Participants: Charles Mills & James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00002B
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00:01 Welcome back to Ultimate Prescription.
00:03 We'd like to take some time right now, 00:04 to answer questions that are coming 00:06 to the Heartwiseministries.org website. 00:08 Dr. Marcum, why do you collect questions? 00:11 You--you have hundreds of them coming in on the website? 00:15 Why is it important for you to collect questions 00:17 and to address them? 00:19 Yeah, many people have questions out there. 00:22 They're never being addressed. 00:23 They just accept things that are happening to them. 00:25 And if you do that long enough, 00:27 sooner or later someone else dictates 00:29 what's going on with you. Yeah. 00:31 So by having your questions answered, 00:34 people get the answers for this word, why. 00:37 David wanted to know why did he have a heart attack. 00:39 Why am I sick? 00:40 Why do I have to take a prescription medication? 00:43 So we developed at our website Heartwiseministries.org 00:48 a place where you, the viewer, can come to the site 00:51 and get your questions answered. 00:52 Now we can't all be specific 00:54 because everyone has different medical conditions, 00:57 but we can at least point people in a right direction. 01:00 So if you have a question that you'd like 01:02 to have that answered, go to our website 01:04 Heartwiseministries.org and we've had some questions 01:08 here today that we'd like to answer here on air. 01:11 All right, we have some questions. 01:12 Here's one that came in just recently. 01:14 The writer says, I am 60 and live in Virginia. 01:17 My heart attack was two years ago and it scared me. 01:19 Well, I guess so. Yeah. 01:21 And has motivated some major changes in my life. 01:23 Sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't. 01:25 Some people are not motivated by heart attack. 01:27 Right. I can't understand them. Okay, 01:29 the question is why did my heart attack occur? 01:32 I had been in perfectly healthy state my entire life. 01:36 My father did have a heart attack in his 70s. 01:38 So here's someone who is afraid of what's happening 01:41 in his or her life and they want to know why. 01:44 What's your answer? 01:45 And I would answer this person 01:47 that I would go back and say this is a perfect example 01:50 of what happened to David, Charles. 01:52 There is a place for modern medicine, 01:54 especially in dealing with the heart attack 01:56 the thing that needs to be done right away. 01:58 But then, I would take him back and explore 02:00 what are the stresses in his life. 02:02 And I would do just like David. 02:04 I'd go back and say well, listen, 02:05 how are we following the owner's manual? 02:08 You know, what are the stresses both hidden 02:10 and unseen stresses that we're placing on our bodies. 02:13 You know, is he drinking enough water? 02:15 Is his blood pressure good? Does he have diabetes? 02:17 Is he carrying extra weight 02:19 and looking at all these things. 02:20 Now, one of the things 02:21 that I would add to this gentleman's care 02:24 is as I would look at him and say listen 02:25 is there love in his life. 02:28 But, why is this so important? 02:29 Well, one of the prescriptions that we were given 02:31 way back at creation was a loving relationship. 02:35 Yeah. This love is a universal healer. 02:38 Yes. And when you look it at this way 02:40 without love in our life guess what happens. 02:42 The chemistry goes a ride. 02:43 But more than that, when people make changes, 02:46 it's through that love relationship with God 02:49 that gives him the power to make changes one at a time. 02:51 Now wait a minute. I can understand 02:53 how you can write a prescription for a statin. 02:55 I can see how you'd write 02:57 a prescription for aspirin a day. 02:59 How do you write a prescription for love? 03:01 Well, that's not so easy and if you go back 03:04 to again how are we designed to live? 03:07 We're designed to live surrounded by love. 03:09 Exactly. Absolutely loving environment. 03:10 And just think, this is not happening 03:12 in the world we live in, Charles. 03:13 Without love, guess what happens? 03:15 The stress chemistry is turned on all the time. 03:18 So really, once we--we want to get back 03:21 to this word called love. 03:23 Yeah. And as we get back to this word called love, 03:26 all of a sudden, we start doing things making changes 03:29 for the right reasons, because we do it because we love. 03:32 Not because we want to get better 03:33 or we want to live longer, but we have love in our lives. 03:36 So I would point this gentleman to this prescription 03:40 called love in addition to everything else 03:42 in dealing with the stress. 03:43 And then I would try to meet him one step at a time. 03:46 Everything doesn't have to be done at once. Yeah. 03:48 For instance, David we took him one step at a time. 03:51 First I said well get used to the modern medicines 03:53 you have to take. Then next thing I said, 03:55 well, let's learn about exercise. 03:57 That's a biblical technology. It was given as creation. 04:00 We were designed to be outdoors doing things. 04:03 I taught him how to rest, 04:05 how to drink water, how to have love. 04:07 All these things one step at a time. 04:09 But unless you have love guiding it, 04:12 then you do things unhappily. 04:14 Now let me give you example. 04:15 Yeah, okay, all right. I'm good with this, okay. 04:17 Okay, okay. You're saying that if we do something 04:20 with love in our heart, 04:22 we're gonna have a different reponse 04:24 in our body than if we did the very same thing without love. 04:28 Exactly. Wow. 04:29 I have a lot of people that come 04:30 after they had a bypass surgery, Charles, 04:32 and they go I can't change my diet. 04:34 I don't want to change the things. 04:36 I am so depressed about that, you know. 04:38 And the chemistry that comes from being depressed 04:41 and angry about it all is probably more damaging 04:44 than the bad food they eat. It's true. 04:46 So I say, no--but still, yeah, 04:48 the principle of eating healthy 04:49 is still very important. Yes. 04:51 But we have to--in healthcare, in treating people, 04:54 in healing people, 04:57 there's more to healing than the bypass. 04:58 Did you know, Charles, 04:59 that you're a healer when you make me laugh. 05:02 You're a healer 'cause you make my endorphins go up. 05:04 You should be very healthy. Yes. 05:06 You're always laughing. 05:07 You know, and when we shake 05:09 someone's hand, we treat then nice. 05:10 We help their chemistry. Wow. 05:12 Well, we improve their chem, 05:13 so we're all healers in our own right. 05:15 But getting back to this gentleman that was unhappy 05:18 with changing his diet, well, how did we meet him? 05:21 Well, first of all, you have to answer the question why, 05:24 why he got sick? Well, part of the reason 05:26 why is 'cause we were never designed 05:27 to eat some of the foods. Okay. 05:29 Once he understands that you meet him where he is in life. 05:31 And what I tried to do first is I said 05:33 tell me about the food you eat. 05:35 And then I said, well, let's pick one thing. 05:37 Let's pick one thing and stick with it. 05:39 And for this gentleman, 05:40 it happened to be drink more water 05:41 He loved soda pop. He loved iced tea. 05:43 I said drink more water for one month 05:46 and more than that, let's work in a loved relationship. 05:49 Well, loved relationship with who? 05:51 With the loved relationship 05:52 with our Creator, the owner's manual. 05:54 The guy that made it all possible. 05:56 Let's work on that relationship 05:58 to give you the power to drink water and to understand truth. 06:01 And as he did this one month, 06:03 he came back the next month and says, you know what? 06:05 I feel better. You know, 06:06 I was helped by this relationship with the Father. 06:10 Yeah. He helped me drink more water. 06:11 And I said are you willing to do something else? 06:13 Well, let's start with principle number two. 06:15 And then let's add this on. 06:17 And let's do principle number three. 06:18 But he felt this love the Heavenly Father 06:21 was giving him that He cared about him, 06:22 that He even knows the number of hairs on his head. 06:25 You know, I am beginning to understand 06:27 this because if we have a-- loving relationship with God, 06:31 our Creator, 06:33 if we move into a friendship, 06:38 we begin to trust this Creator. 06:41 And when we're trusting the Creator, 06:43 suddenly we begin to see these words very different 06:48 and we start to apply them to our lives. 06:50 So love is actually being a motivation 06:53 for us to follow what God said to begin with. 06:56 Right. And it's all for our own good 06:58 because our Father wants us to be healthy. 07:00 But you know what? 07:01 This is an important ingredient in the healing-- 07:04 in a healing triangle. 07:06 And I tell people, there is a place for modern medicine. 07:09 And David needed, this gentleman needed it. 07:11 There's a place for changing 07:12 the lifestyle dealing with all the stresses. 07:15 But how do you deal 07:16 with the stresses without the power to do that? 07:18 Yeah. And that's what that relationship gives us. 07:21 The power to make changes that goes against who we are, 07:24 that goes against our fabric, that goes against society, 07:26 that goes against what we are hearing on the television, 07:28 and the radio, and the media. 07:31 And when we have that power, 07:32 then we start moving one at a time. 07:34 So this healing pyramid is more than medicine. 07:37 It's more than lifestyle. 07:39 It's about this relationship with the Father. 07:41 And when we move people towards this relationship-- 07:43 I'm not hearing this from anybody. 07:44 No, I know we're not. We're not hearing this. 07:45 But when we move people towards this relationship 07:48 as part of healing, we all become healers. 07:51 We're all doctors. Yes. 07:52 We all, expect those type of doctors 07:54 that move that actually fix the problem. 07:57 They just don't treat a symptom. 07:58 Wow. Okay, all right. They get at the core of the problem. 08:01 They help take us to this next level. 08:03 This is what God want us. 08:05 He wants His people to be healthy. 08:06 He wants His people to have that loved 08:08 relationship with Him. 08:09 It was given to us back at creation. 08:11 Remember, God came in and He wanted 08:12 to spend time with His people. 08:14 As we are separated from Him that puts stress on our body 08:17 and it also skews our ability to know what is the truth. 08:22 And this is happening in the world we live in. 08:24 You see it all around us. 08:25 Yes. We're not discussing the cause. 08:26 But that's what on the Ultimate Prescription 08:29 we're gonna do every week. We're gonna answer questions. 08:31 And we're gonna gift people a balance. 08:33 Letting them know that they have power 08:35 and that healing relationship 08:36 to actually have ultimate healing. 08:38 That brings a very important point 08:40 because that answers the question 08:42 for a lot of people will say, well, I do everything right. 08:45 I eat the right foods. 08:46 I drink water. I exercise. 08:49 Yet they're missing that vital connection 08:51 with the source of all healing, 08:54 with the source of all relationships 08:58 that can build relationships with you and your family 09:01 and with your children and with your coworkers and your boss. 09:05 When we suddenly bring in the loving relationship 09:09 the God talked about here in this Bible. 09:11 And you combine that with the laws of health 09:16 that He combines only then can we have the ultimate health 09:22 that we're talking about. 09:23 Only then, can we actually 09:24 have that ultimate health that we all desire so much. 09:27 If we are missing that element, we can't have it. 09:29 As simple as that. 09:30 It's not so much, you know, what we are doing. 09:33 iIt's why we're doing it. It's why we are doing it. 09:36 And that's what I wanted this gentleman to understand. 09:39 It's why you do the things you do. 09:41 And I would meet him in a loved 09:43 relationship with his physician. 09:44 But let him know, it's not all about 09:45 the right medicines or exercise. 09:47 But there's another thing to it. 09:49 And that's that relationship with the Heavenly Father 09:51 that we were designed to have. 09:52 When we don't have that, 09:53 it puts some stress on our bodies. 09:55 And these two things are connected. 09:58 If you have a loving relationship with God 10:01 and you don't live a healthy life, 10:03 you're not gonna have optimum health. 10:05 If you live a healthy life, 10:07 but you don't have a good relationship with God, 10:10 you're not gonna enjoy ultimate health. 10:12 Those two things have to come together 10:14 in a very, very important way. 10:18 You are telling us that the Ultimate Prescription 10:22 is not only what happens to us physically, 10:26 it's also what happens to us spiritually and mentally. 10:30 Am I on the right track? You're exactly. 10:32 And you know, and this has to be--it has to be emphasized 10:37 that if you're not doing that, healing will occur. 10:39 It's just when. Yeah. 10:41 You know, and we want people to be healed 10:43 through modern medicine and lifestyle changes. 10:45 But some people, Charles, no matter what they do, 10:48 they never can be healed perfectly. 10:50 But we know in that relationship, we're promised, 10:53 we are promised to have ultimate healing. 10:56 So that relationship is the Ultimate Prescription 10:58 that has to be a part of every healing plan 11:01 that's out there today. 11:03 In addition to the stent, the bypass, 11:05 the exercise, eating the right food, 11:07 we want to have this relationship 'cause 11:09 this gives us the power through the Holy Spirit 11:12 to make it all possible. 11:14 And we don't--we want to have people-- 11:16 we want to love people and not judge them, Charles. 11:19 It's very important we meet them where they are at 11:22 and we start with that. 11:24 Well, you know, one of the more important points 11:27 that we should make here is that if you want healing, 11:30 if you want ultimate healing, 11:32 it requires that relationship with God. 11:35 And there are two ways of having a relationship with God, 11:39 of course, now one is to just pick up 11:40 the ultimate user's manual here, 11:43 as Dr. Marcum calls it. 11:44 And try to find God here. 11:47 But also to spend sometime with God in prayer. 11:50 And that's exactly what we're gonna do right now. 11:52 So I invite you to close your eyes, fold your hands, 11:54 Dr. Marcum has a word with God for you, listen. 12:02 Let's start your personal healing right now. 12:05 There're many of you out there 12:07 that are in the medical establishment 12:09 right now that might be having heart problems 12:11 or other personal illnesses. 12:14 Well, you know, we've talked today about 12:15 the place and limitations for modern medicine. 12:18 We've also talked a little bit about lifestyle. 12:21 But I think we've learned today 12:23 that it's in that relationship with the ultimate physician, 12:26 the Ultimate Prescription that brings that love 12:29 into our life that allows us to ask the questions why, 12:33 as well as giving us the power to make these changes 12:37 that are much not the way we would like to live. 12:40 So wherever you are at, I want to invite you 12:42 to bow your heads right now as we pray together. 12:47 Father, God, someone out there might be needing 12:51 to enter in this relationship with You right now. 12:54 This relationship that will lead 12:56 to the ultimate healing, Father. 12:58 The place to understand the role for modern medicine 13:01 and when to ask these questions why. 13:03 This relationship that will give us the power 13:06 to make changes that are very, very difficult. 13:09 Father, we thank You for opening our eyes to truth 13:13 and we pray that we enter this relationship. 13:15 Teach us how, is our humble prayer. Amen. 13:20 We've talked about some very radical things in medicine. 13:23 Did you know that you're a healer based 13:26 on the way you treat your fellow man. 13:28 I'm a doctor that treats symptoms. 13:30 But I want to introduce this new concept today, 13:33 this Ultimate Prescription. 13:35 And that Ultimate Prescription is that relationship 13:38 with the Heavenly Father. 13:40 It's more important than the modern medicine 13:42 though that has its role. 13:43 It's more important than the lifestyle changes 13:46 though it has its role. 13:48 And if you have a question, 13:49 I want to invite you to come to our 13:51 website Heartwiseministries.org. 13:54 We want to serve you and we invite you to serve us 13:57 with your prayers as we take these new concepts 14:02 to the entire world so that they might know 14:05 in this relationship with the Heavenly Father, 14:07 this is truly the Ultimate Prescription. |
Revised 2014-12-17