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[Music] hello good evening it is wednesday evening right here at eagle mountain international church we've got a very special treat for you are you ready pastor terry pearsons is speaking terry copeland pearsons will be speaking she's talking about taking god's medicine what if i told you god had a medicine regimen ready for you that's much better than any vaccine you could ever take or anything else because when you have a question mark in your spirit that's when faith stops pastor terry copeland pearson's right now when i went to oral roberts university i wasn't looking for a wife i was looking for the holy ghost i was i was looking for some things in my life that i knew i needed because i knew that oral roberts university was the place to go but i got a bonus and a bonus that was going to be lasting for a lifetime and i found uh there a woman of god and her name at that time was terry copeland and terry copeland was really really something i'd never met really a texan before foreign to my thinking from my northeastern ways but i i started really getting attracted to her and she and i were attracted to each other and one of the things that attracted me to her outside of her cuteness was the way she preached the word of god and with the way she taught the word of god i had never really heard the word of god taught like she taught it before and i was captivated then and i'm captivated now would you please welcome pastor terry copeland pearson [Music] praise the lord exactly that's so sweet oh i think back on that we were so we were really young i had just turned to 18. i turned 18 my first week of school and met george and thought he was strange at the first first first time we ever met but it didn't take too long and my opinion of him began to to deepen and what what value i found in him so i'm going to tell you you girls what to look for in a man in a in a single word and that's integrity and that this is be a definition of integrity real integrity and that is somebody who sees the word of god and will change to what it says george said he'd never seen anything like that but as soon as he saw it he grabbed it he didn't walk around with a question mark doubting whatever he saw in the word he just grabbed it and said well that's what i believe and took it like he'd been believing it all his life and it's that quality about him that attracted me to him and he's still that way and i'm still attracted hallelujah so praise the lord hallelujah thank you lord so lord we thank you for your word today we thank you for this immense privilege that we can come to your word and look into it and find out your will find out your ways and make them our own so help us today holy spirit help me to say what you want me to say in the way you want me to say it and help all the people that are listening to hear what you want them to hear the way you want them to hear it and we'll be just like pastor george and we'll say well that's what i believe and we'll take it and we'll be changed by it in jesus name amen amen you may be seated praise the lord my goodness so we're going to feed on the word of god today so if you would if you please open your bible to proverbs 4 20 and just let everybody know i'm gonna read from the king james version today that's a little unusual i i normally would go to the amplified bible why because it's got more words and and that's more like me pastor george uses the king king james work a version and that's because it has less words and that's more like him so just to let you know i preach longer than he does because i have more words but we're going to go the king james bible so you don't know right it could be it'll be just right amen okay so my son attend my words incline thine ear to my sayings let them not depart from my eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart for they are life to those that find them and health and healing we could say to all their flesh this is a really key scripture it's really a pivotal point in the whole bible and we're going to see today how this word helps us tonight but it also is a word that will help you from this point forward and forever you know how many of you have ever heard of people who got a miracle but then as we might say whatever they had came back on them or they lost it have you ever heard of that well yeah it's happened it's happened but that's not the will of god that's not what he wants and so we're going to go to the scripture and find out what he has to say about it now first of all let's let's just take this verse apart just phrase by phrase my son now who is this written to well actually this is of course written mostly by a solomon and it's therefore it's written from solomon to his son or you could say to his sons he had more than one to his son but his even more so was written to from the father to his son didn't jesus attend to his words did he incline his ear to the father's sayings did he ever let them depart from his eyes did he keep them in the midst of his heart you know some people think that jesus just dispute out the word of god just because he automatically know it knew it but no the bible says he set aside all his divine divine privilege all his divine knowing and he subjected himself and became even like we are meaning that he did what he did we have to do and he did that on purpose to show us that we can do what he did and so he gave his attention we know that he was in the temple we know it says that he was subject to his parents we know that he was studying he was listening we can read we can read the picture of the old testament and study study the jewish understanding and we can understand the life that jesus lived and so this word was written from the father to his son jesus but the good news that i have for you today is john 1 12 says as many as received him talking about jesus to them he gave the power to become the sons of god hallelujah and so have you received him how many have received him every one of you that raised your hands and said i have received him then you are a son of god galatians 3 26 says for you are all sons of god through faith in christ jesus first john 3 1 see how great a love the father has bestowed on us that we would be called children of god galatians 4 6 because you are sons god has sent forth the spirit of his son into our hearts crying out abba father what does that that mean it's it's hebrew for daddy when we say daddy it's it it pictures possession my daddy it has an acknowledgement of of the love that a father has towards a child and the love that the child has towards the father you know anybody can be a father any man can be a father oh but it takes it takes an anointing from god to be a daddy hallelujah hallelujah and when you find a person like i described in pastor george he'll be a marvelous father and a wonderful daddy i love being in israel because here you see children running around and you'll hear them abba abba abba abba it's so wonderful the little children they run up to their dads and he picks them up abba daddy daddy so we know from this scripture that god has sent forth his spirit into our hearts so that we can cry out abba abba daddy daddy so when proverbs 4 says my son he's talking to you yeah but i'm a daughter does that leave us out well ii corinthians 6 18 says i will be a father to you you shall be sons and daughters to me saith the lord hallelujah so he didn't leave anyone out every one of us are children of god if we have received him say i am a child of god so proverbs 4 is talking to me now look at the end of this verse it says they are life to those that find him and health to all their flesh so he is talking here to his children about his desire for us to be well god wants us well we could say it this way it's god's will for us to be well it's his desire in fact third john 2 says beloved or you can say my sons my daughters my children i wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul is prospering this is the picture of the heart of that daddy father i want more than anything for you i want your soul to prosper so that you can be in health and that you can prosper in all things in life so now the end of this verse and looking at it again it says that this that the will of god and the words of god my son attend my words climb your ear to my sayings let them not depart from your eyes keep them in the midst of thine heart why for they are life to those that find them and health to all their flesh this word health that we see in the english in my bible in fact i meant to send a picture of this to put on the screen but in my bible and in many bibles the word uh health there actually there's a little note by it in the margin and that that note says medicine that's because the hebrew word there be translated medicine so we could read it that way they are life to those that find them and medicine to all their flesh so i decided to look and see what does the word medicine mean you know we assume we know what it means but we we often define words in our thinking based on our limited experience and what you've used medicine for and the view that you had on it the place that it had in your life so i went to a a very objective person the dictionary and this is what the dictionary the online dictionary said medicine a compound or a preparation used for the treatment or the prevention of disease especially a drug taken by mouth that's really good and it's real important to think about it it's for the prevention of disease as well as the the treatment or the remedy of a disease medicine also can mean when you say he practices medicine or or what is medicine it's the science and art of dealing with the maintenance of health the maintenance of health so here this gives us a picture that medicine is in from god's perspective is taking things by mouth that that maintain health but also will provide healing when things get out of line that means the word of god is our cure-all to end all what a wonderful rich medicine now we don't have any medicine in the natural world that will do all that it's broken up into literally thousands and thousands of things we identify them you know the things that we commonly identify as medicines are the things that we we buy for the treatment or for the remedy but there are other things that we call might call vitamins might call supplements but we could also say food food is designed for our bodies to to provide a way of preventing disease and maintaining a place of health but god says that whole concept the whole concept of maintaining health the concept of living in divine health and the concept of fixing things when they're broken is all summed up in his words so his words maintain our health and his words will provide the healing that we need in fact the bible tells us he sent his word and healed them you know matthew 8 23 the leper came to jesus and he said look uh i i know you can i've heard about you and i know that you can't heal me if you will in other words there was a question mark right there faith begins when the will of god is known but faith will end it comes to a a woe nearly stop it comes it ends right there when the question mark comes into place and but jesus he answered that and when you look at the you look at it and you see what's really happening the scripture it says it says and jesus reaching out his hand touched him saying i will i will but the word i will it's it's it runs so much broader and deeper than sure sure i will yeah okay because in our minds we could say well yeah this time or for that guy in that case but we see in this i will not just an i'm willing but a picture of his nature it's actually in the hebrew form it's a hebraism and it it when so when he said i will it means i delight it's something i delight in and the word will there in the greek form it means i love to i'm disposed to do it in other words i can't help myself it's what i'm here for and so this picture that we have where this lit this lever think about it leprosy a very ugly you should sometime go ahead and look up online google that being that search for it and just look for images of leprosy in its different forms and it is a vicious gnarly hideous unforgiving relentless disease and it takes on all kinds of forms and it eats away it doesn't just make sick it it so destroys and erodes the very presence of the body and tissue of all forms it's horrific and it's a horrific death and it it chews away and eats away at the body just little parts at a time but jesus unfearing unfearing when the leper said i know you will i know you can i know you can but only if you will in jesus with the force of faith with a force of compassion with the force of demonstration the the the depth of his love reached out to him and said whoa i will be thou made whole be clean be free jesus couldn't even wait to touch him it just came out of him his hands reached out his heart reached out his words reached out [Applause] [Music] yes that's jesus acts 10 38 i love this verse i don't know it's one that we should have so etched in our hearts and our minds and and pictured the summary the summary of jesus mission how god the father anointed jesus the son with the holy ghost his spirit and power and he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil that ought to answer a lot of questions that ought to settle a lot of things that ought to erase a lot of question marks god is for it jesus is for it the holy ghost says for it the word is for it and jesus went about just looking anywhere he could looking for somebody that would believe just enough that he could get his will to them get his will in them get his will for them and manifest it because he hates the devil he hates sin he hates sickness he hates disease he hates that because he loves you so his word is there to bring life and health to those that find them to all their flesh so that's from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet everything that's in between now this says to us and we just quoted that his word in our hearts his word in our hearts will maintain the healing that we receive i i it's sad it's sad but i will say this to everyone that ever receives healing especially in a an atmosphere like we have like we had last night like we know we'll be here again tonight like we have in our church services every sunday like we have at our altar and somebody prays for you or a demonstration and a working of the gifts of the spirit where you see the gifts of healings in operation and the work gift of faith at work and we see those things you will be challenged either either in that healing that you receive or at some point in the future you will be challenged because jesus told us in mark chapter 4 that satan comes immediately to steal the word that's what he does just as jesus is disposed is inclined it is it's his nature it's his way it's his thought it's it's it's him he can't he can't help it to reach out to you with healing in the very same way satan his nature is to take it from you his nature is to steal from you his nature is to go about doing bad doing evil and undoing the works of jesus he is he is the exact opposite enemy of the father the exact opposite enemy of jesus and he's the exact opposite enemy of the word of god so when he comes to steal the word it's up to us to know how to not let him do this don't let him do it you know the thing that with god is is we we're we're not just dumb dopey blobs of nothing in the earth we are created in his image he desired fellowship with us does our partnership with us he does our cooperation with us bible says in corinthians we are co-laborers with him you have a part this is part of having that free will that free choice it's it's for you it's for you baby you can you got to take hold of some things for yourself now some people don't even want to hear about this because they don't want that responsibility they don't want to take that part but you know it's not hard to do because the holy spirit's there to help you the word will empower you if you just go to it the very power is in the word to cause itself to come to pass but you got to go to it it doesn't just jump out of the out of a closed book and jump on you not as many amens on that one so his word is in our heart john 10 10 the thief comes to steal to kill and to destroy what does the devil want to do he wants to steal your healing he wants to kill you and he wants to destroy your testimony but there's no need to fear about that because jesus said that he has come to give life and to give life more abundantly more abundantly than what jesus came to give life more abundantly than the devil has power to steal it from you he came to give life more abundantly than the devil has ability to kill you jesus came to give you the life more abundantly than the devil has to destroy you to destroy the word jesus has come to give us life and far more abundance than anything the devil can do jesus is the life giver satan is the thief and destroyer and it's really important that you keep those two separate they don't ever work hand in hand they don't ever i said they don't ever work hand in hand the devil is not the teacher of the church [Applause] see if i had an organ player up here right now we just we just hoop a little bit and dance a little bit but we better stay focused okay so let's go back now to proverbs 4 20 again my son we established that attend to my words attend to my words and give them attention so what we see beginning right let me read the rest of that uh let them not depart from my eyes thy eyes keep them in the midst of your heart their life to those that find them health to their flesh a doctor would absolutely fail in his mission if he was to either give you a prescription and you don't go fill it or he gives you a prescription you go fill it and you have no instructions on how to take it that would be pretty sad a good doctor sees to it not only do you have the medicine but you know what to do with the medicine you know how to take it you know how to to apply that but the rest is still up to you you can't ignore the instructions nor can you change them you you know this is a serious situation you have to take the medicine you have it won't do you any good if you have the medicine on the table beside your bed is that going to help you what if you put it in your pocket and you carry it with you all day long you do know that's not going to help right if it's in the cabinet will that help no what if you just read the instructions will that help what has to happen it has to be ingested it has to be put on the inside and so must the word of god word of god doesn't do you any good sitting on your on your nightstand word of god doesn't do you any good is sitting in your lap the word of god doesn't do any good on the coffee table in your car it doesn't do any good until you've put it into your into your your heart medicine goes in your mouth you have to put this in your heart you've got to get it on the inside that means you can't take it just on a whim you can't take it only when it's convenient you have to make a decision when you get a medicine from the doctor you have to make a quality decision i'm going to take this i'm going to take it just like it says if i have to set an alarm on my phone i have to write it down my husband he takes his supplements my goodness he carries a little box with him and they're all marked and he carries that in his pocket and if he if we go out to eat and he had didn't didn't take him uh in the restaurant he'll go back out to the car and you know he's got him with him all the time diligence diligence diligence diligence diligence diligence and until we have that mindset that willingness to adjust our schedule our time our thinking our lives to follow the instructions that god gives us for taking his medicine then we're going to get the same haphazard results from the word that we're investing in it you have to do it exactly like dr jesus has told you to do and i want to present this out to you as an absolute fact self-medication has cost people their lives self-diagnosis and self-medication well i don't think i need to take that well i think i've had enough of that well i don't know about that well i forgot well i'll pick it up again tomorrow oh yeah what about that or let's see uh you know if one helps me i think i'll just double up when you don't do the instructions that the doctor gives you for that medication you put your life on the line and many times many times people lose their lives over not taking the medication or not taking it with the instructions that they were given now in natural things you know if you have an issue you have to go back to the doctor in natural things when something's not working you go back to the doctor when something doesn't seem to be working as it should you go back you check yourself first then you go back to the doctor well we have the word of god and when something's not working as we think it should we go back to the doctor we go back to the doctor we go back we go back to listen to what jesus has said not only in the word of god but also also through the ministry of the preaching of the word now let's look at those instructions for preaching the word of god my son attend to my words what does it mean to attend to well again let's just look at the dictionary to attend to it means to give attention to now why am i doing this why am i giving you these these definitions you should so you can not just know them in your head but so you can check yourself is that what you were thinking you can adjust yourself is that what i do i need to adjust myself i need i need to do more and give more attention be of more diligence my son attend to give attention to it means to go to regularly to go to regularly to wait on to take care of to listen to to heed to devote time to to apply oneself to you mean attend means all that [Music] but here's one that you're really not going to like to take responsibility for oh you should like it though what a privilege to to not only cooperate with the the king of the universe but to operate the way god operates that we can have his thoughts know his will and operate in his ways and have that level of authority and dominance over natural things natural challenges the same way that jesus did when he walked on this natural earth that deserves a better amen so what's a good example of this will it be a nurse that would attend a patient or maybe even better as a mother who was attending a child and in light of what we're talking about say mother who is attending a sick child what what would that look like well they watch over they check on they have the ear for they from they are familiar with the sound they're familiar with with that child they're familiar with the needs they're familiar they can they look into it and and it speaks to them and so god is telling us the first thing that we do and taking this medicine is to attend to his word be so familiar with it know what it says look it up study it think about it and do what he tells us to do so that we are familiar with the the movings and the ways of his word where healing is concerned this is more than just a casual attention to the word you you can't have a take it or leave it attitude you can't have a once in a while attitude what if a nurse had that attitude towards a patient or a mother towards her child well when i get around to it yeah yeah yeah oh i forgot that's not the attitude we have to have most particularly when we are facing challenges but if we remember what medicine is for if we'll have this kind of a attitude and attend to the word of god this way we won't have near so many challenges this is more than mental agreement this is more than a general acceptance that this is the bible and it's the word of god and and it's inspired well praise god then you need to do something with it no more than you can look at a bottle of pills and say this is medicine it will help me so you have to give the word of god full undivided attention brother hagin in his book god's medicine he said you must come to god's word in a constant careful diligent reverent prayerful manner what marvelous words in fact we carry this little book and i recommend it we have several different books on healing of course but this is a pocket one and it's called god's medicine and so you can do like my dad told me to do read that and read that until you're saturated with it and that's what we're looking for is that saturation point first peter no i want to let me make this statement first you must give attention to the word of god at the level you expect to receive from it first peter 2 2 like newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word so that you may grow thereby just because you hear something doesn't mean that you have grown babies don't grow because they had a bottle they grow on the basis of what continual feeding continual exercise continually they take in and they work off what they took in and take more in and if you want peace in your house then you better let them take in before they wear off everything that they just took in then you have to grow you grow continually hebrews 5 13 and 14. everyone who continues to feed on milk or you could say to feed only on milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness he's a babe strong beet belongs to those of full age or maturity who how by use or by using the word of god they have their senses exercised or developed to discern both good and evil i mean so exercised in applying the word of god that even even your senses your sense of hearing and seeing and touching are no longer ruled and how you feel is no longer what talks to you louder than the word of god but the word of god talks to you louder than the pain the word of god talks to you louder than the symptoms the word of god is talking to you louder than what the doctor said the banker said the bank account said the word of god is talking to you louder than the fear the word of god is talking to you louder than your own thoughts the word of god is so loud it drowns out everything else now you can get to that point quickly but you don't get to that point automatically in fact to get to that point you have to put other things out and put the word of god in that means you have to you you know people wonder why the the old testament had so many rules and laws some of those laws still apply to us today in order to know how how to to live how to function their they're marvelous we shouldn't disregard them but some of those laws where you think i don't understand why they had to do that but some of them the bible in hebrew says they were for our example they're to teach us something and one of the things god was really big on with the jews was don't mix the seed don't mix it don't don't don't create new seed by mixing things together and and why would he have them do that because when you mix the seed you begin to lose the purity when you mix the word of god the seed of the word of god that jesus talked about in mark 4 he said the sower sows the word and the word the sower sows the seed and later he said the sower sows the word so the word is the seed but when you mix that seed with the seed of unbelief from the tv when you mix that seed of strife by watching that on tv when you mix it with the seed of strife and violence watching that on tv listening to it reading about it thinking about it talking about it you mix when you when you yield to all of those things they drain out the life of god and it waters down the the power and the strength of the word of god working in a soul when i say other things out it merely means other things out when you're in a fight for your life or if you don't ever give time to where you are so focused on this and put other things aside and look only to this in a in a quality atmosphere as brother hagin said what do you call it a constant prayerful reverent diligent manner you don't ever do that and you mix it with a seed of other things don't expect the kind of harvest that you're looking for amen so how do we incline his our ears to his saints how do we get them how do we get this into our our hearts well next part of that verse says incline thine ear to my sayings incline them how do we incline what does that that mean you know not a word or a phrase we use real life but to be inclined to something what is to be inclined always always looking for it always watching for it jesus put it this way he said but those that hunger and thirst for righteousness they're the ones that are satisfied too inclined to decline your ears to be to be hungry for that and you know whatever you give your attention to you'll eventually get hungry hungry for it a lot of times there's things you just don't think you like but if you give attention to it well your desires will change so how do we do that we take our ears we take them and we get to where the word is being preached we have to we have to treat the preaching of the word with with great value put great value on that yeah it's really cold outside this morning i'm going to stay in my warm bed and not go to church now you don't do that on monday morning when it's time to go to work not more than a couple of times what are you going to put more value on yeah but it's so beautiful outside summer's coming what do you put more value on the word talks about that those are people whose god is their belly whose god is their desire whose god is their natural appetite but i'd rather watch a movie than listen i'd rather watch a movie than put on the believer's voice of victory network i'd rather watch a movie than listen to brother copeland or sister copeland brother hagin on youtube i'd rather i'd rather okay but what outcome would you rather have so on purpose we open our ears on purpose we listen to the preaching of the word on purpose then we go to where the atmosphere is right for hearing where the distractions are moved out of the way and the focus is the ministry of the word of god for you to listen to respond to and and work with it the same way you work with work yeast into into the dough we listen we hear and we're responding as it's being spoken that's why i love your amens you should say amen even when you don't like what's being said because it's working it in there and you'll get happy about it yeah but i don't understand the bible well proverbs says with all you're getting get understanding yeah but i don't know how to get it how do i get it well here's the first step believe it anyway believing is not it it is not dependent on understanding if you try to understand it without believing you won't get real understanding people who try to understand it before they'll believe it are called atheists so we're not that way we believe it because he said to we obey we obey that we get in line with it if he said by his stripes you were healed then yeah well how's that work pastor terry well understanding how it works won't keep it from working in you but here's the thing if you will believe it before you understanding and understand it the believing it will bring understanding to you praise the lord so why is that important to believe because believing faith faith is the key it's what makes the word of god work for you faith matthew 8 13 jesus said to the centurion according uh be it done to you as you have believed matthew 9 29 the two blind man jesus said to them according to your faith be it unto you mark 5 34 he said to the woman with the issue of blood daughter your faith has made you whole the your faith is what it's the connector between what god has put in his word and that word showing up and doing its work in you now how does how does that faith come where do we get the faith is it something we just want to believe i want to believe i want to believe i want to believe no it is a decision your decision is involved but it's not just about your decision this is the beauty of the lord he doesn't leave anything just up to you he's so engaged in the process he's so part of the process he so wants you to have it that he has put himself into every step of the process and so romans 10 17 says faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god so when you go to the word you incline your ears to his word and you're listening to his word what is happening is the power that's in that word it's going down into your heart and it's producing the faith the faith is there faith is there faith is there faith always comes when you incline to the word faith comes because faith is in the word it's all in there talk about a power packed vitamin everything that you need is in the word even the faith you need to believe the word when you hear it is in it when you hear it what's the next thing that this says even right now your faith is growing even right now your faith is your faith is it's like jack and the beanstalk they're just some little beans we're dropping faith beans in your heart and it's coming up so fast and by the end of this service bless the lord there's going to be a strong stalk that you can walk right out and walk right on and take hold of what heaven has for you number three it was he said let them not depart from your eyes you have to look at them this is not not a cliche it's not a saying he really means put them in front of your eyeballs put them in front of your eyeballs and not just quote them quoting them is fine quoting them is good but that's not good enough you have to put them in front of your eyes let your eyes look at them not enough to hear them quoted put them in front of your eyes bring your bible underline them in your bible highlight them draw little stars around them little pictures whatever it takes for you but where your eyes see them they stand out to you and when god's talking to you and something comes to you write it down put it in front of your eyes there have been times i've carried a little little new testament in my hand and put in every every every traffic light that was read and i'd stop i'd open it up look because i i needed an answer i needed help i needed to get pressure off i needed healing put them in front of my eyes put them in front of my eyes i got to change something put them in front of my eyes carried it with me walking in the mall put it on a three by five card put it on the mirror put it put it on the refrigerator and you know you can do that sometimes we've had there's this one scripture we've had on our our refrigerator and we've had it on there for years i probably it could go a year without even knowing it's there wow you get used to seeing it you quit looking at it you have to you have to you not let them depart from your eyes and it's it's not just a matter even of your eyeballs glancing over the letters you have to look at them you have to look into them you have to see what he's saying and let these natural eyeballs bring vision to the eyes of your spirit the eyes of your faith and begin to look at what that scripture is saying to you look at what he's saying you don't just read over them and then you then you begin to see a picture of what that word describes you see yourself well you don't see yourself sick if you close your eyes and look at yourself and you still see yourself sick you still see yourself poor you still see yourself under pressure if you'll close your eyes and you see yourself dying you see yourself laying there you see them you see them all panicked you see them running to your aid you see the emergency team at your house you you see them pumping your heart you see them trying to resuscitate you you see yourself in the hospital you see your family beside your bed crying and weeping you see yourself passing away you see yourself dead you see yourself them carrying you out slipping you into a bag and zipping it over your face you see them in the funeral home putting you in a box and the people marching by weeping and crying as they go you see yourself with that lid closing over you if you see yourself rolled out to the limousine carried to the cemetery if you see yourself dropped into the ground and the dirt the dirt thrown over the box and the flowers wilting above season in and sees it out and season in and season out then you have let the word of god depart from your eyes you put the word of god at the very that the very hint of a thought of seeing yourself still sick seeing yourself afraid seeing yourself under pressure at the very sense that any of that is still working in you you go to the word of god you look at them with your eyes till you see them on the inside and you see yourself alive you see yourself well and change the movie that is playing in your head change it change it change the channel even everything that we say from this point forward is designed to help you change that movie fear is a flag when you sense beer when you tense up when it rises up when when something on the inside flares up on the inside in that spear then you put your eyes right back on the word of god brother copeland often says many times he'll say you can't fight thoughts with thoughts you have to fight thoughts with spoken words how does he say that because in matthew 6 31 jesus said don't take the thought saying what are we going to eat what are we going to wear what are we going to do what are we going to do what are we going to don't take that thought don't take it by what you say but take the thought that's in god's word by saying what you see from the word of god number four keep god's words in the midst of your heart what did he say about that because their life to those that find them health to their flesh the word of god will absolutely will produce life the word of god will produce life to those that find them health to all their flesh why is that john 1 1 tells us in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god the word and god are one in the same what god spoke that was written on a page still carries the same life that it had when he spoke it it's still quick it's still sharp it's still alive and it still will pierce to the dividing between your soul your spirit the joints and the tomorrow it will drive right down into the very depths of your heart and it will produce life because his word jesus said his words my words are life they are life when jesus wanted someone to live he said live when god wanted adam to live he said live and the life was in those words now notice that it says that we are to keep these words in the midst of our hearts not in our heads a lot of people think because they have a lot of head knowledge about the bible that it's in their heart but not not necessarily so and this instruction also says you are to put them in your heart how do you get it in your heart and not just in your head you can look at them with your eyes you can listen to them with your ears and it just stop in your head how do we get it into our hearts well the next line gives us a great clue and you may have never heard this before because i just found it out so it could be you've never heard it either so the next line in the king james it says they are life to those that find them the hebrew word therefore find can also be translated enunciates or speaks them i mean this is the picture the word is life to those who say them who speak them now this this is it fits right in line with what we've always known but by putting it in this same verse we see it's not optional it it and it indicates because it can also be translated find it indicates that this is something that has to be it requires that constant diligent reverent prayerful approach it requires that searching the looking for it and not just saying something it's not about just parroting what's on a page but it's about drawing out it's about putting in and drawing out this is something that the jews know very well and i i was reading about this again yesterday i love it they study out loud they talk the word to each other i tell you if you've never had the pleasure of watching yeshiva which is a jewish study center study hall if you've never had the pleasure of watching that at work it's a treat there may be something on youtube and if you can find it it's worth it so what are they doing it's loud now what do we do in our classes shh teachers talking they respond now i'm not saying that they've never had instruction and we see this from this very scripture my son attend my words so there's instruction but oh they work it they're talking to one another it gets very loud and they recite the word over and over so there could be some that are talking back and forth they're debated they argue yeah but what about this yeah but this scripture says and oh but this scripture says and they build their case they build their case for what they believe and then over in another corner you might see one one student by himself just speaking the scripture speaking the scripture speaking the scripture what's he doing putting it in his heart and this commentary i was reading yesterday he one man said he said those they they this man said those who only study in silence will forget the torah the scripture that they have learned and that is a sin so proverbs 4 20 now it's a picture okay what did he say he said what i want you to do i want you to attend to my words climb your ear to my sayings don't let it depart from your eyes keep it in the midst of your heart for they are life to those that find them life to those that speak them and they are health to all their flesh so this is a picture though now that we have the ears the eyes the speaking it's a picture that it doesn't really give us a word for but joshua 1 8 does this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate therein day and night so that you can observe to do according to all that's written therein i would also say so that you can be all that's written therein so that you can have everything that's written therein so that everything that's in the word of god can go in you so that it can can become part of you so that it becomes the same you know john 1 the word was with god word was god it goes on to say and the word dwelt among us the word became flesh so that word can become a healed heart that word can become healed eyes that word can become a new liver new kidneys new joints that word can become whatever and you know swallows up everything that's not the word of god and you will make your way prosperous and you'll have good success and so he says that that process is called meditation to meditate the word of god how do we meditate the word well we've said it we look at them with our eyes and we we say them which also feeds them into our ears you know you will believe you more than you'll believe me there's something about it when you are speaking the word of god out loud your inner ear is hearing even not only your outer ear while i'm talking to you you're just this outside ear is hearing but when you are talking to you it's it's going back into your natural ears but there's an inner ear of your own voice that's speaking those words and what you say is what you will believe far quicker than what somebody else says to you so all of this now tells us that this is putting god's word into our heart it's depositing this word into our inner man deposing it into our spirit being and into our soul you are a spirit you have a soul you live in a body and paul said in thessalonians i pray that god would keep you whole spirit and soul and body your spirit is part of your inner man and so is your soul peter called it the hidden man of the heart and those two are are forever connected your soul and your spirit are divinely united and housed in in your body well how do you separate the two how do you know the two the word of god is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword to the dividing asunder a soul and spirit the word knows how to get itself into your mind into your will to change your thoughts to change your will and into your emotions and to cause your emotions to line up with his will but it gets down into your heart where it will produce what what does it produce when it gets in your heart faith say it yes the word will produce that faith into your heart so we feed the word of god into our hearts with our mouth the power life and death are in the power of the tongue what you do with your words determines whether you have life or you have death every word you speak is being fed down into your inner man every word you hear is being fed down into your inner man and it'll either produce life or death so when the when when deuteronomy says i've set before you life and death blessing and cursing you choose therefore you choose life so you choose what you say you choose to speak what he says you choose to hear what he says and you feed them down into your spirit and faith then begins to grow up and when it begins to grow up you know what it wants to do it wants to come out it wants to come out faith is there faith is growing but as it grows it starts to and wants to come out you put it in with your mouth but you know how you let it out the same way you put it in with your mouth you take it out with your mouth so you want to put in what you want but you also want to take out what you want you don't want to confess the word to put it in there and then disagree with the word and say something else the scripture says in james he said well jesus said out of the treasury of a man's heart he's going to bring forth what's in there he's a good man or the one who's going to draw out good things he puts good things in so we can draw good things out but the the evil man or the man who's focused on evil has put the evil things in his heart and that's all that you've got to come out and then jesus went on to say out of the abundance of the heart the mouth is going to speak so you got to put more in there than anything else lots more in there than anything else and then let those words draw out lots more of the word of god than anything else so what does that picture look like what does that take us to the foundation scripture the core the heartbeat of our faith in god mark 11 22 23 have faith in god have the god kind of faith jesus said and whosoever shall say to this mountain be removed be cast into the sea not doubt in his heart but here it is but believe that the things that he says will come to pass then he'll have what he says we we have to first of all believe the principle it's not just about i'm gonna say something and believe that's gonna come to pass but i almost say something else later and it won't really matter i'm just kidding i'm just joking it you know it's just a saying everybody says that that's just killing me i'm so sick don't wonder if that stuff works no no no no what what releases faith is believing that what i say i'm going to have it why that's attending to the word because that's what jesus said that's what proverbs says that's what the bible says i'm going to have what i say not you can have what you say you're going to have what you say and so we see this we put the word in our hearts thought about the words taken that picture rolled it over in our minds by muttering it to ourselves by his stripes i'm healed by his stripes i'm healed well if by his stripes i'm healed then that situation is is gone by his stripes i'm healed i can see myself well by his stripes i was healed by his stripes i was wait a minute he's already done it i see him on that cross and i see i see the pain i see the trouble i see the diagnosis i see the roman soldier looking at jesus on the cross and that roman soldier oh my goodness that soldier it it looks like he's got that same diagnosis in his hand that i heard and he yells up he yells up to jesus and he says you've got leukemia you've got cancer you're going blind you're you're you're so sick you'll never get well there's no hope for you it's all over i see that they gave it all to him they gave it all to him he's got it he's got it he took it he too oh wait that paper had my name on it that might as my name he was reading my he was reading my trouble he was reading what they told me he put that on jesus oh my goodness oh my goodness well if he took it that means i don't have it i don't have it i don't see myself with it i see i see my arm moving i see my shoulder working i see my mind at where i see my brain clear and clean and strong i see myself living a long life he satisfies me he shows me his salvation and with every word that's going in your heart that way faith is growing faith is growing faith is growing faith is growing and and all of a sudden when you're not even thinking about it you find yourself sitting up in the bed in the middle of the night whoa by his stripes i was healed i thought about this the other day my daughter she was little i don't know probably two years old or so and we confessed the word with our kids so much we said it to them all the time all the time we were in a hotel room getting ready to go to a service i was still working in television at the time getting ready to leave to go over for the night and uh we had just ironed some things and the iron had somebody helping me and i remember who did but the iron got put up on a table seemingly away from the two-year-old but it was aubrey so so aubry without us looking even though the iron had been unplugged for a bit went over and flat palmed her hand on the plate of that iron well you can't imagine she screamed i screamed jesus pastor george there he came running in uh and we just began immediately i mean it was there thank you jesus it was there screamed no you're healed and we began to speak the word and walk the floor over with her that top layer of skin raised up like a like a puff pastry the whole palm of her hand just raised up to a layer of skin a giant bubble of skin immediately began to fill up with fluid we called down to the front desk and they brought up their first aid kit and they began to just pour some sort of water that they had a treatment they just flooded her hand to stop the burn you know when you when you touch something hot like that even after you lift it off it continues to cook and so they immediately they're pouring that on there and pointing out we're walking of course she cried for a while but she just she just quit crying well i didn't even go to the service that night i kept her and we just walked the floor speaking the word lord thank you speaking the word speaking the word loving on her we probably took her to service if i know us but i didn't i didn't go to work i remember that was 30 years ago but we we we kept her in that environment just just kept it there kept it there kept it there and so she she had quit crying but boy that thing you know can't imagine it didn't look good it just looks so red and i just keep remembering that giant puff of skin the whole the whole palm of her hand so time to go to bed put her in the bed whenever our kids were not well we put them right between us we kept we kept that time charles capps little book i still have my original god's word and confessions for healing so we kept the word close by and reading the word you know and then we went to sleep somewhere in the middle of the night aubrey sat straight up in the bed and screamed out by his stripes i am healed lay right back down we woke up in the morning no problem nothing nothing nothing nothing thank you jesus thank you jesus what if we hadn't put the word in our heart right well we do what we got to do but we still go to it we go we go to it we we would have right then and there we would have we would have found the word and we would have called somebody that had the word working in them it's no good to call somebody that's going to say well you know if it's god's will or can only to only talk to you natural things you know natural things are good they help but if that's all you've got you're going to fall short at some point and we have to train ourselves in spiritual things above and beyond the natural things and let them be in there and i thank god that time and again time and again we have seen the word of god work mark 11. he believes that those things which he says will come to pass he shall have what he says he shall why because faith has been put in and faith is drawn out i'm james gardner with my wife susan susan gardner from jasper alabama we started our church in 1989 and moved back to my hometown have been just enjoying pastoring and and watching people's lives be changed that's what god is so good about is just changing lives we had been to summerton christian school we came back by the church we're just going to be there about 15 minutes james sat down at the desk and i was in a chair right behind him and he said susan and his head went down and um anyway at first i thought he was joking and i said james james and he wasn't i realized it i called my daughter aval i said can you call 9-1-1 dad is unresponsive when i got there and saw him i knew he was gone but i knew that we didn't have to settle for that because of the word we kept saying we refuse to fear that he will live and not die and declare the works of god and just all the word we've put in us all these years came out they took him to princeton hospital in about 20 or 30 minutes they let my daughter avril and my son james and myself go back there to see the nurse told me she said he's on no meds that was absolutely unheard of after he had coded and everything else for him not to be on any medications not on at least one or two drips he said that was just a miracle itself we had someone from regional paramedic services look at his medical records for us and after reading that they said that he had been 22 minutes without a pulse that's not normal from everything i've read four to six minutes without oxygen and that's about your limit they did cat scans they did um eegs and everything was perfect with his brain praise god all that was perfect then they took him to the cath lab after that the doctor came out and told us he's

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