Speaker 1: The Bible's up, wave them around, make Jesus bed.
Speaker 1: Thank you, worship team.
Speaker 1: That was beautiful.
Speaker 1: I like the blood songs we sang about the blood today.
Speaker 1: Beware of any religion that's bloodless.
Speaker 1: Amen, we've got the power.
Speaker 1: Amen, let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm here intentionally today.
Speaker 1: I set my clock to get here and I have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to me.
Speaker 1: I'm not listening for somebody else.
Speaker 1: I know you've got a word fresh for me and I'm gonna be persuaded by that word.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, thank God for the Word of God.
Speaker 1: John 6.63,.
Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking and he said it is the Spirit that quickeneth or maketh alive.
Speaker 1: The flesh profits nothing.
Speaker 1: The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.
Speaker 1: Now, the King James.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: He said the words that I speak unto you are Spirit and are life All right.
Speaker 1: And then really, he was quoting Proverbs, chapter four.
Speaker 1: So let's turn back to Proverbs, chapter four, verse 20.
Speaker 1: It says my son, my daughter, my son, my daughter, my child, attend to my words.
Speaker 1: I like to say it this way my son, my daughter, attend to my words.
Speaker 1: See, when you meditate on the Word, you start saying it in different ways.
Speaker 1: And I like to emphasize the.
Speaker 1: My God is saying attend to my words and climb your ear to my things.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because the words of flesh profit nothing.
Speaker 1: The words of the doctor don't profit.
Speaker 1: They profit nothing.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna give you what the eyes and ears, the five senses, the sense knowledge.
Speaker 1: Whatever the doctor I know, they're in the same business.
Speaker 1: He you know medical professionals, same business we're in.
Speaker 1: We're in the healing business and they're doing the best they can.
Speaker 1: But it's way short of what I'm talking about today.
Speaker 1: He said attend to my words and climb your ear unto my sayings.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I love Lucy reruns no in the middle of your heart, your spirit.
Speaker 1: Put them in the middle of your heart or your spirit.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they're life under those that find them and health to all their flesh.
Speaker 1: Now, in my margin, in my King James study Bible, the word health has got a little number by it.
Speaker 1: It happened number three, and I go out in my margin.
Speaker 1: It says number three means medicine.
Speaker 1: So my words are life under those that find them, in medicine to all their flesh.
Speaker 1: And so the message today is God's word the best medicine, god's word, the best medicine.
Speaker 1: I've been preaching this for a long time and God delivered me from the fear of repetition.
Speaker 1: Because the church is so sick I mean, their church is still closed.
Speaker 1: Because of why?
Speaker 1: Because they don't put the word first, they quit attending to the word.
Speaker 1: They listen to a bunch of men like Fauci.
Speaker 1: What a loser.
Speaker 1: Totally corrupt, bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe that, you need to do some more research.
Speaker 1: Here's a guy that's in love with power.
Speaker 1: I don't listen to him.
Speaker 1: First he said no masks, waste of time.
Speaker 1: Then he changed right in the middle of the story.
Speaker 1: There's no science in what he's saying he has no science whatsoever.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I mean, you never have a cold Like brother Hagan.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I would admit that I wouldn't admit to having it.
Speaker 1: Say, that's somebody that has attended to the word and he's nothing special.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he did it, we can do it.
Speaker 1: Thank God for godly examples.
Speaker 1: I said it challenges you.
Speaker 1: The spirit breath word the spirit quickens makes a lie.
Speaker 1: I mean, god has prescribed us medicine and if you really get down to it, god filled this word with a prescription.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a prescription filled at the pharmacy?
Speaker 1: Well, how did they do that?
Speaker 1: Well, you had to have the prescription written by a doctor.
Speaker 1: The doctor prescribed some medication, but the doctor doesn't give you the medication.
Speaker 1: You have to go to the pharmacy and pay a whole bunch of money for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just.
Speaker 1: Isn't it a delight?
Speaker 1: I mean, I had a prescription one time the copay was $1,000.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: That's not the case anymore.
Speaker 1: I paid it.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because I could do it.
Speaker 1: I could pay it.
Speaker 1: But you know medicine, it's costly.
Speaker 1: And what do you have to do when it's prescribed?
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't do any good to put it in the pill bottle and then just look at it.
Speaker 1: What do you have to do?
Speaker 1: You gotta open the pill bottle and you gotta take it.
Speaker 1: You gotta get it down on the inside.
Speaker 1: God is so willing for us to be healed.
Speaker 1: He loves the church.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And besides that, there's so many ways to get healing.
Speaker 1: I just think about my cousin Tommy.
Speaker 1: He and I grew up, he was a year younger.
Speaker 1: He was a redheaded, freckle-faced kid.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: He was the youngest of his.
Speaker 1: So we were two people that wanted to have their own way at all times.
Speaker 1: So in the summertime I'd go spend two weeks with him.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: We could not get along any further.
Speaker 1: We were fighting and fuming and fussing and not getting along, and so that's just how it was.
Speaker 1: But anyway, later on in life I mean you know we get on, we get married.
Speaker 1: He got married, I got married.
Speaker 1: He's living up in West Virginia.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You know she didn't like Gladys.
Speaker 1: She and Gladys have a lot in common, except Gladys was not Pentecostal, she was Baptist.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Kind of hard shell Baptist.
Speaker 1: No, you hard shell Baptist know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Nothing medical science can do for him.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, it was Catholics.
Speaker 1: I had never heard of Catherine Kuhlman.
Speaker 1: Who's that when you going there?
Speaker 1: For well, there's, she's a faith healer.
Speaker 1: No, she wouldn't, really wasn't a faith healer.
Speaker 1: What she was is she manifested the gifts of the spirit.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: They sang that song a lot at the Catherine Kuhlman meeting.
Speaker 1: So God has a way of manifesting gifts of the spirit healing meetings, I mean the whole healing revival.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It was no faith involved, they were just waiting, waiting there for the water.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of the way that was.
Speaker 1: It was just a, it was a move of God.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because it was driven by God's heart to see healing come.
Speaker 1: He wants people healed.
Speaker 1: My cousin didn't get his healing.
Speaker 1: He died.
Speaker 1: They didn't know anything about faith.
Speaker 1: They didn't know anything about how to, how to receive by faith.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, james, chapter five is there any sick among you?
Speaker 1: Let them call for the elders of the church.
Speaker 1: If you don't know how to get your healing, we'll call somebody that knows how.
Speaker 1: Call the church and let the elders come and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of faith.
Speaker 1: Not the oil, not the elder.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So that's for baby Christians.
Speaker 1: Baby Christians don't know enough about the word.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to receive for themselves.
Speaker 1: So that's why you need a church.
Speaker 1: You need a good church that knows how to fill in the blanks for you, connect the dots for you sometime.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, we believe in the laying on of hands.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I can't, you can't even count how many people and very, very few of them ever just were instantly healed.
Speaker 1: It's usually they recover.
Speaker 1: But what I'm gonna give you today is something that is a lead pipe cinch.
Speaker 1: Do you know what a lead pipe is?
Speaker 1: In other words, it's a certainty.
Speaker 1: That's what that old idiom means.
Speaker 1: It means a certainty.
Speaker 1: It means it's absolutely foolproof.
Speaker 1: If you employ God's Word as medicine, you have more to do with your health than any doctor.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: I mean you take God's Word, because why?
Speaker 1: Jesus said the words that I speak to you, they're spirit, they're life.
Speaker 1: If you find my Word, you find life.
Speaker 1: If you put it inside of you, it's like medicine.
Speaker 1: In fact, it ain't like medicine, it is medicine and he prescribed it.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, let's lift our hands.
Speaker 1: Thank God for the Word.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, if I had terminal cancer, I'd get in a healing meeting somewhere.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You've heard, well, I've heard this, but well, you need to hear it again.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And so these wonderful things.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: He's gonna come after you and he's gonna try to put it back on you.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Well, I thought I got healed.
Speaker 1: I thought Katherine Cooman called me out in the crowd yeah, but you've got to believe that You've got to.
Speaker 1: This right here will help you get in a position where you're bulletproof.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're not intimidated by any symptom.
Speaker 1: I mean, a symptom comes and it might.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Nobody stood with him.
Speaker 1: The preacher didn't stand with him.
Speaker 1: In fact in front of him said you got to just get him to accept that death.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't believe in healing His own pastor man.
Speaker 1: That's kind of rough.
Speaker 1: He's by himself reading his grandma's Methodist Bible.
Speaker 1: He found healing and he got his healing.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And the Holy Ghost spoke to brother Hagin.
Speaker 1: He's 15 years old, laying paralyzed on a bed of sickness.
Speaker 1: And the Holy Ghost said if her faith made her whole, your faith can make you whole.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So weak he couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: But he tried.
Speaker 1: He started moving and he got on the side of the bed and he got so dizzy he had to get back in bed.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: See, it didn't happen instantly.
Speaker 1: He had to move the goalpost, he had to move, he had to move, but he had to do something.
Speaker 1: Have you ever met Tinker Bell?
Speaker 1: You know, back when I was a kid, tinker Bell was on television.
Speaker 1: Tinker Bell was a little fairy that was associated with Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney and she would fly around and go ding.
Speaker 1: And I think people think that Tinker Bell is gonna come and go ding and suddenly we're gonna feel great.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, we're gonna be strong.
Speaker 1: Suddenly it's just everything's gonna be.
Speaker 1: But that's not how it is.
Speaker 1: Ain't no Tinker Bell?
Speaker 1: There is the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: See, that's what doctors.
Speaker 1: Doctors never say you're healed.
Speaker 1: Never, you'll never hear a doctor say well, you're healed.
Speaker 1: They never say that.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because if they say that and you're not, they're opening themselves to a lawsuit.
Speaker 1: So they just say, well, you're just in remission.
Speaker 1: That happens a lot of times.
Speaker 1: You're not, you're not over this, it'll come back.
Speaker 1: They're cursing you.
Speaker 1: They're always telling you get ready, you're going to die.
Speaker 1: Good news Well, you know, god's worth it.
Speaker 1: Word is life.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So the word is life.
Speaker 1: All healing is spiritual.
Speaker 1: All financial breakthroughs begin in the spirit.
Speaker 1: It's not about getting the right loan, it's not about getting the raise, it's not about getting the promotion.
Speaker 1: Everything that you get from God belongs and begins, rather, in the spirit realm or in the causal realm.
Speaker 1: It's in that spirit realm where you're supposed to take the word as medicine and put it on the inside of you.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I talked about this a few weeks ago on the power of imagination and how we have to meditate on the word of God.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And when it gets down on the inside it begins.
Speaker 1: See, faith is a seed.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, seed faith.
Speaker 1: I mean brother, brother or Roberts.
Speaker 1: He had the greatest message on seed faith.
Speaker 1: He preached seed faith because Jesus said faith if you had faith as a seed, faith as a mustard seed.
Speaker 1: So people get all tangled up about how small or big their faith is.
Speaker 1: It's really not about how big or small it is, because all faith is small to begin with.
Speaker 1: How small is a seed compared to the finished product?
Speaker 1: I mean the seed, an apple seed.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: So all faith is tiny compared to the thing you're wanting to change.
Speaker 1: It seems insignificant.
Speaker 1: But no, if you plant it, if you get it down in your spirit and you water it.
Speaker 1: See, the seed of God's word is both seed and water.
Speaker 1: The more you speak it, you're planting and you're watering, it's growing and someday it's gonna mature.
Speaker 1: And when it matures in the area of healing it will drive out all infirmity.
Speaker 1: It will drive out every symptom.
Speaker 1: It will drive out all sickness and disease.
Speaker 1: It will drive out death itself.
Speaker 1: Glory to God, come on, praise God.
Speaker 1: We're always looking for spectacular.
Speaker 1: We want a healing meeting.
Speaker 1: We want to get something right now.
Speaker 1: We want to have something.
Speaker 1: Listen, I thank God for all of those things, but really the key for the believer is what I'm preaching right now.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely the key.
Speaker 1: All healing is spiritual.
Speaker 1: It comes through the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: It's not all the outward stuff, it's not all the the doctors.
Speaker 1: Thank God for doctors.
Speaker 1: Thank God we live in Houston.
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest medical centers on earth.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Look for doctors to do is if I need intervention.
Speaker 1: See, about three years ago I needed intervention.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I just hadn't gotten the, the seed in me and the greater enough to overcome it.
Speaker 1: So thank God for medical intervention and in that God has given.
Speaker 1: He's reset my clock.
Speaker 1: I feel better now than I did ten years ago.
Speaker 1: He just reset my clock, but it's the word that did it.
Speaker 1: Thank God for the doctors.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: The word is life to those who find them and Medicine to their flesh.
Speaker 1: Get the Word of God in you.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It, the Word, will drive it out of you.
Speaker 1: I had just been saved.
Speaker 1: Glad to see if you got a something to cover your head, where she always.
Speaker 1: When I give this testimony, she always covers her head because it's embarrassing, but it's my testimony.
Speaker 1: But I had just been saved a few months.
Speaker 1: We're going to Lakewood, we're sitting and I always like to get there early so we could sit close to the front.
Speaker 1: You know, this place was huge at seat 5000 people, and this is before.
Speaker 1: They had two services on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So so Sunday morning 10 o'clock service, man, it's jammed and there's no place to sit in there.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just jammed, the back row, and I didn't prefer sitting on the back row.
Speaker 1: I like to sit close up way.
Speaker 1: Forget it.
Speaker 1: You know you got to get there early, so we'd get there early.
Speaker 1: We were about 20, maybe 20 rows from the front, sitting on the aisle.
Speaker 1: That's another thing.
Speaker 1: I like sitting on the aisle and and so the service started.
Speaker 1: We were just well, man, we just love going to church.
Speaker 1: Just every, every service was an adventure.
Speaker 1: I was hearing things I'd never heard and I'm just so excited.
Speaker 1: You know how it is when you first get saved.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You know where I had or not a hat, but she had a hat on.
Speaker 1: These all dressed of the nines Dressed up.
Speaker 1: Not everybody who goes get dressed up.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: There it's dressed in their their clothes.
Speaker 1: I mean it looked like the united nations.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, all those flags out front.
Speaker 1: Even in the old building had all those flags out front.
Speaker 1: Had it reminded you it was a world, a worldwide anyway.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to move out now.
Speaker 1: Start laying hands on the sick.
Speaker 1: God wants to use you.
Speaker 1: Dotted out of dawn I thought, wow, how neat is that?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool man, that's cool.
Speaker 1: Look at, listen to this.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, and and and.
Speaker 1: So he finished up in the Holy Ghost spoke to my heart.
Speaker 1: He says, as soon as the service over asked her to lay hands on you for healing, I said what Me Healing?
Speaker 1: I don't need healing.
Speaker 1: He said, well, what about that allergy to elastic?
Speaker 1: I said, well, that's not giving me any trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you avoid it.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I mean he's, he's disturbing, disturbing my business, and I said, well, I don't understand.
Speaker 1: He said, well, you're not healed.
Speaker 1: You need healing of that allergy to elastic.
Speaker 1: And so I knew what he was talking about.
Speaker 1: Because, about this, see, what age am I there, I'm at 33, so about 25, 25 years old.
Speaker 1: I started breaking her out around my waist.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Who cares?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just underwear, it's under garment, how, but is that a nicer way?
Speaker 1: Short says even a nicer way.
Speaker 1: So that's as far as I'm going to go, tmi.
Speaker 1: So, uh, I went to the dermatologist.
Speaker 1: Oh, you got an allergy to elastic.
Speaker 1: You just need to get rid of the elastic.
Speaker 1: We could run tests, find out what part of the compound is, but that's not.
Speaker 1: You know, that's not any useful.
Speaker 1: No, you just needed a void of life.
Speaker 1: Void it.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Afford it by the kind of underwear it doesn't have that I said what?
Speaker 1: Where is that I've never heard of anything like oh yeah, it's just the old timey.
Speaker 1: You know, they got the draw strings on there.
Speaker 1: You tie a little knot on there.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the doctor, he's a dermatologist.
Speaker 1: I said, well, where in the world am I gonna buy something like that?
Speaker 1: Oh, you know some of these old timey dry good stores and all that Old timey.
Speaker 1: I live in the suburbs.
Speaker 1: There's nothing old timey out here.
Speaker 1: It's all brand new.
Speaker 1: And I was irritated, you know, but I was itching like a fool.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was and I wasn't saved, I didn't know God, just itching started with my ankles, my boots.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna like it.
Speaker 1: So I wore these big heavy boots and of course in the summertime I just thought it was heat or something.
Speaker 1: But it didn't spread up around my waist and man, I was itching and scratching and interrupting my rest.
Speaker 1: So I did what the doctor said and I.
Speaker 1: I went to this place on South shepherd and kind of close to the between heights and river oaks.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Just wave it, they'd see it, they'd see it all the way.
Speaker 1: If I'm in spring, people in greens point ellie gave up, he's, he's given up.
Speaker 1: It took a while just to stuff those into my pants every day, I mean.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just, you know, have you ever had the Holy Ghost ask you to do so or tell you to do something?
Speaker 1: And just, ah, then I didn't want to do that, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: That's a look that she had perfected over our previous years of marriage.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: I have an allergy.
Speaker 1: And so she kind of was embarrassed to her husband, kind of embarrassed to a little bit.
Speaker 1: They were nice, they got.
Speaker 1: In fact they've visited us in this church a couple of times.
Speaker 1: He was a singer, he sang at Lakewood, she was a hairdresser and humble.
Speaker 1: We've got to know him later, but this was the first time I didn't know him from anybody.
Speaker 1: And just tap on her.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And so she did.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, praise God, all right, thank God, I'm healed.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, the next Sunday, one week later, I'm sitting in almost the same place.
Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 1: And the Holy Ghost said well, when are you going to act like you're healed?
Speaker 1: I said what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Well, you, uh, you need to buy some more underwear.
Speaker 1: You haven't.
Speaker 1: You haven't acted like you're healed, you're still avoiding elastic.
Speaker 1: And, uh, you need to act like you're healed Now.
Speaker 1: See, I'm a baby Christian.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear all these war.
Speaker 1: I mean, we, we've heard these messages for years and all that.
Speaker 1: I hadn't had time to hear everything.
Speaker 1: Yet I'm just starting out and, and I'm just going, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You're messing with me, messing.
Speaker 1: Why are you messing with me?
Speaker 1: Other things, just fine, right now there's no problem.
Speaker 1: But I had sense enough to obey the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, monday, tomorrow morning, I'm going to go searching.
Speaker 1: I won't have to.
Speaker 1: That kind of underwear is easy to find.
Speaker 1: I mean, they fell out of everywhere.
Speaker 1: And I did.
Speaker 1: I bought it.
Speaker 1: Within about four hours I was itching like a fool.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just scratching.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like I was healed at all.
Speaker 1: In fact it looked opposite.
Speaker 1: It looked like I had the same allergy that I always had.
Speaker 1: And I'm scratching and scratching.
Speaker 1: So then you know, you go to church and you're trying to not scratch.
Speaker 1: You know you're trying to be.
Speaker 1: You know you're sitting there.
Speaker 1: You got a jacket on.
Speaker 1: I always wore a jacket.
Speaker 1: I would just the brother was always dressed up.
Speaker 1: So I didn't like to just go.
Speaker 1: Some people didn't care.
Speaker 1: They just dry it where they're.
Speaker 1: You know regular clothes.
Speaker 1: I just think we're.
Speaker 1: You know, if you had an appointment with a king, you wouldn't just dress in flip flops and Bermuda shorts and a dirty, ripped up t-shirt.
Speaker 1: Let's, let's look the part.
Speaker 1: Just always.
Speaker 1: That's just always been my belief.
Speaker 1: So it's not any condemnation on any.
Speaker 1: You can come.
Speaker 1: There's no dress code, but I do believe there's a reverence for God that we can.
Speaker 1: You know we don't.
Speaker 1: There's Sunday best.
Speaker 1: It's gotten out of favor of Sunday best, but it shouldn't.
Speaker 1: We ought to, we ought to anyway.
Speaker 1: So I, I'm dressed and so you know I'm trying to be discreet and yet I'm itching.
Speaker 1: I'm just itching, it's just tormenting and I'm, you know, trying to be, you know, like this.
Speaker 1: And then I get my bell point pen and run it down and reach a spot where I couldn't reach it, and it's miserable, couldn't sleep at night and I it finally just started and I won't go into all the gory details but it, you know, it was bleeding, it was swollen, it was nasty, it was yucky.
Speaker 1: One month, about a month into it, I came across Proverbs, chapter four, and I said the Bible says the word is medicine.
Speaker 1: I got ahold of it and then I read a little booklet Wasn't even brother Osteen's booklet, and it talked about the word as medicine.
Speaker 1: So, man, I got my Bible out.
Speaker 1: I went through my Bible.
Speaker 1: We didn't have those healing cards.
Speaker 1: Doty had not been diagnosed with cancer.
Speaker 1: You know, when she got healed of cancer she developed a healing card with all her healing scriptures on.
Speaker 1: We didn't have that, we didn't have anything.
Speaker 1: So I made my own, I sat down and I transcribed on a notebook All my healing scripture, wrote them out in longhand, and at first, you know, I had to read them and I would take my medicine.
Speaker 1: I'd get up in the morning first thing in the morning I'd take all my healing scriptures, about 15 of them himself bear our sicknesses and took our infirmities.
Speaker 1: With his stripes, I'm healed.
Speaker 1: He sent his word and healed me, delivered me from destruction by stripes.
Speaker 1: I was healed, praise God.
Speaker 1: I, just, I, just I got to where I didn't even need to read them For a couple of months.
Speaker 1: They come rolling out of me, not because I memorized them, but because they were starting to go down into me.
Speaker 1: They were coming down into my spirit.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's, I didn't know it, but that's meditation.
Speaker 1: I was meditating on the healing word of God.
Speaker 1: I had attended to his word and I didn't let it depart from my eyes, but I kept it in the midst of my heart and it became medicine.
Speaker 1: Three months, four months, five months Hate to say it, six months.
Speaker 1: At about the six month mark, I was in my bathroom in front of the sink brushing my teeth early one morning and it suddenly occurred to me that I had slept good and I wasn't itching, no, itching.
Speaker 1: My eyes got big and I, I rolled down my waist and rolled the elastic and it still looked nasty, it was still bleeding, it was still yucky, it was.
Speaker 1: No, it was a mess, but there was no sensation of torment, there was no itching, and I just began to praise God.
Speaker 1: You know, looking back on it, I didn't praise God near enough during that previous six months.
Speaker 1: I didn't spend much time praising him.
Speaker 1: I quoted the word, but I didn't spend much time praising him for my healing.
Speaker 1: See, I'm still.
Speaker 1: I'm a rookie.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 1: That's why it took six months.
Speaker 1: And by the next day I looked at my waist and it looked like baby skin.
Speaker 1: There was not one sweat, there was no blood, there was no rash.
Speaker 1: There was no evidence that I had ever had any difficulty with a last.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hand.
Speaker 1: Thank God for God's healing medicine.
Speaker 1: God's word is the best medicine.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: And I found out that the word is the key to walking in health.
Speaker 1: Haven't always perfected it.
Speaker 1: I've had to go to the doctor, I've had to have therapy, I've had to do this, that and the other, but you know what he always guides me.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So let's keep reading here.
Speaker 1: In Proverbs, chapter four, there are some requirements that it talks about that you have to do, along with meditating on the word of God.
Speaker 1: Is this helping anybody today?
Speaker 1: I know God wants to heal you.
Speaker 1: He wants you in perfect health, whatever you're facing.
Speaker 1: He wants every symptom to go.
Speaker 1: He wants every thing that you're fighting.
Speaker 1: He wants you to be able to just get rid of all this.
Speaker 1: A lot of these natural medications have got side effects and some of them are very problematic, and the best thing is take the best medicine.
Speaker 1: Don't throw the other medicine out yet, but take the best medicine.
Speaker 1: You're not healed by throwing medicine out.
Speaker 1: You're healed by faith.
Speaker 1: And let the doctor tell you when you don't need it.
Speaker 1: If you're going to the doctor and under doctor's care, it's really not too wise to quit doing what they're doing because they'll cut you loose.
Speaker 1: Well, sir, I'm sorry you're not following directions and my practice is now closed.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, nowadays, with insurance and everything else, it's just not a good, it's not best practices.
Speaker 1: I know people that do.
Speaker 1: They just throw their medicine away.
Speaker 1: Well, let the doctor tell you when you don't need it.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that you could manifest healing to the degree that the doctor would be satisfied that you no longer needed?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be the best thing?
Speaker 1: Don't quit taking this medicine.
Speaker 1: Let this medicine be first.
Speaker 1: Amen, all right, but meet the requirements.
Speaker 1: Let's look at verse 23.
Speaker 1: So it says in verse Proverbs 4, keep your heart.
Speaker 1: See why?
Speaker 1: Because your heart is the center of where this power comes from.
Speaker 1: It comes from your heart.
Speaker 1: Keep your spirit.
Speaker 1: Keep your spirit with all diligence.
Speaker 1: Keep your heart with all diligence.
Speaker 1: It says in my margin keep your heart above all keeping.
Speaker 1: In other words, pay more attention to what's going in your spirit.
Speaker 1: Garbage in, garbage out.
Speaker 1: The more you listen to man, the more you're persuaded by man, the more you're listening to everybody.
Speaker 1: That's got a bad report.
Speaker 1: You know, I had what you had and boy, I think it's a bug or bear.
Speaker 1: And now, don't listen to people like that.
Speaker 1: Keep your heart above all keeping, for out of it are the issues of life.
Speaker 1: Put away from you a forward mouth and perverse lips put far from you.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Forward, perverse Sarcasm is a form of perverseness when you say one thing and mean another.
Speaker 1: Being a smart aleck, I've always been sarcastic in my life.
Speaker 1: I've really had struggle to get rid of sarcasm, because sarcasm is perverse speech.
Speaker 1: What's your angel supposed to do with your perversity?
Speaker 1: What is he supposed to do with sarcasm?
Speaker 1: Is he supposed to pick up what you really mean when you say what you say.
Speaker 1: Let's say exactly what we mean to say and let's be careful.
Speaker 1: What we are saying, that's all that means.
Speaker 1: Let the words you're speaking target correctly and let it be the medicine.
Speaker 1: Don't let it be something that's gonna create trouble.
Speaker 1: Oh, I hurt so bad.
Speaker 1: I'm just so sick of this.
Speaker 1: I'm just sick of this.
Speaker 1: No, say you're saying the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: You're going against the medicine, amen.
Speaker 1: And so verse 25, let your eyes look right on and let your eyelids look straight before they.
Speaker 1: And what is that talking about?
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about check your life.
Speaker 1: It's talking about pondering what you're doing in life.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 1: What are you paying attention to?
Speaker 1: Ponder the path of your feet.
Speaker 1: It says it a different way.
Speaker 1: All of that's meaning the same thing.
Speaker 1: Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established.
Speaker 1: Turn not to the right hand, nor to the left, nor to the left.
Speaker 1: Remove your foot from evil.
Speaker 1: So, in other words, check your life.
Speaker 1: If there are things in your life I like, what?
Speaker 1: Romans 12, I mean, excuse me, hebrews 12.
Speaker 1: We were just in there when I opened the service.
Speaker 1: Look at Hebrews, chapter 12, verse one, wherefore seeing we also are accomplished about was so great a cloud of witnesses.
Speaker 1: Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Speaker 1: So here Paul is comparing life to a race and he's saying you know, a runner gets rid of weights.
Speaker 1: See they, you know, in the games, in the Grecian games the Greeks are the ones that gave us the Olympics and you know they would often run with little or no clothing.
Speaker 1: They couldn't run with a big, long robe on.
Speaker 1: It would tangle them up.
Speaker 1: They couldn't run with heavy sandals or shoes.
Speaker 1: It would, it would, it would slow them down.
Speaker 1: They often ran barefooted and so they laid aside the weights so they could run the race.
Speaker 1: Not everything that's a weight is a sin.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a weight is just something that God has not authored in your life.
Speaker 1: We decided to get involved with sin.
Speaker 1: We decided to be in the Lions Club, in the Rotary Club and the chairman and the all of these different organizations.
Speaker 1: And and sometimes, you know, I like what brother Osteen, one time he was battling some things with the Indians body, some health issues, and he told this publicly.
Speaker 1: So I'm not talking about him.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons I loved him so much.
Speaker 1: Is he just like brother Hagan?
Speaker 1: They would preach out of their mistakes, they would tell you when they miss God and all the consequences thereof.
Speaker 1: And he said you know, I went away and I fasted and prayed and asked the Lord, show me how I can walk in health better.
Speaker 1: I'm just, you know.
Speaker 1: He was battling fatigue and battling symptoms.
Speaker 1: And here's what he said.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost told him.
Speaker 1: He said the thing that's crushing the life out of you is not my call, but everything you've added to it.
Speaker 1: Right, if you're not careful, you can add a whole lot of good activities, but they're not God activities.
Speaker 1: They're not sinful in and of themselves, they're not shameful, they're not things that are bad, but they're just not God's best and they weigh you down and they keep you from running your race.
Speaker 1: They can affect your health negatively.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, sin.
Speaker 1: We know sin, sin.
Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of sin.
Speaker 1: If you're in sin, well, let's you know, let's grow spiritually and let's lay.
Speaker 1: Bible says lay it aside.
Speaker 1: I like this interpretation.
Speaker 1: Quit giving yourself permission.
Speaker 1: Who's doing that?
Speaker 1: Your brain, your flesh, always wants to.
Speaker 1: It always wants to do wrong.
Speaker 1: Okay, you just might as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is why we should be.
Speaker 1: Jesus said in the last days, when these things begin to come to pass, he said lift up your heads, look up for your redemption draws night.
Speaker 1: What redemption is that?
Speaker 1: I thought Jesus already redeemed us.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 1: He redeemed our spirit, but our bodies have not yet been redeemed.
Speaker 1: That's what we're longing for.
Speaker 1: We're yearning for the day when we get new bodies.
Speaker 1: We won't even know we have a body.
Speaker 1: We're going to have bodies that where we don't even have fatigue, we don't even need rest, we won't have to take a nap, we won't have any pain, there will be no limitation.
Speaker 1: We'll be able to walk through the wall, we'll be able to fly at the speed of light, just like Jesus, we can think and we'd be on the other side of the universe.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what we're longing for.
Speaker 1: We have not yet received that.
Speaker 1: That's the rapture of the church.
Speaker 1: It's coming.
Speaker 1: It's coming, but until then, we've got to get rid of things that hurt our health, and sin will do it definitely.
Speaker 1: Wrong priorities, wrong motives, wrong associations, wrong attitudes.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Unforgiveness, bitterness, strife.
Speaker 1: Get rid of strife.
Speaker 1: Married couples.
Speaker 1: Do everything you can to get rid of strife.
Speaker 1: Strife will kill you.
Speaker 1: Yes, strife means that you're not walking in agreement with each other and the devil is there to hinder you in your walk and you're never gonna get where you need to be going with God.
Speaker 1: God's got something greater for you.
Speaker 1: He's got better health, he's got better finances.
Speaker 1: Now, all of those things strife all by itself.
Speaker 1: That's why the devil fights married couples so hard.
Speaker 1: He'll try to introduce the most ridiculous thing to differ with.
Speaker 1: That's why the Bible says don't go to sleep mad, get it, get it out, lay the skunk on the table and kill the skunk.
Speaker 1: Amen, are you getting anything out of this?
Speaker 1: Pray much in other tongues.
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with it?
Speaker 1: What does everything to do with it?
Speaker 1: Because all healing is spiritual.
Speaker 1: When you pray in other tongues, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians, you edify yourself.
Speaker 1: In other words, your spirit is edified.
Speaker 1: It's like lifting weights you get stronger, you become more spirit dominant.
Speaker 1: The more that you pray in other tongues, your spirit starts to get more control and it exercises more control over your mind and over your body, and that will help you lay aside the weights and identify them when you pray much in other tongues.
Speaker 1: You're praying in other tongues and the Holy Ghost might, as all of a sudden, you start realizing you just have a knowing, oh, I need to resign.
Speaker 1: I remember one time I was praying much in other tongues and the Holy Ghost spoke to me and says I want you to quit being involved with full gospel businessmen.
Speaker 1: Well, that was good that I was involved.
Speaker 1: I had been a chapter president.
Speaker 1: In fact, they were trying to get me to be the president again up in Conroe and they had called, several of them had called me.
Speaker 1: Come on, john, come on, we need you, we need you, and I had God invited.
Speaker 1: I started getting on the circuit again and I was speaking and I had been three or four times where I went and spoke and it seemed like it was a door that was opening.
Speaker 1: But God didn't open the door and God had to speak to me and said no, I want you to back off, I have other things that is for a time and now back off.
Speaker 1: And I obeyed him and God opened the door to basically doing what we're doing now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever would have gotten started this church if I hadn't obeyed the Holy Ghost, are you with me now?
Speaker 1: I mean, pray much in other tongues.
Speaker 1: It edifies you, it builds you up Jude 20, building up yourselves on your most holy faith.
Speaker 1: Pray it.
Speaker 1: In the Holy Ghost, you speak divine mysteries, things that you never knew.
Speaker 1: You're speaking out in the spirit Well, I don't understand it, well, you don't have to understand it, but you are speaking it, you, the spirit of you.
Speaker 1: You are a spirit and you're speaking mysteries out and they're coming to pass.
Speaker 1: What if you're in the tongues or speaking some things out that are gonna release your health into a better place?
Speaker 1: And it already happens before your brain ever even knows it.
Speaker 1: Your brain doesn't have to be involved with everything.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 1: I mean, just like that, healing comes.
Speaker 1: Just like that, the medicine, I mean the ailment has to disappear.
Speaker 1: Just like that day when I looked in the mirror and I realized I wouldn't itch and then the next day all evidence of it had vanished.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 1: The Word drove it out.
Speaker 1: The best medicine drove it out.
Speaker 1: Praise God.
Speaker 1: Health displaces infirmity.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands.
Speaker 1: God's Word, the best medicine.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah, did you get anything out of this this morning?
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You know, years ago we had just moved in this building and God spoke to me.
Speaker 1: He said he said there's a dearth of the Word.
Speaker 1: And I said how?
Speaker 1: So he said your children don't know what you know.
Speaker 1: In other words, the second generation.
Speaker 1: We're seeing that right now play out in our nation.
Speaker 1: There's a generation of people alive that don't know what my generation knows about the history of this country, about its background, about its goodness.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good about America, a lot of things that need to correct, a lot of things that need to be repented of, but there's a lot of good that's being skipped over and lied about and misrepresented.
Speaker 1: And if people had a grounding in the Word of God, they would be more careful about lies and deception.
Speaker 1: The first thing about lies and deception is if you're deceived in one area, you send the signal to the deceiver to keep on deceiving you and he's gonna move into the next area and pretty soon you've got a life full of deception and you don't even know what you're in this up.
Speaker 1: So he told me he said preach the things you take for granted.
Speaker 1: That's what he said.
Speaker 1: He said preach the things you take for granted.
Speaker 1: So I had to take stock of my ministry and I still.
Speaker 1: It kind of pains me a little bit and go back in the year 1999 to about 2003 and look at some of my sermon titles, I thought what in the world?
Speaker 1: Why did I preach that?
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem like it did anybody any good at all.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I wasted my time with that message.
Speaker 1: I can't see how, you know, I'm kind of a little bit.
Speaker 1: I can see where the Holy Ghost had to finally take me and say no, get back here and start preaching the things you take for granted, because they need it, they need to hear what you know and you take for granted, and it changed my ministry, so I don't care at all when people have heard a message three or four times.
Speaker 1: My kids, they take notes at every and they put it in their iPhone and they search it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dad, you preached that on November, the 23rd to 2016, and hear the notes.
Speaker 1: You know, but yet it's not the same, it's 2016.
Speaker 1: I preached this before I don't know what date 2014,.
Speaker 1: I think that's been a long time ago.
Speaker 1: 2014, or seven years ago, but I bet if you listen to the I think it's probably online.
Speaker 1: You can probably find when I preach this, but it won't sound the same, because there's new information, there's updates, there's new revelation, there's fresh.