Good health is not just a prayer away

Black people are more prone to certain illnesses and Marcia Dixon recognises that being a Christian cushioned her from this information and the seriousness of some health conditions

The Pentecostal church I was raised in didn’t talk much about the need to maintain physical health. I believe this was because they took to heart the Apostle Paul’s statement in 1 Timothy 4:8 (KJV): “For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”