Healing is Here 2018: Day 1, Session 3 - Andrew Wommack

hi exulting oh if you ever prayer language tonight come on let's just lift it up as we exalt the name above every name good [Music] Sheila must show them I see them I son what am I sure that my soul of a shy boy about thanks to You Lord God what am i she device over son of my side healer soda machine good about almost rate of us our son who never saw we saw the Lord God we exalt the Lord Lord we declare the victory belongs to you tonight and it's you than we live and move and have our being you said to be of good cheer haha you said to be of good cheer [Music] because you've already overcome what we say thanks be unto God who always causes us to triumph who always causes us to triumph whew thank you Jesus who always causes us to triumph tell somebody next to you tonight always triumphing [Music] you stand against the law can so are we [Music] whose have no game it's the king now No [Music] [Music] victory [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we will put ah ah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] that declaration today [Music] one voice [Music] victory belongs to G that's it [Music] come on yeah [Music] Jesus it's really thank you [Music] oh come on would you just put your hands on someone next to you right now just begin to release the life of Christ from you into them victory belongs to Jesus so it belongs to you victory belongs to Jesus victory belongs to us victory literally doing [Music] yes thank you Jesus you always cause us to triumph Lodi thanks be unto our God thanks be unto God what we thank you we thank you Jesus we thank you Lord God Oh [Music] let's just declare that tonight as the body of Christ victory belongs to Jesus amen hallelujah come on if you believe it tonight let's shout our praise to the king of kings and the Lord of lords the one who's triumph or asleep oh thank you Lord God God is so good in me all the time amen you know in January of this year I was in a leadership training conference and I woke up on Saturday morning and I was urinating blood and I had an infection obviously in my body and it just wasn't going well in the natural but obviously I know the Word of God and I'm gonna stand on the Word of God when it comes to healing right and so I went ahead and went to the training session and and the next morning I woke up and I had double vision and the way I described it to people as if you've ever seen those videos on wherever YouTube or whatever we're how a fly sees from the inside out like it was a mess okay and I ain't no fly and so I was scheduled to lead worship that morning here right here and I said devil you are not stopping me from leading worship you are not stopping me from the call of God on my life and at this point of course I don't really know what's going on yet and you know a couple people are saying you really need to call it you know these guys and those guys well anyway long story short I led worship I had two iPads and four keyboards and at least 16 hands and somehow we made it through the session with the grace of God but anyway long story short they ended up hospitalizing me and went into a cat scan and an MRI machine which I'd never been in my life before and if you've ever been in an MRI machine then it makes this awful sound it's like that you know and they said you cannot move on an I mean you can't move nothing you got to be absolutely still when you get in this machine because we want an accurate picture well good news is 24 hours later they not only dismiss me from the hospital Andrew called me in the meantime he prayed for me over the phone and he spoke the Word of God into my life and I came into agreement of course with that prayer that he prayed over me and 24 hours later they're dismissing me and they and here's what one of the medical people said to you me he said I don't know what was going on with your body but from all of our tests your body is pristine and I said you know what I'll agree with that report praise God so while I was in the MRI machine hearing that the Lord started giving me a song you're ready for it we're gonna introduce it to the body of Christ tonight right in this place all right come on you gotta get ready for this one ready [Music] oh yeah come on you can move your body there ain't no MRI machine here [Music] my party is a temple of the holy God my party is it's your all the top pile [Music] my body is a temple of the Holy Ghost you're living inside there's nothing to hide my body is a temple there's no rules to this I all because of grace hey here you gotta get it out write down Jesus body every system has to buy okay then example you are grade 11 inside me [Music] by everything [Music] library of a harkensee [Music] [Applause] God do you upload do [Music] like this lord I [Music] [Music] while greater living inside me [Music] my hair to be [Music] rather than my heart you see you are it's your home [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] ha [Music] thank you Jesus I tell you what whether it's early morning late night afternoon there's no time like the time of grace for a celebration and Jesus in us he's so much more he's so much more he's so much more and we're gonna celebrate some more you ready all right here [Music] [Applause] [Music] I Love You Lord [Music] [Music] she does the same aaaah [Music] I love you [Music] I love you go kill the street down and in the squirrel is extraterrestrial I thought you loved the soup [Music] get over on camera friend [Music] I love you go [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] never fails oh god we celebrate you in our hearts tonight there are lives in every way and every day thank you Jesus Lord God I'm just so grateful that every stripe you took upon yourself you took for us you took a stripe for cancer you took a stripe for diabetes he took a stripe for arthritis you took a stripe for every name that ever ever would be created as a medical condition of some kind and Jesus now you are the name above every name Oh Lord God come on let's just lift our hands and give the Lord our praise tonight he's worthy he's worthy [Music] you're worthy Logan [Music] render earthquake before by the sound of his voice yes yes yes please soon everybody come on let's declare tonight through it all through it all [Music] yes Lord [Music] fry of our hearts through [Music] yes really [Music] [Music] for me tonight [Music] even when in this mountain come on [Music] come on get excited [Music] no matter my eyes are [Music] [Music] the words who yes [Music] [Music] no yes [Music] still no yes [Music] still know his name is [Music] I saw [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh oh come on some of you need to sing it out [Music] weird [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ways and when you know [Music] the layers and we still know his name the ways that way you know while we were singing that song I don't know if you heard me say there it is right right there right in the center of it all it's just somebody maybe a lot of somebodies that connected with your soul that was a first-time declaration for you in that moment that way come on who witnessed it who witnessed that come on oh there's more of you come on whoo there's some of you or that message just connected with you and you will walk out of your hole [Music] waves and we still know his name [Music] the way his name we still know his name the way no his father we declare because you've given us authority in that name that is above every name the name of Jesus we declare Lord God that your word is working powerfully in our hearts tonight we declare Lord God that no weapon that the enemy would try to form against us will prosper and every tongue risen in judgment we condemn it we cut it off we show it to be in the wrong we stop it and we say yes to every promise every promise every promise Lord God you are so worthy we behold your majesty as we see healings taking place deliverances we stand amazed not surprised but amazed at the majesty of our God all of heaven and earth cry together Lord you are worthy you are worthy worthy worthy would Oh father we love you but I just want to say thank you for the body of Christ tonight thank you Lord God that none of us are alone we don't have to stand alone but we've got crazy radical believer friends that will stand with us hallelujah and together Lord having done all to stand we will stand we will not fall but we will stand on your word but because you are the one above it all and we give you praise and glory come on give it at least a hundred people a hug before you seated tonight okay maybe one maybe two [Music] worthy of it all worthy of it all nobody like you Jesus [Music] praise the Lord this is the first night I don't know how I'm gonna make it through this annual I was getting rekt and then I'm like no focus I gotta go up here and talk so bear with me I'm kind of wrecked so I want to make a quick announcement let's say hello to the livestream and online viewers hi everybody welcome if you can see all the hands are waving also in the overflow room downstairs hello by the way after the session tonight if you need prayer and you're in the overflow room come upstairs prayer ministry will be up here so run to the altar for some prayer we would love to pray with you the resource area is located downstairs I don't know if you guys have seen it if you go down this stairwell and go down the hallway it's just basically underneath where the a/v booth would be it'll be open tomorrow as well as in between the sessions tomorrow make sure you preorder this conference you can get the DVD USB or CD of this conference you can pre-order it and you can get the DVD and CD set as you walk out the door in the last day we will mail you the USB if you order the USB so does anybody have this program here don't lose it okay I don't think we have very many extras if we do have any by the way this is awesome whoever made this great job this is amazing it has all the information that you need it has the schedule it has the workshops it even has notes for you to be able to take that's here on the backside so don't lose it this is a valuable resource so you can navigate the property by the way there's a maps in here I don't know if you saw them but that it has instructions as to where the workshops are as well as where food is and things of that nature I just lost it it's in here though I was gonna show you not fast enough by the way I have some things to give away I have an incredible set here God wants you well does anybody know about God wants you well this is actually been updated and it's brand new as of Friday I know it is a nine DVD set there are let me write say this exactly it includes a few healing journeys within the DVD set that you can watch it is available downstairs and speaking of downstairs like I said overflow rooms need prayer come up here but Jim will you do me a favor somebody needs to watch this and be made well who's already well and just needs to walk it out Jim we go give that also speaking of things that are downstairs we have not only just books and CDs and audio things we also have a study guy we have plenty of study guides of different teachings this is the believers Authority the title is what you didn't learn in church that's some churches so this is actually primarily for a teacher if you have a Sunday School class or you have a small group or you have a discipleship group that you have this is an incredible resource let me explain exactly what's on here there is a lesson there's a lesson outline there is a teacher's guide discipleship questions answer key and scriptures all within it and then some of the lessons also have additional information but inside the front cover is also a cd-rom so you can print the materials out and hand them out so is there anybody here who is running a small group or a sunday-school Bible study who wants to be able to pass this information along because someone explained to me very well once that water only works well when it has a flow through it right goes yeah you had need someone above you someone at your level someone beneath you right discipleship is what it's all about which is why Karis Bible colleges here in that we're hey don't forget to turn in any if you're online send an email to info at Karis Bible College org that is how you can be entered into the $500 scholarship to go to Karis Bible College and if you are here in on the premises we have the Karis card scares Bible College information cards they are read turn those in and we will be selecting a winner later this week so now if you could do me a favor because 50 years ago it was March to 23rd 1968 somebody got a revelation of the Lord and has been faithfully walking it out walking in in the word and none of this would be here without his faithfulness so will you please give a warm welcome to our president and founder of Karis Bible College and Andrew Wommack ministries mr. Andrew Wommack [Applause] thank you very much man it has been a wonderful day it's been a busy day how many of you have already had a healing manifest itself in your body could I see your hands Daniel and Carly you need to turn around and look at this keep your hands up if you've already seen healing manifesting and that's a lot of people already and we're just getting started you know they've said this this morning but I just want to emphasize it amplify it may be that you know most people are conditioned to receiving a healing like when the anointing comes through a person that has a special anointing on their life and those things do exist and there's no bad way to get healed so we are not against that but that was never intended to be the dominant method of receiving healing that is to help people who aren't in the word who don't know the truth that haven't been set free if the only way to receive from God was to just get in the word renew your mind let the word of God you know like it says in psalm 107:20 he sent his word and healed them and delivered them from all of their destructions if that was the only way to be healed well then people who just get born again tonight and having incurable disease wouldn't have the ability or the time to grow and mature and renew their mind they died before they could do that so the Lord gave gifts to the church people that have a special anointing and that when this anointing comes and they flow in their gifts healings can manifest and that's wonderful because God loves us and he didn't want to leave behind the people that just didn't have the time to get their mind renewed but he never intended that for that to become a substitute for you taking the Word of God and acting in it and so what Daniel and Carly are teaching during this seminar and all of the instructors will be doing is basically trying to teach you how to renew your mind and to walk in faith and to him that believes all things are possible there is not a single thing that can be done through a gift of the Holy Spirit that can't be done by a person just renewing their my and standing on the Word of God it operates a little differently there's a difference between a miracle we're just something happens like that and a healing where you lay your hands on the sick and they recover but again there's no bad way to receive a healing but we're trying to teach you the better way we believe because you aren't always going to have somebody following you around with a special anointing and gift of the Holy Spirit but you always have the Lord on the inside of you and you always have the word of God and you always have faith and you can walk in that and be healed of anything so again we aren't against those things you know it was just a couple of years ago we had Richard Roberts here that operates in a special anointing I think Randy Clark I don't know him that well but Randy Clark operates in special anointings and gifts and we're gonna have him here when is that Thursday and so he's gonna be ministering so we aren't against that at all man there again there's no bad way to receive but we are trying to get you to where you can just receive directly from the Lord that is a better way amen and so in just a few hours worth of teaching we've already seen people receive their healing and as you just sit and as Daniel says marinate in this it's gonna get good and good amen it's gonna be awesome praise God let's look over here in 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 we're gonna receive an offering tonight give you an opportunity to give you know if you are receiving if you've been blessed by this then we would like to ask you to just help us reach other people you know there are a lot of expenses associated with this and we need to cover this expense but this isn't all that there is to it Daniel and Carly go on the road they were talking about last year they went to England I think your are you doing this again in November and so they take this on the road and there's just so many other things we do we are actually in the process and I'm way premature from saying this but we are in the process of starting a healing University which is going to take just not only my materials Daniel early but Barry Benning I think is going to kind of head this up and make it come to pass because we've had the idea for over a year and it hasn't gone anywhere so we've tasked Barry with it and he's going to do a great job but we are gonna put together teaching from just all of these different ministers and do it in a course type of things so that people can go through it and don't have to come to a conference like this and they're just so many ideas we've got about getting the Word of God out but every bit of it costs money and so we would like to ask you that if you have enjoyed this and if you want to see other people receive and then become a part of what we're doing they're passing out on for offering envelopes and this is for your cash giving primarily or there is a place on there to give by a credit card if you would like to do that if you're giving by a cheque you can make it out to how do they make it out a WM or CBC make it out the awm Andrew Wommack ministries and we'll get you a receipt for so in 2nd Corinthians chapter 9 that's in first corinthians second corinthians chapter 9 and there's a lot of really good things let's let matter of fact let's go back to 2nd corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 these two chapters are both talking about healing it's the most improvement excuse me i'm it's talking about finances we're in a healing conference but i'm taking up an offering these two chapters talk about finances it's the most information on finances in one spot of anywhere in the bible that I'm aware of there's a lot of things matter of fact the Bible has a tremendous amount to say about it but this is all just jam-packed with statements about finances and believing God and I want to focus on 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 and it says for you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he poor he was destitute when he says I don't have anywhere to lay my head he wasn't because he couldn't have done it he could have gone and rented a room or bought a house or done anything but he just was a traveling ministry he didn't have a fixed position send him to do so Jesus wasn't poor destitute but relative to heaven where he had everything he created everything man coming to this earth who was poor coming into a body and getting tired and hungry and sweaty and having to sleep in the heat and sleep in the cold and walk and do things I guarantee you that was poor compared to the glory and all of the things that he had and he became poor for your sakes so that we through his poverty might be made rich and did you know this is such a great statement that most people just kind of deflect this and they explain it away as well this is talking about so that you can be blessed emotionally so that you can become rich in your relationships and on and on but if you take it in context like I said every single verse in chapter eight and chapter nine is all talking about money to take a scripture to take a text out of the context leaves only a con it's not accurate it's not true if you take this in context this is saying Jesus became poor so that you through his poverty might be made rich prosperity is a part of the atonement of what Jesus died to accomplish in your life now that raises all kinds of red flags and people become offended because they say well you're preaching that you just get all of this wealth and you do all of these things and then they start talking about you're greedy and all of this it's only greedy it's only wrong if you use all of this wealth just for yourself the real reason for prosperity second Corinthians chapter 9 and verse 8 says God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound unto every good work the reason God wants to prosper you is so that you can be a giver so that you can be a blessing there's one hand to receive and one hand to give but as the money flows through there's always plenty for you God will take care of your needs if you will put first the kingdom of God and His righteousness but God wants you to prosper God wants you to be a blessing did you know look at what God is doing here we're building things we're doing things I couldn't do this if we didn't have prosperity we are blessing a lot of people seeing a nation change did you know they couldn't do that if they didn't have any money it takes money to do this stuff and so we want to encourage you that God made Jesus poor relative to what he was so that you through his poverty might be made rich and why did he do that so you could go get a bigger house in a bigger car God's not against you having nice things you can have bigger houses and cars but the goal ought to be not so that you can just lavish it on yourself but so that you can be a blessing you can't be a blessing to other people if you aren't blessed so you need to believe for Prosperity I want you in this offering tonight to believe for Prosperity and let me just say some things this this really isn't about the offering but it's about money and I've had some people get upset and actually mad at us and threatened to do some things and I need to explain to you something what happened but I've been saying that we're doing all of this debt-free this building and that building over there we have built them debt-free we spent over seventy five million dollars in five years and eleven months on all of this and it's been the parking garage which if you have parked out in our Lots way out here you know we need a parking garage amen and it's order to get this going we had to supply plans for the parking garage for his investors so that they could see what they were going to get and he costs four hundred thousand dollars to get the plans made and then he assured us everything was working and so we went ahead and we had to move a major water line here and do over a million dollars worth of site work leveling the thing off and stuff and then we started producing these panels that we're putting up in all of this and anyway back at the end of June or 1st of July his investors just they've never dealt with a non profit and they didn't trust us and so they put more stipulations on us it would have cost me twice as much as if I just went and got along and so anyway we turned him down and said no this isn't a good deal so we backed out of it but by that time we had five million dollars worth of indebtedness that their thing was going to pay us back and I didn't I had to make a decision in two days and I didn't have time to notify our partners so anyway we took out a five million dollar loan to cover those things and then I was going to quit and wait until the money came in before we started building the parking garage and it turns out that the prefabbed panels that they put up cannot be stored and I don't remember the reason why but they can't store them and we were going to lose all of that money we were going to lose millions of dollars worth of money that we had already spent and we were going to get out of line with them building our thing and they said it would be a year to two years before they had all these other customers and we were going to be stuck for a year or two plus add to this the city of Woodland Park has said that until we get the parking garage built they aren't giving us any more permits and they even threatened not to let us occupy the auditorium over here they were going to shut us down unless we got a parking garage built so because of all of this stuff I just said man take out a loan so anyway we've we've taken out that five million dollar loan we've been approved for another twenty three million it's going to cost twenty-one million to build the parking garage but we are only going to draw it down as we need it and I'm believing and I've got I've written a letter this weekend I'm going to be sending out to our partners maybe in the next ten days or two weeks and we are believing to not have to use any of the rest of this and finish this but we are obligated now to finish this they're going to have the parking garage finished by the end of the year and we are selling our building and in Colorado Springs worth about seven million dollars and so I'm believing to be debt free again but I wanted to say all of these things because some people have said men you lied you said you're doing things debt-free and you've taken out alone and you're misleading people well I got snookered into it it was a mistake and I'll bear responsibility I shouldn't who's you know just taking somebody out there where this got meant well and and there was nothing wrong with his heart it just didn't work out and so anyway I'll bear responsibility but that does I haven't departed from the fact that I want to be debt-free I don't feel like it's sin to take out a loan I just don't believe it's God's best and so I'm getting out of this situation as quickly as I can and I just wanted to explain that to you and let you know what's happening amen and so you add to that that we are building a 2 million dollar renovation on the adjacent property over here so we can move our 200 employees from Colorado Springs up here we're building in India we've already broken ground on that we're building in England we're doing a 380 pound renovation on our building over there and we just got through building in South Africa so we're building on four continents at one time and we just had a perfect storm where I couldn't keep things going and I didn't want to default and so anyway that's the situation if you give anything less than 23 million tonight I will have it spent by in the morning amen so all of your gifts are welcome father we love you and we thank you for loving us thank you for supplying our need and father we just thank you for the Word of God we believe that father as people give that not only is it's supplying the needs of this ministry we believe that you are blessing people back that you became poor so that we through your poverty might be made rich and father we thank you for that we just believe and trust you that this is coming to pass in the name of Jesus amen amen while they receive the offering I'm gonna have Jamie come up and she's gonna sing a portion of our God with us and stepped on her dress I think and she's gonna sing one of the selections from our God with us musical how many obviou have got that DVD or you've either come here and seen it well you know there's a lot of you but the majority of you haven't you ought to get this DVD it is the best musical you will ever hear in your life without a doubt and we're doing the heart of Christmas at Christmas at Christmas we light up everything around here it's beautiful that's true and it's usually just beautiful weather and it's a special thing and the heart of Christmas is awesome we've also videoed it and it will be available by sometime in November we will have that ready and then on November the 2nd we are going to debut a brand-new musical entitled David king of Jerusalem and so this will be the 3rd musical that our creative arts department has done I tell you they they are awesome and then on the 3rd of November we are having the dedication of this building and it will be with Jesse Duplantis and Kenneth Copeland it is going to be an awesome awesome time they're going to come and dedicate it and then on the 4th of November Sunday we're having Randy or Tony Perkins and governor Mike Huckabee are going to come here and we're doing a live cast about the midterm elections it'll be two days before the midterm elections and Tony Perkins has hundreds of thousands of people on all of his social media things and he's drawing all of them here we're going to host it from here and we are going to try and turn out the Christian vote in the midterm election so it's going to be an awesome [Applause] I just want to encourage you this God with us it's music that engraves his word on your heart and this particular scene we're going to show little just little pieces of God with us to tell you what it's about and we encourage you to get the DVD but I also encourage you if you can come and see it in person of course next year it will be in the new auditorium so there'll be plenty of room for everyone and then well this Christmas heart of Christmas will be in that auditorium so we would love to have you come and enjoy that but if God is with us who can be against us and this little part that you see it's it's just showing the different stories through the Bible and this song is about the woman with the issue of blood which I play in this but we always try to tell people when they're in that scene just imagine what it was like the first time they saw Jesus healing all his people and the excitement and and what they felt and she said the Lord my God has had mercy on me and praise God he did have mercy on us because Jesus died for us and and and we can we can be we can rejoice in that and so watch this part and then I was seeing him of his garment if God is with us who can be against us we are not alone he will help us to face new [Music] let him among you who is without sin let him throw the first stone all persons suspected of following the religious sect known as Christianity will be thrown to the Lions our desire is just to give the Word of God out to the people [Music] thank you for sending the comforter to us Holy Spirit thank you that you will lead us and remind us of faith of apron the heart of David and the pole doesn't [Music] the show itself is so powerful it draws you in it's the Word of God it's the story of Jesus Christ it's the the story of God's relentless pursuit of his people we are not afraid anything that you can we know our God is able to deliver us it doesn't save us if you chooses to let us die we will say him people who recognize themselves in being Peter who maybe wanted very well to follow Jesus but failed and we all are broken vessels and people with mistakes and flaws their lives but the grace of God can just totally cover and transform anything so no matter how far away you are from God there's always a way back there's always a grace step in mr. [Music] my daughter even now she's at the point of death please lay your hands on her that she might live somebody touched me Master were caught in this crowd like this Internet she's just placed my tote but somebody touched me I feel power go out from me my lord it was me my daughter your faith has made you whole now go in peace I stand now [Music] the Lord my redeemer had mercy upon me so I searched for a cure I went too far [Music] but no one could help me know what could free me from pain I lost all that I had silver and gold could not play but 210 the Lord my redeemer had mercy upon me [Music] touched the apartment from my bondage free after so many years living in darkness and fear every day was a fight to survive through this night with no end but today the Lord my redeemer had mercy upon me I see no here is dead [Music] now I hear him cold [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] man that's awesome and the best part of that is that's not a story that we're singing about that's reality really happened and you know what we've seen God healed the lame the blind the deaf right here in this room this isn't something that happened 2,000 years ago you know we performed this in Colorado Springs at the Pikes Peak Center and after the performance I got up and gave a little invitation and I just had some of the leading characters one of the ladies in this thing that played the leading character she was in a wheelchair when she first came had all kinds of problems and now she was she's healthy matter of fact she's moving down to Orlando and she's now working at the Holy Land experience and he's the director of those things down there and is helping take that over we had another guy that was in the play who had multiple sclerosis and was just in a situation so bad that he was just about dead in the summer and yet he believed God and God healed and was one of the persons in the cast and just totally heal had him come forward and we told his story we had another 1 Timothy McDermott was one of the boys that was autistic in England who got healed and he not only went through the England school but he came over here and lived for either two or three years by himself he couldn't even leave home he was screaming and in torment and now he was here and doing this and we had all of these people come up on the stage we had also clay call well come up who was a drug addict and was having struggling with drugs and with all kinds of other things and came to school and got totally set free and I showed him I said man this isn't just things we were talking about 2,000 years ago Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever Jesus is still doing miracles today hidden that awesome and I tell you what we're talking about now is not something that was just relevant to that day our society has departed from God and departed from faith and from things like this and they make us feel like we're the weirdos they're the weirdos this is normal Christianity paid mahan and I tell you I just am so excited about all awesome things that God is doing I want to turn over to John chapter 14 tonight and I'm gonna share with you just a small portion of a teaching about 30 years ago I came out with a teaching that I called the Christian survival kit and I haven't taught on this very often because it's there's 16 teachings in it and so I don't ever hold a meeting that 16 sessions long and on television I usually go one week on one teaching so to go 16 weeks on one subject most people lose interest so I don't teach on this very often but this is one of the most important things that God showed me and if you watch that story about Gina Boop this morning one of the things that Budd said was that he had heard me say that your first reaction pretty much dictates the way the outcome of things and I got that from right here this is Jesus speaking to his disciples the night before his crucifixion John 14 15 and 16 are all a message that he ministered to his disciples after the Lord's Supper before they went to the Garden of Gethsemane and he prayed and so it was just hours before he was going to be arrested and before he would be crucified the next day and he was saying these things to prepare his disciples matter of fact in the sixteenth chapter in verse one he said these things have I spoken unto you that in me you might are excuse me I think that's in the fourteenth chapter let me read this in verse chapter 16 these things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended so he spoke these things to prepare them for this crisis situation that they were going to be going through and then the last verse of the sixteenth chapter the last thing that's recorded here it says these things have I spoken unto you that in me you might have peace in the world you shall have tribulation like in the next 30 minutes in the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world remember the context of this this is the night before he's crucified and he's telling them be of good cheer let not your heart be troubled S is back to chapter 14 verse 1 so here's how he spoke to his disciples of the night before his crucifixion they were going to see him arrested and of course not only with Jesus life being jeopardy but all of the people who followed Jesus were also going to be in the cross hairs and they were going to be coming after them and so these guys were afraid and it says that not only did Peter but all of the disciples forsook him and fled and so these guys were scared and how is Jesus preparing them for this look at this in verse 1 John 14:1 let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me did you know that today if I wasn't reading this from Scripture if we weren't here at this conference if I hadn't have introduced this way that I had if I was just with you when the doctor says you're gonna die or whatever the crisis is that you're going through and if I walked up and said don't let your heart be troubled I guarantee you the vast majority of Christianity would condemn me and say you aren't being sensitive you are asking people to do things that are wrong and people today embrace their weaknesses not in the sense that when I'm weak then I'm strong god I'm gonna crush I trust you but they embrace their weaknesses and take glory in all of these kind of things and feel like well God I'm only human and we use this as an excuse for weakness I'm not only human one-third of me is wall to wall Holy Ghost I've been born again and I have the Spirit of God living on the inside of me these guys didn't even have the Holy Spirit and yet Jesus is telling them don't let your heart be troubled by saying it the way he did he saying you have the ability to keep your heart from being troubled and did you know again most Christians don't believe this most Christians you've heard me say this a lot but most Christians fall apart like a $2.00 suitcase when trouble hit knocks on their door and they embrace this they let their emotions go while they vent and throw out all of their unbelief speak all of this stuff and then after they've just you know spiritually thrown up all over themselves and covered in all of their unbelief then they go to God and oh god I'm gonna trust you and believe you but I but the very first thing you have to do the first thing that Jesus told his disciples don't let your heart be troubled you do not let your heart be troubled you have the ability to control your reactions you know I've got a teaching entitled harnessing your emotions and on the cover of it as a picture it's a drawing of a guy riding a horse but the horse is totally out of control the saddle came loose the saddle swung around on the underside of the horse he's holding on around the horse's neck for dear life the horse is totally out of control and it says harnessing your emotions and the reason I use that is because I've had horses most of my life and you know I've learned about horses that if you let a horse get away from you and get into a run you just might as well jump off unless you really know what you're doing there's not much that you can do to turn a 1,200 pound a 2,000 pound horse around and stop them it is easy to stop a horse from getting out of control but once you let it get out of control you're in big trouble my horses were always green broke because I didn't have time to read them ride him very much and I didn't have much time to work with him and so they were they were just half broke and I remember a little seven-year-old boy came out and I just taught him a few things what the Bible says you put a bit in the horse's mouth a horse can't do anything without its mouth you know if the horse wants to rare it can't rare up unless it throws its head back so what you do is put a tie down on it keep it from throwing its head back and it will never rare up on you if a horse wants to get down and roll and try and get you off all you got to do is watch it and if it starts to put its head down yank that bit up and keep its head up and a horse will never get down and roll on you a horse can't run that direction with its head turn this direction so it can't do it I actually held a horse a 1200 pound horse down on the ground one time with my foot on his head a 1200 pound horse there's no way that physically I could do it except a horse has to throw its head up before it can get up and you hold its foot you put it your foot on its head and hold its head down you can't get up you can control the 1200 pound horse this is all what James chapter 3 says you put a bit in the horse's mouth and you control their whole body so I taught this little kid that he rode that horse for an hour and a half and the horse misbehaves somebody just did what I told him and there was not a single problem as soon as he got off there was another guy that came with his son and his son was 22 years old and he had just been married and he was going to show his wife that he could ride and I started to tell him the same stuff all I can handle it within five minutes he was on his way to the hospital the same horse that had been ridden for an hour and a half by a seven-year-old a 22 year old couldn't handle it because he was showing off and and let the horse get away I tell the reason I bring that up is to say that if you will control oars in the moment they start to do something you deal with it it's fine but if you let a horse get away with stuff you're in big trouble now I may not relate to everybody but to any of you that have ever had horses and stuff that's true and it's true of a lot of things you know when our son died we got a call at 4:15 in the morning told us that our son was dead and Jamie and I because of this exact teaching this is the exact words of Jesus that came to me let not your heart be troubled and most people say well that's you would be in denial you're in denial if you don't indulge it you just aren't being honest no you're being carnal as what you are when you go about how you feel I'm not denying that I had all kinds of feelings come at me but I am denying that all I am is a physical human being and I have to respond in grief and sorrow if something bad happens I've got a spirit on the inside of me and the fruit of that spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance and it's producing that 100% of the time and I don't care if I get news that somebody has died I don't care if I get news that I'm gonna die I don't care what the what the world has to say Jesus telling his disciples the night before his crucifixion if there was ever a justification for people being upset it should have been the disciples of Jesus matter of fact many people would have argued and said well you didn't really love him if you if you could just keep from being troubled when you see him arrested when you see him beaten when you see him crucified something would have been wrong with them if they didn't just you know work weren't heartbroken and yet Jesus gave him a command let not your heart be troubled I always have had time to preach all of this to you there's another verse over in here look in the fourteenth I'm going to come back but look in John chapter fourteen and in verse verse 28 he have heard that I said unto you I go away and come again unto you if you loved me you would rejoice because I said I'd go unto the Father for my father is greater than I now again remember the context he had already told them I'm leaving where I go you know in the way you know and he had told him they said no we don't know where you're going he said I am the way the truth and the life and he had been explaining all this to him so now he comes back to it and he says I've told you that I'm leaving and I'm going to the Father if you loved me you would rejoice this is a radical statement you need to put your spiritual seatbelt on this will do rakh some of you but you know why they grieved why they were afraid why they ran because they love themselves more than they love Jesus if they love Jesus even though they didn't understand the total plan of salvation and they didn't understand that he was going to die and rise from the dead if anybody ever pleased the father and if anybody ever walked with God if anybody was ever going to go into the presence of God after death it would have been Jesus and if they loved him more than they love themself they would have even rejoiced because he constantly was saying that man I love my father I only do what I see my father do he would he would minister all day long and be totally tired and yet he would spend all night long in prayer with his father man Jesus loved his father he longed to be with his father and if they would have loved him more than they love themselves they would have actually found reason to rejoice at the crucifixion of Jesus before he was resurrected even if they didn't understand he was going to be raised from the dead they would have said at least he's with his father and they could have rejoiced and brothers and sisters I'm singing this in love but the reason that we are so distressed and so so disheartened and depressed and all of these other things are because we love ourselves so much if we love God you can actually get to a place where you're so excited about seeing him that man if you die awesome and if you don't die it's you're gonna be able to rub the devil's nose in this and give a testimony and so you're just you're just pleased whichever way it goes you don't let your heart be troubled you know in your heart is troubled again I'm saying this in love it's because we're operating in fear because we're so fearful about ourself we aren't understanding the love that God has for us we don't understand the great things that he's got prepared for us the Apostle Paul see he was in a relationship with God where he says I'm in a great Strait between two choices one is to go be with the father which is far better for me that's what I really want to do but I know that I have to stay here for your benefit he was ready to go man when they came to Paul and said if you don't quit preaching the gospel we're gonna kill you he'd just reach up kiss him on the forehead say awesome so they'd say well then we'll put you in jail and he says fine I'll just praise God and they have an earthquake and get everybody in the jail set so they say well man get out of here so he says okay and he goes back to the marketplaces and preach the gospel how do you intimidate a person that's not afraid to die you know when I was in Vietnam it was right after I had had this experience with the Lord March the 23rd 1968 I got drafted in June of 69 and by January of 70 I was in Vietnam and I was just so in love with God that man I was just having an awesome time if it's hard for me to explain I was praying that God would kill me but it wasn't because I was miserable and it wasn't because Vietnam was bad it was because I was so in love with God I just wanted to go be with Jesus so bad that I honestly was asking God to kill me and I remember one time I was I was a chaplains assistant and we got sent out to a place this place wasn't any bigger than this room right here and in a two-hour period of time we took a hundred-and-something mortar hits inside of that perimeter and you could see the muzzle fire from the Vietnamese coming up the hill and it looked like we were going to be overrun in a matter of fact what they were overrun I was a chaplains assistant and they got us out they got the chaplain and me out right before the hill was overrun and nearly every person on that hill was killed it was a life-and-death situation and I remember what was going on I had my m16 pointed down the hill I never had to fire it because they were out of range but I could see the muzzle fire from their weapons and you know what I was doing I was just praying and said oh Jesus I could be with you before the night is up I was so excited I was just thinking this is awesome awesome and I was just so happy I was thinking oh thank you Father and I was so blessed and then I got to thinking about the Vietnamese that I had my gun pointed at and I started saying but God they don't know you and I was interceding and praying for these guys that I was about to shoot and I just had love flowing through me and I was so excited and I know some of you think I'm weird well I think you're weird Paul says for me to live is Christ to die is gain I'm in a strait between two you know you can get Tory you love God more than you love yourself and it's not about you and one of the benefits of this is that when you get that place Satan can only use selfishness fear has no place if you don't love yourself so much you know enrollment Revelation chapter 12 I was just studying this this week and it says that you know the dragon the old serpent the devil was cast down to the earth and he would had great wrath because he knew that he had a short time and the people of the believers on the earth they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death did you know for you to overcome you got to get to where you don't love your life so much the reason some of you are just so heartbroken because you got a sickness and you could dies because you love yourself so much you need to get over yourself I don't know how to say this any differently it's just you know what if you had if you were dead to yourself you could take a corpse and put it here in front of us and you could spit on the corpse you could kick the corpse you can insult the corpse you could ignore the corpse and if it's a corpse it won't respond you know why you respond why you are just so heartbroken it's because you aren't dead to yourself it's because you haven't cashed your carer over on the Lord we have fallen under the spell of our society that is just all about self everything is about you and we have adopted this and we are just out to promote self and when self suffers man you just can't handle it you know I was just in Norway and there was a man Dennis Greenidge and he's a pastor in London I'd never met him before and I was the main speaker I think I spoke four times then he spoke the first time in the last time I'd never meant this man before he was an african-american a pastor in London and he got up and he says I've never been Andrew I've never heard his teaching but as I prayed about this God told me my assignment was to just prime the pump I am here to get you opened up to what this man has to say and he spent his whole hour telling people to expect open up your heart God is gonna speak through this man and I'd never met Dennis but you know what I said this man loves God more than he loves himself I in my 50 years I've never had anybody get up and do something like that and so man that drew me to him and we got to visit with him and he's just an awesome guy it was great but did you know there's very few people that would put the kingdom of God above themselves and because of that that's the reason that when something happens to self you just are hurt so badly and you can't get over it I'm telling you your emotions if you ever let your emotions get out of control it's hard to rein them back in matter of fact are you still in John chapter 14 look over here in James chapter one let me show you this I'm going to come back maybe in James chapter one in verse 13 let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with evil neither tempteth he any man but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed then when lust hath conceived it brings forth sin and sin when it is finished brings forth death this says it's sin has to be conceived sin doesn't come upon you like a seizure it has to be conceived this is talking about birth you know I'm not gonna teach on how a baby comes hopefully everybody here knows this I'm gonna take some things for granted but babies aren't brought by the stork you don't just get pregnant without having a physical relationship with the man you have to be impregnated you have to conceive a child this says sin has to be conceived and where is it conceived in your lust we use the word lust nearly exclusively to describe immoral sexual desire but the word lust if you look it up in the way it was used in the King James a matter of fact over in Galatians chapter 5 it says the spirit lust against the flesh and the flesh lusts against the spirit the spirit the holy spirit does not have an immoral ungodly sexual drive or desire the word lust isn't used the way that we use it today it's just talking about strong emotion sin is conceived in your emotions there are people that do not want to sin and yet they allow in a sense intercourse with the devil through their emotions when you sit there and allow fear in and I could name a dozen things right here but going back to John chapter 14 verse 1 when you let your heart be troubled when sickness comes and you begin to panic and oh no what am I going to do and you get fearful about all of these things you have allowed Satan to plant a seed in your life that you don't want to come to fruition but you indulge it most people allow their emotions just to go the full gamut and only after they've cried all they can cry after they have worried all they can worry they turn to the Lord oh god help me by that time you've got to have an abortion you've already got this thing in process it's in the birth canal and you're gonna have to have an abortion and I tell you that's not the way to deal with things the way to do it is not to conceive it if you can control your emotions you can stop sin and I'm not only talking about sin but you can stop sickness from having a hold on you you know I started telling this story about when we got the call about my son being dead and immediately we had these feelings of grief sorrow anything that anybody else would have but this exact verse the Lord spoke to me let not your heart be troubled if you let your emotions go if you let yourself get into unbelief it's gonna be hard hard hard to overcome this and so Jamie and I immediately agreed we immediately spoke our faith and we had enough wisdom from the Word of God to know that death and life is in the power of the tongue so we weren't gonna speak something contrary to what we believed so we didn't say anything for a long time I mean we went we got dressed we had to get up and get dressed and head in the Colorado Springs it was an hour in 15 minutes didn't have cellphones in 2001 and so we didn't know what had gone on and finally I just I was feeling so much grief and sorrow and things come against me that I just said I am NOT gonna let this happen I am NOT going to grieve even over the death of my son and I started praising God and I started saying father you did not kill my son you didn't do this I'm not blaming you you're a good god and I just started praising him and saying father thank you and whether our son comes back to life or not I'm going to serve you with everything I've got I just started praising God and you know it's like priming the pump when you start praising God maybe I didn't feel like it then but when I started just encouraging myself in the Lord again go back to that chapter 16 verse 33 in the world you shall have tribulation he didn't say do this only when everything's going good but when you're in the midst of tribulation when everything is bad in the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer not just when things are good and when you're in the midst of tribulation be of good cheer for I have overcome the world and I just started praising God and within just a few moments man all of a sudden God brought prophesies back to my remembrance faith welled up and I started laughing not by faith but by feeling and I started saying this is gonna be awesome our sons coming back from the dead he'd been dead for nearly five hours between four and five hours he had been stripped naked put in a freezer in a morgue with a toe tag on and he just sat up and started talking [Music] it was awesome and after being dead without oxygen for over four hours there was no brain damage no more than he had before and today he's alive and well and we've got a granddaughter that just turned 16 years old and life is good and good things are happening and you know why because we grabbed hold of our emotions and did not let our heart be troubled someone was saying how can you do that the rest of the verse you believe in God believe also in me you know how you let not your heart be troubled faith believe God well I don't feel like believe in God faith isn't a feeling faith can involve feelings sometimes you have feelings but did you know actually you are operating in some of your strongest faith when you don't feel anything when I saw my son raised from the dead I wasn't feeling faith I did it because it was the right thing to do did you know some of the biggest failures I've ever had is when I felt awesome because I wasn't really trusting God I wasn't acting on what the word said I was doing it because I had a goose bump I had a feeling and man that was I was confident in that feelings are fickle feelings come and go when they are good enjoy them but don't transfer your faith over to them don't start saying I know God's gonna do something because I feel it if you feel it enjoy the feeling but don't trust your feelings don't let feelings dominate you what I'm saying right here is foreign to I'd say 99% of the body of Christ the vast majority of people go a hundred percent by how they feel man you pray form you quote the words you have a prophecy you do all of these things and they say well I just don't feel any different that's not faith and I'd like to say a lot of things but you know what I hate to drive you off in the first day Daniel and Carly will be a lot nicer than I am you come back and you'll laugh with them and you'll have fun and it'll be it'll be good but I'm telling you just put your thumb out of your mouth and grow up bless God you need to start using some faith well I don't feel something well who cares how you feel why is feeling so important well I just don't love this I just don't feel love well then you're just carnal that's what it is because in your spirit there's love joy and peace the born again part of you loves the people who hate you and the people who persecute you and the people who use your name despitefully the born-again part of you is identical to Jesus and you have his love and stuff and when you go well I know that the Lord says I'm supposed to forgive I know the Lord says I'm supposed to love them but I just don't feel it well you're saying I'm just not gonna operate out of my spirit I'm gonna be carnal you probably wouldn't say it that way but that's exactly what you're doing but I feel fear within your carnal there is no fear in your spirit are you gonna walk in the spirit who you are in Christ are you gonna appropriate what he's done for you are you just gonna live like a normal natural man or woman I'm telling you it's so simple if we would cast our care over on the Lord and not let things get on the inside of us Satan just couldn't overwhelm you you know I prayed with a man today over here that's been diagnosed with cancer and the natural supposed to die but he's just happy he's trust in God there all of the reports are bad but he says I'm just fine and he's praising God and I told him there was a woman that came here to school and she was given only 6 months to live and they said there was nothing they could do for so she never went back and it's been I don't know five six years she was given six months to live and it's five or six years and she just healthy as a horse and why go back they said they couldn't do anything for her so just keep going and she's trucking and she's doing good amen I'm telling you Satan cannot do anything to you without your consent and cooperation and one of the things that cooperate that cooperates with him and enables him is fear worried care you could describe this in a lot of ways but what it is it's not trusting God did you start trusting him he's already promised that by His stripes you were healed if you really believe that you wouldn't be so concerned and we do have a part to play and it is possible that we could miss it and God's will doesn't always come to pass not because God's one who fails a bit because we don't appropriate it but even if you miss it you go to heaven you live forever in a mansion on streets that are paved with gold you got no reason to gripe or complain you got no reason to be upset if you get healed it's awesome use it for a testimony and if you die it's awesome you got nothing to worry about if you could get this attitude to where man you just praise God you know it's like the three Hebrew children they commanded them to bow before the image and they wouldn't do it and he brought him up and he says I'll give you an one more chance you bow and I won't punish you but if you don't bow I'm gonna throw you into fiery furnace and they said Oh King we are not careful to answer you in other words we aren't afraid of you we aren't afraid of what you're doing our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and he will deliver us but even if he doesn't we still aren't gonna bow they said our God can deliver us they were believing for it but even if it doesn't work I'm still not gonna bow I don't care that is awesome some people think well that was a statement of unbelief no that's just a statement that you know not everything works perfectly we fall we live in a fallen world God doesn't always stop persecution against us we're redeemed from sickness and things like that but you aren't redeemed from persecution all those who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution the only Christians that aren't persecuted are Christians that don't live godly if you live godly you will be persecuted people will hate you people will criticize you so there are times that things don't work out and they were saying we don't care if you do kill us we still aren't going to serve you and you know what they happen to experience a mighty deliverance because when you put yourself in that position where you're just resting in the Lord and you're at peace it really hinders what the devil can do he has to have your cooperation Satan has to have your cooperation to destroy your life and when you're at peace and when you just say I'm not gonna let my heart be troubled I'm gonna believe in God I'm gonna trust God and man if I win I win and if I lose I win I can't lose for winning you get that attitude man it's a powerful position to be in when you cast your carer over on the Lord look at this passage over in first Peter chapter 5 the same thing is said nearly word-for-word in James chapter 4 but in 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 5 likewise ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble you can define define pride in a lot of ways most people only defied pride as thinking you're better superior to everybody else that is one manifestation of pride but did you know that low self esteem is pride did you know that being self-confident or you can do everything on your own that's pride pride can manifest itself in a lot of different ways and did you know that taking worry and care and trying to solve all of your problems instead of casting your care over on the Lord that's pride you can see that if you keep reading in context so he said God resists the proud giveth grace unto the humble humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time how do you humble yourself casting all your care upon him for he careth for you if you haven't cast your care over on the Lord if you're worrying about things how is this gonna play out and you just cannot get over it it is tormenting you you haven't humbled yourself you haven't cashed your carrier over on the Lord you're in Pride you are trying to fix this you feel like the responsibility for this thing is upon your shoulders and you're bearing all of the responsibility I'm telling you there is a position of strength when you just get to where you know again this is what Jamie and I did on the way in when our son had died I just said father I'm gonna love you I'm gonna praise you anyway I am NOT gonna grieve over this I am NOT going to be destroyed by this I don't care how it works out and when you do that man that puts you in a position of strength I mean the devil can't stand that he can't stand he doesn't know how to relate to people that don't fall apart when something goes wrong he just can't understand why is it that I just hit you with this and you are praising God and you're still happy what's wrong with you when you're in an MRI machine and you start writing a song what kind of weirdo would write a song in an MRI machine use the cadence of the MRI machine as a beat to go off it's you're soft you're stark raving mad fanatic when you do stuff and he just so happened to get healed man that's the way you react to thing but you know what you can't do that if you love yourself more than you love God but when you get to where you love God more than you love yourself it's just like who gives a rip you know I care about what's happening here I've got a vision God has shown me we're building this building we're going to move into it next week we're building the parking garage this building is 72,000 square feet that building is a hundred and fifty two thousand square feet one and a half times as big the parking garage is one and a half times bigger than both of these buildings put together and then I've got all kinds of other things I've got over a hundred and fifty maybe 200 million dollars worth of stuff that God has shown me to do and I'm heading in that direction and I do care about it but in another sense I don't care if it doesn't work who cares I really don't care that much I don't stay up at night worrying about this how many of you need two hundred million dollars there's probably nobody else in here who needs that much money I need did you know that right now we need over five million dollars a month just to break even and I figured out forgetting exactly what it was but that's like five seven thousand dollars an hour 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year since I've been preaching I needed five thousand dollars since this service has been going I need nearly ten thousand dollars how many of you would that would bother you but you know what I've learned to cast my karo ver on the Lord and I believe things are gonna work out but even if they don't work out I don't really care I've already seen God do more than I ever thought he would do and then say night you know what if I shoot for the stars and only hit the moon that's awesome hey then I'm just not worried about it you can get to a place to where you love God and you know I honestly mean I've said this and people question whether I mean it but honestly I'm just in love with God and I don't I don't have a five-year or ten-year gold and I'm not trying to get oh god please help me to get this done I don't have anything that I want God to do all I want to do is know God God has told me to do these things and to the best of my ability I'm following that but you know if God was to tell me your times up turn the ministry over to somebody else turn over your hundred and twenty million dollars worth of assets and just give it to them and move to a grass hut in Africa I'd be content to do it I probably be by myself [Applause] Jamie's idea of camping is not getting a suite in the hotel I don't know if she'd go with me but I'm honest I could walk away from this I've done what God told me to do this isn't my baby this is what God told me if you haven't seen the video about the little star video you ought to go watch it on our website Gilbert Jackson saw these buildings dedicated this property to Christian education and had a vision of this and before I knew that I designed it and we had this building built before I knew that this was his vision this is what he saw this wasn't my vision I didn't come up with this and ask God to help me build it God gave this vision to Gilbert Jackson and without me knowing anything about it I fulfilled it because it was God's vision it's not my vision I'm not I'm not trying to get God to do something it's his and if he wants me to walk away I can walk away from it I mean that with all of my heart I could walk away tomorrow I just don't care what I care about is knowing God I've cast my carer over on the Lord and you know what God gives grace to people who've humbled himself and cast their care so I'm saying this this applies to a lot of things but this applies to healing that you know if something's going on in your body one of the ways to deal with it is just to get to where God I know that you've already provided it I'm believing and receiving but even if for some reason I don't obtain it who cares I'm gonna go to be with you you'll take care of whatever isn't undone and you just lose you're worried about worry even medical profession will tell you that stress and worry hinders your immune system your body doesn't function as well when you're in fear and when you're worried about something but when you have joy a merry heart does good like a medicine you would just be shocked how well things would go if you just cast your care over on the Lord and say God this is your problem it's your problem now that doesn't mean you extract yourself because God uses us and you say it's your problem what do you want me to do I'll do whatever you tell me to do but I'm not going to stay up trying to figure out how to solve this problem man that's awesome back in John 14:1 he said let not your heart be troubled believe God and then he starts talking about in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go to prepare a place where I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also why did he start talking about heaven because you just told you not to worry not to take care how do you do that well one of the ways you do it is to say you know what if it never works out in this life if I never see my mate saved if I never see the money come in if I never see my body healed or anything man in heaven I'm gonna be healed I'm gonna live in a mansion and you just start living by faith and saying ultimately I will win and it helps you to put things into perspective you know some have you've heard me tell this story but go to Charlotte North Carolina every year have been doing it for 33 years this will be September will be my last time to go after 33 years going and anyway I had a partner there that every time I went he would have me come in and speak to his staff and he had about 30 people and he tells them the clock is running you listen to this man talk as long as he wants to talk and I would just talk to him and then go back into a back room and pray with him and we saw people healed and born again baptized in the Holy Spirit and I did that for many many years and anyway one time I went there and there was a woman that came back to talk to me and she had tried to kill herself the day before she was an alcoholic she was in her third or fourth marriage and her husband had told her he was going to divorce her they were dirt poor I actually went over to her house and I mean it you could throw a cat through the wall of the house it was just Plains up and some of them were warped and knocks out and you could literally put an animal through the walls of the house that's not an exaggeration it was she was a mess and she had tried to kill herself the day before and so she came in and she was just crying and she says I'm not a Christian like you and chip the owner of this business but I know the God drill and would you please pray with me that my husband won't divorce me it'll be my fourth divorce he's she said I just can't stand it if he divorces match the reason I tried to kill myself so I told his woman I said now let me make sure I got this straight I said you aren't a Christian and you know you aren't a Christian and she said that's right and I said if you were to die right now you would go to hell instead of heaven and she says that's right and I said and you want me to pray for your marriage and not pray for your salvation and she said that's right and I said lady don't you realize after you've burned in hell for a thousand years you aren't gonna give a rip whether this marriage ever worked out or not who cares about your marriage you need to be born again and it's just like I slapped her she just stopped and she looked at me she says you're right and so I prayed with her and she got born again and then we prayed for her marriage so I'm not saying that marriage is unimportant but I'm saying you got to put things into perspective compared to Eternity what is your marriage and yet I could guarantee you there's people in here that you've gone through a divorce or something has happened or you're struggling in your marriage and because of that you just cannot let not your heart be troubled you cannot rejoice even in the midst of tribulation you feel justified in doing this and you know what even though there are physical reasons and I'm not saying you don't have a problem your future is so bright you got a squint to look at it and if things in this life are so bad that you just honestly feel like nobody knows the trouble I feel nobody knows my sorrows if that's the way that you feel well then close your eyes and look at heaven and think about how awesome it's going to be in heaven and put things into perspective that's what the Apostle Paul did 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 he said in verses 16 through 18 our light affliction which he had suffered more than anybody in here had ever suffered and he says our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal so how was it that he was able to take his terrible problems and say it's just a light affliction it was because he put it into perspective it's just for a moment it's only for 30 or 40 years compared to eternity that's nothing thank man I know what I'm saying is just as foreign to most people and that's the reason that most people go through life stressed out and when something bad happens you struggle and you have to run and get somebody else to help you it's because you can't control your own emotions you don't even think it's possible that's not even a goal for you you just fall apart and then after everything is total destruction after you've had intercourse with the devil and let sin and sorrow in then you try and stop the birth of that sin that's the wrong way to live that's just as wrong as a woman who doesn't exercise control and she gets pregnant all the time but she never wants to have a baby that's just wrong the way to control that isn't to just sleep around and then use abortion it's just stop doing it you will never have a baby if you don't conceive one I promise you there is only one virgin birth and it's not you you aren't the second one likewise you'll never have the devil just destroy if you keep your emotions under control and let not your heart be troubled cast your carer over on the Lord and begin to start rejoicing in the Lord in the midst of the MRI machine write a song that is so amazing and it just so happens in less than 24 hours he was what pristine is that what they said Christine health oh I won't that well write a song in the middle of your MRI tree everybody wants the results but nobody wants to sit there and praise God when your life is falling apart when they're threatening to throw you into the fiery furnace man you're making you're cutting deals you're doing all kinds of things instead of just saying that man it doesn't matter shoot your voice shot amen praise God I tell you brothers and sisters God is for us he's not against us and if you really believe that you could rest in that and it just makes you different than other people you know I've read a number of books foxes Book of Martyrs and the encyclopedia of Christian martyrs and I've read a lot about Christians in the early centuries up through the third century and did you know that they I was actually in the Rome and went to the Colosseum and then went through the catacombs and I read all of these reports of the first century Christians and did you know that they would fight over who got to go out and die for their faith they would literally fight to see who could go out first because the Bible said that you know as your days are so shall your strength be in other words whatever you're going through God will give you the grace to be able to handle it and there is a special grace upon people who lay down their life for the Lord and they experience the presence of God so much that they would literally fight to see who got to go out and die first there's not very many Christians today that would do that and you know why it's because we love our lives but they loved not their lives unto the death and I remember when I went through the catacombs I was 18 years old when this happened and in the catacombs they had to bring their dead and they would bury him in the passageways they'd dig graves back into the side and bury them there so that the Romans wouldn't come and desecrate the bodies and they would put inscriptions over these graves and I remember reading one inscription and a man said here lies my wife and six-month-old daughter who gave their life for the glory of God in the Circus Maximus today and he gave the date and you could just hear his pride in his wife and six-month-old daughter who gave their life for the Lord and you know why people like that they saw in less than 30 years they saw the known Roman world evangelized Alexandria in Egypt was over 80 percent Christian within 30 years of the resurrection of Jesus they shipped the Roman world they did more to impact their world and we have done with all of our media with our our live-streaming and all of our products and everything that we've got you know why because they were so on fire for God we actually read that Nero physically was quoted as putting his fingers in his ears as they burn Christians at the stake they would sharpen poles and run them up through a person and impale them on the pole and then set him on fire and Nero stuck his fingers in his ears and said why must these Christians sing it tormented him the Christians were singing and glorifying God as they were in excruciating pain Steven when he was stolen to death he looked up and saw Jesus standing at the Father's right hand you know the Bible every time in the Bible it talks about Jesus after he ascended back to heaven he's seated at the Father's right hand but for the first martyr of the church very first person that was killed for their faith in the Lord I believe Jesus stood in honor of Stephen and Stephen saw into heaven and saw and because he had his eyes set on Jesus I'm not even sure he felt all of the pain of the stones that came at him and man he saw the Lord High and lifted up and because of it he was able to rejoice and say father lay not this sin to their charge all because he didn't love himself he let not his heart be trouble he cast his care over on the Lord things were more important to him than himself and I tell you this is one of the greatest things you may not think that this is a healing sermon but it is yourself your love of self is Satan's beachhead he can't have anything against you you know Jesus said that the temperature has come and he has nothing in me Satan could not do anything they could not have killed Jesus I don't care if they had crucified him a dozen times I don't care what they had done he was pure life and there was no death in him he had to give his life Satan had no access to him and you know that through what Jesus has done for us you can close the doors to the devil you can get to where you're so focused on God and thinking about him then honestly he can't get you into fear he can't get you into unbelief he can't get you into depression you're just gonna rejoice and praise God all the way to the grave if that's what it takes but you are one happy blessed person walking in faith and this strange thing is when you do that you get healed because a merry heart does good like a medicine believing in God is healthy but fear and all of this stuff that we operate in it hinders the things of God it hinders your own body from healing itself when you're in stress so brothers and sisters I just am saying to you that you need to let not your heart be troubled you need to get to where you cast your care over on the Lord and if you do that you'd find out that that would do more to help you get healed than a lot of things that you could do his just get to her my father I trust you I believe in you you know I went golfing in in Florida and I've got sunburned real bad and I had this thing on my ear some IV I saw it I had it for six years and it was a cancer a matter of fact dr. Byrd right here on my board he was really concerned about this and he was trying to believe with me but he was just looking at it in the natural and every time we'd have a board meeting he'd say get over here and his son and hit look at my ear and he'd refrained from saying things but I could tell he didn't like it and I had other people walk up and say it's a melanoma you got cancer and all of these things and you know what I just I don't know I knew that by the stripes of Jesus I was healed and I didn't have to look at it I can't see my ear I had to go out of my way to see it and I just chose not to look at it and the thing would bleed and and it was not good and you know what I just didn't care and I actually had to deal with people well you could die and I prayed for two people in one service who had their ear amputated and parts of it cut off because of the exact same thing and I'd lay hands on them and pray for them while my ear was sitting there bleeding and you know what I just didn't care and I had to confront well what happens if you don't get healed well I get to go see Jesus that was fine with me there's people right here that saw me with all of that know how it was and you know what it took six years I'm sure it wasn't God's fault it was my fault part of it because honestly I just didn't care that much about it I didn't focus on it but praise God my ears healed today and I didn't do anything to it and it's healed and I'm telling you it works I even had a guy come pray for me pastor Bobby ray who's a great guy and he operates in the prophetic and he said he saw hundreds of little demons like ants that were trying to get into me through my ear and they were just all lowered but they couldn't get in the devil was trying to get at me and I he just had no place in me I didn't have any fear about it and he worried I never confessed I every time so about what's wrong with your ear I said my ears healed well it doesn't look heal well it is heal and finally when it was all manifest people who come up and say your ears healed and I said I told you it was healed what's wrong with you hey man do you have to see it before you believe it for he's God I tell you brothers and sisters God has given us power and ability to walk by faith that is different than walking by sight 2nd Corinthians 5:7 we walk by faith and not by sight we've got access to power that we aren't using you can operate in faith you can believe God you can still your emotions if you got butterflies in your stomach you're afraid over something command them to fly in formation amen you don't have to deny they exist but just tell them to get in line a menu will straighten up amen I don't deny that I have negative emotions but I do deny that those are all I've got I've also got all of the fruit of the Spirit and I am going to operate and what God says regardless what I feel you know what I could be bothered over all of the financial stuff that I shared with you tonight but you know what I'm not God's gonna work it out and you just give me a little bit of time you hide and watch and I'll come out smelling like a rose amen it'll happen somehow I don't believe that well then it won't work for you but I believe it it's gonna work for me father we thank you for these crews thank you for the word of God and father just as Jesus was telling his disciples the night before the worst thing that anybody could ever encounter is your crucifixion resurrection you told them not to let their heart be troubled father I speak this to my brothers and sisters in here and right now I'm asking that you would help people to cast their care about things over on you to quit being fearful to quit being worried to just let it go father we trust you we trust you even to death father we trust your word we trust it without without reservations we don't trust you just to a point we trust you completely we trust you with our life we trust your word father and I believe that people tonight are able to cast their care over on the Lord right now father we thank you you know the Bible says humble yourself under the mighty hand of God casting all of your care upon him because he cares for you if you've been taking care if you've been worried and fearful you need to trust the Lord and you do it by humbling yourself and saying father I'm sorry I've I've taken this upon myself I'm trying to deal with this and only human natural ability I'm gonna trust you I'm gonna turn this over to you you know if that's you if God has spoken to you through this tonight I'd like to ask you to stand right where you are and I'm gonna pray for you and we're gonna help you cast your care over on the Lord about your physical problems we're praying from primarily about healing it could be something else but if you've been worried about stuff we're just gonna let this go tonight thank you Jesus [Music] that's the vast majority of people I think this must have been the right message and you know the bad thing about casting your care over on the Lord is it'll come back to you if you let it it's not a one-time thing you started you make this decision but then you're gonna have to commit to continuing to do this and it'll be relatively easy while you're here because you're going to be sitting under the word and hearing good things and you'll be encouraged but when you go back home you're gonna have to make this decision that I am NOT going to take care for this thing I'm gonna walk free of this I'm not gonna let my heart be troubled so father right now thank you for all the people that have responded to this thank you for the Word of God that has gone forth and father we believe that right now the presence of the Holy Spirit that you just helped every single person to cast their care over on the Lord thank you Jesus you know just in the symbolic way I'd like you to put your hands like this and just imagine that here's your cares and you just give them to the Lord and let God take a look just let it go father I'm not taking care for this anymore I'm not worried about it I'm not worried about how I'm gonna pay for this stuff I'm not worried about my funeral I'm not worried about what people are gonna say about me I'm not worried about anything father I trust you I cast my carer over on the Lord and I believe that you are solving this problem and father if there's something you want me to do if there's something I need to do I'm all ears as I'm here this week father I'm gonna listen to the Word of God I'm going to receive instruction I am gonna do what you tell me to do but I but the the responsibility is on you my responsibility is to respond to your ability and father I cast this care over on you I trust you father I believe that you are taking care of it I believe that I'm being healed right here in this life and if for some reason I never saw the healing father experience it in eternity with you but I am NOT going to worry about it anymore father we give it to you and we just thank you for taking this care and father I believe that the faith of God is rising up on the inside of people that they will act on this and then father we are gonna walk out of this place carefree walking in the joy of the Lord writing a song in the midst of our tragedy in the midst of our problem Thank You father father we praise you right now just by faith I want you to begin to praise God it's now in his hands you start thanking God father thank you for taking this from us thank you Father that you now have all of the care and father we believe that you're free to move in our life and Satan we believe that you no longer have any beachhead in our life you have no landing zone you have nothing in us we refuse to operate in fear and worry and care and bitterness father we just let it all go and we thank you that you've taken it that Satan has no place in us Thank You Heavenly Father hallelujah praise the Lord I believe they're right there some of you're just experiencing a peace of God that passes understanding your situation hasn't changed yet but in spite of what you see there's a peace it passes understanding that is coming into your heart thank you Jesus that the love of God is flowing towards you right now and faith works by love Galatians 5:6 right now faith is beginning to rise peace is beginning to rise man don't get out of peace let the peace of God rule in your heart thank you Father father we labor to enter into that place of rest it's where we believe you've already done it and we've cast our care upon you we receive it we thank you for it right now in the mighty mighty name of Jesus hallelujah praise God y'all agree with that praise the Lord Amen hey man you can be seated I tell you I believe that that's what the Lord wanted to share tonight there was a lot of people that responded to that and you know there's more to healing than just cast in your care over on the Lord but I believe it's a first step jesus said very first thing don't let your heart be troubled grab hold of these emotions don't let them get out of control that's the first step it's not the only step but it's an important first step and I believe that this is going to make a difference in your life praise the Lord I want to invite our prayer ministers to come up here again and you know we've already prayed with a lot of people for healing today Daniel and Carla we're going to be praying with you more we saw I think I heard that there was a hundred and sixty eight books given out this morning so that means that probably at least that many got baptized in the Holy Spirit there might have been some that didn't get it but man isn't that awesome that is just awesome I tell you what that's going to make a huge huge difference in what goes on in your life but even though we've ministered so many people today if there's anybody here you know if your faith has been quickened and now you feel like you're fighting from a position of rest and peace instead of fear we would love to come and agree with you you know I've cast demons out of people in services before were they manifest in all kinds of weird things happen and when that happens lots of times people who can start going Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus or they'll go our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done and they start doing all of this and they think that somehow or another that's overcoming the devil did you know that actually Lucis the devil because you're in absolute fear Smith Wigglesworth one time he saw something move at the foot of his bed as he was going to bed he got his candle and held it up and looked and there was a demon standing there and he said oh it's only you and he blew the candle out and went to bed because he knew that Satan had no place in him did you know that that is more of a position of strength then panic and it said Oh father and you start rebuking and fighting sometimes the best thing you can do is just rest it takes faith to rest and to cast the Care over on the Lord and say god I can't handle this I'm gonna let you have it so if you have been ministered to tonight if you're in a position of rest if you're ready to release your faith please come down here and let somebody agree with you we would love to continue to do that Matt do you have any other instructions for tomorrow seven-thirty all right so the resources will open at 7:30 the doors will open at 8:00 if the doors don't open till 8:00 how do they get in the doors to this auditorium don't open until 8:00 but you can get in the building at 7:30 and go down to the resources all right gotcha praise God thank you for we've had a great day god bless you if you need prayer just keep down here we will get to you we'll see you in the morning [Music] you

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