Influencing the Human Mind: Fear, Medicine, & AI

Influencing the Human Mind: Fear, Medicine, & AI

Oct. 28, 2026

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Dr. Gordon Donaldson

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 10/28/26 To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, hello and welcome to this Wednesday edition of Stand in the Gap today. And it’s also our quarterly focus on health in this framework, health observations from a frontline doc. And if you recognize that, I hope, and I’m glad you do, because today my personal physician is back with me again, Dr. Gordon Donaldson, for another conversation about an area of personal health that I’m going to say impacts every one of us. So if you’re listening to me right now, you want to stay listening because this is going to be something I think that’ll be helpful, but it is one that’s often overlooked and I’m going to say greatly misunderstood. Now, the focus today is a topic that touches, well, physical health, emotional wellbeing, decision making. And I’m going to say even clearly into our spiritual lives. The title of today’s program is this, Influencing the Human Mind: Fear, Medicine, and AI.

Fear is one of the most powerful emotions that God has placed within us in its proper form. Fear can protect us from danger, motivate us to exercise caution and encourage wise choices. Yet when fear becomes exaggerated, manipulated or constant, it can and will affect how we think, how we process information, and ultimately how we make our decisions. Now, as Dr. Donaldson will explain, fear doesn’t merely affect our emotions. It can actually affect the brain itself, thereby influencing such things as memory and judgment and our ability to think critically. Now, in an age marked by health crises of which we know all around us, economic uncertainty, world conflict, rapidly advancing technology and the growing influence of artificial intelligence, understanding how fear shapes human behavior has never been more important. But before we can discuss AI, and we’ll get to that in a third segment, and it’s clearly expanding role in healthcare, we must first understand a foundational question.

That is this, what happens when fear becomes a dominant influence in the human mind? So today we’re going to examine fear itself, both its God-given purpose and its potential dangers when it is used to drive behavior and compliance rather than wisdom and discernment. And then we’ll explore how these realities intersect with modern medicine and technology and our responsibility as believers to anchor our trust in truth rather than anxiety. And with that, I welcome back to the program, Dr. Gordon Donalson. Gordon, thank you for being back with us today on a topic. You’ve done a lot of work on it and I think it’s going to be of great help to our people today.

Gordon Donaldson:

Absolutely. And Sam, thank you for having me and I am looking forward to discussing this with you and your listening audience.

Sam Rohrer:

And that’s a good thing because it’s going to be very practical. Let’s get right into it. I’ve said, and we all know, fear is a normal and God-given emotion, and it is emotion, but from a medical and practical perspective, here’s the question. What is the difference between healthy fear and unhealthy fear and share the medical impact of fear on the human mind?

Gordon Donaldson:

Absolutely. It’s always good, and as I’ve listened to your program enough, it’s always good to define the issue because a lot of times stress and fear anxiety are looked at as analogous or the same, but really stress is the cause or the source of the fear and anxiety, and then which is the brain and body’s response to the stressor. And so the action word here is response and the mindset with which we respond. So there is a right kind of fear and concern and respect. This causes us to do things on a medical standpoint so that we will avoid or mitigate or prevent unhealthy situations, illnesses, and diseases that may be coming our way. And that is also what drives us to then have a healthy quality of life. But we have to understand that the big problem here is 90% of what we fear, we have no control over, but the evil ones know that and they know that we can be controlled by those fears.

Quick example of that, the lab leak in Russia that killed a worker. Well, we don’t know anything about that. And because of that, one of the other major issues is the unknown because you didn’t hear any details about it. And what that does is that puts fear into an accelerated state, or as we in medicine like to say, it puts it on steroids. So in light of that, then we just churn, but we don’t have any control over it. And so that constant state of fear and anxiety, I mean, it causes the hormones in our body, the cortisol and adrenaline to be increased, and that has a multiplicity of physical effects. We get our muscle tension, we can get jittery, we get headaches, increased heart rate, drives higher sugar levels and weight gain, causes gastrointestinal upset with irritable bowel and heartburn, but it also suppresses the immune system to fight infection.

But the other additional thing that I emphasize kind of separately is that fear causes insomnia or loss of sleep. And without that and the nighttime reset, we lose our ability to, as you mentioned, think rationally, concentrate at work, interact socially, and we’ll discuss that more fully in the next segment. But I always say, you give me the best human specimen out there. I will turn them into a zombie if I’m allowed to just do one thing, and that is sleep deprive them.

Sam Rohrer:

See, that’s great. And we’re going to get in it. Ladies and gentlemen, I know that you’re already saying, wow, wow, wow. I need to stay attuned, and you do. Let’s go to the second question here. You’ve observed and alluded that fearful people are often more willing to comply. That’s the behavioral aspect of it. We know from history that anybody who promises safety and security as an example can say, all right, but here’s the question. How does fear influence human behavior and decision making? Is it a direct connection, dotted line connection as someone say? And why is it that understanding that principle is so important in our day today?

Gordon Donaldson:

Well, the reason is because fear as it impacts the mind, as it impacts the brain, and again, we’re going to elucidate a little bit more on that in the next segment and how that happens, but it causes an individual who is willing to stand up maybe in one situation, but then they’re confronted with another situation. They lose courage. They lose the courage to resist. They lose the courage to stand for their morals. They lose the courage to stand for what they know is right because of the majority. And so with that, then they comply with anyone. And fear and anxiety changes the structure of the brain, specifically the hippocampus. So there we go.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. There we go. That’s a great setup, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. Do you battle fear? Of course, we all do. And our theme today is this, influencing the human mind. Fear, medicine and AI. Stay with it. We’ll go through all of that. In the next segment, we’re going to deal specifically with this. What does fear do to the brain? Well, welcome back to Stand in the Gap today. And today’s our special edition. We do it quarterly, generally speaking, and the focus is on health observations from a frontline doc. Now that frontline doc is Dr. Gordon Donaldson, who’s been with me on multiple occasions, happens to be my personal physician, and that’s just for transparency purposes. But I know this man, I know his abilities in both the medical field and spiritual understanding. And that’s what makes it so unique as we address any issue like this one today.

So stay tuned and you’ll see how everything all fits together. But thus far, we’ve considered that fear is both a God-given protection mechanism and it becomes and is a powerful influence on human behavior and decision making. We’ve also discussed how a culture of fear, such as what we live in today, can certainly make people more susceptible to compliance, fear of going against the crowd, fear of who knows what, government penalties, all kinds of fears that can come in our life and makes us more susceptible to, well, when somebody stands up and they promise us safety and security or peace or greatness or whatever it may be. You get my idea. But fear doesn’t merely influence behavior. According to medical research and clinical observation, prolonged fear, key word, prolonged fear and anxiety can actually affect the way the brain functions, or should I say doesn’t function.

And that’s where we want to go here next. Now, Dr. Donaldson, in his medical practice, and I’m looking at him, he happens to be sitting right beside me. In your medical practice, you’ve often emphasized that the brain is remarkably designed by God and it receives information, it processes, experiences, stores memories and allows us to reason, to learn and to make decisions. Yet when anxiety and fear become constant companions, that process can, shall I say, maybe will be disrupted to some degree at least. And as a result, people may find it more difficult to process information clearly, think clearly, remember accurately or respond wisely to circumstances around them. And since one of our goals today in this program is to understand how the human mind that can be influenced, it’s important that we first understand the physical and the neurological effects that fear has on the brain itself.

So in the next segment, we’re going to build on that foundation and examine how artificial intelligence is increasingly entering the healthcare arena and influence both physicians and patients alike. But let’s get right into this. You’ve compared the brain, Dr. Donaldson, to a computer with information coming in, being processed, being stored, being accessed, all that kind of thing. Can you walk us through, I want to say the roles of the brain, including the hippocampus and the cortex and maybe other parts as you identify and explain how God designed these systems to work together.

Gordon Donaldson:

Absolutely. And one of the things is that we’re understanding that the fear and anxiety, it literally changes the structure of the brain, but specifically the area of the hippocampus. I like to use the analogy with the computer at four segments. So as we go through this, but the hippocampus is so important. And so by changing that, it changes our behavior. It changes how we can be controlled. So in medicine, it can be a positive. In other words, it will cause one to look for and make changes that are beneficial to their health. But on the other side, what fear does and how the evil uses it is that it can drive patients to do unnecessary tests and take unnecessary treatments and risk literally their health in doing that. So to the brain like a computer, it’s really… So think of your computer, you have your data entry point, you input it into the RAM, then there is the wiring connection that goes to the hard drive and that’s what we put into storage for future reference.

Well, the brain has a similar setup. The amygdala, which is kind of on the end of the hippocampus, is the data entry point. That’s what receives the data as we go through our day. The hippocampus is the RAM and then the neural pathways is the wiring that gets the data up to the cortex, which is our hard drive. So let’s break it down. The amygdala is the data input into the hippocampus. And as we go through our day, we are faced with different situations, information, and that comes through the amygdala. The hippocampus is really the key. That’s our short term memory. It’s our rapid access. And it can only hold about 12 hours of data. That’s why at the end of your day, it’s like, “Yeah, okay, I’m done.” Well, the hippocampus can regenerate and it maintains its size through life. It is one of the only tissues that can do that, but it is affected by negative influences and dementia actually is increased in those who have a smaller hippocampus.

And so the cortex is the hard drive where the data is uploaded to and stored, which can store a lifetime of information. But this happens at night during restorative sleep. And so the neural pathways, they function most efficiently during that restorative or what we call REM sleep. If it is disrupted and fear and anxiety do that, it does not allow the data and information to transfer effectively. And so our hippocampus doesn’t totally unload. It doesn’t become regenerated for the next day. So therefore the next day, things can become overwhelming if somebody, they then don’t think rationally or critically with common sense. It’s because the hippocampus is overloaded because it has not had an opportunity to regenerate. And so fear and anxiety actually reduce the size of the hippocampus.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. I think that computer analysis to me really is helpful. Let’s move into it now. Okay. Those are the component pieces, input, processing, long-term storage, nighttime sleep, clears the hippocampus in order to keep everything functioning. All right, let’s go into this. What actually happens to the brain when a person lives under prolonged fear? We’re talking about fear, stress involved in that, anxiety, and why can such conditions make rational thinking, as what you’ve referred to, discernment and critical judgment more difficult and perhaps maybe even impossible?

Gordon Donaldson:

Well, the way that it works in that respect, and we have very good examples of that, and what it does is it causes an individual to then accept information that is untrue. It can accept information that is not thought through. And again, they don’t think in a common sense way. It’s like we look at a situation and it’s like, hmm. In a rational thinking individual, it’s like, well, that two and two just doesn’t make four. For some reason, it’s making three or it’s making five. That doesn’t make sense to me. And so in doing that, then we get thrown at us or an individual gets thrown at them, okay, here’s five. And they think, oh, oh, okay. Yeah. So then that two and two makes five. And because of that, then they actually become foggy in their thinking. And that’s actually what happens with the hippocampus.

And unfortunately, that’s why you hear with the whole COVID deal, people who get COVID or people who have gotten the COVID shot, it’s like, man, I have this brain fog. It is because that has attacked the hippocampus. And again, we go back to that old bad thing and it seems to be making the comeback, the spike protein. The spike protein was actually designed in a way, and it will attack the hippocampus more than other areas of the brain. And so that’s why the though processing, they just can’t process things effectively. And in doing that, then they don’t process things in a logical way. It becomes illogical.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. Now I could go much further because it almost sounds like you’re saying if we are not able to think through, as we’re talking about, you could react rather than think it through and respond accordingly, but you get into all of that, but let me go right here because I’m about a minute left. What practical steps can listeners take to, I’m going to say, counter the negative effects of fear and maintain both mental and emotional resilience? We’re going to end up on the spiritual component because there is in the last segment, but what can they do in this midst?

Gordon Donaldson:

So there are basically five very important things. Number one, and it goes back to things we’ve talked about in the past programs, good whole foods nutrition. Give your brain, give your body good nutrition. Number two is have a meaningful social life. Get out. And the important thing is when I say meaningful social life is actually it is good to be encouraged, which is why we encourage people getting together, of which obviously from this program, it’s being in church. You hear Sam talk about that every time, every week. Hope you were in a good church. That socialization is extremely important. Restorative sleep and regular physical activity and exercise, but that gives us purpose in life and that’s what helps to get us together.

Sam Rohrer:

All right, ladies and gentlemen, obviously if you are a believer, you are hearing component pieces, the spiritual, what we know how God has made us. We’re made in the image of God and all of the amazing things coming at it from this perspective today where pieces coming together. Now in the next set, we’re going to come and we’re going to go from this matter of fear, medicine. We’re going to put that in there and now AI because AI is coming into the picture and contributes to this. We’ll put that piece now into the discussion. Well, welcome back to Stand in the Gap today. And our focus, if you’ve been with us from the beginning, I applaud you for being with us from the beginning if you have not, because of the nature of the theme that we’re discussing today, the title being Influencing the Human Mind: Fear, Medicine, and AI, about which we’re going to talk now.

I would encourage you to go back and listen to the program. You get the transcript. When it’s all done, you can access it. Read it through and then share it with a friend because these things today affect every one of you who are listening and me and my guest today, Dr. Gordon Donaldson. Now let’s get back into it because thus far we’ve established that fear is a powerful influence on human behavior and that prolonged fear and anxiety can have measurable effects on the brain’s ability to do what? Well, to process information that which comes in through our eye gate and our ear gate and so forth and to learn, to reason and to make sound judgements, all of which are critical. We’ve also discussed how maintaining physical, emotional, and spiritual health, which we’ll get to even more in the next segment, can help strengthen our ability to think clearly and to resist being controlled by fear because fear does control.

Now, if we shift gears, we’re going to come to a technology that’s rapidly becoming part of nearly every aspect of our life. And we talk about it much on here, including healthcare, and that’s artificial intelligence or AI. Now, today, AI is already assisting physicians with patient records, diagnostic support, treatment, recommendations, medical research, predictive analytics, and genetic-based medicine and a whole lot more. Its potential benefits are significant, and in many cases, I’m going to say we’re genuinely exciting. But at the same time, AI is not inherently moral or immoral. It’s a tool. And a critical question then becomes, well, who designed it the way it works? What information is fed into it and what assumptions drive its recommendations? And what happens when physicians and patients become increasingly dependent, and that’s key word, dependent upon protocols and algorithms rather than wisdom, discernment, and independent judgment? Dr. Donaldson, you’ve suggested that AI should be viewed along a continuum from beneficial medical applications to the possibility of increasing control over human decision making.

That’s the downside. Now, let’s explore both the promise and the potential dangers of AI and its expanding role in medicine and healthcare. Before discussing concerns, let’s get with the positives here. How is AI already helping physicians and patients and where do you see some of its greatest potential benefits in regard to diagnoses and treatment and predictive medicine and genetics? As an example, what are the benefits?

Gordon Donaldson:

Yes. As you mentioned, AI is becoming at the forefront of medicine in how we produce things, how we make drugs, how we do protocols. But what as you mentioned also is the AI as we are familiar with it right now is at the lowest level where I look at it as a tool and as a tool with anything else, it has both beneficial and detrimental things. It depends on when you pick up that tool, that is when something that is just sitting there, again, amoral, doesn’t really have it, but when it is picked up by the individual, in my situation of physician, then what is the intent and purpose of the user of that? And that’s where we really have to take the hard look and we have to discern that. So for myself, yes, it can help me. I can say, okay, I can put in some symptoms and it’s like it will give me some directions to look.

So that is beneficial for me as I can become more efficient in diagnosing something or I can become more efficient in treating something, but I have to look at, well, what’s the protocol in the treatment? So it has to be looked at as a continuum. And so where we are on this level, it has its benefit, but the ultimate goal, because you have what we call the basic AI where we’re at, but then you have general AI and then you have the SIAI, the super intelligent AI, and the ultimate goal of that is control. And so it’s using it at this level to become that. So in that situation, we get into the predictive. So I use predictive. I mean, we’ve always used predictive analytics. Somebody has genetics, they have their high cholesterol, they have high blood pressure, they have these things. Well, then that predicts or there’s prediction that, yeah, you’re going to have cardiovascular disease, which is why we look at root causes.

But the flip side of that is that also they can be used negatively. So in the positive sense, that’s how the predictive medicine and genetics can be good.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. So a tool, ladies and gentlemen, viewed as a tool. Now let’s get into this because you said in an expanded form, perhaps it can become controlling. Let’s go there. Why is it so important to examine then who creates the algorithms, which is the engine behind AI, what data is being used, meaning what goes into it and all that kind of thing, and then what assumptions, because that’s key as well, that’s part of the thinking aspect of it. What assumptions are built into AI driven medical protocols that put it in the area of potentially being controlling, which is not a good thing?

Gordon Donaldson:

Well, so where that comes in is with being predictive, let me just kind of go back to some examples. The biggest thing is that you can look and ask AI a question, it will give you its initial answer. But the question is, is that answer based on truth? Is it based on certain studies? Is it based from a perspective of helping my patient or is it based on something that can be negative and can be pushing, excuse me, my patient into a negative situation? Obviously what’s hot and heavy here in Pennsylvania where we are at is the whole measles thing. And you have to have someone who can ask the secondary questions. And that’s where it comes with physicians who basically they’ll ask questions, so what do we do about measles? Well, the obvious and very first answer that comes up is, well, you have to get the measles vaccine, the MMR.

Well, what about treatment? Well, that doesn’t come up. You have to ask the question for that. What about ways that you can avoid it? What about ways that we can mitigate it and prevent it? What about ways that, or what was the real issue before? In other words, measles, was it really that bad of a thing before the vaccine ever came along? And so we have to be able to ask the secondary questions with that. And so we have to know where the protocols are set up, who puts those protocols into place. And we all know that during COVID, the protocols were not good protocols, protocols killed. Whereas those of us who were out here on the front lines, we could treat and save almost 100% of the people that we work with if we could use our protocols rather than the protocols that were inputted by the establishment, so to speak, and where it was going.

And you have to also look at what drives it. And unfortunately, a lot of what drives protocols is the dollar sign, and that’s really an important aspect with that. Also, you can, by asking the right questions, you can have AI do a total 180 if the right follow-up questions are asked.

Sam Rohrer:

Right. That takes me back, Gordon, to the same thing you’re talking about. If the hippocampus is not working right because fear is dominating it or stress is in there and it’s not able to clear out at night, it allows what you’re talking about, the judgment could be of the physician using it or those who are listener using it in various forms. All of that becomes complicated by the inability to think. In what way, and this is not quite the question I had for you because there’s benefits and the dangers and all that about healthcare providers, but let me ask you this. How is it that you think AI, as we’re talking about it, perhaps is contributing to stress or contributing to fear? Is it perhaps? And if so, how and kind of what should we watch out? Because that’s our theme today, fear influencing the human mind.

Gordon Donaldson:

Absolutely. You have to understand where the physician that you’re going to is coming from and where that is. They actually looked at that where they brought patients into a room and they basically had them give their symptoms and what they were there for to AI and get a response from AI. Or they had the patient come in, talk to a live physician, and then they looked at, well, how was their fear and anxiety when they came in? How was it when they went out? Well, what they found that those who came in, got their responses from AI, they were left just as stressed, if not maybe more stressed because they were given a whole boatload of things that they would have to go through, a whole boatload of things that they had to look at, which basically drove their stress level higher. Whereas to come in and sit down with a physician that will with common sense, critical thinking, say, “Okay, let’s work through it this way.” As I say here in Pennsylvania, when I hear clippity clop, I expect to see a buggy come around the corner pulled by a horse, not a zebra.

Sam Rohrer:

That’s a great illustration. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope that you’re enjoying the program and benefiting. In the next segment, our last segment, we’re going to come back and put all these things together. And this is kind of a sub theme here, truth or fear. Who will influence your mind? That gets into the decision making process. That gets into the thinking process. And this is where the spiritual component for those of us know the Lord come fully to bear. Stay with us. We’ll be back in just a moment. Well, welcome back now to our final segment on today’s quarterly special emphasis on health observations from a frontline doc. And that doc is Dr. Gordon Donaldson. He leads the Morgantown family practice in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. But our theme has been this, influencing the human mind, fear, medicine, and AI. Now we’ve dealt with all of them, but throughout today’s program, we followed a progression that began with fear, moved into the effects of fear on the brain, the little changes that it makes in the brain.

We described that. Dr. Donaldson described it. And then we examined the growing role of artificial intelligence within healthcare and alluded to how that actually can factor into the mind itself. And while these subjects may seem separate, they’re actually quite connected by one central question. And that’s where we’re going to conclude here. What influences the way people think and decide and ultimately live? Now, as we’ve discussed, fear can influence, it actually does. It does influence behavior. Prolonged anxiety and stress can affect the brain’s ability to process information clearly. And artificial intelligence can be used either to assist human decision making as in a tool or to increasingly shape it as a controlling entity. Yet behind all of these issues lies an even more foundational matter. As believers, most of you listening to the program would profess to fear God. As believers, where do we place our trust and what serves as the final authority for truth?

Now, Dr. Donaldson, in the outline that you put together, we are using as the basis for our program today, you made the important observation that technology is not the ultimate issue. Said the real issue is the source of the information. And here’s a keyword, the world view behind it and then the purpose for which it is being used. Three things you put in there. And as we conclude today’s conversation, let’s focus now on how Christians, God fearing people, can exercise biblical discernment and live with confidence in a world that’s increasingly shaped by fear and technology as we know, and competing claims for our attention and allegiance. Throughout today’s discussion, Dr. Donaldson, you’ve emphasized that AI, for instance, is ultimately a tool. Now, as Christians, in evaluating both medicine and technology, why is it essential to look beyond the technology itself and ask who is supplying the information?

What worldview is driving it and what purpose is it intended to serve? Build those out because I think those are three fundamental questions.

Gordon Donaldson:

It really is. And one of the biggest things is the downside with AI and in whose hands is it being used is that we are seeing this a lot where it is being actually used to withhold treatment. Studies aren’t being approved. It changes outcomes. They can use AI again with the predictive. They can use it against an individual if they have a certain genetic. It’s like they devalue that individual. And because of that future potential illness that may come down, insurance companies will use it so it can be used negatively. And in that situation it’s okay, how is my doctor using it? Are they using it for my benefit? And those that are behind that, how are they using it? So we can look at things in a sense that, oh, it’s very good. So it can make good, better medicines. It can do more things for us.

It can do surgeries and Neuralink. I mean, what’s bad about Neuralink? Well, you have to understand where that potentially is headed. I mean, it can do good things for you. People can feel, people can see, people can be able to hear better with Neuralink. But how about if they take that Neuralink and they change it and they start operating it to a different part of your brain, like the hippocampus, so you don’t think rationally and they can actually change how you think with Neuralink. And so we have to look down the road as to where it’s being headed. It’s good here and it’s put out to us as being great. So then the other thing is using AI for the purpose of treating a patient better, yes, but fear and anxiety really boils down to where are we putting our faith? Are we putting our faith in an individual?

Are we putting our faith in a certain treatment? And we have to have that ability because that helps us get better. But as a physician person, I have to look at myself and I’m God’s instrument. And so I need to have my actions do good. And really are my actions then for the patient furthering God’s kingdom? Is it doing good for them? First, do no harm. That’s my Hippocratic oath. And so the key then is, okay, where do I get my data from? And am I getting my data from those who would kind of see things from God and his moral law and his truth? Or is it from the humanistic side, from the devil and the deception and lies that go along with that? I mean, I just had this discussion multiple times with a couple of my patients. Unfortunately, I at times don’t have the appreciation for my own colleagues and with what’s going on out there.

And so you have to see AI as a tool and look at it as a purpose and the intent for which it is being used. And we know that ultimately it’s about control. And so again, I have to look at it on my level here, but where is it headed? And then we’ll discuss a little bit more there.

Sam Rohrer:

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Worldview. A person who has a biblical worldview has a completely different worldview. A physician, a politician, a pastor, anybody, they have a worldview. As we interact with them, we have to come up and make our choices on a worldview. So what practical steps can true believers take to guard their minds from unhealthy fear to strengthen to discernment we’re talking about and to benefit from useful technologies, maintaining their confidence in Christ and the truth of scriptures rather than placing trust in man’s systems and technology, which will take us the opposite direction from then peace.

Gordon Donaldson:

Well, that’s just it. And so I would really like to finish. I want to make sure I get these questions in because these are the questions that every one of you out there have to ask yourself as you approach anything in life, but especially as you approach your health. First, who am I fearing and in whom do I place my trust in faith? Is it God, biblical worldview, or is it the other side? Second, what is the stressor I am fearing and is it part of my sphere of influence? Can I do anything about it? Why do I need to worry about something I can’t control? I need to look at myself, my life, my physical health and what I can control. And then third, am I getting the information from truthful sources and resources so I can know the truth to recognize the deception and the lies and to make the right decisions?

Because ultimately that is what we have to do. We are given that responsibility for our own health, for our lives. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. And so because of that, we have to do things that are right to give us quality and to serve our God better.

Sam Rohrer:

And Gordon, you bring us right to the point we always try to go. Ladies and gentlemen, is the word of God the authority in your life? Does the word of God speak to all issues of life? Yes. Well then in all things, including what we’re talking about today, may we be driven by faith and trust in Christ and God’s word and therein God has not given us the spirit of fear, has he, but the power and love and of a sound mind. I pray that is true for you.