Experiencing the Miraculous!!!

Faith comes alive through extraordinary testimonies in this captivating conversation about modern-day miracles. Sister Diana and her guests peel back the curtain on supernatural experiences that defy explanation, from raising the dead to temporary healings that enable ministry despite physical impossibilities.

The discussion begins with a fresh perspective on Peter and John healing the lame man at the temple gate. Why had Jesus passed this man multiple times without healing him? The answer reveals profound truths about God's perfect timing and how positioning ourselves for ministry creates space for divine intervention.

Listeners will be riveted by personal accounts that challenge conventional thinking: a woman turning gray and cold before being resurrected through persistent prayer; a missionary witnessing dramatically higher healing rates among indigenous populations than in Western contexts; and a woman with missing bone in her leg miraculously enabled to kneel after 24 years of physical impossibility.

Perhaps most valuable is the group's honest wrestling with difficult questions. Why do some prayers for healing go unanswered? Why do healing evangelists sometimes die of illness? Their wisdom offers comfort to anyone standing in faith while waiting for breakthrough: "Faith is not what we achieve, it's what we are."

Whether you're seeking a miracle, questioning why one hasn't come, or simply curious about supernatural manifestations in today's world, this episode provides both inspiration and practical insight. The conversation culminates with a powerful reminder from Hebrews 11 that genuine faith persists regardless of outcomes.

Join us for this faith-building journey and discover why we must never give up, never say die, and never quit believing that God is still in the miracle-working business. Share your own miracle stories with us at www.m3mi.org.

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Transcript

Welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered

Speaker 2 0:13

Hey y'all, welcome to Simple. Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm your host, Sister Diana. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey today. Can we be real? Being a Christian is not always easy, but you are not alone. So grab you a drink, grab you a snack. Let's open the word and see what Jesus has to say today. Hey, welcome to Semper Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm Sister Diana and I thank you so much for being with us today. I'm so excited we're doing this additional podcast.

Speaker 2 0:48

If you haven't listened to the study of the book of Acts, please go and do so. There's intro, chapter one, chapter two. We just started chapter three. Go back and join us on that. That's just a powerful, powerful word needed for the church today. But right now I just wanted to kind of. We have Brother Mark Ellis here with us today. We have Brother Ernie, brother Mark, sister Patty, sister Audia, sister Ann and myself, and I just wanted that. We were talking about the third chapter of Acts and you were talking about you went through the scripture about when Peter and John go to the gate. Yes, and so the thing that Peter does after he prays for him, this miraculous thing happens and he pulls him up to stand up.

Speaker 3 1:40

Okay, In my mind he's either pulling or yanking. He is getting the man to his feet and I have prayed for people before I've seen some broken bones healed. My son, god, healed his broken foot, but nobody laid hands on him. But I've prayed for people with broken hands, broken bones and God's healing, but I never, ever grabbed someone, jerked them out of a bed or off out of the ground.

Speaker 3 2:20

I think and I pray that while we're waiting for Jesus to return, we become more and more the church that is in the book of Acts, because that's the church he's coming back for.

Speaker 2 2:37

Do you know one thing that I read about Smith Wigglesworth? Okay.

Speaker 2 2:42

Yes, one of the great patriarchs of of healing and in miracles and signs and wonders and all that, right, um, and the story was that smith goes to a funeral, okay, um, and there he's going to pray for the person who has died, okay, and he goes in there and he tells everybody else to get out of the room and he prays for the man and then immediately picks the man up out of the casket and throws him against the wall. Because he wasn't subtle about it, right, throws him against the wall and commands life to come back into his body. And of course it doesn't. And so he did it again, picked him up and threw him up against the wall and the man came to life. The man came to life. Smith would punch you in the stomach, he would do everything else to just say In modern times, people I can think of.

Speaker 3 3:53

In modern times, people I can think of, Smith Wigglesworth and a man named. What was his name? Now I can't remember Branham, william Branham. Things they did in the name of Jesus Make me pause.

Speaker 2 4:14

Lord, I surely can't do that, unless you just stand here and say I need the audible voice.

Healing at the Temple Gate

Speaker 3 4:20

I don't know, maybe Pastor Mark remembers this story, but I read it in the book. I read about Smith's Wigglesworth book and I read this other book years ago about Brother Branham and he was at some crusade and he was praying for people that come up in a line and tell me what's the matter with you, and then he'd pray for them, god would heal them and there'd be testimonies. He looked at this one guy. He said tell me what's the matter with you. The guy said I have rheumatoid arthritis throughout my body, I have sclerosis of the liver and he starts naming all these things. He says and I need to be healed right now. Brother looks at him and says no, you don't have any of those things. You came up here to make a mockery of God but you will leave with all of those things.

Speaker 3 5:23

I was reading that.

Speaker 2 5:28

They got my attention.

Speaker 3 5:29

I promise you, we're laughing now, but sometimes, when Jesus comes in the room, there is no laughter.

Speaker 2 5:38

Yeah, fr Mark. What are some miraculous things you've seen in your ministry, because you've been pastoring forever, right?

Speaker 1 5:51

I've been in ministry 50 years.

Speaker 2 5:53

Yeah, so tell us some of the things you've experienced.

Speaker 1 6:11

One of the things that probably stands out is we were having a choir uh celebration that night. We had a guest director and I was in the choir and, uh, we had had a man that uh actually a relative had broken into his home and had shot him and uh him in the hip or leg, I can't remember exactly, and he was getting around on crutches.

Speaker 1 6:30

He had been, you know, lamed up for a little while and the Spirit of God got to moving that night and we prayed for him and next thing, you know, there was no crutches, he was running up and down in front of the church and praising God, and that's one of the big ones. Now I've experienced miracles in my own life, just of myself. My parents lost a child before I was born, child before I was born, and the doctors told them that because of a blood situation that they'd never be able to have another child and if they did, that probably wouldn't be, you know, normal. And when I come along, of course technology had come further at that point and they had machines ready to purge my blood when I was born. But when I was born there was no problems, nothing had to be done.

Speaker 1 7:39

And so I've just experienced, you know, a lot of those the blind, the latest blind one, I remember that very well. You know, just God is still doing things. We've become so accustomed to leaning on doctors and medicines that that's our first response. When we have an ache or a pain, we go to the medicine counter, or we go to the doctor to get a prescription or have a procedure done, rather than going and having prayer, the Scripture says call on the elders of the church.

Speaker 1 8:32

If we do that if we get back again to the Acts church, I think we will see more of those things done. But it's just become so simple here. Why do we see so many miracles in other countries?

Speaker 1 8:48

They don't have those options and so they rely on God rather than rely on the other options around them. And I'm not saying that we're bad because we go to the doctor or that we take medicine, but I think we have to balance our reliance on God and our reliance on man and try to be always more and more reliant on God, and I know that we don't always see the miracles that we want. Paul had the thorn in the flesh. He prayed three times, was not delivered, and God's word to him was my grace is sufficient. Amen, rely on me.

Speaker 1 9:37

My father was a minister, pastor for many, many years and died at the age of 72. We prayed for healing, we believed for healing. It didn't come. I don't have answers as to why, but I know that God is still faithful and I know that he still heals. I know a missionary brother that has seen so very many miracles, overseas and here take place through his ministry and a few years ago was diagnosed with cancer and he has gone through so much since that time and he's just now starting to regain strength. And I want to say, lord, why? But I know that there will be a purpose in it somewhere. I just believe that, that it's in the will of God.

Speaker 2 10:36

A lot of the people who carry the miraculous, who carry that anointing for signs, wonders and miracles, and I think we all should right carry that anointing for signs, wonders and miracles Now, I think we all should right. But, like Catherine Coleman as well, she died with heart issues, she was having heart surgery and all that, but she knew the exact time day that she was going to die. And I think that the Lord allows that for those type of people, because then you know, it wasn't them that healed anybody.

Speaker 1 11:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3 11:11

Because if it was, they'd heal theirself. I share with Mark the knowledge that I just don't know enough, because when we went we had seen some miracles in our life my wife and I before and we went to the Navajo Indian Reservation and you could say, probably among the Navajos, you could say 50% of the people you prayed for got a bona fide miracle Before that, maybe 10 or 15% of the people we prayed for got a miracle Before that, maybe 10 or 15 percent of the people we prayed for got a miracle that we could say we could prove this documentation this is a miracle. Then I went to both mom and I went to Australia just for a month and I had a friend, roscoe C, who was a missionary there, asked me to come and spend some time with him and we went ministering to Aborigines and Torres Islanders. One day one of the white Australian ministers in the group looked at me, says I know why you're mad. I said I didn't say I was mad. He said you're mad and I know why you're mad. Are you so smart? What am I mad about? I know why you're mad. Oh, you're so smart. What am I mad about? You know I don't know. He said everybody you prayed for has got healed and you're going to go home and maybe 10 or 15% of the people you pray for is going to get healed, and you don't know why. He said that happens to me every time I come and minister among these people because everybody I pray for gets healed.

Speaker 3 12:49

And I sat there and I couldn't deny it Alcohol poisoning, broken back, broken leg, blind eyes and all these people healed right in front of me. But none of them acted like it was strange. I didn't see one Aborigine who was shocked that there was a healing. I didn't see one Islander. You know, even the unbelievers, when they saw it were like, oh, that's a real miracle. But you know, in our churches we ought to rejoice over miracles, don't get me wrong, but they're not common enough. And I don't blame Jesus and I don't say that to beat us up, mark, but the truth, what you were saying about going to the doctor first and certain ailments in my body and I know that you have one and I have a back issue that never did get healed.

Stories of Modern Miracles

Speaker 3 13:55

But while I was in the hospital for it, god healed the man in the bed next to me, healed him of cancer when I prayed for him and we got a card from five years later. Hey, ernie, just want to me. Yeah, healed him of cancer when I prayed for him. And we got a card from five years later. Hey, ernie, just want to let you know I am cancer free, no cancer. I remember when his wife banged open the door, made the room sound like I was in a bell. She said I ran up four flights of stairs because I couldn't wait to tell you. They cut him open and there is no cancer. They did no surgery. They closed him up. Wow, but I was laying in the bed with a broke back. So, no, I don't always know how God's going to do things, but I will tell you about a miracle for my wife and I. Mark prophesied to me one day we have it in writing.

Speaker 3 14:52

He prophesied to me. We were just in church, just praying, worshiping. He turned around, he walks up to me and said God says your financial issue is healed, it's taken care of. I want to tell you something. I'm not a millionaire, you know I'm on disability. I'm not a millionaire, you know I'm on disability, I'm on Social Security and I didn't win the lottery. But from that point till now, every bill has been paid.

Speaker 2 15:23

Not only for us, but for others.

Speaker 3 15:25

And God has helped us to do for others. Yeah, and we eat royally. We go to Dairy Queen and Burger King whenever we want. But you know, you look at Pastor Mark, he's not a billionaire.

Speaker 1 15:44

One of the things that when I think about it, when they talk about, and when I say overseas, I'm going to say less Western Right, because what we experience in America is experienced also in Canada and Europe and Western communities Canada and Europe and Western communities. But when, like the Torres Islanders, when they receive a miracle, they recognize this is God, it's just something there, they know that they've received it from God. In America, when a miracle happens, too many times it becomes a spectacle.

Speaker 3 16:33

Yes, and people debate over was this psychosomatic?

Speaker 1 16:39

Rather than it being an evidence of God, in America it becomes just a spectacle, and I think that's one of the things. It hinders Reasons. It hinders, yes, the miracle working power of God.

Speaker 3 16:55

I don't understand. I know Mark has many other things that he's prayed about than what he spoke over. My wife and I. I guarantee you not every one of those things has been fulfilled yet.

Speaker 2 17:07

Yet.

Speaker 3 17:09

I've prayed over many things. We're praying over situations. They haven't been come to fruition yet. It's not there. But faith is not evidenced by what we have. We are the child of God who believes. I mean, as far as I know, that's the first time I've ever made that statement, but, mark, I'd like you to use your wisdom and tear that apart.

Speaker 1 17:47

Well, the first thing that popped in my mind is Hebrews 11.1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Faith is not necessarily experiencing it right now, knowing that it is taking place, but it's that certainty that this is something that God has spoke to you and therefore it's going to come to pass. And faith is what. I borrow this from a friend of mine but faith is what brings it from that supernatural world into the natural. The timing of that we have less control over. We're not always going to say, okay, right now, God, because God has his own timing. Speaking of that, in the scriptures, in the third chapter of Acts, we talked about how many times did Jesus see that lame man?

Speaker 2 18:45

Yeah, that's the point, lame man was there.

Speaker 1 18:49

Jesus was in the temple.

Speaker 2 18:51

He had to have seen it.

Speaker 3 18:51

He was over 40 years old.

Speaker 1 18:53

Yet he didn't heal him. The great healer walked past him and didn't heal him because there was a time for it to take place and that was when Peter and John went to the temple at the hour of prayer, the evening hour of the evening sacrifice, the burning of the incense, when people gathered there to pray. There was going to be a crowd there. And now he walks in and Peter and John are moved by the spirit of God I believe it wasn't just random, but moved by the spirit of God looked at him and said silver and gold, have we none but such as we have we? Looked at him and said silver and gold, have we none but such as we have we?

Faith Despite Unanswered Prayers

Speaker 1 19:34

get to you yeah and rise up and walk and he went in and it opened the door for them to be able to minister jesus, yeah, and to show the world that jesus was active and moving and miracle working power still, even though he had physically left the earth.

Speaker 2 19:53

You said oh, I'm sorry, let me just say one thing, but Peter and John had to be positioned there as well.

Speaker 1 20:00

That's right.

Speaker 3 20:03

Right, that's so true. And it was almost like a slap in the face of the unbelieving world. It was almost like a slap in the face of the unbelieving world. Just because Jesus physically is gone does not limit the power of his presence. That's right. Say that louder.

Speaker 3 20:22

His name Does not do away with the power of the name of Jesus. You know, I don't know how it did. Forgive me, mark, but people marvel at us that we baptize in Jesus name and they say does it? Some would say, well, what difference does it make, because I'm being baptized in faith. If it makes no difference, why didn't Peter and John look at this guy, grab him by the hand and say in the name of the father and in the name of the son? Because Jesus never intended those words to be repeated. I know I was baptized that way and I know people are in faith and in integrity. No challenge there that they're doing that in faith and in integrity. But my point is the name of jesus yes, I love it is the name above every other name yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 21:26

But here's the thing they could have been so busy going to church quote unquote that they would have missed the moment you know, because they were going to do the prayer thing right. They were on their way to the religious activity of the time and they could have missed that moment. That man could have missed the moment that God had set aside for him because the servants were too busy going to church, if you will. How many of us miss moments because we're so busy doing our religious stuff that we overlook the people that God puts in our path?

Speaker 1 22:06

It's very true. And here's another thought on that is talking about timing again. If they were so faithful in going to the house at the hour of prayer, how many times had they walked past? Yeah, that's the point. But in that moment, in that time, being sensitive to the Spirit in God's time I'm real big on God's time and I remember we were trying to do something at one of the churches I was a part of in the past and it just there kept being one obstacle after another. And I said in God's time, I kept telling the group that I was leading in God's time, it's going to happen. We just have to keep praying, being faithful and keep doing the things that we know that we need to do. So Peter and John kept going to the temple to pray because that was their routine and they were going to keep that hour of prayer until, all of a sudden, one day, god says let's do something different today, let's show up. And so they see him and they stop and this miracle takes place.

Speaker 2 23:24

Yeah, I love that. I love that. I know that we've seen. You know, of course, I've died before, so I mean it's cool. I mean, when you've died and you came back, that's a cool thing. I like that. I know that we've seen. You know, of course, I've died before, so I mean it's cool. I mean, when you've died and you came back.

Speaker 3 23:34

That's a cool thing. I like that statement. Of course, I've died before. That's cool. I mean it's cool.

Speaker 2 23:38

I mean to experience something like that, you know. But then you know we did see a woman raised from the dead.

Speaker 2 23:48

Yes, we did we got people around the table. We were in a church service. Uh, one of our little ladies. Her name was sister martha and she literally died in the middle of service and there was no doubt that this woman was dead. She was as gray as an elephant, she was cold and gray. Sister patty, sorry, no breath. No breath, no pulse, nothing right. And I was praying. For what was that lady's name that always came down for prayer? Teddy, no, sister, janice, janice.

Speaker 3 24:22

Okay.

Speaker 2 24:22

The real, yeah, the big lady, that real tall lady, and she would come down every week. She really wanted to be delivered and all this, but she was entangled in some things. So I was praying with her on a walker, on a walker right, um, because I hadn't. I didn't walk for, you know, seven years. So I'm praying for her and all of a sudden I see sister martha over here on my, with my right eye, and she collapses and she just, I mean, she turns as gray as anything you can think of.

Speaker 2 24:55

And I look at my mom and because she's there and I, and we know, I'm like, oh no, not today, you know and mom was like and I was like I hobbled over there quickly, you know, on my walker, and we we begin to circle around her and begin to pray in the name of Jesus and call life back in her body. And it was not an instantaneous thing.

Speaker 3 25:17

No, it took about 10 or 15 minutes and we pray and the. Emts had already been called.

Speaker 2 25:22

Yeah.

Speaker 3 25:23

On their way.

Speaker 2 25:23

Yeah. So we were going to be the church with the ambulance out front, and so we I mean, we just prayed and we prayed, and we prayed and all of a sudden she we set her in a chair. She was still out. We set her in the chair and she was just slouched over, you know, and all of a sudden she just slowly raised up and she just looked and then she opened her eyes. She goes well, that was a weird experience.

Speaker 3 25:53

And.

Speaker 2 25:53

I said I bet it was.

Speaker 3 25:58

You need to testify today. You need to testify Because not long ago, a group that we have fellowship with we got together and we had fellowship, communion and foot washing, and something happened at foot washing.

Speaker 2 26:14

Yeah.

Speaker 3 26:14

That you need to explain to us why this is a miracle and talk about it.

Speaker 2 26:21

Yeah, well, you know, of course I had the accident. I've never shared that on a testimony on here, so I'm going to have to share that one day.

Speaker 3 26:27

But as a result of it, you need to talk about what happened then.

Speaker 2 26:30

Yeah, so what happened was because, a result of that, I had so many surgeries on this left leg and it's metal and so it's very tender right where the knee is um, so you don't kneel do you have a?

Speaker 2 26:47

kneecap. I, I do have one, but it's like somewhere in there, you know, but it's I mean you can if you touch it. Right now it's still very tender, like the kids climb on me and stuff. I'm like, just don't touch that leg right there, you know. And so it's impossible to do that and so, as a result, I'm short an inch on the left side and then the right side takes all the bearing of everything, right, so it's very tender as well.

Personal Testimonies of Divine Intervention

Speaker 2 27:16

But we were doing foot washing and I heard the Lord say get down there, you need to wash these ladies' feet, specifically Sister Patty and Sister Audia, that I was to wash my people, you know their feet. And I was like, okay, how do you think I'm going to do that, you know? And all of a sudden I had this vision of my mother at a ladies thing and she was washing people's feet. And I remember when she came to me and washed my feet, I thought I'm so unworthy of that, I'm so unworthy of that, I'm so unworthy of that and um, so I said I've got to get down here. And so I just got down there and I haven't in over 20, 21, almost 22 years since I've known you since the year 2000 yeah I have not known you to kneel for any reason, because you couldn't bend your leg far enough to kneel.

Speaker 3 28:15

I couldn't, I couldn't. So that's almost that's 25 years, diana.

Speaker 2 28:21

No, that was yeah, that was 2001 is when the Rick was.

Speaker 3 28:24

Okay, so since I have, one year off.

Speaker 2 28:27

Yeah, 24 years.

Speaker 3 28:30

And you knelt for the first time. Yeah, in my mind.

Speaker 2 28:35

A minute or two. No, we were there for like 10, 15 minutes.

Speaker 3 28:40

In my mind. Here's the deal when you obeyed the Lord in ministry, he made a way.

Speaker 3 28:51

He made a way. Yeah, he made a way. Brother randy cripps, who pastors the journey church in in uh roy city, when we were in college, in bible college. He came to class one day and he was so beside himself and he was talking to me, and, well, a couple other guys around there too, but he and I were talking directly. He said, ernie, I got on the platform sunday night. I was talking to me and a couple of other guys around there too, but he and I were talking directly. He said, ernie, I got on the platform Sunday night.

Speaker 3 29:14

I was supposed to preach and I got one of these migraines and I can't do anything when I have them. He said I'm sitting on the platform and I get this migraine. He said I don't know what I'm going to do. They're going to ask me to preach. I said I don't know what I'm going to do. They're going to ask me to preach. I said I can't move.

Speaker 3 29:33

We were at the house one day when migraine came on. He went to bed and he didn't talk to anybody. He didn't come out anymore. His wife Lois said he ain't coming out, leave him alone. So, at any rate, he said they called my name to preach and I got up he can't see hardly he makes his way to the pulpit. He said open the Bible and I could see it and I started preaching and I had no pain. He said there was a great service, the altar service was great. He said I closed my Bible, I went back and sat down and I had the pain again. That's twice now. I've heard of something miraculous, divine, and we used to see old re johnson preach and he'd be on that cane and during his preaching the cane would disappear and he'd be all over the place. I don't understand all that God does, but I wanted you to testify about that miracle Because you determined to serve God's people the way God wanted you to.

Speaker 3 30:45

And when you were unable, he said I got you Determined to serve God's people the way God wanted you to, yeah, and when you were unable, yeah, he said I got you yeah, yeah, no, when we like.

Speaker 2 30:59

Right after, okay, after the accident, that's 2001. 2007, remember we had the women's ministry and we were traveling the country and sharing right.

Speaker 2 31:09

When we would minister, I was in a wheelchair, and when we would minister, um, I would get up and give a word and share testimony, and then we would and I would stand the whole time now, understand, at that time my plate had broken in my leg. They had put it in there several times, but it had broken and was up inside my thigh muscle, if you will. And so there was three inches of missing bone, from the fibula tibia up to the femur. There was this gap.

Speaker 2 31:46

So if you looked at the x-ray, there was a three inch gap there, and and so. But when we began to minister, I could stand there on both legs no walker, no wheelchair and we would lay hands on people, do deliverance, do things for hours. You know the whole congregation. Once they see one thing, they want to yeah, everybody comes right. So we would sit there and pray for them, and pray for them, and pray for them, and I didn't have any assistance the whole time. But as soon as the last person was prayed for, I would collapse and they would have to get my wheelchair and we would go to the hotel and ice it up.

Speaker 2 32:31

But during that time, when the anointing was moving and it was just, god was there. You could do. It was miraculous, because I couldn't do anything like that on my own. Standing was just. There wasn't any bone to stand on, but I could. Now, god didn't heal me. No bone to stand on, yeah, no bone to stand on, but God didn't heal me. I saw people with cancers fall off. I saw other people get healed, just like you're saying. I saw. I mean we saw tremendous, tremendous things and I remember thinking when's it going to be my turn? You know when's it going to be my turn? You know we talk about timing. When's it going to be my turn? You know, but I never. And y'all can'all.

Speaker 2 33:23

Since y'all were there, y'all can witness, my confession never changed, amen my confession was always that I understand the diagnosis, I know where the blank spot is right. But I will walk again and I told my little methodist surgeon at the methodist hospital in dallas, um, and tell the girls he was a good looking dude. I was like I love coming and looking at you. You're good looking dude. I said. But listen, there will be a day where I don't need you.

Speaker 2 33:50

Thank you he kept telling me there'll be a day that you're there's never going to be a day you're not going to need me. I said I like you, you cute.

Speaker 2 33:58

But there will be a day where I don't need you, and there was. It wasn't my timing, but it was the Lord's timing and he brought the right person and everything worked out. So I love that. We talk about miracles and we know that God still does these things. And if you're reading any of the news, I know that we don't need to necessarily watch all the national news, but if you're reading any of the news, I know that we don't need to necessarily watch all the national news, but if you're reading any of the the church news going out, thousands and thousands and thousands of people are being saved thank you, jesus california just had an outpouring over the weekend where they had 20 something thousand people got saved and baptized and and they're in new york, is having a thing out there in canada and just it's everywhere.

Speaker 2 34:46

It's just sprouting up everywhere and god is still in that business and we need to make sure that we're positioning ourselves, that we can be used by him, that we hear his voice and that we're being used by him right and so, and so I love that you said that. Brother Mark, thank you so much for being with us today.

Speaker 3 35:03

Absolutely.

Speaker 2 35:04

Yeah, thank you, Brother Ernie.

Speaker 3 35:06

Do I have time to read a scripture before you sign off? We love the faith chapter. Mark was quoting from it not long ago. I'm going to close out with just a few scriptures from that. Verse 32, I'll start reading, and what shall I more say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, of Jephthah, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets who, through faith, subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. Out of weakness, were made strong, waxed valiant in fight and turned to flight the armies of aliens. He doesn't even talk about the miracles Jesus did. He's pointing out faith working in these other people Jesus did. He's pointing out faith working in these other people.

Standing in Faith and Never Giving Up

Speaker 3 36:06

Verse 35 he says women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. Now we're talking about believers, also in Jesus. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They left a testimony that the world was not worthy of, but Jesus said I want you to have it. It ain't based on your worth Closing out. They wandered in deserts, having verse 39 and these all having obtained a good report through faith. They lived in caves and dens. They were flat busted. They were disgusted. It was hard for them to make it, but they held on to their faith. They received a good report from god because they maintained faith. So that's that's why I made the statement. Faith is not what we achieve, it's what we are.

Speaker 3 37:39

You know, and I I think your reference to to hebrews 11 and 1. I'll let you deal with that.

Speaker 2 37:45

I'm going to shut up so let me ask you, brother, mark, yes, ma'am, if there's somebody listening today, whenever that they this podcast comes in their path because we pray that this podcast just goes out and and whenever it might be that a person needs to hear the Word, it's relevant for them and they're standing in faith and they're trusting God. They need a miracle in their life. What would you say to them today?

Speaker 1 38:16

Well, let me start with Mark 16, 17. Yes, these signs shall follow them that believe, yeah, in my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up servants. If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them and they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. This is the New Testament promise of God. This is the New Testament promise of God. This is his instruction to them, as we spoke about in the Acts 3 Bible study. So be encouraged, find someone to pray with you, agree with you and just keep holding on and believe in God.

Speaker 1 39:03

Uh, I think sometimes that we give up too soon, uh, and we give up on. Uh, maybe it's the dream that God has given us, maybe it's the healing that, uh, we feel like we've been promised and, and we reach a point, well, it hadn't haven't received it yet. Throw up my hands. I have a condition called trigeminal neuralgia. It's a nerve pain in my face and I dealt with it for years and I would be in severe pain. I'd have to go to the bedroom, turn off the lights. I'd put my head under the pillow because I had to cut off any reception, just cut off all-.

Speaker 2 39:55

No stimuli, stimuli, thank you.

Speaker 1 39:58

And it would pass. I have sat in business meetings where I was biting my tongue in order to sit there and keep a straight face and talk my way through the meeting, prayed for healing. I mean sought God for healing. I was anointed for healing. I mean sought God for healing. I was anointed for healing. And yet I mean I tried some medications along the way without it being successful, until you know my not my healing, but I was able to. I got to a point where I was able to manage the pain through medication. I still trust God for that healing. Yes, it'll be completely gone.

Speaker 2 40:51

Yeah.

Speaker 1 40:55

And I will never give that up.

Speaker 2 40:56

I will never give that up. Amen, amen, amen, amen.

Speaker 1 40:58

Amen, and again for a while. Bill Davis got up a Sunday morning going to church that he pastored and he told his wife today I am going to be healed. He walked into the church house yes, fell over dead.

Speaker 3 41:20

Where's the?

Speaker 1 41:20

healing. The healing was right there. He's no longer in pain, he's no longer suffering. I will receive my healing.

Speaker 2 41:29

John Nix.

Speaker 1 41:31

I'll receive my healing one way or the other. I'm going to trust God until that point in time. So never give up, never say die, never quit right. Just keep trusting, keep believing, because god is still in the miracle working business yes, he is.

Speaker 2 41:50

Yes, he is all right. We're gonna end with that, because you can't say anything greater than that right, it's awesome all right, so we're gonna close.

Speaker 2 41:57

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