the person go through before they change the view of the situation(s) that challenged their
peace?”
You need to look and ask yourself, “is it forgiveness? Am I trying to get
attention? Am I trying to get priority on another person’s chart? Am I trying to gain
control over a situation?” These are all benefits of disease. Remember, when you are a
child and you have a medical issue, and you stay home from school and you get special
treatment, special attention, love, you do not have to go to school, and people listen to
every little thing you ask for. You don’t forget that, and believe it or not, there’s a
benefit to disease. You’ve calculated this benefit, and people actually manifest disease
for the benefit. It is done unconsciously, because I doubt they want to do it consciously,
but it does appear.
So, you need to turn it around and say, “Well, how does God view this? What’s
the message? Is it forgiveness? Do I need to surrender? Maybe I don’t need to carry the
world. It’s not my world to carry.” And, at all cost, you need to bring it to your
awareness. You need to understand that y