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/It’s usually healthy to follow the doctor’s orders.
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After giving a woman a full medical examination, the doctor writes out a prescription and gives instructions on the dosage.
"Take the green pill with a large glass of water when you get up.
Take the blue pill with a large glass of water after lunch.
Then just before you go to bed, take the red pill with another large glass of water."
The worried woman exclaims, "Exactly what is my problem, Doctor?"
The doctor replies, “You're not drinking enough water."
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/            That’s one of the reasons doctors make the big bucks: they know just what medicine to give you to cure what ails you.
They know what pills and in what dose will help you get better.
Do you ever wonder when you watch your doctor write out a prescription for yourself, “I wonder how many times they get it wrong?”
Probably not too often.
If you take what the doctor orders, you’re usually back to your normal self again soon.
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/            I’m not a doctor, but tonight I want to give you a prescription, not on my own authority, but on the authority of the Great Physician.
It is medicine guaranteed to help you live better and longer.
Best of all, it doesn’t really cost you a dime.
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/What is this powerful, free wonder drug for your soul?
The prescription is found in *Prov.
17:22*.
Read this with me and see if this isn’t just what the doctor ordered for you today.
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*PRAYER*
*            * This prescription is part of the book of Proverbs.
These aren’t just old sayings people decided to put on paper—they aren’t just a collection of somebody’s ideas of good advice- they are God’s principles for living your life more skillfully and more successfully—and in this case, living life healthier.
You can break this prescription up into 3 basic commands:
*I.
LIGHTEN UP! *
*            */Pastor and author John Ortberg describes a member of his congregation he calls Hank: /Hank was a cranky guy.
He did not smile easily, and when he did, the smile often had a cruel edge…coming at someone else’s expense.
He had a knack for discovering islands of bad news in oceans of happiness…His native tongue was complaining… someone once asked him, “Hank, are you happy?” Hank paused to reflect, then replied without smiling, “Yeah.”
But somehow Hank’s face never seemed to get the news.
I’ve met a lot of Hanks in church.
Many of them have been lifelong members, deacons, even preachers---unsmiling, hyper-holy saints who take /everything/ way too seriously.
They need a good dose of the medicine found in *Prov.
17:22* where God says /a merry heart is good medicine.
/What does it mean to be /merry/?
It means to lighten up!
More specifically it involves  
a.
Keeping a positive perspective.
I have heard the world can be divided into optimists and
pessimists.
An optimist invented the boat; a pessimist invented the life preserver.
An optimist invented the airplane; a pessimist invented the parachute.
An optimist laughs to forget; the pessimist forgets to laugh.
'Twixt the optimist and the pessimist ~/ The difference is droll;
 The optimist sees the doughnut ~/But the pessimist sees the hole.
-McLandburgh Wilson
Which group do you fall in—the optimists or the pessimists?
In a world like ours full of evil, suffering, and death, nothing is harder for many of us than holding on to our optimism.
But that only makes it more important that you /don’t /allow yourself to become a pessimist.
God’s prescription for lightening up doesn’t mean you laugh at everything, or that you never take anything seriously.
What the Bible says is you and I need to develop the habit of keeping a positive attitude, which might be defined as simply seeing everything the way God sees it.
God doesn’t just see the evil, the suffering, the death- He sees how He is working even through these bad things to bring good out of them.
God doesn’t just see His Son dying on the Cross—He sees Christ’s resurrection.
He doesn’t just see the death of His saints—He sees them welcomed into Heaven, where they will never die again.
We’ve got to get it into our heads that pessimism is just not realistic when you consider the power of God to redeem any situation.
Faith in God involves a positive attitude about everything because you really believe
*Romans 8:28* /And we know that *all things* work together *for good* to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose./
If you need some help in this area, let me suggest another aspect of having a merry heart:
b.    Smiling and laugh as much as possible.
Someone once said that laughter is life’s lubricant- like oil in an engine, it keeps things running better.
A merry heart is a heart with a smile, a heart that loves to laugh.
This verse is telling us that it’s healthy to laugh; I want to suggest to you that it is /holy /to laugh.
The Bible tells us in such places as *Psalm 2:4* that God laughs, and that ought not to surprise us.
The world is a funny place.
Go to the zoo and watch some of the animals.
Go to the mall and watch some of the people.
Of all the creatures God created, only human beings have the capacity to truly laugh.
I believe laughter is part of what it means to be made in the image of God.
Of course, not all laughter is holy.
The Bible does warn us about humor that is harmful when it warns us not to allow ourselves to fall into
*Ephesians 5:4* /…filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks./
/            /There are some things you ought not to laugh at or about.
But at the same time, I think it’s high time you and I understood that laughter is not evil or sinful—it is a gift of God, a reflection of God’s very nature.
/Laughter is good for you.
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According to a study conducted by the University of Maryland in Baltimore by Dr. Michael Miller, laughter releases chemicals into the bloodstream that relax the blood vessels and reduces blood pressure and heart rate.
Miller, who is the director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the university, interviewed 150 patients who had suffered heart troubles and 150 who had not.
Each patient was asked questions to measure their response in typical day-to-day situations.
The results showed that individuals with heart problems were 40 percent less likely to respond with laughter.[i]
/Once again, science has finally caught up with the Bible!
But have you and I? /
/The Great Physician’s prescription involves you learning to lighten up- to keep a positive perspective on life, to smile and laugh as much as possible.
That’s a healthy thing to do, but also a holy thing to do.
Do you need to lighten up?
Ask God to help you develop a more positive attitude.
And then for goodness sake, smile!
Laugh!
Enjoy God’s gift of laughter.
/
A lady had a problem with dry hair, and she read in a magazine that olive oil could help.
So she treated my scalp with the oil before washing it.
Worried that the oil might leave an odor, she washed her hair several times in regular shampoo.
That night when she went to bed, she leans over to my husband and asks, "Do I smell like olive oil?" "No," he said, sniffing me.
"Do I smell like Popeye?"/Then keep in mind the second half of this prescription: /
*II.
DON’T GET WEIGHED DOWN!*
The phrase /broken spirit= crushed spirit.
/The picture here is of a person who is so loaded down by the pressures and pains of life they are crushed by the weight.
A crushed spirit is a heart that is weighed down with worry, sorrow, guilt, or discouragement.
This, Scripture tells us, is unhealthy.
The problem is, how do you deal with a “crushed spirit”?
a.    Limit your load.
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