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'I want you to pray with your patients,' Jackson heard the Lord say. 'If you won’t honor Me before men, I won’t honor you before the Father.' From that day forward, Jackson began asking each patient, “Do you mind if I pray for you before surgery?” “Most are thrilled, and 99.9% say yes,” Jackson said. “I pray that God will protect them, that His hedge of protection would be around them, and that He would guide my hands to do exactly what they need to get better. I’ve always heard that there are no atheists in foxholes, and I think there’s some truth to that.” During surgery, Jackson said, he remains aware of God’s peace. “The moment I feel it lift, I stop immediately and wait on God to show me what’s wrong and what He wants me to do. He’s always faithful to do that.” Throughout his medical training, Jackson said he developed a keen fascination with stem cells. “They’re a healing mechanism that God built into our bodies to help us when we’re sick,” Jackson explained. “For instance, when you get cut, stem cells cause the wound to scab and heal. Think about it; the largest organ in the body is your skin. Stem cells can remake it. These amazing cells can develop into many types of cells in the body. All stem cells can make copies of themselves. They can also develop into more specialized cells. God put stem cells into us so we can call on them when we need healing. “I used to wonder why God took a rib from Adam to create Eve. He could have created her from a toenail. Now I understand that choosing Adam’s rib was a very logical decision. It’s because the highest concentration of stem cells in the body is in the bone marrow of ribs. “Over the years, as I’ve studied medicine and the Bible, I’ve found that they fit together perfectly. For instance, we’re told in Proverbs 17:22, ‘A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.’ We know that laughter increases and improves the immune system. Depression affects the stem cells. It makes the immune system weak, drying up the bone marrow, which abounds with stem cells. It dries up the bones.” Thoughts Matter “That’s why Philippians 4:8 tells us, ‘Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things’ ("New International Version"). What we allow ourselves to think affects our health. “The research I’ve done regarding laughter and how it affects the body really began when my pastor, Bishop Keith Butler, laid hands on me on March 22, 2015.” “Your hands will be used to help people with problems that there are no answers for,” Bishop Butler prophesied over Jackson. After he went home, Jackson said he began receiving huge downloads from the Lord, which he wrote down. This went on for days and days. At one point, he said, God told him what research to study and how the pieces fit together: 'I’m going to show you that there’s really no difference between My Word, science and medicine,' he recalled God saying. 'My Word is greater than science and medicine, for they came out of My Word. I use science to explain the physical laws in the earth and in your body, which I created. I’m going to download to you the blueprint of how I do what I do from the physical properties on earth.' 16 : BVOV

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