Overcoming Your Infirmities // Pastor Jay Eberly // April 11, 2021

second corinthians 12 verse number 7 through verse number 10. paul said and lest i should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of satan the word messenger is the same greek word translated angel throughout the whole new testament it's not a angel of god it was of satan it was a fallen angel satan fell but you know a third of the angels fell with satan and so this is a fallen angel the messenger of satan or an angel of satan we call them demons to buffet me lest i should be exalted above measure so notice this is something sent from satan not from god the exalted above measure does not mean pride i could i could i don't have time to get into all that you can see that all through the bible but uh where paul talked about this this issue of uh pride and how he dealt with that already god wasn't dealing with this this is something paul had already dealt with but uh and so he said i was given this thorn in the flesh then the thorn in the flesh is a reference to a term used in the old testament about four times i don't have all the references in front of me and i'm not teaching on the thorn in the flesh so i don't want to spend time too much on this but it's not a sickness or disease it's mentioned four times i believe four or five times in the old testament pricks in your eyes thorns in your sides thorns in the flesh it mentions it different ways and in every situation and let me let me back up in none of those situations is a sickness or disease it's an old testament ideology is that the word am i using the right word you know it's a anyway i got through high school praise the lord but it's an old testament term phrase terminology not literal it's not something literal you know it's a little like we say today it's raining cats and dogs well that doesn't mean poodles and german shepherds and siamese cats are falling out of the sky no it's just a terminology and that's what pricks and your sides mean he's not talking about you go back and look at the context he was referring to driving canaanites all the way out of canaan so they don't become pricks in your sides and thorns in your sides and pricks in your eyes and so forth and so on he's not talking about a canaanite sticking in their side he's talking about just an irritation and every time in every case it was not a sickness or a disease it wasn't literal it was something that was a figment of speech referring to a person right anybody ever had a person that's irritating in your life don't look to your left or your right we could spend much more time on that and and most of the body of christ think he's talking about sickness or disease he is not talking about sickness or disease he's taught he said what it was it was these demonic forces opposing him the messenger of satan he didn't have a demon sticking in his side amen it wasn't a sickness or disease it was a personality in this case and a person without a body it's a not a not a human being person but i mean a a being without a body demons opposing him everywhere he went he said that you don't have to make up an idea of what he's talking about he said it was a messenger of satan he didn't say it was sickness or disease now um so you know people have heard all about paul's thorn and job's boils and they think that that's verses that say sickness and disease something that we have to go through or bear it's amazing the devil made sure that they heard about job's bulls and paul storm but he made sure they never heard about jesus stripes by his stripes we are were healed amen so that we could spend another three services on that but here's the point paul said there was this thing that was assigned to my life this messenger of satan to buffet me lest i be exalted above measure if you look up exalted it doesn't just mean it's not just translated pride it's translated to go beyond the usual mark and god was the one exalting him through it says in verse 7 through the abundance of revelations lest i should be exalted through the abundance of revelation in other words through the revelation the revelation that paul got was enabling him to go beyond the usual mark beyond where most christians go and do more and accomplish more and win more victories than most people win and and that's a whole other subject we can spend three services on but here's what i wanted to get to uh he said god was through this revelation taking me further and satan was opposing me you need to know satan will oppose forward movement he will oppose revelation and then notice what he said for this thing i besought the lord three times thrice means three times that it might depart from me and he said unto me my grace is sufficient for thee my strength is made perfect in weakness now some people read that and they think god said no that's not what god said when paul said i want you to get this thing out of my life god said to him my grace is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect in weakness he's basically saying paul have all well let's keep on reading and you'll see it my strength my grace is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect in weakness amen most gladly therefore verse 9 will i rather glory in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me therefore i take pleasure and infirmities in reproaches not out of them but in the midst of them in reproaches and necessities in persecutions into stresses for christ say for when i am weak then am i strong oh my goodness there's so much revelation here i just want to basically talk to you about what he said there in verse number nine i take pleasure in mine or verse number nine says i glory in my infirmities i want to talk about overcoming your infirmities and when he said infirmities here don't think sickness and disease that word infirmities is translated more times in the new testament in a weaknesses not just i can speak i could take here i could go through about two dozen scriptures where this verse is used and the word infirmities does not mean sickness and disease in the new testament it's used to talk about weakness of faith it's used to talk about weakness of spirit it's talking about sometimes weakness of mind weakness of conscience and sometimes every now and then weakness of body but a vast majority of the time say vast it's not talking about infirmities in the body remember over there in romans 8 for example where i was going to go we'll just refer to it right now likewise romans 8 26 27 likewise the spirit helps our infirmities and then he mentions one for we know not what we should pray for as we are that's an infirmity that's not sickness or disease is it and we could go on and on like i said i think i've got about two dozen verses i took the one day i took some time and just went through this word to just make sure i understood it and i i cannot in good conscience even cannot say there in ii corinthians 12 he's talking about sicknesses or diseases he's talking about and this is the way the strong's there's two good real good uh so two of the most popular greek because you remember the new testament was written in greek it was translated over into english you realize and so the men that translated it into english translated it using the best words they knew how to bring the greek meaning out uh and uh so you know sometimes they did fair jobs sometimes not and besides that words in the english change meanings the bible doesn't change but you see the king james was written in 1611 i believe that's over 400 years ago i mean i know some words have changed meaning over those 400 years it used to be a compliment to greet somebody and say you're sure looking gay today don't say that today [Applause] my great-grandmother actually whenever i remember she was an elderly lady whenever we first met her but um we went over to her house one day a little kind of an apartment up on the second floor and we were there talking and or really listening and when she saw us she says you you kids sure are looking fat right well you wouldn't greet somebody today and say boy you sure are looking fat that's not a compliment anymore it used to mean robust healthy you got good skin color you look like you're you're healthy you know doesn't mean that anymore doesn't mean words change meaning not the bible words words change me so back in 1611 when they said infirmities people today think that sickness or disease that's not always and most of the time not sickness and disease in the new testament we use that today that way but it's not that's not not the only thing he's talking about so uh are you still with me this morning and so one of the things he's talking about in the in the strongs and the in the vines those are two of the best greek study helps you can find the strong's and the vines i've actually found another one called complete uh word bible uh what's it called complete word study bible word study bible i believe uh but it's just really rich and really deep but since i don't know the greek i depend on people who were greek scholars you know so i look up words to see what the original greek actually said and the strongs and the vines are two of my favorites listen to the strongs and the vines the uh infirmities means in the greek weaknesses want of strength or feebleness either of mind soul or body or sometimes spirit or it can even talk about weakness of other things bible talks about one place the weakness of the law you know not even talking about sickness or disease so it can refer to physical things and every now and then does but far more often say far more often this word is used to mean according to the vines inability to produce results oh come on now somebody said i need to change my tire can you pick the car up well the fact that i can't pick it up is not a sickness or disease but it is an infirmity i don't have the physical ability some of you come on into church it's okay that's an inability to produce results but really most of the time here paul's talking about an infirmity i glory in my infirmity in other words my inability in my own strength to accomplish the plan and will of god because of the opposition coming against me in the spirit amen now listen to that's the vines the inability to produce results now the strong's is my favorite the vine says inability to produce results is strong says to do inability in other words to do things grand and glorious how many of you know there's a lot of things in our lives that brings it a lot out of the realm of sickness and disease in our mind and brings it into the realm of infirmities of the flesh where we just don't cut it yeah yeah anybody anybody come on now i'm telling you just if some if if you're looking for grand and glorious results from me or even god is looking for grand and glorious results from me in my ability [Applause] you're going to wait a long time and after that long wait you're going to be sorely disappointed because here i am god i'm going to do it whoops i got distracted by this i'm off on some other plan my thinking is wrong my flesh said i don't want to do that so i'm going a different direction i'm going to go ahead and preach these weaknesses or inabilities are produced in other words inabilities to produce things grand and glorious glam grand and glorious results paul produced some grand and glorious results but it was in spite of him not because of him he was killing christians oh i'm going to preach so this weakness or inability to produce grand and glorious results can be due to satanic opposition we see that in this passage it can be due to human frailty or weaknesses of mind body or faith you realize our minds are still being renewed and our wrong thinking sometimes can make us unable to do what god wants us to fulfill in this life you remember king saul he was unable in his ability to do what god called him to do and god said all right there's a company of prophets going up that hill they're over there banging their tambourines you read it over there first what is that first samuel second samuel maybe wherever but they're going to be banging their tambourines and they're singing and prophesying and and moving with the holy ghost you go join yourself to that company of prophets and the bible said that when he joined himself to that group the holy ghost came on him and turned him into another man glory to god now what he couldn't do now where he was insufficient where there was there was a a a place that was not filled in god filled that up by filling him with the holy ghost and made an insufficient man able and capable amen paul said paul said god said to me what i have given you already makes you able [Applause] see our job is to learn to tap into it and how do we do that verse 10 said therefore i am going to glory in my infirmity now that looks like he's saying i'm going to brag about how big my tests and trials are i'm going to tell you about whenever you tell you whenever you tell me my excuse me when you tell me yours i'm going to tell you mine and try to outdo you and tell you mine are bigger than yours that's not what glory in my infirmities means glorying in mind infirmity sounds like this philippians 4 13 i can do all things not there's no period there through christ who does what strengthens me hallelujah the amplified said infuses inner strength into me and the amplified here in the 10th verse uh well no actually in the ninth verse the amplified says because look at the king james i rather glory in my infirmities that the power of christ may rest upon me glory in my infirmities the amplified says something like so that the power of god can pitch a tent over me in other words i got power all around me yeah yeah i got the greater one in me to enable me see that's what he's there for to help you to enable you to do what you can't do in your own strengths anybody ever had a situation in your life or have don't raise your hand where you keep tripping over the same thing falling back into the same thing the same fleshly bondage same fleshly habit you know what i'm talking about the same distractions the devil sends something everybody everybody has areas where satan knows that's an area of their weakness i've never been tempted with a lot of things alcohol and so forth but other things watch out there every honest person knows that knows where those things are that's an infirmity that's something where you're going to have to depend on his help because that area of your life without his help is let's put it in the way ms wilder doesn't like to hear it ain't going to be grand and glorious it's going to be ugly and amen anyone any other words we need to add to it you know it's going to be it's going to be bad i had a young man one time actually god brought him here and man he was doing so many things in his life became like a son to me pastor debbie and uh he was doing fair but i could tell there was something that just uh just he kept getting tripped up on found out later it was video games that was keeping him he was moving on and making much progress in many areas but this one area he just was lazy with his mind he wouldn't control his thought life and that's that'll manifest in different ways video games can be a way you know three hours on the internet can be a way just whatever pops up let's watch that yeah yeah let's watch that sometimes that's fine just to relax but sometimes that's just laziness laziness in your mind well that's that's what he was dealing with he'd play video games for six hours a night and so i started talking to him about it how that you know he's gonna have to put his foot to that because that's an open door here to the enemy well i could tell he wasn't progressing and you know and so we were encouraging him i mean this congregation loved on him and i mean it was amazing how this congregation ministered to him and we did as well but um he called me on the phone one day and he said i'm i'm this i'm that i'm not what you think i am i'm i'm bound in this area of affliction and he mentioned some perversions and uh he said this is who i am don't try to talk me out of it uh and and he started going down that path i said now listen to me son i said don't talk to your dad like that you know you know the truth that's not who you are and uh because we had a close relationship i had already proved that i loved him i gave him i i got pretty straight with him i said you come to the office and you see me i said i want to see you right now he said no no he said i'm not who you think i am i'm this i'm that and he kept on going on and uh and uh he said this he made this statement to me he said i just can't live the way you live the very first thing i said to him was i can't either that's the first thing came out of my mouth i said what you don't understand is i can't either what you're seeing in my life because he was he could see victory he could see uh control of my faculties my my flesh and so forth he got closer and he could see those things i said what you're seeing is not me what you're seeing is the glory of god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i said i can't live this way either this what you see in me is what's available to any man because god is no respecter of persons [Music] and he wouldn't hear it he just said no i said i want to see you come see me he said no i don't want to i don't want to talk and he wouldn't listen well then he went out and accused us of all kinds of things you know maybe i don't know it doesn't matter if anybody heard it doesn't matter i don't have to even defend myself but but the point is uh he thinks that what he sees maybe in you others in the congregation or us he thinks it's our doing it's not our duel we are his workmanship amen oh yeah paul said by the grace of god i am what i am he also said our sufficiency is not of ourselves our sufficiency is of god amen hallelujah i said hallelujah and when paul said here i glory in my infirmities he's not talking about boasting about how many tests and trials he has people do that you know in fact that's what this young man was doing on the phone he's boasting about the strength of the temptations and and things that were opposing him i don't boast in those things i boast in the greater one who lives on the inside of it [Applause] that's what this means i glory in my infirmities he's saying when i don't have the ability to do something or to live clean or to be holy or to live in victory or to overcome or to to to to get up and go at it again when i when i want to quit when i don't want to keep going when the pressure's strong when people leave me when this or that or the other i don't have the strength in me to keep going i don't have i can't but i glory in the greater one living on the inside of me he makes me able [Applause] i said he makes me able hallelujah so when i woke up this morning in prayer i became aware of some weariness in some of us amen amen i just praying this morning i was going to go i was going to preach in another direction but as i was praying this morning i became aware there's some weariness and this isn't an accusation this isn't a condemnation i'm just saying the spirit of god wants to help us today amen and so uh wherever you are and you think i just can't go another day i just can't go on anymore i just i if i don't get something in service today i'm done well you're here and you're gonna get something in service today you can't do it in your strength peter whenever he was supposed to be praying there in the garden when jesus was praying before he went to the cross when he was supposed to be praying was sleeping anybody notice that infirmity in your life you know you should pray in the morning when you get up but you're just too tired come on we don't need to list our infirmities we pretty much already all know what they are yeah [Laughter] especially mine i know mine you know yours and so when we should be peter was sleeping when he should have been praying and when jesus came and said you know could you not watch with me one hour remember that notice what jesus said the spirit is willing but the flesh let's put it this way it has infirmities weaknesses if you're gonna trust your flesh you know people okay i'm going to i'm going to with willpower with with with just the grit of my willpower i'm going to master this well willpower will help don't misunderstand that but how many times have we proven willpower is not enough [Applause] new year's resolutions how long do they last february has never seen a new year's resolution i'm going to lose 20 pounds this year or i'm going to and by january 7th we're stuffing ourselves with pie and i'm trying to make it all where we all understand what we're talking about we're just as jesus said the spirit is willing that's what we were saying on january 1st oh yeah let's do this it's willing but the flesh you cannot depend on the flesh for anything the flesh guarding the flesh is like the fox garden the hen house [Applause] [Music] you and i are going to have to be romans 8 13 people we romans 8 13. you might want to turn there we through the spirit mortify the deeds of the body god never asked you to mortify anything he said you you're going to don't misunderstand me you have your part but you're going to do it with the strength of the spirit within you not your own strength but in the strength of the inner man that the that the spirit of god gives through the new birth see when you get born again the spirit of god came into your spirit right yes and he's in there and he's not just a hitchhiker to go along no he's there to help you he's there to strengthen you he's there to enable you to do what you can't do let's put it this way what you are in firm to do you're not able to do infirm means weak that doesn't mean just sickness or disease can you see that now it just means you and your own ability can't do it but you're not asked to do it in your own ability amen let me let me say let me tell you this the first thing that you in order to uh get to where you really in your heart want to be you have to do here's something you have to do first you want to find out where the first thing you need to where you need to start out on this is hallelujah hallelujah let me let me back up and say something you can know what to do but every time you go to do it without his help you you just can't accomplish it anybody don't don't raise your hand and say here's mine no i don't want to know yours anybody in your heart between you and god right now you can identify an area in your life you know what to do you know what god said like whenever i injured my back i know what god said to me about why how that door got opened i know what he said know it you couldn't beat it out of me for anything i know what he said about how to start my day and make sure my spirit stays fed he reminded me of the last time it happened and it was when i was real busy wasn't feeding my spirit in the morning you know my physical strength doesn't come out of willpower or a good diet or something like that i proved over and over again that if i don't start my days right on a regular basis my body gets laid out on a slab almost you know not not the morgue slab but you know what i mean just i gotta lay it down in the bed for a few days i know what he said to me so boy whenever whenever you're hurting you're real diligent about it you start getting on top of the pain you get up in the morning and you get a little distracted here and then you get a phone call there and then this and then that before you know it you're back in that habit again why you're dependent on your own well i got this now i got this now lord i'm doing good now yeah thank you for telling me i don't know i'll get back to that but you know tell me i'm talking to somebody you can know what to do but there's things that there's there's just the flesh is weak remember jesus said the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak so there's a little shift we've got to make stop trying to do all these things in our own power amen and and and get to the place where we're depending on the power of his might to do what we can't do on our own so if you're in one of these places in some some area or another probably all of us are today where you're just continually experiencing defeat in an area whether it's some sort of lust of the flesh or some sort of you know you're just not doing what you know you should be doing uh and and just not you know you know what i'm talking about then uh you got some bondage in the flesh or habit or something your wrong things are first and you keep going back to those things or you keep being distracted or you keep falling back into unforgiveness or we can go how many things do we have to go over for we know what we're talking about if you're in one of those places the first thing you're going to have to do is forgive yourself number one ask god to forgive you maybe i assume that's in place in your life but number two forgive yourself because why do i say forgive yourself because uh you never are going to be able to master something if you're just beating yourself up about it and you'll never tap into the power of god to overcome it while living in condemnation condemnation is one of the greatest faith thieves that there is are you with me the devil will help you beat yourself up he's the accuser of the brethren when you've done it again failed again come short again you have to ask god to forgive you but then you have to forgive yourself because the devil will like i said help you just beat yourself up and your faith is worth nothing when you keep beating yourself up you're gonna have to do this by faith faith is for more than receiving healing faith is for reckoning yourself dead romans 6. anybody ever notice that verse hey we've got to preach a little more on this this kind of thing more often so um you'll never tap into the power of god to overcome see you can't do this on your own strength you're gonna have to tap into the power of god so you'll never tap into the power of god just condemned about it whenever he said confess your sin i'm faithful and just to forgive your sin cleanse your unrighteousness you have to believe that he actually forgave you but pastor he can't because i've done it so many times remember jesus how many times peter said how many times shall i forgive my brother seven seven times no 70 times seven and that's all in one day by the way do you think he's asking us to do that and he won't do that for us are we more holy than he are we more forgiving than he is he asking us to be more forgiving than he is so you got to get to the place where you know that he's not condemning you listen if you're condemned what you'll do is run from him rather than to him and he's the only one that can help you somebody said but i don't want to i don't he already knows it he sees it and has been seeing it i'm just gonna act like no no no he sees it it's fully all things are naked and open for the eyes of him with whom we have to do that's the bible verse he knows it and he's still wooing you because he knows you can't do it he also he knows what you've been but he also knows you can't do it in your own ability so rather than condemn you and you know when you come beat you come to the throne of grace he beat you no rather than do that he he woos you to come to the throne of grace because he knows you need his help [Applause] he knows without him we can do nothing hallelujah and he's forgiving i said he's forgiving. this word infirmity even means in the strong's definition it even means uh infirmity in the area of understanding something infirmity and of ability to do things great and glorious re it means infirmity to restrain corrupt desires or bear up under temptation or trial i want you to see that understanding of things there are things that we don't even know what keeps tripping us up why do i keep doing that he knows i said he knows amen hallelujah do you know that many things like overeating and this is this is not picking on anybody it's just things we understand overeating or immorality or affairs or things like this or you know pornography addictions or things like that do you know those things are not just fleshly they are often somebody trying to get an emotional need met and god will show you where to get those needs met yes how many of you know he's the source for everything you need yes i'm here to just share what the lord put on my heart i believe it's something that some of us need listen i it doesn't take me long a little bit of spiritual weakness and the old things start creeping back up every honest person will say amen we're not up by willpower we're not up by grit or or or no we're up because we trust the one who's greater in us to strengthen us to enable to keep responding in the right direction rather than the wrong direction so many things are not a matter of accomplishing the victory it's a matter of yielding to our victory i don't know if you understand that yielding to the one who is your victory what what these things what yielding to the greater one in us does it it transforms our lives our lives become transformed to what we're not what we used to be not only in our spirit but our lifestyle our habits what we what we give our attention to what you know all these things it's it it's how it's where the transformed life comes from and and what what people see when they see a transformed life which when i say transform i'm talking about in this context i'm talking about more christ-likeness you know that's that's what really we need to be shooting for and we need to be uh uh that's our target is like him be like him we talk about it in other areas sometimes but we're talking about like in holiness this morning and things like that or overcoming temptation and so forth um that trans that that that uh transformed life is not in other words it's it's in our lives but it's not from us i don't know how to say it it's there and it's in our lives but we're not the source of it you know what i'm talking about it is something that he and his ability that we yielded to now we have a part don't ever think well i'm just believing god to do all this in my life now you and i have a part we have to yield to this there needs to be you know the bible said walk in the spirit you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh it doesn't say just don't fulfill the lust of the flesh no he's saying yield to this yield to the spirit and you won't end up over here in the flesh it's not a matter i can't do that i can't do that it's a matter of i get to yield to the one who enables me not to do that [Applause] and so what we what people see in our lives the transformation they see in our lives we're not the source of it we're just the container of it it's in our lives it is it is a part of our life it is real victory it is not it is not something that you know we just boast about but there's no substance to it we're really in bondage and secret behind closed doors but but but you know but uh we boast about that in christ we're free no no there's real substances i have real substance in many things in the area of victory and many things i used to be bound by i got real substance to it amen nothing's going to last forever without my continued participation but you know what i'm talking about and so what people see in our lives whenever they see the transformation is one of the definitions of what the bible calls the glory of god changed into the same image from glory to glory hallelujah what many others struggle with and i'm not putting them down i have to what many others have struggled with we're living in victory over but like i said it's not automatic i can't just coast for the rest of my life but but the point is i'm living in victory over so many things and that's not of me we have to realize that's not of me that's not of brother andre if he's living in victory it's it's it's something that is in our lives but it's not we're not the source of it right right we're not just and you got to get to that place where you recognize i can't i have tried i have tried but i can't isn't that wonderful that you and i got help well pastor i got some of these infirmities you're talking about welcome to the human race [Music] now we're not talking about whenever we were born again our newborn born-again spirit was created perfect in the image of god but our flesh strips us up and our unrenewed mind trips us up and sometimes that inward man before we get fed and really start growing he's still weak weak in faith so forth and so on you understand what i'm talking about so learn to come to him don't run from him the wonderful thing is we've got hebrews 4 15. we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities he's compassionate because here's why he was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin he knows what it's like where every cell of his body wanted to recoil against the crucifixion that was the will of god for him somebody said well is that the will of god for me no he was our substitute yes every core core of his being every cell wanted to revolt and say i do not want to go to that cross remember he was sweating great drops of blood resisting the temptation in the garden the bible says that he has been there resisting temptation that's why he's touched with the feeling of our infirmities he he's gone through it he never sinned but none of us can say we've never sinned we went through it and happily yielded it you know glory to god hallelujah later in prayer oh yeah lord oh i'm sorry ah lord that grieved you you didn't like that did you oh he says no i'm holy and i don't like fellowship with that yeah you know what i'm talking about i'm not preaching over anybody's head i mean we're all we understand so jesus is touched i like that that word touched with the feeling of literally means in the greek compassionate that's it's it's words that form the word compassion in the greek so he's compassionate so that being the case don't run from him he has pity the word pas compassion means pity it means mercy amen so you're not going to encounter condemnation when you come to him you're going to encounter mercy amen i'm telling you if you really if you really if you really believe that you'll run to him every single time humbly with humility and uh and uh you know reverence but not afraid because you know he's going to receive you when you come with a contrite heart bible use that term contrite heart and you come to receive mercy the bible said a humble and contrite spirit he will in no wise despise amen you come humbly and say father father forgive me forgive me it was ugly i hated it i didn't like myself for doing it you know and you start and i'm here to repent i'm here to say i'm sorry he he he puts his big arms around you and says listen i'm compassionate on you i know you can't do it on your own come here gives you a big cut hug and takes you in i heard a story heard a testimony of a man he was uh an atheist he had a praying mama a real praying mama and he was just living for the flesh living in sin you know all that that means we all know what all that means and he was out some island of the world somewhere he had a lot of money and spent a lot of time out just sailing around and he was out in some island somewhere and was deep sea diving or whatever you call that and stung by a jellyfish actually i take that back stung by four jellyfish box jelly or whatever they call it real real deadly reel and uh it's one of those you don't live for you most likely with one sting you probably won't live for an hour one just one jellyfish but he was stung by four and he came he knew all he'd been scuba diving before and he knew all about this and how he was trying to avoid you know ever getting stung he knew they would they the venom could kill you well he's he comes up out of the water real quick knowing that basically he's a dead man with this arm starting to be paralyzed you know what i'm talking about and and so they got him up out of there and he could barely talk you know hyperventilating kind of thing and they finally he got it out they rushed into the shore and he found out later that his mom was in new zealand and had a vision and jesus appeared in front of her and said your son is dying pray right now he's a atheist pray right now and she started she hit her knees right immediately because there's not time here to say okay i'll do that later she hit her knees praying and started pouring out her heart to god and saying i bind the devil from taking him to hell i bind whatever's trying to take his life she didn't know the facts she didn't even know where he was but she started she's a holy ghost woman a godly woman and she started praying and this man didn't he talked later to his mom didn't know all this but he's dying laying in the boat they're taking him in to try to get him to the ambulance and hospital their radio and so forth he's on the way into the boat and he has a vision and he sees i don't remember all the details of the lord and the lord said some things to him and said uh i'm the way the truth and the life or something and and said some things about told him how to pray the lord appeared to him told him and he he said well i don't even believe in you he said but jesus said i am the way yeah that's the result of the praying mama that's the mercy of god and uh the man said well oh i see you i believe you i i receive you forgive me and i receive you into my life and and went to the actually got him to the hospital it was kind of amazing and in the hospital they he died and he went up to heaven actually actually first of all he went to hell and then uh and then a voice came out and rang out and said something and he went through a tunnel and went up to heaven because the devil thought he had him but he didn't and god god made it made him go the right direction yes and he stood before jesus in heaven he's dead in the flesh before jesus is in heaven i don't know why i'm telling his testimony somebody needs to hear it and uh and he's he was so aware of the love he said the first thing that hit him was love and he said he and the man said in his heart he didn't say it out loud he said sorry he can't love me like that i'm full of sin and then peace he said these things started hitting him a wave of love then peace and then joy he said it hit him like different waves and he said this is amazing where am i he didn't even know where he was and and there's jesus standing in front of him and he said his faith was glowing and he and these things were coming off of jesus and he said jesus i don't believe i didn't believe in you and he said i am the way. he said it again and he said and he said you can't love me that's not right i've done so many things and he said jesus said to him but you prayed and said in the boat you received me forgive me and he said so i washed you you're clean [Music] [Applause] he said he said i've never experienced this kind of love i don't even understand what this is jesus stepped aside like that and he could see into eternity he saw heaven he saw the flowers he saw the people he saw the angels and he said to the man he said do you want to come or do you want to go back he said i want to come he said you can if you want but he said he said and then the man said in his heart wait a minute my mom down there is praying and she if for all she knows i went to hell he said i i know that would break her heart she doesn't think her son went to heaven so he said let me go back i want to tell my mama that i received jesus [Music] jesus stood over in front of the door how many of you know he is the door he stood over in front of the door again and he said to the man lean your head to the side it was kind of weird i didn't understand what lean your head to the side he leaned his head to the side and all of a sudden he woke up and he's on the slab in the morgue and that's the position he's in he's leaning to the side he said some doctor's down there with his foot digging in it with a scalpel he said he opened his eyes and looked at the doctor and the doctor hit the ceiling he had been dead for i don't know an hour or two or something like that yeah some nurses were standing to the side he looked at them and they went ah he said trying to get out of the room they ran into each other oh that's fun and he said in the on the slab he's laying there he's in the morgue you know chilling the body down he's laying there and he's paralyzed from the neck down because that poison's still in his body he said lord i just saw you he said heal me if you loved me like you said heal me he said within an hour all his feeling came back and he was completely healed hallelujah that's mercy i said that's mercy well how about you that's the kind of mercy you'll encounter just call out to him bow your head and close your eyes father we've gone a little different direction than what i thought because of the wooing of the spirit i believe in lives in this auditorium this morning there are many father god i believe i believe that are here this morning that you were speaking to me about in prayer this morning they become weary they need some strength they need something this morning to help them to get past where they are they're getting ready to quit father whoever they are right now i pray like that interceding mama for that man stung by that jellyfish i pray an infusion of the strength of heaven into their spirits where they're seated right now hallelujah if you want to receive that lift up both of your hands just say i receive what's coming my way right now hallelujah paul said when i'm weak i'm strong so right now you're in a position in your own ability you're weak receive the strength of heaven into your being the spirit of strength the spirit of might go into their being i pray not a one of them will ever quit father i come on behalf of these i stand on behalf of these against the enemy who's trying to wear them down trying to wear them out trying to get them to back off and to not go through with what you're telling them to do i stand against you satan you get out of their life you've not just come against them you've come against all of us satan you get out of their life i bind you now that harassment that torment that that wearing down right now stops and father the infusion just like you said said a tent of your glory come over every person that's raising their hand that's receiving this where they are father at that tenth now comes over them an infusion of power an infusion of might into their being father god they can't do it on their in their own strength but now you're here to help hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah just begin if you just just begin like paul said i glory in my infirmities right now start boasting greater is he that's in me start saying something greater is he that's in me that's than he that's opposing me than he that's in the world i can do all things ah i can yes i can through him through christ who strengthens me i stand and and i'm strengthened i receive the strength of heaven father you said that you said i'm to acknowledge and philemon acknowledge every good thing that's in me in christ jesus i acknowledge the greater one i acknowledge he's he's infusing strength into my being right now thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord what i have not been able to do i depend on you to enable me to do it thank you father it's flowing in me now it's flowing in me now i'm saying the right things i will not speak weakness any longer i say greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world i say what joel said let the weak say they are strong today i'm strong i'm strong not in my might you said be strong in the lord and in the power of his might today i say that with my mouth i'm strong in the lord and in the power of his might i can do this by the help of the greater one within me hallelujah i'm not going to take those thoughts anymore that say i can't i can't obey i can't fulfill the plan of god i can't resist i can't this no those words no longer come out my mouth i can do all things through christ which strengthens me i can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me my shakia mashikiye thank you father thank you father thank you father all across this room strength going in strength in your inner man in the name in the name in the name in the name in the name in the name in the name in the name hallelujah father i receive cleansing so some of us need to receive this i receive cleansing by the blood of jesus washing me right now cleansing me right now from all sin from all failures in the name of jesus i repent i turn father i thank you you're faithful to forgive me and to cleanse me of all unrighteousness and not only that father right now i forgive myself i forgive myself i'll not live under that cloud of of heaviness or condemnation in the name of jesus hallelujah now say i'm clean i'm clean clean clean hallelujah the past is gone praise your father remember that vision dr defrayne had he was standing in front of the mirror i think he was shaving or something one morning he started thinking of all his failures all his faults and blemishes and weaknesses and so many things and he started getting down he started crying i think actually starting to get down on himself we got so many faults in the flow and he said he was looking at himself in the mirror and he started crying and the lord said look again and he looked and he saw a bust of himself like a rock you know bust like they would make some famous person make my rock bust he said he saw it again and there was cracks all through his the bust of his head and shoulders and he said that's what i'm talking about lord i got so many flaws and failures and the lord said look again and the blood of jesus started coming down over that image of him and filled in all the blemishes that's what you just got you just received hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah stand up and start praising him this morning hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah jesus said i will not leave you orphans [Music] i'm sending the holy ghost i'm not going to leave you orphans we're not in our we're not in this on our own and here's another thing those things were satan's opportunity but guess what the door just got shut to satan because of the cleansing of the blood [Laughter] glory be to god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise be to the lord praise be to the lord psalm 118 says this is the lord's doing and it's marvelous in our sight this isn't the way we are clean the way we're free the way we're victorious is the lord's doing and that's why it's marvelous it's not something of our own ability it's of his ability praise god hallelujah hallelujah did you get any help raise your hand if you got some help this morning i got some help i got some help amen don't let your don't ever let yourself get separated from fellowshipping with other believers coming to church and and uh being in the presence of god like you experience here because you look around you think everybody else has got it together listen we all clean up nice but there's still things where still needing to tap into his help amen so don't ever let the devil say i'm not going back there i've failed missed it so many times that's exactly what he wants you to do so he can get you weak or weaker and isolated that's that's not where you want to be you're not not out there on your own come on and jump in the middle like paul like like god said to king saul you need to jump in the middle of a bunch of holy ghost [Applause] people yeah glory to god jump right in the middle of us it might be you this sunday next sunday might be the rest of us that need all the fellowship and the strength of the rest of the body but i'll tell you this is a place to come and be not out there you know saying well i've missed it so many times i'm just going to quit no say no no no no no no no no amen praise god give god a shout this morning hallelujah hallelujah praise be to god praise be to god you got anything praise be to god praise be to god glory to god just dip if you don't have something dip you got something hallelujah can i get the key of c praise the lord do all things through christ who strengthens me yes i can cause i am free yes i am free i can do all things to christ to straighten me cause i am free yes i am i can do all things i can do all things to christ to strengthen me cause i am free yes i am free i can do all things to christ to strengthen [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] cause i am free cause i am free [Music] hallelujah [Music] son of man son of god and son of man son of god and son of man you are lord son of god and son of god and son of man son of god and son of man that's who he [Music] of is son of god and son of man you are lord i can do all things to christ to strengthen me cause i am free yes i am free i can do all things to christ to strengthen me cause i am [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah this is your chance to respond to your freedom this is your chance to dance if you're led to dance this is your chance to run if you're led to run this is your chance just to lift your hands and praise him if that's what you're led to do respond to the spirit respond to your freedom respond to what god has already freed you from respond to the strength the bible says the joy of the lord is your strength so if you're needing that just thrill to laughter yield to the spirit yield to what he's told you to do hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're free with joy [Music] bye [Applause] [Music] yield to the victory the blood has washed you it made [Music] yield to victory the blood has washed you it made you clean yield to the victory [Music] the blood has washed me it made me clean i yield to the fear i use the victory the blood has washed me it made me clean i yield to the sin i yield to victory the blood has washed me and make me clean i yield to the steam and i yield to victory [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah praise you lord jesus the natural mind says what does yielding to this have to do with me being free in another area over here remember what we said walk in the spirit and you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh practicing yielding to the spirit is how you stop healing to the flesh amen hallelujah amen some of us yielded some of us are still thinking about it amen what that does what that does is it it develops a habit a pattern of yielding to the wrong things develop a new habit of yielding to the spirit amen i'm free i have the victory hallelujah the blood has covered and washed me amen amen amen i i'm so satisfied on the inside i believe god had a plan he wanted to accomplish i believe it's been accomplished this morning amen there's a few that haven't responded to it but that's not our part our part is doing what he told us to do amen anybody want to respond before we go [Music] [Applause] blu-ray hey [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah glory to god hey man amen amen amen [Music] how many of you know we're fuller than we were when we came in we're fuller of the one who enables us to overcome infirmities

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Published: Sun Apr 11 2021