction for a long time, whether it's a food addiction, whether it's a media addiction, whether it's a behavioral addiction, whatever it is, however long it's been, Jesus knows all about it.

The addicted brain is working hard but it needs to learn to work smart and that's what we're all about and the information here is based on this book, Living Free, Finding Freedom from Habits That Hurt.

It's part of a six-session seminar that we have put together that is available to you to use in your home or in your church.

Now, how many of you know the word Katrina?

And what do you associate the name Katrina with?

Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans In August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed 5 Gulf states with 175 mile an hour winds zeroing in on the city of New Orleans and 80% of New Orleans was under 20 feet of water.

This storm affected 15 million people, 2, 000 people were killed, and the damage was 75 billion dollars.

It was the costliest hurricane in US history.

Now a broken city, I have a master's degree, before I got into nutrition I was in public administration, I have a master's in public administration, and I used to enjoy working on revitalization plans.

And so 1 thing that we always looked at when we were working on these revitalization plans was infrastructure So a broken city has 2 problems It has damaged infrastructure.

It's the traffic, it's the communication systems, roads, the telecommunications, it's the access of the city that gives it its synchrony, its economy, its vitality, its ability to grow, its dependent on infrastructure that is properly functioning.

And we saw on television people disconnected because the infrastructure was broken down.

You had contaminated water in the streets.

The rescue vehicles couldn't get to the people in need.

And we saw the devastating results of broken infrastructure.

And as a result of broken infrastructure that leads to what?

And on television we saw vandalism, vagrancy, violence as a result of that broken infrastructure.

Now 1 of the things that I love about the Bible is that in Romans chapter 1 verse 20 the Bible tells us that God uses the things that we can see to help us to clearly understand the things that we cannot see.

So as we think about this, A broken city has ceased normal function and it is now switched to what?

Now, you've seen the posters of the little cat hanging on a branch, and it says, hang in there.

You ask people how they're doing in any country, and people have their own version of the phrase, how are you doing?

And in our Western culture, we brag about this.

Oh, I'm traveling here, and then I'm going there, and I'm trying to produce this, and do that, and visit this, and accomplish that.

And instead of saying, you know, that's pretty dumb, They say, wow, how dedicated.

What if I were to say I'm gonna sit in a chair and do nothing for 3 hours and watch the grass grow?

Come on, hurry up, hurry up, hurry, come on guys, I've got to go help the demoniacs.

Get in the boat, hurry up, you know, like we're late, it's the fourth watch.

So I think we need to start focusing on fruitful instead of hurry sickness, which we're all affected with.

The Bible compares our broken minds, our broken, fallen brains, with a city just like that.

It says a person without self-control has the same 2 problems.

The broken brain is, it's broken down, okay, so the infrastructure is broken down and what?

So when we don't have strong intercommunications in the brain, when we don't have that strong, resilient activity from hemisphere to hemisphere and section to section, when it's not vibrant and oxygenated and full of the nutrients and exercise that it needs, and without the thinking patterns that exercise us to excellency, all of these things make us defenseless against the enemy, defenseless.

So what are these brain influences that we contend with?

Some people are genetically more prone to anxiety, depression, addictions.

Would you agree with me that there is a genetic tendency in some people?

You know, the first environment is the environment of the womb and 1 out of every 5 children born has some kind of alcohol effects in the womb.

So that's the first environment of that baby and it's very interesting that the offspring of an obese or a malnourished woman either or doubles the risk of diabetes and obesity in in the child that is born because of switches that that are are activated genetically that's called epigenetics that are activated that change insulin sensitivity in that baby.

Now does that mean that that baby is doomed to be obese or diabetic?

But does it mean that they have a risk factor that they're gonna have to contend with?

Absolutely, so the Lord knows these things.

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4. Making Health Practical