WHAT I AM

Some people wanted to know a little about me, because they don't and you can't know me until you know me, this is what I am.

I have to give all Glory to God for His Son, His Word and His Holy Spirit.
Thank You Father.
Jesus said,
Thou shalt love The Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as they self.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22:37-39

If you wouldn't like to be diagnosed based on rumor why would you turn and try and diagnose based on a rumor?

Love your neighbor as you love your self.
Amen.

Ever since I was 24 years old I have worked with doctors.
I'm forty years old now and the one thing that years of working with physicians has not made me, is a physician.

I'm not a doctor, I could read every book that they have on Neurology, I can sit and have lunch with them regularly, I can round with them every day, I can read the papers that they wrote.
It still will not make me able to diagnose and treat Neurological Disease.

This is what a lot of our daytime television hosts have become, diagnostic experts without the expertise.
This is why the Bible is so important because when you receive Christ Jesus as LORD He makes you a new creation In Him.
It's His work that makes me righteous.

It's not my blog that makes me righteous or anything else.
My blog is a manifestation of who Christ has made me.

The Word of God is able to diagnose and treat the old things that were destroying our souls.
Amen.

I'm so glad and so happy and filled with so much joy and peace because my past has nothing to do with my right now or my future.

I started out my adult work life as a Medical Assistant and I was trained to take medical histories from patients, take vital signs, run EKG's, draw blood, give injections for immunization or medication, take care of front office responsibilities and even do chest x-ray's.

I did this for a while and then returned to school to learn to perform Electroencephalograms (EEG's), brainwave testing for Seizure.

Then I went on to learn to perform vascular studies, scanning of the Carotid arteries in the neck, checking the pressures in the arms and legs as they related to diagnosing vascular disease.

Now I perform Transcranial Doppler ultrasound and this examines the intracranial
(inside the skull/brain) vascular system which aids in the diagnosis and treatment of patients who suffer strokes, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, aneurysm rupture, sickle cell disease, and or in the confirmation of brain death.

While all of this sounds a little interesting it is all by God's grace and none of these things qualify me to be a physician.
I'm trained to gather information through diagnostic testing and present that information to the physicians.

I don't make assumptions and physicians don't make assumptions.
Each case is taken as an individual case.
Assumptions cause fear and they create confusion.

For instance a patient can come into the office to see a doctor because they have symptoms of left hand tingling and numbness, and because they have a piece of knowledge about how the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, their mind will decide," Well it must be something wrong with the right side of my brain..."

Not necessarily.

There could be something wrong with the blood vessels in the upper arm, it could be a pinched nerve in the arm or wrist, it could be that you slept on it for too long.
It could be a number of things.
But we will take our one piece of knowledge and diagnosed a right brain stroke in our self.

Lord forbid if one of our friends or family members has the same sensation, well look out friend I know what's wrong with you, you had a stroke!
When that may not be the case at all.

Assumption, Lord Help Us!

I said all of this because I see a trend today where in the place of preaching the gospel, many have gone on to try and diagnose the issues of other people.
Mainly based in their own experience.

Our experience is our testimony it isn't a diagnostic tool.
Our testimony is to encourage and build up and if it is seen as that it will accomplish.

We fall away from the purpose when we begin to spot diagnose.

Our own personal ideas as to what the problem of someone who we have not known or even those who we do know are not supernatural.

Your idea or my idea is not something that requires supernatural ability to understand.
This is why we pray and one reason why we pray in the Holy Spirit.
because Lord knows we don't know and we really don't know if the person who believe is in need hasn't told us.

We diagnose people who we think are hurting and these folks ain't hurting, they are having a joy of a time rejoicing before the Lord.
But because they aren't where we can see them, we think that they are a ball of grief.

I did that once, I just prayed for a woman because I hadn't talked to her and I just knew that she was in dire straights and I knew when I saw her she was going to be half dead.
She had been sending emails to one of my many e-mail addresses that I neglected to go to for a while and had been giving me praise reports that started long before I began to pray for her and continued on after I had felt my release to stop the prayer.

I know some will say that it was the prayers, it very well may have been the prayers but my motive was negative and naturally discerned.

That supernatural ability of faith prays the positive and gives the Word.
Especially when our information is limited, the most ignorant thing to do is to assume that you know what is going on.

God searches the heart and He hasn't given us a view of the heart and faith of other men.
I know people believe that they know your heart by your deeds, but they don't.
You can believe that you know the heart of men, but you can't search any heart but your own.

God will reveal the motive of a heart to those who will listen but it's not some intuition that we pull out of our hat.

Doctors have seen many things but they never approach a patient like they already have all of the answers.
The physicians that I work with as they round, every patient is a new case of their own.
Even if 13 patients have right sided weakness no case is the same.

Age, sex, lifestyle habits, race, heredity, time of onset, medication, past medical history, duration of the symptoms, lasting deficits and so many other things go into a diagnosis.
None of the patients are diagnosed solely based on information given by family members or close friends and or acquaintances.

If you fall and break your arm and I'm with you and we go to the Emergency room the doctors are not going to diagnose you based purely in asking me what happened even if have spent time with you and was there when you fell.
Even if you are unconscious there is only so much subjective information that they will rely on.
They may ask me how you fell but they are not going to allow me to diagnose what's wrong with you.

Even if I was a physician they will still order diagnostic tests that will give them solid proof of a fracture.
I couldn't just say, "No doctor I know that she is wincing in pain and not able to bend her arm, but her arm isn't broken, could you just write a prescription for pain killers and tell her how she needs to not fall again and I'll take her home."

The emergency rooms see many things come in over the course of a 24 hour period.
They see people come in pretending to be in pain, expressing how they feel in total agony, but because they do it doesn't put the medical staff in a mind set that will try and spot diagnose every patient who appears to be like those where their symptoms were questionable.

Do you guys understand what I am saying?
Each case is an individual case and each one has to be thoroughly examined.

We can't always measure the success or future and diagnose someone based on what the circumstances appear to be or our own experience.

Good decision makers don't assume anything.
Guess what they do if they don't know?
They tell the patient that they don't know and that they will continue to investigate until they do.

Now when it comes to us as Christians we need to limit our diagnosis and increase in prayer along with the prescribing of the gospel.

Consider these scriptures today.
Mark 12:30,31

Love Y'all