Speaker 1: Lift our Bibles up, as is our custom here, and wave them around.
Speaker 1: Make Jesus glad, the devil mad.
Speaker 1: Let's say this together say Heavenly Father, I am excited about Wednesday night because I'm excited about the Word.
Speaker 1: More of the Word, more of the Spirit, that's my prayer.
Speaker 1: More unveiling and revelation.
Speaker 1: I want to see my faith grow so that my results can improve, and I want maximum victory over the devil and demon powers.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, amen, Amen.
Speaker 1: All right, let's look at Acts 10, 38, please A very familiar scripture for those of us around Glorious Way.
Speaker 1: And also, while you're looking, find Mark, chapter 6.
Speaker 1: And we'll start with Acts 10.38.
Speaker 1: It says how Jesus, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with a Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him.
Speaker 1: And then Mark, chapter six, verse one, and when.
Speaker 1: And he went out, that is, jesus went out from there and came into his own country and his disciples follow him.
Speaker 1: And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue and many hearing him were astonished, saying from whence hath this man these things?
Speaker 1: And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands.
Speaker 1: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph, son of Judas and Simon?
Speaker 1: And are not his sisters here with us?
Speaker 1: And they were offended at him.
Speaker 1: But Jesus said unto them a prophet is not without honor, but in his own country and among his own kin and his own house, and he could there do no mighty work.
Speaker 1: Didn't say he wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He said he couldn't.
Speaker 1: He could there do no mighty work.
Speaker 1: Say that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk.
Speaker 1: One Bible translation says and heal them of minor ailments.
Speaker 1: So here we see.
Speaker 1: And then he marveled because of their unbelief.
Speaker 1: It's only the second time that jesus marveled.
Speaker 1: He marveled there and he marveled at the, at the centurions faith.
Speaker 1: So we want to talk about faith and power tonight.
Speaker 1: Faith and power, and we've been studying recently.
Speaker 1: We talked about the three realms of the supernatural, which are faith, anointing and glory.
Speaker 1: Those are the three doorways or portals into the supernatural, power of god, and.
Speaker 1: But faith is the key to the other two.
Speaker 1: The anointing is mentioned here in acts 10, 38 and uh, but faith is the key to the other two operations.
Speaker 1: You've got to have faith for the other two to even work also.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, one time jesus, uh, I think jesus appeared to brother hagan seven times different times and uh, one time he appeared to g, to brother hagan, and he astounded brother hagan and and said you know, if I ministered the way that people thought I did, then when I came to Nazareth referring to this that we read here in Mark, chapter six when I came to Nazareth, instead of just getting run out of town, just getting a few people healed, I would have had the leaders of the city line up, all the blind people, the deaf people and paralyzed people, and I would have healed them right in front of everybody.
Speaker 1: But I didn't.
Speaker 1: And just to prove who I was, but I didn't minister that way and I don't expect you to either.
Speaker 1: You see, and he said, my ministry consisted of teaching, preaching and healing, and those that didn't accept the teaching and the preaching didn't get the healing.
Speaker 1: But we have imagined and supposed that they did.
Speaker 1: See again, if you just read Acts 10.38, without the rest of the Bible, you would just get the impression that Jesus healed everybody regardless.
Speaker 1: But that's really not the way it was If faith was involved.
Speaker 1: You know, 12 out of the 19 healing miracles mentioned in the gospel mentioned the faith of someone.
Speaker 1: And so here in Nazareth he marveled at their unbelief Few results.
Speaker 1: There, because of a lack of honor, they recognized the miracles.
Speaker 1: They knew he did them.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they denied that he did great things, but somehow they were offended that he called himself the Messiah.
Speaker 1: They were offended at him.
Speaker 1: Who does he think he is?
Speaker 1: We grew up with him, we know him, we knew him from a child and we just don't agree.
Speaker 1: We're offended.
Speaker 1: It really kind of the same thing happened in the crowded house in Luke 5.
Speaker 1: The house was crowded with Pharisees and Sadducees and doctors of the law, and the Bible says the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
Speaker 1: But the Bible does not record that any of them were healed.
Speaker 1: The only person that got any results was the paralyzed man who was brought on a stretcher by four crazy friends and they couldn't get into the house.
Speaker 1: It was so crowded in there.
Speaker 1: Remember, the power of God is in that house.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gotten healed.
Speaker 1: And so they said okay, we're determined, we will take him up on the roof.
Speaker 1: And they hauled the man up on the roof on a stretcher and they broke a hole in the roof and lowered the man in the presence of Jesus and he was forgiven of his sin and he was healed of his palsy and he was able to take his bed on his shoulder and walk all the way home.
Speaker 1: And so, but none of them, none of the Pharisees, sadducees, the Woodensees and the Cudensees, none of them got healed.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Well, because they had this attitude.
Speaker 1: They had this attitude of unbelief.
Speaker 1: So faith, you know faith.
Speaker 1: And I just think about what must have those four friends and the man that with the palsy.
Speaker 1: What must they have heard to impel them to come to the house to begin with?
Speaker 1: I mean they must have heard something about Jesus.
Speaker 1: They must have heard something powerful, you know, like the woman with the issue of blood there in Mark, chapter 5.
Speaker 1: When she heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind, for she continually said if I can just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole.
Speaker 1: And she did that.
Speaker 1: She crawled on her hands and knees.
Speaker 1: She took that long journey here.
Speaker 1: She was weak, she'd been hemorrhaging, she had no money left, she'd spent it all on doctors.
Speaker 1: Nothing better, but rather grew worse.
Speaker 1: But when she heard of Jesus, what must she have heard of Jesus to impel her, same as the four crazy friends taking the man on the stretcher.
Speaker 1: And so, and the same thing that these family members and friends of Jesus that grew up with him, they heard the same thing.
Speaker 1: But you see, in one they had faith, in the other they had unbelief, they had a lack of honor and it stopped the power of God from operating.
Speaker 1: And so when this woman got down and he was thronged with a crowd she couldn't reach him.
Speaker 1: So she got down on her hands and knees and crawled all the way over to where his garments were and she just touched the hem of his garment and immediately he felt power go out of him and she felt power come into her and she was immediately healed of that plague.
Speaker 1: And he said who touched me?
Speaker 1: Jesus, there's people, there's a throng here.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's touching you.
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: He said no, someone has touched me, someone has made a demand on my anointing, someone has used their faith to make a demand.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't say it that way, but that's what he's talking about because he felt it go out.
Speaker 1: He didn't know who it was and he didn't know for what purpose, but that woman had it all determined because her faith.
Speaker 1: And then, when she said it was me, lord, it was me, and told him the whole story, he said go your way.
Speaker 1: Your faith has made you whole.
Speaker 1: So you know faith, as I like to say.
Speaker 1: You know, god told me a number of years ago teach what you take for granted.
Speaker 1: I've taught this many times, but we all need to hear it.
Speaker 1: I need to hear it, you know, I need to hear it myself, I need to hear it.
Speaker 1: You know, I need to hear it myself, I need to hear it continually that our God is a healing God.
Speaker 1: But it's faith that turns on the switch of the power of God.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are involved.
Speaker 1: I said we're involved.
Speaker 1: So 12 out of the 19 healing miracles listed in the Gospels mention faith.
Speaker 1: So it must be important.
Speaker 1: Yes, we can get healed by the anointing.
Speaker 1: Yes, we can get healed in the glory, but the surest way, the fail-safe way, is to have faith for your own healing.
Speaker 1: I mean faith will work because the power of God is everywhere present.
Speaker 1: In the days of Jesus, the power of God was not everywhere present, because the Holy Ghost wasn't everywhere present.
Speaker 1: It was only present where Jesus was.
Speaker 1: But today, after Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has been poured out and God is everywhere present.
Speaker 1: So, when you have faith in God, faith in the indwelling presence of God in your own body, faith in the blood, faith in the name, I'm telling you, it's not about going to a healing meeting, it's not even going about going to church, it's not even about having somebody pray for you, it's not even about calling the prayer line have somebody else pray for you.
Speaker 1: It's not about having hands laid on you, it's not about being anointed with oil, it's not about having a prayer cloth.
Speaker 1: All of those are valid ways to get healed.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, when you finally develop your faith, you can stay in health, you can run the devil of infirmity off of your own life.
Speaker 1: And that's why I keep teaching this, because I want to bring you and move you up to the next stage, because sometimes we get stuck.
Speaker 1: We get stuck in a stage where we just feel like God, well, god, I went down to the altar and they laid hands on me.
Speaker 1: I got my healing that way.
Speaker 1: Well, that's good, I'm so glad.
Speaker 1: That's the main thing is get your healing.
Speaker 1: But let's strive to graduate.
Speaker 1: Let's, let's let our faith increase and get to the next level.
Speaker 1: You know, you didn't start off as a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: We all start off, as you know, in kindergarten and we, we graduate, go up up the line, up the ladder, and that's the way it is with spiritual growth.
Speaker 1: You don't start off, you know, way up here.
Speaker 1: You start off where you are and you gradually.
Speaker 1: But you should grow, you should improve, you should develop your faith, praise God.
Speaker 1: And so faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
Speaker 1: Faith gives action to the power that's been ministered.
Speaker 1: It gives action to the power that's been ministered.
Speaker 1: It gives action to the power that's ministered.
Speaker 1: Come on, just lift your hand right now, thank God, we don't have to have a man or a ministry or a place or a revival building or something like that.
Speaker 1: We can access God's mighty healing power or any other kind of power to change any kind of circumstance.
Speaker 1: We can access it by our faith.
Speaker 1: You know, when Brother Hagin was 16 years old, he was on the bed of sickness.
Speaker 1: He was paralyzed and, you know, couldn't get out of bed teenager, and the doctors had given up on him.
Speaker 1: He had blood diseases, he had a malformed heart, he was paralyzed.
Speaker 1: And so the preacher came by.
Speaker 1: They didn't know, they thought miracles had passed away.
Speaker 1: Religion said miracles passed away.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, he would read his Bible, he'd get encouraged, you know.
Speaker 1: And then he found out that Jesus still healed.
Speaker 1: And and then he heard a guy on the radio saying well, you know, jesus does heal today, but it's only if his, if it's his will.
Speaker 1: He only.
Speaker 1: He doesn't heal everyone, he only heals the ones that his will.
Speaker 1: And the devil immediately came to Brother Hagen said well, you're one of the ones he's not going to heal.
Speaker 1: It's not his will to heal you.
Speaker 1: And so his faith snuffed out, his hope snuffed out, and he went back into that place where the preacher and the doctor were trying to get him to accept his lot in life, which was to die young, die as a teenager.
Speaker 1: But he kept reading his Bible.
Speaker 1: His spirit he's born again.
Speaker 1: His spirit told him somehow in there that that wasn't right.
Speaker 1: And so one day he was reading his Bible and the Holy Ghost said has anyone that you've heard said that faith passed away?
Speaker 1: Did faith pass?
Speaker 1: Maybe miracles, did faith pass away?
Speaker 1: And he said well, no, lord, faith no.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that faith passed away.
Speaker 1: He said, well, no, lord faith, no, no, I've never heard that faith passed away.
Speaker 1: He said no, you never will, because if faith passed away then no one can get saved and then there's no such thing as the church.
Speaker 1: If faith passed away, you might as well throw the Bible away.
Speaker 1: And so you know.
Speaker 1: And he talked to him about the woman with the issue of blood.
Speaker 1: It says.
Speaker 1: It says this woman with issue, jesus told that woman with the issue of blood go your way, daughter, go your way.
Speaker 1: You've been healed of that plague.
Speaker 1: Your faith hath made thee whole.
Speaker 1: Her faith made her whole.
Speaker 1: Your faith can make you whole.
Speaker 1: And I mean the light bulb illuminated.
Speaker 1: Brother Hagen, 16 years old.
Speaker 1: All this unbelief, all this error, all this religion, told him by people that should know better but didn't.
Speaker 1: And he just began to speak and he said you know, I believe I received my healing from blood disease.
Speaker 1: I believe I received my healing from the malformed heart.
Speaker 1: I believe I received my healing from this paralysis.
Speaker 1: And I believe I received my healing from this paralysis.
Speaker 1: And I believe I received my healing from the top of my head to the soles of my feet.
Speaker 1: And 15 minutes later he was standing by his bed, healed.
Speaker 1: He was standing under his own steam.
Speaker 1: I mean, the miracle began.
Speaker 1: He walked across the room and he started getting dressed and he walked down and got and got and ate uh, ate a meal with his family.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just amazing, just amazing, praise god.
Speaker 1: So thank god for the anointing and thank god for the glory.
Speaker 1: But we can receive whatever we need by faith.
Speaker 1: Power is everywhere present.
Speaker 1: I want you to get.
Speaker 1: Does that mean we shouldn't go to church?
Speaker 1: No, I mean I believe in going to church.
Speaker 1: I believe in being under the anointing.
Speaker 1: I believe you know.
Speaker 1: I believe you know, if I, if I needed healing and I hadn't been able to receive my healing, I'd go where healing was.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, I wouldn't argue against it.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying you're not limited by that.
Speaker 1: Let's grow into a place where we can claim God's blessings by faith.
Speaker 1: So power is everywhere present and your faith will give action to that power.
Speaker 1: Your faith is the switch that turns on the power of God.
Speaker 1: You know, brother Hagin tells this story about a young man.
Speaker 1: It was in the 1950s Reader's Digest.
Speaker 1: Does anybody still remember Reader's Digest?
Speaker 1: I grew up reading Reader's Digest.
Speaker 1: You used to have Reader's Digest in all the lobbies or waiting rooms of places that you would wait.
Speaker 1: It's not that popular anymore, I guess.
Speaker 1: But there was a story in there about a young man who was the youngest admiral admiral in the history of the United States Navy Young man.
Speaker 1: He had a wife and two young children and it was authenticated by the Secretary of the Navy that that was the case and he was diagnosed with liver cancer and by the time they discovered it he only had 10% of his liver function.
Speaker 1: He was very ill and of course he went to the naval hospital and was laying there in the ward and unbelief and fear were wall to wall.
Speaker 1: The atmosphere in that ward of sick sailors I mean, here he was, and it's just almost hopeless in there, just the atmosphere of fear and darkness.
Speaker 1: And so he's laying there in the nighttime.
Speaker 1: They're giving him no chance to really live.
Speaker 1: He's just got days to live, possibly.
Speaker 1: And so he began to talk to the Lord.
Speaker 1: He said Lord, you know, I used to know you when I was a child.
Speaker 1: I served you, little Lutheran boy.
Speaker 1: I went to Lutheran church and they taught me about Jesus.
Speaker 1: But I got away from you and I want to make my peace with you.
Speaker 1: I ask you to forgive me my sin.
Speaker 1: You know, he just began to, you know, just began to pray there in the dark of that terrible atmosphere, and uh, and he got right with God.
Speaker 1: And and then tears of joy began to run down his face because he received his forgiveness.
Speaker 1: He said you know, now I'm ready to die, I can die without fear, I can go, I'm right with God now.
Speaker 1: And then, a few moments after that, you know his own spirit, see, just like Brother Hagen's own spirit.
Speaker 1: See, his spirit is alive to God.
Speaker 1: His spirit is telling him oh, there's something more about God.
Speaker 1: And he began to say you know God, though, like you just forgave me and you saved me all those years ago, and you've forgiven me now, you know, I know you're all powerful, I know that you could heal a headache.
Speaker 1: You can heal this liver cancer.
Speaker 1: It's not any worse to heal liver cancer than it is a headache, I know.
Speaker 1: I just can't accept that it's your will for me to die at my young age and leave my young wife and two young children.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that that is your will and I'm asking you tonight, I'm asking you to heal me Now.
Speaker 1: See, where did he get that.
Speaker 1: See, he didn't have Bible knowledge, nobody taught him that.
Speaker 1: But his spirit is alive to God.
Speaker 1: You know, your spirit is alive to God.
Speaker 1: Your spirit will sometimes will show you and illuminate you and change your thinking about things.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what happened to this, the youngest admiral in the history of the US Navy.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a young man.
Speaker 1: You know, most admirals are white-headed.
Speaker 1: You think of an admiral, you think of a white-headed guy that's been in the service 40 years, 30 years, anyway.
Speaker 1: So he's laying there and he received his forgiveness and now he's asking God to heal him.
Speaker 1: He just boldly said look, it's just, I can't accept that it's your will for me to die at this young age and leave my wife and two children behind.
Speaker 1: I just, I'm asking you to heal me.
Speaker 1: And so he fell asleep and the next morning his wife comes in to see him and she's bawling, she's tears in her eyes and can hardly talk.
Speaker 1: And he said oh, honey, it's OK, don't, don't cry, I'm not going to die.
Speaker 1: He said I'm not going to die.
Speaker 1: And she said well, the doctor said you've only got 10 percent of your liver.
Speaker 1: The doctor, the doctor.
Speaker 1: The doctor said the doctor said yeah, but honey, I'm not going to die.
Speaker 1: And a few days later, his liver function increased to 50%, and the doctors were amazed.
Speaker 1: And a few days later, his liver function increased to 100%.
Speaker 1: He was completely healed of liver cancer, and they dismissed him from the hospital and discharged him, and he went home.
Speaker 1: Well, and what a miracle.
Speaker 1: Well, the difficulty there, though, is that here he's trained all his life.
Speaker 1: He went to the US Naval Academy.
Speaker 1: He's trained to be a sailor, he's trained to be the chief operating officer of a large ship, and that's all he's ever wanted to do is serve his country.
Speaker 1: But the US Navy had a regulation that, if you ever were diagnosed with a terminal disease, that you would have to be separated from the service.
Speaker 1: You'd have to be separated from the Navy, and you wouldn't be able to serve in the Navy.
Speaker 1: They were going to discharge you, and they were going to discharge this man here he was an admiral.
Speaker 1: They're going to just discharge him because he had this terminal disease.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not terminal anymore, he's well.
Speaker 1: So he sat down and he wrote this is all the Reader's Digest.
Speaker 1: He sat down and he wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Navy pleading his case and saying look, god, heal me, I'm well.
Speaker 1: Would you please make an exception to this regulation and grant me full privilege?
Speaker 1: Let me get back to what I know to do best.
Speaker 1: This is what I've trained my whole life to do, and you know what they did it.
Speaker 1: They made an exception.
Speaker 1: They brought him back into the US Navy.
Speaker 1: They made him, reinstated him as full admiral, and he was able to serve his country and serve God as an admiral in the US Navy.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hands right now, praise God.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you there's nothing too hard for the Lord.
Speaker 1: And see, here's a person that doesn't really have the kind of Bible knowledge.
Speaker 1: He's probably never heard a message like this, and yet his own spirit knew that there was more to God than what he'd ever known.
Speaker 1: And aren't we?
Speaker 1: Aren't we in knowledge?
Speaker 1: Don't we know?
Speaker 1: I mean those of you that are under the sound of my voice.
Speaker 1: You hear this kind of teaching.
Speaker 1: You hear it over and over.
Speaker 1: Your faith is being built up, and so let's not be intimidated by disease or doctor's reports or the way we feel at any point in time or any kind of symptom.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, our faith is the switch that turns on the power of God, faith and power are linked and we have the faith and God has the power.
Speaker 1: Amen, come on, lift your hands and receive tonight.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Thank you, lord.
Speaker 1: I just feel so encouraged by that message, and I know that you're encouraged as well.
Speaker 1: And God is not through doing miracles, he's a miracle-working God.
Speaker 1: We're going to see more and more miracles as time goes on.