Participants: James Marcum & Charles Mills
Series Code: UP
Program Code: UP00007B
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00:01 We're talking about matters of the heart today,
00:02 which is a good thing as we have a cardiologist with us. 00:05 In the creation story, we come across day six 00:09 and day six was an important day, 00:11 of course, because man appeared. 00:12 But before man came in, man and woman, 00:16 God created a whole world full of animals 00:19 and we've decided that God did that on purpose 00:22 that we need to have something to love. 00:25 Adam had something to love the moment 00:26 he appeared on this earth, 00:28 there was something for him to love. 00:30 And Dr. Marcum, you made it clear that loving something, 00:34 being loving, acting loving, 00:37 is helpful to our health, that's very important. 00:40 It's helpful to our chemistry, science has proven it. 00:43 But conversely, when we don't have love in our life, 00:46 we have chronic-- we can have chronic problems as well. 00:49 So love is a treatment for disease 00:52 and love helps prevent disease. But more than that, 00:55 love is the path to ultimate healing. 00:58 I am just continually amazed at God 01:00 and what He has done for us and how He has shown us 01:05 during that creation week, what we need to be healthy, 01:08 it's all there, God's health plan, we call it. 01:10 Yeah. It's incredible as you look back 01:13 and now we have the science that proves 01:15 all these laws and principles that God gave us. 01:18 They're true over and over and again. 01:20 And as we plug into this, that's where we start 01:22 to get the power to do-- make our health a lot better. 01:25 Yes. And it's just very exciting and I'm glad 01:27 we are able to share this with many more people 01:29 'cause people are-- they want to know. 01:31 They want to be healthy. They want to feel well. 01:33 They don't want unnecessarily take a lot of pills. 01:36 They don't want to have a lot of procedures. 01:38 They want to feel well. And more than that, 01:41 people long to be loved. They long to be 01:45 with the source of love, which is our creator. 01:47 That's a basic inherent principle that's in us. 01:51 We long to be with our creator. 01:52 We long to have that love 'cause we were made that way. 01:56 Yeah. And when everything in this world 01:57 has pulled us away from that, the longing is still there. 02:00 We have that desire, 02:01 but it's our choice to move this direction. 02:04 And can we safely say that is just as important 02:08 to love someone than to be loved by someone? 02:13 Or is there power in both of that interactions. 02:15 Yes, I think there is, Charles. Okay. 02:17 And if you're sitting around and no one loves me, 02:19 no one pays attention to me. We still have the prescription 02:25 for love that means we could love someone else. 02:27 We don't have to wait for them to love us. 02:28 That'sright. And I think it works both ways, 02:31 there's power in loving others. 02:32 I think Christ showed us that. 02:34 But also He was loved by the Father. 02:36 Yes, He was. And so it works 02:38 both ways to enhance our chemistry. 02:40 And it is just a powerful concept of love as a treatment 02:44 for disease and a way to prevent disease 02:46 and a path to healing. Now we hear 02:48 all these other fancy things, you can take this medicine 02:51 or this chemo therapy or have this fancy laser treatments, 02:54 that's a solution. But I'm telling people 02:56 that the real solution is right here given to us 02:59 by our Father way back. He is the consultant 03:02 that I want to go to for my second opinion on my health. 03:04 Absolutely. Okay, let's get to our questions 03:07 that come to the heartwiseministries.org website. 03:10 The first one here is-- oh, this is a sad one. 03:13 Okay. "I lost the love of my life 03:15 to cancer 14 months ago. I do not want to go on. 03:20 The grief is overwhelming. 03:22 Would you pray for me and what should I do?" 03:24 Absolutely. Oh, how sad. 03:25 We'll definitely pray for you. 03:27 At the end of program, we like to lift up 03:30 people in prayer. And if you like 03:31 prayer for you or your loved ones, 03:33 go to our website heartwiseministries.org. 03:37 There's not much more we can do in this. 03:39 You know this is the most important thing we can do is 03:41 pray 'cause God can do things 03:42 that modern medicine cannot do, Charles. 03:45 What else can be done? Well, that's a great suggestion. 03:48 And here is some things that I've done in my practice. 03:51 First of all when someone's lost love in the life, 03:54 you know, we know that that damages chemistry. 03:56 We talked about the broken heart syndrome. 03:58 We know that people lose their appetite. 04:00 Sometimes they don't sleep well at night. 04:03 Stress sometimes raises blood pressure. 04:06 So there's lots of chemical changes that happen 04:08 when we're separated from love. 04:09 Especially that close spouse of love. 04:12 One of the first things I do is I try to find them 04:15 other things to love, okay? And I want to make sure 04:19 that their relationship with the great physician is intact. 04:22 But sometimes it takes more than that. 04:25 'cause there's healing in both directions here. 04:26 Right, there's healing in both directions. 04:27 Love or be loved. All right. 04:28 And so what I try to get patients 04:30 to do that lost their loved, I ask them 04:32 do you have an animal at home? 04:34 Would you be interested in a dog, 04:36 a cat, or a parakeet 04:37 because then I'll decide just like a creation, 04:40 they have something in their lives to love back. 04:43 Yes. And several, you know, I said, you know, 04:45 we can never replace that lost love that you had, okay? 04:48 Yeah. But that love is just resting right now. 04:50 We're gonna have that again some day. 04:52 But when you have a pet or something else to love, 04:56 they love you back and forth, then that love relationship 04:59 is started and the chemistry starts to improve. 05:01 I've seen that lots of times when you get a dog, 05:03 a cat, or a pet, or something else to love 05:05 or taking care of a child, or something else to do, 05:08 something else to serve. When you start 05:10 the act of service, which is love too, 05:12 that's the same thing getting in a service oriented, 05:15 becoming more active in Church, volunteering, 05:17 do something that you have a love relationship 05:20 going this way. Then sooner or later 05:22 that love at least the chemistry 05:24 from that lack of love starts to improve. 05:26 Does that make sense? 05:27 Yes, that makes absolute sense. 05:29 So don't, you know, sit at home, 05:31 and necessarily be sad all the time, you know. 05:34 I want this person to go out and start, 05:36 you know, loving, serving other people. 05:38 Maybe a pet, maybe finding something to volunteer 05:40 and stay plugged into that great healing 05:43 relationship where God can heal all hurts. 05:45 When we look at love as a healing agent, 05:48 it just makes--And we will pray for this person 05:50 at the end of our program today. Absolutely. 05:51 We will pray. We always pray 05:53 for the people that write into our website. 05:55 Yes. Here's another question 05:56 that came into heartwiseministries.org. 05:58 "My son-in-law has many chronic problems. 06:01 You name it, he has it. His doctors have literally 06:04 tried everything." And then here's a question, 06:06 we're talking about love and relationships, 06:11 how about hypnosis? Is hypnosis something 06:15 that should be considered under these circumstances? 06:17 Yeah, so this person has a lot of chronic medical problems 06:20 and they're asking about hypnosis. Yeah. 06:22 There's lots of different medical theories out there. 06:26 And people practice many different things and sometimes 06:29 it's hard to sort through it. You read on the internet 06:31 or hear other people practicing different things. 06:34 But what I try to do is I try to test everything 06:37 by the ultimate medical textbook 06:39 that we've been talking about test things biblically. 06:43 Well, love is a biblical test to treatment, you know. 06:45 And some of the other things we talked about 06:47 that was given to his body but I never saw 06:49 hypnosis in the Bible. And when you think about it, 06:53 hypnosis is really letting someone else 06:55 or another entity control you that not necessarily you know 06:59 what it is. So, you know, I have to be very 07:02 leery of recommending something control your mind 07:05 that you don't know what it is. Yeah. 07:07 You know, there's many powers out there, you know. 07:09 So I can't really recommend hypnosis 07:13 but what I can recommend, okay, 07:15 with many chronic health problems, 07:17 the things we talked about. 07:19 Let's get back to the things that treat chronic stress. 07:22 Yeah. Let's go back to having love in our life, 07:25 having the basics, water, exercise, good nutrition, 07:29 all these other things, the appropriate 07:31 use for modern medicine. Yes. 07:33 An appropriate exercise regimen, You know, 07:35 laughing and having proper sensual things 07:39 like good music, things of that nature 07:41 and see if that won't help. And, you know, 07:43 sometimes no matter what we do, 07:45 people still have problems. Yeah. 07:47 This is a world that's not devoid of problems. 07:50 Sometimes believe it or not, we just have to do 07:52 the best we can with our problems. Yes. 07:54 But one thing that's always reassuring 07:56 that when we're walking with a great physician 07:59 that we'll have healing sometime. 08:01 It might be right away. 08:02 I've seen God heal people right away 08:05 not that many times but I've seen it. 08:07 Sometimes he heals by physicians 08:09 and change of lifestyle. 08:10 But we've been promised that we walk in that relationship, 08:13 that love relationship, we'll be healed some day. 08:16 So that's where I would start. 08:17 I can't really recommend hypnosis. Okay. 08:20 It goes against what I think is right. 08:23 Because there's really no biblical prescription for that. 08:26 And I think it would let someone else control your mind 08:29 which I don't think is good. Yeah. And then, 08:31 but I would recommend getting back to this-- 08:33 the biblical principles that we've talked about 08:35 as a good start in treating chronic medical problems. 08:38 Now we've been talking about love as something 08:40 that we give to someone else 08:42 or we receive from someone else. 08:46 Is it important for our health 08:50 if we learn to love ourselves? 08:55 Well, you know, we have-- you know God created you 08:58 and God wants us, you know, there's different, you know, 09:01 when you say the words love, does that mean 09:03 idolize yourself? Be proud? No, it doesn't. 09:05 But to respect what God has done 09:08 and what He can do in your life. 09:09 I think you have to love yourself to love others. 09:13 God made you a valuable person. You know, He loves you, 09:16 so you ought to love yourself for what God created. 09:19 Okay, 'cause there are people who are saying, you know, 09:21 "Love myself, have you met me?" 09:24 They are saying this is impossible. 09:26 I can't love myself. Look at me, 09:28 look all the bad things I've done, look at-- 09:31 that's because they're trying to love themselves 09:35 as opposed to loving the God who loves them. 09:37 Right. The way they see themselves. Yes. 09:39 Not the way that God created them and God-- 09:41 not the person that God wants them to be. Yes. 09:43 But you know we have to-- if we don't love ourselves, 09:45 it's very hard to love others. 09:48 So it's important in loving yourself that you really 09:51 base your love for yourself on God's love for you. 09:55 Exactly. We're not saying be proud and boastful, 09:58 not that type of love, 09:59 that respecting for what's God's created, 10:01 what He intends for you to be. 10:03 And no matter where we are at in life, 10:05 no matter how bad our health is, God still loves us. 10:09 Yeah. And we still are worthy of love. 10:12 Yes, okay, very good. I think we have time 10:14 for one more question. Let's get right in here. 10:16 This is from Wilma, "My fingers hurt a lot. 10:19 I had an x-ray and bone scan and everything came back fine. 10:23 My doctor has no solution other than pain medications. 10:26 Do I have to live with this?" 10:28 Well, Wilma, that's a great question. 10:30 I see a lot of people on pain medications. 10:33 And the first thing I would want to do is can we-- 10:35 is there anything that can be done to fix your fingers? 10:37 You know is there anything that can be done? 10:39 Is there a bone broken? Is there a tendon pulled? 10:42 Can rehab be done to retrain the muscles or the ligaments? 10:46 Sometimes that's not possible. 10:47 There's been permanent damage done. 10:49 And some people do need to take medications 10:51 to help relieve medicines but there's other things 10:53 that can also help the pain. We know that music helps pain. 10:58 This is true. We know that having 10:59 something to love helps pain. You know, 11:02 sometimes when you're distracted by serving other people, 11:05 loving other people. 11:06 You know, when I had a hurt toe the other day, 11:10 but when I was petting my dogs, I didn't notice my toe. 11:14 You know, we know that love can help endorphins go up. 11:17 We know that breathing appropriately, 11:19 exercising, that also makes natural pain killers, 11:22 called the endorphins in the body. 11:24 We also know that people that eat really healthy diets, 11:27 you know, like we've been talking about, 11:28 that can also help pain in some what, 11:30 especially when it comes to inflammation. 11:32 There's some great diets out there. 11:34 There're especially plant base that lowers inflammation, 11:37 inflammation causes pain. And hydration. 11:40 Exactly hydration helps in lowering the pain. 11:43 So all these things that were given to us back at creation, 11:46 we want to add them to the treatment regimen. 11:48 And maybe if we can add these, may be she won't be-- 11:51 need to take a pain medicine the rest of the life. 11:54 So it's definitely a possibility. 11:55 Check with your doctor to see 11:57 if you might fit the bill for this. 11:59 Real power of love. 12:01 We'll be back in just a minute, so stay tuned. 12:10 Love, putting someone else's interest above your own. 12:16 Boy, that's sort of hard in this world that we live in. 12:19 But love is a treatment 12:21 for some of the conditions we have, 12:23 all of the conditions we have. 12:25 Love, also lack of love that is causes disease. 12:30 Someone called in wanting prayer. 12:32 We're gonna pray for that person right now. 12:34 Let's all bow our heads and uplift that person in prayer. 12:38 Father God, there are many people out there 12:40 that are separated from love. 12:43 We want to pray that Your love come into their lives 12:47 through this relationship we've been talking about. 12:50 And You change their chemistry, Father, 12:52 and bring them into an understanding 12:53 of Your perfect plan for us. 12:56 We pray for this person that lost their love one, 12:58 Father, fill their heart with love and give them 13:00 other avenues to love and serve You. 13:03 There are many others that need to accept You, Father. 13:05 And we want others if they haven't ever, 13:07 to turn their lives over to You 13:09 and accept this love that You have. 13:11 This is our most humble prayer, amen. 13:15 You know, if I talk about this in a medical meeting, 13:19 this concept of love is a treatment, 13:22 some people might laugh at me. But I think, 13:25 you'll agree that this makes sense after watching us today. 13:29 Love can and will change your chemistry. 13:32 Love requires faith. Love requires service. 13:37 And when you think about what we've been talking 13:39 about these prescriptions we've been talking about, 13:41 I want you to have love as a prescription 13:43 in your life every day. 13:46 If you might have a question, go to our website 13:48 heartwiseministries.org and continue in this loving. 13:52 Please stay with us each week 13:54 and we'll be back next week on the "Ultimate prescription." |
Revised 2014-12-17