Speaker 1: Let's reach down and pick up our Bibles.
Speaker 1: Please, before we're seated, let's stand up and let's get our Bibles and wave them around.
Speaker 1: Livestream on is get your Bibles out and move along with us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, worship team, beautiful job.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, don't you appreciate our worship team?
Speaker 1: They just lead us in such a.
Speaker 1: They set the table for us.
Speaker 1: Amen, we've got a table, we've got a banqueting table.
Speaker 1: Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I am grateful today For all the ways that you've given me victory.
Speaker 1: Jesus said in the world I'd have anguish and trouble, but he told me to be of good courage.
Speaker 1: I've overcome the world and, lord, you've caused me to overcome.
Speaker 1: I have the greater one living on the inside.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of any situation, but I can laugh at seeming impossibilities because I have the word and the spirit in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Amen, you can be seated.
Speaker 1: Let's turn in our Bibles to John, chapter 14, and also the next chapter, acts, chapter three, and let's get into the word together.
Speaker 1: And John 14, verse 12.
Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking to the disciples.
Speaker 1: They're a little bit sad because Jesus is telling them he's going away.
Speaker 1: It's better that I go away.
Speaker 1: If I don't go away, the Holy Ghost won't come.
Speaker 1: And they didn't know much about the Holy Ghost, they didn't know much about the covenant, even though they were covenant people, old covenant, and even at this time they're old covenant.
Speaker 1: The new covenant had been wrought yet, because he hadn't gone to the cross yet.
Speaker 1: So, john 14, verse 12, he says to them and to us verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, everybody shout that's me.
Speaker 1: He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than these shall he do.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because I go unto my Father, and whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Speaker 1: If you shall ask anything in my name, if you shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Speaker 1: That's really in the Bible, in red.
Speaker 1: Jesus said it All right.
Speaker 1: And then, as we turn over here to Acts, chapter three, verse 16, and this is on the occasion of a lame man at the gate, beautiful received his healing.
Speaker 1: He went walking and leaping and praising God.
Speaker 1: Everybody knew who it was.
Speaker 1: He was an approved beggar, approved by the Sanhedrin, so that Jewish people, in order to obey the law, they had to give alms, that's money, to the poor.
Speaker 1: He was qualified to meet that qualification.
Speaker 1: If they gave to this man, then they fulfill that obligation they had under the law.
Speaker 1: And he was healed.
Speaker 1: And it says here on the occasion, there's 5,000 men, that means at least 20,000 people gathered there wondering what in the world happened.
Speaker 1: Peter's telling them, he starts preaching at the occasion of this healing and he says to them and his name, that is the name of Jesus, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom you see and know.
Speaker 1: Yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Speaker 1: So my message today is entitled Faith Makes a Demand.
Speaker 1: The word asked there in John 14 is really not supplication.
Speaker 1: You could say that's a great prayer.
Speaker 1: I've heard Brother Hagin say this is one of the greatest prayer scriptures, and it is.
Speaker 1: But it's more than prayer.
Speaker 1: I said it's more than prayer because the word asked doesn't mean beg.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean the way that we think of ask.
Speaker 1: It really means in the Greek.
Speaker 1: It means to call for, to require or to demand your due Faith makes a demand.
Speaker 1: I can see some of you going tilt on that one Because it sounds like we're being disrespectful.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, we're not demanding of God.
Speaker 1: God's not the one holding anything back, god's not the problem.
Speaker 1: We're demanding what the devil take his hands off.
Speaker 1: We're demanding sickness to leave.
Speaker 1: We're demanding, amen, demon powers to go.
Speaker 1: We're demanding on the basis of our covenant.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now Making a demand?
Speaker 1: I'm, everybody say I'm making a demand on my covenant in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: See, faith makes a demand.
Speaker 1: That kind of Bible faith makes it.
Speaker 1: Man, jesus wrote this in the Bible.
Speaker 1: And what is the context?
Speaker 1: See the Context.
Speaker 1: Not even prayer really.
Speaker 1: Now, prayers important.
Speaker 1: We all believe in prayer and we know, when we play pray according to his will, that his, his word.
Speaker 1: When we pray the word, he hears us.
Speaker 1: And if he hears us, we have the petition that we ask for.
Speaker 1: But guess what?
Speaker 1: We don't have to pray for things that Jesus has already bought and paid for.
Speaker 1: We don't have to pray for healing.
Speaker 1: We don't ask God to heal.
Speaker 1: He's already done the healing.
Speaker 1: What do we do?
Speaker 1: We make a demand on that covenant For sickness to go and healing to come.
Speaker 1: We call for healing, we make a demand.
Speaker 1: So, in the context of this verse, one of the most outstanding verses in the Bible, jesus said if you ask anything in my name, I will do it Anything.
Speaker 1: So what is the context?
Speaker 1: He said the works that I do show you do also, and greater works than these show you do.
Speaker 1: He's talking not just to the Apostles in the first century AD, he's not just talking to preachers, he's not just talking to pastors, he's not just talking to men and he's talking to the church.
Speaker 1: Thank you for two old me's and three grunts.
Speaker 1: Can I have a better amen?
Speaker 1: Everybody say he's talking to me here.
Speaker 1: See, when I got a hold of this 40 some odd years ago, it changed my life.
Speaker 1: I quit looking to other people.
Speaker 1: I quit looking.
Speaker 1: I mean, thank God for other people, thank God for my believer.
Speaker 1: You know other believers and you know on all that, but I mean I'm not depending on them.
Speaker 1: He said what things you desire, if you, if you ask anything, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I, whatever you shall ask, not mama asked, not daddy asked, not somebody else at me ask.
Speaker 1: And that word I ask is not big.
Speaker 1: That word ask is making a man.
Speaker 1: So that's exactly what I see the Apostles doing now.
Speaker 1: You know the Apostles.
Speaker 1: They don't know very much About the Holy Ghost now.
Speaker 1: They had some experience laying hands on the sick, jesus, you know.
Speaker 1: And that first started a minister and his own hometown.
Speaker 1: They would, could he, could there, do no mighty work?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because of their unbelief.
Speaker 1: So he sent them Jesus.
Speaker 1: And he Responded to unbelief with teaching.
Speaker 1: He went about teaching, preaching and healing, and so he saw the need.
Speaker 1: The people Rejected him.
Speaker 1: They knew the miracles.
Speaker 1: That didn't matter to them.
Speaker 1: They were offended to him.
Speaker 1: They didn't believe he was the Messiah.
Speaker 1: So what did he do?
Speaker 1: He sent his 12 out by two and two and he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases.
Speaker 1: And they came back and said Jesus, even the demons are subject to unto us.
Speaker 1: And I named, so they knew a little bit about that.
Speaker 1: And then the 70.
Speaker 1: He sent the 70 out later on and and said you know, you know, just going out there and don't be afraid.
Speaker 1: You know, don't take a coat, don't take any money, just go.
Speaker 1: And if a town doesn't receive you, shake the, shake the dust off your feet and leave, don't just keep.
Speaker 1: You know, casting your pearls before swine, you know, sometimes we just need to.
Speaker 1: You know, move on to the rye harvest.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people are not rye harvest or quit.
Speaker 1: Quit bugging them, just keep on moving.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of people that are hungry and thirsty for what you've got, and you might not have come across them, but you'll be ready when you do, because then see, so that's exactly what the after Jesus died and and all of that rose from the dead.
Speaker 1: And Then here in Acts, chapter 3, peter and John are on their way to go pray at the hour, prayer in the temple.
Speaker 1: They're still praying with other Jewish people and probably telling them about Jesus, and all.
Speaker 1: That's the same group that said crucified, crucified.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's not a lot of friends in that group.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I mean, peter was afraid of those people before, just a few weeks before this happened, a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: He's afraid of him.
Speaker 1: Now he's going out and mixing with him and on the way they see this, this man that everybody, Jesus saw that man, he's at the gate, beautiful, when Jesus was, jesus didn't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't heal everybody that he saw.
Speaker 1: He healed people that came to him and this man didn't have any faith to be healed.
Speaker 1: He, he.
Speaker 1: You know, peter came up to him and John and at nine o'clock in the morning says look on us.
Speaker 1: He fastened his eyes on the man.
Speaker 1: See, he was seeing the man's need.
Speaker 1: He was seeing what he really needed.
Speaker 1: He needed healing.
Speaker 1: He didn't need another Arms.
Speaker 1: He didn't need money for his tin cup.
Speaker 1: He needed to not ever have to have to be beggar.
Speaker 1: He can.
Speaker 1: He can get healed.
Speaker 1: Hey, he said, look on us.
Speaker 1: And the man looked at them, thinking he's gonna get something for the 10 cup he's holding.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had a 10 cup, it just sounds good.
Speaker 1: But anyway, nobody has a 10 cup anymore.
Speaker 1: They've got a bushel basket that they're ready for your dollar bills.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he said silver and gold, I don't have any silver and gold for you.
Speaker 1: That's not what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving arms here.
Speaker 1: He said, such as I have, give I thee In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Speaker 1: Just in case he was confused about which Jesus it was, he specifically Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Speaker 1: Rise up and walk.
Speaker 1: Notice he didn't pray.
Speaker 1: He didn't say let's brother, I feel so sorry for you.
Speaker 1: Come on, let me pray for you.
Speaker 1: Oh Lord, give him the serenity prayer.
Speaker 1: Give him, help him to be able to deal with this terrible 38 years he's been laying, he's been dealing with it.
Speaker 1: 38 years.
Speaker 1: We find out later.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't pray a prayer, he made a.
Speaker 1: What I made, a demand.
Speaker 1: I said he made a demand, just like what we read there in John, chapter 14, just a few weeks before this occurrence, they were encouraged.
Speaker 1: He said if you ask, if you make a demand in my name when you're out there doing the works that I've done, I'm telling you I will do it.
Speaker 1: I don't change.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna change when I go to heaven.
Speaker 1: I'm the same yesterday, today and forever.
Speaker 1: And he is that Jesus through the church.
Speaker 1: That's why you hear me say this all the time God's not gonna heal our land.
Speaker 1: That's a stupid prayer for people that don't know their Bible, and I get so irritated.
Speaker 1: Everywhere I look they're still praying that old covenant prayer that is so inferior to what we have.
Speaker 1: We're in the new covenant.
Speaker 1: Why don't you read your Bible?
Speaker 1: We have authority.
Speaker 1: We have that name, oh, the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: We have it yet plumbed the greatness and the power that's in that name.
Speaker 1: And we have carte blanche.
Speaker 1: We have power of attorney.
Speaker 1: Power of attorney, you know, when you've got power of attorney, you've got total control over somebody's life.
Speaker 1: You know, bless their little heart Sometimes.
Speaker 1: You know folks that are a little elderly, they get a little ahead of God and ahead of their self and they give their kids power of attorney over there and they're still in their right mind.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, their kids run all their business, and sometimes not to their advantage.
Speaker 1: Next thing they know their house is sold and all the money's divvied up.
Speaker 1: You think I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, this is a cruel world out there and you better not just give anybody the power of attorney over your affairs.
Speaker 1: But that's exactly what Jesus did.
Speaker 1: He gave the church the power of attorney to walk in His name and do the things he does Greater works.
Speaker 1: He said greater works.
Speaker 1: Woo, come on, let's lift our hands right now.
Speaker 1: And so you know, when he told that man, he said in the name of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: Did he do it?
Speaker 1: Just with a little weeny voice, you know just a little old.
Speaker 1: Oh, you know, sure it'd be nice if it's not too much trouble.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just wiggle a little toe and see if anything happens?
Speaker 1: No, he said in the name of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, rise up and walk.
Speaker 1: And he didn't move fast enough.
Speaker 1: So Peter yanked Him by the arm and pulled Him up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, doesn't sound like that guy had very much faith.
Speaker 1: You know he couldn't run.
Speaker 1: He might've wanted to run but he couldn't run.
Speaker 1: You know he couldn't run the other way.
Speaker 1: He's got his captive audience.
Speaker 1: Peter lifted Him up and immediately strength came into His ankle bones.
Speaker 1: I tell you, sometimes we can get people healed strictly on our own faith when we know what the name of Jesus has, when we know in our knower, down in our inside, see God.
Speaker 1: Peter had enough sense to know that this was a divine appointment and that God wanted to do something for that man.
Speaker 1: And so that man went, walking and leaping and praising God into the temple.
Speaker 1: I mean, and all those people, all those Jews which just a few weeks before had been saying crucify Him, crucify Him.
Speaker 1: They're out there.
Speaker 1: And Peter said what are you looking at?
Speaker 1: What you looking at?
Speaker 1: As though, by our own holiness and our own power, this man stands before you.
Speaker 1: Be it known unto you that, in the name of Jesus, christ of Nazareth, let's go back to Acts 3 and see all what he preached.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know he kind of man.
Speaker 1: He lit them up.
Speaker 1: Peter saw it.
Speaker 1: He answered, said to the people, you men of Israel, why marvel at this Verse 12, and why look you so earnestly on us as though, by our own power or holiness, we had made this man to walk the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob?
Speaker 1: See, that's the God that they see.
Speaker 1: They don't know the father of the Lord, jesus Christ, so he had to talk to them in the terms that they're used to.
Speaker 1: The God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his son Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know you messed up, but you denied the Holy One and the just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.
Speaker 1: Boy.
Speaker 1: He's rubbing their nose in it, isn't it?
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not exactly being kind.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit tired of these people that want to apologize for Jesus.
Speaker 1: They want to apologize for us.
Speaker 1: They want to apologize at how bold we are.
Speaker 1: You know they're just a there's there.
Speaker 1: You know we need to calm down a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's not be talking.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Peter was pretty bad Some salt and vinegar with his preaching and kill the Prince of life whom God had raised from the dead, aware of.
Speaker 1: We are witnesses.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, the blood libel is an anti-semitic trope and it it survives.
Speaker 1: People take this word and and that's Technically true but Jesus didn't, didn't give them that power over him.
Speaker 1: He said no man can take my life.
Speaker 1: I lay it down of myself.
Speaker 1: So they didn't kill Jesus, they are not guilty of his blood.
Speaker 1: And that's what people who want to justify anti-semitism, that's how they get people revved up in anger against the Jewish people.
Speaker 1: They call them Christ killers.
Speaker 1: They say they're guilty of the blood of Jesus and that they deserve everything they're getting.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1: Jesus laid down his life on his own, but in the context of this preaching he's, what is he doing?
Speaker 1: He's pricking them, he's, he's getting them to realize that they've made a mistake.
Speaker 1: This is their Messiah and this is proof.
Speaker 1: This man walking is proof.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: And his name, through faith in his name, had made this man strong, whom you see and know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the faith which is by him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Speaker 1: You know, we ought not settle for anything less than perfect soundness.
Speaker 1: We ought to not let settle for anything less than total provision.
Speaker 1: Just barely get along Boulevard.
Speaker 1: We put up with it, just barely able to pay the bills, just barely able to get along.
Speaker 1: No, god wants us to have abundance.
Speaker 1: God wants us to have perfect soundness in our bodies.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want us walking around, limpin around, hurting all the time, barely able to move.
Speaker 1: I Tell you, I'm standing for perfect soundness in my body, perfect soundness, and glad this is body.
Speaker 1: We're not giving up till we have perfect sound.
Speaker 1: And I say we have it, I say it's ours.
Speaker 1: Right today Got a call.
Speaker 1: Those things that be not as though they were.
Speaker 1: And so so the Pharisees.
Speaker 1: Let's turn over to Acts 4, 16.
Speaker 1: And you know that caused a fewer I mean five thousand people out there, 20,000 people, and and they got saved listening to this preaching the motor.
Speaker 1: And so you know, the Jews, they're, they're upset, they don't know what, they're jealous, they don't know what to do there.
Speaker 1: They this, these men are accusing them Of killing Jesus and all of that.
Speaker 1: They're kind of a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know they're getting a little worried.
Speaker 1: Now they're not in the majority.
Speaker 1: It looked like that, looked like something's happening there, and and they said in verse 16 Acts 4 16 say Verse 15, but when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying what shall we do to these men For that?
Speaker 1: Indeed, a notable miracle has been done by them, as a manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
Speaker 1: Everybody shout notable miracle.
Speaker 1: See, that's what happens when the church starts making demands in the name of Jesus, notable miracles start happening.
Speaker 1: You know, we pray for revival.
Speaker 1: What's fine, pray for revival?
Speaker 1: But it's going to take people Understanding what they've got in the new covenant.
Speaker 1: It's going to take people that are tired of seeing folks sitting on the side of the road, crippled and Lame, and do something about it.
Speaker 1: Allow your heart to have compassion on people that are sick.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do about these men?
Speaker 1: There's a notable miracle, see, they gave the definition of a Notable, notable miracle, one that is widely known and cannot be denied.
Speaker 1: Whoo, you know, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: That's the substance of revival right there.
Speaker 1: When you start getting people that everybody knows their condition and you get them healed, or you get them blessed, or you get them changed, you get them saved, when everybody knew there were no Reprobate.
Speaker 1: Then I tell you right now that's a substance of revival, right there.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, Widely known and undeniable.
Speaker 1: You know, brother oral Roberts prophesied just about that same thing about this church.
Speaker 1: He said you're gonna see miracles in your church, john.
Speaker 1: He said you're gonna see miracles that'll startle people.
Speaker 1: What's startled Kind of sounds like Revival, that it.
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like when they get the paddles out and pump up, put them on your chest, you go.
Speaker 1: I've had that happen to me, but I was asleep both times so I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: But I came up out of that bed last time in August and they put the paddles on me.
Speaker 1: They didn't do it to to revive me like that.
Speaker 1: They did it to change my heart rhythm from Atrial flutter to sinus rhythm.
Speaker 1: So they gave me a shock, same same shock as you get when you resuscitate someone.
Speaker 1: And the heart doctor had been over my bed, was holding me down.
Speaker 1: He didn't want me to hurt myself and I almost knocked him and mocked him over.
Speaker 1: The nurse couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I mean, when they put the paddles to me, I come up out of that bed and he couldn't hold me.
Speaker 1: He's a little guy and he needed to be a bigger guy.
Speaker 1: I told me down.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm telling you, people are getting startled.
Speaker 1: People are getting starts.
Speaker 1: What notable miracles will do?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah?
Speaker 1: We just haven't plumb the depths.
Speaker 1: And see, I'm going back and trying to teach you on faith again, because you know, we talked about meditating the word we talked about.
Speaker 1: You know the power of positive expectation we talked about.
Speaker 1: You know your confession bills, your supply chain.
Speaker 1: What am I doing?
Speaker 1: I want to put all these string, all these faith messages together because we need to walk by faith right now.
Speaker 1: We need to live by faith as never before.
Speaker 1: Our faith is under attack 24-7.
Speaker 1: If you don't get any, any ammunition for your gun, you're gonna go, you're gonna, you're gonna be.
Speaker 1: You don't have any ammunition.
Speaker 1: You need fresh ammo right now.
Speaker 1: You need, you need to answer these attacks of the enemies.
Speaker 1: He's attacking our finances.
Speaker 1: He's attacking our health.
Speaker 1: He's attacking our nation.
Speaker 1: He's attacking, he's attacking everywhere he can.
Speaker 1: He knows his time is short, but I believe that the church is rising up and making a demand on its covenant.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: You know, smith Wigglesworth gives the testimony About a man that they call Lazarus, and Lazarus had gotten saved.
Speaker 1: He had been working in the tin mines.
Speaker 1: And oh, tin is a heavy metal, I mean, you know, like lead and those, those kind of mines.
Speaker 1: I mean you know it's bad for your health.
Speaker 1: They didn't know that back then that people would get sick and die early.
Speaker 1: Lead and tin and even gold man, all those, all those kind of heavy metals get into your system and they can really wreak havoc.
Speaker 1: And so it did.
Speaker 1: This guy got saved and what he did was he would work all day in the tin mine.
Speaker 1: Then he would leave and go and and preach all in the evening and get people saved, and he was just on fire for God and he wore himself out.
Speaker 1: He just, you know, he just didn't use wisdom, he didn't get the proper amount of rest.
Speaker 1: Of course, the big thing was he's working in tin mine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that brought his endurance down to the point where he got tuberculosis and he had been bed-fast for seven years, still alive, but just skin and bones lay it in bed.
Speaker 1: And and here was Smith Wigglesworth was preaching in the area.
Speaker 1: He'd heard about Lazarus and the Holy Ghost said go raise Lazarus, go raise Lazarus.
Speaker 1: So he recruited some other believers, told him what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: He said you, you have faith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, yeah, I said I was, come with me to Lazarus house.
Speaker 1: We're, we're gonna, we've got a Something we're gonna minister to him.
Speaker 1: So they went in, they a number of believers stood around his bed and All they did was just speak the name of Jesus, jesus, and Faith in their heart that that name is above every name.
Speaker 1: They didn't lay hands on him, they didn't pray for him, they didn't command the devil to leave him.
Speaker 1: They didn't do.
Speaker 1: They didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: They just spoke the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: They just uttered the name of Jesus, smith Wigglesworth standing there, and they're all around the bed, jesus, jesus.
Speaker 1: And after a while, I don't know how long, the power Filled in that room Got a hold of that man.
Speaker 1: He starts, you know, quivering, you know under the power of God, and and Wigglesworth said there's your healing, receive it.
Speaker 1: And the man said I've been bitter.
Speaker 1: Now, they didn't know that at the moment, but right after he had gotten to tuberculosis, someone had come From his church, and I know it and with oil in the name of the Lord, james, chapter 5.
Speaker 1: But he didn't receive his healing and he blamed God.
Speaker 1: He was mad at God.
Speaker 1: He said I've been bitter.
Speaker 1: Well, who was he bitter at.
Speaker 1: He didn't know that at the moment, but he'd been bitter at God, bitter that the word didn't work for him, took no responsibility for his own faith and and so he'd been bitter.
Speaker 1: He's sitting there, dying seven years laying there and Wigglesworth said what repent?
Speaker 1: And the man said Lord, I'm sorry, I believe healing is real and I receive it.
Speaker 1: And just like that he got his healing.
Speaker 1: Just like that.
Speaker 1: The name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: They made a demand on the power of God.
Speaker 1: That fell in that room.
Speaker 1: Well, guess what?
Speaker 1: Whether we feel the power, I mean the power's everywhere it's all in this room, whether we feel it or not.
Speaker 1: It's not a matter of shaking under the goosebumps or anything else.
Speaker 1: God is everywhere present.
Speaker 1: We can make a demand on the anointing.
Speaker 1: We can make a demand on the covenant.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: So when he gets up out of bed, he goes over and gets dressed, comes downstairs, starts to eat some good meal.
Speaker 1: That night he went to an open air meeting and testified of the healing power of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's lift our hands right now.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Seven years.
Speaker 1: I tell you we don't have to put up with what the devil's doing.
Speaker 1: We can have perfect soundness.
Speaker 1: Oh, the power of that name, his wonderful name.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: Believers have Clark Block.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, they have the exclusive right to use that name.
Speaker 1: In Acts, chapter 12, you know, paul had handkerchiefs or aprons laid on his, from his body, laid on sick people.
Speaker 1: There was so much demand for his ministry he couldn't go everywhere.
Speaker 1: So they took handkerchiefs or aprons from his body and took and laid them on sick people and they were healed.
Speaker 1: Laid them on people that had demons and demons left them.
Speaker 1: And there were seven sons of Sceva who were vagabond exorcists, jewish boys that God was using to cast devils out under the old covenant, and I believe that they were effective in some way that way.
Speaker 1: But they began to go around and say man, this works right over here, what he's preaching out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna preach that way In the name of the Jesus that Paul preached it.
Speaker 1: So they came to a boy that was possessed with a demon and they said in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches, come out of him.
Speaker 1: And that young man in whom those demons were, he said well, you know, jesus, I know and Paul, I know, but who are you?
Speaker 1: And that man full of the devil jumped on those seven and they fled naked and wounded.
Speaker 1: Film at 11,.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see that at 11 o'clock noon.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's in the Bible.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I know, and Paul I know.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna be able to say the same thing about you, jesus, I know, paul, I know Karen, I know Dwayne, I know Debbie, I know.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna be able to say that, yeah, they're gonna be able to say that when you know that you can make a demand on your covenant?
Speaker 1: Oh, hallelujah, glory to God.
Speaker 1: They had no right to use the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: They're not children of God.
Speaker 1: They hadn't been born again.
Speaker 1: We have the exclusive right to use that name, and we need to start using it more and more and more.
Speaker 1: We need to get out of the habit of praying for things that Jesus already provided.
Speaker 1: He's already provided.
Speaker 1: He's not promised to heal anybody.
Speaker 1: Healing is a fact, it's not a promise.
Speaker 1: Deliverance is a fact.
Speaker 1: Well, though, but my daughter said she's got deep.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you don't have to pray about it.
Speaker 1: Cast them out, mama Cash to out.
Speaker 1: Well, I tried that.
Speaker 1: Well, that's your problem.
Speaker 1: See, you tried something.
Speaker 1: Don't try it.
Speaker 1: You don't try it, you do it.
Speaker 1: See, we need to meditate.
Speaker 1: See, it goes back to the other messages.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta have the power of positive expectation.
Speaker 1: You gotta see your children free.
Speaker 1: You gotta see them.
Speaker 1: You gotta hope there, jesus.
Speaker 1: You know he's the deliverer that's available for my children.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be demon possessed.
Speaker 1: They don't have to be hooked on heroin.
Speaker 1: They had the little girl on channel two.
Speaker 1: She's 17 years old.
Speaker 1: Her boyfriend died.
Speaker 1: Her and her boyfriend decided for the second time to experiment on heroin.
Speaker 1: How dumb can you get and still breathe?
Speaker 1: There are kids that are still dumb.
Speaker 1: They're still dumb.
Speaker 1: They're dumb.
Speaker 1: Out there.
Speaker 1: They've got dumb parents.
Speaker 1: They don't tell them anything and they're gonna go experiment with a drug that fentanyl.
Speaker 1: They're cutting it with fentanyl.
Speaker 1: Fentanyl is so cheap and it's deadly.
Speaker 1: And so the second go around their drug pusher they bought it from.
Speaker 1: I had fentanyl in the drugs and the boyfriend died, 18 years old.
Speaker 1: And she went into shock and they had this nasal spray that they use to counteract the fentanyl will kill you right there, she said.
Speaker 1: I was just on the ground having a seizure and they were able to bring me back.
Speaker 1: I looked up and I woke up.
Speaker 1: I saw these people around me, but her boyfriend, he didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1: He died at home in bed and so she's on.
Speaker 1: I don't want anybody to suffer like this.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm glad that you're out there admitting it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, how about saying something stronger, like don't ever experiment with any kind of drugs?
Speaker 1: It's a dead end.
Speaker 1: You're gonna die in today's day because of the open borders we have.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about that.
Speaker 1: Nobody's saying anything about it.
Speaker 1: And people are dying every day with fentanyl overdoses because it's disguised in the drugs that they wanna and most of the Democrats wanna legalize drugs.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna legalize death again on the other side.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you the fact.
Speaker 1: God, we don't have to pray for that to happen.
Speaker 1: We can demand the devil take his hands off our kids.
Speaker 1: We can demand the devil to take his hands off of our bodies.
Speaker 1: Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which we have of God, and we are not our own.
Speaker 1: We've been bought with a price.
Speaker 1: Therefore, we glorify God in our body and in our spirit, which are God's.
Speaker 1: We don't allow trespassers.
Speaker 1: We don't allow the devil to trespass on God's property.
Speaker 1: We don't allow him to poach and to steal what we have.
Speaker 1: No, we demand you leave us alone in Jesus name.
Speaker 1: Are y'all getting the idea we're gonna have to be more emphatic about it?
Speaker 1: I said we're gonna have to be more emphatic about it, and that comes from meditating on the Word, that comes from constantly exercising our faith.
Speaker 1: You know, when you've never done this for any kind of level, on any kind of level, you're not gonna start off on the top rung of the ladder, are you?
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta start where you are.
Speaker 1: You gotta start at the area of faith that you're in, and so if you've never believed God to get healed of a headache, you're not likely to know enough about things to get way up ahead of God.
Speaker 1: So start where you are.
Speaker 1: Start resisting the little things early on.
Speaker 1: Quit going to the medicine cabinet as soon as you have a headache.
Speaker 1: Rebuke the headache, demand it to leave in Jesus name and then do like I used to do.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't leave, then go get the title on Raise the Lord.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to suffer?
Speaker 1: You don't have to suffer.
Speaker 1: You know I wanna get rid of pain any way that I can, but I'm gonna build my faith into where I don't have to rely on drugs so much.
Speaker 1: Pastor, you mean you've never, you take drugs.
Speaker 1: Well, I've taken drugs before.
Speaker 1: I've taken Tylenol, I've taken anything the doctor says that I have to take to live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I take some drugs prescription drugs, medications but I take them in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: I take them because my principle is I'm not gonna allow this in my body, I'm going to resist it.
Speaker 1: Is this helping anybody?
Speaker 1: I'm talking about faith makes a demand.
Speaker 1: And what does demand mean?
Speaker 1: It means demand you're due.
Speaker 1: You gotta know what's due you.
Speaker 1: You gotta know that healing belongs to you, deliverance belongs to you, health belongs to you, prosperity belongs to you.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands.
Speaker 1: Faith makes a demand.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, do you get anything out of this today?
Speaker 1: Just a quick little amen, let's go ahead and rejoice.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: How many of you determined not to let the devil win?
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in South Texas and born here in Houston.
Speaker 1: But when I was going into the fourth grade, my parents moved to a little place called Refurio.
Speaker 1: It's not Refurio, it's Refurio, it's really a refugio, but nobody says a refugio.
Speaker 1: So except the Latinos.
Speaker 1: But everybody else says Refurio and some of them say Refurio.
Speaker 1: The lazy ones say Refurio, like furry, furry.
Speaker 1: No, it's Fury Refurio Anyway, fittletown, but it's surrounded by these huge ranches, and a friend of mine grew up with his family had about 100 acres outside of town, about 20 miles and across the fence.
Speaker 1: Was this one of these huge ranches, the O'Connor Ranch.
Speaker 1: They own vast holdings all the way around Refurio and I don't have any tens of thousands, 100,000, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Almost like the King Ranch.
Speaker 1: You've heard of the King Ranch, haven't you?
Speaker 1: It's almost that big, it's huge.
Speaker 1: And they got oil, they got money, and back in the 50s and 60s they had helicopters.
Speaker 1: They didn't just have horse cowboys to ride the fence line, they had helicopters to check their fences and make sure that nobody was trespassing.
Speaker 1: So what you have is you've got trespassers.
Speaker 1: They'll come across that fence.
Speaker 1: What are they doing?
Speaker 1: Well, most of the time they're looking to poach.
Speaker 1: Poach means they're gonna steal either your livestock or they're gonna steal your game, your deer javelina, whatever game there is over there birds.
Speaker 1: They're hunting on your property.
Speaker 1: See, that's not only trespassing, that's poaching.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna put up with that.
Speaker 1: That helicopter's got a guy riding shotgun.
Speaker 1: Literally he's riding shotgun.
Speaker 1: They've got the pilot, and then you got the guy riding shotgun with a shotgun and you're out there messing around on his ranch.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in trouble, and so most of them got a constable badge anyway.
Speaker 1: They got their own law.
Speaker 1: You don't wanna mess with O'Connor Ranch, you don't wanna do it.
Speaker 1: And so then, if it make it easy for you to trespass and easy for you to poach, next thing you're gonna build a place and you're gonna squat.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a squatter squatting on your property.
Speaker 1: It's a little harder to get rid of squatters because they got a place to sleep and eat and everything else.
Speaker 1: They're living on your property.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you let them stay there long enough, you've got certain laws in the state of Texas that give them the right to stay there.
Speaker 1: So what do you gotta do?
Speaker 1: You gotta enforce your boundaries.
Speaker 1: See, that's what I'm talking about this morning.
Speaker 1: We need to enforce the boundaries.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you anything like that is trespassed.
Speaker 1: Cancer is a trespasser.
Speaker 1: Don't let it set up residents on you.
Speaker 1: Don't let it become a squatter.
Speaker 1: You get rid of that thing and you get rid of it right now.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but it's a process.
Speaker 1: No, it's not a process.
Speaker 1: It's one time.
Speaker 1: You got rid of it just right now, and as far as you're concerned, it's gone.
Speaker 1: So quit saying that you're gonna get rid.
Speaker 1: No, well, yeah, as soon as I have the surgery, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: No, you got rid of it.
Speaker 1: As soon as you heard about it, you got rid of it.
Speaker 1: You withdrew your permission for it to be there and it's got its eviction notice and, as far as you're concerned and as far as God is concerned, it's gone.
Speaker 1: It's just help you today.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's lift our hands, praise God, making a demand.
Speaker 1: Let's quit letting the devil off easy.
Speaker 1: Let's make demands on our covenant.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, father.
Speaker 1: We worship you today.
Speaker 1: We thank you for that name, the name above every name.
Speaker 1: At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow of beings on earth, beings in heaven and even beings under the earth.
Speaker 1: Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, hallelujah.