How To Stand

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] rise up [Music] it's time to rise we have been ministering along the lines of the fact that you can be healed now everybody knows that here pretty much but we need it reinforced and uh this morning we're going to be ministering actually on i think technically this would be part three probably but um we're gonna look at ephesians chapter six this is probably one of the most um well yeah for people's healing it is one of the most important things for people that need to be healed to know other than of course healings in the atonement and things like that but this is where when we talk with people especially people that have been maybe sick for a long time or sick from various things and they've been to various people to pray for them different things have not happened and so they were upset when i say upset i don't mean they were mad or anything they were just you know as we would say at their wit's end so to speak and because they had tried everything they were told and still needed healing so uh the other day we were talking when i say we asked my staff and i and we were talking about this particular aspect because a lot of people don't know how to stand and we're going to talk about that this morning because there's so much in a person's life that because you know in in in the past people would say okay well you got to have enough faith for you to get healed and if you don't have enough faith you just keep coming keep listening until you get enough faith when you get enough faith then i'll pray for you and then you'll be healed and that's not biblical and that's what they had been taught and that's what they'd heard and so they didn't know how to really receive healing and how to stand once they had been ministered to and then we discovered in the word that we can actually believe for them that god made a promise to us that who we lay hands on they shall recover and that means every believer can lay hands on any sick person and the sick person shall recover matter of fact we're going to talk about some of that later on today even about the word recover and some of the aspects of it but this is one of the things that we have seen because and i did a uh teaching a while back called when healing doesn't come quickly because that's probably one of the biggest questions that i get written into me uh emailed text whatever people say what about this or what happens you know if i go to pray for a person and it doesn't happen right away what happens and so we we ministered along those lines but today and as i said this is one of the things where we see most people fail to receive healing or at least let me put this away they don't fail to receive it they fail to keep it which is even more devastating and more you know heartbreaking for people because you know they can be healed and they'll come to a service like this and then we minister to them and they get healed and it's great and it's wonderful and then they get home and you know maybe sometimes maybe the next morning they wake up and the thing is back and we've heard that from time to time and so one of the things that i set my faith on is exactly what jesus told the boy when he cast the devil out or what he told the devil when he cast the devil out of the boy he said enter into him no more and so i started setting my faith so that when we minister healing to a person and they are healed that that thing doesn't come back to them because now we have told that thing that it cannot and we have seen results in that we've seen that we can actually go that far in it and then it's funny because we would have religious people that in every other area especially in the areas of healing and things like that they see great healings they see god do things and then they get mad at us because they're well that's you know that's going too far well that's called greater works they're going to you can't go too far as long as you're on the bible as long as you stand on the bible uh i may have gone too far according to your belief but that doesn't mean i've gone too far to jesus's belief amen because he said we're gonna do the same works and greater so if you say we're gonna do the same and greater that means the same and even of the type of thing greater of the same right doesn't mean different things it means the same thing just bigger and better amen so i want to talk about how to stand today as having done all to stand to stand and know how to stand because people have to know how to stand because i'm not always there with you i can get you free but i can't keep you free in the sense that if the enemy tries to come back in and you agree with him in some way then he's going to come back in and jesus said you cast the devil out it's going to walk in the dry places and in a little while it's going to get tired and it's going to come back home and it's going to try to come back to you wherever it left and so you can bet on that you can just rely that jesus knew what he was talking about and know that once you get free the thing is going to try to come back but that does not mean we have to let it back amen so in ephesians chapter six so today we're talking about how to stand for your healing and how to keep it so how to stand having done all to stand stand right so ephesians chapter 6 verse 13 it says wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god not partial not part of it i don't know if you realize it or not they're entire denominations that are set on taking part of the whole armor of god because you're going to see part of it here in just a minute is the helmet of salvation people get that and that's it we want salvation that means when i die i want to go to heaven that's it i'm not going any further and so people camped there well that's not what he said he said take the whole armor that means every piece of it right and then he says now notice he says so that you may be able to withstand in the evil day now notice he tells you to take the whole armor of god so that you can withstand in the evil day what does that mean that means an evil day is coming and that means that the enemy is going to try to attack he's going to try to do something to you but he said if you take the whole armor of god you will be able to withstand right that means the devil doesn't have to get an upper hand he doesn't have to get an advantage he doesn't have to get an opportunity amen he said that you can withstand in the evil day and that evil day is when the devil comes to try you because it's not god trying you amen he's not testing you the devil comes to try you he comes to see well let me see if i can get in this way and if that doesn't work he'll come back another way and go well what about this reminds me of the old those are my generation you remember the old show with uh was it don adams get smart remember the old guest smart and he would say something and then they would argue with him what and he'd say well would you believe this would you believe this and he'd go to the different things well that's what the devil does he'll come along and poke you in the side and go oh oh that hurts and he'll go would you believe it's cancer and you go well let's see no no nobody's in my family's ever had cancer so i don't think that's cancer well would you believe it's this and he would come up with some other thing and he'll keep backing down until you finally go well you know i did have a cousin that had that there we go and then you take it and so you have to realize that the evil day comes when the enemy comes to you and tries to convince you of something amen now he says here that you may be able to withstand in the evil day now watch this and having done all to stand now the next verse of course says stand therefore so he says having done all to stand stand amen do you see that and he says now watch us many people right here let's just read again that you may be able to withstand what is that's two words to stand it means to withstand means to stand against something so he says here already three times right here he says having done all that or that you may be able to take the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand three times he says stand so there's something to standing amen and now here's the thing many people are waiting it doesn't say wait it says stan do you understand that so when he says stand he doesn't mean wait now i understand because if you're set in the waiting mode now i understand the bible says we're to wait on the lord and i get that that's not what he's talking about because everything that he has provided in the atonement and through his sacrifice we don't have to wait for him it's already been paid for and it's us to receive and walk out it is that simple so it's not well yeah he died for your sicknesses he bore the strife for your sicknesses by his rights you were healed and it's coming and it'll be here someday no by his stripes you were healed it's already come amen and you get to decide when you're going to believe that now but he says here and as i actually just wrote in my note there many are waiting but it doesn't say wait it says to stand so don't think in terms of standing as waiting well i'm standing what does that mean well i'm waiting for him to show up my healing no that's not what's going to happen you have to stand you have to receive your healing see all the bible has to work together and so you have to receive your healing believe it right and you receive it and you shall have it now in that period that's when you're standing amen now notice also that is the evil day why because that's as we always say that's the mean time the time in between is the mean time why because it's so mean because it's rough on you amen so he says in verse 14 this is the apostle paul of course writing to the ephesian church which was an amazing church they were the best church of the day right and he says stand therefore yeah now let me well i'm gonna have to back up he says take the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore notice you can't stand until having done all most people haven't done all and if you haven't done all you can't stand so first you have to do all to stand before you can stand does that make sense so how does he tell you you're going to withstand by taking the whole armor of god so part of having done all means taking the whole armor of god not pieces but the whole thing and if you look at the whole thing you'll see that he that that is preparation for you to be able to stand so let's read it he says stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth now what he's describing has been likened to a roman soldier's armor and you can get the picture of it and we don't have a picture handy for you but you can look him up and you'll see that what he's talking about he says have your loins that's the the waist area girt about and gert means to be tight there have your loins gird about with truth that's the first thing he says truth not ideas not theologies not ideologies truth so the first part of the armor of god is finding the truth right not your denominational viewpoint not what church you've been to but what the bible says because thy word is truth john 17 tells us and he says here having your loins gird about with truth and so here's piece number two having on the breastplate of righteousness now that breath plate there's really two main pieces right all of them are important but there's two main pieces the first one he mentions here that is a main piece of course i mean you don't want to get stabbed or hurt anywhere obviously but your breastplate is one of the main pieces i'll tell you the two main pieces the breastplate and the helmet of salvation why because that protects your heart and your mind and so this these are the two most important now all of it but now notice he said take the whole arm of god so even though we got two most important you've got to get all the other pieces too amen so he says have your loins gird about with truth so first you have to have truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness what does that mean that means that you know that you are the righteousness of god in christ that it is his righteousness that you're right with it's not your righteousness it's not what you've done to achieve it or attain it it is his righteousness that's your breastplate why because that's where the enemy is going to try to hit your heart he's going to try to convince you that you're not righteous he's going to try to convince you that you don't deserve to be healed that you don't deserve to be okay that you don't deserve the blessings of god why because remember last week you remember the other day you did something and you have to have the breastplate of righteousness which will protect your heart you have to have that on so that you can be protected and so that you can stand in the evil day this is vital if you do not understand that your righteousness is of christ and it's not yours in the sense that you did good then your righteousness will fall apart because as soon as you start relying on the your own righteousness the enemy will start pointing out every fault and you'll start shooting holes in your breastplate of unrighteousness right so you have to put on the breastplate of righteousness listen what what i'm talking about here and you're going to find this because what are we describing we're describing a soldier's armor paul told timothy be a good soldier of jesus christ endure hardness hardship we would even say endure hard times endure hardness when it comes as a good soldier what does that mean that means two things you soldier on you don't bellyache about it right you don't gripe you don't complain you don't murmur which guess what you don't do that in the military and you don't do it in christianity why in christianity and the military uh you just get in trouble in christianity the earth opens up and swallows you if you remember back in the old testament some people were murmuring and 50 000 people died that's not good amen so you don't want to murmur you don't want to complain you don't want to go on you want to be able to stand and that means to soldier on as i said and so there takes a grit for some reason people think that christianity is supposed to be oh it's just all nice everything's wonderful uh no you've decided to go against the flow and going against the flow is never easy never nice now here's how it can get easier that you get out of yourself and you take on his burden his yoke amen because his burden and yoke are not heavy they're not bad they are light and they are easy in that sense but only while you're in his strength if you try to do this in the power of human strength you're well what you're doing then you turn it from christianity to religion and then you make it hard because religion is always hard religion is always you're not good enough you'll never be good enough you can't do enough and it'll keep on driving you religion is a driver right and so we have to realize that but once you come to christ and you rest in him and you rest from your own works and you take on his works and his strength then you realize that whatever you face you face it in his power and when you face it in his power you know that there's enough power behind you to deal with that situation instantly amen this is where most people mess up they try to look at the problem through their own eyes rather than looking at it through the eyes of god whenever you can see a problem see it's amazing when you look at a problem you can see a big problem but when you get up about 30 000 feet and look down that problem don't look so bad well that's god's viewpoint and so you always have to look at it through god's viewpoint not yours amen because i can tell you when you're feeling the heat god ain't feeling the heat so get out of yourself get into him and recognize who is in you in the power of his strength right because that's who he tells you what or what he tells you to have power in is not in your own power but in the power of the lord and the power of his strength now this is a until you develop it this isn't that easy because you have to constantly remind yourself to quit striving and quit trying to push it through in yourself and to to relax and to rest in him now the thing is what i've learned is the more i rest in him the faster i move and the more i get done and the more people get healed and the more works i get accomplished but they're not my works they're his amen why because i have ceased from my works i have never healed a person in my life but i've watched jesus do a whole lot of it amen why because i don't rely on my own strength my own situation you know i'm a human got family got relatives got all kinds of things got all the same problems everybody else does with relatives and family right but when people stand in front of me and need help i can't focus on that i can't be their son their well i don't have any brothers or sisters in the natural but i can't be their family i can't be their cousin i get in the past now they've kind of got past it now but in the old days you know in the first 15 years i used to get complaints well how come curry's not coming to the family reunion because i'm preaching in the ukraine that's why and i'd rather be with them than with you i will admit there have been times when they said our fan reunion is coming up next september and i'm like schedule me quick schedule me somewhere out of the country i love my family at a distance anyway so anyway but you have to take on all these pieces of armor to be able to stand now look at the next part in verse 15 and your feet so here's the next piece of the armor shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace now notice when it says the gospel of peace that is our peace with god jesus said his peace he live he leaves with us so we have his peace if we enter into his peace there are a lot of christians that never enter into the peace of jesus and but he said whenever jesus was born the angels were saying peace on earth good will towards men not good will amongst men good will from god toward men in other words god is saying look i'm for you i'm for you this is why i'm giving my son is because i'm for it this should be proof enough that i'm for you but a lot of people don't think of it that way but we have to realize that the gospel of peace is that we are at peace with god and if we are at peace with god then we don't have to worry about what god is going to do to us we can keep our minds focused on what god has done for us and what he's going to do for us and what he's going to do through us not worry about what he's done to us or what he's going to do to us wow that's but yeah now notice your feet have to be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace what does that mean that means that you have to prepare and the preparation aspect is that you are learning that you are at peace with god believe it or not that that can be a process because so many people have been under guilt and condemnation and oh god's gonna get you and well not if you're his kid not if you're on his side not if you're not evil come on amen and even if you are evil god doesn't have to do anything evil has within itself its own uh consequence it's called sowing and reaping amen and he tells you this is the path to walk in walk in it don't walk to the left or the right but walk in this path and you'll be blessed and then people are always wandering around out in the right and the left going why is life so tough uh you're in the wilderness come out of the wilderness get in the way of the lord and don't get in his way get in the way okay that's been another problem well i've been in the way now for 50 i know right in the middle of the way you've been in the way move over and let somebody else do something amen but we have to realize that god has prepared a path that we can walk in that is blessed amen now keep let's keep going let's keep looking at it he says in verse 16 above all and what does that mean it means above all right doesn't mean last of all doesn't mean least of all it means above all taking the shield of faith now why you say wait a minute is so is the shield of faith the most important thing okay you have to look at the context the context here is taking the armor of god that you may be able to withstand so the context in the context of standing the shield of faith is above all do you get that why because he says wherewith wherewith what with the shield of faith you shall say shout that that means not maybe that means it will happen is that right you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked now notice it it's amazing shao is the most it's the strongest word in the english language you shall do this in other words now notice he says with the shield of faith you shall and then he has this word that has a variable you shall be able he didn't say wherewith you shall quench he says wherewith you shall be able to quench what does that mean that means you can have a shield and not use it do you get that so you can have a shield but not use that shield but if you use that shield of faith you will quench all say all not some amen oh all means all one of the shortest words but biggest words amen all the fiery darts of the wicked so that ought to tell you right there he said because above all you take the shield of faith so faith is important amen without it of course you cannot please god with it all things are possible anything is possible amen nothing shall be impossible if you believe so now notice in verse 17 and take the helmet of salvation the helmet of salvation in other words now this is where we got the old term in the old old time pentecost you might say in other groups too but i was in old time pentecost so that's the group i know about the most and we used to call we used to tell people well you need no so salvation no so salvation what are that that means that you know that you're saved well see no so salvation is they got this from this right here from the helmet of salvation if you have the helmet of salvation your mind is protected for salvation because you know you got it you people said well you said well i hope so see hope so don't work it's not hope so salvation it's no so salvation amen and you know if you are if you're not now you may be able to fake it around people you may be able to fake it you know in church and that kind of things but god knows and you know and the thing is if you're around people long enough they'll know why because your salvation will come out your mouth if you never mention anything about god if you never when you're just talking in general and you're not talking about the things of god i would doubt your salvation i really would why because what's in your heart comes out of your mouth and so people say well but to me it's private ain't no private salvation there's no such thing as a private salvation you go off in a corner somewhere to get saved and keep it hidden you know until you die or something no salvation is for all to see you're supposed to be a light and you don't light a light a candle and put it under a bushel jesus said that amen so he said above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you shall be able now what does that mean that means that you have a shield of faith and he knows god knows and he wants you to know that if you have that shield you are able to quench the fiery darts now it's up to you what are you going to do with it he gave you the tools to stand he gave you the tools to win he gave you the tools to withstand even the fiery darts of the wicked one and to put all of them out so that means now understand whenever you have a shield and if you go back to the well we would say the old uh like some of the old movies and things and they would be they would have their shields and they the enemy would be firing arrows at them sometimes they were on fire just as this is an illustration of and when those arrows hit the shield you got to realize those things hit with force they didn't just stick it up there and couldn't tell if they were being shot at or not it's kind of like a bulletproof vest it might keep you from dying but you're going to know you got shot right you're going to have some bruises and even some sometimes some cracked ribs and that kind of stuff so why because you're gonna know you're being shot at and it was the same thing with that shield that when those arrows hit it there was a thump and it it jarred you because those things are hitting with force that's why a lot of times you'll see someone when they get hit even in the movies or whatever when they get hit with an arrow it knocks them backwards you see sometimes when people just get hit and they just kind of fall down that's movies in real life when they got hit they usually fell backwards why because of the force with it and so and the force wasn't fast enough to be supersonic because when it's supersonic you fall forward whenever you get hit so but when this arrow hits there would be a thump and you would feel it and sometimes the arrowheads could even start to come through the shields so whenever you're in the battle just because you have a shield of faith doesn't mean well you're not going to know anything that's going on no you're going to know you're under fire you're going to know you're under attack but you're not getting wounded and you know that okay i'm standing i'm standing and now here's the thing you have to know that your shield of faith will withstand the attacks of the arrows of the enemy you have to have faith in your faith in that sense of knowing that my faith in christ will hold me here and my faith in him is that he is protecting me and that he will carry me through this that's your faith and when i say have faith in your faith i'm not talking about just building up your faith and go with my faith my faith no i'm not talking about that aspect because i want you to realize that your faith is in him your faith is not in you when you put your faith in your faith it becomes humanism so when i say have faith in your faith in this context i'm talking about you knowing that faith works and that your faith in christ will work for you amen does that make sense now notice he says that if you take the shield of faith which is another piece of the armor you shall be able to quench that means put out every fire the enemy starts right of the wicked verse 17 take the helmet of salvation now notice these he just kind of goes through pretty quickly and take the helmet of salvation that's as i said knowing that you're saved knowing that it's a done deal for you in other words you ain't backing up you ain't backing off you ain't backing out you're not drawing back uh to perdition as the bible says but notice and then the next one and the sword of the spirit which here he actually gives you a definition of it which is the word of god now when he says the sword of the spirit which is the word of god and the word word there in the greek is the greek word rhema and there's been all kinds of teachings about rhema and all kinds of teachings about the logos and the raymond these kind of things and probably 98 of it's wrong and all you have to do to find out is open up a strong's concordance or a vines dictionary of new testament words and you'll find it and matter of fact if you've been to the dht you can see we did a section on that and all i did was copy and paste straight out of strong's concordance straight out of vines dictionary of new testament words and it shows the difference between the two most people think that rhema is this mystical thing that god just being and it clicks in you and now it's god speaking to you a word almost like an audible word but not all you know not necessarily audible but it's him speaking right then that is not true that is not what the bible says and even if it were true then we would just be in big trouble because in james it actually says be doers of the logos not doers of the rhema and so where to be doers the logos the logos is this bible in right context in other words on a particular topic say like healing if you have the right concept of healing in other words all the scriptures about healing in order put together rightly divided you have the logos of healing now whenever you take that logos of healing and you start doing it mark 16 believers lay hands on the sick when you start doing that that's one part of it there's many more parts but that's one part of it and when you start doing that now that logos becomes rhema to you why because rhema is the word you live by so people say well you know i live by the bible no you don't you live by pieces of the bible i don't know anybody that's living by the whole bible you know because if you did you'd look like jesus and we'd all know it so we're all just walking in different levels of the work right well it's like people saying well you know i live by the laws of the land okay well that's good uh all of them yep everyone let me follow you for 10 minutes on the highway let's see you know it's against the law to change lanes without a signal that's against the law you can get a ticket for that right and a lot of people you don't they don't even think about a signal i've seen people train three lanes not going to get off under this but anyway just because they didn't want to go down and make a u-turn and come back they zip across three lanes and you watch all the cars light up because they're having to hit their brakes because somebody didn't want to go down another block and make a u-turn they want to cut right across them anyway okay we're going to go on spend a lot of time in my car let me tell you i see a lot i see a lot so i mean now notice the sword of the spirit which is the rhema the word of god the word of god that you live by notice he says take that word that you act upon take that word that you live by and that is the sword of the spirit see the sword of the spirit is not just a scripture you can't take a scripture and just quote it and just say oh well that's the sword of the spirit or somebody say where's your sword oh here's my sword no it's not no no this is the maybe the scabbard or the sheath for it but your sword is in here why because it's the word that you live by do you get that and so that you you you do realize uh the apostles never had that they never had a bible that they could walk around with all the sayings of jesus in it they didn't have a bible altogether that had all the epistles in it from paul paul didn't walk around with epistles of peter and that kind of stuff in a book like we have it you realize that right all they had what was what was in their heart and in their minds what they could remember and what the holy spirit brought to them for their remembrance now as you according to uh vines expository dictionary new testament words it actually says that the word rhema for you to have rhema you have to store regularly the logos of god in your heart and whenever you're in a situation that word that you have stored in your heart will come to your mind that's called coming to your remembrance and so when it comes to your remembrance then you act on that word and it works matter of fact i'm gonna give you an example of that i think in uh well i don't think it'll be in it'll be at some point today uh probably during the announcements i'm going to give you an example of that so but now notice he says in verse 18. so now these are all the pieces you got that these are all the pieces loins gird about with truth breastplate of righteousness shoes your feet shot with the preparation the gospel of peace the shield of faith right the helmet of salvation the sword of the spirit that's the armor now notice what he says next praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints that's another aspect now prayer it technically is not part of the armor but it is one of your weapons right now if you go to mark chapter 5. mark chapter 5 verse 21 and when jesus was passed over again by ship under the other side much people gathered unto him and he was near to the sea and behold there comes one of the rulers of the synagogue jairus by name and when he saw him he fell at his feet and besought him greatly saying my little daughter lies at the point of death i pray thee come and lay thy hands on her that she may be healed and she will live and jesus went with him and much people followed him and thronged him and a certain woman which had an issue of blood 12 years and had suffered many things of many physicians and it's been all that she had and was nothing better but rather grew worse now i could preach on that for a bit but we're not taking the time for that today when she had heard of jesus came in the press behind and touched his garment before she said if i may touch but his clothes i shall be whole and straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague and jesus immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him the word virtue means power that virtue power had gone out of him turned him about in the press and said who touched my clothes so notice somebody got healed and he didn't even know who it was and then his disciples said unto him you see the multitude thronging you and you say who touched me and he looked round about to see her that had done this thing but the woman fearing and trembling knowing what was done in her came and fell down before him and told him all the truth and he said unto her daughter your faith has made you whole go in peace and be whole of thy plague while he yet spoke there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said thy daughter is dead why trouble is thou the master any further now watch get the picture the man came to jesus and said if you come to my house my daughter's dying she's at the point of death right now if you'll come and lay your hands on her she will live notice he set the conditions the man set the condition if you come and lay hands on her she will live jesus went with him now so as soon as jesus agrees to go right as soon as that happens what's the next thing that happens he gets bad news okay look at the pattern because it's gonna be the same pattern that hits many of you because you're gonna have some problem going on you're gonna take it to jesus jesus is gonna give you his word that by his stripes you were healed and then the next thing you're gonna hear you're gonna get a bad report somebody's gonna tell you oh that that situation that's terminal oh that situation that's gonna be debilitating it's gonna make you well you'll never be normal again you're gonna hear some type of bad news somebody's gonna come believe me people always come with bad news bad news travels much faster than good news and so they're going to come and tell you why and they're not going to say jesus is wrong well they might have some that will do that well jesus doesn't do that anymore but generally they're going to come and they're going to give you a reason some natural thing and you're going well i've already dealt with that you know i believe god well that's nice but you know you're just in denial because this you got to realize this is a real situation as though the bible isn't real right it's more real why because it's spiritual and spiritual is more real than natural right and so you're gonna you're gonna come up against this situation it could be maybe that it's not you in that situation it could be you ministered to somebody and then you get a bad report that their situation got worse and then see when you hear that why do you need to hear that why because the enemy wants to make sure that what he's going to do is he's going to try to test you at the fiery dart he's gonna try to get you to see if he'll back off and go oh well i guess it didn't work and then that person will die because you retracted your faith so you have to stand in these situations it's good if they can stand but one of you have to stand and so whenever you hear that bad report number one you can stop yourself from hearing it in many cases but if you can't then you have to immediately take that thought captive because it will go in as a seed and it will grow up in you and you'll start backing off the next time you start to pray for somebody that thing will come up in your mind and you'll have to fight that thing off then or you'll go well yeah and now you move out of the prayer of faith in the prayer of hope which we are not guaranteed an answer for so i'm telling you how to stand so once you have been prayed for you have to stand once you pray for somebody you have to stand you expect them to stand but most people don't know how to stand so you have to stand for them in that case amen now let's keep going he says while he had spoke they said why trouble thou the master any further as soon now watch as soon as jesus heard the word that was spoken as soon now notice this is mark still in mark yep mark the big thing with mark is you'll read his word more than any other place any other gospel he used the word immediately why because mark was a young man and young men want everything done now right it's we got to move we got to do something and i agree with 100 i'm still that way right so i guess i'm still young in here right but it says here as soon you'll always see mark talking about quickness as soon as jesus heard it in other words this man is standing there the ruler of the synagogue jairus and this man comes up and says uh your daughter's dead don't trouble the master as soon as jesus heard that before jairus could even respond jesus steps in so as soon as he heard now watch as soon as he heard the word that was spoken he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue be not afraid only believe so here this guy just said it and i mean literally as soon as it got out of that man's mouth before jairus could respond before he could say something against what he had already said as before he could nullify or negate his faith jesus steps in and says not only believe don't be afraid only believe in other words don't listen to that what did you tell me you told me if i laid my hands on your daughter she will live stick with that do you see what i'm saying there's a battle that goes on that once you have been ministered to there's going to be a battle why because the enemy comes immediately to steal the word that was put in your heart and he's going to try to get you to change your mouth why because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks and he wants you to change your mouth and disagree with the word so that he will have free reign to first he comes to steal the words on your heart then he comes to kill and destroy and if he can get that word out of you he can kill and destroy so you have to keep him from stealing if you can keep him from stealing the word that was put in your heart you can keep him from killing and destroying you your family or whoever you administered to amen but this takes a grit you have to realize that this word is more true than anything you'll see what the words that are written on these pages and on this paper is more real than words written on pages that have a doctor's name or a hospital name at the top of it do you understand that it is amazing the number of times i've both heard and even know of people that just because they got the doctor's report and the minute they read it literally they started going downhill beforehand you couldn't even tell they were sick they went and got tested for whatever and they weren't even sick you couldn't even see it they had no symptoms sometimes it was a physical just a regular uh yearly physical and then they come back with a bad report and immediately that person starts going downhill why because they have agreed with it and you have the right to determine the the condition of your own body amen my grandfather was uh 69 actually yes 16 was born in 1900 so back in 1969 i was 10 and whenever he was 69 years old he had worked at a uh actually at a funeral home for i don't know 30 years something like that and had known these people the people that owned the funeral home all this time was good friends with them and then the man that owned the funeral home actually retired and i think he actually passed away at some point but my grandfather was the one that actually took out the back home and dig the grave and then he'd have to get in the grave and shove this thing out and he did that till he was 69 years old out there digging graves right in south texas it's hot and so he was out there digging these graves and then the sun took over the funeral home and said okay we got we're going to give you all insurance but uh you you've got to go get a physical my grandfather went to to get a physical and the doctor said what how are you alive and he said what do you mean he said your heart you could go at any minute and this is a 69 year old man it's been out there digging graves physically with a shovel working eight ten hours a day and is in perfect physical health i mean he you know i still remember we used to go up to the indian reserve uh up in oklahoma and we'd stay up there on the weekends and go up there sometimes for the summer all the time from uh from time i was about six i think i was about six or seven and we'd go up there every year and we'd stay up there a week sometimes we only stayed a month one time and we lived outside and he would show me a bunch of old indian ways of doing things it was a lot of fun for a kid and so taught me how to run how they used to run for miles and miles and miles and not get really tired and that kind of stuff and so we went through all that stuff so we were very close plus it was in their yard where i got ran over whenever i was 17 months old and so i was always very close to them and they helped take care of me whenever i was recovering from that and so he was very close to me and so but whenever they told him that this uh doctor said yeah you could drop dead any minute he said you you can't do this kind of work and so he told the funeral home director this man cannot do that kind of work anymore so they forcibly retired him basically six months he was dead six months why because he had nothing to do he and that generation especially work made you worthy you know you were valuable because of the work you did and so he had nothing to do and literally in six months he was dead and yet he had been going fine for who knows how long with what they said was his heart condition so one of the worst things you can do is believe a report he should have just watered that thing up and kept on going he'd probably live to be 90 or more right so because others in our family have done that regularly so just saying watch what you believe watch what reports come to you and like isaiah 53 says who who shall believe the report of the lord you've got to decide what report you're going to believe amen so let's finish up here he says here he said be not afraid only believe that's standing and he suffered no man to follow him except peter and james and john the brother of james and he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue sees the tumult and then that wept and well greatly when he's come in he sayeth unto them why make ye this the doom weep the damsel is not dead but sleeps and they laughed him to scorn but when he had put them all out i love that he laughed they laughed him to scorn but when he put him all out laugh at me will you i'll throw you out of the house it wasn't even his house i mean think about that he chased people out it wasn't even his house so he says he takes the father and the mother of the damsel and them that were with him and entereth in where the damsel was lying he took the damsel by the hand and said unto her talitha kumi which is being interpreted damsel i say under the arise and straightway the damsel arose and walked for she was of the age of 12 years the same number of years that the woman had the issue of blood if you remember and they were astonished with a great astonishment and he charged him straightly no man should know it and commanded that something should be given her to eat now notice too the man said if you come and lay your hands on her she will live is that right notice what it says here and he took the damsel by the hand why did he do that because that was the rules that was the condition the man had set if you lay hands on her so taking her by the hand was the same as laying hands right now go with me quickly to james chapter one we're going to finish up right here i think we are yep pretty close james chapter 1 verse 5 if any of you lack wisdom let him ask of god that gives to all men liberally and that braids not and it shall be given him but let him ask in faith nothing wavering what does that mean stand stand for he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed for let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the lord a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways what does that mean once you make a decision on it if you decide the buyer strives you were healed stand by don't waver don't speak other things don't make plan b's amen faith has no plan b so what do you believe let me let me put this way why do people come to me right well they believe god hears my prayers they some people believe that i have a gift or some special anointing or something like that but the fact is i'm a believer i believe the word of god i believe proverbs 18 21 that death and life are in the power of the tongue so what i do i watch my words right but this is why people come why because i do these things and god honors it by getting results i believe mark 16 18 that if i lay my hands on the sick they shall recover that word recover i'll tell you what it means it literally means this to take hold of your healing as a possession to take hold of as a possession to take hold of your healing so there is a place if i lay hands on you you have nothing i will do this but you have to do this you have to take hold of your healing as i've got it this is mine and it's my possession so right now i'm in the possession of healing do you understand and when you do that that's called recover see the word recover means to take possession that's what it means you're going to lay hands on the sick and they shall take possession of their healing that's literally what the what the greek says so so you have to decide to take to recover basically and then finally i said second finally i know okay james chapter four verse four says you adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with god whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of god do you think that the scripture sayeth in vain that the spirit that dwells in us lusteth to envy but he gives more grace wherefore he saith god resists the proud but gives grace to the humble now watch what it means submit yourselves therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you notice the order submit to god resist the devil he will flee is that easy submit resist he will flee so before you can resist you have to submit now notice this speak not evil one of another brethren he that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law notice it goes immediately after talking about submitting it goes immediately to your words and judges the law but if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law but a judge there is one lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy who are you to judge another in james 4 17 it says therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it's sin now remember ephesians where we started ephesians 6 13 says wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god so that you you may be able to stand in the evil day and having done all to stand right finally real find me for sure okay smith wigglesworth said every sickness and every disease is a devil that does not mean that it is a spirit in and of itself even though that is true i would even say a majority of the time but what he means is an adversary sickness and disease is an adversary it's an enemy right and should be treated as such treat every sickness like a devil and you can't deal lightly with the devil he must be treated roughly and that's why he was the way he was when he ministered and so i want you to realize there are going to be times in your life where you're going to have to take a stand decide i'm not going to say this i'm not going to say that i'm going to say what the bible says by his stripes i was healed i see that report and i do not agree with that report right i agree with this report by his stripes i was healed and then you get rough with the devil and the devil at that point you command that thing and you get rough with it and you get loud if you have to but you have to get rough and you have to get violent with that thing that is trying to stay there and you can call it whatever the doctors have called it you can call it whatever you want to call it but it's a devil it's an adversary i'll never forget i was with i was at a meeting with teal osborne and he was given a testimony of a healing that took place in africa when he was there and he had a doctor there with him and the doctor would examine the people before and after tail ozone was ministered to him and the doctor was with him at this meeting that i was at and he was talking about this woman that had been bowed over just like the bible the woman in the bible and he said and she came up and she was bowed over and it was a pitiful sight and he would talk about it and he said and the doctor he said doctor what was that she had and the doctor gave him a long name i mean a long name and he said what and he said said it again he said it's a devil cast it out why because you have to realize it's not the name it's what it does and so you have to realize that's an adversary whether there's a spirit attached to it or whether there's not it's an adversary and if you treat it all the same then if there is a spirit you'll get that too you'll get it away and so you don't just play with it and well be healed in jesus name all right no there are times whenever you have to get violent with that thing and let it know you're coming out today and whenever i've seen whenever i get more aggressive we see faster results and greater results immediately and so now a lot of people don't like that but it just depends on how free and how soon you want to be free amen

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Length: 54min 41sec (3281 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 20 2021