Faith Acts

[Music] [Music] well how's everybody doing alright alright well a good deal we're going to cover some things we've been talking about this last couple of weeks as a matter of fact last couple of weeks and everything's a big blur usually anyway it's hard for me to keep up with days and what I did last Sunday and pretty much every Saturday night or Sunday morning I'm texting my son-in-law who does a lot of our sound working video video stuff no texting hey what did I wear last week send me a picture quick I don't want to wear the same thing again some a wife will tell me were the same thing again softer and he'll see me a picture of it from the video from last room okay so I can't wear that so I have to find something else so but we were talking over the last couple weeks about just about faith in general but there were some specific things that we talked about we talked about how the fact that faith here's right how faith sees what does faith see face sees what can't be seen and it says what we're looking at the unseen right so we look at the unseen we don't look at the seen and the unseen is what's in the Word of God that's the unseen in our life we see it but it's unseen in our life so we look at the unseen and when we look at the unseen instead of the seen the unseen becomes the same right and you keep looking at the unseen and it becomes the truth well it is the truth and it becomes the fact I should say and so faith sees faith speaks last week I think we talk mainly about faith speaks that we have believed and therefore we speak and so how did the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks what you believe is what you speak and so we talk about how all these different aspects we know that it says we were to walk by faith so we know we walk by faith so faith walks right we know that faith walks we know the faith talks we know the faith sees and today we're going to talk about maybe not the last a section of it but it may or may not I don't know yet I'm just waiting to see but we're going to talk about probably one of the most important parts of faith and that is that faith acts if there's no action there's no faith right now the action doesn't always have to be physical action usually is there's usually some type of physical action matter of fact if you read some of the different translations about it it actually uses the terms like corresponding action right so faith will have corresponding action faith always has something that matches what you're saying and what you're believing so there has to be corresponding action you can't say one thing and do something else and meaning that you believe one thing and you're doing something else what you do is really what you believe right and so now that's on kind of a sliding scale to a degree as you grow in it you begin doing more and more of what you're actually believing and it becomes more pronounced and that's when we have people that we know are people of faith that we remember them for their faith like Smith Wigglesworth John Lake for myself dr. summer all people like that that their actions while their actions might not have spoke louder than their words their actions matched their words right and so we want to talk about faith acts today and if you talk about the fact that faith acts then you will also be talking about faith acts acts of faith to get it so either way you want to read that you can read it either way it's both the same right faith acts and if faith acts then there are faith acts that take place because faith acts that time you know what we're talking about today faith acts right okay you all remember by now okay so go with me to Matthew chapter 12 I'm going to show you a couple of things we'll end up probably in Hebrews 11 we have enough time and I'll show you some things even from there but in Matthew chapter 12 it says behold or and behold us get it right and behold there was a man which had his hand withered even the wording a man which had his hand withered okay and they asked him talk about Jesus is it lawful to he'll on the Sabbath day why did they do that that they might accuse him and they were they were trying to trap him in his words and he said unto them what man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep and it if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out now do you see what he said again look at you have to look at that context of what's being said here because he says first off there's a man with the withered arm withered hand and they say is it right to heal this man they knew what he was going to do what does that tell us notice at this point they haven't done anything at this point Jesus hadn't done anything right but they knew if he's around the guy with the withered hand guess what he's going to do that's the reputation Jesus had right and so they asked him well is it lawful to do this so that they could accuse him now watch he says in verse 12 how much then is a man better than a sheep wherefore is it lawful to do well on the Sabbath days verse 13 then saith he to the man stretch forth thine hand yeah he told him to do something it was withered you can't stretch forth a withered hand right so Jesus told this man to do what he could not do now watch this he says and he stretched it forth so now he's he did what he need to do but now notice as he moved it doesn't it doesn't say Jesus never said hand be healed he didn't lay hands on him from what we see here right he just told him do what you couldn't do before if you remember the story last night I was talking about the young man that had mercury poisoning and I just told him well what is it if you could eat anything because he couldn't eat anything so what is it that you couldn't eat yeah you know if you could eat anything what would you get oh man I'd love to have a vanilla shake from Jacqueline bucks I'm like go do it go drink and he went and he was healed right he I just I didn't pray I just told him to do what he could not do why because if he did say I had faith in God and he had faith in the fact that if he did what I told him to do he'd get healed right and he did and he was real simple he acted they he could have said their and said dude I just told you I can't eat anything like he could have done that and guess what he wouldn't got healed not that way now maybe we could laid hands on him or something and I could have forced it on him but he wouldn't have done it but and then so that was to him now what I didn't tell you last night is that this is the guy that started that kept bringing everybody to my house the guy that played the pool we played pool and he won money always made his living playing pool and he was out the bars and he brings people to my house at two o'clock in the morning and everything else and you know he set out in front of my house and slept in his car one night mmm just so we could get somebody in there the next day or no action so he could come as soon as he knew I was up he asked me to go to the hospital with him and so he was an evangelist I mean he was out there telling me but hey I mean there was people there was a lady that was with that worked in the bar and had some real severe digestive issues and things going on and he just happened to hear her mention it and he said well what's going on and she told him he said well I got a garden fix that and she said well give me a doctor's name before I you know before I get off work he said well he's not actually a doctor but he can fix that and then he told her about himself and how God had healed him and he said you only take you to him she said sure and so he literally took off work and he quit him and he quit playing the pool good playing the pool game drove her out to the house brought her up I pray for at the front door I don't even think she came in prayed for it to front door she went back to work and within a couple of hours she recognized she was healed right it wasn't about and I didn't tell her well you know you got quit working in that bar do you guys good no I mean she we talked a bit but it wasn't like oh oh you sinner quit your job and I'll pray for you no it wasn't that the goodness of God draws me into repentance amen so you know notice here he says yeah he said then he said to the men verse 13 stretch forth thine hand and he stretched it forth notice he did exactly what he was told right and it was restored whole like the other now you also know the story of naman here is a Syrian and they really made him mad that made people mad that made the is rods mad because here he hear God's healing you know somebody outside the Covenant and Jesus even talked about him and said you know there was a lot of people around there at that time that were people of God didn't get healed didn't get these things but here's a guy that got healed and he wasn't even part of the Covenant Jesus talked about him and so remember that story here he is he says he's got all this leprosy going on and it's made the work for him said that won't you go over to Israel there's a prophet over there to take care of you and so he went you can imagine here he is it comes in with his entourage and Oscar stuff and he goes out and you know the servant comes out come here do this do this go do this he's gonna go dip seven times in that muddy river Jordan and then the question she said worth if he told you if he told you if you don't you do something hard you'd have done it he told you something extravagant you'd have done it want you to do this simple thing why because that was kind of beneath him right and so finally he went and did it when he did it he got hit over yeah you know if he didn't get healed till he went and did it right okay so now look John chapter 9 that's good John then verse 6 when he had thus spoken he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle spittle is a fancy name for a spit and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay and they took the clay made from spit and put on the man's blind eyes right notice the man did not get healed didn't get it right okay no watch and he said unto him go wash in the pool of Siloam which is by interpretation Sint he went his way and washed and came see then that just matter of fact he told me I said go wash he I mean you think you look at somebody they they they get you dirty and then they tell you to go wash right couldn't Jesus have done it another way you would think he could right but here's another thing John I wouldn't plan on saying this but I'll go ahead and throw it out because it is interesting that you don't notice it if you just read Matthew Mark Luke and John but if you get a synopsis or a harmony of the Gospels and you put them all together and you look at how they are you'll start to see how they're all you know woven together here's something to most people honest I've never heard any preacher mention it until I read some things about John Lake and he brought it up but he said and most people don't again if people would just read the Bible you know but they don't and they surely don't sometimes read a harmony of Jesus's life so you don't see the structure Jesus now I'll admit when your first miracle is turning water to what that's a good start right there BAM right you know I mean it would only been better if it had turned it to Coco Co Co Powder Keg I like that that's yeah no no no notice though here's what it says it and John Lakes said and he was talking about people he always talked about Jesus as minister and get back from the right story here he's talking about Jesus starting his ministry and he said if you notice yes he started with a miracle but if you look at the healings Jesus was in ministry actually about four years right right at four years because it mentions four different Passover's that he attended so wasn't actually three years actually for there right at four and the fourth one he was crucified basically so whenever he no no listen Gary when he started if you note the miracles that take place they they were miracles they were healing so they're all good but if you look at each one they get stronger and stronger and stronger and bigger and better he didn't start off with a dead raisin that came later he grew he grew and the Bible says he grew in favor he grew in understanding he grew and on he grew and then people said well jesus healed to prove he was God if he did that prove he is God he didn't have to grow the thing should have started admitted he started with a good miracle right but as far as healings they grew and they got better and better now in the beginning you'll see it was different things that were healed different types of healings and even some things like this but then there were also times whenever you get in like you know here in John 9 things like that where when it came to blind eyes and things instead of him just opening them there were things where he did like with mud and every thinks there were times that he used well props that's not the word I wanted to use but it was the only word that came to mind but it wasn't you know it was props he used things to get things done and amazingly almost everything he used to get done to get a healing done always had something to do with water almost every time spit water water into wine something almost every time now and even whenever he looses a tongue of the mute the deaf mute he spit and put his finger on his tongue so even then it was water in it so over and over but he actually the heating's got stronger and stronger but now looking at john 9 when he put mud when he spit and made the mud and put our mans out now it doesn't give the details but from all appearances and because many people back then would use poke toises to put on wounds and everything's like that but notice this wasn't a poultice because they would also put other stuff into it in the sense of like herbs and things like that to get the you know healing nutritional part into it but now you know it's here and and almost all scholars look at this and agree that more than likely since this man was born blind right they watch what everybody says what she says here's a 'any he said go wash he made spittle in order to the eyes of the blind man with the clay and he told him go wash in the pool so he could put the mud on his eyes and then told him go wash it off so went and washed it off you know most scholars say and I it doesn't say this so I can't say it it's what happened but there is a difference between how he ministered to this guy's eyes and ministered to other people's eyes another person he just laid hands on as it touched his eyes and had to do it twice of course but he touched his eyes and so why didn't he put mud on that guy's eyes you know was it just I mean he was around dirt and he had spit so why not you know so but they say that they believed that the reason he did this was because that man was born blind and was born possibly without eyes and humans were made from the dust of the earth so if Jesus was going to create as he would have had to use dirt to create it and so that's what they say but even this is a pretty major miracle I mean it's a pretty big deal when you start creating eyes there's one thing opening eyes that's a big miracle creating eyes as premiered right but if you look at this you can see that his healings got stronger which means he grew and he learned and he got stronger and what he did and part of that getting stronger you know one of the definitions of the word faith is confidence that's one of the definitions and then it's amazing because the more faith put this way when you do something and it works you get more confident and when you get more confident you're more confident to step out and do it again and it gets stronger and stronger and your confidence grows and as your confidence grows your faith grows and it's funny because your confidence you recognize that it's it's God doing it and your confidence in God grows did you think what he did last time do a distant right and so and and and if you want to grow in that then that means you always have to be doing something bigger you have to be stretching you have to be doing something more than before let me give you an example in the Romans chapter 12 it talks about well it's generally called the motivational gifts teaching yeah in in finance I was noted as reading through that and he said you know this person's been their their gift is prophecy their gift is teaching and there's a gift of giving that's a gift yeah there's not a gift of getting here notice that as a gift of giving right probably because you need all the help from God you can get just to give it away it's like here take it quick take it take your I don't know but in if you watch that matter of fact I mean it's just turn over there real quick Romans chapter 12 Wow wait fast there we go Romans 12 have a seat you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present notice what he says first that you present your bodies first not even that you present your spirits it's a big deal present your bodies why because your body they'll give you problems right so he says present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service or just and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove what is that good and acceptable perfect will of God for I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you was he saying I'm telling all yet I'm not leaving anybody out everybody right not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith now we know that every man has a measure of faith but Paul also said all men don't have faith right so if all men don't have face but as God is getting their man the measure of faith what's he talking about well to all people in the world everybody they don't have faith but people in the church everybody in the church has been given at least the measure of faith right now the thing is is that Jesus was given the spirit say all men had received a spirit by measure up on that one but the Bible says and Jesus received the spirit without measure is that right and I say unfortunately the church people talk about spirit by measure and they still talk about the spirit by measure but the fact is if we're in Christ and it's not us and it's him then we don't even receive the spirit by measure why because we're we receive of his spirit so if we receive of his spirit doesn't it's like being connected the internet there's no end of the thing if you're connected to Jesus it's not yes a people what people do is it's like they go get plugged into Jesus charged and walk away and now they're on their own and they had this much and however big they are in their spirit that's how much faith power anointing gifting whatever is that they can have and then they Taylor you know get more and get more and get more and grow but the fact is it's not like that we're actually plugged into him and there's a constant flow when you're plugged into him there's constant flow there is no degree but when if you think there's a degree then you're good then through the outcome of thinking there's a degree you start thinking oh this problem is bigger than the last problem and I can't handle that and growing that problem yet and then people started saying well I hope I have enough faith for this I opened up it listen if you had enough faith get saved you have enough faith for anything else do you face why because you get in saved was the hardest thing you ever did it was the hardest thing it was the most most important biggest spiritual thing you ever did and you had no background with God no connection with God no nothing to prove God by and yet you had faith in Him and you got saved that's the greatest faith you can ever have after that everything's downhill why well because after that you've got back you've got history even the banker what God saved me many things save me he can fix this right well God healed me if he can heal me with that even hear me see so you start getting history and actually as you know listen Kevin actually is the more history you get with God the less faith he is required but actually the more trust in him you have does that make sense faith is trust I get that but I'm saying we look at faith like a thing like a certain amount and we act sometimes as if our faith is something we get and we're like ok God hears this is this enough it's not that at all faith is trust in him that he keeps his word it's not an amount or it couldn't be faith the size of a grain of mustard seed we've talked about that this week so now looking at what he says they're gonna get back on Regis to you he says in verse 4 for as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we being many are one body in Christ and every one members one another watch is verse 6 having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us now watches whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith yeah that let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith so what does that mean that means that I can prophesy a little bit just well say what Paul said that you may all prophesy when everybody said you may all prophesy right but if you're gonna prophesy you're gonna prophesy to the proportion of your faith in prophesying do you that but you can grow say you can you can trust God to supply your need and you can say he supplies my need through my job or you can say I can trust God even more to a greater degree of trust to say God supplies my need yeah he used my job but he took he goes beyond that he's not limited to my job so he can supply my need through other means whatever that is God knows and he can do it and they're right now your proportion of faith for God providing for you has now increased right so your faith for each thing and can increase and usually your faith for anything increases based upon who you hang around faith is not a static thing it's a dynamic thing it's constantly it okay I hate to say it but the faith is a lot like the stock market it can be up or down on the same thing on any given day you say well you know how do you get that look at the Apostles Matthew 9 and 10 they go out they cast out devils everybody saying I even Devils subject to us to your name Matthew 17 why couldn't we cast this devil up they had faith one day for but they didn't have faith the next day for it their faith decreased you see that see we got to get real with this stuff this can't be all just you know floating around and you know avoiding the hard questions that's what made me kind of separate from the group at one time because I couldn't get anybody talked about the hard question and I started asking them I got started getting ostracized so I thought we already treat me like I'm not here and might as well leave and so I started digging in and then I really went after cuz I had nobody saying don't ask that question so I but I didn't have anybody ask so I asked God and I went to scripture and found out most the answers and I did have some help with Wolford Wright and Gertrude and them and they were able to help me I found recordings the other day I bunch of our stuff is in boxes and all that kind of thing and I found all the recordings I had of them where I'd been talking to them for four or five years at that point and so I recorded all of our conversations that was back in the day when he had a landline and you're gonna record a session you know the phone recording you had to have a cassette tape deck and had to had the wire that you had the suction cup you had to stick on the back of the phone member that and so I found on him whenever I got him back then it was cassette tapes and then I had them all transferred over to CD the CD do you know what that is but over to CD anyway so yeah I was listening doing the other day it was good going back here in Gertrude's voice and Will's voice is just you know history so but you can have faith in certain areas but your faith can fluctuate that's why it's important that you stay around people you stare on people that have no faith guess what you're gonna lose faith they're going to talk you out of faith that's why jesus said take heed to what you hear right take heed to what you hear that's why you got to watch watch if you're gonna watch the television you better be careful yeah there you gotta watch it cuz let me tell you every you know two and a half minutes there's gonna be drug commercials and sickness commercials and disease commercials and you know you sit down feeling fine and get them go to bed rock I think I may have some of that stuff they were talking about you know you just start why cuz it starts getting into you and so you got to surround yourself with people are going to talk faith we're going to talk that they're going to help pull you up you know if you're a smartest person in the room you need to hang out in a different room yeah so you can grow amen so notice what he says it watch this this this I'd never heard anybody teach on this until I read dr. layke talking about Jesus's ministry and he didn't mention this but he reminded me of this so it says here verse 6 having then gifts differing according to the grace is given unto us whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith so you prophesy according to a proportion of faith for prophesying now notice give you an example you have a person you can go online and see some of these people but you can take somebody like back in the day the people I listen to back in the day and I didn't just listen just because that man had a gift and operated in a gift and I watch how the gift operated and I told God we needed that it doesn't mean I listen to all of his doctrine and believed all of this doctrine because some people let me tell you just because if God operates a gift to a person does not mean he's vouching for their doctrine they there can be some weird doctrines out there with people that are really good at gifts and they really function well you say well why does that work because they have faith in God that God would use them and God wants to help people and he'll bypass some of their stupid head stuff you know there's a lot of people who need to actually you know God's brain bypass surgery that's what sin eat but here he's got so you got this guy back in the day there's a guy like William Brennan when he came to the operating gift of work knowledge he was phenomenal Gordon Lindsay said he saw him minister the word of knowledge hundreds if not thousands of times and he never saw him miss even one detail even one detail think about that all these things you read some of the story some of the different things amazing detail when it came to the prophetic now most people know me for ministering healing through authority dominion power that kind of thing we don't generally counsel and that kind of stuff to get people healed and because Jesus didn't do it so we don't do it but it's the same time most people don't know me for the prophetic aspect of the ministry and yet even last night and I wouldn't plan on prophesy to anybody or saying anything but people as I began to minister to them they say you know do you think God has a word for me that's John oh let's see you know we just start praying and I started praying and then that starts coming out and from everything we gathered I probably press add - probably at least close to a dozen people I guess last night maybe there's somewhere around that didn't count them what about a dozen to my knowledge and and after I spoke to them and said okay Alice try to check does that sometimes you don't have to check sometimes you can tell it's hidden come on because of their reactions right but then there's other times she's okay what was it and to my knowledge we were at least about 99 percent dead-on accurate as they would say right but people said but I'm not known for that one because I don't I don't emphasize that it's there for the ministry for the person I'm there to have the person if that's what I'm trying to get across if somebody needs a word then I don't have to send her oh well that's that's not me go so-and-so no it's not me anyway it's the Holy Spirit in me and he's got all the words right we shouldn't become a referral station especially the other you know organizations I'm talking about having to send the the homeless you know down to something else to take care and we're to be taken care of Church or to take care of yeah right and so everybody you can start to minister and used to I was especially in first started operating that way I was really nervous about it you know what if I get it wrong what if I do this right and I'm like a wife what did you pray for somebody they don't get healed same thing I mean I still did that so why not do this right if people need help let's trust God to help them and so we started ministering that way and the first time I ever it well everyone good to furnace because it's not that but in the beginning it was really tough to do but then now I'll just trust God and it flows pretty you know pretty regular actually and and I don't say you know the satin why cuz Jesus didn't we just let the spirit minister and just say okay let's say if that minister to you does that does that you know do you witnessed do that yeah that's right with okay that's good but as I stepped out more and more it got more and more accurate when I was up at a Russian Church in Portland a few years ago I guess two years ago and it was ministered up there and they asked me to come back that night and minister to the youth group and I said went in there and there's probably about a hundred mmm yeah maybe a hundred hundred fifty kids in here something like that and I'm ministered to him and just talk to me oh and then we got done they lined up mainly for healing at least that's what I thought and then I get in from they go I want to work from God and I'm like read your Bible there's your word from God right there you know help that and I said you know and so I just say okay father you know just you start praying what you know in the name of Jesus right and I almost always start out to ask now let's start out same way father I think right now your will has been fulfilled in their life I thank you right now and the name of Jesus said that their that their that their will is to step out into your will and then then all of a sudden stuff starts coming right I just I just start right and just give him the opportunity to start speaking and it gets and the and that night every person we spoke to and literally prophesied to every child every child every teenager in there everyone went the whole they some of them came back two and three times even and believe it or not God had works it was bam bam but stuff like the book you've been thinking about writing you need to write it I mean specific things things that are not just church stuff you know and these are teenagers you're not thinking about teenagers right in books I didn't anyway and so the stuff that seemed I thought boy I hope this is right you know and so there's a bunch of different stuff and better all I'm saying is the more I stretched the more accurate it got and so but I had read this and I understand if we're gonna prophesy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith well if my proportion of faith listen we are we a century if you're born quote-unquote normal we all have the same muscles but how many of you know that your muscles are not all proportioned the same right some of us got a table muscle a little better developed okay okay no there's muscles right but if you stretch them they grow it's the same way see we all have been given the same measure of faith and whenever we stand before God he's gonna say what you do with it how much did you stretch it I gave it to you what did you do with it and now what the scripture says when before this wealthy owner left he just he deposited all his goods among his people and he went on a long trip and he came back and said okay what you do with your talent what you do with you and the talent of course is money and gold in that concept what did you do with your stuff what a good well I know you're a hard man so I buried mine I didn't do nothing with it the only person he said take him out and beat him all the other people he didn't he didn't say well they got a you know ten times I got a hundred times what I gave him you're good ten times what I gave them oh no go get beaten you didn't get enough it's not about enough it's doing something right and one guy said I buried mine he said oh that's so your wicked servant right and he said take now and beat him and so we have to realize we've all been given the same measure of faith but we are now expected to use that measure of faith with whatever comes our way to develop that measure of faith and to make it stronger so that our faith muscle grows stronger right and it's the same thing in the area of prophecy now years ago and then watching William Brennan I'd watch him on video and it was just amazing I mean amazing he just he was one of the most unassuming people dr. Summerall knew him personally because they he was from Mishawaka in South Bend is where dr. Summerall was and William Brennan was from Mishawaka so that's that's like a suburb of South Bend so they knew each other and so he got together and dr. Murrow didn't agree with all this doctrine but he knew as a man that loved God and so he talked me said the most he said the two most humble man he ever met one was William Branham and the other was Billy Graham those are two most humble man he'd ever met and so he said about we're talking about whenever we embrowned him ministered in his church and he talked about how he would you know just Minister the word of knowledge and then I had him on video and here he is he was a Baptist minister that is when he went through horrible things that his family was killed in a flood just washed away his wife his baby I mean just washed away and he was a Baptist minister at the time and he was a like a game warden at one point and just and then one day and when he was born there were some strange things that happened but then one day he was out God spoke to him through an angel and said I'm giving you this and giving you that and this is what's gonna work and if you do this it'll work and and God told me said I'm gonna give you a sign in your hand is one hands gonna do this the other hands gonna do that and when you lay your hands on people if it does that it's a demon if it does this it's a sickness it's just you know unusual type stuff and he said and he told me said in a few as you teach this if you can get the people to believe you he said nothing will stand before you no sickness or disease stem for you all the days of your life not even cancer because cancer was the big thing at the time it's still a big thing and so he said okay I'll do it and then he went and again he got kicked out of the Baptist Church and the only people that welcomed him in was what was generally called oneness Pentecostals right and so he was kind of welcomed in among them which again limited his circle because of the their doctrinal position on God but people love the ministry and they needed help and so you have him on video I haven't on video watch him and he would have these huge meetings he was he was the reason Gordon Lindsey started the voice of healing magazine because of that and he told Jack Moore you need to come see this guy this guy's he's amazing he's a the gift of the Opera were not as amazing and so they went and watched him and matter of fact if you ever hear tell author and tell the story he said he was in Portland and he saw this man he never told who he was not for years he didn't tell who he was but when he described what went on I knew who he was and just braided by the description but he said I was sitting up in the balcony and TL Osmond was a pastor of the church there in McMinnville just outside Portland and he said I watch this man and this man he said he's very calm very quiet they had they actually had to crank up his microphone to the point where the PA systems were ringing because he was so soft-spoken and he would just stand there and he'd say well now you you know you know I'm just here I'm just a server and the Lord I'm just here and I'm just you know just waiting for the for the word of the Lord to come and somebody would he'd say okay bring the next person up and they would come up and he would just stand there for a few seconds just look at him and say have we ever met no okay matter of fact he'd say you know we've never met and matter of fact you weren't even going to come here but your sister you were actually going to come to my meeting in Jacksonville but your sister wrote you a letter and told you I was gonna be here in it's two hours closer to your house could you actually live at 15:23 west Indiana Street and he said you know your house has a little white picket fence around he said those are some cute flowers there he said you got in the deal there he said when you came down here you came down with your husband and he said he wrote down to them in the it was a black 1946 and it gives a whole day and said matter of fact he said hey the license plate on that car is did it and he just read it out and he said matter of fact he said you came down with your husband and he said no where's your husband because she was sitting on the front he said that but your that that man is not your husband oh there's your husband over there and the man waved I mean I what's going on and he said no he said is is this and he turned this woman this was she just you know because he's reading her mail I mean it's like zap-zap you know and and he said is this true you know and so he's like alright well you can go your way you're healed if God told me all that about you he loves you enough to heal you so you can go your way never even break for just just it what now what was he doing now here's the thing watch this you can get people here with the word of knowledge just like he did right and then so what he did was he said as he told her this he would tell her he would use the gift and as he told her the gift her faith in God would rise and when her faith in God rose she got healed on her own faith he didn't even give her faith they didn't even do he didn't even pray for didn't even lay hands on her and this was thousands of people matter of fact there were so many of them well in in the evenings he would have these big healing meetings word of knowledge of meetings basically and in the morning to get in the healing meeting you had to have a card with a number on it because they would only he can only pray for so many people at a time and so they would give out cards to get the card you had to go to the morning session which was a teaching session that was taught by FF Bosworth so he'd have to go to that and get the card and then get in line and then when they called we need cards number one through fifty and everybody would come up with one through 15 if you had fifty one you'd go tomorrow and it's just what it was and so he they bring one just go to him and amazing amazing things and and I watched him do this and I started thinking that's that's the real now in other areas he was way off his doctor soon as his doctor and stuff way off right and so and then people that exalt because of that word of knowledge people exalted him to the position of God there were people that worshipped him when he died he died just before Christmas 1965 and just before he died he was hit head-on by drunk drivers the the wreck you you ever see the car it was destroyed and his wife was in the car with him and his daughter was in a car with him his daughter's in the backseat and she was thrown in the floorboard up underneath the seat he went through the windshield and was lying outside kind of outside the car through the windshield and his wife was still had been thrown underneath the front - and was also dead and so Billy Paul his son went down the road and saw and said I gotta go back and check on when he went back he came on the wreck and so when he came upon the wreck he he got out and he went over and William Brennan was still alive and he was Einar and he said Billy because he couldn't move he could not move anything and he said Billy Paul how's your mother how's your mother because he couldn't see her and but if I looked her and said dad she's dead he said put my hand on her and Billy Paul took his hand and put it over on her she came back from the dead then they took him all over the hospital she was in hospital he lived a little bit longer and then passed away and the daughter lived also so but now is amazing you know how he operated in the word of knowledge but then I was in Tulsa and I was watching Richard Roberts wakes and went to someplace like a t.j.maxx or something like that we were going in and my wife said that's Richard Roberts he's checking out right really they're not famous people actually go regular places right and and where I'm like that is Richard Roberts you know I need it's coming you want you want to go say hey you know appreciate this appreciate that and but then at the same time it's kind of like you don't intrude so you can i yeah okay you know you appreciate but I'll do it from a distance you know he just leave alone but I was watching Richard Roberts and he started moving into the word of knowledge and as I was watching him I'm sitting watching then God started to point out things he said watch this and here's how he started ministering he'd say look he said okay right over here in this section right over here at right in here he didn't know who he's right over here there's something over here that has had some back surgery and matter of fact right now it's heard you on the right right-hand side of your back it's hurting right there right in here who is that and somebody go yeah well so he was right but notice how general I mean it was specific that's still general he couldn't tell the person it's you he couldn't say your name he couldn't you said I'm saying he couldn't give those things but he was very general and I'm sitting there and I heard the own experience say because I watched him and I heard the owners here say if he continues if he gets comfortable this is as far as he'll go but if he continues stretching and taking risk this will get more specific and he can operate like William Brennan do you see that what because the gift often doesn't come full-grown what because there's faith involved you everybody wishes or everybody thinks seems oh if I had a gift this just work that just worked on it no everything is by faith so you have to have faith for it to work and as you have faith as your faith in God grows you stretch and your gift growth but if you don't stretch if you get comfortable heart let me tell you this okay if you're in ministry and you get a reputation and then you get afraid to lose your reputation you'll get to a place where it's good and then you'll you'll get on cruise control and you'll just stay there what because you you know it's good people getting help but you know you could go further but you don't because what if I'm wrong I'm going to lose my reputation I'm going to lose that I lose the people and so we always have to remember it's not about your reputation it's not about you losing the people if God gave you the people he'll keep the people and if God gave them to you and if he doesn't in they leave and your he'll give you new ones Yeah right but we all have to grow so we have to stay out of our comfort zone and stretch and grow and and trust God more and if we do because look at Jesus look how Jesus did Jesus pretty you know pretty accurate right yeah you're telling the truth that man you're with ain't your husband you've had five other husbands and since the one you wouldn't know come on you know and when you saw them where the injury yeah I saw you sitting over here and here's the Israelite without God right here's an Israelite without how does he know that prophetic he knows right because he was the the quintessential prophet right and so we need to look at operating like he did not like any one person but you can find people that specialize now we're not necessarily supposed to be specialists but we can find people that have specialized and do good in that area and we can get with them and we can get that DNA and we can get over in that area and we can get around them we can begin to minister like them and then when we get that we can get around another person that does it this way and pretty soon we were fully clothed you might say we're fully grown in those areas amen but you can process a buff by my degree that's the same thing in healing C must be one instant healing day yes we all do okay I got it okay at the same time you grow you grow that's why there's all kinds of ways to do things and I hadn't got a chance to really share some of them but there are some things if you won't go back and watch our Lee videos there are any videos there were things I was doing there was times when I would if I if it was a disease I was familiar with and it seemed beating like I just blast it just yeah watch this here we go back hit that thing right but then if it wasn't that yes I had never heard of it or let's say it was something that I had heard him but hadn't seen a lot of success in had seen some but maybe not a lot then I would but many times it'd be I would tell the people it looks like I would do it in a group or I would say you know what I'll pray for you tonight at the healing service and so we get ready there and I care about everything all right say this with me in the name of Jesus and everybody repeat it and then images as they would my brother when my brother lays his hands upon me lays his hands upon me I shall be made whole I shall be made whole what am i doing I'm getting them repeat and then I say I'm listening and if I say say this with me in the name of Jesus and I hear in the name of Jesus there are they saying the same thing I said saying the same thing are they saying the same way no and I'll get more more aggressive and I'll get louder I'll get stronger say it this way say it this way do it this way and I'm waiting I'm listening and when I get them saying it with the same aggression back and I say ok now we're there now I can pray for you now I can lay hands why cuz I've stirred you up to where now if I lay hansung you're gonna get it and I'm saying you say when my brother lays his hands on me see if you just go when my brother lays his handsome man would be healed my brother let'slet's see him do that or you be said when my brother lays his hands for me I'm gonna get healed I'm gonna get heal and I'm like okay you're ready and say what was I doing I was getting I was actually getting you to help me help you yeah now I'd much rather just jumped out there and did it but I was growing and so I had to figure out because the bottom line is I want you healing so I grew and as I as I learned how to do these things I would start to say okay we can do it that way and so I started growing and and if I did it four or five times and people still like you know if my brother lays his hands on the other I'm like okay just go around the mountain again go just go around and man again you want to go around the wilderness one more time we can go around the wilderness one more time right if I skated for 40 years we can do it another trip yeah and we'd taken around I'd start all over again say this with me say this with me and I would get them to start to rare it and what I'm doing is I'm pulling that fight up out of them because nobody fights quietly right you look at two people arguing they ain't quiet yeah they get loud that's right they're going after right and that's sometimes how you have to do the devil not because he won't listen but because you got to stir up the fortitude in you to go you know what it's gonna be this way yeah I'm not putting up with that and you have to get that aggressiveness out of your spirit what because the Jesus in you is aggressive right he wasn't defensive he was aggressive looking he never at most have done when people says there's the fair they say something to him he didn't even answer him he would aggressively go back after him you know oh we know this we know this about you yeah well you know who's your parents you even turn around and go well you know who is this to you you look like you'll travel across land and sea to make a disciple they're just twice a child the hell are you that you are that's pretty aggressive right you know I've been pretty harsh on people sometimes but I ain't calling him bait you know whitewash grades right and look invited and said you Viper you know I'm den of thieves and I hadn't done it there's been a couple of times I wanted to use that one I've gone to a couple of conferences and stuff you know wanting to turn over tables and things but people try to sell you what you already got kind of gets upsetting but you say all I'm trying to say is that we can grow you can grow in faith you can grow in prophesying you can grow any things but the problem is everyone's have started 100% yeah nobody gets to start as the world champion everybody has to fight their way through and become a contender amen and we're not fighting flesh and blood and hopefully you're not contending with other people but you have to grow you have to start somewhere and if you look at it you know it's amazing how everybody watches all these fights and pays lots of money to go and sit there and watch these guys fight and the fight and the you know if it's a really good fighter fight don't last long they'll pay hundreds of dollars if not thousands to watch a guy walk across the ring and knock a guy out it's over and you're like oh man thousand dollars you know for three seconds right and so but these guys and you know why he can knock him out in 3 seconds because he spent 3,000 hours in the gym and say we want to go to Walmart and walk doing just Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam and you don't want to spend any time in the work you don't spending your time with God you don't want to think about things you want to keep your mind somewhere else and not think about these things is well when I'm driving when I'm riding if I have somebody with me this is what we talked about we drove it how do we grow how do we do these things have we happen we get this message across stronger the people how can we get people to do this it's not about how can you know we get more famous or richer and that that's not what we're doing we're time at the message we're talking about trying to grow people and so let you do that about not doing it this way you can't get where you're going by just continuing to do what you've been doing if you want what you never had you got to do what you never done it's that simple right and with me I told you beginning I'm I don't you can tell even you know even now of course but yeah I'm just a quiet average person I like you know I like to sit and read and I like quiet and peace and you know because that's what's why I like to live but yet at the same time I knew and this is what God shown he said listen if you're gonna help these people you got to get over yourself you got to get out of yourself and I said I'll do whatever I have to do and God said will you will you do whatever you have to do to get these people free will you do whatever you have to do to get that person's child healed I said yes sir I will do whatever afternoon he said will you not act like you I'm like if I have to I said Who and I have to act like he said well who have you been who have I been showing you who to get around who have been putting you around who's come across your path who have you been watching on the videos act act like that and I started acting like I told you last night I was acting in the beginning and I had to develop that aggressiveness I had to develop that in me and I'm still a quiet person but let me tell you when it comes to sickness and disease or babies or something like that I can get real aggressive real quick and I really don't care if anybody likes or not I could care less what people think about it right why because that baby's life is on the on the line I don't want them standing next to a grave right so I get aggressive and to be honestly I've never you know people well we know we just don't feel loved from from the from Currie Blake we don't feel love coming out of him you know like we do this person okay I'm like you don't even know what love is think jesus said if you love me keep my Commandments right jesus said greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for a friend he didn't say no man has greater love they give you the warm fuzzies all right and see what most people don't know or maybe some of you do but I decided a long time ago I would lay my life down see whenever I wasn't doing things I wanted to do but thinking other people were doing things guess what I was doing I was sitting at home going through the words look up the Greek going through the Hebrew talking to God about it figuring that had work what was I doing I was laying my life down for others and people say oh we don't feel love I can show you some tough love this make sense to you listen you listen you don't feel love love is a spirit his name is God his name is amen you don't feel love you experience it you you can see the results of it okay okay if if God is a spirit and God is love then love is a spirit and Jesus said the spirit is like this you don't see him you don't even you can't see where he comes from or where he goes all you can do is see if the leaves rattle you know he's been present by the results so when people say things like that well you know it's love what is love we don't feel love I'm like you don't know what love is love is is the fact that I will fight to the death for you yet I will not quit people I'm going bless you then I will bless I mean then I won't get that I will continue I don't stop I don't quit I don't back off that's love even if you come and say okay stop please no do that don't bring it to me we don't quit right so that's what I love is love doesn't quit love never fails why does it never fail because it never quits right so you can prophesy you can step out in these things if you're going to be like Jesus that's what you have to do you have to start stepping out stretching but your stretching is not just for your stuff that's that's the worst thing about most of the faith message it's out there today it's it's not reaching out to others it's not showing you my love for you and for God by me using my faith for you to get you free it's me telling you what my faith has got me see my faith got me a new car my feet got me a new house mock my faith keeps me healthy and you know if you get some faith you can get it too but you know I can help you there so and that's the problem you don't have faith just for yourself if God gave you faith to raise the dead guess what it ain't faith to raise yourself amen if it's faith to heal the sick it's not for you unless you need it of course many the primary it's for other people God gives gifts for you to use for other people that's why we're all part of the body we all need each other right there's areas that we need help in everybody needs help in in different areas of their life and so we have to learn to be able to walk in love which means many times ignore what somebody says and help them anyway ignore what they're saying to you ignore what they said about you and just help them anyway amen so you can prophesy by proportion and though and the more you stretch the greater the degree it gets the more accurate it'll get well it's the same thing with faith you can get more faith for faith in that sense you can get more faith in healing and your your healings will get stronger and your healings get different right you'll grow there's growth everybody wants to start at the top nobody starts at the top nobody starts generally speaking nobody starts at a hundred percent of anything right it's it's called practice even doctors have a practice and they're practicing on you right yeah you understand Amen that's right you know that's why even the DHT we call it divine healing technician training but honestly the the training part what we did here this week by the end of that you're not a divine healing technician technically at that point at best you're a divine healing practitioner hopefully that's what you've become hopefully that's what you are and then when you do that for a while and you you contact us and show us that you're doing it and getting results are asking questions and getting answers and then you're correcting things and you're doing it better and getting people help then usually after about three months or so then we say you're a certified divine healing technician what because you know what you're doing and that's what we start sending you prayer requests and things that come into your area and we plug him within somebody calls us from your area it was hey we got somebody here and we send them we send you their information so you can contact them they want because it's responsibility comes with this there's a responsibility you know if you don't generally if you don't have responsibility you don't have any authority if you have a child and you don't take responsibility for that child the we'll take away your authority over that job so you have to take responsibility and with the responsibility comes that authority Jesus gave us that authority but you have to pick it up when you pick it up that's called taking responsibility you get that yeah real quick say then let's get back where it says there in verse 7 or ministry let us wait on our ministering in other words wait expectantly and use it or he that teaches on teaching he's it exhorts on the exhortation he that gives let him do it with simplicity don't make a big show out of it right i'ma do it with simplicity don't blow the trumpets don't get everybody's attention you know I'm writing a check it's a big one here we go when everybody sit okay he that rules do it with diligence he that shows mercy with cheerfulness right so you can see that this is all all these things start to grow and you stretch and they grow now and when take it back to whether we work real quick yeah in Hebrews 11 we're just going to run through this and gonna take for just a minute right to just me but in Hebrews 11 now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen for it for by it the elders obtained a good report through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear right no and look at verse 4 by faith Abel offered unto God what are we talking about faith acts by faith Abel offered notice Abel did not make a vow faith makes an offering you see that faith offered he offered something he had faith he offered he made an offering he didn't make a vow he make a pledge didn't make a promise I'm gonna do this right he said he made an offering he he he offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain look we're not gonna eat all of it go down by faith Enoch was translated shouldn't see death was not found because God had translated him but now look and it was because before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God now verse 6 but without faith it is impossible to please God for he that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him pretty simple by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear and prepared an ark here that by faith prepared an ark what do you do there was a faith act right verse 8 by faith Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should have to receive for inheritance obeyed and he went out he didn't talk about it he didn't plan it he went out right he left not knowing where he went whether he went by faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in Tabernacles Isaac and Jacob heirs of him heirs with him of the same promise for he looked for a city it had foundations whose builder and maker was God and going down keep you notice all these people did things you get that all these people did things they didn't just well I have faith and I'm just gonna sit here right that's why I tell me listen if I pray for you if I lay hands on you whatever it is you couldn't do do it and keep doing it until you're doing it normal I don't care watching this all you can do is okay man I wish I had more I can tell you more testimonies there was a gap in Portland OR ECIC and I just go right on into it anyway and we were up in we were at Warner Warner Pacific College in Portland Oregon doing a DHD had 1400 people there we were training in one day is amazed up on this platform to pray for people we had to bring them up in groups of 50 and line them up on the platform I'd pray for him they go back off because of the grass kind of like it was so crowded that we couldn't even get down there to pray for people and the first day we were there there was a man that they brought in on a stretcher I mean we're talking a full-blown Hospital stretcher the whole bit right medical professionals watching him he was paralyzed from the neck Xtra from the top of the neck down he could do nothing can move his eyes that's it and he was lying there he couldn't move anything right he was a young man and he had been in a motorcycle accident crippled paralyzed they said he's not even gonna live let alone ever walk again right and so they bring him in in this stretcher he's lying there and I'm just going back and forth and we start to pray for people because we we don't wait to the last day so we started praying for him I started commanding healing and we started ministering and then when we did have the healing services last day we were standing there and I go back and forth and I went down laid hands on him one on his arm on his leg just not that that's important I'm just saying it wasn't some super spiritual ritual you know religious ritual right as walked up next to him and but man's own in the name of Jesus you were living not die in the name of Jesus right now body you'd be healed you function correctly every limb will function correctly every organ in the body you begin to function correctly right now in the name of Jesus it'll be this way and no other and I don't mean maybe and where do I get that from I heard dr. Summerall say that $1000 right and so dinner there was nothing nothing happened I turn around went back got on the platform pray for two more people if you met I'm in this crowd it's a crowd there a lot of noise you know people talking and so about that time I heard this man hurt some people down there it was like a like last night when you need your ministering going on and I'll send you here part of the crowd start to cheer and you know something happened you don't know why happens you know something happen and so I loved yeah that's what's going on what was that and they said here we touched his toe he can feel his toes they even feel anything but as a weekend he can feel his toe couldn't move his toe we could dealer still write said ok Jesus name be healed rest away we don't we God didn't do anything partial but he starts he finishes we don't stop halfway we say in the name of Jesus total complete healing in Jesus name when back started praying for people a few minutes later more cheering and alright what's going on now he can feel his legs he can feel it see most people said why what an instant you didn't jump out run around yeah well you know you need to jump out and run around alright okay alright doesn't matter we're getting it right we're getting it everybody thinks Jesus all Jesus healings were instant they weren't there were several times I said and the boy began to amend from that hour that's why I says and they you lands and sick and they shall recover recovery can take some time amen and so this guy's this and now you know here's the thing when we left that night was the last night we left and when we left he had feeling that he couldn't move anything right so I don't like that you know I won't even get up and so but he didn't and so I don't think assure him I don't try to pull him out and you know do that kind stuff so we just know you know at that sense and so we went out on the way out we stopped at an Applebee's to eat and there was a couple there they were sitting there and they said brother curry well pay the mother crazy oh hey how's it going and they said you're in town I said yeah we just finished a three-day DHD oh we didn't even know you were here and I said yeah we've been here you know about a week now and they said yeah we you know him the guy said my wife was in your healing service two years ago when you were here and I said oh okay cuz I didn't remember if they look kind of familiar but I didn't remember I said okay well how's it good yeah she had breast cancer and doctor said for a stage-four who tests the size it's it's over and she's sitting there healthy and she goes totally healed totally healed and I'm like all right glory to God good God and so here we are in a police and this woman's giving her testimony and I said well I said I didn't know I said she was yeah in the message you know we keep trying to remember to write we keep they were going to write to entail but we didn't we just never get around to it that's what happens all the time you know ten lepers were healed how many how many did how many came back and testified so 10 so let me get this and this is so normal usually you hear of about 10% of what actually happened and then people say well why didn't why didn't happen well you didn't go home with everybody last night you watch will be getting the testimonies from it and that's what happened to that more Jesus everybody thinks that well you know if his Jesus it everybody would have been here right independent no no everybody would have got healed but it might take a little bit of time right because there are certain things that have to be done if it's structural if it has to do with a you know bones and things like that God doesn't just go you know and hurt you because it hurts when when bones are it hurts so God usually what happens is people go and go to sleep when they wake up the next morning they're completely well it's if it's structural what because God does it while you sleep he said what which show me an example of that Adam now Adam God took a rib out of Adam what'd he do first put him to sleep he did it while I don't slept right he still does healings and things like that what people sleep the only the all that metal coming out of her back she was sleeping never felt it till she woke up and then felt it in the bed right it's it that's why I try get across people healing you know in America they're not like you think they're usually not like you see on some of the shows and things like that but usually people get a miracle they're not exuberant you would think they'd be wow I mean sometimes there aren't but most the time they're in shock they can't believe the pains gone first time in 15 years I hadn't had pain first time I can tell just this amazing and they're just in shock and then we hear about it later on you know I don't go well is it real it really is and they and they wait a week to see if it's real then we hear from right and so this man I haven't talked to these people and they turn about this cancer and we're set now me I've never tasted alcohol right my dad was an alcoholic and I was raised in church where alcohol was a sin right it's just that's the way it was and I made a vow and when I was nine years old I never touch alcohol cuz I saw what he did for my family and I said I just won't do it so I don't do it right never have done yeah and now I've never had any desire I was in the nightclubs people buy drinks come bring them put on my table say hey that that's yours and it's you're not looking it looks like a coke it would be bourbon and cook right I'd go over and pick on thank you hearings like no thank you yeah I could have done it was no big deal but I made a vow to God and it never I was never even tempted never even tempted to try it what because I hate it well because I saw what he did to my family yeah so it's easy for me I thought it so no and these discs couples sitting there and they're both drinking they got beer in front of you know big big glasses big glasses of beer in front of them you know and my natural instinct is look back and go got you he'll never get you saved when I went to Italy managed at lunch when they bring out the lunch or walking around and they get the food everywhere and you know and I'm trying to get a coke and they're walking around with Peter and they go you want some bitters you're the bitter you know even I'm like no no you know we were having a healing service and that needs to be an evangelistic service they need to get you all saved you know it's just it's their culture and and nobody got drunk and they can drink and not get drunk it's amazing I could probably smell it and get drunk I like this is a heaven have a very low tolerance Martin okay but so they're drinking and yet you know I don't say anything right and so and they said well be sure to let us know when you're coming up next as we will write your testimony give me your address we'll send it in so anyway we go back home two years later I'm back up in that area I'm in a Best Western Hotel meeting room I met some of John Lakes family they were their legs son Otto his granddaughter was there I met her I met Roy Ferguson which was actually married into the lake family and he was there elderly I mean he was in his 90s and he's sitting back there at the back it was so funny because he'd listen he go amen glory amen is that funniest thing and we had a little woman that was with Smith Wigglesworth for years had had whoever's word to pray for and then we were in Colorado and she came there and they she called him hug she goes are you are these Holy Ghost meetings I said yes ma'am they are she said they are there yukia are you people alive I'm like yes ma'am she goes oh good I can't get around dead people all died too old like yes ma'am we're alive right a lot and so they brought her over there and they set it on the front row and amazing little woman and and so as soon as I saw her I went over and I shook her hands and it's such a pleasure to meet you and so I just got down my knees I said to put your hand right there and then you pray for me and I had her praying for me and because I believe in you know these old Saints they that you don't get old being stupid you know and so they know some stuff and so I'm like and I got around Simeon Stewart and he was elderly been ordained by hey Allen and amazing had a strong prophetic influence in my life and every time I got around to put Jam right there pray pray pray and he prophesized some things that even today are coming to pass as a man he's been gone now 10 years but God had him in my life and it was vitally important he confirmed some things that God told me I never told anybody but God confirmed him him and if it had not done that I probably never would have actually fully accepted it what are you saying because there's certain things it was just hard for me to accept for myself so anyway this I'm in this meeting room I'm having a meeting and say okay we're gonna take a break and just before I take a break this person walks in the back by the back door back there and he's in a suit and so I you know I don't thinking think so I'm taking a break and I start to walk passing it I walk past him he says brother Kareem I stopped I said yeah and he said do you remember me and I said you looked familiar but I can't read where he goes two years ago Warner Pacific College on the stretcher and I look I'm like whoa like what happened he said he said I went home he said that night I went home and they put me out of the bed thing that they brought him in the stretcher and put him in his bed and he said in the next morning when I woke up I didn't think about it I rolled out of bed stood up walked across the room and then realized I was walking so I'm I'm like and that's it's awesome to see you I said it's awesome and I said God didn't didn't know what happened to you and he said yeah he said have you know been traveling people even asked me given my testimony and didn't know so I've been he said you know I never knew I was supposed to be in ministry said but apparently you know and so this is so but it happened but for two years I didn't know anything but now here's the thing when I go off on trips many times my wife would call me at the end of the meeting or something like last night before I got back home you know we were talking and she said up so so how'd it go I'm like it's good it's good yep listen we're gonna use this one replace the other BHT and use this DHT is the one that we put out and so we were talking about the different things and you talk about the people and all this and and and I said I'd I said I had to pray for everybody by myself I didn't everybody we didn't do it like we normally do and she said why I said because it was too packed we couldn't have done it that way it had been too confusing she goes you so the bigger the meetings you get the more you grant to pray by yourself I'm like sometimes you know but I mean I pray for it you know 3,000 people so you know 3 to 400 wasn't that bad and so but whenever you retirement though is that this how this young man I didn't even know what went on but when my wife would called me after these meetings she would say you know what what happened and and in the very beginning many times she'd say so what did you see you know what big miracle did you see and this time when I was leaving from Portland with that guy before I you know when he was still on the stretcher she said was so what that's it I said got a stretcher got healed I said there was no other reason I gave some other testimonies she said so what happened what you see and I said I didn't see anything she said but you said he got here said he got here why cuz la he hasn't a second they recover right and that was it now I didn't go off - no and this man got healed I didn't I didn't tell anybody else but if somebody had asked me I said yeah what because I believe it I believe I'll a hansoms are going they're gonna recover it's that simple I don't have to hear the testimony but I want the testimony I'm not gonna go off recording well I laid hands on five hundred people I stopped I repeat that healed it was great you know but do I believe that yeah and I believe that it will we will see it right well we see some instant okay it's like wiglesworth said first the the ear then the grain in the ear and then the full corn right so there's different degrees of it that you see little by little right it's just like the soil 30 60 100 fold you might see 30 fold the first night 60 fold two days later and 100 fold a week down the road it's this principle if achill principle but if you don't like that one well I'm sorry it doesn't fit your standards of what of what Hollywood has built you up to believe a certain way because I guarantee when Jesus cast the devil out of the board it wasn't like in Jesus of Nazareth where the boy is up against a wall and Jesus is in the door and the shadow and the lights behind him in the shadow is casting a shadow on the demon-possessed boy and Jesus dinner and he had that perfect theatrical boys thing cuz leave him I guarantee it wasn't that way right you know it's amazing you listen to people and you look at people and like you yeah who knows what Jesus's voice sounded like we have an idea it was perfect you know and he was perfect so yeah I guess perfect is whatever his voice sounded like right but if you you look something like George Patton blood and guts Patton you know the main aggressive leader and commander and all this and then you you you listen to a recording of it and his voice was like this it's like that's one when people drove past he didn't say anything he were just salute it's in the room to the front go and he he practice he got in a mirror and practice that look so that he looks Stern he said a commander has to have the demeanor of a commander he said you need command presence what same thing is in the church why do we need command presence because we're in command when you listen when you walk in the room if you're born again when you walk in the room you are the highest spiritual level being in that room everything every other kind of being demons angels whatever it is they all have to bow to your wishes because you're the highest created spiritual authority in that room and you represent the highest spiritual authority in existence say that automatically and you have to go in there like that you can't go in here well I hope I hope I've been of some little help yeah we have had all your little help we want no we need a lot of help right and you can't walk in there and go well we just we just gonna do our best we're just gonna do our best I wouldn't William Booth daughter was nor her granddaughter sorry his granddaughter she was a little girl and she went off one time to a meeting and did some singing and when he she came home he said so how'd you do and she said well we did our best and she thought you know that he would like that and he said your best your best what good is your best we don't need your best we need your all we need Jesus living through you hear that be right go away you know just just do your best don't do your best your best falls too short do his best because it's him living in you it's no longer you that live but Christ who lives in you expect to do greater bigger things and then I know over and over you can read all through Hebrews eleven everybody there they did something Moses forsook Egypt he had to turn his back on it he had to leave the palace and go over and live in a mud hut he did so he had to live out in the wilderness every boy every one of these people did something faith acts that's what I tell people you know I don't care if you're paralyzed I don't care what's going on do something if I lay hands on you do something I don't care if you can just move your little finger move you to a finger amen do something jesus said stretch forth your hand then stretch it forth amen if you can't get up get up if you can't bend bend that was one time I pray for this guy and I said and there's a stranger thing because I prayed for him and I said that's all right maybe just be healed and he's like there's not pretty and I said now do what you can't do he said don't touch his toes I'm like I didn't pray for your back was it your back he goes no he said I had nothing to do my back but he said do what I couldn't do it I hadn't been able to touch about thousand years had nothing to do with what was ailing him hey hey people will amaze you remember I was preaching one time my dad was out know this was in Kansas I was in Kansas one time in this person this little lady company a sweet little woman sweet sweet you know look like a little schoolteacher old button her hair and a little wire friend glasses and really sweet and she comes up there and I'm standing there and I said yes man what can I do for you and she says I think I have a devil and I'm like really like what kind of devil you get what would you spit on the sidewalk you know what kind of devil you think you got you guys well every full moon I get in my backyard and howl at the moon naked now you can't you have to keep a poker face you have to and what what I wanted to do what I wanted to do I wanted to go what you hear that here say that again say that again yeah that's what I wanted to do but I couldn't right because all we're hoping be gone so you know what I did I'm looking to go hear it all the time let's deal with it right now what might not hear that but I've heard stuff like it crazy stuff right senator has nothing to do sometimes with what their problem is you know you asked me I can do for you my neighbor won't leave me alone like I got nothing dude your neighbor okay you want to come over and strongarm your neighbor don't leave you alone is that what you're I got but they tell you all kinds of crazy stuff right right so these people shock to you they'll surprise you and people say yeah Christianity is boring man I don't know who you're hanging out with continue come travel with me a while you see it's anything but boring okay you know for years we prayed and prayed and prayed to God you know give us an opportunity to minister to people it wasn't about being famous is that's nothing that's that you know that that comes and goes I mean it's tough but it's about being able to reach people and touch lives and change lives and create a chain reaction that starts through a family that can go on for generations right and so we've been on television a lot over in South Africa it's where we started actually and we would go over there and over here I can go pretty much anywhere and nobody knows I mean you know general places anyway and so but I would go to Africa and we would go to the mall and because I'm all over TV over there you know three times a day and you know five times a week and that kind of stuff I mean it's just we go over there and we'll go to a Nando's which is a chicken peri-peri chicken if you know what that is that's best place to eat right there that's and when we're overseas if there's a Nando's in town they're everything everyday I'm sure my team wishes it's like why did curry find an endo because never going to be there the whole time so but we'll go and we'll go into a mall we'll find a place to eat or what's called a mug and bean if you're if you know what I'm doing from from Africa and it's just good places to eat you know just good place we'll go then we'll sit and hang out and talk because we're waiting for that evenings meeting or whatever and so we're just sitting there fellowshiping and we'll go out and buy Telegraph some you'll see they'll tell somebody and pretty soon we'll be heading toward a you know an escalator or something and every something I come and say would you pray would you pray for me yep so they start praying there's a lot of people have to do you know we were there last time I went into a Christian bookstore and I had this young man could tell you recognize me because he's you know he's looking at you a certain way and then he he takes off takes off and he comes back with three or four of his friends and we're walking down the mall just walking down there just talking and and this guy comes up and he grabs my hand I think we're just gonna shake hands he grabs my hand puts it on his head drops Aaron's Andes and says pray for me man of God pray for me okay in there right George was there right so you know and and and the thing is it's not about being recognized it's about the fact that anybody says you know man career you know slow down you know you're going to much sleep more that cuz they were like these are the days I pray for you you don't understand how hard it was in the beginning nobody listened to me nobody you know everybody thought I is if anything was everybody thought I was too young to know anything and so they didn't listen I'm here one time I thought man everybody thinks I'm so young and and they cuz I at that time I looked a lot younger then I actually was and so I'll never forget because I we were staying with my parents for a couple of days and I went to the store and they had this just spray and it was it was it was great so I went home I went to my parents house and I sprayed it it may look I had great hair just a little bit and so I walked in my mom I won't pass my mom shoes have you got great hair I thought well I figured if I got that they might think I'm older I might listen to me right because people wouldn't listen to me cuz I thought I was too young that's why Paul told you it Allah may despise your youth I know what's in you I put that in you age has nothing to do with faith okay there's a bunch of old faithless people right and it's young people that are bold enough to do this stuff yeah sometimes they do some crazy stuff but come on better to have wildfire than no farm amen because you can always take the fire there's hope it's really hard sometimes just to melt an iceberg you know and so we got to get to be black and so he just but in all this time this is these are the years we before it's not about being somebody it's about being useful for the kingdom of God and so we want a greater voice to be able to impact nations and now we are God we were faithful with the things that God gave us and now we are impacting nations I could tell you stories about Ukraine I could tell you stories about Poland about Czech Republic about Bulgaria well we've already gone these places we are changing nations with this message and then what Jesus said he said this is what we would do right when we need to believe him for nations to turn around and now and and God's already told me you're gonna speak to kings we've already spoke to Queens might as well speak to Kings too but he's already prophesied and he said you're gonna speak to president you're gonna speak to these people and we've already spoke to high-level when I was in Ukraine they put me on a little bitty plane in the middle of the night we had to fly over the war zone to go into Odessa so we could pray for the Finance Minister of Ukraine because he was dying of cancer so we had to go into all these places and we are on the plane we're flying through the middle of the night and it's late and it's dark and there's clouds and you know you're getting on there and they're like get some sleep and be a long day because as soon we get back next day I got to preach all day so I'm sitting in the back of this little bit and so the plane the tail the plane gets more narrow as it goes back I was a smallest person there they stick me in as far back as I can get and the plane is doing like this I'm like this and then there was another person on this side was at work you know you try not to you know be too close to him and is he kind of like yes and trying to sleep leaning up against the window so I just fall asleep and at some point I'm hearing this you know and I'm like let's go so I wake up and the pilot is sitting up front and the the - of the plane to the control panel he's sitting there going because the gauges weren't working and he's trying to get him to work and I'm gonna look at this and easily and it's fought you can't see nothing outside and he's trying to get the gauges to work and I'm like just go back to sleep and then we we land and we get there we have to stay there for hours because if once you land a plane and stay for hours before they let it take off again need to refuel it and do all this stuff so we're sitting there talking two or 3 o'clock in the morning then we got to fly all the way back we got lost going back one of this and we flew over the war zone and they were thinking you know we could get shot down and I'm like hey this is this is ministry you know and so we get back we land in this open field and we get out and they take we go by the hotel all I can do is change clothes and then go right to pray and I preached all day long and then pray for about another 2,500 people that night and I've had you know maybe an hour and a half sleep and then we go back in and we do the same thing the next day and it just keeps going one because these are the days we pray for you can't pray for this stuff and then graph about it you know it's amazing the one thing God really harps on in the Bible griping complaining murmuring right don't do it right you do that kind of stuff don't do it near me last time somebody do that the earth opened up and swallowed fifty thousand people wait don't do it near me if you're gonna drop down a hold I don't want to go with you right I'm grateful for everything it goes on sometimes it's hard when I go to the bank I tell the people they say what happened this time oh this happened we had to sleep in our clothes because you know they were afraid that you know soldiers were gonna come through and they might have to get us out of there quick you know aren't you scared when you do that no not really we you know it's a win-win for me if I go over there and I'm a martyr I'm with Jesus if I come back I got a great testimony either way it's a win-win amen what who cares what all happens in the meantime write it down right leave it for your kids leave it free grandkids got 45 photo albums back there well each one holds 250 to 450 photos 45 of them for every nation on earth well not everything no 42 of them it's still another hundred fifty I need to get to Ben do we got these books right there and I can sit down my kids and open up and say now this miracle happened there and this happened here and I can go through it that's why we took the pictures we did it's one of the reason I really don't like digital the way it is because for me it's lost in there somewhere you know but do you see faith acts there's an action to faith the corresponding action if you don't act there's no faith right well you said you'd have faith for us yeah but how do you even know if you are healed if you won't do you get up after we pray for you at some point you got to do something you got to act on what's being said amen faith hears it speaks it talks it walks in acts right faith is not just some wispy thing that nobody put the finger on Jesus said no when they brought the the four men brought the one guy on the stretcher through the roof is that Jesus seeing their faith they're not not demands their faith he saw their faith Jesus can see your faith and if he ain't seeing you do something he ain't seeing your faith yeah because your faith X you got to do stuff you've never done I had to get outside myself and be somebody I wasn't until I became that person why because people's lives depended on it and I didn't have the right to continue the luxury of being myself so I had to be somebody else right and so I found people I wanted to be like and got around them I got around David hoping a bit and got pretty wild right I got around dr. Sommer I learned my faith to us and got grit and realized you know what you can't stop me to stop me enough to kill me and you ain't gonna do that because I still got stuff to do amen like kickstand so joking anything out of this this morning so I talk not too long ago about something called a faith project I said what is your faith project everybody ought to have a faith project something that's important something that helps people get a faith project if you get a faith project find an action you can tie to it and step out amen find somebody that believes like you doing go with them work together as a team don't get off separated bill was it Bill Hemmer that's what it was no I haven't used to say it's the lone banana that gets peeled all right so Horace remember that we're not called to be isolated that's one of the worst things about ministry is as you grow people expect you to be isolated and be separated and have bodyguards and that kind of stuff we can't do that we can't we have to be examples we can't be isolated it's not about oh I want to be like that so I got bodyguards and so I can be somebody that after have but come on we don't need bodyguards amen we need to be with the people meeting with people we need people need to realize we're all the same we're all just folks you know but we all got a big Jesus in us if we just let him out amen so let's just be folks and let's just get good and but that also means the reason people have bodyguards is because some people like stupid and they want to treat you like you're somebody and they want to do crazy stuff and you know it just don't act that way treat people normal and if you're the person they're trying to treat different just normal just that one don't let that stuff get to you because we are all normal according to heaven amen might not be normal according the world but we're normal according to heaven don't don't let that happen let's just be you know it's just it's just be who we were before we begin somebody somebody thought we were somebody else did you figure that out okay all right father I thank you your word is true father we thank you for all that you went through to send your son and all he went through to purchase us for you and father we just we give ourselves to you spirit soul and body 100 fold consecration and father we just thank you that we can we reckon ourselves dead to sin and we recognize ourselves alive under righteousness alive to you so father in the name of Jesus we thank you even now that by your spirit you heal you deliver you set free you bring us into a fullness of all that you have for us so father in the name of Jesus right now as your representative and by the authority of the name of your son Jesus I speak to those under the sound of my voice there right now every sickness every disease every ailment addictions and habits every work of the enemy in these lives we forbid to continue in the name of Jesus right now we command sickness and disease to go you will leave and never return you have no place here you didn't buy these bodies you didn't purchase them they belong to Jesus and so we give you this eviction notice now leave them in Jesus name right now bodies I speak to you and I say be healed and the whole head to toe nothing left out total restoration total healing in the name of Jesus right now body be healed function correctly do your job be restored in Jesus name there right now you've not been given a spirit of fear but of power of love and a sound mind the work of the enemy in your mind has to cease in the name of Jesus you have the mind of Christ and father we thank you that as our minds are renewed to your word your mind the mind of Christ operates in us we thank you Father we are protected we thank you that our faith our shield of faith protects us against all the work of the enemy that father we thank you and we keep ourselves in your love and because of that the wicked one comes and cannot touch us because he has nothing in us so in the name of Jesus according to the Word of God the chastisement of our peace was upon the son of God and now we have peace he left us our peace so I speak to you now speak your mind and I say anxiety go fear go right now and in Jesus name peace be to you soundness a month in Jesus name so--but amen amen now just take a second and just thinking and just thank him and just worshiping in Jesus name probably worship you you are only to be worshiped you are everything worth worshiping there is nothing else that we could put our eyes upon that should in any way try to compete with you for our worship so we thank you now in Jesus name we receive your peace we receive your life your love in the name of Jesus be glorified be made whole right now in a wholeness in Jesus name it's so bit so be it amen amen amen all right well you are dismissed we appreciate you coming if you need me to lay hands upon you I'll be glad to do that my team will put that together and we will minister to you and momentarily I'm gonna go put my things up and then we will come back out other than that god bless you oh yes right there there are ministry cards on the back of each chair if you want me to minister to you please fill those out bring them with you when you come up front and then we will function from that other net god bless thanks very much we'll see you next time god bless [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 101min 41sec (6101 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 30 2019