Participants: Charles Mills (Host), Dr. James Marcum
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP000065B
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00:01 Is your heart, your mind failing you for fear?
00:05 I am Charles Mills, this is Dr. James Marcum here, 00:08 we're talking about disease and the fighting of that disease 00:11 and we have a Biblical prescription that I think is 00:15 the most powerful prescription you are ever going to find 00:17 anywhere. More powerful than any modern medicine can give you, 00:21 and here it is. 00:23 We'll put it up on the screen: Philippians 4:6,7, 00:25 Philippians 4:6,7, listen to this and be amazed. 00:53 Every time I read that I just feel my blood pressure 00:57 going down, I feel that everything is going to be okay, 01:00 cause I'm not alone, there's someone here that is going to 01:03 help me through whatever I'm facing and this promise 01:07 is a wonderful prescription for peace and healing. 01:10 Dr. Marcum, I'm sure you've read this before, 01:12 what does that mean to you as a doctor? 01:14 It's more than a promise Charles, and I can tell people 01:18 that this is a way that I can help your chemistry 01:22 and help your situation more than a pill. 01:25 Because God doesn't want us to be anxious, He's given us a 01:27 prescription that will change our chemistry by being with Him, 01:31 by worshiping Him...Now we have the science to start 01:33 backing this up. We can prove it, we don't have all the 01:36 studies that I would like, I would like more studies 01:39 because I think this would be very convincing to the world... 01:41 You know, people like science, they like evidence, 01:44 faith, faith you know that's harder for some people than 01:48 evidence, but you give them hard core evidence 01:50 that this is going to do this, this, and this, 01:52 you know this is going to lower the risk of heart attack 01:54 if you do this. Well that will get their attention. 01:56 Yes. So that's, that's, I'm hoping more people 01:59 will continue to do research on this, but be anxious about 02:02 nothing. When we have prayer depend on God, 02:05 look to the scriptures, and that's what I've tried to do. 02:07 You know there's lots of medical programs out there Charles 02:10 that will sell your product, you know, here's an herb, 02:13 here's a supplement. There's a lot of procedures out there, 02:16 a lot of people are doing that, but on this program, 02:18 there's no special gimmick, there's no herb, 02:21 there's no that. No one here is making any money 02:23 for what they are doing. 02:25 We're here just because we want to try to present something 02:28 for you to think about, and for you to look at the evidence 02:30 and see if the evidence makes sense to you, 02:33 and more than anything, try some of these things 02:35 that we've been talking about in your life. 02:37 Try to worship God and see how you feel after a period 02:40 of time, let Him take control and see how you do. 02:43 Eat healthier diets, do these things and see how you feel. 02:46 It's amazing Charles, we do talk the modern medicine 02:50 part of it and do you know what this fellow is here? 02:52 It looks interesting. This is what we call an otoscope, ok, 02:59 and oto meaning ears, and we look at people's ears 03:02 and we pull back their ears and we go deep inside 03:05 and we look and see if they might have an infection, 03:08 we look at the tympanic membranes, 03:10 it does all sorts of neat things. 03:11 It's designed to look inside of you to see what is going on. 03:15 This is another instrument that we use to look in the eyes, 03:19 I can look through the center part of your eyes and I can see 03:22 where the optic nerve is, I can see the blood vessels, 03:25 I can actually see physically part of your brain where the 03:28 optic nerve comes out with this. I can see inside of you. 03:32 You know unfortunately in the world we live in 03:35 so many people are busy now, they don't have the time to 03:40 look inside themselves to see who they really are. 03:43 Interesting. Because we get so busy and so worried about 03:46 just being alive and existing that we don't have a chance 03:49 to look and see who we really are. 03:51 We don't have the time to see, look inside and see, 03:55 well, what does God want me to be? 03:57 Where does He want me to go? 03:58 Because we are busy, sometimes doing good things, 04:01 raising families, going to churches, working our jobs, 04:04 doing things. But I think our world is so busy, 04:07 that all this business stresses us out and the antidote 04:10 to all the stress which triggers all these diseases 04:13 is figuring out to have relationships, have a rest, 04:16 you know a rest, slow down a little bit, how to break our 04:20 routines, how to communicate with the one that can fix this, 04:23 to look inside ourselves and be honest. What do we see? 04:27 Do we see someone that's healthy that's getting better, 04:30 that's working towards healing? 04:32 Or do we just see someone who doesn't pay attention 04:34 to how their life is because we are caught up in this big 04:37 wave, this wave of the culture, this is how I'm supposed to feel, 04:40 this is how I'm supposed to act, and we don't even know 04:43 who we are inside. We're getting sicker and sicker, 04:45 and sicker as we do that. Yeah, as I look at my patients 04:48 come in and I realize a lot of people live their whole lives 04:50 and never know who they are. 04:52 Never know what they want to do with their life, 04:54 what they want to accomplish, even if it's just little things, 04:57 we all can find some way to be used by God. 05:00 When did you do that Dr. James Marcum? 05:02 When did you look inside and say, I want to be someone 05:06 different than I am? And how did that journey bring you 05:10 to this moment where you are sitting in the beautiful studio 05:12 here at 3ABN talking to these people around the world, 05:16 what was that journey like? 05:18 Well, it's sort of been over time, it hasn't happened 05:21 all at once, it's been slow and I would like to think I'm 05:23 still on the journey, still learning, still sharing... 05:27 Um, like I say, you don't hear a lot of physicians 05:30 out there that combine modern medicine, that combine lifestyle 05:34 and that combine mind and relationship, 05:36 especially a relationship with God as part of a treatment 05:39 plan. But I think this moderate approach is the way... 05:42 we look at Christ like, and He loved them, He didn't judge them. 05:46 I'm starting to do the research, what happens when we 05:49 judge people, what's it do to us. 05:50 Well, God says not to do that, it damages us. 05:52 What's it do to them? Yeah. 05:53 What's it do when we are not selfish? 05:55 Well, I think what happened to me is, I was in a bone marrow 05:58 transplant unit at the Medical Center of Delaware, 06:01 where I was doing my Internal Medicine Training 06:04 and I took care of a young Fire Fighter and he had a disease, 06:07 it's a bone disease called multiple myeloma 06:10 and everything that modern medicine could do, 06:13 the bone marrow transplants, the chemo... 06:17 the chemo wiped out his immune system, he got so sick 06:21 we had to give him antibiotics, everything we did to try to... 06:25 The theory is you wipe out all the bad cells and then 06:28 you give them a bone marrow transplant so they start making 06:31 good cells...Well everything we did with modern medicine... 06:34 You know, his family would come in every day, 06:36 I could see him lose weight, get weaker and weaker 06:39 every day...And then everyone says this will work, 06:43 have another transfusion, this is going to work... 06:46 You are on three medicines to keep infections out of the 06:49 body and after a prolonged period of time, he passed away, 06:52 and I felt so empty. You know, his family, I didn't really... 06:57 as one of his doctors, one of his many doctors, 07:00 I was low on the totem pole... I didn't give him anything 07:03 that would bring him to healing and I said there has got to be 07:08 something more to medicine than this, 07:11 and just that realization began my search. 07:14 And I started, I just prayed, God show me where we should go 07:19 with this? What should I learn and I started looking in the 07:22 scriptures and slowly but surely I realized I was taught 07:25 medicine, but medicine wasn't healing and just because 07:29 I've taught these things doesn't mean it's right 07:31 and some day we will look back and see some of the stuff 07:34 we are doing, is not right. 07:35 I realize that some people do things, you know, they do things 07:39 for money. The system is broken. 07:41 Not maybe individuals, but the system is not doing what 07:44 it should be doing. 07:45 And this journey led me to the scriptures, 07:47 and finding things in the scriptures and the science 07:49 to back it up. Right. 07:51 The science to back it up, because I think when people 07:53 look at evidence based medicine... 07:54 See, I consider the things that God gave us as medicine healing. 07:58 Yes. The things that change our chemistry, 08:00 just like anything we put in our body, changes our chemistry. 08:03 And everyone says, oh the food is so important. 08:06 Yes, the food is important, don't get me wrong, 08:08 but the thoughts are important too. Yes. 08:10 And if you are going to be angry about your food choices 08:12 maybe that angry is not the right thing and maybe 08:14 you need to sort of re-evaluate. 08:16 Well, how can I not be angry? 08:17 Why am I feeling this way? 08:19 Find out the reason why and it might be a journey 08:22 that you and God go on and you take others with you. 08:24 But I started going on that journey and as I tried to make 08:27 changes one at a time, I saw the positive effects, 08:30 I started bringing these in to my patients lives 08:33 and I said why don't you try this for two weeks and 08:35 see how you do? Well all of a sudden, 08:36 they started coming off medicines, they became happier, 08:39 they started reversing disease. 08:41 One of the questions I ask when the short time... 08:43 I asked, are you eating pretty healthy? 08:46 They said yes, I said well, what do you eat? 08:47 So I could have that discussion, and I said well try to do this 08:51 first. I lead them one step at a time and if they are eating 08:54 terrible, we have to go slower. 08:55 And I said what are you doing, why are you happy? 08:58 And if you are out there and you can't answer that question, 09:01 what am I doing to be happy? You might have a problem. 09:04 Then if they can't say something, then I start working 09:06 on the mind. Well, what can we do? 09:08 What do you really enjoy doing? 09:09 And that leads me into resting you know, and resting in God. 09:13 Resting in that relationship. Maybe you are too busy... 09:15 and I can lead them to other Biblical ways of healing 09:19 and sometimes they don't even know it. 09:21 Um hum. You know, they might not be spiritual and I said, 09:23 well, you know, do you have a connection with God? 09:26 And some people are going to church and some people are not 09:28 going to church and if they are not I say, well you know, 09:30 you know God reaches you in many different ways if you 09:33 look out for Him. And here's some things you can do if 09:35 you are interested in this cause I believe there is proof, 09:38 scientific proof that there is a God, and there is healing. 09:41 And here's what he says. And I said why don't you just 09:44 try this for a week and see how you feel? 09:46 And I've never had anyone who tries these things and 09:49 don't feel a little bit better. Ahhh! 09:51 And as I've seen them change, that has empowered me 09:54 to continue to look for another thing that we can offer 09:56 and to go and take the time to spread this news via 09:59 the television, via the radio, the ministry answers questions. 10:03 But I realize the system doesn't necessarily want this to happen, 10:07 It's not a money maker. You know, it's not a money maker. 10:11 But I think that as God blesses, we are all going to be in this 10:15 together. We are going to see that understanding people, 10:17 meeting their needs, loving and not judging them, 10:19 helping them in the healing process. 10:21 This is the way we can bring people to the gospel, 10:24 to evangelism. To realizing that God came down here 10:27 and He says, if you believe in me...Believe, 10:30 worship the true God. These are the things 10:32 the Holy Spirit will come in and change people's lives. 10:35 And even if we can't have healing on earth 10:37 we can have healing in heaven. 10:39 So you are saying that health should be at the center of 10:41 evangelism. Well, I think that's the way we should be thinking. 10:44 We should be thinking to serve someone, to love someone 10:47 first. Develop that relationship and let the Holy Spirit 10:50 through that relationship take them the next step 10:52 and we can help them on those steps. 10:54 But I think this is very... everyone that is watching this 10:57 program can share with their friends and help them smile 11:00 and serve them. And when they are serving them through that 11:02 relationship, they can introduce even a greater relationship 11:05 that can add in healing and I think the evidence speaks 11:08 for itself Charles. If we are doing that, 11:10 if we are making our friends smile, if we are bringing hope 11:15 for them, we are bringing healing Dr. Marcum. Yes! 11:18 We are being like little medical missionaries to our neighbors, 11:22 to our family members, to our co-workers... 11:24 When we bring these principles that we talk about on this 11:27 program week after week, when we bring that to the world 11:29 we are taking part in a healing ministry. 11:33 You may not be a part of heartwisemininstries.org 11:36 but you can be a part of you.ministries.org 11:39 and your family's ministry .org. What a wonderful feeling 11:43 that is to know that you are part of healing people's lives. 11:46 Yeah. And when you serve some- one else, you are serving God. 11:49 You're serving God. And I went to a play not long ago with my 11:52 daughter and one of the lines was, you know, when you serve 11:55 someone else, you see that the face of God. 11:57 So when you serve someone else, you are really serving 11:59 your Creator. 12:01 Well, we are going to take a brake and when we come back 12:03 let's talk to that creator. What a privilege we have 12:06 to speak to the God who created us and knows what is best for us 12:10 and wants to share with us what we need to do 12:13 to have health and healing from now on until He comes 12:17 so stay right where you are. 12:24 If you are discouraged, do you feel like there is no hope? 12:27 Do you feel like there is no love in your life? 12:30 I want to tell you, that's not the way it needs to be. 12:33 There is hope, there is healing, there's real chemical changes 12:38 that comes in this relationship that we are promised. 12:40 We can start that this very moment. Let's pray together. 12:43 Father God, we want to enter into a relationship with you 12:48 and we want you to work in our lives. 12:51 Take over our thoughts and our actions 12:53 and bring us to healing, bring us to hope, 12:55 bring us to love. We trust that you will do this 12:58 in our lives Father, and we want to thank you ahead of 13:01 time for the results that we will see is our humble prayer. 13:04 Amen! 13:05 I want to thank you for spending time on 13:09 The Ultimate Prescription today, if you want to learn 13:11 more, go to our website if you have a question wheret we can 13:13 serve you. That website is heartwiseministries.org. 13:19 Wishing you the best of health. |
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