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WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________ t  Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/WWW_05_17_21_Does_Your_Soul_Need_Healing_.mp3   ______________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, May 17, 2021, and this is Episode #15 of Series 2021. This episode is titled “Does Your Soul Need Healing?" _______________________________ In the third letter of John, chapter one, verse two, the Beloved Apostle writes: " . . .  I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”– 3 John 1: 2 KJV This verse makes it quite clear that it is God's will that His children prosper and be in health.  Notice the phrase, "above all things." This phrase means that more than anything else, God desires our entire well-being: spirit, soul, and body. God wants us well spiritually, emotionally, and physically. God wants every part of us to function as He created it to function. God wants no disease (read: dis-ease) in our bodies, nor in our souls. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes "disease" as "any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism."  If you are born again, then your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and there should be no disease in the Holy Spirit's Temple. But, sadly, there is. Why? Because of what God says in Hosea 4: 6: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." A lack of knowledge of the Bible will cause us to fail to prosper and fail to be in health. The word “prosper” as used in this verse means “to have a good journey.” It is similar to our modern expression, “I hope things go well for you.” It was a commonly used expression in John’s day—so common, in fact, that the expression was often shortened to a few initials at the end of letters. The Latin abbreviation was SVBEEV, citing the first letters of the expression, ”Si vales, bene est; ego valeo” meaning, “If you are well, it is good; I am well.”. The practice of abbreviating a message in John's day compares to the practice we use today in texting, when we use letters like TTYL (Talk to you later), or we shorten the word "you" to the simple letter "u." We are not so different from our early ancestors after all. :) To prosper means not only to be in health physically, but also mentally and emotionally. To prosper also means to have sufficient provision to take care of one's needs. Next in the verse, the expression "be in health'  is pretty self-explanatory. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines "health" as “the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; a condition in which someone or something is thriving or doing well.”  In John 10: 10 NKJV, the Bible says this: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus died and rose from the dead to give us total health in spirit, soul, and body. This is what is meant by the abundant life.  Abundant means plentiful, plenty of. Plenty of health, plenty of provision, plenty of peace of mind, plenty of joy, plenty of love. And so on. __________________________________ "As goes the health of the soul,