Holistic healer

I was inspired last night by something Pastor Andrew said in his message, or more accurately, a scripture he used. It is Matthew 4:23-24:

"From there he went all over Galilee. He used synagogues for meeting places and taught people the truth of God. God's kingdom was his theme—that beginning right now they were under God's government, a good government! He also healed people of their diseases and of the bad effects of their bad lives. Word got around the entire Roman province of Syria. People brought anybody with an ailment, whether mental, emotional, or physical. Jesus healed them, one and all. More and more people came, the momentum gathering."

Sure, nothing too startling about that you say, until you focus on one small part of that passage;

"anybody with an ailment, whether mental, emotional, or physical. Jesus healed them, one and all"

That is HOLISTIC healing!

Earlier in the passage it tells us that these people were suffering from "the bad effects of their bad lives". What would that entail? Certainly there would have been people released from demons of witchcraft, adultery, etc, but what else results from a bad life?

Could it be that Jesus spent His good time healing people of anxiety? Depression? Anger? Obesity? Diabetes? Stress? Irregular bowel movements? Bi-polar disorder? Exhaustion? Alcohol poisoning? That is a long, winding list but hopefully you get my point, two points in fact:

1, If Jesus healed holistically when He walked the earth then surely He can and will heal holistically now.

and

2, If Jesus healed holistically then surely He is interested in keeping us holistically healthy in the first place.

We are told to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind (Lk 10:27). If one part of us, either mental, emotional or physical is in need of healing or is not up to the job then how effective can we be in our lives for God?