WEBVTT 00:00:00.059 --> 00:00:02.467 The Bible's up, wave them around, make Jesus bed. 00:00:02.467 --> 00:00:03.350 Thank you, worship team. 00:00:03.350 --> 00:00:04.142 That was beautiful. 00:00:04.142 --> 00:00:08.166 I like the blood songs we sang about the blood today. 00:00:08.166 --> 00:00:12.410 Beware of any religion that's bloodless. 00:00:12.410 --> 00:00:16.504 Amen, we've got the power. 00:00:16.504 --> 00:00:21.868 Amen, let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm here intentionally today. 00:00:22.940 --> 00:00:29.028 I set my clock to get here and I have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to me. 00:00:29.028 --> 00:00:31.565 I'm not listening for somebody else. 00:00:31.565 --> 00:00:38.127 I know you've got a word fresh for me and I'm gonna be persuaded by that word. 00:00:38.127 --> 00:00:49.189 I'm not only gonna believe it, I'm gonna put it in my heart, I'm gonna speak it forth and I'm gonna receive the benefit in Jesus' name. 00:00:49.189 --> 00:01:04.224 Amen, praise God, you can be seated turning your bibles to the book of John, the Gospel of John, chapter six, and also Proverbs, chapter four, and we're gonna get into the Word. 00:01:04.224 --> 00:01:08.346 Hallelujah, thank God for the Word of God. 00:01:08.346 --> 00:01:11.064 John 6.63,. 00:01:11.144 --> 00:01:17.885 Jesus is speaking and he said it is the Spirit that quickeneth or maketh alive. 00:01:17.885 --> 00:01:22.370 The flesh profits nothing. 00:01:22.370 --> 00:01:29.108 The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life. 00:01:29.108 --> 00:01:30.064 Now, the King James. 00:01:30.064 --> 00:01:40.608 The word they is italicized so it doesn't really it's not in the original manuscript, so we could say it this way the words that I speak is as Jesus speaking. 00:01:40.608 --> 00:01:47.561 He said the words that I speak unto you are Spirit and are life All right. 00:01:47.561 --> 00:01:50.406 And then really, he was quoting Proverbs, chapter four. 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:53.465 So let's turn back to Proverbs, chapter four, verse 20. 00:01:53.465 --> 00:02:06.111 It says my son, my daughter, my son, my daughter, my child, attend to my words. 00:02:06.111 --> 00:02:11.748 I like to say it this way my son, my daughter, attend to my words. 00:02:11.748 --> 00:02:17.106 See, when you meditate on the Word, you start saying it in different ways. 00:02:17.106 --> 00:02:18.405 And I like to emphasize the. 00:02:18.405 --> 00:02:24.527 My God is saying attend to my words and climb your ear to my things. 00:02:24.527 --> 00:02:26.080 Why? 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.650 Because the words of flesh profit nothing. 00:02:28.650 --> 00:02:31.366 The words of the doctor don't profit. 00:02:31.366 --> 00:02:33.384 They profit nothing. 00:02:33.384 --> 00:02:39.008 They're just gonna give you what the eyes and ears, the five senses, the sense knowledge. 00:02:39.008 --> 00:02:41.860 Whatever the doctor I know, they're in the same business. 00:02:41.860 --> 00:02:44.221 He you know medical professionals, same business we're in. 00:02:44.221 --> 00:02:47.665 We're in the healing business and they're doing the best they can. 00:02:47.665 --> 00:02:50.068 But it's way short of what I'm talking about today. 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.826 He said attend to my words and climb your ear unto my sayings. 00:02:55.826 --> 00:03:10.163 Let them not depart from my eyes, but keep them in the middle of your belly, in the middle of your evening meal, on your TV tray, while you're watching. 00:03:10.163 --> 00:03:15.328 I love Lucy reruns no in the middle of your heart, your spirit. 00:03:15.328 --> 00:03:19.170 Put them in the middle of your heart or your spirit. 00:03:19.170 --> 00:03:19.621 Why? 00:03:19.621 --> 00:03:26.848 Because they're life under those that find them and health to all their flesh. 00:03:26.848 --> 00:03:32.360 Now, in my margin, in my King James study Bible, the word health has got a little number by it. 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:35.210 It happened number three, and I go out in my margin. 00:03:35.210 --> 00:03:38.189 It says number three means medicine. 00:03:38.189 --> 00:03:47.705 So my words are life under those that find them, in medicine to all their flesh. 00:03:47.705 --> 00:03:55.306 And so the message today is God's word the best medicine, god's word, the best medicine. 00:03:55.939 --> 00:04:00.709 I've been preaching this for a long time and God delivered me from the fear of repetition. 00:04:00.709 --> 00:04:07.909 Because the church is so sick I mean, their church is still closed. 00:04:07.909 --> 00:04:10.223 Because of why? 00:04:10.223 --> 00:04:13.620 Because they don't put the word first, they quit attending to the word. 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:16.588 They listen to a bunch of men like Fauci. 00:04:16.588 --> 00:04:18.923 What a loser. 00:04:18.923 --> 00:04:24.185 Totally corrupt, bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party. 00:04:24.185 --> 00:04:27.807 If you don't believe that, you need to do some more research. 00:04:27.807 --> 00:04:32.430 Here's a guy that's in love with power. 00:04:32.430 --> 00:04:36.483 I don't listen to him. 00:04:36.483 --> 00:04:40.548 First he said no masks, waste of time. 00:04:40.548 --> 00:04:42.552 Then he changed right in the middle of the story. 00:04:42.552 --> 00:04:45.446 There's no science in what he's saying he has no science whatsoever. 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:56.285 If we don't need this word that I'm preaching to you, I'm telling you, maybe you're so spiritual that you don't have any trouble in your flesh with any kind of disease. 00:04:56.285 --> 00:04:59.581 I mean, you never have a cold Like brother Hagan. 00:04:59.581 --> 00:05:05.824 He hadn't had a headache in 50 years and he said if I did have one which I'm not gonna have one I wouldn't tell it. 00:05:05.824 --> 00:05:11.925 I would admit that I wouldn't admit to having it. 00:05:11.925 --> 00:05:19.266 Say, that's somebody that has attended to the word and he's nothing special. 00:05:19.266 --> 00:05:22.346 I mean, if he did it, we can do it. 00:05:22.346 --> 00:05:24.805 Thank God for godly examples. 00:05:24.805 --> 00:05:26.848 I said it challenges you. 00:05:26.848 --> 00:05:29.345 I said it challenges you. 00:05:29.345 --> 00:05:34.192 The spirit breath word the spirit quickens makes a lie. 00:05:34.192 --> 00:05:44.750 I mean, god has prescribed us medicine and if you really get down to it, god filled this word with a prescription. 00:05:44.939 --> 00:05:47.406 Have you ever had a prescription filled at the pharmacy? 00:05:47.406 --> 00:05:49.651 Well, how did they do that? 00:05:49.651 --> 00:05:52.689 Well, you had to have the prescription written by a doctor. 00:05:52.689 --> 00:05:57.206 The doctor prescribed some medication, but the doctor doesn't give you the medication. 00:05:57.206 --> 00:06:00.045 You have to go to the pharmacy and pay a whole bunch of money for it. 00:06:00.045 --> 00:06:02.021 I mean, it's just. 00:06:02.021 --> 00:06:02.946 Isn't it a delight? 00:06:02.946 --> 00:06:06.766 I mean, I had a prescription one time the copay was $1,000. 00:06:06.766 --> 00:06:21.125 Now I can look back on my life and there was a time in my life when I would have had to skip that prescription because I didn't have $1,000 to my name, much less to pay for a prescription. 00:06:21.125 --> 00:06:23.345 That's not the case anymore. 00:06:23.345 --> 00:06:23.949 I paid it. 00:06:23.949 --> 00:06:24.721 Why? 00:06:24.721 --> 00:06:25.485 Because I could do it. 00:06:25.485 --> 00:06:26.185 I could pay it. 00:06:26.185 --> 00:06:31.305 But you know medicine, it's costly. 00:06:31.305 --> 00:06:35.523 And what do you have to do when it's prescribed? 00:06:35.523 --> 00:06:39.699 Well, it doesn't do any good to put it in the pill bottle and then just look at it. 00:06:39.699 --> 00:06:40.980 What do you have to do? 00:06:40.980 --> 00:06:42.762 You gotta open the pill bottle and you gotta take it. 00:06:42.762 --> 00:06:44.521 You gotta get it down on the inside. 00:06:47.295 --> 00:06:49.562 God is so willing for us to be healed. 00:06:49.562 --> 00:06:52.740 He loves the church. 00:06:52.740 --> 00:07:02.843 I said he loves all human beings, but I'm telling you he prizes and loves the church and he has made provision for the church. 00:07:02.843 --> 00:07:19.360 He's given the church a prescription that it can walk in health at all times, that if anything does happen and there is some kind of battle, he's given you the prescription to defeat that thing, whatever it is, no matter what it's called. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.130 And besides that, there's so many ways to get healing. 00:07:27.334 --> 00:07:29.322 I just think about my cousin Tommy. 00:07:29.322 --> 00:07:31.379 He and I grew up, he was a year younger. 00:07:31.379 --> 00:07:34.562 He was a redheaded, freckle-faced kid. 00:07:34.562 --> 00:07:44.781 He was, you know, my mother's brother's youngest son and he was spoiled like I was spoiled because I was the youngest of my family. 00:07:44.781 --> 00:07:45.959 He was the youngest of his. 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:51.240 So we were two people that wanted to have their own way at all times. 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:56.324 So in the summertime I'd go spend two weeks with him. 00:07:56.324 --> 00:08:07.637 He lived on Hurley Road, right off of 59, close to Jensen Road there, and then he'd come, you know, stay with us a couple of weeks. 00:08:07.637 --> 00:08:13.079 And by the time I stayed with him two weeks and he stayed with me two weeks in Gleana Park, we were done for the summer. 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:14.843 We could not get along any further. 00:08:14.843 --> 00:08:21.120 We were fighting and fuming and fussing and not getting along, and so that's just how it was. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.338 But anyway, later on in life I mean you know we get on, we get married. 00:08:24.338 --> 00:08:25.562 He got married, I got married. 00:08:25.562 --> 00:08:26.899 He's living up in West Virginia. 00:08:27.055 --> 00:08:42.658 Heard about that he had brain cancer and he had an inoperable brain tumor 24 years old and his parents were just broken hearted and his mother, my aunt Ruth, had a Pentecostal background and yet she married a Catholic. 00:08:42.658 --> 00:08:45.434 You know she didn't like Gladys. 00:08:45.434 --> 00:08:50.822 She and Gladys have a lot in common, except Gladys was not Pentecostal, she was Baptist. 00:08:50.822 --> 00:08:57.294 I'm talking about Kind of hard shell Baptist. 00:08:57.294 --> 00:09:00.139 No, you hard shell Baptist know exactly what I'm talking about. 00:09:00.139 --> 00:09:12.484 It's kind of like oil and water, but anyway, probably because of Aunt Ruth, you know the desperate they've got to have a miracle. 00:09:12.484 --> 00:09:14.422 Nothing medical science can do for him. 00:09:14.422 --> 00:09:38.085 And so it's not that far from where they lived in Parkersburg, west Virginia, just outside of Parkersburg to Pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and they went to a healing meeting with oh, her name slips me now Catherine Kuhlman. 00:09:38.085 --> 00:09:40.077 Hey, you know, it was Catholics. 00:09:41.221 --> 00:09:42.625 I had never heard of Catherine Kuhlman. 00:09:42.625 --> 00:09:45.557 Who's that when you going there? 00:09:45.557 --> 00:09:46.982 For well, there's, she's a faith healer. 00:09:46.982 --> 00:09:48.721 No, she wouldn't, really wasn't a faith healer. 00:09:48.721 --> 00:09:51.684 What she was is she manifested the gifts of the spirit. 00:09:51.684 --> 00:10:02.222 I didn't know anything about it, but in the audience she would just call people out, she described their clothing, she would describe what they were fighting and call them down there and they'd get healed. 00:10:02.222 --> 00:10:26.323 I knew a lady that had gotten healed of terminal cancer, taking one of her meetings on a stretcher, and I mean she'd just get up and brother O'Stain and have her testify and she would just everybody in there would be bawling by the time she finished, and then she'd sing that old song he touched me, oh, he touched me. 00:10:26.323 --> 00:10:29.615 They sang that song a lot at the Catherine Kuhlman meeting. 00:10:29.615 --> 00:10:36.783 So God has a way of manifesting gifts of the spirit healing meetings, I mean the whole healing revival. 00:10:36.803 --> 00:10:45.504 1940s and 50s and even into the early 60s, people were healed by the I don't know how many millions, probably in this country and all over the world. 00:10:45.504 --> 00:10:53.143 And so God, it's kind of reminds you of when God would send the angel to trouble the water, and whoever was first in the water would get. 00:10:53.143 --> 00:10:56.643 It was no faith involved, they were just waiting, waiting there for the water. 00:10:56.643 --> 00:10:58.221 And that's the kind of the way that was. 00:10:58.221 --> 00:11:00.121 It was just a, it was a move of God. 00:11:00.121 --> 00:11:00.282 Why? 00:11:00.282 --> 00:11:03.384 Because it was driven by God's heart to see healing come. 00:11:03.384 --> 00:11:05.341 He wants people healed. 00:11:05.341 --> 00:11:07.620 My cousin didn't get his healing. 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:08.081 He died. 00:11:10.335 --> 00:11:11.520 They didn't know anything about faith. 00:11:11.520 --> 00:11:14.884 They didn't know anything about how to, how to receive by faith. 00:11:14.884 --> 00:11:19.081 And then, of course, james, chapter five is there any sick among you? 00:11:19.081 --> 00:11:20.620 Let them call for the elders of the church. 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:24.220 If you don't know how to get your healing, we'll call somebody that knows how. 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:32.945 Call the church and let the elders come and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith. 00:11:32.945 --> 00:11:35.402 Not the oil, not the elder. 00:11:35.402 --> 00:11:45.942 The prayer of faith shall save or heal or raise up or make sound the sick, and the Lord will raise them up and if they committed any sins, it'll be forgiven. 00:11:45.942 --> 00:11:47.600 So that's for baby Christians. 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.903 Baby Christians don't know enough about the word. 00:11:49.903 --> 00:11:52.062 They don't know how to receive for themselves. 00:11:52.062 --> 00:11:53.760 So that's why you need a church. 00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:59.083 You need a good church that knows how to fill in the blanks for you, connect the dots for you sometime. 00:12:01.195 --> 00:12:03.123 And then, of course, we believe in the laying on of hands. 00:12:03.123 --> 00:12:10.261 We lay hands on people almost every week here and I don't know how, over the 26 years I don't know how many people have gotten healed. 00:12:10.261 --> 00:12:15.644 I can't, you can't even count how many people and very, very few of them ever just were instantly healed. 00:12:15.644 --> 00:12:16.860 It's usually they recover. 00:12:16.860 --> 00:12:26.404 But what I'm gonna give you today is something that is a lead pipe cinch. 00:12:26.404 --> 00:12:29.480 Do you know what a lead pipe is? 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:30.759 In other words, it's a certainty. 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.075 That's what that old idiom means. 00:12:33.075 --> 00:12:34.174 It means a certainty. 00:12:34.174 --> 00:12:36.414 It means it's absolutely foolproof. 00:12:37.477 --> 00:12:43.845 If you employ God's Word as medicine, you have more to do with your health than any doctor. 00:12:43.845 --> 00:12:46.592 Amen. 00:12:46.592 --> 00:12:48.475 I mean you take God's Word, because why? 00:12:48.475 --> 00:12:52.344 Jesus said the words that I speak to you, they're spirit, they're life. 00:12:52.344 --> 00:12:56.645 If you find my Word, you find life. 00:12:56.645 --> 00:12:59.934 If you put it inside of you, it's like medicine. 00:12:59.934 --> 00:13:05.054 In fact, it ain't like medicine, it is medicine and he prescribed it. 00:13:05.054 --> 00:13:06.894 Oh, come on, let's lift our hands. 00:13:06.894 --> 00:13:08.554 Thank God for the Word. 00:13:08.575 --> 00:13:30.994 So many ways to receive healing, but what I've seen in 40 years being saved is that when you get these other things, these other ways of healing which are all legitimate, by the way, god's heart is to see you well, but if you get your healing on the faith of someone else or someone other's ministry or some supernatural gift, that is manifesting, thank God. 00:13:30.994 --> 00:13:34.904 I mean, listen, if I had terminal cancer, I'd get in a healing meeting somewhere. 00:13:34.904 --> 00:13:44.268 But really, beyond that, I would take this right here what I'm gonna give you today and I've given it many times and I'm gonna keep giving it, because everybody needs a refresher course. 00:13:44.268 --> 00:13:48.664 You've heard, well, I've heard this, but well, you need to hear it again. 00:13:48.664 --> 00:13:59.163 As long as you're running to the medicine cabinet to take the natural medicine, you need to refresh yourself about God's medicine, amen. 00:13:59.163 --> 00:14:03.553 And so these wonderful things. 00:14:03.553 --> 00:14:14.575 You know, whatever God gives you on the strength or on the faith of someone else, you're gonna have to someday develop your faith to defend that, because the devil's not gonna leave you alone. 00:14:14.575 --> 00:14:18.575 He's gonna come after you and he's gonna try to put it back on you. 00:14:18.575 --> 00:14:25.615 He's gonna come around later on and you think everything is cool and all of a sudden you got the same symptoms all over again. 00:14:25.615 --> 00:14:27.312 Well, I thought I got healed. 00:14:27.312 --> 00:14:33.981 I thought Katherine Cooman called me out in the crowd yeah, but you've got to believe that You've got to. 00:14:33.981 --> 00:14:37.068 This right here will help you get in a position where you're bulletproof. 00:14:37.068 --> 00:14:44.134 Yes, you're not intimidated by any symptom. 00:14:44.134 --> 00:14:46.953 I mean, a symptom comes and it might. 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:58.754 You know, brother Hagin, a lot of people don't know this, but Brother Hagin was healed of I don't know seven kind of different blood diseases and a malformed heart, and he got it basically on his own. 00:14:58.754 --> 00:14:59.892 Nobody stood with him. 00:14:59.892 --> 00:15:01.514 The preacher didn't stand with him. 00:15:01.514 --> 00:15:05.854 In fact in front of him said you got to just get him to accept that death. 00:15:05.854 --> 00:15:13.008 I mean, he didn't believe in healing His own pastor man. 00:15:13.008 --> 00:15:14.235 That's kind of rough. 00:15:14.235 --> 00:15:17.004 He's by himself reading his grandma's Methodist Bible. 00:15:17.004 --> 00:15:20.403 He found healing and he got his healing. 00:15:20.674 --> 00:15:30.203 But after that, even though it was on his own faith, remember he came across the woman with the issue of blood and said going peace, thy faith hath made thee whole. 00:15:30.203 --> 00:15:32.602 And the Holy Ghost spoke to brother Hagin. 00:15:32.602 --> 00:15:36.063 He's 15 years old, laying paralyzed on a bed of sickness. 00:15:36.063 --> 00:15:40.839 And the Holy Ghost said if her faith made her whole, your faith can make you whole. 00:15:40.839 --> 00:15:43.783 Glory to God. 00:15:43.783 --> 00:15:54.956 And so he kept fighting until he came out of that bed and the first time the Holy Ghost spoke to him and says well, if you were healed you'd get up out of that bed and he could. 00:15:54.956 --> 00:15:56.182 So weak he couldn't do it. 00:15:56.182 --> 00:15:56.957 But he tried. 00:15:56.957 --> 00:16:01.020 He started moving and he got on the side of the bed and he got so dizzy he had to get back in bed. 00:16:01.020 --> 00:16:10.224 And a little while later, 45 minutes, an hour later, he got back up and he stood up a little longer and by that afternoon he was taking steps in his bedroom. 00:16:10.224 --> 00:16:11.360 See, it didn't happen instantly. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:16.860 He had to move the goalpost, he had to move, he had to move, but he had to do something. 00:16:19.475 --> 00:16:20.580 Have you ever met Tinker Bell? 00:16:20.580 --> 00:16:24.321 You know, back when I was a kid, tinker Bell was on television. 00:16:24.321 --> 00:16:32.400 Tinker Bell was a little fairy that was associated with Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney and she would fly around and go ding. 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:37.620 And I think people think that Tinker Bell is gonna come and go ding and suddenly we're gonna feel great. 00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:39.380 Suddenly, we're gonna be strong. 00:16:39.380 --> 00:16:40.900 Suddenly it's just everything's gonna be. 00:16:40.900 --> 00:16:42.179 But that's not how it is. 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:43.299 Ain't no Tinker Bell? 00:16:43.299 --> 00:16:46.779 There is the Holy Ghost. 00:16:46.779 --> 00:16:50.677 Are y'all with me? 00:16:50.677 --> 00:16:50.899 Now? 00:16:53.375 --> 00:17:01.062 The point is, no matter what it is that you've received in the past through other methods, the devil is gonna come back and try to put it back on you. 00:17:01.062 --> 00:17:10.962 And so Brother Hagin a number of times came near death because the doctors told him all this, this is just, you're just in remission. 00:17:10.962 --> 00:17:11.938 See, that's what doctors. 00:17:11.938 --> 00:17:13.584 Doctors never say you're healed. 00:17:13.584 --> 00:17:16.397 Never, you'll never hear a doctor say well, you're healed. 00:17:16.397 --> 00:17:18.117 They never say that. 00:17:18.117 --> 00:17:19.336 Why? 00:17:19.336 --> 00:17:23.481 Because if they say that and you're not, they're opening themselves to a lawsuit. 00:17:23.481 --> 00:17:25.321 So they just say, well, you're just in remission. 00:17:25.321 --> 00:17:26.839 That happens a lot of times. 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.497 You're not, you're not over this, it'll come back. 00:17:30.497 --> 00:17:31.961 They're cursing you. 00:17:31.961 --> 00:17:36.000 They're always telling you get ready, you're going to die. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.878 Good news Well, you know, god's worth it. 00:17:40.019 --> 00:17:40.662 Word is life. 00:17:40.662 --> 00:17:51.722 So many times he had to overcome symptoms and he had to contend for his healing early in his life, in marriage, when his kids were little. 00:17:51.722 --> 00:18:06.821 I mean, the devil was still coming back from time to time and try to put all those symptoms that he had when he was a teenager, paralyzed, on his, on him and he would have to contend and he would have to possess by faith and beat the devil with a word of God. 00:18:06.821 --> 00:18:09.942 So the word is life. 00:18:09.942 --> 00:18:13.544 All healing is spiritual. 00:18:13.544 --> 00:18:18.945 All financial breakthroughs begin in the spirit. 00:18:18.945 --> 00:18:26.441 It's not about getting the right loan, it's not about getting the raise, it's not about getting the promotion. 00:18:27.055 --> 00:18:35.644 Everything that you get from God belongs and begins, rather, in the spirit realm or in the causal realm. 00:18:35.644 --> 00:18:43.880 It's in that spirit realm where you're supposed to take the word as medicine and put it on the inside of you. 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:51.480 I mean, you can hear it, you're hearing me right now, but you'll have to take the word and you'll have to just chew on it. 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:58.104 I talked about this a few weeks ago on the power of imagination and how we have to meditate on the word of God. 00:18:58.104 --> 00:19:13.163 We have to take the word of God over and over and just speak it and chew on it and meditate on it and think about it, and speak it and think about it and chew on it until it gets down on the inside. 00:19:13.163 --> 00:19:16.605 And when it gets down on the inside it begins. 00:19:16.714 --> 00:19:18.521 See, faith is a seed. 00:19:18.521 --> 00:19:21.840 I said, oh, seed faith. 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:23.520 I mean brother, brother or Roberts. 00:19:23.520 --> 00:19:27.544 He had the greatest message on seed faith. 00:19:27.544 --> 00:19:35.443 He preached seed faith because Jesus said faith if you had faith as a seed, faith as a mustard seed. 00:19:35.734 --> 00:19:39.579 So people get all tangled up about how small or big their faith is. 00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:43.281 It's really not about how big or small it is, because all faith is small to begin with. 00:19:43.281 --> 00:19:46.924 How small is a seed compared to the finished product? 00:19:46.924 --> 00:19:50.501 I mean the seed, an apple seed. 00:19:50.501 --> 00:20:01.022 If you ever get into an apple and see the apple seed and compare an apple seed with the size of an apple tree, where the apple comes from, I mean it's real tiny. 00:20:01.615 --> 00:20:06.579 So all faith is tiny compared to the thing you're wanting to change. 00:20:06.579 --> 00:20:09.779 It seems insignificant. 00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:14.463 But no, if you plant it, if you get it down in your spirit and you water it. 00:20:14.463 --> 00:20:18.284 See, the seed of God's word is both seed and water. 00:20:18.284 --> 00:20:24.803 The more you speak it, you're planting and you're watering, it's growing and someday it's gonna mature. 00:20:24.803 --> 00:20:31.223 And when it matures in the area of healing it will drive out all infirmity. 00:20:31.223 --> 00:20:33.461 It will drive out every symptom. 00:20:33.461 --> 00:20:36.423 It will drive out all sickness and disease. 00:20:36.423 --> 00:20:39.000 It will drive out death itself. 00:20:40.544 --> 00:20:42.599 Glory to God, come on, praise God. 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:46.501 We're always looking for spectacular. 00:20:46.501 --> 00:20:48.803 We want a healing meeting. 00:20:48.803 --> 00:20:50.280 We want to get something right now. 00:20:50.280 --> 00:20:51.400 We want to have something. 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:56.759 Listen, I thank God for all of those things, but really the key for the believer is what I'm preaching right now. 00:20:56.759 --> 00:21:00.679 It's absolutely the key. 00:21:00.679 --> 00:21:02.923 It's absolutely the key. 00:21:02.923 --> 00:21:04.769 All healing is spiritual. 00:21:04.769 --> 00:21:06.031 It comes through the spirit realm. 00:21:06.031 --> 00:21:11.035 It's not all the outward stuff, it's not all the the doctors. 00:21:11.035 --> 00:21:12.038 Thank God for doctors. 00:21:12.038 --> 00:21:13.363 Thank God we live in Houston. 00:21:13.363 --> 00:21:15.650 It's one of the greatest medical centers on earth. 00:21:15.980 --> 00:21:21.961 If I need intervention, to just to keep by me some time until I can build my face, see, that's all I look up. 00:21:21.961 --> 00:21:24.990 Look for doctors to do is if I need intervention. 00:21:24.990 --> 00:21:27.242 See, about three years ago I needed intervention. 00:21:27.242 --> 00:21:36.980 I had to have a triple bypass one because I'm fixing to die and my life is big, fixing the end, and I had been fighting this, this stuff, for quite a while. 00:21:36.980 --> 00:21:41.692 I just hadn't gotten the, the seed in me and the greater enough to overcome it. 00:21:41.692 --> 00:21:47.424 So thank God for medical intervention and in that God has given. 00:21:47.424 --> 00:21:48.667 He's reset my clock. 00:21:48.667 --> 00:21:51.493 I feel better now than I did ten years ago. 00:21:51.493 --> 00:21:56.516 He just reset my clock, but it's the word that did it. 00:21:56.596 --> 00:21:57.660 Thank God for the doctors. 00:21:57.660 --> 00:22:04.505 They, they extended my life long enough for me to get enough of the Word of God in me to start taking over and it's bearing fruit. 00:22:04.505 --> 00:22:05.468 Are y'all with me now? 00:22:05.468 --> 00:22:11.624 The word is life to those who find them and Medicine to their flesh. 00:22:11.624 --> 00:22:13.148 Get the Word of God in you. 00:22:13.148 --> 00:22:17.249 Listen. 00:22:17.249 --> 00:22:28.292 If you read your Bible, you'll find the Word that applies to you and Then keep on meditating until that disease or that symptom or those things are driven out of you. 00:22:28.292 --> 00:22:30.452 It, the Word, will drive it out of you. 00:22:30.452 --> 00:22:33.684 I had just been saved. 00:22:33.684 --> 00:22:37.555 Glad to see if you got a something to cover your head, where she always. 00:22:37.555 --> 00:22:42.990 When I give this testimony, she always covers her head because it's embarrassing, but it's my testimony. 00:22:42.990 --> 00:22:46.094 But I had just been saved a few months. 00:22:46.174 --> 00:22:50.611 We're going to Lakewood, we're sitting and I always like to get there early so we could sit close to the front. 00:22:50.611 --> 00:22:54.048 You know, this place was huge at seat 5000 people, and this is before. 00:22:54.048 --> 00:22:55.451 They had two services on Sunday. 00:22:55.451 --> 00:23:01.500 So so Sunday morning 10 o'clock service, man, it's jammed and there's no place to sit in there. 00:23:01.500 --> 00:23:05.799 I mean, it's just jammed, the back row, and I didn't prefer sitting on the back row. 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.405 I like to sit close up way. 00:23:07.405 --> 00:23:07.867 Forget it. 00:23:07.867 --> 00:23:10.750 You know you got to get there early, so we'd get there early. 00:23:10.750 --> 00:23:14.407 We were about 20, maybe 20 rows from the front, sitting on the aisle. 00:23:14.407 --> 00:23:15.089 That's another thing. 00:23:15.089 --> 00:23:19.752 I like sitting on the aisle and and so the service started. 00:23:19.752 --> 00:23:22.545 We were just well, man, we just love going to church. 00:23:22.545 --> 00:23:24.990 Just every, every service was an adventure. 00:23:24.990 --> 00:23:27.790 I was hearing things I'd never heard and I'm just so excited. 00:23:27.790 --> 00:23:29.799 You know how it is when you first get saved. 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:40.683 It's just, it's just like, oh, and that's where we were, you still are, we're thrilled, we're thrilled with the word and we were thrilled. 00:23:41.325 --> 00:23:55.871 And so brother stain I don't remember exactly when it in the service that happened, but he just turned there was a couple sitting right in front of us and the only reason I noticed is because she had a hat on and of course I had to kind of look Around her hat, but I wasn't angry, I didn't, I was happy, I didn't care. 00:23:55.871 --> 00:23:58.626 You know where I had or not a hat, but she had a hat on. 00:23:58.626 --> 00:24:01.044 These all dressed of the nines Dressed up. 00:24:01.044 --> 00:24:03.319 Not everybody who goes get dressed up. 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:11.321 What I liked about Lakewood is you'd see people from Africa, all the nations of Nigeria and Ghana, and I mean they're dressed in their native India. 00:24:11.321 --> 00:24:13.346 There it's dressed in their their clothes. 00:24:13.346 --> 00:24:14.830 I mean it looked like the united nations. 00:24:14.830 --> 00:24:18.344 It was amazing, all those flags out front. 00:24:18.344 --> 00:24:20.730 Even in the old building had all those flags out front. 00:24:20.730 --> 00:24:26.182 Had it reminded you it was a world, a worldwide anyway. 00:24:26.262 --> 00:24:35.571 So he stopped and he looked locked eyes with this woman sitting right in front of me and he began to prophesy over Sunday morning and said you've got a healing ministry. 00:24:35.571 --> 00:24:36.825 It's time for you to move out now. 00:24:36.825 --> 00:24:38.048 Start laying hands on the sick. 00:24:38.048 --> 00:24:39.343 God wants to use you. 00:24:39.343 --> 00:24:41.509 Dotted out of dawn I thought, wow, how neat is that? 00:24:41.509 --> 00:24:43.465 Oh, that's cool man, that's cool. 00:24:43.465 --> 00:24:44.710 Look at, listen to this. 00:24:44.710 --> 00:24:47.222 Wow, you know, and and and. 00:24:47.282 --> 00:24:50.912 So he finished up in the Holy Ghost spoke to my heart. 00:24:50.912 --> 00:25:00.726 He says, as soon as the service over asked her to lay hands on you for healing, I said what Me Healing? 00:25:00.726 --> 00:25:02.542 I don't need healing. 00:25:02.542 --> 00:25:05.571 He said, well, what about that allergy to elastic? 00:25:05.571 --> 00:25:09.346 I said, well, that's not giving me any trouble. 00:25:09.346 --> 00:25:10.790 Yeah, because you avoid it. 00:25:10.790 --> 00:25:20.366 I mean we're having a conversation in the middle of the service and the Holy Ghost is, you know, get messing around in my business. 00:25:20.366 --> 00:25:29.086 I mean he's, he's disturbing, disturbing my business, and I said, well, I don't understand. 00:25:29.086 --> 00:25:30.848 He said, well, you're not healed. 00:25:30.848 --> 00:25:33.814 You need healing of that allergy to elastic. 00:25:33.814 --> 00:25:38.144 And so I knew what he was talking about. 00:25:38.144 --> 00:25:45.565 Because, about this, see, what age am I there, I'm at 33, so about 25, 25 years old. 00:25:46.401 --> 00:25:48.327 I started breaking her out around my waist. 00:25:48.327 --> 00:25:56.531 My shorts had of elastic in them and I just went to the dermatologist Now glad it's his governor, ed, because I'm preaching about my underwear and it's just embarrassing. 00:25:56.531 --> 00:26:01.662 Who cares? 00:26:01.662 --> 00:26:06.010 I mean, it's just underwear, it's under garment, how, but is that a nicer way? 00:26:06.010 --> 00:26:07.693 Short says even a nicer way. 00:26:07.693 --> 00:26:10.547 So that's as far as I'm going to go, tmi. 00:26:10.567 --> 00:26:13.804 So, uh, I went to the dermatologist. 00:26:13.804 --> 00:26:15.288 Oh, you got an allergy to elastic. 00:26:15.288 --> 00:26:16.692 You just need to get rid of the elastic. 00:26:16.692 --> 00:26:19.856 We could run tests, find out what part of the compound is, but that's not. 00:26:19.856 --> 00:26:21.763 You know, that's not any useful. 00:26:21.763 --> 00:26:23.587 No, you just needed a void of life. 00:26:23.587 --> 00:26:24.089 Void it. 00:26:24.089 --> 00:26:24.471 What do you mean? 00:26:24.471 --> 00:26:29.028 Afford it by the kind of underwear it doesn't have that I said what? 00:26:29.028 --> 00:26:33.351 Where is that I've never heard of anything like oh yeah, it's just the old timey. 00:26:33.351 --> 00:26:35.266 You know, they got the draw strings on there. 00:26:35.266 --> 00:26:36.509 You tie a little knot on there. 00:26:36.509 --> 00:26:41.588 I'm talking to the doctor, he's a dermatologist. 00:26:41.588 --> 00:26:44.539 I said, well, where in the world am I gonna buy something like that? 00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:48.682 Oh, you know some of these old timey dry good stores and all that Old timey. 00:26:48.682 --> 00:26:49.724 I live in the suburbs. 00:26:49.724 --> 00:26:51.088 There's nothing old timey out here. 00:26:51.088 --> 00:26:52.571 It's all brand new. 00:26:54.020 --> 00:26:57.605 And I was irritated, you know, but I was itching like a fool. 00:26:57.605 --> 00:27:04.011 I mean, I was and I wasn't saved, I didn't know God, just itching started with my ankles, my boots. 00:27:04.011 --> 00:27:18.249 I had these big old thick boots on that I wore because you know, you wear tennis shoes on a job site and you step on a nail, you're gonna hurt yourself because the nail just kind of it just resists a little bit and then goes pow and you get the whole nail all the way up in your foot. 00:27:18.249 --> 00:27:19.271 You're not gonna like it. 00:27:19.271 --> 00:27:25.750 So I wore these big heavy boots and of course in the summertime I just thought it was heat or something. 00:27:25.750 --> 00:27:30.987 But it didn't spread up around my waist and man, I was itching and scratching and interrupting my rest. 00:27:30.987 --> 00:27:33.393 So I did what the doctor said and I. 00:27:33.881 --> 00:27:39.218 I went to this place on South shepherd and kind of close to the between heights and river oaks. 00:27:39.218 --> 00:27:51.191 Out there I between I 10 and 59, I don't know exactly where it was I found a place that had them and I bought the last 10 pair cost me over a hundred dollars I thought hundred dollars for underwear. 00:27:51.191 --> 00:27:52.453 This is ridiculous. 00:27:52.453 --> 00:28:03.141 They were the kind that had the little drawstring on there and they, I'm telling you, they were so long, they went all the way down Money. 00:28:03.141 --> 00:28:14.551 They're the kind that you could tie to a pole and wave on a, on a flag and you could surrender and people five miles down the road would know that you had given up. 00:28:14.551 --> 00:28:18.069 Just wave it, they'd see it, they'd see it all the way. 00:28:18.069 --> 00:28:26.420 If I'm in spring, people in greens point ellie gave up, he's, he's given up. 00:28:26.420 --> 00:28:34.954 It took a while just to stuff those into my pants every day, I mean. 00:28:34.954 --> 00:28:44.944 But the but the rash went away and I was, I was doing just fine until that day at Lakewood church when the oh when. 00:28:45.105 --> 00:28:53.104 When the holy ghost said you know, you're not, you need healing, you need healing, get hurt or lay hands on you after the service. 00:28:53.104 --> 00:28:58.487 Well, I was just, you know, have you ever had the Holy Ghost ask you to do so or tell you to do something? 00:28:58.487 --> 00:29:03.987 And just, ah, then I didn't want to do that, it's embarrassing. 00:29:03.987 --> 00:29:15.589 So I didn't tell her the whole reason and, gladys, I leaned over and told her and she looked at me like I was nuts, which was not, you know, new. 00:29:15.589 --> 00:29:25.338 That's a look that she had perfected over our previous years of marriage. 00:29:26.244 --> 00:29:38.413 But so, you know, the service ends and I and I tapped her on the shoulder I said the Holy Ghost spoke to me and asked you, I'm going to be your first, uh, first patient, uh, I'd like you to lay hands on me for healing. 00:29:38.413 --> 00:29:39.429 I have an allergy. 00:29:39.429 --> 00:29:44.314 And so she kind of was embarrassed to her husband, kind of embarrassed to a little bit. 00:29:44.314 --> 00:29:45.805 They were nice, they got. 00:29:45.805 --> 00:29:48.692 In fact they've visited us in this church a couple of times. 00:29:48.692 --> 00:29:52.150 He was a singer, he sang at Lakewood, she was a hairdresser and humble. 00:29:52.150 --> 00:29:56.250 We've got to know him later, but this was the first time I didn't know him from anybody. 00:29:56.791 --> 00:29:57.714 And just tap on her. 00:29:57.714 --> 00:30:05.011 You know, here I am listening to her word and the next thing, you know I'm, I'm standing in line in her healing line right after the service. 00:30:05.011 --> 00:30:06.896 And so she did. 00:30:06.896 --> 00:30:10.845 And I said, okay, praise God, all right, thank God, I'm healed. 00:30:10.845 --> 00:30:14.816 And so, you know, the next Sunday, one week later, I'm sitting in almost the same place. 00:30:14.816 --> 00:30:25.255 They're not anywhere around, but anyway, I'm sitting there and, uh, people are going up for the altar call, you know, people are coming up for healing and other things. 00:30:25.786 --> 00:30:28.771