The Science of Healing Yourself Through Confession

Summary

The Dr. Josh Axe Show
Episode: The Science of Healing Yourself Through Confession
Date: April 16, 2026
Guests: Dr. Josh Axe (Host), Beatty Carmichael (Guest, biblical healing expert)

Episode Overview

This episode explores the profound intersection between spiritual practices—particularly confession—and physical, mental, and emotional healing. Dr. Josh Axe invites Beatty Carmichael, a renowned figure in biblical healing, to discuss how scriptural principles, especially the act of confessing sins, can foster not only spiritual well-being but also lead to remarkable recoveries from disease and emotional struggles. Drawing on biblical passages, clinical anecdotes, personal stories, and supporting evidence from both spiritual and holistic medicine traditions, they delve into practical steps for healing through confession.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Under-Emphasized Practice of Confession in Modern Christianity

• Dr. Axe and Carmichael discuss how confession is often overlooked in Protestant and broader Christian circles today (03:29; 21:04).
  • "I rarely ever hear the topic about confession. But I know that this is something that you've really tapped into in terms of a way of healing." – Dr. Axe [03:29]
  • "What percent of them go to an elder of the church...have them pray, anoint their head with oil...and then confess their sins to the Lord...It’s less than 1%." – Dr. Axe [21:04]

2. Biblical Basis for Sin as a Root of Sickness

• Carmichael presents a comprehensive biblical argument tracing sin as a spiritual root of many physical and psychological ailments.
  • He references Deuteronomy 28, Psalm 32, John 5, 1 Corinthians 11, and James 5 to show a pattern of sin causing sickness—and confession leading to healing (09:50).
  • "In every instance where the Bible gives a cause for infirmity, the cause is always sin—unrepented sin." – Beatty Carmichael [09:09]
• Dr. Axe interjects nuance: Not all illness stems from sin (John 9 – the man born blind) but emphasizes often sin is the underlying root (07:04, 09:09).

3. Clinical and Personal Examples of Spiritual Healing

• Carmichael shares transformative stories from his healing ministry (10:10; 21:04; 22:34):
  • Spontaneous, observable healings attributed to spiritual interventions—especially confession and forgiveness.
  • "Anxiety is easy to get rid of...We simply confessed, 'Lord, I confess I was wrong, and I repent of my fear,' and within three minutes, it was totally gone." – Carmichael [22:34]
  • "A woman with decades of arthritis pain forgave her sister and the pain vanished; subsequent tests confirmed the healing." [22:35]

4. The Systematic Approach to Healing Through Confession

• Carmichael details a process derived from his book, The Prayer of Freedom (32:38):
  • Step-by-step: Identify the issue, ask God to reveal unforgiveness or sin, confess or forgive, pray for removal, and rebuke any remaining persistence.
  • "If you have something you can measure—anxiety, depression, back pain—rate it 0-10, ask God, confess or forgive, and request healing. Usually, it goes down or disappears." – Carmichael [32:38]
  • Dr. Axe encourages listeners to pause and literally do the process during the episode [32:38].

5. Physiological and Holistic Correlates

• Dr. Axe discusses how traditional medicine, Chinese medicine, and modern psychology also link unprocessed emotions and trauma to illness: (24:34; 28:01; 47:40)
  • Negative emotions like unforgiveness, fear, anger, and worry have biochemical repercussions—elevating stress hormones, affecting organs, and leading to disease.
  • Carmichael shares the three-legged-stool analogy: Mental, physical, and spiritual health must be balanced [26:29].

6. Obstacles, Exceptions, and Theological Tensions

• Some instances in scripture (e.g., Paul’s thorn, the man born blind) are discussed as exceptions—not all suffering is due to personal sin (39:18).
  • "There needs to be exceptions because I’m God. You’re not in control." – Dr. Axe [40:21]
• Confession’s necessity even when Christ’s atonement is both full and complete: (43:45)
  • Carmichael shares a vision of his son in a heavenly courtroom, making the case that repentance applies the atoning blood of Jesus and removes the legal right of spiritual oppressors [45:04].

7. Generational Sin, Trauma, and Deeper Healing

• The role of generational iniquities and trauma: Sometimes, inherited patterns or trauma-induced wounds require confession and release for healing (61:06).
• "In addiction recovery, I often see 80-90% of issues trace to generational iniquities, not just personal sin." – Carmichael [61:13]

8. Power of Speech, Faith, and Affirmation

• Affirmative words and blessings play a major role in healing and sustaining breakthroughs: (54:45; 56:37)
  • "Life and death is in the power of the tongue." – Dr. Axe [54:45]
  • Stories of healing that relapsed until identity and speech aligned with God’s truth.

9. Encouragement for Church and Individuals

• Call to Church leaders: Bring back scriptural practices of confession, repentance, anointing, and prayer for healing as normative (41:06).
• "I cannot remember ever...the church saying, 'You’re sick because of unconfessed sins. We want to encourage you to confess your sins.'" – Dr. Axe [42:49]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Neglect of Confession:
  • "Very few people today are actually, I think, going to confess...I think about this. When somebody is sick today that's Christian, what percent of them do James 5? It's less than 1%." – Dr. Axe [21:04]
• On Process and Simplicity:
  • "All it is, is an attitude of the heart saying 'I release my sister.' That’s all it is." – Beatty Carmichael (on forgiveness) [22:35]
• On Miraculous Healing:
  • "After confessing and releasing forgiveness, her arthritis pain never came back and tests showed her body had no evidence of ever having had arthritis." – Carmichael retelling a patient outcome [24:34]
• On Identity and Sustaining Healing:
  • "Your identity of being in pain is contrary to God’s identity for you. So now that's a sin. Let's confess your identity of pain and repent of it." – Carmichael [57:56]
• On Generational Roots:
  • "Sometimes I inherit something from sins of my fathers or mothers...It’s more complicated, but the foundation is the premise of confession." – Carmichael [61:06]
• On The Power of Blessing:
  • "The most impactful things I’ve ever been through…are when a mentor put their hand on my shoulder and prayed for me or blessed me." – Dr. Axe [54:45]

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• Confession and Mainstream Christianity: [03:29]
• Biblical Link Between Sin and Sickness (Scripture Walkthrough): [09:50]
• Personal/Clinical Healing Stories: [21:04], [22:34], [28:01], [37:40]
• Step-by-Step Confession Process (Guided Exercise): [32:38]
• Caution on Exceptions and Theological Nuance: [39:18], [40:21]
• Generational Sin and Trauma Discussion: [61:06]
• Role of Affirmation and Blessing: [54:45], [56:37]
• Practical Encouragement and Church Application: [41:06]

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Guided Practical Exercise: Confession for Healing

Timestamp: [32:38]

1. Identify an Issue: Pick a physical/mental pain you want healing for (rate 0-10).
2. Ask for Revelation:
   • “Lord, if there’s a person I need to forgive or a sin I need to confess related to this, bring it to my mind.”
3. Confess or Forgive:
   • If it’s a sin: “I repent of ___.”
   • If it’s unforgiveness: “I forgive ___.”
4. Release Judgments (if person involved):
   • “I release all judgments against ___ and remove all unholy bonds tied with them.”
5. Request Removal:
   • “Lord Jesus, remove ___ from me. Take it from (initial number) to zero.”
6. Rebuke:
   • “In Jesus’ name, ___ get out now. Go to zero.”
7. Repeat Steps as Needed Until Reduction/Oppression Lifts.

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Resources and Further Reading

• Beatty Carmichael’s Book: The Prayer of Freedom
  (Comprehensive guide and process elaborated in episode)
• Websites:
  • theprayerofreedom.com
  • beattycarmichael.com

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Final Encouragements

• Consider confession, forgiveness, and inviting prayer as practical steps for healing—spiritually, emotionally, and physically.
• Bring back biblical practices into churches and families for a holistic approach to health.
• Faith, belief, and repentance are not just spiritual ideals—they can have a powerful, observable impact on well-being.

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For more resources, stories, and detailed protocols, check out Beatty Carmichael’s website or his book, “The Prayer of Freedom.”

Transcript

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No matter what you're dealing with, the Bible has a solution.

[D]

What I started to see through a series of events that the Lord led me through. Being sick is not part of that abundant life that Jesus promised. He said, well, you've got anxiety. You're going to have it the rest of your life. Let's get you on some meds. The anxiety usually starts with something of fear. I said, well, that's the open door. Because perfect love casts out fear. The fact that you have fear, it's rejecting God's perfect love. I confess I was wrong and I repent of my fear. He asked the Lord to remove anxiety. Within three minutes, it was totally gone.

[C]

This is one of the things that you're doing and teaching people how to heal through confessing their sins. Today I've brought on one of the world's leading experts when it comes to healing biblically. His name is Beatty Carmichael. And we're going to walk through today exactly what the Bible says about how to be healed in an instant. Welcome to the Dr. Josh Axe Show. Well, I'm excited to talk today because I think, you know, for myself and for my family, prayer has been such a big part of healing for us. And I think that, you know, if someone were to sort of ignore. And I think this is something important for Christians to do, but if Christians were generally to ignore all mainstream media and just read the Bible and say, okay, what does the Bible say about health and healing? You're going to see just a couple themes come into play constantly. Prayer, faith, belief, turning to Jesus as your primary source of healing. We know also there are dietary recommendations and laws and cleanliness and those sort of things. Sanitation, that are critically important as well. And one of the things I know that you've talked about is confessing your sins to the Lord. And I'll say, you know, I actually had Michael Knowles on here recently, and we talked about this a little bit.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

That one of the things the Protestant church has sort of disregarded is confession, and whether that's to a priest or to the Lord, both. But, like, I don't. You know, when I was taught to pray growing up, it was never as much. I mean, I think there was an element of confessing my sins. Right. But I think in most churches today, I'm trying to think the last time I heard of a sermon, and I listen to a lot of sermons. I listen to the church I attend locally. I watch a lot of sermons and listen to a lot of podcasts of preachers online and pastors and priests. And I rarely ever hear the topic about confession. But I know that this is something that you've really tapped into in terms of a way of healing. And that's one of the things I'm really excited about. Our conversation today is really tap into how do we pray for healing.

[D]

You know, it's really interesting because the church I grew up in didn't believe that it was necessarily God's will to heal. And so the way they would pray, and I always thought it was a very mature spiritual way until I went into the Bible and started studying it. And I'd go, well, this doesn't match up, but they would pray, lord, please heal this person if it be your will, because it may be your will that they be sick. And I couldn't find that anywhere in the Bible. What I started to see through a series of events that the Lord led me through is that healing is not part of the abundant life that Jesus promised. In fact, let me rephrase that. Being sick is not part of that abundant Life. When Jesus says in John 10:10 that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy, and I came that you might have life and have it abundantly. You don't have abundant life when you're sick, when you're addicted to stuff, when you're taking psych meds and everything else that's not abundant. And as I started to take a deeper dive, what actually happened with me, Josh, is there was a period of time, in about a one year period where two of our friends died of cancer. They were both spouses of pastors, and the pastors had their churches and extended churches at large praying for their wives and nothing happened and they died. They were both in their mid-50s or early 60s. And the pastor's comments both were, it must be God's will. Because in 1 John 5 it says, if we pray according to God's will, we know that he hears us, and if he hears us, we know that he'll do that. For which we've asked. So they've been praying that God would heal them. God did not. Therefore, the common solution is it was God's will. And that started. It struck me wrong because I no, it's not God's will. So when I started to take a deeper dive into the Bible, one of the studies I did was I wanted to find out every time the Bible mentioned any sickness or disease and gave a cause of that sickness or disease, what is the cause 100% of the time that I found in the Bible, at least 20 very direct references, probably another 30 indirect. The cause was always sin.

[C]

Let me say this, though. It's not 100%.

[D]

It's not 100%.

[C]

Okay, because you said 100%.

[D]

Well, hold on, 100% of when it mentions the cause, but.

[C]

Well, let me give you an example, because there is a time in the Bible where, and I believe it is a man who is born crippled, right.

[D]

Blind.

[C]

Blind. And of course, I mean, you know what I'm about to say. But you know, they're asking Jesus, they said, who sinned? This man or his parents, right? And Jesus said neither. You know, this is so, you know, you know, the, you know, God could be glorified like this healing that's about to take place. So my point is that I do think that it happens very, very frequently. But to your point, I guess help maybe clarify that understanding of that 100% that you're talking about.

[D]

That's great. So I look at deformity different from infirmity. So when you're born with a deformity I see.

[C]

Then there's a genetic issue.

[D]

There's something that happened there. But when you're born and you're healthy and then you get sick, I'm not saying 100% of sickness is, is tied to sin. But if you look at the Bible, the Bible speaks of spiritual truths. It doesn't try to teach natural truths like eating healthy is a natural truth. God designed our body and designed plants to fund the body and keep it healthy. When we start to go away from that, we have consequence. But when the Bible speaks, in the majority of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is the spiritual truths of man. Man fell, and how does man return back to where man was created from? So when you look at that, you have all kinds of the Jewish laws, like bury your excrement, wash your hands because you can catch disease, you can get sick. But when it tells you, like, if someone has leprosy, and it gives us a reason for it, it's always sin. When someone is sick and ailing, and it gives a reason for it, it's always sin. In other words, when the Bible specifies when someone has an infirmity, and it gives the reason for that infirmity, everything I've found has been an unrepented sin. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[C]

That makes sense. And so I'm in alignment with that. I mean, I can tell you from, from being in clinical practice, almost everybody that comes in. And by the way, any health problem that I've ever had or my family's ever had, it's almost always because of. We ate too much of something that was unhealthy. We had emotions that were unprocessed. Maybe there was trauma in the past, but we didn't deal with it. Right. And bring it to the Lord and being fully healed from those things. And so to your point, I do think it is, you know. You know, sin is, of course, I mean, the Bible is clear on this. I mean, sin is the reason why there's decay and there's death and there's disease.

[D]

Well, let me share. It's real interesting. Just a pattern of five scriptures from Old Testament, New Testament to the New Covenant Testament. Okay. Deuteronomy 28. This is the passage in Deuteronomy where the Israelites are just about to go in the promised land. And this is the section of blessings and curses.

[C]

This is where he's saying life and death is in the power of the tongue.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay, so Deuteronomy 28, 58, 61, it says when you go into the land, be sure to follow the Lord your God and revere and honor his name. Because if you turn away from him, in other words, if you sin, it says he'll bring upon you all the sicknesses and diseases of Egypt and the disasters and everything that's not even written in this book. So he makes a clear connotation that if you sin, consequence is going to happen. Then in Psalm 32, David is writing, and in the NLT version, it's a little bit clearer. Basically says, when I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, my bones ached, and I was so sick I couldn't even get out of bed. Then I confessed and I was healed. God healed me. You move over to John chapter 5. This is where Jesus finds the lame man at the pool of Bethesda. And it says that he'd been lame for 38 years. So Jesus heals him. He doesn't know who Jesus is because Jesus didn't announce himself. And then Jesus finds him at the end of John, chapter five. And this is where we have the statement that we probably all read, but we couldn't understand why Jesus said it. He says, go and sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you. Then if you move over to 1 Corinthians 11, Paul is speaking to the Corinthian church, which was kind of a backslidden church, a lot of sin. And so much of that letter is guiding them in their sins. And in 1 Corinthians 11, he's talking about the. The Lord's Supper. And back then, everyone would bring their own food and they would eat supper together as a commemoration to the Lord's Supper. And he was saying that you rich folks are doing it wrong because you're not discerning the body of Christ. You have poor people who have nothing. You're rich, you bring all your food and wine. You get feasted and you get drunk while the poor people are hungry. That's a sin. And so he says, because you haven't discerned the body of Christ. That's why some of you are weak, others are sick, and others are dead. They've already died. He's correlating it directly to sin. And then James 5, 14, 16, this is the passage where it says, talking to New Covenant believers. If any of you are sick, let him call for the elders, and they'll come and pray over them and anoint them with oil. But it ends in James 5:16. It says, Confess your sins that you may be healed. So we see from beginning to end that there's a correlation of sin to sickness, confessing of sin, being healed. And what happened with me in my journey is as I was sharing before we recorded is I come from a line of seven generations of medical doctors, healers, applying the science of the body. I went into business about 10 years ago. God gave me a gift of healing and I would just start praying for people and they were being healed. It got up to 90% of the people I was praying for were being instantly healed of whatever their issues were. This was I called Walmart healing. So people ask me, well, how do you know they were healed? Did the doctor observe them? I said, no, Guy has glaucoma, he can barely see now he sees perfectly. Well, Guy has been over with sciatica and now he's walking straight and carries his cane, things like that. So observationally you can tell that all the symptoms left. And over the years, the Lord started to reveal to me that what was happening was something in the spiritual realm, a spiritual blockage in their life that he's now shown me was sin of some degree. And it was just releasing of that. I don't understand the mechanics. But he then took away my gift of healing. I'd go back out to Walmart. A week earlier, 90% of the people I prayed for being healed of whatever their situation was, and now maybe 10%, if at most. So I asked the Lord what happened. He said, well, I took away that gift. I said, why it was helping so many people. He said, because now I want you to understand and do it through biblical authority. And when he said that, I understood because I'd been studying this concept of sin and sickness, confessing sin, sickness, leaving. So I started to just lead people and Walmart asking God, is there a spiritual root, something I need to confess, that's tied to this issue of mine? And I started to see the same 90% of people being healed of whatever their issues were. But it began to be a wider range of issues that I'd been seeing then over the years as the Lord guided me in this, My business skill is taking complex processes and systematizing them so anyone can do it. In business, we call it an sop, standard operating procedure that anyone can follow. So I started to do that with this process. And now I teach as volunteer at an addiction recovery center and leading people through this same process, a little bit more robust version of it I'm seeing. I actually tracked this. I had three classes when I was bringing out my book called the Prayer of freedom. Chapter 12 is the primary cornerstone of all of this, it's the process that they go through. And I wanted to measure statistically how effective this was. So I was teaching three classes at the time. I gave all my students in three classes. Chapter 12, I said, before you begin, I want you to make a list of everything that you're dealing with that you'd like to get rid of. So they made a list of their addictions, addictions to drugs, sex, alcohol, pornography. They would make a list of their mental health issues, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorders, a list of their chronic pains, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, muscle pain, restless leg syndrome, allergy, migraines and sicknesses, allergies, copd, things of that sort of. They graded them on a 0 to 10, and then I had them take chapter 12 and do it entirely on their own. I gave them a month to do it. So they would go through and just ask the Lord in a strategic process, is there anything I need to confess? And then they would make that list. And then there's a simplified process, how to successfully do that at the end of the month for the ladies who completed it. Not everyone did, but of Those who completed, 87% of those ladies, when they regraded their list, pretty much everything on their list had gone to zero.

[C]

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[D]

Definitely not.

[C]

And then confess their sins to the Lord and then believing they will be healed. I mean, it's not. It's. It's less than 1%. It is.

[D]

It's less than. You know, the Catholics have what's called a healing mass, and they say a lot of healing and the primary focus is confessing of sins. Yeah, it's interesting. So I was up on the prayer line at my church couple months ago. This guy comes up and he says, will you pray for me? I have anxiety, and it's just tearing me apart. And I said, well, you came the right person. Anxiety is easy to get rid of. I said, what's going on? He said, well, I went to the doctor. I've had it for a while. I went to the doctor about six months ago. He said, well, you've got anxiety. You're going to have it the rest of your life. Let's get you on some meds. And I said, well, when did it begin? Yeah, anxiety usually starts with something of fear. How long have you had it? He said, about a year and a half. I said, did anything happen about a year and a half ago that you became terribly afraid? He said, yes. He said, my wife had a breast exam. They found lumps, and I became terribly afraid. I said, well, that's the open door, because perfect love casts out fear. The fact that you have fear, it's rejecting God's perfect love. That's a sin. Let's simply confess it. And so he confessed, lord, I confess I was wrong, and I repent of my fear. And then he asked the Lord to remove anxiety. Within three minutes, it was totally gone.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

So I'm seeing this type of stuff even with rheumatoid arthritis. I was a lady named Susan a while back. She came up to me. She knew I prayed for people. She said, I've got arthritis. It's hurting a lot right now. I said, well, how long have you had it? She said, about 15 or 20 years. I said, well, let's pray. And as I'm about to pray, the Lord prompted me to ask her, do you have unforgiveness for anyone? She said, yes. I said, who is it? She said, it's my sister. She did something against my mother about 20 years ago. And I said, would you be willing to forgive your sister? Now? Watch this, Josh. For 20 years, she hasn't been willing to forgive. Now that there's a possible benefit to her to forgive. She said, yes, I'm willing to forgive. So I let her in. How to forgive. This is really important for your listeners because if you don't do it right, it won't work. So it's very complicated. I said, okay, just repeat after me, Lord, I forgive my sister. That was it. It's simply I'm being facetious that it's complicated. All it is is an attitude of the heart saying, I release my sister. That's all it is. And then we led her to ask the Lord to remove the arthritis. By the end of the day, the arthritis pain had gone away. She caught up with me five weeks later, because this is at the Addiction Recovery Center. And she caught up with me while I was teaching. She said, betty, I want to give you an update on that. She said, ever since you prayed for me, the arthritis pain has never come back. Last week, which was now four weeks after that event, she said, I went back to the doctor for my routine checkup. He was surprised. So he retested me. He said, my body has no arthritis in it. And he said, the tests show that my body has no evidence of ever having had arthritis.

[C]

You know, there's a lot of forms of medicine that are ancient and even some that are now gaining popularity again, that really focus on this. You know, when you look at traditional Chinese medicine, which is, I think, the oldest, one of the oldest forms of medicine out there in terms of putting together a process, right, for healing, they believe that the number one cause of people being sick and ill is negative emotions that store up in different organ systems. So, for instance, they believe that unforgiveness is tied primarily to the immune system and detoxification system. And to your point, anxiety is more related to the heart, fear related to the adrenal glands and reproductive organs. And so they believe, just like a toxin or parasite would sit in an organ, these emotions act like toxins and sort of build up over time. Now they have processes for, you know, doing certain herbs and dietary procedures, but also lifestyle things to release stress and fear. Now, I think the Bible, of course, is the ultimate of getting to the root of the issue. There's a book out now, the Body Keeps Score. That's another example of one. There's a German new medicine. This is. I mean, so these are things that have been talked about for a pretty long time. But what happened? You know, I wanna say probably during a very similar time when the church was separated from the state, you know, people in the medical field started saying, oh, the physical body's over here and the spiritual is over here. And they are totally separate things. And that's what's happened in medicine today so far to the point to where most of mainstream medicine, many doctors today end up having almost a God complex themselves. And they believe that no, anything spiritual, anything, it could not ever possibly impact the physical body. But the Bible is the complete opposite. The Bible is like the biggest reason why you're sick today is sin and lack of faith.

[D]

Yeah. So my father in law used to practice with a world famous internist named Dr. Cil Harris. He actually took over his clinic and the clinic is still in Birmingham called the Sil Harris Clinic. And my father in law, he's deceased now by about 20 years, maybe 25. But for 50 years as he practiced medicine, he had great success with his patients. And he kept telling his patients and was telling me that health is based on three pillars, like a, a stool with three legs. You had the mental, physical and spiritual. So when a patient would come in, he would find out what's going on and then he would interview them and talk to try to diagnose is it mental, physical or spiritual? As you mentioned, the healthcare system is removed spiritual. And now they say it's either mental or physical. So it's either a pharmaceutical issue, psychiatric, or let's go in there and change things in the bones. But once you go back to the spiritual root, you find that there's so much there. Unforgiveness, anxiety, panic attacks, all kinds of things that just constant irritability. In our life, I find that there's always something that we're holding onto. Our conscience says to let it go. And we choose to say no. God's placed the conscience in us to say, this is your guidance, right and wrong, Just let it go when it tells you to. But we choose instead to see with our eyes rather than with our heart. We choose to believe what our eyes tell us is true rather than what the word says is true.

[C]

You know, when my mom. This is. Oh, let's see, when this was. I mean, it's crazy. This was about 20 years ago now. My mom was diagnosed with cancer for a second time, lung cancer. And she had tumors on her lungs. And the first thing we did is we got down on our hands and knees and just prayed, prayed for healing. But we also went through a process of saying, how do we get to the root of the issues? And one of the things my mom had was she had a lot of anxiety and a lot of worry and a lot of fear and part of it was due to this. My mom was a people pleaser, and if anyone said anything negative about her or even if it might be constructive criticism, she took it as a personal attack. And so she had somebody that she was working with. My mom was a schoolteacher. My mom had taught special ed, and then she taught first grade. And when I was much younger, she taught me PE but she had a teacher come and say, hey, was being critical of her. And she took it like this major personal attack. And so when my mom was going through cancer, we had her go through the process of writing down who she needed to forgive, what the root cause of her anxiety was, her fear, her worry, all of those things. She confessed them to the Lord. And then we also had her just start meditating on Bible verses. She had about 20 Bible verses she just said every morning, every night. And. And we went through that. And of course, we did the dietary protocol. I mean, that was very in depth and took supplements and did a number of things, but she did that, and she was fully healed. My mom today is in her mid-70s, and she can water ski. She's healthy. I mean, this all took place when she was in her 50s. But I really saw such an amazing, miraculous healing in my mom then. And one of the things I haven't mentioned often is this was sometimes, I want to say it was like a couple years after she was fully healed, and she went into the doctor and they said, we think you have tumors again on your lungs via an X ray. And she ended up going to a conference that weekend and basically having somebody pray for her for healing. And went back a week or two later. They're like, nothing's here.

[D]

It disappeared.

[C]

It disappeared? Yes, it disappeared.

[D]

Isn't that amazing?

[C]

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

[D]

You know, this whole world of health. One of the things I've seen, Josh, is because we're a spiritual being in a physical body that so much of what our spiritual life operates in will manifest physically. And I think this is where you have, like, the body keeps the score stuff. We can start to see these patterns, how they operate in our body, and it's just a. It's amazing how it all works. I was sharing behind the scenes with your producer. A friend of mine has helped, has guided a lot of people through biblical dietary eating, and they've gotten rid of all kinds of cancers and everything else. And it's all in the. You know, it's all in the Bible. It's just hidden in plain sight. This is just one part of the health factor, you know, we have a physical body. You got to give it the right nutrients. But we also have a spiritual component, and we have to be in balance and in alignment with that. Anytime either one of those is off, we're going to have consequences.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, Absolutely agree. You know, one of the things, too, I think, you know, I used to have a pastor come in my practice, and he was my best patient. Every time I would teach weekly workshops, and he would show up to everyone.

[D]

I love it.

[C]

And I said, hey, why? I said, you know, you're already really. You're doing great. He was in his 70s. And I said, you're my best patient. I said, why do you show up at everything? And he was like, because I want to be preaching the gospel when I'm in my 90s. He was a pastor, he was a missionary, and I love that mindset. But one of the things, I just. I don't want anyone to miss this. If you want to be healthy, if you're dealing with condition right now, and it could be anything, autoimmune disease, hypothyroidism, menopausal symptoms, low testosterone, IBD cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic pain, addiction, confess your sins to the Lord. Beedi, could you walk us through just. Again, one more time, Just a little bit of process. Also, I want to encourage everybody along with the process that Beatty's going to walk us through. Get his book, the Prayer of Freedom. Get the book, the Prayer of Freedom. And he really walks you through exactly how to do this. But also, just do this now for us as well. I want you to literally do it right now. And you could even be listening to the episode, pause the episode right afterwards. And I want you to do this right now and today so you can be set free.

[D]

So the easiest thing to do and I want to guide everyone on this is I call this my demonstration process. It shows the impact of the spiritual realm making a mental or physical issue in our life. Because 90% of the time, if you have something that you can measure, anxiety, depression, back pain, sciatica, whatever it is, you can measure it. Then go on and measure it right now. On a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being most, what I find as I guide you through this is about 9 out of 10 people will see it go down, if not all the way out. I do want to caution that a lot of times this is a demonstration process. So sometimes it comes back usually within the next day or two. If it does, and nothing wrong on that, the Prayer of freedom process actually fixes all of that. But this just kind of shows you the impact. So here's how it goes. Go on and pick something that you want healing of. And then it's a three step process. Number one, we're going to ask God to reveal if there's any person you need to forgive or any sin that you need to confess that's tied to that. So it goes like this. Just repeat after me, Lord Jesus, I want to get rid of. If there's a sin I need to confess or a person I need to forgive that's tied to this, bring it to my mind right now. And then wait just a couple moments, maybe five or 10 seconds at most, something's usually going to flash right across your mind. And the way you handle it is if it was a sin, you simply say, I repent a blank. If it's someone you need to forgive, even if you don't feel like you're emotionally capable of forgiving them because of whatever they did, it's okay. Your heart wants to forgive. So simply declare I forgive blank. So it's either I repent of blank or I forgive blank. Go in and do that now. And then if the sin you repented of involved a person or you forgave someone, then the next step is just repeat after me and I release all judgments against and remove all unholy bonds tied with that person that I named. And now we're going to move into step three. We're going to ask God to remove it. And now, Lord Jesus, I ask that you remove blank from me right now. Take it from a. If it was like an 8, take it from an 8 to a 0. And then what I also find real interesting, Josh, is the Bible tells us to. We see Jesus commanding spirits out. We see Jesus rebuking a fever from Peter's mother in law. Get out now. Okay, so we want to rebuke that thing that we're wanting to get rid of. And so all we say is in Jesus name, you know, like anxiety, get out now. Go to a zero. So we ask the Lord, remind me, bring anything to mind. We confess it or forgive and then ask Jesus to remove it. And then we rebuke and say get out in Jesus name. Most people right now going through that will have sensed something going down. Usually not all the way out. So if it's moved, here's what's interesting. It's moved because all you did was confess your sin. Now to get it all the way out, just repeat again, Lord, thank you for reducing it. I ask that you take it all the Way out in Jesus name blank. Get all the way out. Do that one or two more times. You'll usually find it. Go all the way down.

[C]

Yeah. It's so powerful. And I love that. Again, this is what the Bible teaches us about healing is there's a level of repentance, there is a level of faith, there is trust in Jesus, that he is our healer. And so, yeah, I'm so grateful for you walking us through this process. Cause I think it's gonna help so many people. You know, I was thinking about, I was reading my Bible here just a couple days ago, and one of the things that I was reading about was, and I'm trying to remember exactly where it's at, but basically, the measure that you condemn others and judge others, that same measure is gonna be against you. It's so crazy. Cause this is true for Christians. I think a lot of times people think, well, if I'm a Christian, like, I'm not judged anymore, right? Like there's no more judgment. No, you're saved. You're saved. But if you are still judging others and holding things against others and condemning others, the Bible says that same measure of condemnation that you are holding against someone else is against you. And I can see that being something. Of course, that can be feeding disease.

[D]

Can I share a story on that?

[C]

Yeah, please.

[D]

So a friend of mine is Phyllis, and years back, she had an altercation with a co worker that just really hurt her. She made amends, she forgave him. But five years later, this co worker puts a file on her desk which happened to be the client that they were working on five years ago that created this altercation and said, would you price this? It was an insurance agency, so would you have underwriting prices? She said, yes. And then she picked up the file and said, oh, that's that altercation client that this guy accused me of. So she calls up the underwriter, said, john says to Prices, I don't care if you do or not. He's a jerk, he's a womanizer. And, you know, do whatever you want with this client, right? And then she hangs up. Later that day, she gets this tear, what felt like a tear in her eyelid. She had to take her contacts out, wear her Coke bottle glasses. And for three weeks, her eyes were just tearing up. Felt like something was up in her eyelid and she couldn't get it out. It was really scratchy and painful. And driving down the road, she said, God, this feels almost like torment of some sort. And the Lord said, yes, because you Judged one of my children. She said, I did. Who? And then she started thinking back, how long have I had this? Three weeks. Oh, I remember. It was that co worker. So she said, I release all judgments against that co worker. By the end of the day, her eyelid was healed.

[C]

That's amazing. Let me challenge you on one here, because we started off with this a little bit. The apostle Paul.

[D]

Yep.

[C]

Has a thorn in his flesh, in his side. And he's prayed and he said, lord, you know, take this away, and he's left with this. This thorn in his side.

[D]

Yeah. So Paul also speaks about the flesh not as the physical part of our body, but the spiritual counterpart of our physical body. And it's the flesh that opposes God. Romans 8 says that the flesh can never please God because it opposes him. Mindset on the flesh is sin and death. So a lot of conjecture of what that means. Some people think it's something physical. I believe it's probably something potentially spiritual as opposed to physical ailment. And I don't understand that. It's one comment with no background anywhere else.

[C]

One thing I want to share, too, that I think can sometimes, you know, biblically get us. Get me in trouble at least, is when I say in something relation to 100%.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

I think there's plenty of things that are 99% and a lot of things that are 90%. Right. So I think sometimes, you know, and God does this. Right. Like, I was thinking about this for, you know, most of the time when God is setting up leaders in the Bible, leading things, a lot of times it's more often it's men. But then sometimes she sets up someone like a Deborah or Queen Esther or someone else just to say, you know what? It's not that way all the time. Like, you know, there needs to be exceptions because I'm God. Like, you're not in control. Like. And I think there's an element too there that's maybe even important from a relationship standpoint. I think if things happen the exact same way all the time, no matter what, there's a level of. I'm relying. I can rely on a system rather than a person.

[D]

Right.

[C]

You know, and so I do. I do think there's that element there. But again, I want to go back and just reinforce. I love what you're teaching because it's so, so important. It's so important. I think there are so many people sick today because of unforgiven sins. Not going to the Lord, not spending time and, you know, having someone pray for you or praying for yourself. It's something that's lost in the church today. And I want to encourage, if pastors are listening or. Or somebody in a church listening, bring this back to the church. Listen, just read the Scripture, see what the Bible says again. James 5 is a great place. We talked about Deuteronomy 28. We talked about 2 Corinthians 11. I mean, there's a lot of different places you can read in the Bible that says, hey, if you need to be healed, do this, and start doing this during church services or in counseling sessions. And it would be a great thing for churches to start following what the Bible says when it comes to healing. Because when I think about growing up, when anybody was sick, sometimes they would have the person actually even come up on stage, lay hands on them. And this was rare in itself, but we would do that, and everybody would extend their hand, and people would lay on their hand the church staff, and they would pray for the person. And that's powerful. And I think we saw again, I remember a handful of times, less than 50%, but some people saying, I was healed because people laid their hands and prayed on me. And I do think that's an important part. But I cannot remember ever. And I'm serious about this. I can't remember ever in church, them saying, hey, you're sick because of unconfessed sins, and we want to encourage you to confess your sins.

[D]

Right. I've never heard it.

[C]

I've never heard it.

[D]

Yeah. You know what's interesting? Not to get too far on the outside, but the Lord led me through, took me into deliverance ministry years back, casting out of demonic spirits. What was interesting is in the process I used, I would interrogate that spirit. And these are people that are really bad off, right. And find out, you know, why are you there? What gives you a right to be there 100% of the time, it was always an unconfessed sin, usually something deep and dark. Okay. So there's just a lot there. I was talking to someone years back as I was going through putting this process together, and he said, I don't need to confess my sin. All of my sins are forgiven, past, present, future. Which, yeah, I get that.

[C]

I think there's a lot of Christians that believe. Believe that.

[D]

Right? And the question that I start to run into is, okay, if our sins are forgiven, then why does Jesus tell us in the Lord's Prayer to pray like this? And, lord, forgive me my sins as I forgive those who've sinned against me. If they're already forgiven. What's going on? Why Does Jesus say two, three times in Revelations 2 and three letters to the churches to repent? In other words, there's something bigger going on here. And the people I minister to, most of the people I engage with in confessing of their sins, and I'm seeing God heal them of different things. They're all born again believers. So just observationally, we really do need to confess because it really does have a big impact.

[C]

Well, you know, and there's an element of being saved, but also sanctification. And it's like. And if you were living with the spiritual bondage of living with a great state of fear and anxiousness and unforgiveness, it's like an injury. It's like, hey, I'm trying to train here for a marathon with a sprained ankle. It's like, you can't. You know, it is a major impediment to your growth and being able to move forward and flourish and become like Christ. Right? I mean, so this is a really big deal.

[D]

As I've gone deeper into this, there's so much focus. There are subtle focuses, but with highly significant impact. In fact, I'll share something that happened with my son. This really made an impact in me as the Lord was showing me the importance of confessing our sins. So my son came to Christ at age 5, and at about age 20, God said, I want to show you something. And he took him up into the heavenly courtroom. So now, as my son, his name is Beatty Jr. Is describing it, he says, up on the dais on the right is Father, God is Judge. He says, over on my left is a demon spirit accusing me of sin. Now let me bring some reference in this. Revelation 12:10, I think it is, says that Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He accuses us before God, so the only thing he accuses us is, is of sin. So we're in this courtroom. And so now this demon spirit is acting as a prosecuting attorney. And this didn't sit well with me because I thought, all my son's sins are forgiven. They're gone as far as the east is from the West. So I had to stop my son and say, well, hold on, were those real sins? Because I understand that demons always lie. And my son said, no, every single one were completely real. And demons only lie to you and me. They don't lie to God. And then he continued. He said, the Lord then told him to plead the blood of Jesus over those sins. So my son looked up to Father God and said, father God, I plead the blood of Jesus over these sins. And instantly the demon spirit disappeared. In other words, when you apply the blood of Jesus, which is what repentance is doing, it's appropriating Jesus blood over those sins, then what it does is that it now atones for the sins and removes them off the record. And now that spirit can't accuse you. So if that is a true vision, then it taught me something that even as believers, for even though our sins are forgiven, there's still something going on that we don't understand. And that's where the correlation with healing and unconfessed sins don't understand the mechanism. What I do understand is the application. Confess your sins. And I'm seeing people healed, you know,

[C]

And I think just as proof of this, if we look at it from a medical or physical standpoint of how these different emotions impact our body. And I have an interesting question for you on this next thing. But, you know, if somebody has a lot of fear, we know that your adrenal glands start putting out more cortisol. I mean, there's a physiological reaction to fear. We know that if you've got a lot of anger, that can stir up the liver and then that causes blood pressure to raise or anxiousness, nervousness causes blood pressure to raise. We know that if you are dealing with worry, people will say, oh, I feel like my stomach is tied in knots. Right. And so these affect different organ systems. I'm curious your thoughts on this. Do you believe that emotions are a physical manifestation of happening in the body? Like it's something that sort of you own. Think about this, like it's part of you from the sense of it's something that you're creating. Or do you feel like it's spirit? Because the body talks about there is a spirit of fear. Like they will actually, with certain emotions, they'll say there's a spirit of this emotion.

[D]

So now you're asking. Let me.

[C]

And one of the things, we've all done this before. We've walked in a room before and we've thought, man, something doesn't feel right in here.

[D]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

There's like, there's this heaviness, this thing that's. That's in this room. And it could be. It could be fear, it could be evil.

[D]

But. Yeah, so now you're peeling back the onion deeper, right? Take a layer off and recognize there's another layer there. The Bible speaks extensively into a degree of different spirits. Spirits. You have the holy Spirit. So that's the spirit. When Moses is given the design for the tabernacle and the artwork that goes along with it, then God says, and I've given Belaleel a spirit of skill, so he can put together all of the skill work. So you have a spirit of skill, you have a spirit of wisdom, you have a spirit of fear, you have a spirit of lying. Technically, you almost see a spirit of fever. So we see the terms of spirits that are both attributes of man and also emotional outbursts of man.

[C]

It's interesting because the Bible talks about like this when we read about the fruits of the spirit. Right. But one of the. I think the phrases the Bible uses sometimes with the Holy Spirit is, it's coming upon you. Right. So it's not something it's. I mean, there's a spiritual influence happening over your own spirit.

[D]

Yeah. So when I deal with addicts, a lot of these folks that are at the center are born again, passionate believers in Jesus. And you'll hear the common phrase, I didn't want to do it, but something inside me, I could not stop. And almost as if something inside urged them and actually drove it. This is what we see with Paul twice in Romans 7. I think in Romans 7:21, I do

[C]

what I don't want to do.

[D]

Right. Because it's sin that is dwelling within me. And so if you have a. Let's say a spirit of fear, fear is sin. If you keep feeding that fear, it gets stronger and stronger. So what I. My framework, I'm not saying this is how it works. I'm saying when I look at this as a framework and then apply remedies or processes against that framework, it seems to hold pretty steady. And that if we become afraid, then if we use the term spirit of fear, a spirit of fear comes upon us and it starts to amplify fear. And that fear causes us to constantly either have panic attacks or night terrors or anxiety or whatever is the manifestation of it. If we become angry with someone, you know, don't let the sun set on your anger, you know, or the devil will take a hold of you. And so when we don't release anger, we start to just have this underlying tension in our life. We're always uptight, always jittery, always bitter because we don't release it. But here's something that's real interesting, Josh. What I've been pondering a lot is our body start to hit these things because this out of alignment fear causes cortisol production, unforgiveness causes Cortisol and adrenal production, and it has these natural physical effects that. That tear our body down and blocks different hormones. Is that why we're getting sick, or is it something on the other end? Here's what I'm noticing. I'm seeing within three minutes, the effects completely disappear from chronic pain, typically within three minutes, definitely overnight.

[C]

Long.

[D]

Much faster than it takes the body to naturally recover on its own. If you were to stop these inputs into the body, I'm seeing something happen that's so fast that I don't understand it. But it's the same thing I saw when I had a gift of healing.

[C]

You know, it's an interesting question of. Is part of. I feel like what you're asking is, is it something that's naturally happening, or is there a level of supernatural quickening that is beyond our, you know, what we would typically see physiologically? And I would say this, though, the body, what it's capable of doing very quickly in terms of its spontaneous healing is really incredible. I go back to the placebo effect. During World War I, you had these fallen soldiers that lost limbs, and they were given morphine to numb their pain, and then they were given placebo pills, and 40% of them had the same relief as morphine. I mean, that's. I mean, that is just. It's incredible. So I think if there's a level of like. And this is why when Jesus says, hey, you want to be healed, like faith and belief. I mean, what those things do. If you truly believe and have faith, you will be healed. I mean, it is a powerful driver of healing. So I don't have the answer there either.

[D]

My dad used to be a vascular surgeon. He's retired, and his was always the urgent care surgery because it was the carotid artery most of the time. He noticed something real interesting, that all of his Alabama Power patients got healed the quickest. They recovered quicker, fewer complications, out of the hospital quicker. So as a scientist, he started asking them questions with everyone else. They had a reason to get healed, their mindset. I got to get back on the job because we get bonuses based on performance. When I'm out, my team and my buddies lose the bonus.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

So the mind has a tremendous impact on healing.

[C]

That's powerful. And one of the things, I think that's incredibly powerful, that, you know, my mom growing up would always have a pastor on tv. It was Joyce Meyer, you know, Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll, like, I mean, you know, constantly. And I remember, like, I wanted to just watch espn, you Know, I wanted to see, you know, who won the basketball or football game, but. But I watched it a lot growing up. And one of the things that a lot of those pastors would talk about frequently in a lot of their sermons was life and death is in the power of the tongue. And so my mom really kind of enforced on me, just, you know, making sure that our words align with, like. Like, we would never say, oh, that's killing me, or something like that. Like, would never say that because our mom, we knew, would stop us immediately. But really just professing our identity in Christ, professing the blessings over our life. And so I think that was something that. And I think about some of the biggest turning points in my life, things that really made a difference for me, is when I've had a mentor, somebody I respected, pray over me or say something positive about me. In fact, I think it doesn't happen that often today or maybe as much as it possibly used to. And so. But I can remember a couple times in my life, like, I had, you know, like, a couple men that were older than me, like, put their hand on my shoulder and say, you know, well done, Josh, or, pray for me. And I think about the single most impactful things I've ever been through. Those are up there. Those are up there. And I'm thinking back now also to this James 5, because I think it's just so important having the elders of the church, you know, place their hands on you and pray for you, for healing. It's powerful. It's so powerful.

[D]

So the Bible speaks a lot about blessings and curses. Not so much just from God's perspective, but from man's perspective. You always have the father give a blessing to the children. God said, if you curse your mother and father, you should be put to death. Okay? In the Old Testament stuff, Jesus even says, if you speak to this tree just like I did, you too, can curse it and cause it to die. We don't understand the power of our words. I don't know how it works, but I do know that I've seen in the healing side, someone gets healed of something, and then it comes back, right? Like, there was this lady on crew staff, Campus Crusade for Christ for 50 years. She's 73 years old. She had been in a wheelchair for 11 years. And she confessed something from high school tied to freemasonry. And instantly the pain left. She was able to walk around, but it came back later that week. And I was asking God what happened. I thought she confessed her sin. Now she's healed. And he put in my heart what happened. What happened was because we tested this, I said, her name is Franchia. I said, franchill, I think what's happened, why it's come back is you've allowed it. You've allowed pain back into your life because God says by his stripes you were healed, and he healed you, and it was demonstrably gone. But you probably have somewhere in the back of your mind this feeling like, I should still be in pain because it's become a. An identity of mine. And your identity of being in pain is contrary to God's identity of you. So now that's a sin. Let's confess your identity of pain and repent of it. So she did, and the pain left.

[C]

Wow. Well, what's your advice for people who maybe they've prayed before and they didn't feel anything, they didn't notice any change.

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So you have petition prayers, lord, please heal me. And over time, I believe those are very effective. But then if you're looking for healing, if you're not confessing what God is bringing to mind that's tied to that, then I say a lot of prayer for healing not get answered. But once we shift and do it the way God says to do it, confess your sins that you may be healed, then it works. Now, I have to say this with a caveat. I was doing a show a few months back, and this lady emailed me later and said, I've confessed all of my sins and I still have all these issues. I said, well, did you go through the process in my book? Because confessing your sin is like saying you mix eggs and flour and milk and some other stuff together, stick it in the oven, you got a cake, there's a recipe process. I don't want to make it too process formulaic here, but there's some things within what I've understood with this that can be roadblockers.

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Well, I want to mention too, you know, I do think sometimes you need to follow the process, and sometimes there's just a relational aspect where every little step doesn't matter. But I do want to say, you know, in the Bible, you know, obviously Jesus says things like, confess your sins and then repent. Right. So a lot of times there are multiple steps in being set free and turning your life around and being sanctified.

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Yeah. And that's all I'm saying is a lot of times we'll take one verse and say, this is the totality of how it works. But yet when you look at other parts throughout the Scripture, you start to see there's a little bit more. But the general underlying factor that I've worked in in terms of healing is based on an unconfessed sin. But with unconfessed sin, here's something real interesting. Sometimes it's not your sin. Exodus says that the Lord is speaking to them, to the Israelites, and said, I will forgive iniquities, transgressions, and sin, but I will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. And I will visit the iniquities of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. So there's something an iniquity sin. In the Hebrew, iniquity means to pervert or to twist. It's the perversion of God's holy standard. So sometimes I inherit something from the sins of my fathers, mothers or fathers. I don't understand.

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Well, the Bible talks about we will be inflicted to a degree or there will be repercussions to the third and fourth generation.

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Yes. So confessing of sin, there is something that, like in the addiction recovery that I do, 90%, 80 to 90% of those addictions appear to be iniquities coming down their generations. And so it's not so much saying, I confess that I took drugs. It goes a little bit deeper. But the foundation is the premise of confession, but the application is a little bit different. One thing that happens also real interesting is with trauma. So you have a victim, someone traumatizes me, they abuse me, they molest me, they do something against me. But now I have this issue. And so there's something. What I find is anytime sin is present between two people, either consensual sin or non consensual, there's still something there that still has to be confessed or released. And that is a form of confession. But you don't say, I confess that I allowed myself to be molested. It's different, but it's the foundation of confession. And all I'm trying to say is it's more complicated. This lady who emailed me said, I repented of everything. I said, well, did you go through the prayer of freedom process? No. Well, do that first, because there's a process to really get down to the deeper levels when superficial confession doesn't really work.

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Yeah. You know, one of my mentalities is when it comes to health challenges. And again, I learned this from my mom's miraculous healing of cancer. My mom didn't do chemo, she didn't do radiation, she didn't do surgery, she didn't do any of that. She just went through a natural process, but focused on healing spiritually, mentally and physically in all of those areas. And she was completely healed. But there's this process of looking at. Okay, let's look at diet. Okay. Are you eating healthy? No. You're doing a lot of sugar, you're doing a lot of fast foods. Okay, let's clean that up and get that perfect of saying, we're going to honor God with your body. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. We are going to eat perfectly in that way. And then there was confessing sins and there was meditating on God's word day and night. And there were things like my mom loved horseback riding, like when she was a kid. So she started going to a horse farm every week. And we just did everything we could to just sort of put her body in that perfect healing state and she was healed. And so I think for most people, you know, following all of the steps and processes of again confessing your sins, having somebody spiritually mature pray for you, going through this process, you know, the freedom prayer, and then eating healthy and living the right lifestyle and doing the right things and yeah, it's holistic. It's holistic. And we believe you're going to be made well if you do those things. And I just wanna encourage everybody to check out Beatty's book. It's the Prayer of Freedom here. And so you can get this, you can just go to Amazon.com and check out this book, the Prayer of Freedom here. And it's a great book that kind of walks you through. Hey, how do. It's a lot of what we talked about, but how do you become set free of these spiritual sins to improve your physical health, your mental health, your spiritual health? So I wanna encourage you guys to check out his book here as well. Well, Beatty, thanks so much for coming on the show today. It's been really eye opening and I'm really grateful for your ministry and what you do. And I wanted to have you on because again, this show is a big part about. It is healing, healing physically, healing mentally and spiritually. And so I love your process. I love how biblically driven it is and how well research it is and also how you've applied this in your own life to your family, to the people you're working with at the addiction center you work with. So thanks so much and let us know a little bit more about where people can find out more about you and your work.

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Yeah, sure. So the best place is simply theprayerfreedom.com theprayerofreedom.com and it gives you access to everything. I do live demonstrations. A lot of times on a show I'll do a demonstration with the host and you can see this in action and get some free stuff on that. But that's the best place if you want to reach out to me directly. Beattycarmichael.com But ThePrayerFreedom.com is the main place.

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That's so great. Well, Beatty, thanks so much for coming on again and everybody, thanks so much for tuning in here. And also, hey, if you're watching on YouTube, let us know if there's something in particular that really struck you. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask those. But we'd love to hear your comments there on if you've seen a miracle by confessing your sins. If you've seen or had a friend have a miracle from praying for healing or following any biblical advice for healing there as well and want to say, hey everybody, thanks so much for tuning in here to the Dr. Josh Axe show where each and every week we dive deep into the science and principles of how you can heal physically, mentally, spiritually and take your health and your life to the next level. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you on the next episode.

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