Although this study focuses on healing, we see that we can apply the truths of God's way of healing to receiving all of His great benefits and blessings. Proverbs 4:20-23 provide the instructions to receiving: paying attention to God's words, listening closely to them, not letting them depart from our eyes, and keeping them in the midst of our hearts. God concludes these instructions by telling us that they will be health to our entire body. The fellowship we have with God has a profound effect on our physical well-being. God's thoughts and ways are so much higher than our thoughts and ways. In studying this truth from Isaiah 55, we learn that His ways and thoughts are those of mercy and pardon. It would be through the promised Messiah and what he would accomplish that God would bring blessings to both Jews and Gentiles. God's way of making men right before him is through faith in Christ. By him God has extended mercy to us. Today we have the spirit of Christ dwelling within and it gives life to our mortal bodies (Romans 8:10 & 11). Thus we can grow in him and bring forth much fruit.