Podcasts Business Ray Edwards Show #132: If You Dont Have Your Health... [Podcast]

#132: If You Dont Have Your Health... [Podcast]

Published: Sept. 24, 2014, 11 a.m.

Have you ever heard the phrase, \u201cIf you don't have your health, you don't have anything\u201d? I think this is a stupid thing to say, and in today's episode I will explain why \u2013 and what to say instead.

And for those who don't have your health, I've got a newsflash: you also don't have a free pass to whine, complain, and make excuses.

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Spiritual Foundations:

If you are busy, stretched and stressed to the max, and need every minute of a 14 hour day to keep your head above water \u2013 the best thing you cando is set aside plenty of time to read God's word. The Bible. Why would I say that?

My son, be attentive to my words;\xa0incline your ear to my sayings.\xa0Let them not escape from your sight;\xa0keep them within your heart.\xa0For they are\xa0life to those who find them,\xa0and healing to all their\xa0flesh.\u201c

Proverbs 4:20-22

I have certainly found the source of peace in stressful times to be taking refuge in the Word. And it's not just my experience.

I read an article recently by Pastor Joseph Prince about George M\xfcller, who in the 1800's\xa0ran five orphanages, and oversaw the\xa0care of\xa0more than 2,000 orphans. M\xfcller was not wealthy, and the funding of these orphanages depended solely on donations. Every day, M\xfcller set aside time to study the scriptures.

Prince wrote:

Once, M\xfcller was talking with a man who worked\xa0between 14 and 16 hours every day. He told the man, \u201cYou are destroying your health. You don\u2019t have time for your family and, most importantly, you don\u2019t have time to nourish your inner man with the Word of God.\u201d

The man replied, \u201cI hear you, but I can\u2019t see how I can cut down my working hours and spend time in the Word because even with the 14 to 16 hours I put in each day, I still can\u2019t put enough bread on the table for my family.\u201d

As the man walked away, M\xfcller said, \u201cHe doesn\u2019t believe that if he gives time to God\u2019s Word first, God will take care of all his needs.\u201d

Whatever your needs, stresses or responsibilities, take time each day to read God's Word and nourish your spirit.

Feature Presentation:\xa0If You Don't Have Your Health\u2026

I think it's time we stopped saying, \u201cIf you don't have your health, you don't have anything.\u201d Here are 5 reasons why:

  1. It's not true. You have life, God, family, friends, and a chance to make meaning each day.
  2. It's a disempowering belief.
  3. Repetition is the mother of belief.
  4. It robs people of their destiny.
  5. It makes people into victim thinkers.

I propose we say instead, \u201cIf you don't have your health, you still have everything.\u201d And here are five reasons why that is true:

  1. Everything in this world is temporary anyway.
  2. God can and does restore health to the hopeless every day.
  3. Intentionally changing what we say begins to change our beliefs.
  4. We all have a fatal disease called life, and nobody survives it.
  5. There are countless examples of people with horrific health problems who accomplished incredible feats.
What's Your Excuse?

Here are people whose problems could have been used as an excuse, but who achieved\xa0greatness in spite of, or perhaps even because of, the health challenges they face.

  1. Stephen Hawking. Even though he is totally disabled by ALS, has revolutionized physics.
  2. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The only US President to server more than two terms, and generally recognized as on e of the best US Presidents ever. Roosevelt was paralyzed\xa0from the waist down by polio. Yet he still led the USA during two of her most trying times \u2013 the Great Depression and World War II.
  3. Michael J Fox. His Fox Foundation has accelerated Parkinson's research by decades, and million of dollars. And he continues to act, earning awards for his current roles.
  4. Marlee Matlin. Emmy winning actress, deaf since she was 18 months old.
  5. Helen Keller. Both blind and deaf, she graduated college and became an advocate for women's rights.
  6. Ludwig Van Beethoven. Lost most of his hearing by the age of 20. Composed some of his greatest works by feeling the vibration of the notes from the piano.

So\u2026 what's your excuse?

Next Week:\xa0Five Bad Habits That Can Wreck Your Life.

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