“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” (Heb. 10:25) For health, this is an imperative. Dr. Harold Koenig, a Duke University psychiatrist and head of its Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality, relates that, “Those who frequently watch religious TV or radio were more likely to be told by their doctors that they had high blood pressure,” he told United Press International.” ”Elderly blacks were more likely to have high blood pressure and to watch the religious media.” The finding is significant, he said, because blood pressure rises at least some in three quarters of those studied who listened to religious radio or watched religious TV at least once a week. That’s more than the number of people who said they prayed or read the Bible daily. People who attended religious services at least once a week posted lower readings than those who attended less often. Koenig said the likelihood of having a diastolic blood pressure of 90 or higher, the level most often associated with strokes or heart attacks, was 40 percent lower among those who attended a religious service once a week and prayed or studied the Bible once a day than among those who did so less often. So let us study our Bibles, pray, and attend church services and not depend on the radio or TV for our spiritual sustenance. Depending on others for our spiritual food will kill us!