SPEAKER_00: The Bibles out, wave them around, make Jesus glad in the devil, man.
SPEAKER_00: Say this together.
SPEAKER_00: So, Heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here at Glorious Way.
SPEAKER_00: It's a glorious day at Glorious Way.
SPEAKER_00: Because I'm here among people of light precious faith in this atmosphere.
SPEAKER_00: It's a miracle atmosphere.
SPEAKER_00: All things are possible.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm determined to receive my miracle in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can be seated.
SPEAKER_00: And let's turn in our Bibles to Matthew 14.
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to wind up a series that I've been sharing with you on lockout, the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: And somebody said, man, this is a long series for saying, Well, you know, it takes a lot of talking and a lot of teaching to get it into you.
SPEAKER_00: It's not enough for you just to kind of hear it, you know, and let it rattle around in between these ears.
SPEAKER_00: It's got to get down in your heart.
SPEAKER_00: And faith cometh by hearing and hearing.
SPEAKER_00: So Matthew chapter 14, and we'll start reading with verse 22.
SPEAKER_00: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship and go before him under the other side while he sent the multitudes away.
SPEAKER_00: You know, this is when he fed the thousand 5,000 with five loaves.
SPEAKER_00: And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray.
SPEAKER_00: And when evening was come, he was there alone.
SPEAKER_00: But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was contrary.
SPEAKER_00: And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
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: But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, be of good courage.
SPEAKER_00: It is I.
SPEAKER_00: Be not afraid.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter answered him and 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: Sometimes we forget that.
SPEAKER_00: We read this and we read the next verse and we're persuaded by that.
SPEAKER_00: And but when he, Peter, saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, 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, and then they were that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth, thou art the Son of God.
SPEAKER_00: And so we're preaching this message on lock out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Don't let doubt rob you of God's best.
SPEAKER_00: God wants the best for you.
SPEAKER_00: Little faith enabled Peter to walk on the water, but what happened?
SPEAKER_00: Doubt sunk him.
SPEAKER_00: And not only did it sink him, it robbed him of this wonderful miracle.
SPEAKER_00: It also robbed the eleven.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the eleven weren't, they were within earshot.
SPEAKER_00: They could have come.
SPEAKER_00: They were observing what Peter was doing.
SPEAKER_00: They observed, I mean, they saw their brother walking on the water to go to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: You know, they were about to, maybe, maybe they were going to get out of that boat, the boat of complacency, but then, you know, Peter's doubt spread to them and they doubted, and so they were a whole group was robbed.
SPEAKER_00: And I've made the point, if someone else was in the earshot of come, he didn't say Peter, come.
SPEAKER_00: He said, come.
SPEAKER_00: He tells us to go.
SPEAKER_00: Go into all the world.
SPEAKER_00: Are we going?
SPEAKER_00: You know, we need to go, don't we?
SPEAKER_00: And so uh it robbed uh Peter and the other eleven and anyone else that was in earshot.
SPEAKER_00: See, doubt comes from acting on the fear of circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: See, anybody could have had fear.
SPEAKER_00: You could have had fear in your mind.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, fear comes through your five senses.
SPEAKER_00: Your five senses will give you everything you need to be afraid of.
SPEAKER_00: And in your mind, you can be afraid, but you know, faith will work in your heart with doubt in your head.
SPEAKER_00: All he had to do was say, you know, I'm walking on the water to go to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Come and I'm a coming.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he never would have sunk.
SPEAKER_00: He'd have just kept on going.
SPEAKER_00: But he didn't say it.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Oh Lord, save me.
SPEAKER_00: That was it.
SPEAKER_00: That was the end of the story.
SPEAKER_00: We accept that Jesus did catch him and walked him back to the boat.
SPEAKER_00: So, you know, doubt comes from acting on the fear of the circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: Doubt comes from uncertainty about God's will.
SPEAKER_00: That's one reason I preach about these things more than just one time.
SPEAKER_00: You need it over and over, because you need to be fully persuaded about what is God's will.
SPEAKER_00: And God's word is his will.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: When you get your mind renewed to the will, to the word of God, then you're not going to doubt his will about certain things.
SPEAKER_00: You're going to have the faith it takes to overcome.
SPEAKER_00: And so we talked about faith sees and faith receives.
SPEAKER_00: So the uh the hand of faith receives what the eye of faith sees.
SPEAKER_00: Hand-eye coordination.
SPEAKER_00: We talked about the wide receiver that could catch a ball with one hand.
SPEAKER_00: I saw an Aggie catch a pass with one hand last night.
SPEAKER_00: He got up there and way up.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he climbed the ladder, and I mean that was the most spectacular catch.
SPEAKER_00: It was amazing.
SPEAKER_00: It was amazing to see.
SPEAKER_00: I love football, you can tell.
SPEAKER_00: So uh I like to see guys make amazing catches.
SPEAKER_00: And uh so we need hand-eye coordination.
SPEAKER_00: We need to practice the language of faith.
SPEAKER_00: See, the language of faith and the language of doubt.
SPEAKER_00: You can choose which way to speak.
SPEAKER_00: And uh faith calls the things that be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to get practiced in that.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to become professional.
SPEAKER_00: I mentioned this, you know, many of us are uh have professional uh languages that we have to speak.
SPEAKER_00: If you're an IT or if you're an HR, if you're an air traffic controller, if you're an engineer, any kind of specialty uh way of life, you know, you've got a certain way of speaking.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to learn that.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to learn how to talk.
SPEAKER_00: And you if if you're hired on for that, like a legal secretary, I mean, you've got to learn legalese.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to learn certain ways of speaking in your specialty, and many times your your company will send you for further education, and you'll get you'll get uh you know caught up on the latest technology and all right now.
SPEAKER_00: AI is is all the rage.
SPEAKER_00: People are afraid of it.
SPEAKER_00: And uh they've been fearing AI for as long as I can remember, ever since computers came on the scene, artificial intelligence, and they've got computers that they're they're developing now that are just amazing that can think like a human thinks, but they're not human.
SPEAKER_00: And uh and so it's going to transform business.
SPEAKER_00: Well, and many of us are gonna have to learn how to use it because it's gone, it's not going away.
SPEAKER_00: And it's not the devil, it's not 666.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's something that can help uh, you know, industry uh keep up with the times.
SPEAKER_00: And so uh so we've got uh if we're if we're practiced in that type of language, then we need to be more professional, so to speak, and speaking God's word and and speaking in the face of the circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me that?
SPEAKER_00: So uh faith calls the things that be not as though they were.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is the victory, 1 John 5 4, faith is a victory that overcomes the world.
SPEAKER_00: And then doubt is the defeat that overcomes the believer.
SPEAKER_00: See, faith is a victory that overcomes the world.
SPEAKER_00: What's in the world?
SPEAKER_00: Sickness, disease, bondage, poverty, lack, trouble, confusion, fear, all that's in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is a victory that overcomes the world, but then doubt is the defeat that overcomes the believer when we could have had the victory.
SPEAKER_00: We let doubt rob us.
SPEAKER_00: We let doubt keep us from God's best.
SPEAKER_00: So today let's look at Matthew chapter 9.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna wrap up this series of messages, and I believe you'll be better for it.
SPEAKER_00: I'm preparing you to receive your milestone.
SPEAKER_00: We've only got a short time between now and and I mean we're not cutting it off at December the 31st.
SPEAKER_00: We can we can how many of you would be upset if it was January 31st when you got your milestone?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're gonna get our milestone.
SPEAKER_00: What is a milestone?
SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a happening that's not just ordinary.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is a special step up.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: So, uh Matthew chapter 9, we're gonna start reading verse uh 27.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this this comes after a long, you know, if you read the whole chapter, it started with J.
SPEAKER_00: Iris' daughter.
SPEAKER_00: He came to get Jesus, and then on the way to J.
SPEAKER_00: Iris' daughter, who was just about dead and then did die, and he had to raise her from the dead, but on the way, he it he came up with the woman with the issue of blood.
SPEAKER_00: You can imagine J.
SPEAKER_00: Iris is pretty nervous, you know, with this delay, but Jesus took care of the woman with the issue of blood and healed her, and now he's on his way and he raises J.
SPEAKER_00: Iris' daughter.
SPEAKER_00: So now, verse 27, and when Jesus departed from there, he's been a busy, he's busy.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus is busy healing sick and raising the dead, isn't he?
SPEAKER_00: He said, when he departed from there, two blind men followed him crying.
SPEAKER_00: And you know what the word cry there means to scream, to shout.
SPEAKER_00: It means to make a loud noise.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean, oh, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they shouted, Jesus, thou son of Dad, have mercy on us.
SPEAKER_00: The word mercy is Hasid, which is covenant kindness.
SPEAKER_00: It's based on the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: Now, I want you to notice this cry they had.
SPEAKER_00: They screamed it out.
SPEAKER_00: They weren't embarrassed.
SPEAKER_00: They're Jewish, blind men, two of them.
SPEAKER_00: And they knew that Jesus was the Messiah, son of David.
SPEAKER_00: That says a lot right there.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't just say preacher, man.
SPEAKER_00: They said, Jesus, thou son of David, have Hesed.
SPEAKER_00: Now they know something about the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: They've heard something about that they should have something out of that covenant.
SPEAKER_00: Have mercy on us.
SPEAKER_00: Hess said.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, just just just look at that.
SPEAKER_00: And uh so he they followed him, crying and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
SPEAKER_00: And when he was come into the house, they the blind men came in to him and followed him into the house.
SPEAKER_00: I guess you could say they were in his presence.
SPEAKER_00: You could say that they were in his presence, couldn't you?
SPEAKER_00: Because they went in the house with him.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this?
SPEAKER_00: Believe ye that I am able to do this?
SPEAKER_00: They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you.
SPEAKER_00: Not according to grandma's faith.
SPEAKER_00: Not according to Sister Bucketmouth's faith.
SPEAKER_00: According to your faith, be it unto you the great law of faith.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's not about everybody else's faith.
SPEAKER_00: It's not about the faith of all the prayer lines that you have called.
SPEAKER_00: It's not about the number of people that are praying for you.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I know I'm going to get my healing.
SPEAKER_00: I've got 150 people praying for me.
SPEAKER_00: No, really, what's it's according to your faith.
SPEAKER_00: Have you got any?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you do.
SPEAKER_00: If you're saved, you've got some because Jesus gave it to you.
SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't have gotten saved if you didn't have some faith.
SPEAKER_00: It's not a matter of whether you have any or have you done anything with it.
SPEAKER_00: These guys hadn't done anything with their faith.
SPEAKER_00: They're still in the same condition, even though they believed Jesus is the Messiah.
SPEAKER_00: And even though they knew they had something coming from the covenant, they still were in the same place.
SPEAKER_00: They're still blind until what?
SPEAKER_00: Do you believe I'm able to do this?
SPEAKER_00: Yay, Lord, they finally said something that lined up with what they needed to say to get their healing.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all getting this now?
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Woo! According to your faith be it unto you.
SPEAKER_00: Not according to how many people are praying.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people get hung up on.
SPEAKER_00: It's not wrong to call a prayer line.
SPEAKER_00: It's not wrong to get people in agreement with you, but if you start thinking like that it's about how many people are praying for you, and that has any impact on your total success, you're gonna always do without.
SPEAKER_00: It gets back to your faith, folks.
SPEAKER_00: According to your faith, the great law of faith.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God operates by certain laws and principles, and if we cooperate with those laws and principles, we can expect to get what those laws tell us we can have.
SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm teaching this over and over again.
SPEAKER_00: I want to get it into you so you'll never doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Brother Hagin tells the story of a young man.
SPEAKER_00: He was a preacher evangelist back in the 30s and 40s.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know exactly what years, but it was time when tuberculosis was raging.
SPEAKER_00: My grandmother had tuberculosis, and they had to send her to a sanitarium out in West Texas.
SPEAKER_00: She lived in, you know, Baytown at the time, but she had to leave this part of town, this part of country, because it's so humid here, and it was her TB was bad.
SPEAKER_00: And she she eventually recovered, but many people died.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, your lungs would just rot, and you just die.
SPEAKER_00: It was horrible death.
SPEAKER_00: Uh we got rid of it successfully.
SPEAKER_00: We got a vaccine for it, and we were able to stamp it out until recently.
SPEAKER_00: Now it's come across the border.
SPEAKER_00: We've we've brought, we've imported all kinds of diseases now.
SPEAKER_00: We've got the plague, we've got tuberculosis, we've got all kinds of communicable diseases thanks to Biden and all of his idiotic people that he had working for him in his administration.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, two, you know, they don't give a rip about us.
SPEAKER_00: They care about one thing and that's power.
SPEAKER_00: And they imported people that they could use to illegally vote.
SPEAKER_00: Have you all got the picture now?
SPEAKER_00: Pastor, you seem so uh ugly about these poor people.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not listening I I feel sorry for the poor people, but they're not here legally.
SPEAKER_00: They need to go back.
SPEAKER_00: And we need to protect this country.
SPEAKER_00: God, God judges any nation that invades another country without his permission.
SPEAKER_00: And this was without his permission.
SPEAKER_00: And so they're they're hurting, they're they're never gonna be blessed.
SPEAKER_00: They'll never be blessed here.
SPEAKER_00: Never.
SPEAKER_00: So if we really care about people, we want to get them in a place where they're obedient to the laws of the land and come legally.
SPEAKER_00: I like what they're saying to them and say, look, if you self-deport, then there's a possibility you could come back legally.
SPEAKER_00: But if we have if we find you, you're never coming back.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm sorry, but I, you know, and we're seeing some preachers and we're seeing some good people being sent back.
SPEAKER_00: Well, I I hate it.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, you need to get your act together.
SPEAKER_00: You don't go in illegally into a country.
SPEAKER_00: Most places like Mexico, if you're caught there illegally, they'll shoot you.
SPEAKER_00: Well, at least we don't do that.
SPEAKER_00: We'll deport you.
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, getting back to this young man, he was an evangelist, and he was not a healing evangelist.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't know a thing about healing.
SPEAKER_00: But he got people saved.
SPEAKER_00: And uh and he was married and had a couple of kids, a young guy, 30, 40 years old.
SPEAKER_00: And he got tuberculosis and he got so bad he had to come off, had to shut his minister down, and he had to move in with his in-laws.
SPEAKER_00: They had a farm in Corsicana, Texas, and they put him in a bedroom.
SPEAKER_00: He was so weak he couldn't even get out of bed.
SPEAKER_00: He was so, you know, just lost his appetite, lost his strength.
SPEAKER_00: He was pretty close to death.
SPEAKER_00: And he was looking out the window one day and he saw this clump of trees about a hundred feet from his bedroom.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, you know, if I could just get out to those trees, I'd get under that, well, those trees in the shade, and he said, I'd just, I'd pray until I got my healing.
SPEAKER_00: I'd just pray and pray.
SPEAKER_00: I'd storm the gates of heaven until I got my healing.
SPEAKER_00: And that was his attitude.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't know a thing in the world about what I'm preaching about.
SPEAKER_00: Not one thing did he know about really the law of faith, the great law of faith.
SPEAKER_00: And so he so he he starts crawling.
SPEAKER_00: He couldn't walk.
SPEAKER_00: He crawled out to that clump of trees.
SPEAKER_00: And by the time he got there, he was totally exhausted.
SPEAKER_00: He could not hardly move, and he just kind of turned over and laid on his back, looking up through the leaves, up to the sky above.
SPEAKER_00: And he was just, he couldn't even pray.
SPEAKER_00: He was just out of breath, weak.
SPEAKER_00: And he started to, you know, and then the devil came, and he hadn't sense enough to know the devil was saying.
SPEAKER_00: The devil came and said, Now you've done it.
SPEAKER_00: You've crawled out here into this clump of trees, and the only way that anybody's gonna know you're here is when the birds come down and get you.
SPEAKER_00: Buzzards are gonna eat your dead body.
SPEAKER_00: What a pleasant thought.
SPEAKER_00: And he knew that was the devil.
SPEAKER_00: And then he started thinking, now listen, listen to this.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, listen to this thought.
SPEAKER_00: He got the thought.
SPEAKER_00: He says, you know, hundreds of people are praying for me.
SPEAKER_00: All the churches that I went to are praying for my healing.
SPEAKER_00: They're all praying.
SPEAKER_00: Hundreds of people.
SPEAKER_00: Must be hundreds of people.
SPEAKER_00: And there's no telling how much they, how many prayers have gone up.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it seems like if that could have, if, if, if, if it was prayer that could heal me, I'd be healed right now.
SPEAKER_00: See, how many of you know that's the Holy Ghost in his spirit telling his mind what his brain is ignorant of?
SPEAKER_00: See, I mean, even people that hadn't been taught right have the Holy Ghost on the inside of them to inform them of things they don't know in their brain.
SPEAKER_00: I tell you, God, won't you heal so much?
SPEAKER_00: He said, you know what I'm gonna do?
SPEAKER_00: I'm not even gonna pray.
SPEAKER_00: I'm too weak to pray.
SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna praise him.
SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna lay here and praise him.
SPEAKER_00: Now, you know he'd never heard the message, the praise cure.
SPEAKER_00: I preached that one.
SPEAKER_00: But he ain't never heard that, but the Holy Ghost has, and he he inspired him just to lay there and praise God for his healing.
SPEAKER_00: So he laid there and says, Oh, thank God.
unknown: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: All he could do was whisper, thank you.
SPEAKER_00: And then just, you know, a few minutes went by, and all of a sudden now, thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Soft voice, you know.
SPEAKER_00: A little bit louder, a little bit louder.
SPEAKER_00: And then finally came up on one elbow and kind of got up off the ground and was praising God a little louder.
SPEAKER_00: And then he leaned up against the tree.
SPEAKER_00: Now he's up off the ground, leaning up against the tree, and he's saying in a normal voice, Thank you, Lord, for healing me.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord, for healing me.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And then pretty soon he got up on his feet, he got out in the away out from underneath those trees, and he began to shout, Thank you, Jesus, for healing me.
SPEAKER_00: And his father-in-law crossed the way, heard him, and came running.
SPEAKER_00: He was in he was completely healed.
SPEAKER_00: He was completely healed.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on, lift your hands right now.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: See, it's not about how many people are praying for you.
SPEAKER_00: It's about your faith.
SPEAKER_00: According to your faith, and his faith got him to praise God in the midst of his circumstances.
SPEAKER_00: Glory, glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: God is so powerful.
SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, in 1 John 5, 14, it says, if is there any sick among you?
SPEAKER_00: See, the church is set against sickness and disease and lack and poverty and demonization.
SPEAKER_00: Everything in the Bible, when it comes to the church, the church is set against it.
SPEAKER_00: There shouldn't be any sick.
SPEAKER_00: And so he asks this question, is there any sick among you?
SPEAKER_00: Let them call for the elders of the church.
SPEAKER_00: If you're still sick and you're among in the church and you're still sick, and you haven't learned how to get your healing, you haven't developed your faith enough to believe you receive your healing, then go ahead and get some help.
SPEAKER_00: Let them call for the elders of the church and let them come and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And the prayer of faith shall save or heal the sick, and the Lord will raise them up.
SPEAKER_00: Is it the oil?
SPEAKER_00: Does it matter whether the oil came from the, you know, with the spices in it that you paid a, you know,$15 for a little old ounce of holy land oil?
SPEAKER_00: Or does it matter I've used motor oil?
SPEAKER_00: Is it the oil that heals you?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Is it the elder that heals you?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: It's the what?
SPEAKER_00: Prayer of faith.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer that calls a thing that be not as though it were.
SPEAKER_00: A prayer like, oh Father, I just thank you right now.
SPEAKER_00: Healing comes to my brother right now.
SPEAKER_00: Thank God for your healing power.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus Himself took this infirmity, carried this pain.
SPEAKER_00: And Lord, we just pronounce, we pronounce him healed and well right now in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's the prayer of faith.
SPEAKER_00: And you anoint them with oil.
SPEAKER_00: This is really that whole thing is designed for people that are not well acquainted with what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00: They're just starting out.
SPEAKER_00: They don't have their faith built to receive their healing on their own.
SPEAKER_00: And they need a little help.
SPEAKER_00: They need a little agreement.
SPEAKER_00: They need somebody to anoint them with oil.
SPEAKER_00: And they feel the oil on their forehead.
SPEAKER_00: They smell the fragrance of the oil.
SPEAKER_00: Hopefully it's not rancid.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes my olive oil gets a little rancid, and I have to throw it out and get some fresh.
SPEAKER_00: You don't want to anoint people with rancid oil.
SPEAKER_00: Then it stinks.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: But it's not the oil, it's not the elder, it's the prayer of faith that saves the sick.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord will raise them up.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer that that states the evidence of things not yet seen.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer that that that is the substance of things hoped for.
SPEAKER_00: That prayer.
SPEAKER_00: The prayer of faith.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say the prayer of faith.
SPEAKER_00: Now, there's another aspect of this, and that is that they, the two blind men, were in the presence of Jesus, and yet it wasn't enough to heal them.
SPEAKER_00: They were in his presence.
SPEAKER_00: You can't say they weren't.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, John said, you know, the Spirit, God has filled him with the Spirit without measure.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you talk about an anointing.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus had an anointing on his life that no preacher, no person on the earth today has that kind of anointing that Jesus had.
SPEAKER_00: We have something similar, but not as far as the what it is, but not to the amount.
SPEAKER_00: It's without measure that Jesus is anointed.
SPEAKER_00: So when you're in his presence, you've got the maximum power source right there.
SPEAKER_00: And yet they were in the same condition.
SPEAKER_00: They were still blind.
SPEAKER_00: What had to happen?
SPEAKER_00: They had to say, Yea, Lord, we believe you're able to do it.
SPEAKER_00: They had to speak their faith.
SPEAKER_00: They had to release their faith with words in order to tap into the power source.
SPEAKER_00: So some people, you know, they come to church, they're in the presence of the Lord, you know.
SPEAKER_00: I think about Luke chapter 5, where Jesus went into the house and there were doctors of the law, Sadducees, Pharisees, wouldn't sees, couldn't sees.
SPEAKER_00: There wasn't any more room in the house to fit anybody.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says there in Luke 5, the power of the Lord was present to heal them, but there's no record of any of them getting healed.
SPEAKER_00: Because they're in there doubting.
SPEAKER_00: They're in there, you know, to catch him.
SPEAKER_00: They're in there with their eyes narrowed and they're trying to be critical.
SPEAKER_00: But outside, there's a man with four crazy friends who's on a cot who's got the palsy and he's paralyzed, and he's got the crazy friends that brought him all the way from town, and they walk out there to the house and they can't get in, so they haul him up on the roof.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God, you talk about crazy.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_00: And then they broke a hole in the roof and lowered him down in the presence of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And the Bible says, and when Jesus saw their faith, or when he saw their act of faith, he said to the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
SPEAKER_00: Well, he didn't come for forgiveness, he came for healing.
SPEAKER_00: But he had to get forgiven before he could get healed.
SPEAKER_00: And oh boy, those Sadducees and Pharisees, wouldn't sees, couldn't see, doctors of the law, they all said, Who does he think he is?
SPEAKER_00: No one can forgive sins but God alone.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus knew exactly what they were thinking.
SPEAKER_00: He said it.
SPEAKER_00: He did it that way on purpose.
SPEAKER_00: He was always tweaking, kind of like Trump.
SPEAKER_00: He's always tweaking the Democrats.
SPEAKER_00: He just, I'm gonna build a ballroom.
SPEAKER_00: You're demolishing the White House.
SPEAKER_00: Stupid.
SPEAKER_00: It's just amazing.
SPEAKER_00: But the Pharisees, they're all Democrats.
SPEAKER_00: Wouldn't sees, couldn't see.
SPEAKER_00: Who does he think he is?
SPEAKER_00: He's a Nazi.
SPEAKER_00: And uh who does he think he is?
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus said, Well, you know, what's harder to say be forgiven or be healed?
SPEAKER_00: But so that you can know the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins, I say to this man, rise, take up your bed and go back to the house.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, this guy gets up, I don't know how long he's been paralyzed, but if you've been if you've been in bed for very long, you can't walk very far.
SPEAKER_00: He he not only walked all the way back home the way he came, he carried his bed with him.
SPEAKER_00: And they said, Well, we've seen strange things today.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you can say that again.
SPEAKER_00: So, see, God's presence alone can't heal you.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to you've got to mix some faith.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to access that power.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is a switch that turns on the power of God.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is your access point.
SPEAKER_00: Brother Hagin tells a story of this little lady that uh lived at the end of the street.
SPEAKER_00: He had to go right by our house to go to the church that he was pastoring at the time.
SPEAKER_00: And uh he had just taken this church over.
SPEAKER_00: The other pastor had left, and he had taken the church over.
SPEAKER_00: And so this little boy comes down and knocks on his door and says, Would you come pray for my mama?
SPEAKER_00: She's in a lot of pain.
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, he went down there and he knelt by the bed and she said, Well, would you just pray the power down?
SPEAKER_00: That's what Pastor So-and-so used to do.
SPEAKER_00: He would pray the power down, and I'd feel better.
SPEAKER_00: So he knelt by the bed and prayed for two hours.
SPEAKER_00: I said, Brother Hagan, he did things that I could probably never do.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I could ever do that, but he did it.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, he just really didn't know any better at the time.
SPEAKER_00: He didn't know what I'm preaching now.
SPEAKER_00: He hadn't learned it himself, but he tells the stories which are so valuable.
SPEAKER_00: So he prayed for two hours and he said, Man, I mean the power of God came down in that room, and I mean the bed shook.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Okay, sister.
SPEAKER_00: And he leaves, and that's in the morning, in the afternoon, he the little boy comes back down and says, Hey, would you come and pray for mama again?
SPEAKER_00: He says, Well, I just prayed for her this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but she's hurting worse than ever.
SPEAKER_00: And went down again, and this went on for six months.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody says, Six months.
SPEAKER_00: How do you do that every day?
SPEAKER_00: Go pray the power of God down, and nobody ever gets any better.
SPEAKER_00: And so finally, one day, he he he the Holy Ghost says, just give her Proverbs chapter four.
SPEAKER_00: And and don't pray for her anymore.
SPEAKER_00: Just give her Proverbs chapter four.
SPEAKER_00: Hold your place in Matthew, turn over Proverbs 4.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say the word of God is what we need.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 20.
SPEAKER_00: My son, my daughter, attend to my words, decline thine ear unto my sayings, let them not depart from thine eyes, but keep them in the midst of thine heart, for they are life unto those that find them in medicine to all their flesh.
SPEAKER_00: He said, You know, just I want you to take this proverb and pray it over and over, and uh, and you'll be healed.
SPEAKER_00: You you know, just know that it's that's what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00: Well, why can't you pray?
SPEAKER_00: Just pray that right there.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Ghost told me to give you these verses.
SPEAKER_00: So you see, God gave, God finally got through to Brother Hagin to give her the word.
SPEAKER_00: To give her the word, to give her something to do, and she began to meditate on the word of God.
SPEAKER_00: And I mean that night she came in Wednesday night service and testified she was up.
SPEAKER_00: You know, she went back to normal.
SPEAKER_00: She's back cleaning the house and cooking and doing all the things that housewives back then they nowadays housewives have to go to work, but that back then they stayed at home and did what the things that mothers do.
SPEAKER_00: Raise their children and take care of their husbands.
SPEAKER_00: Don't the husbands think, don't they need taken care of?
SPEAKER_00: I mean, praise God.
SPEAKER_00: They need a lot of take they need a lot of care.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: So God's presence alone is not gonna heal you.
SPEAKER_00: Don't let doubt rob you of God's best.
SPEAKER_00: Cast out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Rely on the word of God, not just his presence.
SPEAKER_00: His presence is great.
SPEAKER_00: We need his presence, but we need to put some faith with it.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So I have three things here, just real simple, that we'll leave you with.
SPEAKER_00: Mark 11, 23.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said it.
SPEAKER_00: It's good to get it in front of you, so let's turn over there.
SPEAKER_00: Mark 11, 23.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus said it.
SPEAKER_00: Mark chapter 11.
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed?
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I'm a whosoever.
SPEAKER_00: Verily I say unto you, see, of a truth.
SPEAKER_00: Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, but and be not be cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his head.
SPEAKER_00: What is heart?
SPEAKER_00: The blood pump, huh?
SPEAKER_00: The heart is the spirit, your spirit.
SPEAKER_00: You don't doubt in your spirit.
SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm preaching the word because it's feeding your spirit where faith is.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is of the spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is of the heart, not of the head, not of the senses.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: And not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith, that word saith, means a systematic discourse, which you continually say over and over every day and every night, not just one time, but that's your systematic discourse.
SPEAKER_00: You know.
SPEAKER_00: You believe those things that you systematically have a discourse on shall come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: You shall have whatsoever you say it.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's akin to the great law of faith.
SPEAKER_00: According to your faith be it unto you.
SPEAKER_00: And faith is always expressed in words.
SPEAKER_00: And faith has always got an action to it.
SPEAKER_00: You act like the Bible is true.
SPEAKER_00: That's a simple definition of faith, acting like the Bible's true.
SPEAKER_00: That woman had to quit praying, uh, play the power down, and she had to finally get up out of bed.
SPEAKER_00: And she had to go and cook dinner, and she had to go do something she hadn't been doing.
SPEAKER_00: And when she did, she got strong.
SPEAKER_00: That man under the tree, I mean, he kept praising God until he finally got up on his both of his feet and screamed, Jesus, thank you for healing me.
SPEAKER_00: You know, and the father-in-law heard him in the next pasture.
SPEAKER_00: Last time he saw him, he was laying, you know, dying in the bed, and now he's out there screaming and screaming on the farm.
SPEAKER_00: Praise God.
SPEAKER_00: So faith is of the heart or the spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say faith is of the heart.
SPEAKER_00: See, it's what's in your heart.
SPEAKER_00: All right, and then number two, in the next verse, Mark 11, 24, therefore, Jesus is saying this, I say unto you, what things soever you desire when you pray, notice what you desire.
SPEAKER_00: What do you desire?
SPEAKER_00: It's not what mama desires, what grandma desires, Uncle Charlie desires.
SPEAKER_00: No, what do you desire?
SPEAKER_00: What things soever you desire when you pray, believe you receive them.
SPEAKER_00: Believe you've received them when?
SPEAKER_00: When you pray, not when you see them.
SPEAKER_00: You don't need faith when you see it.
SPEAKER_00: When it shows up, you don't need any faith then.
SPEAKER_00: You need the faith before you see anything.
SPEAKER_00: You need the faith in the middle of the circumstances that have not changed when you pray.
SPEAKER_00: When you pray, the circumstances haven't changed.
SPEAKER_00: But you what?
SPEAKER_00: You believe you receive the answer, and you shall have.
SPEAKER_00: You shall have, which indicates seed time and harvest.
SPEAKER_00: The harvest comes a little later.
SPEAKER_00: You know, really faith is like a seed.
SPEAKER_00: It's planted.
SPEAKER_00: And it's planted with words.
SPEAKER_00: Every word you speak about your circumstances, a seed.
SPEAKER_00: What are you saying about it?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's terrible.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm so tired of this.
SPEAKER_00: I'm so frustrated, I'm so angry.
SPEAKER_00: You're planting the wrong seed.
SPEAKER_00: Let's plant the answer.
SPEAKER_00: Let's print the desire result.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: You shall have whatsoever you say.
SPEAKER_00: It shall come to pass.
SPEAKER_00: You shall have you'll have them.
SPEAKER_00: You'll believe what you receive them, you shall have them.
SPEAKER_00: Uh turn real quick to John.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to see this.
SPEAKER_00: This is so powerful, so simple.
SPEAKER_00: Just Jesus has given us all these keys that if we just get them in our spirit, we wouldn't be so hesitant about receiving what God has for us.
SPEAKER_00: John 6.47, this is in red, Jesus said this too.
SPEAKER_00: He said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life, or has.
SPEAKER_00: Present tense.
SPEAKER_00: He that believeth on me has everlasting life.
SPEAKER_00: He that believe has.
SPEAKER_00: He that believes has.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say he that believes shall have.
SPEAKER_00: It he did say shall have in the other context, but here he says he that believes has.
SPEAKER_00: Really, when you get the real meaning of Mark 11.24 and John 6.47, the minute you believe, you're as happy right then as you will be when the thing shows up that you're believing for.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on now, you can do better than that.
SPEAKER_00: You can listen, this is worth the price of admission.
SPEAKER_00: He that believes has.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore I have it.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's not it's not even debatable.
SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, but the symptoms, well, then it it helps you.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to learn how to stop paying so much attention to the five senses that inform you of the symptoms.
SPEAKER_00: Your five senses will tell you about every symptom that comes along.
SPEAKER_00: And what you're saying with your mouth is, I don't accept that.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna put up with that because I've got this better thing and I have it.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna have it, I have it now.
SPEAKER_00: Which brings me to number three.
SPEAKER_00: Watch your tenses.
SPEAKER_00: I've seen wonderful people go to heaven because they forgot the tenses.
unknown: That's right.
SPEAKER_00: What do you mean, tenses?
SPEAKER_00: Well, did you remember?
SPEAKER_00: Did you take English?
SPEAKER_00: Did you learn about the tenses?
SPEAKER_00: Past tense, present tense, future tense.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is present tense.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is now.
SPEAKER_00: Now, faith is, faith is now.
SPEAKER_00: Now, now is present tense.
SPEAKER_00: I have it now.
SPEAKER_00: I don't have it, I'm not gonna have it.
SPEAKER_00: I it won't, it's not gonna come later.
SPEAKER_00: No, I have it.
SPEAKER_00: You know, faith, he that believeth has.
SPEAKER_00: Present tense.
SPEAKER_00: He that believeth, present tense, has.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say present tense.
SPEAKER_00: See, don't forget the tenses.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've you know, it's amen.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is always present tense.
SPEAKER_00: It comes with your systematic discourse.
SPEAKER_00: Clean your systematic discourse up and get rid of all future tense verbs.
SPEAKER_00: Quit saying he's gonna, gonna, gonna.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have my new car.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have my new house.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have uh, you know, healing in my marriage.
SPEAKER_00: No, have it now.
SPEAKER_00: You have it.
SPEAKER_00: He that believeth has present tense.
SPEAKER_00: Get it in the present tense.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say faith's confessions.
SPEAKER_00: Faith's confessions create realities.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's why I'm saying that if you've got the wrong confession, you're not gonna have the reality of what God wants you to have.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna you're gonna be robbed of his best.
SPEAKER_00: Don't doubt, let doubt rob you of God's best.
SPEAKER_00: Lock out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Faith is having when all the circumstances and the symptoms say you don't have it.
SPEAKER_00: Your faith says I do have it.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say I do have it.
SPEAKER_00: I have what I say.
SPEAKER_00: I say I'm healed.
SPEAKER_00: I say I'm blessed.
SPEAKER_00: I say I'm prosperous.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm locking out the doubt.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hands and receive today.
SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.