Healing School with Daniel Amstutz - September 23, 2021

they'll lay hands on the sick and they will get sicker is that what i said we're gonna lay hands on the sick and what they will recover amen praise god this is the power of the word of god healings are going to start to happen in manifest they're happening today at healing school are you expecting is anybody expected good afternoon everyone welcome to the healing school today wherever you are joining us from around the world we want to say welcome to you whatever country you are from whatever time zone you're in we are just grateful to be here today as you can see we're about 15 minutes late from our typical we have some technical difficulties we had to work through but we are here so we are excited those of you here in the room thank you for your patience and thank you for being a part of our healing school today as usual why don't you stand up and greet someone that you didn't come with today tell somebody that god is for them not against them and that his healing provision has already been made available we'll never be more loved than we are right now so come on let's celebrate god's grace in this place one more time more loved than i am right now i wasn't holding you up so there's nothing i can do to let you down it doesn't take a trophy to make you proud [Music] and i'll never be more loved than i am right now and going through a storm but i won't go down i hear your voice carried in the rhythm of the wind called me out and you would cross an ocean so i would be dream you've never been closer than you are right now you [Music] in every circumstance [Music] [Music] [Music] and i don't wanna forget how i feel right now on the mountaintop i can see so clear what it's all about so stay by my side till the sun goes down don't want to forget how i feel right now cause you are tired you are [Music] in every circumstance [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] more than i could imagine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i know who i am i know what you spoke [Applause] [Music] who i am [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] you are [Applause] [Music] it [Music] and if he dresses the lilies with beauty and splendor how much more [Applause] [Music] how much more does he love you how much more does he love how much more [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] according to his power [Applause] [Applause] yes [Music] [Music] in every [Music] i circumstance [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'm already chosen [Music] lord we're so grateful for the way that you love us the consistency of how you love us and lord in your love is where we live we are deeply loved called out of darkness into your marvelous light being born again now with a new nature having the very love of god the very life of christ within us god we're so grateful that our bodies have become the temples the place of the holy spirit not the place of sickness not the place where we're making more provision for disease but the place of your love the place of your grace god we're so grateful [Music] you're more than enough [Music] you're more than enough lord god god can do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or thank but i just hear him saying ask me today believe ask [Music] whatever it is that you're desiring of the lord today put your faith in your trust and your confidence in his love for you lord we are so grateful [Music] and we declare today that you are the love of my life [Music] and you are the hope that i cling to you mean more than this world to me i wouldn't trade you for silver or gold i wouldn't trade you for riches i'm told you are you are my everything [Music] come on somebody better help me sing this today let's tell this afternoon you are the love of my life you are the hope that i cling to [Music] you being more than this world to me [Music] [Music] yes you are yes you [Music] you are more than this world to be i want to train is [Music] you are by everything we say you are you are my everything [Music] nothing to be compared with you jesus [Music] [Music] come on let's just worship him today thank him thank him that he became sickness he became sin he became all that you ever needed he became the curse for you he bore your sin and by his stripes you've been healed lord god we are so thankful we're so grateful you mean more to us than anything else anyone else and we take this moment lord just to say again thank you thank you lord jesus that you are now the name above every name that if the name of jesus every life would bow every knee would bow every tongue would confess lord you didn't do this for you you did this for us [Music] but father we're so grateful that you sent your only son and that you saw the value in us that you saw you certainly saw it before we did lord and god we are so thankful we are so grateful you're an amazing god come on can we just lift our hands today and bless him the bible says that we can lift up holy hands without wrath without doubting because of his grace in our lives because we become one with jesus it's in him that we live and move and have our being and lord we lift up our hearts we lift up our voices we lift up our hands to bless your name and to declare that you are worthy of all of our praise worthy of our worship worthy of our day today god we give you everything you are worthy [Music] you know mark back in the day we used to sing this song that kind of went like this i will bless thee oh lord [Music] i will bless [Music] yeah with a heart of thanksgiving i just pulled this one on him i will bless thee oh lord see when you're this old and worship it just all becomes new again i will bless thee oh lord come on let's do it all over the world [Music] one more time it's a simple chorus [Music] [Music] come on let's do that again hallelujah we bless you lord we bless your name we give thanks to you today for the greatness of the lord you are great and greatly to be praised we magnify your name lord god you are the name above every name oh we celebrate you in this place today lord god come up for i know the plans that i have for you says the lord say it before i know the plans i have for you says who [Music] your vows are covenant unbroken you've made and known through history your love will never be unfaithful and never walk out of me i have no reason to doubt you or you have been you'll always be in the future still unfolding with everything i've seen how can i not believe [Music] my heart can trust you jesus i won't be overwhelmed and my eyes are gonna say miracles and victories you are a promise come on and your word will never [Music] you will return [Music] still [Music] [Music] your word will never fail [Music] you are a promised [Music] right here i know [Music] right here before the beginning i know [Music] you are the promised keeper [Music] [Music] [Applause] victories [Music] right here [Music] [Music] and i know [Music] and you continue to work all things out oh [Music] all the way to everything you say i will sing my way through all the way to everything you say i will sing my way through come on just sing that part with me i will sing my way through all the way to everything you say i will sing my way through all the way to all your promises i will sing my way to [Music] you know he always says that whatever you're going through what you're going through you're going through let me give you a little perspective on that whether you choose to do it in his hands or not you're still going through it so whatever you're going through you're gonna go through but how much better so much better in your daddy god's hands who knew the beginning before you did before you were even born he knew every hair on your head try to figure that one out he knew how you were going to be structured he knew the day when you woke up and it seemed like the whole world came falling apart he knew that moment when you were on your knees and you were crying in desperation asking where is his goodness it's right here right now [Music] jeremiah 29 11. i could just keep hearing that over and over and over again for i know the plans that i have for you says lord and he is a promise keeper not a promise breaker [Music] if things are out of line it's not him who's broken things come on if things are out of line get your heart lined up with your promise keeper and sing your way all the way through the first time i heard that it's such a simple little phrase and it hoped ours it was obviously in a moment of her quiet time and she just how simple to sing and i will sing my way through all the way too [Music] and i will sing my way through all the way too everything you said just remember that in the midst of it it's like that it's the hardest you know it's the right thing because it's the hardest thing and in that moment that's the last thing you feel like doing and it's the last thing you want to do you usually feel foolish sing your way through amen amen i heard about these two guys their names were paul and silas [Music] and they did that at midnight after being beaten and thrown in prison not when everything was going their way all the circumstances were lining up no it's when all hell literally came against them but you know here's the thing church greater is he come on somebody greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world and greater is he than what's trying to come against your body today amen no infection no disease no sickness can dwell in the temple of the holy ghost god is for you and he is the waymaker and i want to end our our musical time of worship today with that song waymaker ask marissa to lead that today so amen let's do that together aren't you glad he's a waymaker even when we can't see it even when we can't feel it we don't know where it is but god does he is the truth the life and the way and his word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path so whatever diagnosis the doctor has given you i'm just telling you god's report is better and he's for you so come on let's worship together with this today you are here i worship you you are here working in this place i worship you [Music] [Music] i worship you you are here working in this place i worship you i worship you say we make miracle work promise keep light in the my god that is who you are he's a wavemaker miracle worker promised keep light in the darkness my god that is who you are you are here [Music] touching every heart i worship [Music] you are here healing every heart i worship you i worship you [Music] you are here [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that is who you are [Music] miracle worker promised [Music] is [Music] that is who you are that is who you are say that is who you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] even when i don't feel it you're working you never stop you never stop working you never stop you never stop working even when i don't see it you're [Music] [Music] [Applause] you never [Music] make a miracle work a promise keeper light in the darkness my god [Music] [Music] [Music] amen our evidence is not seen so even when you can't see him he's working and even though you can't feel him he's working amen thank hallelujah lord the faith is the substance faith is the substance not what we see but faith what you have given to us supernaturally that we could never get in the natural realm god we're so thankful we're so grateful and we thank you for another time together together today as the healing school to study the word of god to fellowship together to celebrate your grace all around the world and the beauty of being able to say yes to every promise that you've already said yes to to worship you from a finished work from the right side of the cross celebrating your resurrection in us and operating through us lord we give you thanks and praise today in jesus name and everybody said amen and amen hallelujah well you may be seated here in the auditorium we're going to break away to a video so don't go away we're going to be right back here in just a few minutes god bless you [Music] welcome to awm now your source for everything that's happening here at andrew womack ministries and keras bible college at nine years old alison rolla contracted alopecia universalis a rare and incurable autoimmune disease that causes the total loss of hair for over 10 years alison learned to live with her illness until one day her dad gave her a teaching by andrew wommack that would unlock the key to her healing i want to be healed so badly so i decided to listen to andrew wommack and i was listening to him listening to him and i finally got a hold of one sermon called you've already got it and i listened to that and i was in the car driving i looked at my bald head and i said hey you grow in the name of jesus command your mountain to move and i started thinking it because i knew i was already healed and my hair grew back and i quit my job and i left my apartment and i moved here to go to keras bible college alison was completely healed and for the first time in years she grew a full head of hair hungry for more she enrolled into our caris location in charlotte north carolina where she learned about her authority in christ while in school she'd have to put this knowledge to the test when her hair started to fall out again but i knew how to fight it and i know how to fight now and i'm thankful for it because the symptoms are alive because the truth is that by his trips you were healed and i would just look at that and i would just watch it fall out and just praise him like do everything i didn't want to do jump up and down praise him do whatever i had to do to get out of the physical you know and into the spiritual and realize that i am healed and this is an attack of the devil and i am i'm healed that's a lie this is the truth but the world saw me bald and you know what the world right now is seeing me healed and that is for you you don't have to leave this place sick you can leave this place healed you just have to take the word of god it has already been provided you don't have to wait for anyone to touch you anyone to lay hands on you it is yours right now allison graduated cares bible college with her father and grandfather today she's a teacher who shares the good news of god's love with her students at a local christian academy thank you partners for providing free teachings for people like alison to discover their authority in christ and overcome every attack of the all enemy isn't that oh is this not yet isn't that awesome i just love seeing those testimonies they're so encouraging well we just want to say welcome to keras bible college healing school we are yeah let's get excited we are here at the beautiful woodland park location and keras bible college is an extension of andrew wommack ministries and that we do meet here most thursdays at 1pm mountain standard time i say most thursdays because there are a couple of times that we don't meet here live but anytime we're not here live we will have a replay showing so the good news is you can still join us online um with that being said there are two dates that you guys need to make note of the first one is say it with me thursday october 7th we will not be here that's right but you will watch online right yes uh the next date is thursday october 28th so say it thursday october 28th we will not be here okay come on guys we're gonna need a little more a little more energy are you ready to get healed this is healing school yes get excited this is one of the best times to be excited because this is a time god has something for you you're going to get filled and encouraged and actually a quote i just want to share with you guys i came across this earlier this week um said never give up because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works and guys that's something you need to stand on that goes with the songs they were even singing today of you know don't give up you you might be it might be the next morning paul and silas got out of jail that next morning so if they hadn't had the right like attitude they hadn't been like i'm not giving up i'm gonna stand strong they might have missed what god had so stand strong never give up your breakthrough is coming the next thing we want to share is um please also remember that if you are joining us online please check our website or call our phone center to make sure that we will be here live because we want to make sure that if you come all the way out here that we're going to be here in person so that's really important to us and then also we are going to have prayer ministers at the front once the session is done today so please come up and get prayer these prayer ministers are trained and they are so excited to pray with you and stand in agreement with you and then if you're joining us online we did not forget about you you have a way to connect with us for prayer as well we have a phone ministry that is 24 5 so that means monday to friday you can call in anytime 24 hours and then on saturdays and sundays we are open from 7 30 a.m until six o'clock p.m again mountain standard time so please call in we want to pray with you we are so excited to pray with you uh and then another thing here is our chats are turned on so if you are joining us by facebook youtube or our newest way to join in our gospel truth tv please join in in the chats message tell us about any healing you received or a testimony or a question you have because we want to interact with you and um that website actually is gospel truth dot tv slash live that is our newest broadcasting site and it's actually going to give you the best experience so if you want the best experience for healing school online then i encourage you to go to that website the next part we want to do is announcement so a couple of announcements here of exciting events we have our first one is october 4th to 8th we have the minister's conference so let's get excited about that yeah that is going to be a powerful conference it is for those who are ministers whether it's part-time full-time it's for ministers it unfortunately is not going to be live streamed so make sure that if your minister and you want to come that you register ahead of time for that to come here and then our next one now this one is live stream so everyone say yay that's right october uh 28th to the 30th we are having the women's arise conference yeah all right let's hear all the ladies get excited here that is going to be so awesome we have speakers like audrey mack carrie pickett a lot of really amazing people coming to speak to you and just bring up your inspiration and you know just really encourage you so come to that again that one will be live streamed so you can either come here in person or you can join us online and we'd love you to come either way all right guys it is time for testimonies so yes let's get excited this is one of my favorite parts of healing school because there is nothing better than being encouraged by another person's testimony and hearing that if it happened for them god wants to do it for you too he wants it done for you he wants to see you healed he wants to see you walking out your testimony and then he wants to see you be able to share it with others so we love hearing your testimonies our first one is um actually uh this one lady named josie she wrote in that her seven-year-old daughter she was joining her watching healing school online she was watching some of her cbc courses online and she got sick her first week of school and so she woke up one morning like coughing sneezing sore throat all those terrible symptoms and her mom said you can't go to school today and she said no i'm going to school today and she's like you know like you're sick you can't and then she said don't say i'm sick she said i am healthy she was like my body is the temple of the holy ghost and she was like i will be going to school because i am not sick so her mom said okay so she took her and she said she has not had to miss a single day of school she stood on that word guys if a seven-year-old kid can do it we can do it too that is just the renewing of your mind that's where that one came from so we can do that too that is so awesome our next one is a lady named claire from kentucky her mother passed away when she was 22 and it really rocked her faith and she would find herself questioning what can i even trust god for anymore and so she said she dug into the word and she's like i'm going to find what i can and she said she found him as her healer so she said i'm going to stand on this jesus is my healer and two weeks after she declared that she actually started having irregularities in her heart beating and her husband wanted to take her to the doctor and she said you know what she's like everything i am standing on right now is saying that jesus is my healer and she's like i'm going to wait i'm going to stand on this and this is just going to leave and she said it kept leaving but then over years and years of this happening it kept coming back and then it would leave again it would come back and she said she realized she had this door open in her mind that was blocking her from just fully walking in this and so she said she actually got a hold of some of our andrew wommack ministry teachings and just by listening to that for a couple of years she said her mind got renewed to the point where she realized it was time for her to start walking in the spirit instead of the flesh and so she was able to close that door and she said she had she has had no heart irregularities since then she is totally healed and whole so yeah guys that is so awesome praise the lord for that the last one i want to share is a lady named denise from michigan said she was cured of multiple sclerosis anemia and hypothyroidism so that's a lot guys she had um symptoms of severe pain she was tired she couldn't walk without a cane and she had like fogginess of mine she said all of these different things that were like stopping her from living the way she knew god wanted her to she got hold of some teaching she got prayer and she said she is completely healed of all those things there is no symptoms found in her body and she's now actually starting a bible study she's going to start her own business and she said she owes this all to god and guys that is such an important thing to remember about um your healing once you get healed god doesn't want to just see you healed and whole he wants to see you walking into your destiny and your dreams and everything he has for you so keep your dreams in mind while you're fighting this just say i'm going to do this one day i'm going to start my own bible study i'm going to start my own business so yeah guys we really want to hear your testimonies you can go to awmi.net for more testimonies and you can also email us at healingschool.awmi.net and we would love to share your testimony one day we would love to come up here and encourage other people with what god has done in your life so please don't be like they don't want to hear it we want to hear it and andrew actually reads through every testimony so this is something really important to this ministry is your testimony okay who's ready for some giveaways yes okay guys a giveaway is a free gift so we're gonna need a little bit more energy this is very exciting one more time we're gonna do some giveaways yes okay so our first giveaway is a book by uh sorry i took the mic away our first book is uh by pastor duane sheriff identity theft i don't know if you guys have ever read this book but if you're struggling in any area of what's mine in christ what does having my identity in him look like you should read this book this book is going to help you understand who your identity is in christ is and then walk in your authority you can't walk in your authority until you know your identity is in him so this is a powerful book all right get excited so they know who to give it to yeah all right okay our next two gifts i'm actually giving them away at the same time because i think that they pair really nicely together they are actually by daniel amsteads yeah daniel's awesome guys okay so our first one is the place of his presence this is his newest book and then the second one is my body is the temple of the holy ghost cd you guys if you don't understand that his presence once you become born again his presence is in you always he doesn't leave you he's not randomly going to leave you because you sinned he's he's in you and he's the one that helps strengthen you to overcome everything and knowing knowing that you can kick out anything that tries coming against you because your body is the temple of the holy ghost and if he is dwelling inside of you then you have the right to say nothing else is allowed in so that that's how you know how to do that so this is an awesome product all right the last thing i want to give away is actually a sticker now you might be thinking what a sticker but listen this sticker is going to be a really helpful tool to you receiving your healing because if you have this somewhere that you can post it and you can say oh that's right don't limit god you know like jesus loves you guys so much he doesn't want you to limit him he wants to do everything possible in your life to see you going as far as possible in your life and so if you put this somewhere that you can see it every day and it reminds you oh that's right is there an area that i'm limiting god you know this is something that you can go i'm not limiting him anymore we're getting rid of all limitations god you do it however you want to do it yes all right get excited guys that was the last giveaway but don't worry if you come back next week we'll have more so you can get one then okay it is time for offering all right offering time guys offering is such a blessing this is a chance for you to sow into amazing ground our offerings for healing school all go towards our stu our second year student mission trips and when you do that you're sowing into people that know god's love know their identity in him know the truth and are saying we want other people to know god's truth we want other people to be walking in his love and so when you sow that's what you're sowing into and just a reminder this isn't your tithe this is an offering so this is separate from that you know first fruits this is your offering just something that you go i want to give to you god in any way i can just to show you how grateful i am for all you've done in my life and to help bless others so they can know how grateful you are and you want to be in their life so um if you did not receive an offering envelope on the way in i'll just get you to raise your hand and one of our ushers will bring you an envelope if you're paying by check you can make it payable to cbc or keras bible college for credit card payments there's going to be a spot at the bottom of the envelope so you can fill in all your information there and we do ask that you just close it after and seal it because it's your information so it's just better closed um and then another option we have to give is online giving so you can go to awm i net slash healing this is going to take you to our healing center page and then you're going to want to scroll to like about the middle of the page and you'll see an orange donate button you're going to click that and it will take you straight to donating towards the keras mission fund and then our last way to give is the text to give option so you can text the word give to 844 887 07 to donate to andrew wahlmach ministries and i actually just want to share um a little word with you guys here the scripture i want to share from is mark 12 verse 41 to 44. this is known as the widow's offering so i'm sure many of us are familiar with it but i'm gonna read it and he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box many rich people put in large sums and a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins which make a penny and he called his disciples to him and said to them truly i say to you this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box for they all contributed out of their abundance but she out of her poverty has put everything has put in everything she had all she has to live on and the reason i love this verse so much is because it's all about your heart when you give god doesn't look at it as an amount of well this person gave 500 this person gave two dollars he's looking at did that person give 500 because he wants daniel to notice it's like no when you give you give whatever you can that you've already purposed in your heart to give and you go i just want to give this to god because i love you and you know i think this is a lot and so it's important to me and this is a good seed to me and when you give out of that purity of your heart of i just want to pour into your kingdom with whatever i can that is such a blessing to god and to other people and when your whole heart is i just want this for you god i'm not doing it because of the person beside me i'm just doing it because when i came here i said i wanted to give 20 i set that aside in my budget and i just want to pour that into your kingdom that's why we give and it's such a powerful thing i want you to hold up your offering or if you gave online hold up your hand and just say this is a good seed and i'm giving with a cheerful heart amen all right i just want to pray over us all god i thank you so much for every seed sown i thank you for every person here whether giving or not i thank you that your abundant life is over every single person i thank you that your favor is over them you're prosperous your prosperity it's just over them and you're overflowing your love on every person here i think that everyone walks away with what you have for them and that they're able to receive all that our speaker has today in jesus name amen okay guys i have a very big honor and privilege today because i get to introduce our speaker and our speaker today is daniel amstutz and i'm going to try not to cry but daniel is an amazing man and that's because every time he like even even just knowing him from the last couple of months of working on his team he loves people his heart is for people he he helped start healing school from the very beginning because he just wants to see you walking in all god has for your life and that's his heart is making sure there's that balance of spirit and truth making sure you understand new covenant worship making you understand that god wants you well he wants you thriving and he wants you prosperous in all you do in every area of your life and so that's just a little thing i wanted to let you know about daniel it is a huge huge honor to serve on his team and i have a lot of respect for this man so you guys are in for a big treat daniel has served as a pastor and associate pastor and a worship leader for more than 40 years he uh he's been married for 43 years and he has two full-grown children and seven grandkids which is so awesome and he's the president of daniel amstet's collective and i'm just letting you guys know now i love the merchandise so you should go online and see their merchandise because they have really great stuff and i enjoy it um and yes so he also serves currently as the director of charis worship ministry and charis worship arts school and director of healing school so this man has done a lot just to pour in to god's people so please join with me in welcoming daniel amsets my goodness what an intro what an intro bless your hearts thank you so much you guys are awesome and i'm so grateful for this opportunity to be together again as the healing school we were actually supposed to have a different speaker today and some things came up and that person wasn't able to be with us and so tracy my executive assistant said why don't you do your part two and you know whenever i have too much to teach i just turn it into a series you know so um i want to talk today a little bit further about getting rid of unbelief when we have unbelief in our lives and we all deal with this it doesn't matter who we are or how long we've walked with god uh we all have these areas where we're being transformed by the renewing of our minds as romans 12 1-2 talks about but we're not a completed work until we die and go to be with jesus we're completing our spirit man absolutely but in our soul we are in the process of being transformed and so this process is called the renewing of the mind and you know in our culture today i just saw this on lance walnow's facebook page yesterday and he said don't be worried don't be worried about the delta we've got the alpha in omega i thought that was awesome but in our world today we've got so much concern regarding the coronavirus and all the variants and we you know sickness and disease is just kind of a a topic on everybody's hearts and as a result it's all over social media right you can't watch television without seeing some kind of commercial for something and so in our culture today we become so used to uh all of this unbelief around us that it actually kind of feels normal so then when you begin to step out of that and step into the better report the report that god has for you or you come to karis bible college and you sit under the word for four hours a day five days a week and then you go back to your family or your friends where you came from and they think you've just fallen off the log they think you have fallen off the edge of the earth because of how different you are now compared to where you were well that's a really good thing because the more that we are transformed by the word of god the more we go counter cultural to the ways of the world and it's true uh michaela i do love people and i really minister from a pastor's heart i actually have been a senior pastor and an associate pastor for many years as michaela was saying as well as a worship leader and when i was a senior pastor you know how andrew pastored in pritchett colorado and how he talks about that it was his um his life lesson on the fact that he wasn't a pastor well that's kind of what i went through i learned that i wasn't a senior pastor in a local church setting but i do carry the gift of pastor and so whatever i do god actually told me uh years after we had transitioned our church he said i've actually called you to pastor worship and i went what what does that even mean well i've been doing that now for over 10 years here at kerris bible college as well as all the other things that i've been doing i'm telling you whatever it is it just comes out of that heart and that gifting and so my desire for you today is for you to really get a hold of this because when you get a hold of it you're going to be able to give it to somebody else it's not only going to benefit you and transform your life but you're going to start to become so contagious with new covenant revelation and the truth of god's word that you're going to be like a party just waiting to happen amen you are going to be a celebration that somebody else is going to need because in that celebration is probably most likely someone's healing or someone's miracle so i want to just very quickly uh welcome a young couple here they've got to be at least in their 20s here on our first row a row that came here all the way from where remind me all the way from south carolina to be here today for the healing school would you guys stand up they they also have been a part of the healing university curriculum and have been going through that uh with a group of people and they just shared with me before the healing school today what an incredible blessing that has been so i'm telling you i've been sick and i've been well and i can tell you well is better amen it's so much better to find out god's ways and and what he has for us and yet in our culture today we are so surrounded by unbelief that at times it can actually feel normal you know one lady said to me one day years ago when i was teaching in the healing school she said do you mean to tell me that we can do more than just manage our sickness and our disease isn't that something how people think that that's actually the highest and best is to manage the sickness well that's not what jesus said he said i came to take it away amen it was by my stripes that you were healed and he said i've carried your pain away i've carried your sickness and your distress and your dysfunction and all of the stuff that he took upon himself he took it so we don't have to but when you don't know what the word of god says when you don't realize that every promise is already yes then it's easy to become conformed to what you're hearing in the culture around i grew up believing that there were additional seasons besides spring summer fall and winter in between those seasons were seasons like allergy [Applause] flu and on and on right and i just considered that to be normal okay here we are flu season again here we go hang our wreath on the door right i mean no and what you realize is how weird andrew you know when he says i think you're weird how weird this actually is that we would think sickness and disease is normal but apart from jesus if you don't know what the bible says and what jesus actually came to give us then it's easy to be conformed to the mass opinion of what culture is declaring to be normal so i'm so grateful for god aren't you i'm so grateful for what jesus came to give us and to show us and so as we get into the word of god today i believe that this is going to help you in very specific but very practical ways okay so i want us to turn to mark 9 and because i've already taught on this in my previous teaching on this if you were not a part of that or would like to hear it you can go up to our archives and find it there in our already live healing schools that are archived also while i'm thinking about i want to remind you that we now have access to gospel truth dot tv and if you're not familiar with that is it is an internet-based television station and so on facebook and um you know youtube and these kind of things we're live streaming like our worship sessions in in the in the college for about 15 minutes and then it gives you a little icon at the bottom of the page that says if you want to see the rest of this go over to gospeltruth.tv well you can i believe it's a really inexpensive subscription for a year if you buy a year's subscription it's like 25 or something i don't even know i should know but i don't but whatever that is it'll give you access to everything that's on gospeltruth.tv and it is so worth it you are going to be really blessed to be able to have access to that so whether you have a roku or whatever it is you can find it there and you'll have all of our healing schools on gospel truth.tv so that'll be a blessing for you so let's go to mark chapter nine and of course this is the story of the boy who's healed of epilepsy now it doesn't actually say that in scripture but that's what the little boy is dealing with he's having seizures and has had and um jesus asks the dad in verse 21 of mark 9. how long has this been happening to him and he said from childhood now i want you to appreciate the fact that this family dynamic has been forever changed by this sickness and you know sickness does not care about your future sickness does not care about your hobbies sickness does not care about you and why the reason jesus asked this question how long has this been happening is because oftentimes not only do we become sick but we begin to start to think sick we make provision for the sickness because we're so comfortable now with it being around us that we actually think this way so jesus says how long has this been happening and the dad says from childhood now notice again what this picture looks like okay we often just read right over this and we don't really appreciate the severity of what's actually going on here but the dad says this he often has been thrown into the fire and into the water to destroy him well if you've ever been burned with even a slight burn you know how it alters your skin and how it hurts and if you've got severe burns on your body if you've been thrown into a fire i'm imagining that this little guy had severe burns all over his body he was not only thrown into the fire but he was thrown into the water to be drowned by this demonic spirit right so he says he's been thrown into the fire and into the water to destroy him and then the dad says but if you can do anything have compassion on us and help us well jesus said to him if you can believe all things are possible to him who believes now i don't know about you but that really encourages me personally because when jesus you know we often think lord you know if you have compassion if you're a god of love well i love how the lord in this moment turned it right around to the heart of the dad i mean he understood jesus got it right but he turns it around now to this dad and he says if you can believe all things are possible to the one who believes would you say that with me all things are possible to the one who believes and i am a believing believer so all things are possible to me in jesus name it doesn't matter whether it's a tiny little sinus issue or a headache or whether it's stage four cancer whatever you can believe for jesus says all things everybody say all things not just a few things not just the small things know all things are possible to the one who believes so if that's true and we know it is then what's hindering us well what hinders us is our unbelief and here we find out in this story that unbelief and belief can exist at the same time you know many people think what what's wrong with me do i not have enough faith or did i get like the walmart version of faith or you know the the blue light special faith you know what what's my problem well no you've got the same faith that raised jesus from the dead amen same life that's in him is now in you if you've been made a brand new creation and i hope you can appreciate that on a whole new level today because it's way way bigger and better than we think the life of god in us is absolutely greater than anything trying to come against us and when we begin to realize how great god is not how great i am but how great is the one who is in me and greater is he that's in me than whatever's trying to come against me amen and so that's our promise from the lord he says if you can believe all things are possible well the dad responds here in verse 24 and and cries out with tears and says lord i believe help my unbelief man how many of you been there come on be honest how many have been there i'm going to raise up both hands on both feet you know i've i've been believing but boy i've recognized in my believing that i've got some unbelieving going on at the same time you know take it out of the realm of of healing for a moment and put it maybe into the realm of financial prosperity right lord i believe you that it's your will that i prosper and be in health well what's going on with your checkbook well let's not talk about that but i do believe lord god see or take it out of the realm of finances and put it into the realm of a relationship issue see we can take it out of one area and put it into another but the truth is it applies to every area of our lives we have this thing called unbelief that begins to work in us and against us regarding the word of god do you remember in in the garden when the enemy came and said half god said right well i believe the enemy is still saying same thing half god said that's not really what it means i mean how dare you believe that you could actually live in wellness and health see and so you have sometimes family members who you know think you've gone off your rocker and they're gonna try to help you with a little wisdom here and give you a little balance by sowing a little sickness and disease in your life you know a little unbelief in your life let's just let's just you know come on can we just be practical here can we just use some wisdom well be careful who's speaking into your life and who you're listening to because if it's going contrary to the word of god i don't care how much they love you do you know something family can actually love you to death i'm just saying so this father says i do believe but help my unbelief well church you know this father didn't have what we have today but you know what we've got today we've got the helper living on the inside of us do you know i it's one of my favorite words for god now it wasn't even until maybe three or four years ago that i began saying help her i come to you in jesus name today and just thank you for a wonderful day help her i would always say jesus i come to you you know whatever however i'm praying i come in the name of jesus you know that phrase well how many know that he's the helper he's just as much the helper as he is any other name and so you know what he loves to do i know that's a heavy rebbe right there he loves to help you and when we get into these situations you know what we typically do oh i i'm sorry lord i'm sorry to bother you i know you got a lot going on oh brother give me a break he's the helper he loves to help us and so when we call upon him as the helper which is what this dad did unknowingly when he said i do believe but help my unbelief well the holy ghost will be so delighted to help you you know why because his passion for you is to lead you into truth he loves leading you into truth and he's so jealous over you that he'll not only lead you into truth but he'll help you cut off whatever is hindering you from being conformed to the image of christ let's deal with that little fear issue daniel okay what do we need to do here daniel let's deal with that little unbelief issue that you got about this thing okay and the holy spirit begins to use the sword of the word of god which is sharper than any other two-edged sword and it begins to cut off whatever is hindering you from being conformed to the image of christ and not the image of the world is that helpful amen so the holy ghost will always separate you to the word where the enemy will always try to separate you from the word he'll always give you a counterfeit you know jesus didn't really mean that what the word really means there is you know and he'll try to get you to settle for less than god's best man go for the best you know it's like if if you miss it along the way uh you know as andrew says you know you maybe you haven't arrived but thank god you've left amen you may not do everything perfectly in fact i can guarantee you you will not do everything perfectly that's not even the point the point is just to simply put action to what you believe and step out and begin to do the things that you say you believe and as you do that god's going to meet you in that place to lead you forward and you're going to become stronger than horseradish in jesus name i found that promise back here at hezekiah somewhere all right so jesus saw that the people came running together at this point and he rebuked the unclean spirit saying to it now again i taught on this the other day but the word rebuke is simply saying to you don't have to get all crazy with i rebuke you no the the word rebuke is to say to that situation what you are believing for jesus said in mark 11 23 and 24 if you speak to the what mountain it will be cast into the sea see i i if i rebuke that mountain i'm gonna speak to that difficult spot in my life that place that's so big i just can't seem to get over it that that something that's so hard i just can't figure out a way around it i'm gonna rebuke that thing in jesus name well what do i do i speak to it and tell it what to do so when sickness and disease starts coming on your body listen don't romance it don't dance with it amen the minute those symptoms start coming you tell those symptoms where to go tell those symptoms to go to hell come on somebody tell those symptoms to go to hell in jesus name you know why because that's exactly where they belong they don't belong to you you've been called out of darkness into his marvelous light you've been purchased with a price that nobody else could afford one of my pastors years ago his name was dave dewell he said you know when you get up in the morning and your body's kind of achy and you know you're feeling like maybe a cold or flu or something trying to come on your body you know if you yield to that it's like you can you can be sick in just a matter of minutes it's like oh man i just feel terrible and you start speaking it out of your mouth and you start thinking sick and pretty soon you're making provision you know dreaming of chicken soup and a hot thermos bottle and the hallmark channel talking about your fuzzy socks and that heating blanket and you know it's like no he said instead of that he said when you start to feel those symptoms man you just tell your body body we are healed we are not sick pass it on but see what you're doing is you're rebuking the sick the sickness and the disease or whatever's trying to come against you by telling it what to do and so jesus here speaks to the spirit and and the unclean spirit and says to it says to what to it and here's what he says deaf and dumb spirit i command you by the way every evil spirit is dumb i mean that's not how jesus meant this but it's true deaf and dumb spirit i command you to come out of him and enter him no more did you know that when somebody's delivered of demonic activity it's really important for that person who's just been delivered to have their house cleaned and filled with the word of god because once they've been delivered there's like a vacuum there there's a space now that's been created and if they don't get into the word of god and find out what god's word has to say and apply it to their life what does the bible say is going to happen they're going to be a few more friends trying to move in right and the and the status of that person will be worse off well this is why it's so important for us to learn how to walk in health and believe god on a daily basis amen we can't rely upon someone who has a gift of healing that may be coming to town next year when i'm dealing with a situation today i need to know what the word of god is saying right now versus a year from now amen so he says here that you can speak to that spirit and command it out and then watch what happened the spirit cried out convulsed this this boy greatly and came out of him and it looked like this little guy had died he became his one dead so that many said he is dead well jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose and when he'd come into the house his disciples by the way verse 27 i love this because it it says but jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up into a rose and that's the end of this story right it's like you know i love when the supernatural becomes normal do you know what i'm saying one of our prayer ministers years ago we were in kansas city ministering i've shared this story so many times and if you've heard it please forgive me because i'm going to tell it again this lady who was blind was married to her husband who was deaf now i want you to appreciate that for a minute i cannot even imagine what that marriage relationship must have been like and the two of them come forward to receive ministry and come to two different people right and the lady came to one of our um young 20-something prime minister and she loved to pray for people i mean she was she was awesome but she lays her hands on this lady's eyes and she says something like in the name of jesus sight be restored we thank you lord god for a miracle in this lady's body in jesus name she takes her hand off and she says to the lady so kind of casually so how are we doing and the lady goes oh my god i can see and the prayer minister said really now i'm just saying when the supernatural starts to become normal and we're not surprised by the supernatural you know what happens when you're surprised by the supernatural it's actually an indication of a hardened heart jesus told the disciples that after he had turned the loaves and fishes and after all that experience he says why are you still not seeing what's really going on here my paraphrase he said it's because your heart has become hardened well how do you get a hardened heart through unbelief we have it around us so much that when something supernatural happens we're like oh i can't believe it jesus said be it unto you according to what you believe the best thing to say is i believe it i believe it i believe it i believe it amen i believe in signs and wonders i believe in the gifts of the spirit i believe in seeing the supernatural power of god manifest more and more not less and less praise god and you know what church i believe that as we are entering into the beginning stages of this third great awakening oh hold on to your hat because we have not seen anything like we're going to start seeing why do i believe that because where sin abounds what does the bible say grace does what oh i didn't hear you excuse me grace does what much more about so you know what we're about to start experiencing the much more we've experienced more but god says no i've got much more for you because what the devil's intending for your harm i'm turning around for your good we're going to see healing we're going to see things and we are and we're seeing them can i just share with you that financially i mean this is kind of a big deal financially imagine 2020 where ministries are going down all over the world sadly but they are and there's many businesses that are going out of business etc etc do you know that we have just finished the greatest financial year fiscally that this ministry has ever had now i'm telling you that's an indicator because where the heart is the treasure is amen where your finances are your heart and your treasures connected together god is doing something that is powerful in us because he wants to do something powerful through us and the harvest is ripe he's saying don't say there's four more months and then we're going to come to the harvest no we're in it right now praise god he's just saying where are my laborers amen where are the people who are going to go out and actually lay hands on the sick where are my people that are going to go out and actually make a difference and if i'm not mistaken i might be talking to a couple of them here in this room today amen and i know by looking into this camera that we've got people all over the world who are absolutely fanatic for jesus praise god we are joined together we are joined together in the realm of the spirit and i'm telling you this is exciting because the best is yet to come it's true the best is yet to come every promise is yes and amen yet the best is yet to come we haven't seen anything yet back when i first served with dave duell and in oh my goodness 1930 no i'm kidding 1970-something 1979 tracy and i were married in 77 and i think we started serving with him in either 78 or 79. you guys i saw things i had never seen in my baptist church i mean i loved god they loved god we all loved god but i didn't see any of this in my church and i go up to start serving with this ministry of this man who was like a you know i don't know if he'd appreciate he's in heaven now so you know we'll talk about it later but i don't know if you'd appreciate me comparing him to swift wigglesworth but he was that kind of a guy he was a holy ghost guy and i'm telling you i saw the most amazing healings and the most amazing manifestations of the power of god as we would gather together and i invited him i was the president of our full gospel businessmen at the time and i invited him to come speak to our chapter in little alamosa colorado south central colorado and the minute he began to speak the power of god just and god spoke to my heart and said you're to join your life with this man's ministry i carry that spiritual dna amen that man absolutely downloaded in my life in a way that transformed me i saw things i saw people literally fly backwards through the air without touching the ground when the power of god would hit them now i don't know why we don't see it all the time but what i can tell you is that when the supernatural starts to become normal and we contend for it we believe god for it we believe god for for the kingdom of god to be made manifest greater in us and through us than the kingdom of this world and as that started to happen i'm telling you not only was my life changed and everyone who was on staff and and even he and his family but wherever we went there was transformation that took place and this is the heart of god that he wants to do through you and no it is not too late i just needed to say that today because somebody somebody right now within the sound of my voice is saying yeah i just wish i'd gotten a hold of this 30 years ago you know what me too but you're here now and it's it's it's it's your time amen so i want you not only to be healed but i want you to learn to start giving it away because as we know what we have just like peter and john of the gate beautiful such as i have in jesus name i give to you when you know what you have you can give it away so here in this passage as we go back to this it says that he took him by the hand and lifted him up and he arose case closed i love how over in one city where jesus was it says he could do their no mighty work because of their unbelief city of bethesda right he could do no mighty work there because of their unbelief except that he just healed a few sick folk what except that he healed a few sick folk that would be revival in our church today right but there it was like he could do no mighty work well what would mighty work look like if healing a few sick folk was you know wow church i believe that we have a lot more to experience regarding god's kingdom and god's life amen so they go into the house and when he'd come into the house verse 28 his disciples said okay jesus we need to talk a little bit about something here why could we not cast out that spirit and he said to them because this kind come out by nothing but prayer and fasting well for a long long time because when you look at this passage and read just this passage it looks like the way that demonic activity comes out is by prayer and fasting if you're not praying if you're not fasting yeah that's not going to happen well it is important to pray it's important to fast but what we discover by going over to matthew chapter 17 and reading matthew's account is it actually isn't talking about the demonic spirit but rather it's the unbelief now listen if the name of jesus isn't good enough to get a demon to leave do you really think your prayer and your fasting is going to help no it's not going to it's not what you have done it's what jesus has done it's not in your name that you're going to see these things happen it's in the name of jesus amen so turn over with me to matthew chapter 17. and i don't think i'm doing very good on my series here but we're having a good time are we having a good time all right so let's look at verse 20 here jesus said to them okay now they've just come into the house verse 19 the disciples said to jesus why could we not cast it out so jesus said to them because of your unbelief now doesn't that really help you because you know for years i thought you had the big hulk demon you know you had the little empty demons and then you had like bigger demons that were you know and then you had like the big hulk demon and the only way that demon could come out was by prayer and fasting no really what he's talking about is your unbelief demons are already defeated they're under your feet you're the one with the victory not them greater is he in you than any demon did you know demons are not all-knowing they can't be everywhere at one time they're so limited they are so limited we've given them way more power than they deserve amen they're defeated amen jesus said to them the reason you couldn't cast it out is because your unbelief for assuredly i say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed he didn't say the size of a mustard seed i thought if i just have a little bitty face i mean just a tiny tiny bit no he's not saying you just you know if you just had tiny faith he's saying if you had faith as a mustard seed well what's the big deal about a mustard seed you put a mustard seed which is one of the tiniest seeds in the realm of what is that botany in the realm of sowing and reaping let's go there instead okay tiniest of seeds and the bible says that that little tiny mustard seed grows in the ground and not only does it become a plant but it becomes a plant that's so big it turns into a tree to where birds can come and rest in the branches something tiny often produces great results from small beginnings come great things ask me how i know we're sitting in one right now i've known andrew long enough to remember what it was like in 1979 that's the year we met and let me tell you this ministry and how all of this looked was not like it looks now and aren't you grateful for god's faithfulness andrew and jamie's faithfulness for sure and the partners who have helped make this happen for sure but above all of that is god's faithfulness to raise this ministry out amen hallelujah so jesus says because of your unbelief but i say to you if you have faith as a mustard seed you will say your heart and your mouth are connected together and what you believe in your heart your mouth will declare and as that is being said you'll say to this mountain move from here to there it will move watch it and nothing will be impossible for you second corinthians 4 13 is another great scripture here that talks about this it basically says uh i believe therefore i speak ii corinthians 4 13 i believe therefore i speak well you know when you get in a medical situation man it's easy isn't it i'm sure you've been there like i have to be persuaded by the professional who's talking to you they've studied for you know a gazillion years and and surely they know i mean they're the professionals so whatever it is they're saying to you becomes the respected opinion let me tell you something i have all kinds of doctors that are friends of mine i love doctors i love so much what barry had to share a few weeks ago if you messed it missed his message i want to encourage you to go to our archives and pull that up it was powerful but listen whatever somebody says to you whatever it is we've got to bring it through the grid of the word of god doctors are practicing medicine they're just practicing but we serve somebody who's a great physician amen and his name is above every name and he said i've given you authority in my name over all demonic activity over all sickness and disease scorpions all that stuff is under your feet in the name of jesus so when i get an opinion from a professional i'm going to just say hey doc i love what you just shared with me thank you so much for your opinion but i want to get a second opinion i have a really good friend who is amazing and i just want to get a second opinion from him and you take that medical report to the word of god and see what the good report says what's god saying on your behalf listen this has the power to transform your reality amen this is the truth not that medical opinion that may be factual it most likely is it may not be but it most likely is but the truth is what changes the facts the truth is what trumps reality and here jesus says in verse 21 however this kind of what unbelief does not go out except by prayer and fasting now we spent quite a bit of time talking about this and i'm quickly running out of time again so i just gonna have to turn this into part three no i'm kidding uh but very quickly i want to go through uh and you've probably heard andrew or creflo or somebody teach on this already but there are basically three different kinds of unbelief and the first one is just lack of knowledge it was where i was as a young baptist kid i just didn't know i had no idea it was just lack of knowledge well then sometimes you get in circles where they teach certain things like in my situation i was told that all this stuff passed away with the last apostle and so i believed it and so once i discovered that that wasn't the truth then i had to renew my mind to get rid of wrong teaching so that really is the second kind of unbelief it's not just lack of knowledge but now i've been taught wrong so now i've got to get rid of all this wrong teaching and wrong thinking and honestly that's where a lot of you are that's why you're here at karis bible college that's why you're listening on the internet and part of our healing school because we've got a lot of wrong teaching in the world and sadly a lot of it is in the church so we've got to find out what god's word actually says versus what people say it says and so getting rid of that wrong teaching is a second area of unbelief well you know what both of those areas are really easy to get rid of the first one is just simply to find out what god's word says the second one is replace the wrong teaching with the truth so again we go to the word and we find out what god's word says but now here's the third area and this is what jesus was talking about andrew calls it natural unbelief when your senses have been involved with the unbelief this dad had seen his little boy thrown into the fire he'd seen him thrown into the water over and over again i can imagine him rescuing him from drowning as he's having a seizure have you ever seen somebody have a seizure let alone have a seizure and be thrown into water or have a seizure and be thrown into fire oh my goodness this family i mean wow so jesus says when you've seen it with your senses you've felt it you've smelled it maybe you tasted it you know maybe you took a medicine or or something you know your your senses have been involved this is what is called natural unbelief or what i call experiential unbelief you've experienced it jesus said it's this kind of unbelief that doesn't come out except by prayer and fasting now renewing your mind is going to be part of it absolutely you could never ever ever replace the renewing of the mind but just gathering scriptures and renewing your mind is not going to give you victory in this area where you've experienced natural unbelief and this is why some of you are struggling you know what the word of god says and yet why am i still dealing with these symptoms because you've gone through this process of the natural or the experiential unbelief and has attached itself to your physical senses so here's the good news you can get rid of it it's a klingon it's got no right to stay in your temple amen it's taking up space that belongs to the holy ghost thank you very much so how do i get rid of it by laying down your ham sandwich i'm just saying how you're gonna get rid of it is through prayer and fasting why is prayer and fasting such a big deal okay well let's look at it and i'm gonna have to go through this very quickly because i've got four minutes left i rebuke you in jesus name first of all i want to show you there are different kinds of prayer and so it's important for us to understand the value of prayer first of all but um there are different kinds of prayer represented in the word of god there are basically seven main types that we know from scripture and again all prayer uh if it's according to the word of god is good prayer amen there's not such a thing as a a wrong prayer unless it's a prayer of unbelief or a prayer that's not based in the word of god but he says here a prayer of worship is one of our areas of prayer prayer of thanksgiving is another prayer and it's really great to pray this prayer a lot right i i am a thanksgiving guy man i am i'm thanking god a lot and for minutes after minutes after minutes during the day lord i thank you for your mercy i thank you for your goodness thank you lord god that i'm breathing this morning thank you jesus for my i mean you just go through and the more you do it the more you develop an attitude of gratitude well as you do that it starts to transform you from the inside out to where you find yourself actually thinking different i'm thanking god for his provision instead of focused on the problem see so all of these areas will have different effects in our life but they're all good and i'm reminded how james says that the prayer of the righteous avails much so say that with me the prayer of the righteous that's me oh you did not sound convincing at all the prayer of the righteous that's me avails much so whatever you pray you need to know that you're availing much there's a lot going on even though you can't see it even when i can't feel it there's stuff going on because you have entered into the dimension of the spirit of god the kingdom of god that doesn't operate like it does in the natural realm this is a different kingdom and god says the prayer of the righteous well who's the righteous us amen because of jesus we have his righteousness now is ours so we also have a prayer of faith and james chapter 3 talks about this how the prayer of faith will heal the sick hallelujah it's powerful we also have a prayer of intercession where we can pray for other people or pray on their behalf amen we have corporate prayer we have a prayer of consecration we have a prayer of the holy ghost or in the holy ghost or praying with tongues so these are basic areas of prayer and the prayer that i have discovered in my life and this is just practically speaking again from the heart of a pastor is the prayer of consecration this prayer is the prayer that you want to pray when you're dealing with natural unbelief when you're dealing with this experiential unbelief and the prayer of consecration is lord i don't want to be attached to this stuff any longer i don't want to identify with this stuff any longer so i'm going to give you i'm going to yield to you i'm going to pray this prayer of consecration or submission to the word of god and to the will of god and when you start laying down your life in this way for the purpose of god to be fulfilled the will of god to be fulfilled in your life that is what's called the prayer of consecration there's no particular way to say it it's just simply you saying i surrender all. i'm not going to be attached to this stuff anymore in jesus name this is not going to be my identity this i'm not going to be carrying this for the rest of my life to where jesus is going to say to me one day how long have you been dealing with this situation i'm over it in jesus name so how do i get over it by giving the lord that area of my life god i don't even understand what happened here but i'm going to yield my will to you right now i'm going to lay this down well you know what the person who demonstrated this in the most powerful way in scripture was jesus he went into the garden of gethsemane and he prayed the prayer of consecration not once not twice but three times saying the same words what was he doing he was getting his soul into submission to the will of the father not my will be done where's the will is the will in your spirit no the will is in your soul will mind emotions not my will be done but nevertheless your will be done see when you get in these situations and you begin to yield yourself to the will of god what you're doing is praying the prayer of consecration and you know what if it took jesus three times now granted he did go to the cross he did become sin he did die for the entire human race right he did take on your sickness and your disease and all of your brokenness but if it took jesus three times to bring his natural will into the will of the father to where he was saying i if i have to pray this prayer 25 times i'm going to be here until i know that the will of god is going to be done in my life somebody said to me one day dealing with an unforgiveness issue oh my gosh how many times do i have to forgive them and i said there was this guy named peter in scripture who said that to jesus do you remember the story and peter and thinking he's like you know all that and a bag of chips says you know do i do this seven times in a day well think about that if you had to pray the prayer not of forgiveness now but if you had to pray the prayer of consecration seven times in a day what would that look like maybe breakfast lunch dinner would be three times in between snacks so when you're when you're fasting and praying and that ham sandwich is calling out your name daniel come eat me that chocolate cake is is you know beckoning to you all that is within me and isn't it amazing when you decide to go on a fast how it's just like all of a sudden there's just food everywhere you know you you get on a flight and you go somewhere to minister and you get off the airplane and the first thing you smell is cinnabons it's just wrong you know what happens when we decide the word of god is more important to me than food and you begin to tell your body you're not fasting to get god to move in your life you're fasting to get rid of the unbelief and when you're praying and fasting and laying down something so valuable that without food you are going to die your body cannot go without food indefinitely you would literally starve to death well something in your body knows this so when you declare looking in the mirror like i have you know i've been on numerous fasts in my lifetime and i remember one time i i really felt directed of the lord to go on a 40-day fast when i was pastoring and i looked in the mirror and looked right into my eyes in the mirror and i said all right body this is it we are going on a fast right now and you could just feel the fear in my body going i think he's serious i think he means it come on pass it on we're about to go without food you know when you decide and and listen don't go on a fast just to go on a fast and don't go on a fast just to lose weight you will lose weight but i don't recommend doing it like that okay when you fast you're fasting for a specific purpose and the purpose is to get rid of unbelief i mean there's many different fasts in fact i've got three pages here of why fasting in the new covenant is different than the old covenant would you like to hear that sometime okay i'm going to turn it into part three amen because fasting in the old covenant is not the same as fasting in the new covenant we don't fast to move god we fast to move us off our blessed assurance right we fast to move us out of that place of unbelief to where we're saying to our body body you're the temple of the holy ghost and the word of god is more important to me than food so every time i'm scheduled to have breakfast lunch or dinner you know what i'm going to do i'm going to spend time in the word of god i'm going to eat the word that value that you're placing on the word of god will bring transformation and unhook the experiential unbelief that landed in your physical senses let me tell you something you do not have to live with that struggle for the rest of your life i've never yet been to a fasting convention but i'm not opposed to starting one you know where are you going for that seminar what what's it called oh it's a fasting seminar we just go there and don't eat first of all could you possibly even have a seminar without food i mean that's just wrong right no seriously people food it just has a way of dominating our lives and our hearts if we let it so many of us as americans are struggling with obesity and being overweight we've never really been taught you know how to live in this place of moderation to where you know we're making good choices over our lives we're just eating out of stress a lot of times and eating whatever we feel like eating well see when you take that and submit that through the prayer of consecration to the will of god and say body you are going to respond to the word not to food in jesus name i'm guaranteeing you you are going to experience breakthrough in your life you know what happened to me at the end of the 40-day fast i thought for sure and i don't want to talk about me and the whole fasting thing because i don't want you to take my example and make it yours but i just want to share that i've fasted on extended fast several times in my lifetime there was a couple people that really were mentors to me and they were really really big on prayer and fasting so they influenced me in a big way but let me tell you i thought for sure that maybe into about the 7th or the 14th day of the fast surely we're going to experience some really big breakthrough i didn't i didn't see a darn thing for 40 days i mean i just got more and more hungry but what happened after the fast was over oh buddy you talk about breakthrough and transformation all of a sudden the life of god was flowing out of me like i didn't even know was possible things that i thought were just like for that guy you know that pastor that evangelist now we're happening through me i was like god what happened he said you got detached from the experiential unbelief and when we detach from it by doing what jesus said guess who benefits it's not just you but it's everybody around you that becomes more established and benefited as a result so i want to just challenge you listen to the holy ghost ask him you know i don't recommend fasting around the holidays you know it's kind of a miserable time it's more like feast feast days you know feast times but ask the holy ghost and he'll show you maybe start with a a meal if you've never fasted before or start with a day instead of going for a 30 or a 40 day or whatever you know it's like remember larry lee and the early morning prayer thing from years ago did anybody has anybody been around long enough to remember that this man's name was larry lee he was a minister great great guy and uh and he had this thing called early morning prayer where you would go through the steps of the tabernacle and enter the gates with thanksgiving and you know it's designed to be prayed through for could you not tarry with me for one hour well i was like bless god i'm gonna do this i'm gonna start praying early morning prayer i'm gonna get up at 5 00 am from now on and i'm gonna pray from five to six and nothing is gonna about 15 minutes into my prayer i wake up and here i am talking to my best friend and if that wasn't bad enough to fall asleep drool is coming out the side of my mouth i mean it's just embarrassing so listen don't try to eat the whole enchilada just start where you are amen maybe you've never fasted before start with a day start with a meal but ask the holy ghost and he'll show you but here's what i want to just encourage you and bless you with today you do not have to stay attached to that struggle that you've been in for the rest of your life amen would you stand to your feet prayer ministers would you come father we bless you today and we thank you for your word that is alive and powerful we thank you lord god that you have called us to not be conformed to the ways of the world you have called us to be living in this place called transformation and we are so grateful for the overflow for the abundance for the exceeding of above all we could ask or think life of god father thank you that this is what's in us and operating through us to your glory now father i just bless those that have been listening today or will be listening to our our time together today and i say lord god thank you that you are the helper you are the one that will help us to get rid of that unbelief to get rid of those places where we have allowed limitation to become our normal and god i believe that you are replacing those places of limitation with the exceeding abundance of god thank you for healing thank you for miracles thank you lord god for restoration thank you for relationships being healed relationships being restored thank you lord god for your blessing on our lives that brings us into places of favor that bring us into places of prosperity and again more than we need to where we can give out of our need but we can also now give out of our abundance and lord we're so grateful for you you showing us what this looked like and just your faithfulness to the word of god and your faithfulness to us can we just take a moment again and just lift our hands i know we've we've already done this today but i just want to just bless the lord for a moment here before we we dismiss and just thank god for his faithfulness amen thank you jesus that you are for us man we're so grateful god that you are not against us but you are for us lord you just want us well you meet us where we are you meet us as we are but god you love us too much to leave us where we are and so thank you for moving us into the image of christ in every area of our lives we don't want to be identified with fear and worry and doubt and unbelief god we want to be identified with the fruit of the spirit and all that you have come to give us in jesus name we thank you for being our helper holy spirit to help us do it and help us live like this help us not just be talkers or listening but help us to put into action what it is that we've heard not just hearers but doers in jesus name lord we bless you and give you all thanks and praise amen amen man thank you so much for being with us today for the healing school i want to invite any of you who would like personal ministry to come up and let our prime ministers minister to you they'll lay hands on you they'll pray with you and they're believing god for breakthrough for miracles and again those of you joining us on the internet i want to just take a minute to say we've not forgotten about you okay i know you're not here but wherever you are you are simply a phone call away from having a a prayer minister minister to you right now in this moment if you will call our area code 719 and then the number is 635-1111 we are prayer ministers who are standing by right now that are really looking forward to taking your call and i'm telling you we are seeing breakthrough miracles healings restorations of every kind through our communications center so i want to again thank you for being a part of our healing school today the same power that's here in this place is the same power that is there where you are and god wants you well so write to us as michaela was saying earlier in our live today and share that testimony with us we want to hear what god's doing in your life and what god is doing in your family and it will not only be an encouragement to us but it'll be encouragement to people all over the world so please write us and let us know what the lord's doing in your life and until then we look forward to being with you again next week in jesus name stay blessed [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Thu Sep 23 2021