Sid: I want to read to you a mother’s story about her son; let me read this to you:
No mother should have to see her vibrant athletic college age son fitted for a wheelchair but I did. At 6’1” and 180 pounds Jordan was in incredible shape and on fire for God; he was full of energy and loved life and then he got very sick. After a series of antibiotics Jordan went back to college weighing 150 pounds. Before long he showed up at our door weighing only 135 pounds with a 105 degree fever. My husband and I looked at Jordan and thought “My goodness what’s wrong with our son.” He wasn’t the same person he could barely walk and many times he’d faint just walking to the bathroom. No one was able to diagnosis Jordan until we found a doctor familiar with his symptoms. He looked at Jordan and immediately said “Your son has Crones disease.” Jordan’s health went downhill from there. He progressively got sicker and lost more weight and his hair began falling out. It was a mother’s worst nightmare; we tried many doctors, drugs and natural therapies; nothing seemed to work. I remember when Jordan had his first upper GI series; as he walked to the x-ray room looking like a very wick old man he fainted and fell to the floor. Later towards the end when we really thought we might lose him Jordan asked me to take his picture. It was hard to even look at him much less take a picture of him. I wanted to tell him “Don’t wear shorts” it hurts me to see his bony legs and joints. He was just skin and bones. A few of my friends told me “You have to let him go.” I’m not a negative person but it was hard to watch my effervescent son have the life sucked out of him. I just cried my eyes out and kept praying for a miracle. I remember weeping all the way back from Germany and praying “Take care of my son he’s in Your hands; I give him to you Lord I have no other choice.” It was one of the most difficult and greatest things I have ever done. It was just a few months later that Jordan tried a primitive version of what he now calls “The Maker’s Diet” for one week. I will never forget the day he smiled and told me “Mom, I’m going to get well.” This was the first time I remember Jordan smiling in over a year. On that momentous day Jordan was right and God was faithful. Phyllis Rubin
I’m reading from a book called “The Makers Diet.” It’s been on the New York Times Bestsellers List for 16 weeks. And I have the author the son of Mrs. Rubin, Dr. Jordan Rubin from his office in West Palm Beach, Florida. I also have Janie DuVall the Producer of Messianic Vision on for this week because Janie is on “The Maker’s Diet.” Jordan you are a Messianic Jew; a Jewish Believer in Jesus. I think that your mother really described what was going on in that horrific time in your life.
Jordan: You know Sid it was almost hard for me to listen to that because of course it’s my story, but it almost reminds me of how important our health is and how it doesn’t just affect us when we lose that health. I can remember during my illness which my mother described very well the feeling of not only living in this prison that was my own body and not being able to recognize myself and really hating the body that I was living in, but the anguish and the pain that I caused my parents and my grandparents and my friends. It was almost too much to handle, and boy it just makes me want to thank God for not only what He did for me and my life but for doing that for my family. I can tell you from watching my mother suffer and watching my father suffer and my grandmother and all the people that stood by me. God worked a miracle and it wasn’t just for me it was for so many of us. And that’s why as we share prayer requests so many people prayed for me and it was a miracle in so many of their lives too. And that’s what my life is about today.
Sid: Jordan I have to interrupt you for a minute; I am looking in your book on page 21 and Janie take a look at this.
Janie: Yes.
Sid: I know that you’ve seen this before but look again. This is a picture of what Jordan looked like; you look like you were coming right out of a concentration camp.
Janie: That’s what people have said to him; it’s so… skin and bones.
Sid: But you know what…
Janie: Down to what 104 pounds.
Sid: But you know what Jordan what you went through caused a search and that search results… I mean most people are not in a life threatening situation health wise. You were as critical as a person could get. However, most people are going to end up with critical diseases if they don’t get the information that you found in your search.
Jordan: I couldn’t agree more; I think today we’re in the worst health in this country and this world than we’ve ever been. Research now shows that 1 out of 3 children that were born after the year 2000 that includes my son are likely to develop type II diabetes. And those with Type II diabetes before they’re 15 years old have an average of 17 to 27 years robbed of life as a result. Do you hear what I just said? 1 out of 3.
Sid: Look someone that is called to preach the gospel what a tragedy after God has invested all that time in them and then because of lack of knowledge and nutrition they die prematurely.
Jordan: Well, it’s what Isaiah 4:6 says “That my people perish for a lack of knowledge; but because you have rejected the knowledge so will I reject you and the future generations.” So God is saying His people. He’s not talking about the world; the unbelieving world; He’s talking about His people. I share this message in churches and organizations to people all over the world and I say the same thing. If our life belongs to God; He created us; He knows what is best for us. If we don’t live a lifestyle that He created us to live we’re not only short circuiting what we can do we are robbing from Him. And what you said couldn’t be more true. People that God invests in; He bought us with a great price His only Son. We owe it to Him to offer back our bodies as a living sacrifice; that boils down my message in 1 verse Romans 12:1. And it’s appropriate for everybody whether they’re ill like I was, or whether they just want a better lifestyle for themselves and their family.
Sid: Jordan tell me briefly how many doctors; how many different products; how much money did you invest? Obviously you prayed and you were looking for either God to sovereignly heal you or give you direction in what to do. But I think that you tried every diet and every alternative thing that’s out there.
Jordan: I tried most of them and during my search we went to 13 conventional doctors because I was medically and critically ill. Since that didn’t work we visited about 57 alternative practitioners which makes 70 altogether. I tried about 500 treatments and not counting the medical bills just on the alternative health care out of pocket expenses cost my family about $150,000. But the key was, the kicker there, is that it didn’t work and that landed me in a wheelchair. What God did for me cost very little. This plain is something everybody can follow and really “The Makers Diet” is for everybody. And I thank God every day that he chose to heal me with a plan from his word not ones of those other treatments but God does not waste our pain. It’s a saying I just heard recently; and everything that I experienced in my life is for a reason and God wants to use what I’ve gone through so that anyone listening to this program right now can take hold of the message. God wants us healthy but more than that, He gives us a way to have abundant life on this earth really as it is in heaven.
Sid: But I have to ask you a question; that is a very bold title that you have for your book “The Makers Diet” why do you call it that?
Jordan: Well fortunately for me after trying all the diets that man came up with it wasn’t until someone told me that I could find a health plan to save my life in the pages of the Bible. In the pages of the book that I read every single day for spiritual health and then I’d put that way and I read my health book for physical health. But I realized that God has it all in one book. And “The Maker’s diet is entirely taken from the premise that the Bible gives us everything we need for our life. Now the Bible is a book about the spiritual lives and the physical lives of God’s people throughout history. By taking that information following it throughout history and looking at it through a scientific lens that is where “The Makers Diet” came into being. And “The Maker Diet” is very much the same as the original 40 day period that I took what was left of my body and gave it over to God and followed this plan…
Sid: But wait a second; all of us are different and great you found a plan that would get you healed but what about everyone; everyone is a little different. Someone says 1 vitamin they take it and they say “It’s the most wonderful thing in the world.” Someone else takes that same vitamin and it does nothing for them.
Jordan: Well, we’re certainly living in confusing times and I say it all the time “You can hear one day that something’s great for you, and the next day you can read about it and it can kill you.”
Sid: Alright, let me ask Janie she has been into your diet and talking about it non-stop. Tell me about it Janie, what’s going on with you?
Janie: You know if you would told me a year ago that there’s another diet that I could try that’s very healthy I would have thought I had tried everything. I tried all the whole vegetarian thing; so when I picked up his book and I really read it and I started doing what it said. This to me is the bottom line; the bottom is the food that we’re eating today is making our bodies inflamed. We’re not digesting our food; and why because it’s all processed, it’s all… it’s not the way God intended it to be. But in this last 100 years of money making and you know fast food all of the food is… there’s no enzymes there’s nothing in it that’s healthy. And the bottom line is that if we could digest the food the food that God made then we would not be inflamed; we would not be getting cancer and heart disease and all these sicknesses.
Sid: Bottom line what’s happening to Janie?
Janie: I’ll tell you when I’m staying on it I haven’t been perfect yet but when I’m staying on it the weight is coming off of me. I have more energy; I mean I feel really really great.
Sid: How about your sleep?
Janie: My sleep has been great with it.
Sid: You think that this is reason that you’re sleeping better.
Janie: Oh, absolutely when I’m on it my sleep is great and when I go off and everybody offers me all these delicacies as they say then it causes havoc.
Sid: Janie, forget weight loss for a moment; forget a dread disease which you don’t have; but if it’s going to be a better quality of life with more energy and not get those dread diseases then that makes sense to me.
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Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth