WEBVTT 00:00:00.059 --> 00:00:03.863 Lift our Bibles up, as is our custom here, and wave them around. 00:00:03.863 --> 00:00:05.610 Make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:05.610 --> 00:00:13.490 Let's say this together say Heavenly Father, I am excited about Wednesday night because I'm excited about the Word. 00:00:13.490 --> 00:00:18.170 More of the Word, more of the Spirit, that's my prayer. 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:21.449 More unveiling and revelation. 00:00:21.449 --> 00:00:32.366 I want to see my faith grow so that my results can improve, and I want maximum victory over the devil and demon powers. 00:00:32.366 --> 00:00:35.594 In Jesus name, amen, Amen. 00:00:35.713 --> 00:00:43.289 All right, let's look at Acts 10, 38, please A very familiar scripture for those of us around Glorious Way. 00:00:43.289 --> 00:00:46.213 And also, while you're looking, find Mark, chapter 6. 00:00:46.213 --> 00:00:50.049 And we'll start with Acts 10.38. 00:00:50.049 --> 00:01:05.665 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. 00:01:05.665 --> 00:01:15.248 And then Mark, chapter six, verse one, and when. 00:01:15.629 --> 00:01:22.447 And he went out, that is, jesus went out from there and came into his own country and his disciples follow him. 00:01:22.447 --> 00:01:33.787 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? 00:01:33.787 --> 00:01:40.352 And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands. 00:01:40.352 --> 00:01:47.087 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph, son of Judas and Simon? 00:01:47.087 --> 00:01:49.673 And are not his sisters here with us? 00:01:49.673 --> 00:01:52.870 And they were offended at him. 00:01:52.870 --> 00:02:05.746 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. 00:02:05.746 --> 00:02:06.769 Didn't say he wouldn't. 00:02:06.769 --> 00:02:07.731 He said he couldn't. 00:02:07.731 --> 00:02:10.085 He could there do no mighty work. 00:02:10.085 --> 00:02:13.032 Say that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk. 00:02:13.032 --> 00:02:19.853 One Bible translation says and heal them of minor ailments. 00:02:19.853 --> 00:02:24.104 So here we see. 00:02:24.104 --> 00:02:27.009 And then he marveled because of their unbelief. 00:02:27.009 --> 00:02:29.961 It's only the second time that jesus marveled. 00:02:29.961 --> 00:02:35.532 He marveled there and he marveled at the, at the centurions faith. 00:02:36.413 --> 00:02:39.224 So we want to talk about faith and power tonight. 00:02:39.224 --> 00:02:42.652 Faith and power, and we've been studying recently. 00:02:42.652 --> 00:02:48.930 We talked about the three realms of the supernatural, which are faith, anointing and glory. 00:02:48.930 --> 00:02:54.844 Those are the three doorways or portals into the supernatural, power of god, and. 00:02:54.844 --> 00:02:57.590 But faith is the key to the other two. 00:02:57.590 --> 00:03:05.151 The anointing is mentioned here in acts 10, 38 and uh, but faith is the key to the other two operations. 00:03:05.151 --> 00:03:08.145 You've got to have faith for the other two to even work also. 00:03:08.406 --> 00:03:46.663 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. 00:03:46.663 --> 00:03:48.307 But I didn't. 00:03:48.307 --> 00:03:55.031 And just to prove who I was, but I didn't minister that way and I don't expect you to either. 00:03:55.031 --> 00:04:05.474 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. 00:04:05.474 --> 00:04:10.070 But we have imagined and supposed that they did. 00:04:10.070 --> 00:04:20.052 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. 00:04:20.052 --> 00:04:25.146 But that's really not the way it was If faith was involved. 00:04:25.146 --> 00:04:31.567 You know, 12 out of the 19 healing miracles mentioned in the gospel mentioned the faith of someone. 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:38.382 And so here in Nazareth he marveled at their unbelief Few results. 00:04:38.382 --> 00:04:44.048 There, because of a lack of honor, they recognized the miracles. 00:04:44.048 --> 00:04:45.666 They knew he did them. 00:04:45.666 --> 00:04:56.295 It wasn't like they denied that he did great things, but somehow they were offended that he called himself the Messiah. 00:04:56.295 --> 00:04:57.483 They were offended at him. 00:04:57.483 --> 00:04:58.565 Who does he think he is? 00:04:58.565 --> 00:05:03.305 We grew up with him, we know him, we knew him from a child and we just don't agree. 00:05:03.305 --> 00:05:04.225 We're offended. 00:05:04.646 --> 00:05:09.954 It really kind of the same thing happened in the crowded house in Luke 5. 00:05:09.954 --> 00:05:20.432 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. 00:05:20.432 --> 00:05:25.535 But the Bible does not record that any of them were healed. 00:05:25.535 --> 00:05:35.423 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. 00:05:35.423 --> 00:05:36.725 It was so crowded in there. 00:05:36.725 --> 00:05:39.581 Remember, the power of God is in that house. 00:05:39.581 --> 00:05:40.822 Nobody's gotten healed. 00:05:40.822 --> 00:05:47.615 And so they said okay, we're determined, we will take him up on the roof. 00:05:47.615 --> 00:06:01.891 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. 00:06:01.891 --> 00:06:10.088 And so, but none of them, none of the Pharisees, sadducees, the Woodensees and the Cudensees, none of them got healed. 00:06:10.088 --> 00:06:10.408 Why? 00:06:10.408 --> 00:06:12.129 Well, because they had this attitude. 00:06:12.129 --> 00:06:14.012 They had this attitude of unbelief. 00:06:14.012 --> 00:06:17.355 So faith, you know faith. 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:26.507 And I just think about what must have those four friends and the man that with the palsy. 00:06:26.507 --> 00:06:31.502 What must they have heard to impel them to come to the house to begin with? 00:06:31.502 --> 00:06:33.851 I mean they must have heard something about Jesus. 00:06:33.851 --> 00:06:40.067 They must have heard something powerful, you know, like the woman with the issue of blood there in Mark, chapter 5. 00:06:41.201 --> 00:06:48.987 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. 00:06:48.987 --> 00:06:51.233 And she did that. 00:06:51.233 --> 00:06:52.605 She crawled on her hands and knees. 00:06:52.605 --> 00:06:54.264 She took that long journey here. 00:06:54.264 --> 00:07:00.165 She was weak, she'd been hemorrhaging, she had no money left, she'd spent it all on doctors. 00:07:00.165 --> 00:07:02.928 Nothing better, but rather grew worse. 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:13.646 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. 00:07:13.646 --> 00:07:24.786 And so, and the same thing that these family members and friends of Jesus that grew up with him, they heard the same thing. 00:07:24.786 --> 00:07:33.324 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. 00:07:33.324 --> 00:07:39.704 And so when this woman got down and he was thronged with a crowd she couldn't reach him. 00:07:39.704 --> 00:07:54.980 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. 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:56.125 And he said who touched me? 00:07:56.125 --> 00:07:58.629 Jesus, there's people, there's a throng here. 00:07:58.629 --> 00:08:00.185 I mean, everybody's touching you. 00:08:00.185 --> 00:08:00.848 What do you mean? 00:08:00.848 --> 00:08:09.550 He said no, someone has touched me, someone has made a demand on my anointing, someone has used their faith to make a demand. 00:08:09.550 --> 00:08:14.088 I mean, he didn't say it that way, but that's what he's talking about because he felt it go out. 00:08:14.088 --> 00:08:21.333 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. 00:08:21.819 --> 00:08:26.843 And then, when she said it was me, lord, it was me, and told him the whole story, he said go your way. 00:08:26.843 --> 00:08:30.168 Your faith has made you whole. 00:08:30.168 --> 00:08:33.094 Your faith has made you whole. 00:08:33.094 --> 00:08:35.864 So you know faith, as I like to say. 00:08:35.864 --> 00:08:39.921 You know, god told me a number of years ago teach what you take for granted. 00:08:39.921 --> 00:08:42.283 I've taught this many times, but we all need to hear it. 00:08:42.283 --> 00:08:44.605 I need to hear it, you know, I need to hear it myself, I need to hear it. 00:08:44.605 --> 00:08:49.051 You know, I need to hear it myself, I need to hear it continually that our God is a healing God. 00:08:49.051 --> 00:08:53.696 But it's faith that turns on the switch of the power of God. 00:08:53.696 --> 00:08:57.740 I mean, we are involved. 00:08:57.740 --> 00:09:00.601 I said we're involved. 00:09:00.802 --> 00:09:05.426 So 12 out of the 19 healing miracles listed in the Gospels mention faith. 00:09:05.426 --> 00:09:07.847 So it must be important. 00:09:07.847 --> 00:09:10.049 Yes, we can get healed by the anointing. 00:09:10.049 --> 00:09:19.726 Yes, we can get healed in the glory, but the surest way, the fail-safe way, is to have faith for your own healing. 00:09:19.726 --> 00:09:24.586 I mean faith will work because the power of God is everywhere present. 00:09:24.586 --> 00:09:30.104 In the days of Jesus, the power of God was not everywhere present, because the Holy Ghost wasn't everywhere present. 00:09:30.104 --> 00:09:32.163 It was only present where Jesus was. 00:09:32.163 --> 00:09:41.524 But today, after Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has been poured out and God is everywhere present. 00:09:41.604 --> 00:10:02.542 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. 00:10:02.542 --> 00:10:07.703 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. 00:10:07.703 --> 00:10:10.299 All of those are valid ways to get healed. 00:10:10.299 --> 00:10:18.788 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. 00:10:18.788 --> 00:10:27.822 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. 00:10:27.822 --> 00:10:34.365 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. 00:10:34.365 --> 00:10:35.519 I got my healing that way. 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:37.225 Well, that's good, I'm so glad. 00:10:37.225 --> 00:10:39.056 That's the main thing is get your healing. 00:10:39.956 --> 00:10:43.258 But let's strive to graduate. 00:10:43.258 --> 00:10:46.620 Let's, let's let our faith increase and get to the next level. 00:10:46.620 --> 00:10:49.581 You know, you didn't start off as a senior in high school. 00:10:49.581 --> 00:10:58.466 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. 00:10:58.466 --> 00:11:01.388 You don't start off, you know, way up here. 00:11:01.388 --> 00:11:03.929 You start off where you are and you gradually. 00:11:03.929 --> 00:11:09.633 But you should grow, you should improve, you should develop your faith, praise God. 00:11:09.633 --> 00:11:15.294 And so faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 00:11:15.294 --> 00:11:18.143 Faith gives action to the power that's been ministered. 00:11:18.143 --> 00:11:20.611 It gives action to the power that's been ministered. 00:11:20.611 --> 00:11:24.304 It gives action to the power that's ministered. 00:11:24.304 --> 00:11:34.048 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. 00:11:34.048 --> 00:11:41.909 We can access God's mighty healing power or any other kind of power to change any kind of circumstance. 00:11:41.909 --> 00:11:43.783 We can access it by our faith. 00:11:45.654 --> 00:11:51.418 You know, when Brother Hagin was 16 years old, he was on the bed of sickness. 00:11:51.418 --> 00:12:00.780 He was paralyzed and, you know, couldn't get out of bed teenager, and the doctors had given up on him. 00:12:00.780 --> 00:12:07.884 He had blood diseases, he had a malformed heart, he was paralyzed. 00:12:07.884 --> 00:12:09.730 And so the preacher came by. 00:12:09.730 --> 00:12:12.476 They didn't know, they thought miracles had passed away. 00:12:12.476 --> 00:12:14.400 Religion said miracles passed away. 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:21.024 And so, you know, he would read his Bible, he'd get encouraged, you know. 00:12:21.024 --> 00:12:23.375 And then he found out that Jesus still healed. 00:12:23.375 --> 00:12:30.302 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. 00:12:30.302 --> 00:12:30.817 He only. 00:12:30.817 --> 00:12:34.142 He doesn't heal everyone, he only heals the ones that his will. 00:12:34.715 --> 00:12:38.686 And the devil immediately came to Brother Hagen said well, you're one of the ones he's not going to heal. 00:12:38.686 --> 00:12:46.836 It's not his will to heal you. 00:12:46.836 --> 00:12:55.299 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. 00:12:55.299 --> 00:12:57.905 But he kept reading his Bible. 00:12:57.905 --> 00:12:59.777 His spirit he's born again. 00:12:59.777 --> 00:13:03.346 His spirit told him somehow in there that that wasn't right. 00:13:04.654 --> 00:13:13.423 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? 00:13:13.423 --> 00:13:14.446 Did faith pass? 00:13:14.446 --> 00:13:16.822 Maybe miracles, did faith pass away? 00:13:16.822 --> 00:13:19.434 And he said well, no, lord, faith no. 00:13:19.434 --> 00:13:20.243 I've never heard that faith passed away. 00:13:20.243 --> 00:13:21.735 He said, well, no, lord faith, no, no, I've never heard that faith passed away. 00:13:21.735 --> 00:13:29.181 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. 00:13:29.181 --> 00:13:32.155 If faith passed away, you might as well throw the Bible away. 00:13:32.155 --> 00:13:36.121 And so you know. 00:13:36.121 --> 00:13:40.067 And he talked to him about the woman with the issue of blood. 00:13:40.067 --> 00:13:40.427 It says. 00:13:40.427 --> 00:13:47.508 It says this woman with issue, jesus told that woman with the issue of blood go your way, daughter, go your way. 00:13:47.508 --> 00:13:48.821 You've been healed of that plague. 00:13:48.821 --> 00:13:50.903 Your faith hath made thee whole. 00:13:50.903 --> 00:13:53.341 Her faith made her whole. 00:13:53.341 --> 00:13:54.860 Your faith can make you whole. 00:13:54.860 --> 00:13:57.340 And I mean the light bulb illuminated. 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.085 Brother Hagen, 16 years old. 00:14:00.085 --> 00:14:07.284 All this unbelief, all this error, all this religion, told him by people that should know better but didn't. 00:14:07.284 --> 00:14:12.985 And he just began to speak and he said you know, I believe I received my healing from blood disease. 00:14:12.985 --> 00:14:16.580 I believe I received my healing from the malformed heart. 00:14:16.580 --> 00:14:19.847 I believe I received my healing from this paralysis. 00:14:19.847 --> 00:14:21.268 And I believe I received my healing from this paralysis. 00:14:21.268 --> 00:14:24.760 And I believe I received my healing from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. 00:14:26.124 --> 00:14:30.599 And 15 minutes later he was standing by his bed, healed. 00:14:30.599 --> 00:14:32.543 He was standing under his own steam. 00:14:32.543 --> 00:14:34.827 I mean, the miracle began. 00:14:34.827 --> 00:14:42.917 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. 00:14:42.917 --> 00:14:47.304 I mean it's just amazing, just amazing, praise god. 00:14:47.304 --> 00:14:51.019 So thank god for the anointing and thank god for the glory. 00:14:51.219 --> 00:14:56.149 But we can receive whatever we need by faith. 00:14:56.149 --> 00:14:59.136 Power is everywhere present. 00:14:59.136 --> 00:14:59.859 I want you to get. 00:14:59.859 --> 00:15:02.125 Does that mean we shouldn't go to church? 00:15:02.125 --> 00:15:05.101 No, I mean I believe in going to church. 00:15:05.101 --> 00:15:06.865 I believe in being under the anointing. 00:15:06.865 --> 00:15:08.375 I believe you know. 00:15:08.375 --> 00:15:13.837 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. 00:15:13.837 --> 00:15:17.285 I wouldn't, I wouldn't argue against it. 00:15:17.285 --> 00:15:19.831 But I'm saying you're not limited by that. 00:15:19.831 --> 00:15:23.940 Let's grow into a place where we can claim God's blessings by faith. 00:15:23.940 --> 00:15:29.578 So power is everywhere present and your faith will give action to that power. 00:15:29.578 --> 00:15:33.248 Your faith is the switch that turns on the power of God. 00:15:35.095 --> 00:15:38.942 You know, brother Hagin tells this story about a young man. 00:15:38.942 --> 00:15:41.668 It was in the 1950s Reader's Digest. 00:15:41.668 --> 00:15:43.903 Does anybody still remember Reader's Digest? 00:15:43.903 --> 00:15:48.664 I grew up reading Reader's Digest. 00:15:48.664 --> 00:15:53.364 You used to have Reader's Digest in all the lobbies or waiting rooms of places that you would wait. 00:15:53.364 --> 00:15:56.123 It's not that popular anymore, I guess. 00:15:56.254 --> 00:16:08.440 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. 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:25.823 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. 00:16:25.823 --> 00:16:35.880 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. 00:16:35.880 --> 00:16:48.736 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. 00:16:48.736 --> 00:16:52.150 And so he's laying there in the nighttime. 00:16:52.150 --> 00:16:55.057 They're giving him no chance to really live. 00:16:55.057 --> 00:16:58.102 He's just got days to live, possibly. 00:16:58.504 --> 00:17:00.192 And so he began to talk to the Lord. 00:17:00.192 --> 00:17:04.663 He said Lord, you know, I used to know you when I was a child. 00:17:04.663 --> 00:17:07.440 I served you, little Lutheran boy. 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.170 I went to Lutheran church and they taught me about Jesus. 00:17:10.170 --> 00:17:14.278 But I got away from you and I want to make my peace with you. 00:17:14.278 --> 00:17:16.584 I ask you to forgive me my sin. 00:17:16.584 --> 00:17:27.778 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. 00:17:27.778 --> 00:17:35.078 And and then tears of joy began to run down his face because he received his forgiveness. 00:17:35.078 --> 00:17:42.477 He said you know, now I'm ready to die, I can die without fear, I can go, I'm right with God now. 00:17:43.609 --> 00:17:51.231 And then, a few moments after that, you know his own spirit, see, just like Brother Hagen's own spirit. 00:17:51.231 --> 00:17:53.078 See, his spirit is alive to God. 00:17:53.078 --> 00:17:57.452 His spirit is telling him oh, there's something more about God. 00:17:57.452 --> 00:18:13.018 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. 00:18:13.018 --> 00:18:15.699 You can heal this liver cancer. 00:18:15.699 --> 00:18:19.922 It's not any worse to heal liver cancer than it is a headache, I know. 00:18:20.590 --> 00:18:28.105 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. 00:18:28.105 --> 00:18:34.750 I can't believe that that is your will and I'm asking you tonight, I'm asking you to heal me Now. 00:18:34.750 --> 00:18:36.016 See, where did he get that. 00:18:36.016 --> 00:18:39.596 See, he didn't have Bible knowledge, nobody taught him that. 00:18:39.596 --> 00:18:42.578 But his spirit is alive to God. 00:18:42.578 --> 00:18:44.182 You know, your spirit is alive to God. 00:18:44.182 --> 00:18:50.462 Your spirit will sometimes will show you and illuminate you and change your thinking about things. 00:18:51.630 --> 00:18:58.824 And that's exactly what happened to this, the youngest admiral in the history of the US Navy. 00:18:58.824 --> 00:19:00.215 I mean, he's a young man. 00:19:00.215 --> 00:19:02.979 You know, most admirals are white-headed. 00:19:02.979 --> 00:19:10.171 You think of an admiral, you think of a white-headed guy that's been in the service 40 years, 30 years, anyway. 00:19:10.171 --> 00:19:14.602 So he's laying there and he received his forgiveness and now he's asking God to heal him. 00:19:14.602 --> 00:19:22.980 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. 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:25.479 I just, I'm asking you to heal me. 00:19:25.750 --> 00:19:33.900 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. 00:19:33.900 --> 00:19:43.961 And he said oh, honey, it's OK, don't, don't cry, I'm not going to die. 00:19:43.961 --> 00:19:44.762 He said I'm not going to die. 00:19:44.762 --> 00:19:48.753 And she said well, the doctor said you've only got 10 percent of your liver. 00:19:48.753 --> 00:19:49.516 The doctor, the doctor. 00:19:49.516 --> 00:19:52.162 The doctor said the doctor said yeah, but honey, I'm not going to die. 00:19:52.162 --> 00:20:00.778 And a few days later, his liver function increased to 50%, and the doctors were amazed. 00:20:00.778 --> 00:20:07.182 And a few days later, his liver function increased to 100%. 00:20:07.182 --> 00:20:17.136 He was completely healed of liver cancer, and they dismissed him from the hospital and discharged him, and he went home. 00:20:17.136 --> 00:20:21.424 Well, and what a miracle. 00:20:22.549 --> 00:20:27.238 Well, the difficulty there, though, is that here he's trained all his life. 00:20:27.238 --> 00:20:29.923 He went to the US Naval Academy. 00:20:29.923 --> 00:20:43.358 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. 00:20:43.358 --> 00:20:55.001 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. 00:20:55.001 --> 00:20:58.079 You'd have to be separated from the Navy, and you wouldn't be able to serve in the Navy. 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:03.457 They were going to discharge you, and they were going to discharge this man here he was an admiral. 00:21:03.457 --> 00:21:06.549 They're going to just discharge him because he had this terminal disease. 00:21:06.549 --> 00:21:08.919 Well, it's not terminal anymore, he's well. 00:21:08.919 --> 00:21:17.314 So he sat down and he wrote this is all the Reader's Digest. 00:21:17.314 --> 00:21:21.906 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. 00:21:21.906 --> 00:21:26.461 Would you please make an exception to this regulation and grant me full privilege? 00:21:26.461 --> 00:21:29.459 Let me get back to what I know to do best. 00:21:29.459 --> 00:21:33.378 This is what I've trained my whole life to do, and you know what they did it. 00:21:33.378 --> 00:21:34.823 They made an exception. 00:21:34.823 --> 00:21:36.815 They brought him back into the US Navy. 00:21:36.815 --> 00:21:45.040 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. 00:21:45.080 --> 00:21:47.606 Come on, lift your hands right now, praise God. 00:21:47.606 --> 00:21:50.054 I'm telling you there's nothing too hard for the Lord. 00:21:50.054 --> 00:21:54.569 And see, here's a person that doesn't really have the kind of Bible knowledge. 00:21:54.569 --> 00:22:02.211 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. 00:22:02.211 --> 00:22:04.075 And aren't we? 00:22:04.075 --> 00:22:05.277 Aren't we in knowledge? 00:22:05.277 --> 00:22:06.097 Don't we know? 00:22:06.097 --> 00:22:08.701 I mean those of you that are under the sound of my voice. 00:22:08.741 --> 00:22:09.903 You hear this kind of teaching. 00:22:09.903 --> 00:22:10.704 You hear it over and over. 00:22:10.704 --> 00:22:23.922 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. 00:22:23.922 --> 00:22:34.801 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. 00:22:34.801 --> 00:22:37.018 Amen, come on, lift your hands and receive tonight. 00:22:37.018 --> 00:22:38.653 Glory to God. 00:22:38.653 --> 00:22:39.538 Thank you, lord. 00:22:39.538 --> 00:22:44.942 I just feel so encouraged by that message, and I know that you're encouraged as well. 00:22:44.942 --> 00:22:49.195 And God is not through doing miracles, he's a miracle-working God. 00:22:49.195 --> 00:22:51.961 We're going to see more and more miracles as time goes on.