TGP // Encounter Night // September 10th, 2021

so so so my them thank you what's up um shoes i wanted to heal people amen first john 3 8 says the son of man appeared to destroy the works of the devil amen so that's exactly what's going to take place tonight but i want us to read something uh exodus 3 verse 22 it says but every woman and i don't want you to be messed up with the pronouns but it says but every woman shall ask of her neighbor namely of her who dwells near her house articles of silver articles of gold and clothing and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters so you shall plunder the egyptians i was like all right god this is the verse that you want me to open up with that's cool so what's so fascinating about this scripture is that god is actually talking about what's about to take place with the people who have been in bondage you may have been in bondage with sickness it could be relational it could be drugs it could be a bad family a bad marriage you fill in the blank we've all encountered something where we were we felt bound and we felt like we stood before an impossibility right but god's actually saying look the thing that actually has been in front of you i'm about to mow it down and as you walk out of egypt you're about to ponder the egyptians but guys this is what i really believe god wanted us to see in this verse and i've never noticed this before it actually says that you're going to take the clothing and you're going to put them on your children you're going to take the plunder and you're actually going to deposit it into the next generation this is what i believe i believe that god is going to wreck generational curses in here amen it could be it could be a lineage of sickness depression anxiety fear bad relationships but on this night god is not only going to heal you he's going to heal your whole family life amen so let's just go to the lord in prayer it's the holy spirit we thank you that no word of yours will return void until it's accomplished in what it was said to do and god we thank you that it's the anointing that breaks the yoke it's not your striving it's not you trying to do better it's the anointing from the holy spirit that breaks every yoke and we thank you that the anointing of jesus christ is in this place tonight and what we thank you that there will be bondages and there will be shackles ripped off people tonight in the name of jesus and it will forever change their it's families holy spirit we just invite you to come just invite the holy spirit to come he's already here he just wants your invitation just like we invited jesus to the wedding in cana lord holy spirit come and fill this place and all god's people said amen so so foreign this is a house of worship this is a place of phrase where every demon trembles where we proclaim your name this is a house of healing our hearts are full of things you have our full attention you come alive in the name of jesus come alive in the name of jesus this is a house of miracles we bring everything to the feet of jesus everything in the name of jesus this is a house come on every voice there's resurrection power your blood runs through our veins your kingdom dry also even the coldest in the name of jesus in the christ of jesus this is a house of miracles we bring everything to the feet of jesus everything in the name of jesus this is joy in the name of jesus this is a house miracles we bring everything to the feet of jesus everything in the name of jesus this is come on every voice let's declare it together even if your heart's not there yet if your heart's not at this point i want you to declare it prophetically over your life come on believe me i still believe you're moving i still believe you're speaking god i believe you're working on all things for god i fix my eyes on heaven god i still god god name of jesus come alive in the name of jesus this is a house of miracles we bring everything to the feet of jesus everything in the name of jesus this is this is everything in the name of jesus this is come on lift up a shot of praise praise the name of jesus praise his name so oh is is see his praise like is is sing to the lord creation is is remember that his knees remember that his name remember that his name how is god has never felt is is is again is is this place you for the lord always is oh jesus surely oh jesus is gather all the pieces oh jesus is jesus is oh is oh jesus is is is is let all things work for our god cause we know that all things work for our god we know that all things and we because you love me because you love me because you love me because you love me jesus so you bring life to the is to the ones there is you will restore the years that you come on peace is there is is is is oh your name is breakthrough your name is breakthrough your name is name is breakthrough your name is this is so this is your promise now this is your promise this is oh he is so thank you um you stand before your throne is you're the king of my life jesus just jesus jesus is so out of an empty grave a seated owning glory enthroned on the highest praise is is is is is oh we bless you we honor you jesus thank you lord it's good madison isn't it i said that's good medicine isn't it man i need it tonight anybody else need tonight did anybody need to be in the presence of god tonight so sitting there worshiping and i asked the lord i like to ask him weird questions to see if he'll give me weird answers and i asked the lord i said what are you doing right now and he said i'm laughing he said i'm laughing and immediately my mind went to psalm chapter 2. it says the following it says why do the nations conspire in the people's plot in vain the kings of the earth rise up and the rulers of the earth are banding together against the lord and against his anointed one saying let us break them let us put them in chains verse 4 but the one enthroned in heaven laughs he laughs the lord scoffs at them he rebukes them in anger and terrifies them in his wrath saying listen to this i have installed my king in zion on my holy mountain in other words i have put one on the throne who cannot be defeated and because he can't be defeated because he's victorious guess what you're victorious because you're in him you're in him he's laughing now we may be looking at what's going on in the world maybe even our personal conditions right now and saying god this is no laughing matter this is no laughing matter to which i think the father would say child you are victorious you're victorious and there is nothing that the enemy can do to rob you of your victory nothing in matthew 6 people were concerned they were worried and so jesus is addressing the topic of worry he says why are you worried and what are you worried about and then before they even answer he starts let me tell you what you're worried about you're worried about what you will wear and what you will eat and where you will go and you're worried about people around you to wish they would all say yes we're worried about these things and jesus said you're worried about things that you shouldn't be worried about you're worried about things let me put this up a kind way he says you're being a little too self-centered and because you're so centered on self and concerned about things that affect you you can't worry about bigger things kingdom things you can't worry about the lost you can't worry about people who don't know me you can't worry about the oppressed you can't worry about ministry you can't worry about your pur because you're so worried about the small things your mind has pulled you away from the big things and then he says something so profound and i think this applies in so many areas of life he says seek ye first the kingdom of god and all my righteousness and these things shall be added unto you in other words this is how i interpret that if you'll worry about my things and the things that i want you to spend your your time thinking about and praying about i'll take care of the things that are preoccupying you right now isn't that a good word because i think so often even in our prayer life in our prayer life we start praying god i'm so concerned about this and i'm praying in the direction of government i'm praying in the projection of this i'm praying about my job and i'm praying about this and we forget to look up and realize that there's a kingdom that god wants us to partner in i think that he's sitting there right now his posture i don't think that god has got up off of his throne i don't think he's pacing nervously the word of god tells me that he sits and he laughs he says i see all of this out here and i'm not concerned and i'm waiting for my people to rise up and laugh with me and just laugh with me say i see what you're doing i see what the enemy's doing but i'm not impressed not impressed an enemy you're not going to get my attention you're not going to get my fear you're not going to get more of my work you're not you're not going to pull me away from my assignment and my assignments to worship the king and to partner with him amen everybody let's open our hands let's just recalibrate our minds tonight i think the lord wants to do a big thing let's let's recalibrate our minds so god we acknowledge where you're at you're in heaven seated you're not nervous you're not pacing you are seated and you're laughing you're laughing at the very pathetic attempt of our enemy to derail worldwide revival revival is coming the king is coming the nation shall be reached and this is a pathetic attempt by our enemy to gain our attention to distract us from our call to distract us from the kingdom things god that you have assigned us to so we recalibrate our minds on this night we magnify you not our enemy we magnify our king not the one who is defeated not the problems of this earth we put our attention on you in this moment god we repent if we have been led astray we repent if we've allowed our emotions to pull us into a place where we should not be and we ask that you pull us up that you encourage us that you strengthen us and that you allow us to see what you see allow us to hear what you hear give us correct perspective on this night and we pray holy spirit that you move through the declaration of god's word we believe holy spirit that you're going to do what you love to do holy spirit you love you love to glorify jesus you love to make jesus more real to us you love to show us things about jesus we've never seen before and you love to confirm the message of jesus it's what you do holy spirit you confirm him you're not insecure you know your assignment you know exactly what needs to be done in the room jesus said it's good that i leave because i'm going to send one who's going to be like me he's gonna walk beside you he's gonna instruct you he's gonna open your eyes to things you've never seen before he's gonna empower you so we thank you holy spirit for being here with us and we pray that you move in a powerful way this all is to the glory of the father it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said it good amen amen amen come on let's give you praise one more time just for the just to say we can amen it's great to see you tonight it's good to see all of those that call the gathering place home all our guests in the house gather place once you welcome our guests real quick just give them a warm welcome it's great to have you before you sit down get some high fives get some handshakes get some hugs let people know you love them tell them they look good all right it's good to see everybody if we haven't met my name's matt i am the have the opportunity to be the late pastor here at the gathering place i want to welcome you anybody new to the gathering place or encounter lift your hand just show of hands good few folks really nice to have you guys tonight make yourself at home if you need anything walk out walk out into that lobby out there and there'll be some folks to help you we're going to talk about healing i feel led to talk about healing in this season for a couple of reasons one it's uh it's one of my favorite topics to teach on to preach on i really like the topic number two is i think that whenever we see lots of sickness or whenever we see a lot of what i'm just going to call uh dark activity in the world that god always has a solution say amen it's not that he's responsive moving in response to the devil he's not waiting for the devil to move and then responding he always has a solution and he's hoping and praying that his body on earth the body of christ on earth will just be attentive to what the solution is so i think that healing is often sovereign but it is as we'll get into it in a minute it's always according to scripture god's will to provide a solution to whatever darkness is doing so if darkness is intervening or coming against the people of god jesus response was always to destroy it whatever that is and i think that the body of christ is um being called up in this season to do some amazing things if you have anybody in um your sphere of influence friends um neighbors acquaintances that might be at home right now with covid i want you to take your phone out really quick and i want you to send them a text message and if you're tech savvy enough to do so send them the link to our facebook page tonight or tell them to go find it and tell them to tune in there's going to be a moment here at the end of this message when we begin ministry where i'm going to address through the camera all of those that are sick and at home that can't be here i'm just believing i am still believing i have not given up on god's supernatural ability to absolutely extinguish this virus can i hear a good amen i'm not giving up and i just refuse to do so and so get out your phones and even if it comes up and starts talking back at me that's fine don't don't worry about that just go ahead and send the link send a text message and say hey praying about you we're about to go after healing our pastor is going to include those in uh that are watching online and i want everybody to be involved in that psalm 103. talks about the benefits of the cross talks about the benefits of the cross it's a prophetic psalm in which the psalmist is seeing what god has said that he wants to do in the earth but the psalmist is actually looking through the cross to see what all the benefits are of the new covenant and he states what those benefits are which are salvation and healing and deliverance and fulfillment and affiliate talks about the five things that god desires to do it's the heart of god it's the heart of our father we see this old testament and new testament we see it in both covenants old covenant and new covenant we see the heart of the father's desire is to bring complete restoration it's the heart of the father he made a covenant with his people in the old testament and even under that old covenant uh to which the hebrew writer says is not as good as a covenant that we're currently under you better thank god every day that you live in the new testament amen everybody have you read the old testament it's rough it's difficult do you remember what your life was before holy spirit lived in you yes imagine living that way all the time i try to take it easy on the people in the old testament when i read because they're not spirit-filled individuals all they have is an outside influence so anyway i mean just just know that you live under a much greater covenant than that of the previous but even in that old covenant god included healing and wellness he often would bring healing and he often would cover his people with wellness when they left egypt we read about it not only did they plunder the egyptians not only did they take riches with them when they left but it says all approximately two million of them were without sickness do you know what the odds pre-covet of two million people who live in those conditions all being well are zero it was a supernatural covering that got placed within his people and there were often seasons where the people of god were well because of their willingness to walk with him and within this covenant now that was the old covenant we're in a far greater covenant and you can't tell me that it's still not god's desire to confirm his message with signs wonders and miracles including healing it's part of what he wants to do in our church um in so many other churches we believe that that miracles healing casting out of devils should be commonplace i said it should be commonplace don't make me work should be commonplace we shouldn't be shocked when someone gets healed or delivered we should get shocked if we meet and it doesn't happen should be commonplace it was always god's intent that the church be the manifested form of jesus on earth and what did jesus do when he walked on earth he healed he delivered evil always ran whenever jesus stepped into the room and i'm telling you evil should run when the church gets together hey an evil should run when the church leaves this place you are the church so healing of the sick was never meant to be a side item on the menu of god it wasn't just an oh yeah this is the main course and here's some side things all of his benefits are main courses i said all of his benefits are main courses and they're meant to be pursued it was never jesus intent that we just get saved and then limp to heaven he wants us to go after every benefit to the cross a matter of fact it is to his glory that we go after these things and we pursue these things he paid a very significant price his body was beaten bruised whipped stabbed spat upon why isaiah says by his stripes it was for your healing it's for your healing so the scriptures say that this is a key benefit of the anointing work of jesus christ while forgiveness of sins and eternal security knowing that we're going to heaven anybody glad to go into heaven oh that is the ultimate but jesus said i want you to pray until you get to heaven i want you to pray every day that kingdom that heaven come to earth that the realities of heaven become realities of earth that's how i want you to pray one of the greek words for salvation salvation is a big deal but one of the greek words salvation is so much greater than just going to heaven one of the greek words for salvation is sozo if i say sozo sozo means forgiveness of sin healing of disease and deliverance from torment saved i'm saved forgiveness of sin healing of disease and deliverance from torment so according to scripture salvation is much more than just getting to heaven salvation is provision offered by jesus to save the whole person spirit soul and body matthew 1 21 says she will give birth to a son we only read this at christmas but there's significance in this verse that goes beyond the manger and the christmas tree she will give birth to a son and you will give him the name jesus because he will save sozo his people from their sins mary you will give birth to a son and he will save people from the effects of sin found in the spirit the soul and the body he will save them from the effects of sin how will he do this by sacrificing his life not only did he save humanity from sin death the eternal separation from god but he also came to remove any hindrances that prevent us from walking fully in a redeemed life not only do we see it prophesied here in matthew 1 acts chapter 10 tells us in review of jesus ministry on earth it says and you know that god anointed jesus of now the nazareth with the holy spirit and with power then jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for god was with him tells me two things sickness is not from god sickness is not from god never has been never will be your sickness if you ever get sick is not your thorn it wasn't given to you by god so that you suffer so that you can be more holy sickness is a byproduct of a broken world god did not create sickness there's so many christians that love to give god credit for what the devil's doing well he didn't give it to me but he's allowing it to happen how does that work i just let it come on through dodges it are we okay that's like me saying i don't abuse my children but i let my neighbor come over and do it i'm still a bad father and they're all called dhr so this tells me that whenever jesus saw sickness he said that's not of my father that's of the devil and it has to go that's how we dealt with sickness first john 3 8 says the reason the son of god appeared was to destroy the devil's works to destroy anything that kept people from experiencing life zoe life life to the full to which we kind of push back we're like okay i get it i get what you're saying and understand the concept of that's not of god and and jesus came after everything that wasn't of god but he's jesus i'm not jesus look at your neighbor and say you ain't jesus you understand you mean jesus what is discipleship i want you to think about it at its core we were called to be disciples and to go make disciples what are disciples one who bear the image likeness and in this case power of the one they're following discipleship is being according to christ according to the apostles according to the teachings of the first church discipleship is being the body of christ on earth continuing the ministry of jesus on earth that's what discipleship is we have been called to that ministry it's part of and i'm here to tell you that com that healing is part of the commission that you've been given as a disciple john chapter 14 says very truly i tell you whoever believes raise your hand if you believe in jesus you know you're being set up raise your hand whoever believes in me will do the works that i have been doing and they'll do even greater works because i'm going to the father and i will do whatever you ask in my name so that the father may be glorified in the son you may ask me for anything in my name and i will do it what did he do matthew chapter 4 jesus went through galilee teaching in their son of gods proclaiming the good news healing every disease and sickness among the people news about him spread all over syria and the people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases the suffering severe pain the demon possessed those having seizures and the paralyzed and he healed them he healed them we everybody say me say me we have been called commissioned by christ to preach the good news to heal the sick to cast out devils and to proclaim that the kingdom of god is not just coming it's here it's here it's here so when it comes to healing and deliverance unfortunately a lot of times we pump the brakes or at least pull our foot off the throttle because we do not believe that this is something that god desires to do today some believe it's not for today there's a whole camp of christianity that believes that all of these things have ceased they're called cessationists and they believe that the gifts of the spirit and the works of the spirit are no longer in operation because god ceased to do that with the last apostles but i could rip off about 40 passages if you believe that you got to work really hard to believe that you got to pull some scriptures out of context you got to work really hard to believe it because jesus works really hard to let his people know that i didn't come to do something just to impress you i came here to model what i want you to do he came to be a model not a superhero he is our superhero he is the greatest of all time there will never be another like him but he said you're going to do what i did others believe that it's available but it's just kind of random that god sovereignly steps in and he does it and if he does it he does it if he doesn't he doesn't it's god's will in certain situations it's not his will in certain situations if somebody gets healed well that was just god's will if they don't it wasn't god's will it's all about god's will let me ask you a question is it god's will that all be saved about to read your verse you better say yes is it god's will that all be saved oh look at your neighbor and say oh are all people currently being saved are there people this week that died that did not know the lord but it's god's will that all servants say oh then i'll be saved so if it's god's will that all be saved why aren't all being saved don't answer out loud ii peter says the lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count is slackness but is long suffering toward us not willing that any should perish but all you know what that means in the greek everybody that all should come to repentance well some are just born or predestined to be damned really how you figure well because they're dying apart from god and if god willed it it would happen so he violates human will and predestines people in their womb whom he knit together to be eternally separated from him how does that work it says will that all be said first timothy 2 says this is good and pleases god our savior who wants oh everybody say all who wants all people to be saved so so and to come to a knowledge of the truth all right so i want you to think about again the benefits of the cross are salvation healing deliverance fulfillment if they're all benefits of the cross and it's god's will that all all have salvation why wouldn't it will be that all be healed delivered and filled maybe it has less to do with god's willingness to save heal and to deliver and much more to do with our unwillingness to either go after healing or better yet i think be ministers of healing why are people dying and going to hell predominantly because the church is withholding the gospel the good news is the greatest news on the planet you would have to be crazy to deny i'm not saying that it doesn't happen but whenever christians open their mouth and begin to declare the goodness of god and share their testimony i'm telling you people get saved they might not get saved in the moment but the holy spirit of god begins to work i think one of the reasons that we don't see healing like we should is because the church is withholding or the church just doesn't believe that god wants to do it i'm here to tell you tonight god wants to do it he wants to do it he wants to save people he wants to heal people he wants to deliver people i think one of the biggest challenges i'm about to hit exactly what you're thinking because i know what you're thinking if it's his if it's his will and i'm willing then why sometimes when i pray for people or even pray that god would heal me that it didn't happen it's the biggest issue so one of the biggest reasons that we don't go after healing is because we've seen disappointment in the past well let me ask you this question have you ever witnessed to somebody and then tell you no i hope so and i don't hope so for that person but i hope that you've witnessed enough to at least been told no once you didn't know i was gonna get your grits tonight did you i hope you've been told a bunch of times i hope you've been told no hundreds of times and i also hope that you've been told yes hundreds of times i hope that you have i hope that you have talked people's ears off about jesus christ it's the number one question that he's going to ask you when you stand before him who'd you bring with you so happy to see you but who'd you bring with you i put you in that job with all of those lost people so that you could be light in love but all you did was complain about how you had a stinky job with a bunch of pagans and you tried to get out of it i put you in three jobs with a bunch of unsaved pagans and all you were concerned about is how they made you feel who'd you bring with you did you even bring your husband do you leave him behind i know he was a jerk but you married him he was a jerk when you married him he didn't turn jerk yesterday what's that talking about healing so disappointments number one the number one reasons that we don't go after it because what if i pray for somebody and i've thought this before what if i pray for somebody and god you don't heal him and all of a sudden we now think it's our obligation to protect god's image what will they think about you if you don't heal them i can't pray this because i don't have enough faith and what if you don't heal them this is all going to go bad don't you think god's completely capable of taking care of his own image and so we don't pray or we don't go after it we said one time the disciples tried to cast out a devil up to this point they've been 100 at least to our knowledge but they get to one that didn't go so favorably they couldn't cast the devil out the man of the boy who's demon-possessed comes to jesus and says your disciples tried to cast him out but they can't can you he says yes i can bring the boy to me he casts out the devil with with without sweating without screaming without hollering without jericho marching without slinging oil he didn't struggle he cast the devil out and the disciples did something interesting they came to him and said they didn't say why did you not why did god not they said why could we not what's the barrier i know the barrier is not on his end the barrier has to be on our end and jesus says that's a great question here's the answer this kind only go out by praying fast now here's the interesting thing are you ready for this jesus didn't pray and fast before he cast that devil out he didn't tell that man you know what this can't only go out by praying and fasting i need to step away for three days i need to go pray and fast and then i'll come back and cast this devil out he was already in a position of ready he lived a prayed and fasted lifestyle he was always on go ready to do whatever the father's will might be and so he was telling them you need to get pregnant fasting what is that praying get close to god this is how i converse with god this is how i talk with god this is how i listen to god this is how i bend my life toward his will not bend him toward my will prayer is me having a conversation with god about the kingdom not me having a conversation with god how he can make my kingdom better so i'm getting really close to him what are you doing in the world right now what are you doing at work right now what are you doing my family right now i just want to be close to you is there anything in here that's keeping me hindering me from being your minister y'all hear what i'm saying get close to god prayer fasting disconnecting from the world that distracts me that tarnishes me it pulls me off assignment this will pull you off assignment so quick this this can pull you off assignment in 60 seconds you can be close to the lord in his presence and then all of the sudden you can get sidetracked and magnifying the devil not by worshiping the devil but by magnifying giving all your attention to what the devil's doing in the world you can be non-offended at anybody close to him and in his presence and then getting offended with ever look at these idiots we're being led by what is my friend oh my goodness look at them and all of a sudden what have you done you have disqualified self from ministry so the disciples asked a very important question what do we need to do in order to do what you just did and he gave them the answer so i'm here to tell you tonight that it is god's will it is god's will to save to heal to deliver and to fill people with his spirit he's just looking for willing vessels who will administer his blessings to the world and he'll posture themselves and he's picked you he wants you to be those individuals so i'm telling you let's open our hearts and let's be expected for what he's about to do in the next few minutes but i would love for you to open your eyes and look for opportunities to be ministers outside of this place in the next few days can i hear an amen there is eight listen i'm telling you folks at least in my lifetime i'm 41 about to be 42. i have never seen such a broken world there are people legitimately suffering grief shame depression anxiety is wreaking havoc on homes and and more so i'm telling you on children the enemy is not after you he wants your kids he wants the next generation and because houses are just submerged in depression and anger i've never seen so much anger in my lifetime everybody is so mad and why are they mad are they mad because god has slipped off the throne they're mad because they feel as if someone is taking the luxuries of life away from them i'm about to lose my job i'm about to lose our nation about to lose my 401 i'm about to lose go back to matthew 6 33. why are you so worried why are you so worried because material things are about to get taken from you we're so concerned about things that don't even matter in the grand scheme of it why because we're getting pulled away from the big picture and i'm not saying listen i'm not minimizing anything that you may be going through in life if you're concerned about it god's concerned about it but all of this anger and resentment and hate in division is a scheme of the devil to keep what god has placed within you from getting out of you it's a scheme all right so i want to tell you four reasons four reasons why healing is something that we must go after we should go after and we need to go out now before i even get there i want to say this if you are sick and i've been sick i was sick a couple of weeks ago if you're sick or battling sickness or you've had a disease it's something that you've been battling for hear me very clearly it does not mean that you are immature in the faith or that you lack faith don't hear me say that at all because there is another club of christians that would say if you have sickness it's because you like faith i don't believe that one bit not one bit it was actually god's expectation that people get sick well how can you say that because in james it says when those among you are sick bring them to the elders of the church if it was not his expectation to get that we get sick he would not have included that so it's his expectation that sickness is going to come at some point when it does there is a process to go through but there's also something that we need to do in order to partner with so i'm telling you listen if you're sick do not feel like you are inadequate or you've dropped the ball or anything's upon you in the same way that sometimes salvation takes a minute i don't know about you but it took me about seven years to get saved i went to the altar 27 times in one month i think i got saved three times in one night but in the same way that salvation sometimes takes a minute sometimes healing takes a minute sometimes deliverance takes a minute sometimes it's more of a process than it is just a matter of it happening all at once now i've seen that happen all at once those are glorious moments i've seen people get saved healed delivered and filled with the spirit in one sh my god they just got the they got the biggie combo they got the number seven all in one night and that usually means that those individuals have a calling on their life that demands that kind of encounter the suffering that they'll probably go through is probably going to be pretty high all right so what are the four reasons i'm going to hit them really quick number one it's a demonstration of god's love and compassion healing is a demonstration of his compassion luke chapter 7 tells us that he saw a funeral procession approaching the young man who had died was the windows widow's only son a large crowd from the village was with her when he's when he saw that his heart overflowed with compassion don't cry he said and then he walked over to the coffin touched it and the bearer stopped young man he said i tell you get up the dead boy sat up and began to talk and jesus gave him back to his mother for compassion to become practical and biblical it has to include action i'll say that again for compassion to be biblical it has to include action for us not to do anything about what we see is not compassion it's sympathy sympathy is the counterfeit of compassion sympathy says i'm sorry but there's nothing i can do compassion says my heart is broken but i can do something come here jesus never gave get well cards he never brought anybody some balloons in a casserole and said i'm sorry but i made you some casserole that's all i can do for you now i'm not saying listen if i get sick i want you to bring me casserole i really do he didn't just bring casserole he brought the solution to the table and god wants us to be people that not only seek the solution but bring solutions to the table look at your neighbor and say amen yeah it's all in scripture all right number two healing confirms the message and the ministry of jesus look at this hebrews chapter 2 verse 4 says that god confirmed the message what message the message of jesus how did he confirm it by giving signs wonders and various miracles and gifts of the holy spirit whenever he chose so he demonstrated the message he confirmed the message healing is used often in order to confirm the message so god uses examples of his power and love to confirm the message of jesus to people who don't even believe for some the preaching of the gospel is often enough i've been in several situations as a pastor where we just proclaim the gospel and people get saved but some that's not enough they need to see they need to see that god is at work which leads me to number three it's essential healing is essential for evangelism it's part of the evangelistic call he told his disciples he told the 12 and the 72 go proclaim the gospel and as you go heal the sick cast out devils and proclaim that the kingdom is here it's part of the commission i was in india one time our congregation gets tired of hearing this story but i'm going to tell it again because i love giving god glory for this but i was in a room proclaiming the gospel and in this room we're all men it's usually never all men it's usually mostly women all men radical muslims and radical hindus the pastor told me before you proclaim the good news be careful they might hurt you praise god so kind of tiptoed around the gospel kind of told my story looked at him thumbs up thumbs down he goes yeah you can you can go for it and so i told him about the good news of jesus told about my testimony asked him if anybody wanted to receive jesus not even a not even a nod not a blink not not a methodist yes or a baptist nod or pentecost no definitely none of that nothing they all looked at me like they hated me all right and i looked in the corner of the room and there's a guy with a shoulder swing and the spirit of god said he didn't say pray for him he said heal him no no no they they hate me they want i mean i'm looking at their faces they want they want they want to hurt me and they and and second of all they just told you no i just gave a very clear very quick very good gospel presentation could have made it any more clear and they said no why would you heal them after they said no he said heal that man so i told my translator like hey i think god wants to heal that no he doesn't that's a translator no he don't know god does not want to heal that man i'm telling you listen i've i just had this conversation with god i don't think that we have to read because no this is uh pastor this this is dangerous this is not a good idea you should not pray for him i said i understand and you can leave if you want to but god told me to pray for that man so after we had this dialogue for about five more minutes he goes okay whatever i think he's calling his wife saying i love you very much i'll see you in heaven you should call your wife too so bring this guy up and he's you know i said hey come here come here come here he goes what happened to your arm it's broken broken yeah yeah can i pray for it no it's broken i know it's broken can i pray it's broken i know can i pray for you healed can pray healing oh i got it whatever i have zero faith he has zero faith there is no faith in the room zero not an ounce so i just give a quick in the name of jesus and before i could say jesus we heard a pop pop and this guy screams to which every man in the room stands up like well here we go this is how it ends and then he picks up his arm and he says ah healed my arm is healed and every man in that room radical muslim radical hindu with eyes wide open look and then look back at me and i said who amongst you wants to be saved everybody all 31 of them received christ on that night all 31. so sometimes god will even heal listen he'll even heal unbelievers just to get their attention to show him who he is reason number four why healing and miracles is part of the atonement it's part of the atonement come on that blake what does that mean it's part of what jesus offers through his death burial and resurrection it's part of the atonement matthew chapter 8 verse 16 says when ethan came many who were demon-possessed were brought to him and he drove out spirits and with a word healed all the sick why this was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet isaiah he took up our infirmities and bore our diseases he took up on the cross everything that was due us everything that we deserved all of our sickness all of our disease all of our sin all of our death he brought it upon himself the wrath of god was poured out upon him wrath that was due to us wrath that we deserved he stepped in our place laid on a cross that we deserved to be on and bore all the things that kept us from being fully redeemed he took it upon himself so the atonement is jesus's gift to us it is the fulfillment of prophecy but it is also the gift of the new covenant we live in a fallen world that's been stained by sin this is why we have sickness disease and illness this is why people are oppressed this is why we get heavy this is why spirits come against a broken world in fact the very reason i'm telling you the very reason that we practice medicine but physical and psychiatric is proof that listen this is not right this is not right so whenever i talk to a cessationist who says that god doesn't heal anymore that this is just god's will for this season of life that we're in if you're sick it's god's will okay well why did you take an advil if it's god's will that your head hurt why did you just take an advil you're coming against the will of god by trying to get your head not to hurt why are you going to a doctor if it's not god's will if it's god's will that you have cancer why are you getting chemotherapy hello you're you're coming against the will of god by going to the doctor and trying to get well what is going on in you you know it's not right that you're sick you know it's not right you know it's not god's will this is if there's an in a desire for us to be well and guess what so does god he wants us to be well god intended that on the cross that all wrong things be made right victory has been given through jesus christ unto the church and victory is ours to pursue and we never stop pursuing it we never stop there's some people in scripture it took them 20 years to get their healing 20 years some died while pursuing their healing but we never stop pursuing what the blood of jesus paid for if i had a child that was not saved i wouldn't pray for five weeks and then give up i would pray until either that child went home to be with the lord or i did amen why did we not do the same with physical healing because we think it's lesser he thinks it's not important no no no the atonement paid for that and jesus will be glorified by us knocking seeking asking he's not annoyed by his continuing to ask amen everybody won't you stand up i believe with all of my heart that we're about to enter into a season i think that we're about to enter into a season where god is going to unlock mysteries of heaven i believe that he's going to unlock gifts of healing i believe that we are going to see things that we have never seen before do you believe that and i believe that god is looking for some people who will simply believe what he said and not make excuses now i'm not talking if you're sick i'm not talking about making excuse no no i'm talking about make excuses for asked why we don't pursue the things that god has promised i think sometimes shame and guilt keep us from that i think sometimes i think one of the biggest i think issues honestly is offense i was um here on a friday night this was back in 2019 early 2019 she's praying with a lady she had chronic neck pain she had had neck pain for 21 years debilitating the part where she had to wear a brace at night to sleep just my neck it's just always hurt i've had surgery after surgery and i felt the spirit of the lord ask me ask her when it started and i asked i asked her she went from our church i said hey i don't i don't you know i don't know you very when did when did this start she said 21 years ago i said what happened did anything happen that year and she just started crying she said my husband left me for another woman that year she says the worst year of my life it's okay i said well sometimes not all the time but sometimes physical healing will happen after an inner healing or emotional healing has taken place i said sometimes you know spirits work together and i didn't get all into it but so sometimes spirits work together in order to hold you in bondage and they'll use a soul issue to actually keep your body in bondage she goes okay that makes sense i said have you forgiven him and she goes oh yes i've forgiven him i said just to be sure let's let's let's pray let's pray again let's just forgive him i said what's his name and she said you know his name is sam certainly anything but say i said let's just let's just say in the name of jesus in the name of jesus i release sam and i fully forgive him sam no longer owes me anything and not only do i forgive him but i bless him in jesus name i want you to say that in your own words she did and she meant it from her heart i prayed for her again her neck still hurt ah man i just thought that was it and then the lord said it's not sound that needs to be forgiven it's her it's her and i said have you forgiven yourself and she just lost it she said i haven't i wasn't a good wife to him if i would have if i would have given him more attention if i would have loved him more if i would have if i would have he would never would have left it this was my fault i said oh sweetie he said that's a lie of the devil and you have not forgiven yourself you haven't forgiven yourself she says i know i tried but i just feel like it was my fault and i said listen as long as you hold on to that offense against yourself i don't know if your physical healing will ever come he said you need to let go in the same way that you let go of sam you need to let go of yourself and let god take care of that so we prayed she said god i repent i confess that i have blamed myself for this divorce i blame myself for everything that i've gone and i just i know it's not true i know you've forgiven me i know you've forgiven him so i release myself in jesus name and before we could even pray for her neck he shot from her top of her buttocks all the way up to the bottom of her head she shook three times and got healed her neck on the spot filled her neck so sometimes i'm telling you sometimes the devil will work in our soul keep us in bondage in the soul in order to keep our bodies in bondage too so here's what we're going to do tonight we're going to open up the altars i want our ministry team to go ahead and come forward and if the ministry team if any of you guys have words of knowledge we want to release those bring me that microphone that's right there i also want to address the cameras at this point we asked you guys to come on board and before we release people in the room i do want to pray for specifically those that are at home with kovid or those that are home that aren't feeling well those at a home that maybe you just couldn't get here physically i believe listen i believe that the spirit of god that's in this room is with you right now and in here in a minute everybody in this room is going to direct their hand in the direction of that camera and we're going to believe in healing for you matter of fact won't we just go ahead and do that before we get the needs in the room once you turn around to just direct your hand this is just an act of faith this is not magic it's not sorcery or anything like that we're just we're just extending a blessing in the direction of people that are watching online right now and even listen i've seen this happen so many times it's funny even people that will watch this later years later somebody called us a few weeks ago and they watched the healing service from two years ago they got healed by watching it wasn't even live so i'm believing that even if you're watching this and this is a later season five ten years down the road i believe the spirit of god wants to come upon you and heal you and so just if if you're watching online right now just put your hand wherever your issue might be if it's in your soul just put it on your heart if it's in your head if there's just heaviness or depression anxiety put your hand on your head there's a specific part of your body that's just not right and you know it if it's coveted i would say just put your hand on your chest i want to pray for your lungs and we're going to extend hands towards you right now and we just say in the name of jesus be healed be healed come holy spirit break every barrier break down every barrier break through every wall break through every disease we rebuke whatever is coming against these bodies it's not of you god we know it's not of you we rebuke it in the name of jesus and we say in his name by his blood in his authority be healed be whole and be well in jesus name everybody say the good amen amen what i'm about to do is i'm about to give this microphone to these group of individuals who have been praying and been focused all day on this night and they're going to release words of knowledge this is in scripture the apostle paul talks about this how god will often drop information concerning an individual um and that's this kind of his way of saying i intend to do something with this individual i want to do healing you know i want to go after whatever it is and so jesus did this he operated in this he when he uh told the woman at the well everything that was going on in her life and it eventually led to her salvation because of the knowledge that was used and so super biblical but they're going to tell you maybe conditions or things but here's your assignment if it pertains to you i'm going to ask does that pertain to anybody you raise your hand because we want to check we want to see if that pertains to anybody in the room or anybody online and if it does when we say go here in a minute when we start praying for folks i want you to i want you to come to that individual okay does that make sense all right christine we'll start with you if you don't have one just pass it down to the next person that's completely fine um i had just heard shame during worship and i saw people standing in their heads or just kind of bowed forward with a burden on them and i saw jesus standing before him just kind of looking like look at me just look at me okay we'll stop right there does that apply to anybody in the room and you're dealing with heaviness or sorrow or shame does that apply to anybody in the room and you feel like god wants to heal your soul tonight in that area this is the way it works i believe that okay all right we got a few in just a minute i want you to come down to christina okay praise god thank you for your honesty yep i heard rotator cuff and irregular heartbeat and it could be two different people but i almost feel like it might be the same person okay raise your hand let's start with that if you have both of those regular cuff and some type of heart issue raise your hand okay got a person there raise your hand if you have one or the other okay all right in a minute come to miss laurie and get some prayer praise god i saw the attacks coming at night so i believe that either you are not sleeping or that you are having recurrent nightmares maybe the same one but that is just the ground that has been taken by the enemy and i believe that the lord wants to restore that okay sleeplessness specifically due to nightmares one two three four five six perfect all right raise your hand luke so they know who you are okay i saw a left calf issue um and i think it could be blood clots or something with like varicose veins or vein issues um i saw a left leg but then i heard that as well so i don't know if those are connected or if those are different left leg we'll start with varicose veins anyone have vein issues or varicose veins in the left leg one okay anybody just got a left leg issue one two three okay raise your hand ross ross is the one who uh released that word so come up to him um depression um there was like a cloud of depression so it seemed to be a lot and fear particularly fear that you either have coven or that you're going to get it okay depression let's start with depression anyone just say i feel heavy that's why i describe it i don't feel like myself okay a few right there anybody else okay and listen guys uh just because i'm telling you depression is a real thing right now if you don't feel like yourself there's a good chance you're being oppressed by the devil it's not your emotions it's a spirit if you're not you there's only one excuse for that the devil has come against you and he doesn't have the right to fool with you he's trespassing amen everybody that's a victim so if you've got soul things going on tonight i believe hey listen the healing of the soul is just as great as deliverance of cancer can i hear a good amen it's a good thing when you get to sleep and you have freedom so come up for that all right nick so i just heard this word sorcery um i think it has to do with um witchcraft the occult but as i was just looking at the screen with pastor matt talking about sozo it was just deliverance from torment um so if you've just been tormented whether it's a decision that you've made in your life or a family decision i'm the lord wants to set you free all right raise your hand if you have anywhere in your family freemasonry witchcraft things of the occult maybe you didn't practice in it but somebody in your family did or maybe yourself did raise your hand okay one two reason i say freemasonry is we've seen a lot of deliverance in this house that is specifically tied to that and without i mean i've got a whole message that actually give on that but there are vowels that people in freemasonry have to recite and things that they have to say and as you get higher up you have to say even more things and a lot of it has to do with that you vow for your family to be sacrificed if you disclose the secrets of masonry so it's a vehicle and we've seen tons of people delivered from it i could give you i could rattle off three or four testimonies of people delivered from uh irritable bowel the most common things tied to that is gut issues irritable bowel syndrome uh digestive issues and so praise god that you raise your hand for anybody else we'll give you one more chance anybody got things of the occult freemasonry or anything else that didn't raise your hand previously okay if you'll come see nate i believe that there's going to be healing in that area that's awesome i just had two different things feel like somebody there's a right eye issue i don't know if it will not stop watering or something to that extent and then also uh pain in the left side of your neck okay left you say left eye right eye right eye anybody got watering right eye or issue with the right eye okay net would you say in the neck left side left side of the neck neck left side okay all right irby raise your hand just so again they see you okay eric so i had a couple um first i feel like somebody has been dealing with a debilitating loneliness or even a feeling of just being left out or overlooked um and second i also had a left leg similar to raw some something's going on with the left leg almost like a pressure thing like if there's pressure put on it that's when it hurts all right loneliness just feel isolated alone one two okay and left leg specifically when you put pressure on it okay one all right eric all right brendan yeah i got a i felt heaviness on my chest like a like oppression's taken over you need to be set free but it's like it's real real real heavy all right anxiety let's just call that anxiety chronic anxiety okay one two all right sonia okay so last night i had a dream and someone feels like they're on the outside looking in and they can't experience the love of god but i'm telling you in the dream i felt the love of god and he wants me to tell you it's for you you don't have to be on the outside come on on in on in the in on the inside he wants to fill you with his love tonight so that was last night so um but tonight i also had something going on with my left ear so i don't know what that means but i feel like there's a left ear something with someone okay so two of those i'm going to interpret the first one as salvation is anybody in the house and this is a this is a bold extending of the hand but i'm telling you if you will acknowledge him in public he will acknowledge you in heaven so does anybody feel like you're on the outside you're like like i just don't pastor i just don't think i'm saved i think i know a little bit about church but i don't know jesus i want to be saved extend your hand anybody okay and what was the other one left ear left ear you've got left ear issues in the back right here okay very good very good that's sonia on the end all right heather um i saw a young girl who had been physically abused okay all right so let's just say um effects of abuse you have not gotten over um or you feel you have not been healed from effects of abuse and for this one you don't have to raise your hand but if it you do want to raise your hand that's completely up to you okay in the back very good very good if that if that if pertains to you and i will say this if you are currently in an abusive situation and you want help come see me and we will help you we know people who can help you and even if you feel like it's not safe for you to come out of that we can help you we can help you so come see us we know people who do a great job of that that help people get the help that they need all right so we got great partners that pull people out of that all the time and no matter what the the dev you do not deserve what you're going through right now don't let anybody tell you that all right all right so here's what we're going to do this may seem a little chaotic but i think it's going to work perfectly if one of the persons so first of all if you had multiple issues that were spoken by multiple people i want you to pick one person so just ask the lord right now lord which one of these people and don't look at him just to don't judge him i think he's a holier than she is or she's holier he she just looks like she prays more it has nothing to do with these people they'll be the first to tell you has nothing to do with them god's doing it through them amen everybody and he's just spoken your word so i'm believing so just pick one go to those individuals if anybody is left um if if there's not a person in front of them and one of your issues was not mentioned just come forward and uh and stand in line i'll tell you what we're gonna do let's do this i'm sorry i'm making this up as i go i want everybody to go to these lines let's do that so go to the far wall make two lines and then instruct the people that are at the front of the lines he gave my word or she gave my word if you need to wait for a minute i encourage you to wait now listen this is really important impatience can sometimes rob you of a miracle some of the greatest miracles that we have seen have come well after midnight well after midnight so we're listen we are going to pray with folks and we're going to spend time with folks and we're going to spend time with you we're not going to rush through this because i believe that some of these situations are life and death and even if yours is not life and death i want you to press and i want you to go after everything that god has paid for through his son jesus christ amen so land up on the lines and then you tell which which person that you need to go through and we're just gonna we're gonna funnel people in that way if we need to get some more people pray and we'll do that in a minute but we're not going to rush this so i want you to open your hands and again we're just going to believe that the spirit of god is going to move in this moment and we're going to wait on him so father we thank you so much for everything that you've done i thank you god for these words that you have released these words of knowledge i thank you so much god that you have shown us that it is your will not only to heal those specific needs but it's your will to heal everybody that has a need god so we believe in you we trust in you hey listen even if we don't see it even if we don't feel it we're still going to trust you we're going to trust you for our healing we thank you so much for salvation we thank you for all the other things that you've done in the room tonight thank you for the faith in the room and we pray holy spirit that you move and do what you do what you do glorify jesus it's in his name that we pray and everybody said amen hey if you got any conversations that need to take place that aren't pertaining to what's happening here take those out to the lobby but we ask everybody else you stay you minister you pray for what's going on be a part of what's going on if you need to get out of here you're dismissed at this time but for all who want to stay for ministry we'll be here as long as you are so so so do so so do do do do do do do foreign so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so do do do so so so you

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