SPEAKER_00: Let's uh reach down and pick up our Bibles and wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad.
SPEAKER_00: It's our custom around here.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Let's say this together.
SPEAKER_00: Say, Heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here today among people of like precious faith.
SPEAKER_00: Love plus unity equals miracles.
SPEAKER_00: It's a miracle atmosphere in this place.
SPEAKER_00: All things are possible to our God, and all things are possible to he who believes.
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm a believer, not a doubter.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can be seated.
SPEAKER_00: Turn in Matthew chapter 14, please.
SPEAKER_00: And we're going to get into the word together.
SPEAKER_00: I want to encourage you today.
SPEAKER_00: Matthew 14.
SPEAKER_00: And we'll start reading with verse 22.
SPEAKER_00: This is right after Jesus had fed the 5,000 with a little boy's lunch.
SPEAKER_00: And he, in verse 22, and straightway right after that, Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and to go before him and to the other side.
SPEAKER_00: One version says, let us pass over to the other side.
SPEAKER_00: While he sent the multitudes away, and when he had sent the multitude away, he, Jesus, went up into a mountain apart to pray.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Jesus had a prayer life.
SPEAKER_00: If Jesus had a prayer life, you're going to have to have a prayer life.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And a word life.
SPEAKER_00: But uh, and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
SPEAKER_00: But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, and the wind was contrary.
SPEAKER_00: And in the fourth watch of the night, that's between 3 and 6 a.m.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't know if you've ever worked a graveyard shift.
SPEAKER_00: I used to work when I was in college, I used to work a rotating shift, and I dreaded the graveyard shift.
SPEAKER_00: That's midnight to eight for those of you that don't know.
SPEAKER_00: Feel like you are headed to a graveyard when you get about from three to six, you know, right in there.
SPEAKER_00: Do all right until about three, and you start going, oh.
SPEAKER_00: I wish I was somewhere else, like in bed.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, he comes, you know, at the end of your strength.
SPEAKER_00: He comes at the darkest time.
SPEAKER_00: He comes when it looks so bleak.
SPEAKER_00: He's walking on the water.
SPEAKER_00: And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It's a spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And they cried out for fear.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry to laugh.
SPEAKER_00: But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer.
SPEAKER_00: It is I, be not afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter, answering him, said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, Come.
SPEAKER_00: And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say Peter walked on the water.
SPEAKER_00: See, we forget that he walked on the water.
SPEAKER_00: He did walk on the water.
SPEAKER_00: But when he saw the wind boisterous, now you know you can't see wind, so what did he see?
SPEAKER_00: Well, he saw the waves.
SPEAKER_00: And he felt the wind and the spray out there.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's rough.
SPEAKER_00: Have you ever been out to Galveston and it's, you know, wind is really whipping up and the waves and starts taking the tops of the waves off, and it's a spray.
SPEAKER_00: And it just really, I mean, if you're out there, if you were just a I had a vision one time of myself walking on the water like this, and the spray was coming off and hitting me in the face, and you couldn't see, you you couldn't breathe, your eyes burned.
SPEAKER_00: That's kind of what happened to Peter.
SPEAKER_00: He got out there in the middle of it.
SPEAKER_00: And so when he saw the wind boisterous, you know, he was afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And beginning to sink, he cried, Lord, save me.
SPEAKER_00: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
SPEAKER_00: And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
SPEAKER_00: Then they that were in the ship came and worshiped him, saying, Of a truth, thou art the Son of God.
SPEAKER_00: So tonight, today I want to start a series on this subject.
SPEAKER_00: Lock out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Doubt is a robber that will rob you of what God has for you.
SPEAKER_00: Lock it out.
SPEAKER_00: Lock out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus intended for him to go all the way out, and if I'm convinced too, if he'd have done that, if he'd have just gone on out there, kept on walking, the rest of them would have came over the edge of the boat and walked with them.
SPEAKER_00: There's 11 of them back behind him.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he was always kind of boy, you know, Peter.
SPEAKER_00: He had a he had a, you know, he was always, I had a quick trigger, I call it.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he's a quick trigger.
SPEAKER_00: He's saying things out of school, out at hand, you know, saying things sometimes.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes he was right, sometimes he was wrong.
SPEAKER_00: And John was competitive.
SPEAKER_00: I said, John was competitive in the in the book of John.
SPEAKER_00: John wants to point out after Jesus rose from the dead and Mary came and told him that John and Peter ran to the tomb, and John outran Peter, and he was the first in there.
SPEAKER_00: He points that out in his, he's the only one of the four that pointed that out.
SPEAKER_00: You see, he's competitive with Peter.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I love to just read.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're regular people.
SPEAKER_00: We put them up on these pedestals and we build statues of them like they're bigger than life, but they're just like you and I.
SPEAKER_00: They've got their little weirdnesses and their little shortcomings and their little eccentricities.
SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know John was wanting to get over the side and he didn't have the guts, especially when he saw Peter sinking.
SPEAKER_00: He's thinking, thank God he didn't succeed.
SPEAKER_00: No, he didn't.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway.
SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, lock out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Doubt will rob you.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you of little faith.
SPEAKER_00: Why did you doubt, Jesus said?
SPEAKER_00: He could have patted him on the back.
SPEAKER_00: Way to go, son.
SPEAKER_00: I'm so proud of you.
SPEAKER_00: Made it halfway.
SPEAKER_00: You know, God's not really excited about us making anything halfway, doing something halfway.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, he wants us to come all the way into the fullness of his blessing.
SPEAKER_00: What's going to keep us out?
SPEAKER_00: Doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Lock it out.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I'm slamming the door shut.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: You know, that's what we need to do, especially right now.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I was meditating on these verses.
SPEAKER_00: I've preached out of these verses many times.
SPEAKER_00: I've meditated on them, and I saw something today I'd never seen.
SPEAKER_00: Because I had people say, Why did Jesus walk on the water?
SPEAKER_00: You know, well, number one, because he could.
SPEAKER_00: And he had to get to the other side, and they had left.
SPEAKER_00: And at the rate they were going, he was going to beat them.
SPEAKER_00: They're stuck.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's contrary.
SPEAKER_00: They can't make any headway, but he's just beeping along, you know.
SPEAKER_00: And they're just come unglued.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's a spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, it finally occurred to me, you know, he said in the last days that the wind and the sea would be roaring and men's hearts failing them for fear of what was coming on the earth.
SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of people, even in the church, that are disjointed, they're confused, they're worried, they're worried about what's going on, they're worried about the economy, even though things are beginning to turn around, it might not have hit you yet.
SPEAKER_00: But uh, some of us are getting milestones.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to talk about that a little bit later.
SPEAKER_00: But uh, you know, we're on heaven's economy.
SPEAKER_00: We don't we're not dependent on the world's economy.
SPEAKER_00: And so um uh, you know, he wants us to walk on the waters of life, no matter what how stormy it looks, no matter how troubled it is, we're walking on the water too.
SPEAKER_00: We've got faith.
SPEAKER_00: We've got to lock out the doubt, though.
SPEAKER_00: We can't be afraid of what's going around us.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So uh, oh, you have little faith.
SPEAKER_00: See, little faith walked on the water.
SPEAKER_00: Wherefore didst thou doubt?
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to do more.
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to do more for you.
SPEAKER_00: I wanted to do something for the eleven that stuck in the boat.
SPEAKER_00: Even Judas could have walked on the water, potentially, because he said come.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say just Peter come.
SPEAKER_00: He said come.
SPEAKER_00: He's they all heard him say come.
SPEAKER_00: What if somebody on the other shore said and he heard him say, come?
SPEAKER_00: They could have come.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody could have come.
SPEAKER_00: Well, talk, no, God told us to go.
SPEAKER_00: Are we going or not?
SPEAKER_00: Are we gonna walk?
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So doubt came from the fear that was produced by the circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: At first, he focused on Jesus, see?
SPEAKER_00: And what what are we supposed to do?
SPEAKER_00: We're focusing on Jesus by focusing on this word.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is the word.
SPEAKER_00: You need to focus on what the Bible says when things don't look like they're lining up with what this says.
SPEAKER_00: Most of the time they don't line up with what this Bible says.
SPEAKER_00: That's why you've got to what?
SPEAKER_00: Keep your eyes on it and not on the trouble.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't, if you keep looking at the trouble, you're not locking out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: The doubt is gonna come through what?
SPEAKER_00: Your five senses.
SPEAKER_00: It came through, it came through his five senses, his, his, his feelings, his eyes, his ears, everything.
SPEAKER_00: His whole being was enveloped by that storm, and he got fearful.
SPEAKER_00: And he let doubt in, and doubt robbed him.
SPEAKER_00: Robbed him of God's best.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, we don't have to let that happen.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And perhaps, you know, not only that, but the eleven.
SPEAKER_00: See, there are people watching you.
SPEAKER_00: You don't even know it.
SPEAKER_00: There are people standing on the sidelines of your life.
SPEAKER_00: They've recognized something in you and they've got their eyes on you.
SPEAKER_00: And when you fall apart and have a pity party, well, they think, well, what they've got is not real.
SPEAKER_00: But no, we can be we can stand strong in the time of trouble.
SPEAKER_00: Trouble comes.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't say, you know, uh, if the storms of life come.
SPEAKER_00: He said, when the storms of life come and beat upon your house.
SPEAKER_00: If you're founded upon the word, your house will what?
SPEAKER_00: Stand.
SPEAKER_00: It will not fall.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I'm standing on the rock of the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: So doubt not only robs you, but the people watching you.
SPEAKER_00: Let's look at 2 Peter chapter 1.
SPEAKER_00: You know, 2 Peter is an end-time book because he talks about the coming of the Lord in 2 Peter.
SPEAKER_00: 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians are end-time book.
SPEAKER_00: They talk about the Antichrist, they talk about the rapture.
SPEAKER_00: There are books that are specially in the Bible, of course, the book of Revelation.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Peter chapter 1 says.
SPEAKER_00: According as it, well, we're back up to verse 2.
SPEAKER_00: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us 49.6% of all the things.
SPEAKER_00: No, all things that pertain unto life and godliness.
SPEAKER_00: Everything that pertains to what?
SPEAKER_00: Life and godliness has been given to us through what?
SPEAKER_00: Through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
SPEAKER_00: See again, it's right here in the Word of God.
SPEAKER_00: We've got to be, we've got to have a word life.
SPEAKER_00: We've got to have a consistent word life.
SPEAKER_00: We've got to be feeding on this word, meditating on it.
SPEAKER_00: See, I meditated on the I've meditated on these verses.
SPEAKER_00: Every time I meditate, I get something new.
SPEAKER_00: It's inexhaustible the knowledge of God and the word of God in just one half of a verse.
SPEAKER_00: God called me with one half of a verse to start this church.
SPEAKER_00: He said one early one morning I was in desperate condition.
SPEAKER_00: I had a house that was going upside down.
SPEAKER_00: The bank had foreclosed on it, and you know, or was about to.
SPEAKER_00: And he spoke to me, son, you're a minister of the sanctuary.
SPEAKER_00: That's half of Hebrews chapter 8, verse 6.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, half of a verse.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God can use one word.
SPEAKER_00: Come.
SPEAKER_00: Go.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we're asking for a paragraph.
SPEAKER_00: All he's got is one word.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: All things that pertain unto life and godliness has been given unto us through the knowledge of God.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians 1 3 says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: One version says, All the blessings that heaven itself enjoys belongs to us.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to go after the blessings that are coming after us.
SPEAKER_00: They're chasing us down.
SPEAKER_00: They're coming upon us.
SPEAKER_00: If you're walking with Him.
SPEAKER_00: I said, if you're walking with Him, let's walk with Him.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: He's loaded us up with all that we need for the good life.
SPEAKER_00: He's blessed us with every spiritual blessing that heaven and self enjoys.
SPEAKER_00: So we could say it this way: faith sees, and faith receives.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it takes faith to see and faith to receive.
SPEAKER_00: You can see with your natural eyes all the natural problems, and you do.
SPEAKER_00: Your five senses will tell you all about the natural and what the trouble is.
SPEAKER_00: But it takes faith to see what God has for you.
SPEAKER_00: Or we could say faith sees and faith receives, or we can say it this way: the hand of faith receives what the eye of faith.
SPEAKER_00: The hand of faith receives what the eye of faith sees.
SPEAKER_00: If your body has five senses, your spirit has five senses.
SPEAKER_00: The hand of faith, everybody say the hand of faith.
SPEAKER_00: Hold out your hand.
SPEAKER_00: The hand of faith.
SPEAKER_00: See, it receives what God sends.
SPEAKER_00: And what what do you need to get it?
SPEAKER_00: Well, you've got to have this, you've got to be able to see it.
SPEAKER_00: So you've got to have, you've got to develop what?
SPEAKER_00: Hand-eye coordination.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about the spirit realm now.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to find out what the Bible says about your situation.
SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't matter what it looks like, it doesn't matter what it feels like, doesn't matter what it sounds like.
SPEAKER_00: It only matters what the Bible says, and then are you going to receive it when you see it?
SPEAKER_00: Or are you going to get your hand out there?
SPEAKER_00: You see it, but then it's right over your head.
SPEAKER_00: Now, today the Texans are playing the Baltimore Ravens.
SPEAKER_00: And they've got a player on there, DeAndre Hopkins, that I've watched since he came into the league, and he was a Texan.
SPEAKER_00: The doofus has let him go.
SPEAKER_00: It's 13 years he's still playing at a very high level.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this guy is a freak of nature.
SPEAKER_00: He's about 6'3, weighs about 220, and he's kind of gangly, kind of, he's not all muscled up.
SPEAKER_00: He's thin and he's got what they call a wingspan.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, from tip to tip.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he's got about 16 feet.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you throw the ball, if you throw the ball anywhere in his vicinity, he's either gonna leap up, but he is gonna catch the ball, and anybody tries to steal it from him, he ain't gonna, I mean, he has got strength in his hands like you cannot believe.
SPEAKER_00: And I watched him when he was a rookie.
SPEAKER_00: On the sideline before the game, they showed the football machine.
SPEAKER_00: You've seen these pitching machines for baseball.
SPEAKER_00: Well, they have the same for a football.
SPEAKER_00: It throws a perfect spiral.
SPEAKER_00: Man, that thing is coming really hard and fast.
SPEAKER_00: And it's not way down the line.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's right close to you.
SPEAKER_00: So that thing comes out of it, it kind of goes, and then you got a catch right then.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's right on you.
SPEAKER_00: He's standing there on the sidelines, and that thing is spitting a football at him, and he goes, Fut, foot, foot, foot, one hand.
unknown: Fut.
SPEAKER_00: Fut.
SPEAKER_00: Other hand.
SPEAKER_00: Fut.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he just went through.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he hardly ever missed one.
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about hand-eye coordination.
SPEAKER_00: Is God throwing some things at you so fast that you don't see them?
SPEAKER_00: You're too busy looking at the trouble, too busy looking and listening to what the devil is saying and doing.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, we've got to get some hand-eye coordination together.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hand right now.
SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm preaching this.
SPEAKER_00: I want to build your faith so you can receive in this last quarter.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're running out of daylight now.
SPEAKER_00: The last quarter of 2025 is a milestone year.
SPEAKER_00: Let's not let our milestone get past us.
SPEAKER_00: Let's catch that thing.
SPEAKER_00: You might have to get on your tiptoes and just stretch out and catch it, but catch it.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: So the eye of faith focuses on what God's word says.
SPEAKER_00: I've watched football all most of my life.
SPEAKER_00: I love football.
SPEAKER_00: It's my game I played and I like it.
SPEAKER_00: But I've seen these receivers, you know, they can be a really good receiver, but if they don't watch the ball right into their hands.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, if they don't, it doesn't matter how good they are.
SPEAKER_00: I don't care if you're Lynn Swan or DeAndre Hopkins.
SPEAKER_00: If you don't watch the ball right into your hands, and you don't catch the ball here, you catch it out here.
SPEAKER_00: You don't let it hit you here.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: It's going to bounce off.
SPEAKER_00: That's another thing.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, you've got to catch it when it's coming.
SPEAKER_00: If you're a little bit late, it's going to bounce off, and then it's lost.
SPEAKER_00: The devil will recover.
SPEAKER_00: The devil might take it and run it for a touchdown.
SPEAKER_00: So what do you do?
SPEAKER_00: So you know you've got to watch.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to be ready to catch that blessing in the air as it's coming to you.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to ignore everything around you.
SPEAKER_00: And what I've seen, some of these really good receivers, they are so confident they're going to catch it because it's right in their wheelhouse.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's right to them.
SPEAKER_00: They know they're going to catch it and they're going to, and they know there's nobody behind them.
SPEAKER_00: And they start to turn to run and they miss the ball.
SPEAKER_00: It's happened.
SPEAKER_00: It happened the other night.
SPEAKER_00: I watched a guy, he was all by himself with a touchdown.
SPEAKER_00: He missed a touchdown.
SPEAKER_00: It was the other scene, but he would have had a touchdown, but he got ahead of himself and he just turned his, just so slightly took his eyes off.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the ball.
SPEAKER_00: He's about like that.
SPEAKER_00: It's just that much, is all it took.
SPEAKER_00: He lost his eye coordination with the hand.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to watch it in.
SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
SPEAKER_00: You've got to keep your eye on the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to hold it before you.
SPEAKER_00: Are you getting anything out of this today?
SPEAKER_00: Hebrews 11:1 says, faith is evidence of things hoped for.
SPEAKER_00: It's the evidence of things not seen.
SPEAKER_00: It's the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, not seen as yet, not seen with the eyes.
SPEAKER_00: If you can see it with your natural eyes, you don't need faith.
SPEAKER_00: Faith always works on what?
SPEAKER_00: The invisible.
SPEAKER_00: It always works on that which is not apparent.
SPEAKER_00: You find it in the word.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't look like there's any way that that could be for you.
SPEAKER_00: You know down in your spirit God says you can have it, but it looks so impossible.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what your mind, you know, listen, your mind will say, oh, you can't have that.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, your mind will say, oh no, no, you can't.
SPEAKER_00: But if you'll stay with your spirit, see, your spirit knows what your mind doesn't know.
SPEAKER_00: Your mind, you what I'm trying to say is faith will work in your heart with doubt in your mind.
SPEAKER_00: Don't you be disturbed about what your crazy mind might tell you at any particular time.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, Romans 4.17.
SPEAKER_00: It's worth going over there and reading this.
SPEAKER_00: This is talking about Abraham.
SPEAKER_00: And if you really want to know my opinion, Brother Hagan's experience too, it's been my experience.
SPEAKER_00: In my own life, it's been the hardest thing to learn to do.
SPEAKER_00: But if you're a faith person, you have to learn to call the things that be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: And not be ashamed of that.
SPEAKER_00: Romans 4.17, talking about Abraham, as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed, even God.
SPEAKER_00: It's talking about Abraham again, who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: So that's what God does.
SPEAKER_00: God calls the things that be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: When it was nothing on the earth, it was Tohu Vobahu, completely discombobulated, upside down, inside out.
SPEAKER_00: He said, light be, and it was.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't say, man, it's dark down there.
SPEAKER_00: What am I gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: And so I guess the best way to say this is that faith's confessions create realities.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say that.
SPEAKER_00: Faith's confessions create realities.
SPEAKER_00: See, you've got to find it in the word and agree with what the word says in spite of and instead of what you're seeing with the natural eye.
SPEAKER_00: Your mind might still be a little overwhelmed at the circumstance.
SPEAKER_00: It may be a little bit under pressure.
SPEAKER_00: You may be a little confused, but when you when you just, we really sang about it this morning.
SPEAKER_00: We just grab a hold of what the word says in the face of it and say, Well, I believe by his stripes I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: My body doesn't feel like it.
SPEAKER_00: My body doesn't look like I like I'm healed, but oh, thank God I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: My my thank God I'm blessed.
SPEAKER_00: My my bank account doesn't look blessed.
SPEAKER_00: My money situation doesn't look blessed, but the Bible says I'm blessed with all the blessings that heaven itself enjoys.
SPEAKER_00: There ain't no poverty in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God I'm blessed.
SPEAKER_00: I'm blessed, and I cannot be cursed.
SPEAKER_00: See, you just say that, but you've got to believe it too.
SPEAKER_00: And then what?
SPEAKER_00: You've got to act like it.
SPEAKER_00: I can't, you can't you can't confess it and then act different.
SPEAKER_00: I believe I'm healed, and then you just, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I can't go to church, I'm too sick.
SPEAKER_00: No, I mean if you've been saying you're healed, I mean, if you can get here, get here.
SPEAKER_00: Gladys will be here today, but she's in the hospital.
SPEAKER_00: We've had to live this this week real intently.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, she she had a lot of pain in the middle of the week, and her blood pressure shot up to stroke level.
SPEAKER_00: And we had to take her to the emergency room Wednesday night because it was 200 over 105.
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, we didn't get panicky.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you have to do something.
SPEAKER_00: What I was doing wasn't reducing the pain, it wasn't reducing, you know, the blood pressure, but I knew in my spirit it was the pain making the blood pressure spike.
SPEAKER_00: Suddenly, she started having all this pain.
SPEAKER_00: She's been doing so well, she's been making progress, she's been doing better.
SPEAKER_00: And suddenly, so we went, and and sure enough, she's got three uh compression fractures of three different vertebrae in her back, three at one time.
SPEAKER_00: The doctor said, Man, one's bad enough.
SPEAKER_00: You got three.
SPEAKER_00: So they stabilized her blood pressure as best they could, but the pain, I mean, she suffered pretty.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, all day Friday, we're having to hang on to this word right here.
SPEAKER_00: I'm having to ignore looking at my wife with a bright red face with the blood pressure, her head splitting open, and the pain she was suffering.
SPEAKER_00: None of the stuff they were giving her could really take it all.
SPEAKER_00: But they did the procedure.
SPEAKER_00: Finally, five o'clock in the afternoon on Friday.
SPEAKER_00: Had to go all the way through Wednesday, Thursday, all the way Friday, nothing by mouth, all the way from midnight Thursday night or Friday morning all the way down, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you've got to keep on keeping on.
SPEAKER_00: You don't, I we're not gonna just fall apart.
SPEAKER_00: I just say, well, you know, praise God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not moved by what I see, I'm not moved by what I hear.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not, and it's easy, it's it's really in some ways kind of harder for me just to watch it.
SPEAKER_00: But I know she's experiencing it.
SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm I'm in I'm in there with her saying the things that she's not able to say right then.
SPEAKER_00: She's doing the best she can just to keep going.
SPEAKER_00: But they got in there and they they fixed that by injecting an epoxy, and they have a hollow needle and goes through the back.
SPEAKER_00: It's not surgery, but it's a procedure, and they they stick it in the collapsed vertebrae and they pump it full of epoxy, and in 20 minutes the epoxy heals, and now over the next six to eight weeks, her vertebrae need to grow back.
SPEAKER_00: She had one that they said now she's got another vertebrae in there that's had this already, but it's it's healed.
SPEAKER_00: I have never heard a doctor say anything was healed.
SPEAKER_00: This is a Korean doctor.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if he's Christian or not, but I don't think he is.
SPEAKER_00: But he said it was healed, and his physician Methyson said it was healed.
SPEAKER_00: So she's had one of these already, and it was healed.
SPEAKER_00: So these other three are healed.
SPEAKER_00: We're not waiting to get them healed, they're healed now.
SPEAKER_00: But an hour and a half later, she came out of the procedure, and I could tell a big deer.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, she was a lot more comfortable, and her blood pressure is 130 over something this morning, and she's she's recovering, and she'll be home probably tomorrow.
SPEAKER_00: And uh thank God for the word.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God for what I what what revelation it takes, real life.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be tested.
SPEAKER_00: It's not a lack of testing.
SPEAKER_00: There's no great faith without great tests, no great victories without great battles.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: But this works.
SPEAKER_00: Who calleth the things that be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: That in the face of the pain, in the face of the blood pressure, in the face of the MRI, I've got a copy of it.
SPEAKER_00: It shows you.
SPEAKER_00: In the face of all that, I say Gladys is healed.
SPEAKER_00: Her blood pressure is normal, she has no inflammation in her body, she has no pain in her body, no pain.
SPEAKER_00: We're not going for half of it.
SPEAKER_00: We're not trying to get partial results.
SPEAKER_00: She's coming all the way up out of this situation.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, when Peter was out there on that water confronted with the waves, if he had the revelation like we have it, and he could have, because Jesus preached a lot of this.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, Peter, when confronted with the waves, he should have said, Praise God, I'm walking on the water to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He told me to come and I'm a coming.
SPEAKER_00: He told me to get on out here and I'm getting on out there.
SPEAKER_00: Ha ha ha.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna stop now.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna keep on going.
SPEAKER_00: You can't lose if you don't quit.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta watch that ball all the way into your hands.
SPEAKER_00: You can't turn and run without receiving.
SPEAKER_00: You gotta receive the word and believe.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I'm not sinking, I'm walking.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not doubting, I'm believing.
SPEAKER_00: Brother Hagin tells the testimony when he was a young Baptist pastor.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he got off the bed of sickness as, you know, a Baptist boy, and then he got over among the Pentecostals and got the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: But even before that, though, he he was pastoring a little community church, and he knew about the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not sure if this story, whether he'd been baptized yet or not.
SPEAKER_00: I think he might have been, but he he liked to hang around Pentecostals because they had light on healing.
SPEAKER_00: Baptists didn't.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, his Baptist pastor told his mother and grandmother, just get him to accept his fate.
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna die.
unknown: You know.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't believe in healing, they believed healing passed away.
SPEAKER_00: And he didn't, he didn't want to die at 16.
SPEAKER_00: So he got his healing, and so, you know, now he's pastoring.
SPEAKER_00: A single young man, teenager, really, still 18, 19.
SPEAKER_00: And uh one morning he woke up, and remember, he was born with all kinds of blood diseases and a malformed heart.
SPEAKER_00: So several times in his life after that, he had the opportunity to go to heaven.
SPEAKER_00: He had alarming symptoms, not just once or twice, but several times, that could have taken him out.
SPEAKER_00: And so this was one of those times.
SPEAKER_00: He woke up one morning and half of his face was dead.
SPEAKER_00: Stroke symptom.
SPEAKER_00: When he looked in the mirror and smiled, this side went up like this, and this side didn't do anything, just fine.
SPEAKER_00: Like that.
SPEAKER_00: So he's, you know, he started praying.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I know what I'll do.
SPEAKER_00: I need somebody to agree with me.
SPEAKER_00: I'll go down to the full gospel tabernacle here in town, and I'm going to get that pastor to know him with all and pray the prayer of faith.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to release my faith.
SPEAKER_00: Now that's where he was at that time, see?
SPEAKER_00: That's where he was at the time.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't know a lot about healing.
SPEAKER_00: He'd gotten healed.
SPEAKER_00: But he wanted to have some agreements.
SPEAKER_00: It's good to recognize, you know, where you are.
SPEAKER_00: So Sunday night he goes down to the full gospel tabernacle and he goes through the whole service.
SPEAKER_00: And finally the guy gets up, it's about to end the service.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Sir, Pastor, before you dismiss, I'd appreciate it.
SPEAKER_00: I need you to anoint me with oil for my healing.
SPEAKER_00: Believe with me for my healing.
SPEAKER_00: So sure.
SPEAKER_00: So he went up and the pastor anointed him with oil and he began to pray.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, I didn't even listen to anything he said.
SPEAKER_00: I was listening for amen.
SPEAKER_00: Because whenever he said amen, I was going to say amen and I was going to count it done.
SPEAKER_00: I believe I receive.
SPEAKER_00: He's going to catch it.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: He's going to catch, he's going to catch it.
SPEAKER_00: Because the Bible says in James 5.14, the prayer of faith to save the sick and the Lord will raise them up.
SPEAKER_00: Not the oil.
SPEAKER_00: The oil is a point of contact.
SPEAKER_00: The oil is just a point of contact for you to feel the oil on your hand.
SPEAKER_00: It's really that type of healing is designed for the younger baby Christian.
SPEAKER_00: Is there any sick among you?
SPEAKER_00: Let him call for the elders of the church.
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, that's the beginning stages.
SPEAKER_00: He was in the beginning stages of believing for healing.
SPEAKER_00: That was an elder that would believe in healing, so he called on him to pray for him.
SPEAKER_00: You see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00: But I'm teaching you how to get to the place where you don't have to call anybody.
SPEAKER_00: You can call it forth yourself.
SPEAKER_00: We sang about it this morning.
SPEAKER_00: We proclaim, we speak.
SPEAKER_00: Now you might not be there.
SPEAKER_00: That's why we have an altar call.
SPEAKER_00: You can come up and get people to agree with you and lay hands on.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So he went up and did it, and he said, Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Walked back to his pew and they dismissed the service.
SPEAKER_00: And him and a bunch of young people left the church, and this girl named Emma Jean, God beware of Emma Jean's in your life.
SPEAKER_00: If you're an Emma Jean, I'm not talking about you.
SPEAKER_00: Kind of an old timing name, not Gladys.
SPEAKER_00: That's a kind of an old name, that's not a current name, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Gladys was named after an aunt.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, so uh Emma Jean says, Well, did you did you uh did you get healed when you went up there?
SPEAKER_00: He said, I sure did.
SPEAKER_00: And and she said, Well, you don't look healed.
SPEAKER_00: How do you feel?
SPEAKER_00: He said, I I don't feel it.
SPEAKER_00: Do you feel any different?
SPEAKER_00: No, I don't feel any different.
SPEAKER_00: Well, how do you, why what makes you think that you're healed?
SPEAKER_00: He said, I don't think I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: I know I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: See, you've got this woman, the girl, that's just trying to talk him out of his healing.
SPEAKER_00: She just arguing with him because he doesn't look a bit different.
SPEAKER_00: He's still got a dead left side of his face, it's still dead.
SPEAKER_00: It's not moving at all.
SPEAKER_00: But what is he saying?
SPEAKER_00: I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: I received my healing.
SPEAKER_00: And she's arguing with him.
SPEAKER_00: So all the way down the street, and on and going down this.
SPEAKER_00: Well, do you how do you feel?
SPEAKER_00: I don't feel any different.
SPEAKER_00: Well, how do you know you're here?
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: I know I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: So on and on and on.
SPEAKER_00: So the next morning, I don't know how this happened, but he goes to eat breakfast at her house.
SPEAKER_00: I guess, you know, you'd be welcome a time for anybody else to cook beside himself if he's a young teenage boy.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can't imagine cooking for myself when I'm 19.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, so he he he goes to their house and sits down, and so she starts in on him, starts in on him, and the mother says, you know, Imogene, if I were you, I'd be a little careful talking to Brother Kenneth about these things.
SPEAKER_00: We don't, there's a lot of things he knows that we don't know.
SPEAKER_00: See, there you go.
SPEAKER_00: But two days later, he was completely all the manifestation left.
SPEAKER_00: It was not instant.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you've got to stand your ground.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you've got to keep on speaking.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, faith's confessions create reality.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
unknown: Woo!
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: You uh, you know, you didn't have, you don't weren't healed when you left.
SPEAKER_00: You said, I was healed.
SPEAKER_00: I was healed the minute amen came out.
SPEAKER_00: See, that kind of faith, that kind of faith never receives anything.
SPEAKER_00: That's not, that's faith in the natural thing.
SPEAKER_00: That's faith in what you can see, taste, touch, smell, and feel.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, all of that kind of stuff is natural.
SPEAKER_00: No, we're we're we're looking over into the precious law of liberty.
SPEAKER_00: We're looking into the covenant that's sealed by the blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And we're uh, you know, and we know that doubt is a robber.
SPEAKER_00: And since doubt is a robber, we're locking doubt out.
SPEAKER_00: We're not gonna let doubt in.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna receive all that God has for us.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hands.
SPEAKER_00: Lift your hands and receive today.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.