WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.729 Pick up your Bibles, as we like to do around here, and wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:05.729 --> 00:00:13.291 And let's say this together say, heavenly Father, I've tuned in tonight because I'm hungry and thirsty for more. 00:00:13.291 --> 00:00:21.602 I know that I need revelation, but my faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing. 00:00:21.602 --> 00:00:24.867 On another level, a revelation is what's necessary. 00:00:24.867 --> 00:00:34.369 So, holy Spirit, open up understanding of the Word tonight, so that I can enter into victory in every contest. 00:00:34.369 --> 00:00:38.128 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:39.179 --> 00:00:43.049 Let's turn with me, please, to Acts, chapter 27. 00:00:43.049 --> 00:00:52.371 And this is Paul, while he's on the stormy seas, he's a prisoner of the Romans, headed to appear before Caesar. 00:00:52.371 --> 00:00:55.067 We're gonna start, we'll pick it up in verse 20. 00:00:55.067 --> 00:01:08.590 And it says and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:22.246 But after long abstinence, paul stood forth amidst them and said Sirs, you should have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete and to have gained this harming loss. 00:01:22.246 --> 00:01:33.064 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, be of good courage, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 00:01:33.064 --> 00:01:52.772 But for there stood by me this night, the angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, saying fear not, paul, thou must be brought before Caesar, and lo God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. 00:01:52.772 --> 00:01:57.149 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer second time. 00:01:57.149 --> 00:02:04.230 Be of good courage, for I believe, god, that it shall be even as it was told me. 00:02:04.230 --> 00:02:13.229 Take a particular attention on that last statement, for I believe, god, that it shall be even as it was told me. 00:02:13.229 --> 00:02:18.804 And so tonight, just to share a message of encouragement, let the word work. 00:02:18.804 --> 00:02:26.866 Let the word work, paul in the middle of a deadly storm, heard from God through his angel. 00:02:26.866 --> 00:02:27.628 Just think about it. 00:02:27.669 --> 00:02:31.370 You know, I don't know about you, but I like to picture myself on the boat with him. 00:02:31.370 --> 00:02:45.870 You know, when I'm reading the Bible, I often just put on the testimony, as if I was right there, maybe even Paul himself, maybe I become Paul, and I just put it on it, like I put on this jacket tonight. 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:55.340 I put on that story, I put on that testimony and I try to imagine what it was like, and all hope that they could be saved. 00:02:55.340 --> 00:02:56.986 That's how terrible the storm was. 00:02:56.986 --> 00:02:58.325 I mean, everybody lost hope. 00:02:58.325 --> 00:03:00.567 The whole crew just knew they were all doomed. 00:03:00.567 --> 00:03:08.587 Yet the angel of God appeared to him and of course he heard from God already that they shouldn't leave, shouldn't sail. 00:03:08.587 --> 00:03:13.064 They didn't pay any attention to him, so he had a heads up. 00:03:13.064 --> 00:03:14.268 It was gonna be difficult. 00:03:14.268 --> 00:03:16.664 But here comes the angel. 00:03:18.602 --> 00:03:20.185 And so what does he say to the crew? 00:03:20.185 --> 00:03:21.847 He says fear not. 00:03:21.847 --> 00:03:24.679 You know God always has a message. 00:03:24.679 --> 00:03:25.521 Fear not it. 00:03:25.521 --> 00:03:27.389 You ever hear a message of fear. 00:03:27.389 --> 00:03:28.713 You know it's not God. 00:03:28.713 --> 00:03:30.038 God doesn't preach fear. 00:03:30.038 --> 00:03:32.286 Preachers should not be preaching fear. 00:03:32.286 --> 00:03:33.310 I don't preach fear. 00:03:33.310 --> 00:03:35.437 I don't care what it's looking like. 00:03:35.518 --> 00:03:37.063 We, we are of good courage. 00:03:37.063 --> 00:03:38.569 We be of good courage. 00:03:38.569 --> 00:03:41.680 He said I believe it will be, even as it was told me. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:46.024 In other words, I believe and I shall have. 00:03:46.024 --> 00:03:51.882 You know, mark 1124, what things so ever you desire when you pray, believe you receive them and you shall have them. 00:03:51.882 --> 00:03:56.775 There's a difference between Receiving something and having it. 00:03:56.775 --> 00:03:58.338 You receive it in your spirit. 00:03:58.338 --> 00:03:59.741 You count it done. 00:03:59.741 --> 00:04:01.518 Have your eyes seen it yet? 00:04:01.518 --> 00:04:03.085 No, it's gonna take a little time. 00:04:03.085 --> 00:04:19.894 Between the time you say I believe I've received and I shall have, I shall have, is when the, when the answer comes through and Manifests in this present realm, and so when I want you to notice something. 00:04:19.954 --> 00:04:20.737 When he spoke. 00:04:20.737 --> 00:04:21.920 He said be of good cheer. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:23.423 Fear or not be of good cheer? 00:04:23.423 --> 00:04:25.454 I mean, had it let up any? 00:04:25.454 --> 00:04:28.663 Had the storm, just, you know, died? 00:04:28.663 --> 00:04:31.069 Was the, were the waves and everything more calm? 00:04:31.069 --> 00:04:32.673 No, everything was just as bad. 00:04:32.673 --> 00:04:35.622 In fact it might have been even worse if you keep reading. 00:04:35.622 --> 00:04:40.060 They had a whole lot of things to do before they got off that ship. 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:45.709 So, no, paul spoke his faith and let the word work. 00:04:45.709 --> 00:04:50.641 You know, we, we do the speaking and God does the and believe in and he does the performing. 00:04:50.641 --> 00:04:53.569 We don't have to work, we don't have to work at it, we don't have to do it. 00:04:53.569 --> 00:04:55.482 All we have to do is believe and speak. 00:04:55.482 --> 00:05:01.482 And you know, god's word was spoken so it could be written, and then it was written so it could be spoken. 00:05:01.482 --> 00:05:02.252 So we have it. 00:05:02.252 --> 00:05:08.932 You know, god spoke it to begin with and then holy men of God, as we were inspired by the Holy Ghost, wrote it down for us. 00:05:08.932 --> 00:05:12.762 And now it's written for us, it's been given to us so we can speak it. 00:05:12.762 --> 00:05:14.595 So let the word work. 00:05:14.595 --> 00:05:20.149 You know, when we put it to work, we can, we can rest, we can know that God is moving. 00:05:20.168 --> 00:05:22.593 I Think about the centurion. 00:05:22.593 --> 00:05:27.295 We talked about him recently, matthew, chapter 8, when he came and told the Lord. 00:05:27.295 --> 00:05:32.516 He said about his servant he's grievously, he's ill with a palsy. 00:05:32.516 --> 00:05:34.723 Palsy was a death sentence in those days. 00:05:34.723 --> 00:05:38.855 Most people didn't, there was no cure for it and there was a terrible death. 00:05:38.855 --> 00:05:41.317 Jesus offered to come and heal him. 00:05:41.317 --> 00:05:48.800 He said oh no, lord, I'm not worthy that you should come under my roof, but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. 00:05:50.004 --> 00:05:51.833 And and the centurion? 00:05:51.833 --> 00:05:54.338 You know God, jesus marveled at that. 00:05:54.338 --> 00:06:02.076 He had a revelation of the authority that Jesus had and the authority of his words. 00:06:02.076 --> 00:06:07.451 He knew as a man under authority, himself a centurion's, over a hundred Roman soldiers. 00:06:07.451 --> 00:06:11.755 And and he, he said look, I understand authority. 00:06:11.755 --> 00:06:13.137 I say to this man go. 00:06:13.137 --> 00:06:16.612 He goes, another man come, and he comes into this person, do this. 00:06:16.612 --> 00:06:17.254 And he does it. 00:06:17.254 --> 00:06:18.860 I understand authority. 00:06:18.860 --> 00:06:24.569 So all you've got to do, jesus, is speak the word only and my servant shall be healed. 00:06:24.569 --> 00:06:30.564 It's not necessary for you to come under my roof, it's not necessary for you to walk all that way over where I live. 00:06:30.564 --> 00:06:32.221 I'm not worthy. 00:06:32.221 --> 00:06:33.029 You should be there. 00:06:33.029 --> 00:06:34.934 You just speak the word on him. 00:06:34.934 --> 00:06:38.942 Jesus marveled at that faith, the faith that took the word. 00:06:38.942 --> 00:06:40.204 All you've got to do is just. 00:06:40.204 --> 00:06:43.949 You know, jesus, if you just speak the word, I'm gonna let the word work. 00:06:43.949 --> 00:06:46.523 I mean, he didn't say it that way, but that's really what he meant. 00:06:46.523 --> 00:06:51.983 And so the Bible says the servant was healed that very instant. 00:06:52.646 --> 00:06:53.629 And what did Jesus say? 00:06:53.629 --> 00:06:55.081 Did he rebuke the palsy? 00:06:55.081 --> 00:06:55.444 No. 00:06:55.444 --> 00:06:56.149 Did he pray? 00:06:56.149 --> 00:06:56.850 No. 00:06:56.850 --> 00:07:04.235 Did he fast and pray and get on his knees and weep and cry and roll on the carpet and On the ground or anything? 00:07:04.235 --> 00:07:05.660 No, he, just he. 00:07:05.660 --> 00:07:12.137 The only thing he said is go, go your way, and as you have believed, so be it under thee, just like that. 00:07:12.137 --> 00:07:14.403 You know, he gave him something to do. 00:07:14.403 --> 00:07:15.432 What did he do? 00:07:15.432 --> 00:07:16.516 He just went back home. 00:07:16.516 --> 00:07:17.519 That's all he had to do. 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:18.601 He spoke it already. 00:07:18.601 --> 00:07:22.620 He said just speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:26.401 He didn't even say servant be healed, no, he didn't even have to do that. 00:07:26.401 --> 00:07:32.101 He said as you have believed, as you have believed, be it unto you, go your way. 00:07:32.101 --> 00:07:40.793 As soon as he went his way, that's when it happened, boom, when he acted on the word that Jesus spoke and and Jesus called that. 00:07:40.793 --> 00:07:42.776 You know, he was great. 00:07:42.776 --> 00:07:44.521 I have not found so great a faith. 00:07:44.521 --> 00:07:45.843 He marveled that faith. 00:07:47.632 --> 00:07:52.216 You know, faith works by saying or it works by praying, either one. 00:07:52.216 --> 00:07:54.000 Mark 11, 23 and 24. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.550 Mark 11, 23 talks about faith moving a mountain when you speak to the mountain. 00:07:58.550 --> 00:08:02.267 So it works when you speak and believe in your heart. 00:08:02.267 --> 00:08:05.242 Mark 11, 23,. 00:08:05.242 --> 00:08:15.896 I say unto you that whosoever shall say under this mountain, be thou removed, be thou cast into the sea, shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he sayeth shall come to pass. 00:08:15.896 --> 00:08:18.569 He shall have whatsoever he sayeth". 00:08:18.569 --> 00:08:20.617 So there it is, you have. 00:08:20.617 --> 00:08:23.267 Faith works by saying. 00:08:23.267 --> 00:08:37.423 But in the very next verse he says it a different way, in the same way, and he says, therefore, what things whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive them and you shall have them. 00:08:37.423 --> 00:08:41.283 So faith works by saying and faith works by praying. 00:08:41.283 --> 00:09:04.833 And over the years, as I've grown in my faith and grown in my ministry, I find myself I mean it's a time to pray and there's a time to say I do more saying when it comes to dealing with any kind of sickness or disease, when it comes to dealing with finances, when it comes to dealing with anything that Jesus with demons. 00:09:04.833 --> 00:09:07.000 I mean I don't pray. 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:14.133 I say I don't know how many testimonies Brother Hagin has about saying to sickness. 00:09:14.898 --> 00:09:27.568 You know, I told the story recently, the testimony recently, and I read it again today in another book where, you know, his cousin had called Brother Hagin's mother and requested prayer. 00:09:27.568 --> 00:09:28.855 He was in a phone booth. 00:09:28.855 --> 00:09:33.945 Their baby was born and wasn't expected to live and it was had deformed. 00:09:33.945 --> 00:09:38.285 It was deformed and the doctor said you know, it's not going to last very much longer. 00:09:38.285 --> 00:09:40.884 Anyway, it can't live the way it is and it looks bad. 00:09:40.884 --> 00:09:42.860 You'd be better off not seeing the baby. 00:09:42.860 --> 00:09:43.710 So I hadn't even seen the baby. 00:09:43.710 --> 00:09:45.488 The doctor wouldn't even let him see it. 00:09:45.488 --> 00:09:48.509 It was face was deformed, the head was deformed. 00:09:48.509 --> 00:09:49.712 Something was wrong. 00:09:49.712 --> 00:09:57.528 And he said you know, son, you know Benny, your cousin's here and he wants you to pray. 00:09:57.528 --> 00:09:58.592 Told him the situation. 00:09:58.592 --> 00:09:59.235 He said where is he? 00:09:59.235 --> 00:10:00.615 He's right outside the phone booth. 00:10:00.615 --> 00:10:02.347 He said tell him that. 00:10:02.347 --> 00:10:05.479 I said that baby will live and not die, it'll be all right. 00:10:05.479 --> 00:10:10.562 And the mama said would you think it'll work? 00:10:10.562 --> 00:10:12.298 Well, yeah, of course it'll work. 00:10:12.298 --> 00:10:16.479 Jesus told me oh, I'm so glad Jesus. 00:10:16.479 --> 00:10:18.710 No, he told me in Mark 11, 23. 00:10:18.710 --> 00:10:23.205 Oh, so he just simply said it. 00:10:23.205 --> 00:10:32.576 And so when she turned and told him that in just a few minutes, that the doctors come or the nurse come, running out, you can see the baby now, just something amazing happened. 00:10:32.576 --> 00:10:34.982 The head just kind of blew out like a balloon. 00:10:34.982 --> 00:10:38.580 It just popped back into place and it seemed to be normal. 00:10:40.866 --> 00:10:44.563 No, faith works by saying and it works by praying. 00:10:44.563 --> 00:10:55.019 You know, I'm developing my faith now to where I don't have to ask God to do things that he's given me authority to use my words to get, even for other people. 00:10:55.019 --> 00:10:55.701 You know, you can get. 00:10:55.701 --> 00:10:57.937 Your faith can work for baby Christians. 00:10:57.937 --> 00:11:04.133 Your faith can work for your relatives, you know, when they don't know what you know, you can believe for them, you can speak for them. 00:11:04.133 --> 00:11:09.166 And then you, you know, the next time they'll have to do some of the believing with you. 00:11:09.166 --> 00:11:09.609 But we can. 00:11:09.609 --> 00:11:14.710 We've got such power in our arsenal, our faith arsenal. 00:11:14.710 --> 00:11:16.894 All we have to do is let the word work. 00:11:19.822 --> 00:11:30.841 So again, when I, when I talk about, told someone here the other day about believing, you receive, and you shall have see when you believe you've received. 00:11:30.841 --> 00:11:32.669 That is the moment that you pray. 00:11:32.669 --> 00:11:40.710 When you are praying about something I believe I receive, and then you shall have the shall have comes later. 00:11:40.710 --> 00:11:42.522 What's in between? 00:11:42.522 --> 00:11:48.690 A bunch of work, in a bunch of fuss, and and fasting and praying and hoping, no, no, not at all. 00:11:48.690 --> 00:11:52.489 No, you've said it, I believe I receive it. 00:11:52.489 --> 00:11:54.321 And then what's next is praise. 00:11:54.321 --> 00:11:58.563 You simply praise God till the answer shows up in the in the natural. 00:11:58.563 --> 00:12:02.764 You know there's a rest in the Hebrews four. 00:12:02.826 --> 00:12:03.710 Let's turn there real quick. 00:12:03.710 --> 00:12:05.037 I want you to see this. 00:12:05.037 --> 00:12:13.710 They cause the children of Israel never entered into rest about their promised land. 00:12:13.710 --> 00:12:15.864 And what does that mean? 00:12:15.864 --> 00:12:19.287 Well, just let's look at it, because I believe it's imperative. 00:12:19.287 --> 00:12:23.126 Here we're talking about letting the word work. 00:12:23.126 --> 00:12:31.408 You've got to have a certain confidence that after you've spoken it, you believed it in your heart and you spoke it with your mouth, whether you prayed it or whether you said it. 00:12:31.408 --> 00:12:33.501 And now what's next? 00:12:33.501 --> 00:12:34.145 Well, it's got to show up. 00:12:34.145 --> 00:12:35.673 The answer's got to show up. 00:12:35.673 --> 00:12:36.918 It's not instantaneous. 00:12:37.982 --> 00:12:39.568 So, verse one, chapter four. 00:12:39.568 --> 00:12:45.380 Let let us therefore fear lest a promise being left to us of entering into his rest. 00:12:45.380 --> 00:12:51.581 Any of you should seem to come short of it, for under us was the gospel preached as well as under them is talking about Israel. 00:12:51.581 --> 00:12:57.496 But the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them, that hurt it. 00:12:57.496 --> 00:13:21.710 For we which have believed, do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, for he's spoken a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the seventh day from all his works and in this place again, if they shall enter into my rest, seeing. 00:13:21.710 --> 00:13:28.832 Therefore, it remaineth that some must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. 00:13:28.832 --> 00:13:32.402 So what are we getting into? 00:13:32.402 --> 00:13:36.240 Well, we're getting into the fact that they just they kept touching it with their mind. 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.522 They just couldn't accept that the promised land was theirs. 00:13:39.522 --> 00:13:43.756 They started worrying about the giants, they started worrying about the wall cities. 00:13:43.756 --> 00:13:46.697 They spoke it and then they said they'd be not able to see. 00:13:46.697 --> 00:13:49.773 So there was doubt and unbelief instead of rest. 00:13:50.556 --> 00:13:51.659 Faith has a rest. 00:13:51.659 --> 00:14:01.438 Once you speak by faith, whether you're saying it or whether you're praying it, then all, all of the the turmoil is over you. 00:14:01.438 --> 00:14:04.193 All you have left to do is lift your hand and praise God. 00:14:04.193 --> 00:14:06.120 That's all this. 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.173 That's the rest. 00:14:07.173 --> 00:14:10.211 See, all the pressure now has been shifted off of you. 00:14:10.211 --> 00:14:11.254 What did you do? 00:14:11.254 --> 00:14:13.513 You believed in your heart and you spoke with your mouth. 00:14:13.513 --> 00:14:14.971 All the pressure is off of you now. 00:14:14.971 --> 00:14:17.418 It's on the word and the word. 00:14:17.418 --> 00:14:18.320 Let the word work. 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.663 Let the word carry all the pressure. 00:14:20.663 --> 00:14:22.878 It's the word is going to do all the work. 00:14:22.878 --> 00:14:24.489 Yeah, I said it's the word. 00:14:24.489 --> 00:14:26.033 Let the word work. 00:14:26.816 --> 00:14:28.240 Now think about Paul and Silas. 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:30.125 You know they got beaten with many stripes. 00:14:30.125 --> 00:14:32.480 They were thrown into the inner prison. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:38.748 I mean, as far as they knew, they were obeying God and they'd gone to Macedonia by revelation. 00:14:38.748 --> 00:14:44.440 They didn't just presume to go, they went after they heard from God, they knew they were doing the right thing. 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:45.783 They're over there. 00:14:45.783 --> 00:14:54.238 They get beaten, thrown in the inner prison, their feet put in ankle, you know, and put in stalks. 00:14:55.755 --> 00:14:59.644 And and it said at midnight, act 16, midnight. 00:14:59.644 --> 00:15:03.263 At midnight, see, that's kind of the type and shadow of the trouble. 00:15:03.263 --> 00:15:05.302 It seemed like it's always late at night. 00:15:05.302 --> 00:15:10.100 The devil comes with fear, he comes with trouble, he comes to interrupt your rest. 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:18.548 At midnight, paul and Silas prayed and sang praises and the prisoners heard them. 00:15:18.548 --> 00:15:21.644 See, they didn't pray and cry and moan and groan. 00:15:21.644 --> 00:15:22.236 They could have. 00:15:22.236 --> 00:15:26.916 They'd made many stripes on them, lashes. 00:15:26.916 --> 00:15:34.399 Their backs were bloody and beaten and they're, all you know, clamped in those terrible stalks. 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:35.716 They're painful. 00:15:35.716 --> 00:15:37.363 What did they do? 00:15:37.363 --> 00:15:44.719 They prayed and they sang praises, and so loud, they didn't do it silently, all the other prisoners heard them. 00:15:44.739 --> 00:15:46.102 And then came an earthquake. 00:15:46.102 --> 00:15:58.027 The devil wanted to kill them and yet God invaded the earthquake and and caused it to break the prison doors open and break their bands off and supernaturally they were free. 00:15:58.027 --> 00:16:04.447 And I don't know whether they received any comfort for those stripes. 00:16:04.447 --> 00:16:06.582 The Bible says that they went into the jailer. 00:16:06.582 --> 00:16:11.438 The jailer was going to kill himself oh, do yourself no harm, we're all here, we're not going anywhere. 00:16:11.438 --> 00:16:14.263 And they preached to the jailer and his whole family. 00:16:14.263 --> 00:16:20.927 They all got saved and and the jailer Bible says they washed their stripes. 00:16:20.927 --> 00:16:24.445 So see, they still needed help with their wounds. 00:16:24.445 --> 00:16:27.283 They didn't just instantly go away. 00:16:27.283 --> 00:16:30.202 They weren't praising God because the wounds left them. 00:16:30.202 --> 00:16:33.023 They still needed to take care of those wounds. 00:16:33.023 --> 00:16:35.423 I'm sure they could receive supernatural healing. 00:16:35.423 --> 00:16:41.248 I'm sure it the backs, you know healed up faster than normal. 00:16:41.248 --> 00:16:46.380 I'm sure they didn't say what happened, but what I'm saying is they let the word work. 00:16:47.604 --> 00:16:49.889 After they prayed and sang praises. 00:16:49.889 --> 00:16:51.320 They entered into rest. 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.724 They said oh, you know God, you got this, you got this. 00:16:55.724 --> 00:16:59.703 We don't have to, we don't have to get into any problem, we're in the victory. 00:16:59.703 --> 00:17:00.783 We're not in the battle. 00:17:00.783 --> 00:17:02.255 That's where. 00:17:02.275 --> 00:17:03.902 That's where Paul was on that boat. 00:17:03.902 --> 00:17:05.140 He got into the victory. 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:08.059 He wasn't in the storm anymore, he was in the victory. 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:10.884 He was just simply speaking his faith. 00:17:10.884 --> 00:17:14.363 You know, god has given the all them that sail with me. 00:17:14.363 --> 00:17:15.246 We're all safe. 00:17:15.246 --> 00:17:16.559 Okay, we'll be fine. 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:18.959 No problem, we have good courage. 00:17:18.959 --> 00:17:20.483 Right. 00:17:20.515 --> 00:17:22.923 First, john five, four says faith is the victory. 00:17:22.923 --> 00:17:26.243 So that's why, when you have faith, you've already victory. 00:17:26.243 --> 00:17:28.021 You don't not waiting for Victor to show up. 00:17:28.021 --> 00:17:30.919 You're not battle conscious, we're victory conscious. 00:17:30.919 --> 00:17:34.824 No whining, no complaining, no struggling. 00:17:34.824 --> 00:17:37.858 There's rest, faith has a rest. 00:17:37.858 --> 00:17:45.099 There's a supernatural ease that you enter into when you're really believing God correctly and you speak his word. 00:17:45.099 --> 00:17:48.138 You know the greater ones on inside. 00:17:48.138 --> 00:17:49.260 First, john four, four. 00:17:49.260 --> 00:17:50.744 He's in there to put you over. 00:17:50.744 --> 00:17:51.926 He's not there to hitchhike. 00:17:52.494 --> 00:17:58.461 You've heard me say this over and over but the Holy Ghost is on the inside of you, the one who quickens your mortal flesh. 00:17:58.461 --> 00:18:02.804 Well, I've been standing for my healing and, and what don't? 00:18:02.804 --> 00:18:04.916 Don't say another word, just say, thank God. 00:18:04.916 --> 00:18:06.983 The Holy Ghost is quickening my mortal flesh. 00:18:06.983 --> 00:18:10.163 I've removed all permission for these symptoms to stay. 00:18:10.163 --> 00:18:13.586 They have to go and they, they have to go. 00:18:13.586 --> 00:18:19.123 And just you know, hold your hands, your ground, be of good cheer, be of good courage. 00:18:19.123 --> 00:18:21.339 Let the word work. 00:18:21.339 --> 00:18:23.259 The word will work if you'll let it. 00:18:23.259 --> 00:18:26.406 Amen. 00:18:26.406 --> 00:18:29.554 God brought this home to me one time. 00:18:29.594 --> 00:18:34.348 I've told this story recently too, but I have people that don't hear all my stories. 00:18:34.348 --> 00:18:41.230 But I was in Galveston, and many times when I go there I'll see something I've never seen before. 00:18:41.230 --> 00:18:42.785 You know, I'll see this or I'll see that. 00:18:42.785 --> 00:18:50.829 Well, this particular time I'm sitting on the seawall, out overlooking the ocean, and the seawall is 15 feet above sea level. 00:18:50.829 --> 00:18:55.546 That's the elevation of the seawall in Galveston, and so. 00:18:55.546 --> 00:19:01.137 But there was a guy at sea level on the beach and he was getting into his kayak. 00:19:01.137 --> 00:19:05.253 Well, I had never seen anybody with a kayak there on the beach. 00:19:05.253 --> 00:19:06.416 That's the Gulf of Mexico. 00:19:07.125 --> 00:19:09.852 The day, that day, the wind was blowing right out of the south. 00:19:09.852 --> 00:19:15.512 Those waves were really, you know, the whole surf was brown, it was muddy, real. 00:19:15.512 --> 00:19:20.733 There was a lot of turbulence, big waves crashing in there, and it was. 00:19:20.733 --> 00:19:38.328 And here he is, you know, and he's paddling his little kayak right into those waves are coming over, breaking over the front of the bow of the of the kayak, hitting him right dead in the face and just I don't know if he had goggles on or not, but they were hitting him, you know, one after another and he just kept paddling. 00:19:38.328 --> 00:19:54.746 He just kept paddling, you know, and he got a little further out and he got about, even with the, the jetties, you know, and and finally he got out in a water that's not so brown, it was a little greenish, looking little clearer out off the shore, and it was. 00:19:54.746 --> 00:20:01.894 He was going up and down and he got so far out and I'm, look, I'm 15 foot above him, I'm looking out at sea level, he's at sea level, I'm 15 foot. 00:20:01.894 --> 00:20:06.532 So finally gets about a mile out there, and I'm thinking where is he going? 00:20:06.532 --> 00:20:11.950 He's going straight out, he's going straight out, he's going to Cuba, where is he headed? 00:20:11.950 --> 00:20:20.507 And he would go down below and the wave would be a, you know, it would interrupt, I wouldn't be able to see him, and then he would pop up. 00:20:20.507 --> 00:20:25.227 Then we'd go down below and pop and I watched and watched, and, and I just a little bit. 00:20:26.048 --> 00:20:27.553 The Holy Ghost spoke to my heart. 00:20:27.553 --> 00:20:28.715 He said that's your faith. 00:20:28.715 --> 00:20:30.729 That's your faith working. 00:20:30.729 --> 00:20:32.154 It's working all the time. 00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:37.030 It once you've spoken your faith and you've believed it in your heart, it's working 24 seven. 00:20:37.030 --> 00:20:39.116 You go to work and it's still paddling. 00:20:39.116 --> 00:20:40.650 It's paddling all night long. 00:20:40.650 --> 00:20:44.422 It's it's it's achieving your destination. 00:20:44.422 --> 00:20:45.946 It's moving all night long. 00:20:45.946 --> 00:20:49.076 You don't have to do a thing, you just go to bed and sleep all night long. 00:20:49.076 --> 00:20:51.373 Your faith is working on something all night long. 00:20:51.373 --> 00:20:53.118 Oh, I tell you, it encouraged me. 00:20:54.525 --> 00:20:55.487 Let the word work. 00:20:55.487 --> 00:21:00.536 You've sent the word and I let it work and rejoice, just praise God. 00:21:00.536 --> 00:21:05.362 So three things here, just to kind of remind you let let the word work. 00:21:05.362 --> 00:21:06.306 Number one in your health. 00:21:06.306 --> 00:21:07.027 I mentioned that. 00:21:07.027 --> 00:21:09.652 Probably four, 23, 22. 00:21:09.652 --> 00:21:12.278 So powerful, I tell you these. 00:21:12.278 --> 00:21:22.209 These scriptures are so wonderful that God has given us tools that we can use and the word is like a tool in many ways. 00:21:22.269 --> 00:21:25.576 Verse 20, my son, attend to my words. 00:21:25.576 --> 00:21:29.655 Let them not depart from my eyes and climb nine here under my sayings. 00:21:29.655 --> 00:21:36.596 Keep them in the midst of the vine heart, for my word is life under those that find them, and health or medicine to all their flesh. 00:21:36.596 --> 00:21:40.270 So let the word work in your, in your health. 00:21:40.270 --> 00:21:41.574 Just speak the word. 00:21:41.574 --> 00:21:45.930 Speak over your health and speak over your, your body. 00:21:45.930 --> 00:21:46.692 Speak over it. 00:21:46.692 --> 00:21:50.409 It's good to you know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 00:21:50.409 --> 00:21:53.398 Speak over your health before you get sick. 00:21:54.623 --> 00:21:56.366 And every night I go over my body. 00:21:56.366 --> 00:22:00.998 I'm I just have a certain confession I make and I just speak to it. 00:22:00.998 --> 00:22:03.355 I say my blood pressure is 120, over 80. 00:22:03.355 --> 00:22:08.776 My heart beats with the sinus rhythm through open blood vessels, free of plaque, obstructions, clots, all the electrical pathways. 00:22:08.776 --> 00:22:16.914 My heart or normal, I start off with my heart, because my heart is in the past has given me some some little trouble and so I've got something. 00:22:16.914 --> 00:22:18.561 I say to that heart every night. 00:22:18.561 --> 00:22:21.571 I say something to my pancreas, my endocrine cyst. 00:22:21.571 --> 00:22:23.659 I say something to my bones, my lungs. 00:22:23.659 --> 00:22:29.256 I just speak to every part of my body, regardless of any symptoms. 00:22:29.256 --> 00:22:30.839 I speak ahead of time. 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:32.886 That way, what have I done? 00:22:32.886 --> 00:22:34.753 Well, I let, I'm letting the word work. 00:22:34.753 --> 00:22:45.579 I'm setting the boundary line, I'm setting the, I'm setting my body up for health and that way, when I do get attacked, and if I get attacked, then I've already sent the word. 00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:47.928 I said uh-uh, I spoke to that. 00:22:47.928 --> 00:22:49.519 You've got to line up with the word. 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:51.720 You can't, you can't bring that symptom on me. 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.638 You cannot do it, hallelujah. 00:22:54.638 --> 00:22:56.346 So let the word work. 00:22:56.346 --> 00:22:59.759 We've got our healing scriptures out in the lobby. 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:01.500 You can pick one up the next time you come. 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:02.505 It'll help you. 00:23:02.505 --> 00:23:15.079 If you don't want to look them all up, we've got them already printed on a card and you take the word as preventive medicine or you can take it after the symptoms come in. 00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:20.190 Either way, it's still medicine, it's health all your flesh, not just some of it. 00:23:20.190 --> 00:23:22.087 All it All right. 00:23:22.087 --> 00:23:24.663 So let the word work in your health, Let the words work. 00:23:24.724 --> 00:23:26.108 And you're dealing with people. 00:23:26.108 --> 00:23:28.258 You know when you're at work. 00:23:28.258 --> 00:23:32.990 You get sometimes you get persecution, sometimes you get gossip and unfair treatment. 00:23:32.990 --> 00:23:41.429 We sometimes we get reports of people that have trouble with their superiors, that are talking down to them and being ugly to them and all of that kind of thing. 00:23:41.429 --> 00:23:52.507 You know one verse that really helped me years ago and I just came across it in my normal reading here recently Jeremiah 20. 00:23:52.507 --> 00:24:03.700 Because you've got allies that they don't have in most cases, you've got an ally on your side. 00:24:05.132 --> 00:24:06.079 And this is what Jeremiah had to say. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:10.480 You know you're probably not near as persecuted as Jeremiah was. 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:21.993 He was highly persecuted, and it says here, verse 11, but the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one. 00:24:21.993 --> 00:24:33.900 But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one, and when you look up that Hebrew, it means a violent champion, it means a ruthless tyrant. 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:37.330 See, that's the God that works with me, that's the one I'm hooked up with. 00:24:37.330 --> 00:24:40.880 He is watching over me like a ruthless tyrant. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:43.337 Anybody messes with you, kind of like the Godfather. 00:24:43.337 --> 00:24:45.032 You know the Godfather movie. 00:24:45.032 --> 00:24:50.278 You know, if you get in the hood for the Godfather, they will fear you because they're afraid of me. 00:24:50.278 --> 00:24:54.160 That's what he said to the guy at the beginning of the movie. 00:24:54.160 --> 00:25:01.778 And so, hey, that's exactly, we got somebody a lot better than the Godfather, we've got God Almighty, and he's called a ruthless tyrant. 00:25:01.778 --> 00:25:05.279 Jeremiah gave him the mighty terrible one, amen. 00:25:05.521 --> 00:25:07.078 And so what do you do? 00:25:07.078 --> 00:25:10.299 Well, you just forgive them and let the word work. 00:25:10.299 --> 00:25:12.140 You know, god, you're my ally on this thing. 00:25:12.140 --> 00:25:13.227 You just have to take care of them. 00:25:13.227 --> 00:25:14.133 I'm doing the right thing. 00:25:14.133 --> 00:25:15.906 They're not doing the right thing, but I forgive them, lord. 00:25:15.906 --> 00:25:18.680 You just you deal with them. 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.256 I've done all I can do. 00:25:20.256 --> 00:25:23.140 You might have to bake them a cake or something. 00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:25.720 Do good to those that despitefully use you. 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.220 So, you know, use the word, let the word work in your dealings with people. 00:25:29.220 --> 00:25:30.596 Don't try to do it all yourself. 00:25:30.596 --> 00:25:32.375 Just, you've got the greater one on the inside. 00:25:32.375 --> 00:25:36.258 He'll give you wisdom as what to say to them, to disarm. 00:25:36.660 --> 00:25:46.786 You know, I've got a friend of mine we were talking about a business situation that he doesn't come to this church but I do know him and we pray together from time to time. 00:25:46.786 --> 00:25:53.153 And his career, you know he was telling me the story at the time of his death. 00:25:53.153 --> 00:25:54.904 You know he was telling me the story. 00:25:54.904 --> 00:26:01.546 He found out his boss had been holding him back, not turning in progress reports because he was jealous of him. 00:26:01.546 --> 00:26:03.105 And it all came to light. 00:26:03.105 --> 00:26:06.845 So they moved him and I just, you know, I thought, man, you got to get out of that company. 00:26:06.845 --> 00:26:08.987 They've ruined you for a year. 00:26:08.987 --> 00:26:20.948 They, you know, when you're on the up and you're going up in a big major corporation and somebody holds you back, it damages for a long time and you're never going to really recover from that normally. 00:26:20.948 --> 00:26:28.867 And so, sure enough, I heard from him recently and he's you know he left that company. 00:26:28.867 --> 00:26:31.684 He'd be leaving the end of November and he got you know. 00:26:31.684 --> 00:26:37.230 He got promoted to a different company, he got a job with a bigger, much bigger jump. 00:26:37.230 --> 00:26:43.909 Now he jumped way up in where he's at and it's going to be a real financial blessing for him. 00:26:43.909 --> 00:26:44.864 So God sees you. 00:26:44.864 --> 00:26:47.307 The mighty terrible one is on your side. 00:26:47.307 --> 00:26:52.503 He's your agent, he can negotiate the contracts and if they don't do right, he can. 00:26:52.503 --> 00:26:55.445 He can move you, you know, to the New York Yankees. 00:26:55.445 --> 00:27:01.150 If the Astros don't want to pay you, all right. 00:27:01.150 --> 00:27:05.445