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scripttorture · 4 years

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My question is basically: in the scenario I describe, do you think I should go with or without torture as a referenced thing that happened? The situation is this- my character’s father has been dead for seven years, but I thought that what if, instead of being killed by the monster he was faced with at the time, he was injured by it and then captured by a group of bad guys. This is set in the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild universe and the bad guys in question are the Yiga Clan, (1/9)

who alternate between a comical and threatening presence in the game. They are presented as a tribe of assassins, but the reason why they decide to take my character’s father alive is that they saw him using a rare kind of magic and either want him to teach it to them or want to get him to use it for them. (It’s hereditary so he can’t teach it to anyone but his daughter, but they don’t know that and he will neglect to inform them that anyone else has the same abilities.) (2/9) Most likely they want him to do something with his magic when their idol (Ganon, The Big Bad) returns or possibly something that they think would help him return. Where the question of torture comes in is, I need him to still be alive and capable of going with an escape attempt after seven years. So, whether or not they get the notion to try torturing at any point, it obviously can’t be super regular or prolonged over this period. I thought maybe one or two incidents toward the beginning (3/9) of his captivity, which were ordered to stop when they realized they would have to keep him alive for an undetermined amount of time and that’s easier when you aren’t treating extra injuries, but I’m not sure that would really add anything other than acknowledging the fact that someone in there probably got the notion to go “hey if he won’t teach us that magic what if we punch him and ask again” and may not have been turned down. Or they may have, (4/9) or they may not have brought it up at all because the Leader didn’t ask them to. Alternately, I could lean into their comical side and say that, while they got the idea to try “torturing” they don’t actually know how to do that. They’re assassins, they usually just kill, they don’t really know what to do with prisoners, it’s been a long time since they split off from another group that may have known torture techniques in the service of the now-destroyed kingdom. In which case it would be (5/9) things like “ohoho what if we give him his food... WITHOUT ANY bananas? he’ll be MISERABLE” (they are obsessed with bananas) played for a weird kind of humor. On the other hand I don’t want to imply that if they’d tried “REAL” torture it might have worked. Possibly the punching and asking again was tried once toward the beginning, then the comical “no bananas” one was tried later and neither one accomplished anything? I don’t want to say he spent seven years underground (6/9) surrounded by a comical murderous weirdo cult and “nothing really happened” in that time until his rescue but I don’t want to shoe in something like Actual Torture Attempts when it isn’t necessary. I could fill his time with escape attempts and/or trying to get information. Final thing: his daughter is going to break him out with the help of the Hero and a friend who defected from the Yiga Clan. This friend’s mother is going to take leadership of the clan but is meant to reform somewhat. (7/9) My character (the one whose father is imprisoned) could funnel her anger at his imprisonment towards the previous leader but if she finds out he was tortured (or weird attempts were made at it) she could have more trouble coming to a grudging, still pretty angry acceptance that her friend’s mother exists and is the way she is and probably shouldn’t be magically lit on fire. Or she could compartmentalize and say the friend’s mother never ordered anything like that, or may have even (8/9) turned a blind eye to her father’s final escape. This was a lot of detail but again the main questions are: does that seem like torture attempts would add or detract, and would it be in poor taste to include something like the “no bananas” scene? (9/9)

While I’d never played a Zelda game when I got this ask I am now one of Those People who got a switch in response to not being able to go outside. (They had pokemon, I was weak). And I’ve put a lot of hours into Breath of the Wild since. It’s a beautifully realised setting and I can see the appeal of writing something set in that world.

Humour is a very subjective thing. Whatever we do there are always going to be people that the jokes don’t land for. I’ve (mostly) got positive responses to my humour but I have had incidents both here and on my AO3 page where people took exception to it. And that’s a lot more likely to happen when we’re dealing with serious topics.

That said, I do think that we need humour about the things that scare us. There’s nothing quite as potent and satisfying as making our fears ridiculous.

If you’re considering using humour in a torture/kidnap/POW situation (whatever you decide re torture the story definitely contains some of these elements) then the main thing to consider is this: what are we actually laughing at?

This kind of humour is mostly likely to backfire or be outright hurtful when it can be interpreted as laughing at the victims. Or at the existence of traumatic events. And it’s most likely to work consistently when it’s aimed at the abusers.

From the way you’ve described this it sounds like the joke is on the Yiga clan. As it is in the game itself. (I have enjoyed the assassination attempts by enraged ‘banana salesmen’.) If you wanted to continue the pattern the game set I think a lot of fellow fans would enjoy this humour.

But the main question here is about when we should use torture in a story. And how we judge whether it’s adding anything.

Personally I start by thinking about the tone and themes of the story. The kind of atmosphere I want to capture and kinds of character interactions I want to write.

Then I try to think through the impact torture would have on the narrative in terms of knock on effects. So, symptoms in victims/survivors, witnesses and torturers but also effects on culture, community and organisations.

It would probably be easiest for me to break this down with an example or two.

I’ve talked briefly about both of these stories before. One of them takes place about two decades after a military coup ousted an absolute monarchy. Ilāra, one of the major characters, was embedded in the old regime and tortured people. They were also tortured by the regime and helped make the coup successful.

And part of the impact torture has on the story is in Ilāra's symptoms. But it’s also in the way other characters relate to them. Normal people are afraid of them or disgusted/enraged at the sight of them. They’re ostracised by their own community and treated with contempt by their military superiors.

One of the major themes running through the story is the question of how we deal with people we love when they’ve done horrific things. And how countries, cultures, move on from atrocities.

Most of the major characters aren’t Ilāra's generation, they’re the kids who came afterwards. The people who just about remember the Revolt but grew up in a world without the monarchy. They’re navigating a legacy of blood and bitterness, things that aren’t their fault but nevertheless have shaped the world they live in.

Part of it is about how the children Ilāra helped raise respond to this personal (and national) history. How they try to square the fact that this person was good (and in some ways defining) for them, while being monstrous to others.

I felt that torture would add to this story because the point of it is those fault lines. In society at large and in personal relationships. It’s about exploring how we try to bridge or heal those fault lines and how, sometimes, we make them deeper.

Torture (and indeed the other atrocities that are part of the country’s legacy) serve to raise the stakes. They deepen that initial emotional trench between the characters. And they also… Pull the camera back I suppose? The story may be about a single family but it isn’t an individual story. It’s about how larger patterns of abuse effect everyone in a society. Torture serves to make it about the culture, the country, instead of just the individuals within it.

There are similar ideas in the other story I’m working on, societal divides and how we bridge them, but I think there’s a slightly different focus.

Both of these stories are fantasy stories, but while Ilāra's story is in a sort of circa 1900s past Kibwe’s is in the future. It’s extrapolating the political oppression and systems from the places I’m interested in (in this case India, the Philippines, Kenya and Nigeria.)

The story takes place across generations starting when Kibwe was a teenager but continuing to his daughter’s formative years and into his children becoming independent adults.

And there’s torture in this story because the entire family is involved in politics. Because I grew up knowing that the natural consequence of acting for major political reform/justice was arrest and torture.

The story is about trying to change unjust systems and generational violence. It’s also about the unhealthy ways people can engage in activism, putting the theoretical good of the community above their health and their families/friends.

I didn’t really have to think about including torture in any depth, it was a natural fit. In fact I’m not sure I could talk about politics in any meaningful way without talking about torture.

So some more specific questions that might help with your story. Is the structure of the Yiga clan important to the story? Is the effect they have on society at large important to the story? Is this primarily an individual/personal story or one with a wider focus?

There aren’t ‘wrong’ answers to those questions, it’s about what you want to write.

Do you want a more personal focus with the relationships between the major characters being more important then the world at large? I think of this as a character focused (as opposed to a character driven) story.

For instance in the Lord of the Rings trilogy while we care about every member of the fellowship the important thing throughout, the focus, is the destruction of the ring and the systems that are harming all of Middle Earth. By contrast in Howl’s Moving Castle we care about the war and the fate of the missing Prince, but the important thing is what happens to the girls from the hat shop.

Both of these approaches to a story can include torture in a meaningful way. It can add to both kinds of stories. But it’s generally adding different things.

In a character focused story (with the kind of plot you’re writing) torture is mostly adding a sudden change to all of the relationships a character has. There might be focus on symptoms, a recovery arc, character development etc but the first and most obvious thing it’s adding is a major change to how these characters interact.

In a story that’s more focused on the big picture of the world torture can add world building elements and it can be used to map out divisions and allegiances in the societies you write.

Part of the reason I’m making this distinction is that in this scenario you can very easily tell a character focused story with trauma-recovery and not have torture. Kidnap and seven years imprisonment is enough to be traumatising.

That doesn’t mean torture couldn’t/wouldn’t add anything to that story. But it might not be necessary for the story you want to tell and the focus you want it to have.

On the other hand if this is primarily a broader story about communities and cultures growing and changing, the decision of whether or not to include torture has much more potential to direct the plot. It could create opposition to reforming the Yiga clan, both inside the clan (wanting to stick with how things are) and outside it (with people wanting it utterly destroyed).

Different factions and cultures might band together on the basis of shared opposition to the Yiga clan. And the clan’s reformation could effect those allegiances.

There could also be knock on effects based on where the clan operates: cultures that have been targetted by them in the past might not want this new ‘reformed’ (and more obvious) Yiga clan on their lands. And that in turn could stir up trouble within the clan because hey they’ve been here for generations it’s their home too!

There are lots of ways torture could add to this plot and these characters. It could also feed in to broader themes.

For instance the main character and her father haven’t seen each other for seven years. The difference between how we remember or idolise someone and the way they actually are is a theme you could add to here. The Yiga clan is going to end up reformed: what does it take for people to accept that reformation and forgive? The main character is friends with a former Yiga assassin: how do we process the fact people we care about might have hurt others?

That isn’t an exhaustive list, I’m just throwing out ideas to see if anything interests you.

In terms of timing and character being physically able to escape I think you’re already hit on a pretty good idea.

Torturers don’t tend to stop when ordered to. Part of the reason a lot of organisations reject torturers is because they… tend to disobey orders. A lot.

So if you wanted to write a scenario where this character is initially tortured and then held for a much longer time without torture the realistic way to do that is to have the character transferred from the ‘care’ of one group of Yigas to another. Torturers tend to exist in groups as sub-cultures within larger organisations. Which means that their presence in an organisation does not necessarily indicate that everyone in the organisation supports/carries out torture.

You could even have the Yiga’s take a (perhaps half-hearted) anti-torture stance and have them punish the torturers.

Wrapping up, the decision of whether or not to include torture is up to you. I can see ways it could add to your story but the points and themes I’ve spoken about might not be things you’re interested in.

Just because an element could add to a story doesn’t necessarily mean it’s adding something you want. There’s nothing wrong with deciding that an element doesn’t interest you, takes the story in a direction you like less or causes more stress then you want as you write it.

Ultimately the question is whether you want to write torture. And there’s no wrong answer to that question.

I hope that helps. :)

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inevitably-johnlocked · 6 years

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Am so in the mood for some fics where John helps Sherlock through detox/cravings/danger nights, anytime throughout the series. Bonus points for Sherlock being scared John will be mad at him or turn away, but John being supportive and understanding!!

anonymous asked: Do you know of any Sherlock fics that include self harm? Thanks

Hi Guys!!

Since these are… SORT OF related, I’m putting them together! I don’t have many re: self-harm, so I thought I would add all the drug use, poisoning and the like fics together as well. They’re for both John and Sherlock, so I hope that’s alright! Hope these suffice!!

SELF-HARM

See also Alexx’s Lists:

Drugged Non-con sex

Drugs & Recovery

Mycroft deals with Sherlock’s drugs

Helping Sherlock With Drugs

Sherlock Drugs & Addiction

Angsty Drugs & Prostitution Fics

Teenlock & Drugs

The Signs of Loss by LitLocked (NR, 1,103 w. || Post-TSo3, Pining Sherlock, Self Reflection) – Sherlock’s internal monologue after he comes back from the wedding.

Clarity by socomessnow (thoughtfulwishing) (NR, 1,283 w. || Post-HLV, POV Sherlock, Pining Sherlock, Tarmac Scene, Stream of Consciousness, URT, First Person Present Tense) - During-and-post-HLV piece tracking Sherlock’s thought process from his phone call with Mycroft to his return to the airfield.

The Two of Us Against the World by slashscribe (T, 1,617 w. || Post-TAB, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Drug Addiction, Anxious Sherlock, Angsty Fluff) – John is there to take care of Sherlock as he comes down from his overdose in The Abominable Bride. Set immediately after the tarmac, back in 221B.

Loudly Unspoken by Mount_Seleya (M, 1,871 w. || Post-TAB, Love Confessions, Vulnerable Sherlock, Frottage) – John confronts Sherlock about the words he left unsaid on the tarmac. Set immediately after TAB.

They’re Taking My Wisdom by whitchry9 (K+, 1,939 w. || Hurt/Comfort, Drugging, Dentists, Friendship, Anxious Sherlock, Humour) – Sherlock goes to the dentist. Of course, being Sherlock, things have to be complicated. Oh and drugs. They’re always fun.

Stay by sussexbound (M, 2,067 w. || Post TAB, Suicidal Ideation Mention, Implied / Referenced Drug Use, Kissing, Love Confessions, Frottage, Coming in Pants) – “Why? Why did you do it? Hmm…?” He takes a deep breath, waits, lets it out again. “Look at me.” There’s no denying him when he takes this tone. “Why did you kill him? Hmm…? For her? After…” A muscle twitches in the corner of John’s eye, and he clamps his jaw down tightly, swallows and sniffs a little before continuing. “For her? After everything she’s done?” “For you.” Before he can even stop himself. Just like that.

Coming Full Circle by KCS (K+, 2,358 w. || Alternate TGG, Friendship, Drama, Violence/Death References, Drugging/Poisoning, Kidnapping, BAMF John, Moriarty POV, Introspection) – Moriarty had John for almost six hours between his abduction and the showdown at the pool - more than enough time to implement a Plan B for his escape should Sherlock call his bluff with the fake bomb vest.

Thief by KendylGirl (M, 2,430 w. || Rev. Reich., Heavy Angst, Regret, Grief / Mourning, Pining Sherlock, Implied Drug Use, Self-Flagellation) – John has been gone for four months, and Sherlock is not dealing well with it. When he finds a personal item of John’s, the situation reaches a crisis. Part 3 of When to Let Go

The Battersea Bridge by pininglock (M, 2,585 w. || MCD, Angst, Grief, Unhappy Ending) – A life without John Watson isn’t a life worth living.

Unspoken by PipMer (T, 2,770 w. || Drugged John, Mutual Pining, John’s Missing Wednesday, Fluff & Angst, Canon Compliant, Gap Filler) – Sherlock wanted to test a hypothesis. About John. He wanted a question answered that he couldn’t just ask, at least not under normal conditions, because John would never tell him the truth about that.

After the Bombs by VampirePam (T, 3,337 w. || THoB AU, Drugs, John’s PTSD, Panic Attack, Nightmares, Caring Sherlock, Cuddles, Bed Sharing, Angst, Hurt/Comfort) – In which the drugs Sherlock used to dose John trigger a severe episode of PTSD. When terrors old and new cause John to fall apart, Sherlock must rectify his mistake and pick up the pieces.

Bolt Holes by PostcardsfromTheoryland (T, 4,177 w. || H/C, Angst, Drug Mentions, Pining Sherlock) – John asked, one evening, if Sherlock liked her. To which he grudgingly had to say yes, and John said he was glad. Because John was going to propose to her.

Experiment by Gwen’s Blue Box (K+, 4,222 w. || Non-Con Drugging, Hurt Comfort, Friendship) – Of course John has always known about his flatmate’s irregular sleeping habits, especially when they’re on a case. This time, however, the case is taking longer and longer, and soon John starts to worry. But there’s not much he can do, is there? Because drugging Sherlock isn’t an option. Not yet, maybe, but will it be soon? {{CW: John drugs Sherlock without his consent}}

Afghanistan in Baskerville by Amaya Ramiel (K+, 4,357 w. || THoB Fic, Hurt/Comfort, Drugged John, PTSD / Panic Attack, Hallucinations, Worried Sherlock, John’s Past, Friendship) – What if John hadn’t seen the hound when Sherlock trapped him in the lab? What if instead, his very real nightmares of the war had materialized all around him? Trapped and drugged, John can’t tell what’s real and what’s not. How will Sherlock react?

Very Good Indeed by StillWaters1 (T, 4,531 w. || Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Doctor John, John Whump) – John Watson was a doctor, trained to observe details; a fact Sherlock had never been more aware of than when a drugged John’s lifesaving instructions were based on an unlabeled syringe and an unconscious murder suspect’s body.

Not The Hands That Kill by You_Light_The_Sky (M, 6,201 w. || Winglock, Whump, Mentions of Drug Use) – Having wings does not make Sherlock Holmes a guardian angel, not in the way that John Watson is his.

The Dying Detective Remix by SailorChibi (K, 6,563 w. || Friendship & Family) – No one hates admitting illness or wounds more than Sherlock… perhaps that’s why no one believes him when he actually gets sick. Fortunately, when he can’t do it himself any longer, John and Lestrade are there to pick up the slack. Features Paternal!Lestrade and Gen John and Sherlock. One-shot.

The Hours Before Midnight by Lady Sam Mallory (T, 7,773 w. || TGG Fic, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Torture / John Whump, Kidnapping, Drugging, Alternating POV, Worried / Protective Sherlock) – Moriarty doesn’t play fair. John must deal with hours of torment from Moriarty before going to meet Sherlock at the Pool at the end of the Great Game and Sherlock must deal with the consequences of his boredom.

A Dangerous Mix by thebakerstreetgirl (K, 8,077 w. || Angst, Whump, Drugs, Hurt/Comfort, Overdosing) – During a case, John gets attacked and Sherlock and Lestrade find him with a mysterious drug running through the army doctor’s veins.

Never Been This Swept Away by estalita11 (T, 8,531 w. || Post-TAB, Mary is Not Nice, Drug Use, First Kiss, Love Confessions) – Set immediately after TAB, Sherlock visits his brother to definitely not apologize about earlier and ends up finally learning a few things that would have been nice knowing about months ago. Mycroft never wants to deal with lovestruck idiots ever again.

The Five Stages of Mourning, Plus One by SunnyRea (T, 10,557 || MCD, Pining / Grieving Sherlock, URT, Heavy Angst, Sherlock’s Mind Palace, Drug Use, Graphic Death, Depression, Unhappy Ending) – Sherlock did not want this, did not want another stalemate with John in the middle, a gun in Jim’s hand. This cannot have happened without a sign. There has to be something he missed anything which said today is the day I kill for real.

Obsession by storylover18 (K+, 15,213 w. || HC, Case Fic, Friendship) - Dr. John Watson wakes up ill one morning but it is not the 24 hour flu he thinks it was. Soon he lands in hospital, quickly deteriorating and Sherlock must work to find out what has happened to his blogger before it is too late. Case!fic mixed with sick!fic / No slash.

Brief Conversations with the Woman by May_Shepard (E, 21,906 w. || Pining, Love Fairy Irene, Filler Fic, UST/URT, Drug Use, Clueless Sherlock, Relationship Advice, Angst w/ Happy Ending) – Sherlock has a puzzle to solve, and his name is John Watson.

A Love with No Name Series by aceofhearts61 (G to M, 49,955 w. across 20 stories || Asexual Sherlock / Straight John, Est. Rel, Queerplatonic Relationship, Romance, Cuddling, Fluff, Platonic Romance, Domestics) – In which Asexual!Sherlock and Straight!John are platonically in love life partners.

Albion and the Woodsman by Glenmore (NR [E], 54,437 w. || Post S3 || Parentlock, Pining Sherlock, Angst, Family, Drug Use, Depression, Sherlock POV) – Sherlock and John are devastated after Mary Morstan makes her final moves. Sherlock relapses at the crack house, John walks around the world … and a lot happens in between. Parentlock, in the good way.

The Vapor Variant by 88thParallel (CanadaHolm) (M, 72,684 w. || Post-THoB, John Whump, Protective Sherlock, Guilty Sherlock, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, PTSD John, Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Suspense, Virus, Sickfic, Big Brother Mycroft) – They stood face to face in the middle of a clearing. The dim light of the moon barely allowed Sherlock to see the glassy terror in John’s eyes and the sweat that glistened off his forehead. His nose was bleeding again, blood dripping in a slow stream from his right nostril. They were both gasping for air, John’s eyes locked on Sherlock’s. There was no recognition there, just wild animal fear. Time stood still for an eternal few seconds, and Sherlock took a shaky breath. “John—”Spell broken, John spun and bolted back into the woods. Still heaving for air, Sherlock took off after him. {{HAVEN’T READ THIS FIC YET, READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION}}

To Light Another’s Path by BeautifulFiction (E, 128,654 w. || Post-TGG, Sick Fic, Hurt/Comfort, Drug Addiction / Recreational Drug Use, First Time / Kiss, Case Fic) – Teaching John to observe seems to be a losing battle, but when Sherlock falls ill and submits himself to John’s care, will he realise that there is more to life than the science of deduction? Meanwhile, there is a murder to solve, and John must try and convince Sherlock not to sacrifice his own health for the sake of the case.

Ten Days by Engazed (E, 137,208 w. || Rape/Non-Con, Post-TRF, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Torture, Case Fic) – Sherlock Holmes has been dead for forty months, and John is at last beginning to live his life again. But just when he believes he might be happy, his world crashes back down around him. John is named a missing person. Someone is pointing DI Lestrade in the wrong direction. And as the days pass, his situation only grows more dire. It seems like the disappearance of his best friend is the only thing that can bring Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. Part 1 of The Fallen

Midnight Blue Serenity by BeautifulFiction (E, 151,907 w. || Friends to Lovers, Gay Bar / For a Case, Drugs, Pining, Case Fic, UST) – When Sherlock infiltrates a club in order to track down a serial killer, his altered appearance is enough to make John question his assumption that Sherlock is beyond his reach. However, is he the only one who appreciates his flatmate’s charms, or is Sherlock at risk of becoming the next victim? {{centres around drug use, but not necessarily John or Sherlock’s}}

#steph replies #johnlock fic recs #drugs cw #self harm cw #drug use #angst fics #danger nights #my fic recs #madeofawesome12

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gadgetsrevv · 5 years

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U.S., Mexico expectations for Friday’s friendly? Test their next waves of talent for bigger tests to come

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Friday’s friendly at MetLife Stadium between the U.S. and Mexico doesn’t come with a ton of emotional baggage or themes of revenge. The historic animosity between longtime rivals is present, but both sides will be looking to get something a bit more meaningful out of their latest friendly.

ESPN’s Tom Marshall and Noah Davis preview the match from both perspectives.

U.S. point of view: Biggest test yet for the “kids”

The point of sport is to win, of course, but perhaps it’s also to learn. That’s especially true for a national team, who plays endless friendlies that present learning opportunities intermingled with the qualifiers and tournaments in which victory is always the ultimate objective. When the USMNT takes the field against Mexico on Friday, a rematch in name if not in reality off the back of El Tri‘s 1-0 Gold Cup final win in July, U.S. head coach Gregg Berhalter will be seeking forward momentum more than balls in the back of the net.

“A very consistent theme since we’ve been together is to just keep progressing,” he said in the lead-up to the game. “We got to a certain point in the Gold Cup. We want to analyze where we got to, and now can we build on that in this next game, in this next phase?”

– Berhalter: Dest will start vs. Mexico – O’Hanlon: Dest is proof of U.S. progress in developing talent

Continuing to build on “that,” the style and philosophy Berhalter brought to the team after his December 2018 hire would be a welcome sight for American fans who watched the squad flounder in an awkward limbo for a half-decade. Early returns have been decent if not spectacular, most notably a strong Gold Cup in which the Americans dominated until they didn’t and never looked overmatched.

Against Mexico (and Uruguay in St. Louis on Tuesday), Berhalter has close to a full-strength roster — Tyler Adams, DeAndre Yedlin, Tim Weah and Matt Miazga are missing due to injury — and 180 minutes to test ideas, theories and combinations. “Every player on the team is a puzzle piece,” said defender Aaron Long, one of the last year’s biggest success stories.

Berhalter’s goal over this break is simply to see what the next wave of talent has to offer as well as give more thought to where Pulisic fits best in this U.S. team.

The most important puzzle piece is where Christian Pulisic best fits. It’s not a new conundrum. Both Jurgen Klinsmann and Bruce Arena tried — and succeeded/failed in equal measure — to figure out where to play the American’s most dynamic attacker. Berhalter’s choice about Pulisic will dictate a great deal of the rest of the formation. The Chelsea acquisition is listed as a forward on the latest roster, as opposed to the midfield role he occupied in the pre-Gold Cup releases. This might mean that the coach sees his young star playing farther up the field, likely out on a wing with Josh Sargent in the middle, or it might mean that Pulisic will play farther back and that an “F” or an “M” next to his name means little.

It’s also a chance to continue integrating the next generation into the national team.

“The youth wave for the U.S. is coming,” FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon said. “I feel like I’m having gray hairs in the back of my head at 21. I don’t know why. But I’m always excited about this youth.”

The fact is simple: a roster comprised of American players 24 and under would be the favorite to beat a starting XI of guys 25 and up. Making this transition as seamlessly as possible needs to be a priority. Mexico and Uruguay, two quality but beatable sides, present wonderful opportunities to find out who of the newer crew can hang in Berhalter’s proactive style.

The coach understands this. He knows how valuable the games, and the trainings are for the future prospects. For example, there’s a shot for Atlanta United FC center-back Miles Robinson. “It’s a chance for us to get an up-close look at him,” Berhalter said. “We know he has the physical talent. We know he’s a competitor. We know he’s had a great season so far for Atlanta. It’s nice to get him in our environment and see how he can adapt to our style of play.” It’s high praise for the 22-year-old, and Berhalter could offer similar sentiments about at least a half dozen players in camp.

2022 World Cup qualifying begins in roughly a year. The process, as always, continues.

— Noah Davis

Mexico point of view: Stay perfect under Martino

A victory for Mexico over the United States in a noncompetitive game would exorcise the stat that El Tri hasn’t defeated the Stars and Stripes in a friendly since 1999. Also at stake is Mexico head coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino’s undefeated record in his first 10 games in charge.

Obviously, the Gold Cup final was the big one for the rivalry and a victory for the U.S. wouldn’t change that or bring much in the way of revenge. In fact, it would possibly fuel the perception — at least for El Tri fans — that Mexico tends to be the team that wins when it matters. The stats in games since 2000 may be 14 wins, eight losses and six draws but in official competition, Mexico has won eight of the past 15 games (8-6-1).

Mexico does head into this game as a significant favorite. Martino has 31 players in camp and the return of Hector Herrera, Jesus “Tecatito” Corona, Javier Hernandez, Hirving Lozano and Miguel Layun means that El Tri is much stronger than it was during the Gold Cup. The victory over the U.S. in the final came without arguably Mexico’s best two players (Herrera, Lozano) and the national team’s all-time top scorer (Hernandez). Martino himself said “we will be better” after the Gold Cup final and referenced those absentees.

– Martino brings strong Mexico squad to U.S.

The big question mark is which starting XI Martino will put out on Friday given the number of players in his squad and a game against Argentina coming up on Tuesday in San Antonio. More than the result, Martino will be looking closely at what those returning players can bring.

Martino is thought to be delighted with the progress of the younger players, particularly at how they have adopted his methods. The thinking is that Mexico will play the group stage of the CONCACAF Nations League (Bermuda, Panama) with the younger group, with a few of the more experienced players sprinkled in. Therefore, these games against the U.S. and Argentina will be used by Martino to figure out which players of the Europe-based players will be best suited for CONCACAF Nations league action.

For example, there seems to be little point in bringing both Raul Jimenez and Hernandez to play away against Bermuda given that one is guaranteed to be on the bench in Martino’s 4-3-3 system. (It’ll probably be one of Andres Guardado or Erick Gutierrez.) Equally, the Pulisic vs. Lozano angle — mainly pushed in the Spanish-language media — may not have any legs given both aren’t exactly the most brash personalities willing to trash-talk, but it will nevertheless be of interest to see two of CONCACAF’s best attacking on the same field and on opposite teams. Having such quality has to be good for the rivalry, especially given both are now playing for European clubs that are expected to be fighting for titles.

Lastly, this should be an entertaining game. Mexico has usually been the protagonist in this rivalry in terms of having the ball and taking the game to the U.S., something that’s continued under Martino’s aggressive style, but with Berhalter as coach, it seems like Stars and Stripes are now looking to play more front-foot soccer, meaning there should be plenty of space for the attacking talents on both teams to shine.

— Tom Marshall

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All that You Need to Know About Working Capital

Regardless of whether you're attempting to develop your business, misuse continuously perceptible undertakings or keep above water during phenomenal money related occasions, working capital finance can help.

Working capital sponsorships your constantly running costs, spares logically noteworthy endeavors and can assist you with keeping above water during even the most disturbing occasions, including the cash, related downturn.

In this post, we examine all that you have to consider working capital so you can endure these unrefined occasions, and preferred position from those beast open entrances when they do arise.

What Is

Working Capital

The cash you have near, regardless of whether a bit of room spare holds, a bank advance, or different structures for raising capital, is your working capital. Working capital backings your standard tasks, cause you to pay lease and staff and oversees other working costs.

To get it, we have to see how to figure it.

A minor piece at a time headings to Calculate

WorkingCapital finance

The check is speedy: Subtract current liabilities from current resources. Current resources are money and resources you can change over into money inside a year. These focal centers join money due, stock and glimmering hypotheses.

Current liabilities are transient obligations or records that you have to settle inside a year, for example, credit chief liabilities, overdrafts, deals charge, cash costs, and wages.

You should have more present resources than liabilities or positive working capital. In the event that present resources don't beat current liabilities, you have a need and may have issues paying leasers.

Regardless of whether you have a strong business, you can battle. Money might be tied up in resources, for example, borrowers, and a shortcoming to change over them into money signals frail liquidity.

In any case, a lot after managing your working capital, how may you handle what full scale is fitting? Enter the working capital degree.

Working Capital

Ratio and What it Means

The degree is a degree of the money related adequacy of your business. The condition is:

current liabilities/current resources

The degree bolsters you pick whether you have enough working financing to cover your transient commitment. Anything underneath one shows negative working capital. Anything over 2 proposes your business isn't contributing abundant working resources and has a lot of money tied up in stock or borrowers.

A degree of some spot at the level of 1.2 and 2 is normally adequate. A declining degree over the long haul could be a censure and requires a vivacious idea. For instance, it could show that your strategy procedure is moderate.

Right when You Need

Working Capital loan

There are two standard conditions where you need working capital:

1. To keep your business above water when there's less cash coming in. For instance, considering a budgetary log jam or in the event that you keep up an accidental business and have checked altogether progressively moderate periods.

2. To additional improvement or enormous assignments. For instance, in the occasion that you're beginning an immense endeavor that you essentially get paid for upon impeccability, you need pay to prop you up during that period.

In like manner, on the off chance that you don't have that capital, you'll need to discover it or danger conceivable undertaking disappointment. You could get bank credit, yet the application framework takes some time—and still, persistently end, endorsing isn't ensured.

The methodology is to discover supporting somewhere else.

The best framework to Get Working Capital

Here are five explicit ways to deal with oversee get moreover working capital:

1. Breath life into THE COLLECTION PROCESS

Working capital lacks as routinely as conceivable make because of deferrals in allocations from customers. These concede will broaden your working capital cycle (WCC). Your WCC is the time it takes to change over current resources and liabilities into money. An evidently drawn out cycle decides cash is tied up in liabilities and resources for extra.

For instance, in the event that you pay providers in 30 days, yet it takes you 90 days to aggregate receivables, your cycle will be 60 days. You will without a doubt decline that cycle. One way you can do this is by setting resources into approaches and methodologies to energize the blend procedure:

• Track plan time with customers so you know which customers are the moderate payers.

• Renegotiate portion terms with existing customers, so they pay you sooner.

• Improve your invoicing strategies for thinking by setting resources into instruments that help you with getting paid snappier.

• Make fragment fundamental for customers by proceeding through their bolstered group system, for example, charge cards. New Delhi Financial, for instance, sees Amex, Mastercard, and Visa.

• Encourage the early part by fulfilling and rebuffing customers. Join a markdown for the early part and educates for the late segment as an intriguing cost. Regardless, promise you to handle when it's reasonable to charge late piece costs.

• Include the right subtleties on the receipt to maintain a strategic distance from forward and thusly around messages that solitary gives up the bundle. For instance, promise you to address it to the ideal individual and break the PO number.

2. Plans AN UPFRONT DEPOSIT

There's nothing more baffling than a task ending considering a cash need. Referencing a real store gives you working financing to supervise costs for the degree of the task.

Stores in like way limit the odds of non-fragment. You can demand stores by frameworks for email and have customers pay it to your cash related leveling.

While stores will give you additional money, charging a store isn't normally the best another choice. For instance, you may charge a store for a customer, in any case, yield it after some time as you gather a relationship and handle how to trust in them.

3. Essential LENDING

Essential credits cut money related focus people and join advance managers and borrowers by frameworks for an online stage. Considering lower operational expenses and no inside man, they're set up to offer remarkable rates to borrowers. The stage takes a little rate, in any case, this is nothing then again with what banks may take.

While these credits are irrefutably not difficult to get, there's a higher danger if the bank defaults on an unanticipated turn of events. Regardless, you can beat this by checking their threat profile on these locales.

Definitively when somebody needs an unexpected turn of events, they need to change structures. The stage will do a credit check, survey their hazard profile, and sort them in like manner.

4. SBA LOANS

SBA pushes are credits that the Small Business Administration ensures. Rather than offering these advances, the SBA diminishes the perils for banks through a validation.

These advances are perfect for widened length working capital loan. Regardless of the way that they give a security net to monstrous assignments, the guaranteeing structure requires some certifiable criticalness, and you need to meet genuine necessities:

• You must be an extraordinary thought to go for a long time or more

• You need a FICO assessment of past what 680 to show you can manage the credit

By some fortuitous event, they're worth filtering for after as credit costs are low and ordinarily between 6-8%. I state "generally" considering the way that the SBA moreover offers disaster credits at lower advance costs:

1. Loans through the Payment Protection Program expected to help self-overseeing attempts doing combating by restraint of COVID-19. These credits have greatest financing cost of 10% more than 10 years. You can apply for this progress through an SBA-fortified vendor. To discover one, visit the SBA site.

2. Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program proposed to help particular affiliations who fall inside a zone explained as a change zone. Financing costs are fixed at 3.75%, and the most silly movement term is 30 years. Once more, you can apply for help on the SBA site.

For extra data on all SBA influences and to check whether you're qualified, visit the SBA credit page.

5. Receipt FINANCING

You shouldn't mistake receipt financing for standard finding. With standard learning you go into expanded length understandings, costs are high, and they're interfering (the supplier contacts your customers).

Notwithstanding, with receipt financing, you offer unpaid courses of action to an outsider and get the money right away. You pay centrality against the receipt an inspiration with financing costs beginning as low as 2.5%.

There are different affiliations online that offer this connection, including New Delhi Financial.

Working Capital Finance

Watch-Outs

There are explicit attributing rehearses you should consider and wellsprings of supporting you ought to keep away from.

Be wary About HIDDEN FEES

Ordinarily the moved cost of the financing isn't the genuine expense. Differing credit stars charge hidden expenses, for example, support and inaction costs. Thusly, read the fine print and welcome the legitimate expense to avoid unexpected, and constantly, high charges.

Keep up a key decent ways from LARGE LINES OF CREDIT YOU DON'T NEED

Certification you don't over store. Different affiliations get continuously obvious and progressively significant credit growthes, when, verifiably, they just need it a piece.

Give up FINANCING NEW CUSTOMERS WITH REVENUE FROM OLD ONES

Unmistakable business visionaries utilize the compensation from a past client to back the going with client. In the event that you do this as ordinarily as could be typical considering the present circumstance, you can immediately run into pay issues.

The reality of the situation is: Whenever you're getting cash, do your own wary due imagination and avoid picking loathsome choices out of a notion of hopelessness.

The Bottom Line on

Working Capital Loan

Working capital is basic for your standard, supporting your unforeseen development, and getting you out during genuine financial occasions.

That is the clarification it's fundamental to get to handles with it: Understand what it is, comprehend how to process it, and recognize where to get supporting.

How you go about it will rely on your business necessities. You may need to stimulate assortment systems, demand an honest store, apply for a short or significant lot improvement, or use receipt figuring.

Whatever you pick, pull up a seat recognizing you have working money to make during the unprecedented occasions and make due during the harder occasions.

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Healing—Bible Teaching Made Plain (Part 2)

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Healing—Bible Teaching Made Plain (Part 2)

We have been examining the subject of healing—and what the Bible really teaches We have already covered crucial setup, along with Old Test accounts of God healing some, but not others

We also learned that God is the only one who can heal—and how healing is tied to forgiveness of sins Now, what can be learned by studying New Test accounts? And how does Christ's sacrifice relate to healing? What are the requirements, if any, for one seeking to be healed? Part 2 answers these and other questions Follow closely because there is vital knowledge to come! The World to Come The Restored Church of God presents David C Pack

We pick up from last time continuing with how the true gospel is tied to healing In Matthew 24, Jesus discusses the most important conditions and events to appear just prior to His Return His disciples wanted Him to explain what would happen: "Saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered…Take heed that no man deceive you For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many" Many have come claiming Christ's authority—and many have been deceived! Satan's ministers have failed to announce the coming, world-ruling kingdom or government of God

They have most often replaced Jesus' message about the kingdom with one about the Messenger The Messenger is not the message His announcement was the message—and still is But Jesus foretold that, just prior to the end, His Church would preach the true gospel in all nations Notice: "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come

" Mark's account adds, "The gospel must first be published among all nations" 3 chapters later, Jesus commissioned His apostles to faithfully carry the true gospel to the world, saying: "Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" Matthew 24:14 plainly states that the preaching of the kingdom of God would occur prior to the end If this had been done for the preceding 1,900 years, the statement makes no sense (Only a relative few heard the gospel thru this time

) How could it be foretold to occur at the end if it were happening all along? But Jesus foretold a final period of witness and warning would occur before His Return And, beginning in 1934, it did! The Restored Church of God continues preaching this gospel today! However, neither Matthew nor Luke recorded that public healing would accompany preaching the gospel at the end of the age This is because healing is now for the Church (Jms 5:14-15), which Jesus promised to build (Matt 16:18)

It would be a commandment-keeping Church comprised of those seeking to please God in everything they do (I Jn 3:22) Rev 12 is a summary of the 2,000-year history of Christ's Church—the true Church The small, faithful few of God's flock (Luke 12:32) have been persecuted, suffering extreme hardship and martyrdom at the hands of another church This large church is described as politically powerful and controlling this world's rulers and nations It is also pictured as "drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus

" It has suppressed the gospel of God's coming government, and described itself as "the kingdom of God on Earth," present in "the hearts of men" This false church, called a "great whore," began in AD 33 under the leadership of Simon the sorcerer (Acts 8)—and by the 2nd century was masquerading as God's Church Jude 4 describes those who "crept in unawares…turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness [license]" II Kings 17:18-24 describes how, in 718 BC, Samaria, in northern Israel, became the headqrtrs of the Babylonian mystery religion—from which the false church received her doctrines But the kingdom of God is still being proclaimed—and is going out in power around the world today

When that gospel is being preached, healings, demons cast out and other miracles take place These all do still occur in the true Church, which teaches and practices all truths about healing Some will admit that the Old Test shows God heals, but seem unwilling to understand many New Test scriptures that are just as plain Instead, confusion reigns due to the lack of faith in God's clear promises Some think God still heals, but only thru medical science—that God raised this up for us today

Others believe God healed in the past, but only thru Christ and the apostles in the first century Still others go further, believing God can heal, but are not sure He will—or that He will heal them Of course, we saw Jesus healed "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease" After His Sermon on the Mount, it says, "Great multitudes followed Him And, behold, there came a leper and worshiped Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can make me clean

And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you clean And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" When the leper asked if He would heal him, Jesus said, "I will" It was Jesus' will to heal It still is today

2 verses later, Jesus encountered a Roman centurion It demonstrates God also heals Gentiles: "There came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him, and saying, Lord, my servant lies at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented And Jesus said unto him, I will come and heal him The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it

When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven But the children of the kingdom [the Jews of that day] shall be cast out into outer darkness…And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour" Recall that David asked for forgiveness when he sought God to heal him

Also recall that this is because healing involves forgiving sin Understand Paul wrote, "All have sinned" But what is sin? Many proclaim themselves "sinners," having no idea what this means How did they sin? I John 3:4 states, "Sin is the transgression of the law

" This is critical knowledge that directly relates healing to God's kingdom How? God's spiritual law of love (read these verses) will be enforced in His kingdom It is best described as the "give" way of life and is summarized in the 10 Commandments Sin carries a terrible penalty Romans declares, "The wages of sin is death"—eternal death

It could be said that the wages of physical sin is sickness and disease Violation of spiritual law will result in eternal death Violations of physical law can result in illness or even physical death But sin has other consequences It cuts people off from God (Isa 59:1-2), and His blessings (Jer 5:25)

When God set His great spiritual law in motion, automatic penalties for disobedience were set in motion with it But how is one released from the penalty of sin—physical or spiritual? While most traditional Christians never fully grasp Christ's sacrifice for spiritual sins—and what it means—they do generally know "Christ died for us" (Read Col 1:13-16 and Eph 3:9) His shed blood paid the penalty for broken spiritual laws But what about the forgiveness of physical sin? How does this work? Most do not even know there is such a thing as the forgiveness of physical sin—partly because almost no one uses or understands the term

Let's understand Human beings come from dust (Gen 2:7) No matter how long a person may live, eventually he dies—no exceptions (Heb 9:27) But your body was made with numerous inter-connected systems that, when functioning properly together, result in good health When physical laws are broken, systems break down and no longer work in harmony

Things go wrong—and sickness and disease is the result This is the penalty for disobedience to one or more of these laws After the healing of Peter's mother-in-law in Matthew 8, the account adds critical understanding of Christ's prophesied role in our healing Notice: "They brought unto Him many that were possessed with devils [demons]: and He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses" This is a plain New Test verse about Jesus' fulfillment of a prophecy to bare our infirmities and sicknesses

This includes ours today This is God's promise—and it was always part of His Plan that Christ physically suffer so He could remove the penalty of broken physical laws hanging over us Jesus willingly paid the penalty for every physical mistake human beings make that results in bad health Every condition, pain, suffering, disease, illness, injury, infirmity—and even death—is covered within Jesus' promise He literally takes your physical sins and bears them for you

They are not placed in some kind of suspended condition Jesus removes them Thru God's miracle, they are gone! Matthew referenced Isaiah This prophet recorded 2 astonishing passages describing Christ's terrible suffering before His crucifixion Examining and considering their meaning reveals how Christ was able to bare our infirmities and sicknesses

Let's read the Revised Standard Version: "As many were astonished at Him—His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the sons of men—so shall He startle [shock, astonish] many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of Him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand" Yes, Christ's true suffering and condition will one day be shocking—startling!—to a great many Notice that 2 groups are mentioned when referencing what Jesus endured Those who were astonished at what He suffered—and those who shall be startled by this knowledge, and by the supreme power and glory Christ will have when He returns as King of kings The entire world will then recognize Christ as both King and Healer of every disease known to man! This long passage actually continues past the manmade chapter division

Let's complete the picture of Christ's fulfillment of His role—and how the vast majority of mankind would misunderstand and reject the true Christ: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all" These are graphic words

What Christ suffered was not a light thing The typical picture of Him hanging on a stake only shows a tiny bit of blood where the spear entered and a little more near His crown of thorns This picture falls far short of how He really looked! Another New Test passage summarizes the picture, speaking of Christ, "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth…Who His own self bore our sins…by whose [get this!] stripes you were healed" The apostle Peter speaks of Christ's "stripes" Does the New Test record when and how this was done? It does

Notice: "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see you to it Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified" Two other accounts confirm what happened: "Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified" Also: "Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged Him…Then [afterwards] delivered…Him…unto them to be crucified

" These passages clearly reveal that Jesus' "scourging" occurred before He was crucified It was a separate event, carrying distinct and important meaning Now you know why it happened Pause for a moment and reflect on what Christ was willing to endure on behalf of those who need God's marvelous healing power Ask when, if ever, have you heard even one of this world's preachers explain, or be willing to describe, the terrible beating Jesus was willing to endure so human beings could be restored to perfect health from every conceivable physical malady one can imagine

God describes Himself as a Father who pities His children All parents know the pain of seeing their children sick or suffering And we are merely physical human beings How much more compassionate would God, as our spiritual Father, feel toward His sick children, than would any human parent? God is eager to apply Christ's physical sacrifice of suffering on your behalf He is neither reluctant nor grudging in His desire to see you "prosper and be in health"—and to enjoy the "abundant" life

Though we must be willing to acknowledge that we have broken certain laws—and be willing to change—God is anxious to heal! Satan hates the laws of God Eph 2:2 says his spirit "works in the children of disobedience" He wants mankind to believe it can disobey God's laws—physical and spiritual—without penalties Then, when natural penalties do occur, people reach for medical science to remove the effects—which are sickness and disease I Cor

declares, "Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" Each year, on the night of Passover, Christians are commanded to assemble for a very solemn memorial service, which looks back at Christ's suffering and crucifixion It is unlike any other occasion in the year The apostle Paul explained, "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread: and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is My body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do you, as oft as you drink it, in remembrance of Me

For as often as you eat this bread, and [2 separate symbols] drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till He come…Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord [both], unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord [both] But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation [meaning judgment] to himself, not discerning the Lord's body For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep [have died]" Christians are told to pause—stop activity—and reflect soberly on what Christ endured

Some in Corinth neglected to do this They did not appreciate how God would have healed them The result? "Many [were] weak and sickly…and many [died]"—needlessly God wants us to understand forgiveness of sins This is why it says Christ's "body, which is broken for you

" (TURN 5) Matt 9, Mark 2 and Luke 5 all contain a parallel account of Jesus healing "a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed" Luke has the most detail, and makes absolutely clear how healing directly involves forgiving sin Carefully read this long passage: "As He was teaching…there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before Him And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus

And when He saw their faith, He said unto him, Man, your sins are forgiven you "The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, He answering said unto them, What reason you in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Your sins be forgiven you; or to say, Rise up and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man has power upon earth to forgive sins, (He said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto you, Arise, and take up your couch, and go into your house And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things today" Consider what this account is actually saying

Jesus says that telling someone he is healed ("Rise up and walk") and forgiving him ("Your sins be forgiven you") are one and the same Yet people think this strange The Scribes and Pharisees did not understand, and considered it blasphemy (Obviously, as God, Jesus had the power—the authority—to forgive sin) Men don't see that doctors cannot heal because doctors cannot forgive sin

But now you see this! I mentioned previously that healing is now for those in the Church Where does it say this? The apostle James describes those who are sick being "anointed" by the ministry (Acts 19:12 says this is sometimes done thru the use of an anointed cloth sent by mail) Now: "Is any sick among you [meaning those in the Church]? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him" Some healing can be due to accident and not sin

We will return to this verse later in the series, but we should recognize that it introduces the crucial element of faith to God's equation for healing The verse speaks of the "prayer of faith" bringing "forgiveness of sins" and relief to the "sick" What then is the Bible definition of faith? It is all-important to establish this All who wish to be healed must understand and learn to demonstrate real biblical faith It is time for a fundamental question

Does the Bible give an exact definition of faith? Since there is one faith (Eph 4:5), does it give one definition of that faith?—a place where the Bible says, "Faith is…" and a precise definition follows? If so, where and what does it say? Hebrews 11 has often been called the "faith" chapter It describes many of God's greatest servants and how their faith enabled them to perform great acts and miracles, or to endure severe trials This long chapter is inspiring, and all who want real faith should read it often It contains the word faith two dozen times

Verse 2 says, "For by it [faith] the elders [these Bible figures] obtained a good report" How could they have obtained a "good report" unless they understood faith? Now for God's definition in verse 1: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" Notice faith involves evidence of things not seen The marginal rendering of substance is assurance Faith involves an assurance "of things hoped for

" But if something is hoped for, it has not yet been received Therefore, where faith is involved, there is an assurance it will be! But how can evidence be related to something not seen? Do we not rather think of evidence as involving things that are seen? In a courtroom, for instance, evidence is what can be proven It involves facts visible to a jury In other words, evidence only involves things that can be seen or demonstrated How then can faith involve evidence that is invisible—not seen? Faith involves evidence in the following way

Real faith, in any promise made by God, is actually the evidence It is the belief that is the evidence If God promises to do something, it is impossible for Him to lie (Heb 6:18) Your evidence that He will perform it is the very unwavering faith you hold

Get this! Remember, Hebrews 11:1 said, "Faith is…the evidence" If you have true Christian faith, you do not need to search for the evidence—you already have it! To understand more fully, carefully read this booklet What Is Real Faith? Jesus said, "I can of Mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father which has sent Me" Grasp the meaning here How many people do you know who really concern themselves with God's will? How often have you stopped to ask yourself if you are seeking your own will—your own purpose—or God's? Yet Christ, who was God in the flesh, never sought His own will His entire focus was to be sure that He was in harmony with God's Plan—His intention—His purpose—His will

Under supreme test, even when facing the agony of scourging and crucifixion, Jesus prayed, "Let this cup [His coming suffering and death] pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as You will" Jesus knew that what He would soon endure would be horrible beyond belief He was in an agonizing battle—a mental war—over it His conclusion? Stay focused on God's overall purpose and will We will pick up next time talking more about God's will and its connection to healing

There is also much other information on healing still to understand Until next time, this is David C Pack saying, "Goodbye, friends" This program was made available by Restored Church of God members and donors from around the globe Explore our vast library of literature and other World to Come programs, which are all made available free of charge

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The King Of All Plants – Heals Everything Except Death

This modest, but immensely effective seed, gets rid of MRSA, heals the chemical infected body, promotes regeneration of the beta cells within the diabetic’s pancreas, as well as few other ailments.

The seeds of the all – year blooming plant, Nigella Sativa, have been valued for their recovery since ancient times. While frequently described among English – speaking cultures as Roman coriander, black cumin, black sesame, black caraway as well as onion seed, it is known today mainly as black seed, which is at the extremely least an accurate description of its physical look.

The earliest record of its cultivation as well as usage, originates from ancient Egypt. Black seed oil, as a matter of fact, was discovered in Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb, going back to roughly 3,300 years back. In Arabic cultures, black cumin is known as Habbatul barakah, meaning the “seed of true blessing.” It is likewise thought that the Islamic prophet Mohammed said of it that it is “a solution for all diseases except death.”

Numerous of black cumin’s typically referred wellness advantages have been thoroughly verified in the biomedical literature. In fact, given that in 1964, there have been 458 published, peer – reviewed researches referencing it.

While it is exceptional that this seed has the capability to favorably modulate numerous various organic pathways, this is in fact, a usual event amongst traditional plant medications.

Our task has actually recognized over 1600 natural compounds with a large range of health and wellness perks, and also we are simply in our initial 5 years of casual indexing. There are tens of thousands of various other compounds that have actually already been researched, with hundreds of research studies supporting their medical value (MEDLINE, has more than 600,000 studies classified as related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine).

Take turmeric for example. There are studies showing its value in over 600 health problems, while also expressing over 160 various potentially advantageous medicinal activities. Expert data source participants are more equipped to control the outcomes baseding on their search standards. This, obviously, must aid individuals understand exactly how abundant the encouraging literary works showing the medicinal worth of natural substances, such as turmeric and also black seed, truly are.

Black seed has actually been researched for extremely particular health and wellness conditions. Some of one of the most compelling applications consists of:

Epilepsy: Black seeds were typically known to have anticonvulsive properties. A 2007 study with epileptic kids, whose disorder was refractory to typical medicine therapy, found that a water extract significantly lowered seizure attacks.

Opiate Addiction/Withdrawal: A study on 35 opiate abusers located black seed as a reliable treatment in long – term therapy of opioid dependency.

Type 2 Diabetes: Two grams of black seed a day caused minimized fasting blood sugar, minimized insulin resistance, raised beta – cell function, as well as minimized glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in human subjects.

Acute tonsillopharyngitis: defined by tonsil or pharyngeal inflammation (i.e. sore throat), primarily viral in source, black seed pills (in combo with Phyllanthus niruri) have been discovered to significantly alleviate neck discomfort, as well as decrease the demand for pain – killers, in human topics.

Helicobacter Pylori Infection: Black seeds have medically beneficial anti – H. Pylori activity, equivalent to triple obliteration treatment.

High Blood Pressure: The day – to – day usage of 100 as well as 200 milligrams of black seed extract, twice daily, for 2 months, was found to have a blood pressure – lowering effect in patients with light high blood pressure.

Asthma: Thymoquinone, one of the major active constituents within Nigella sativa (black cumin), is superior to the medicine fluticasone in an animal design of bronchial asthma. An additional study, on humans, discovered that boiled water extracts of black seed have fairly powerful anti – asthmatic effect on asthmatic airways.

MRSA: Black seed has anti – bacterial activity versus professional isolates of methicillin immune Staphylococcus aureus.

Chemical Weapons Injury: A randomized, placebo – controlled human research of chemical weapons injured people found that boiled water essences of black seed reduced breathing symptoms, breast wheezing, and also lung function, along with decreased requirement for drug treatment.

Colon Cancer: Cell research studies have actually discovered that black seed essence compares favorably to the chemo agent 5 – fluorouracil in the suppression of colon cancer cells development, but with a far higher safety profile. Research has found that black seed oil has substantial inhibitory results versus colon cancer cells in rats, without evident side effects.

Sometimes the biblical reference to ‘faith the size of a mustard seed moving mountains’ enters in your mind about all – natural substances like black seeds. Do seeds not include within them the quite hope for continuance of the entire species that bore it? This super-saturated state of the seed, where life condenses itself down into an intensely miniaturized holographic fragment of itself, promising the formation of future worlds within itself, is the very emblem of life’s immortal and immense power.

If we understand the real nature of the seed, the amount of life (past, present and future) is included within it, it will not seem so far – fetched that it is capable of controlling antibiotic resistant germs, recovering the physical body from chemical tools poisoning, or stimulate the re – growth of passing away insulin – producing beta cells in the diabetic, to name however only a fraction of black seed’s experimentally – confirmed powers.

Relocating the mountain of inertia as well as falsity linked with the standard concept of the condition, is a job fit for seeds and not chemicals. The best difference, certainly, between a seed and a trademarked synthetic chemical (i.e. pharmaceutical drug), is that Nature (God) made the previous, and guys with profit – motives and a lunatic understanding of the nature of the body made the other one.

The time, no doubt, has come for food, seeds, herbs, plants, sunshine, air, pure water, and indeed, love, to assume once more their main place in medicine, which is to claim, the art and scientific research of facilitating self-healing within the human body. Failing this, the typical clinical system will fall apart under the increasing weight of its own corruption, ineptitude, and also iatrogenic suffering (and succeeding economic obligation) will be caused. To the degree that it reforms itself, making use of non – patented and non – patentable all – natural materials with real healing residential properties, a brighter future waits for the imminent. According to it falls short, individuals will learn how to take back control over their health and wellness themselves, which is why black seed, and also various other food – medicines, hold the secret to self – empowerment.

Source: www.realfarmacy.com

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