Sid Roth - Warning! These Toxic Emotions Are Making You Sick
Sid Roth: Hello! Sid Roth here! Welcome to my world where it's 'naturally supernatural'! What happens if you have a terminal disease? You go to the elders of your congregation. They anoint you with oil and you're not healed. Then you go to the best doctors money can buy and you're still not healed! Then you go the alternative health route and you're still not healed! What do you do? My guest says because of a high percentage of diseases are toxic emotions he's getting 75% of the people that follow his instructions are getting healed and he says the percentage would be even higher if they would do everything he tells them to do! My guest, Art Mathias, and you found out the hard way...
Art Mathias: Yes.
Sid Roth: ...About this because you had a snowmobile accident. Was it in 1994?
Art Mathias: 1997.
Sid Roth: '97. Tell me about it.
Art Mathias: Well those of us who live in Alaska love our winters and while riding a snowmobile I flipped it over on top of me and I didn't understand what happened but my right shoulder started to cramp and tremendous pain. And it took 8 or 9 months for me to struggle through to see what had happened and understand. I ended up going to several doctors. MrI's on my shoulder. Nothing wrong on the shoulder. Other MRI's on my neck. They discovered that in that snow machine accident that I had ruptured and fragmented discs at 3 levels in my neck. And they said the pressure on my spinal cord was so great that I should be dead. I should not be able to walk and the only solution was surgery. And like you said I've had the elders pray for me. It didn't help. So in January of 1998 I had surgery and they fused 4 vertebrae in my neck, 3 levels 4 vertebrae, and I came out of the surgery worse than when I actually went in. I was more afraid. I had more pain and a different pain because everything I ate, everything I wore hurt. Some of the cramping in my shoulder had stopped but the pain throughout my body was intense. I went back to the surgeon. He did another MRI. He says your neck's not very good but it's not because of these problems. I went to a neurologist because I was getting numb in my fingers and my toes and it was spreading and they said I had a disease called peripheral neuropathy or small fiber neuropathy and it was gonna spread until it came up to my chest, my heart and then I would die and they said it would take 2 years.
Sid Roth: And in addition to that you found yourself allergic to how many items?
Art Mathias: Well as I figured out what was happening I had developed over a hundred allergies and it was really the allergies that were causing the neuropathies in my fingers and my toes. I couldn't eat anything! There was only 2 or 3 different foods I could eat. Clothing would make my arms burn. Any synthetic clothing. I was down to wearing only the most pure cottons, very expensive pure cottons. Magnetic fields.
Sid Roth: And in the meantime his sister develops tumors and she starts studying an area having to do with forgiveness and gets healed! And she sends the tapes to Art. What happened?
Art Mathias: Well I was desperate! I, in that condition I would even listen to something that I thought was about as hokey as it could be! That my thoughts or emotions could have anything to do with what was going on in my physical body but you know I was raised in the church and I didn't think I had to forgive anything. But as I worked through what she taught me about what bitterness was I learned that I had a lot of resentment and anger and unforgiveness which are all parts of bitterness. And so I started to forgive. I didn't know how to forgive but I started to work through who I purpose and I choose to forgive. And then there's one other verse that kept coming up. 2nd Timothy 1:7. It says 'i haven't given you a spirit of fear'. And I was a born-again Christian. I can't have that spirit but I knew that I was controlled by all those fears of the future. The fear of the pain that I was living in every day. The fear of I couldn't eat anything. What am I gonna do?
Sid Roth: I can imagine that fear. It must have, I mean I imagine you almost despaired of life.
Art Mathias: I...
Sid Roth: Life was so horrible.
Art Mathias: I couldn't eat anything. Everything hurt. Life was hell to be blunt! For me and my wife. Probably worse for her. But as I says Lord, what do I do with this verse? Because I knew I was controlled by this spirit, this fear. So I just said 'in the name of Jesus I command this fear to go'! And it was like a hundred pounds come off my back! And it took me 2 or 3 days to figure it out but when that spirit of fear went so did those hundred allergies! And then my nerve endings healed! And the arm that was withered from that accident God healed the nerves! And I was able to lift weights and I got a normal arm back!
Sid Roth: So are you, see this is what he is saying. He's saying that God wants to heal us but there are blockages in the emotional area. Not just forgiveness, in many areas. Not just fear, in many areas. And when you deal with those areas there is just a free flow of God's healing virtue.
Art Mathias: Absolutely! God, it's his desire. It's his will to always heal but we look through scriptures and we find out many times he was unable to heal and he marveled at people's unbelief. And unbelief is really any form of disobedience and I was very disobedient to the Lord in having anger and resentment and bitterness in me. And then we started studying how those toxic negative emotions affect our health from science. From psychology, an area of psychology called 'psycho-neural immunology'. And from medical textbooks and what medicine teaches about toxic negative emotions and then what the Bible teaches. And it's not a surprise that anger, resentment, bitterness, jealousy and envy, rejection issues, fears, worries, anxieties cause disease! The American medical association says that more than 80% of all of our diseases are caused by these emotions.
Sid Roth: Well listen! A lady read this book of Art Mathias's and lost 95 pounds! We'll get to her in the next segment! Don't go away!
Sid Roth: Hello! Sid Roth here with Art Mathias. And Art believes, and he's proven it thousands of times, that when toxic emotions are involved in an individual it prohibits the healing of God to manifest his miracle and when you can get rid of these toxic emotions healing just flows! Now Art, when someone goes to a doctor and they can't find out what's wrong with a person the doctor normally says 'stress'.
Art Mathias: Yes. Very common.
Sid Roth: And it's actually true! What have you find out about stress?
Art Mathias: I agree with what the doctors are teaching. Stress is one of our biggest enemies! And stressors are defined as any anger, resentment, bitterness, fears, worries, anxieties, divorces, things that happen in life, we lose a job. These things are extremely stressful and when these events happen or these thoughts happen it causes in our physical bodies what medicine calls a 'fight-flight response'.
Sid Roth: And what does that mean?
Art Mathias: Well that means that the adrenal glands are squirting out a whole bunch of adrenaline cortisol. We get extra strength in our arms from all that extra sugar that's provided to our muscles, all that extra strength, and our digestive systems shut down. The extra cortisol and the extra adrenaline also inhibits the immune system because it kills the 't' cell and the 'b' cell. But God didn't design this for the rare time of emergencies. He didn't design this for us to live in it constantly. So when we live in it constantly it, as I mentioned, it suppresses the immune system and then any kind of a disease can come our way when our 't' cell, our 'b' cells, our microphage cells, our natural killer cells in the immune system are killed from the extra adrenaline and the cortisol. We just flat wear out and make ourselves susceptible to any kind of a disease because of suppression.
Sid Roth: Give me one example of someone that has taken care of toxic emotions and gotten healed.
Art Mathias: Oh, a good friend of mine last summer was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. And we prayed with him for over a 30-day period of time and his next, his next test, his next blood test showed no cancer!
Sid Roth: Now what was the major obstacle in him receiving his healing?
Art Mathias: Fears and worries about the future. Fear of getting sick because he was afraid that a disease would happen to him as it has happened to others in his life. That fear. That worry. And we've learned that fears are self-fulfilling prophecies! The things we are afraid of as job said, in job chapter 3 verse 25 happen to us!
Sid Roth: Art, there is a woman that read this book, 'biblical foundations of freedom' and lost 95 pounds! Let's take a look at her now.
Art Mathias: Okay.
Sid Roth: What's real important to me is, Art, is she keeping her weight off?
Art Mathias: I saw her 2 weeks ago, Sid. And she looks even nicer than she looks there!
Sid Roth: And you know something, to change the subject for a moment, what is so amazing to me, Art, is you say tell me what's wrong with you and I can tell you what your toxic emotion is that you have to get rid of!
Art Mathias: That is very true. Medical textbooks list over 60 diseases that are caused by anxiety, stress and fear. Medicine draws very specific analogies with very specific diseases to very specific emotions.
Sid Roth: Let me try you.
Art Mathias: Okay.
Sid Roth: Migraines.
Art Mathias: Migraines are related to how you think about a conflict. There's been a conflict that happened in your life and you're beating yourself up. You're saying I shoulda done this, I shoulda done that. And you are second-guessing yourself, condemning yourself.
Sid Roth: Art, sounds too easy!
Art Mathias: Well Jesus isn't complicated! The Word of God is very simple! It's brilliantly incredibly simple to forgive.
Sid Roth: Let me tell you something! In the next segment you're gonna find out that Art is moving in miracles, major miracles! Don't go away! We'll be right back!
Sid Roth: Hello! Sid Roth here with Art Mathias. And Art, the one thing that most people wouldn't understand is you have some very precise steps that people have to follow. It's not just a blanket prayer of I forgive everyone. Why do you have these steps? Why not just a blanket prayer?
Art Mathias: Because most people don't understand what forgiveness is. Forgiveness is actually releasing the pain and the memories. Unforgiveness is the anger, the resentment and the bitterness, those toxic negative emotions. If those toxic negative emotions are there, there is bitterness, there is unforgiveness. And when we've forgiven, truly forgiven, those negative emotions are gone. So we lead people through a 4-step process of 'I purpose and I choose to forgive'. And 'I cancel satan's authority over me'. 'I command that fear to go or that shame to go'. And 'i ask God to come and heal my heart and heal my body'. And 'Lord tell me your truth about this negative emotion'.
Sid Roth: Now most people don't do this.
Art Mathias: I know.
Sid Roth: They just do that quick blanket prayer.
Art Mathias: That's why they don't experience true forgiveness because the pain has not left their bodies. The pain hasn't left their emotions. And Jesus came to heal the broken heart and the broken heart is all of that pain, all of that hurt in the things that have happened to us in life. And his blood will take away as we truly forgive all of that pain. And then the 'fight-flight process' those stop and healing manifests.
Sid Roth: Let's take a look at Kathy haley. What was going on with Kathy?
Art Mathias: Kathy was conceived when she- by parents that didn't want her. She was given up for adoption. She lived her life in feeling like she wasn't wanted.
Sid Roth: Let's look at Kathy.
Sid Roth: What a wonderful word. Now if it was just her it would have been worth it! But it is so many people. I mean some 75% of the people and you think it can even be higher than that!
Art Mathias: Yes! If we really learn how to forgive! If we really want this. Like Kathy has just said her life changed dramatically when she just did the forgiveness, actually forgave.
Sid Roth: But most Christians they understand forgiveness but they don't go all the way.
Art Mathias: They don't do it. We've been told to do it and so we think we have but that pain is still in our bodies.
Sid Roth: If the pain is there, there's still the roots.
Art Mathias: The roots are still there. The bitterness, the unforgiveness is still there if that emotional pain is still there.
Sid Roth: Okay. The miracles. I mean you've been moving in a miracle level what I call 'Messianic miracles' over the last year.
Art Mathias: Yes.
Sid Roth: Tell me what has occurred.
Art Mathias: In the last year and a half we've seen 6 blind eyes and 18 deaf ears healed! And they are continuing. God, Jesus is coming again and he used specific kinds of miracles to substantiate that he was really the Christ, that he was the Messiah. And these kinds of miracles are coming back again!
Sid Roth: I believe, I absolutely believe that if you pray for those that are viewing right now miracles are going to erupt! Do you believe that? Well if two or more agree in the name of Yeshua it'll happen! Art, would you pray?
Art Mathias: Sid. I know that as we've been talking here what we've discussed has raised issues in people's lives and I would just like to lead the audience in a prayer of forgiveness. So if I may, please repeat this prayer back and let's forgive one of those memories that's been triggered. Dear Lord Jesus, I purpose and I choose in my heart to forgive this person in this specific memory for what they did. I release them and I cancel their debts to me. And in the name of Jesus I cancel all of satan's authority over me in this memory because it's forgiven! And in the name of Jesus I command the pain, the anger and the shame and the guilt in this memory to go! And in the name of Jesus I command my body to settle down and heal! I command the high blood pressure to go! I command the crohn's to go! I command the cancer that comes from these negative emotions to leave my body now! I command the bone that won't heal to heal now in the name of Jesus! I command that migraine to go in the name of Jesus! Holy Spirit come and do your work and heal our hearts and heal our bodies in Jesus' name! I see the Holy Spirit working and as people are praying through these miracles and praying through the pain in their hearts I see the peace coming! I see the joy coming!
Sid Roth: I feel that peace right now! And I have to tell you something. When I read your book one of the most important things that came across to me was getting control over my thought life.
Art Mathias: Yes.
Sid Roth: Over gossip.
Art Mathias: Absolutely!
Sid Roth: Over feeling negative feelings. I mean I am getting rid of that stress level. It's so wonderful! And I feel the peace! I feel that peace. Do you feel it? It's the Prince of Peace, Jesus, the Messiah! That's the one!