Let Your Light Shine (Matthew 5:14-16)| Missionary Jeff Mallory (Sermon)

What if the problem isn’t the darkness around you—but the light within you?

In this powerful message from Matthew 5:14–16, Rev. Jeff Mallory reminds us that we are called to shine, not blend in. Darkness has no power over light—the question is whether we choose to let it shine.

Be challenged to step into your identity, stop dimming your influence, and live boldly as the light of the world.

📖 Scripture: Matthew 5:14–16

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Look what the Lord has done. We are living proof that you don't have to have everything figured out to follow the will of God. In fact, the first one that was identified as a man of faith was Abraham. And I think the defining scripture of his life was, and Abraham went out not knowing where he went. Don't wait for clarity to move. Clarity comes when you move. I'm not interested really in trying to impress anybody with a message. But I hope we can talk into your hearts today. But what you do out there is pure religion. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. That a lot of God planning has gone into this. God, we feel that there is destiny in this house. God, we thank you for your anointing that is here. God, we ask that you would open our eyes to what's potentially available to us in your kingdom. And we ask it in Jesus' name. And everybody say Amen. By the way you worship, I see that there is light in here. And I'm not just talking about the fluorescence or the different kinds of light that are in here, but it's it's it's you. You are the light that matters. And it it comes out of you. And some of you, you you don't you don't think about your light, you just are light. And when you walk into a room, it just lights up. And um it's probably good that you don't say that about yourself. I am the light of this room. You know, it's not that's kind of awkward, but but you don't have to say that because you're not manufacturing that, it's just you. And Jesus said that we are all to be points of light. He said, Ye are the light of the world. And this light has never been more important than it is in our day here today. We live in a world of diminishing light. And it's not that you got you have to hear this, it's not that darkness has gotten stronger, it's that light has become weaker. Jesus said a man doesn't light a candle and then put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick. Why? Because your light is meant to be seen. It is meant to light up the whole house, not just enough for you. And there's a purpose in us having a light, and so don't blame the darkness of the night for being dark. It can't help it. It is not the darkness' fault that it's night, it's the fault that the sun went away. It's the darkest night meant that the moon has hit itself and that the stars aren't there. So don't blame the culture that you're in. We look around and we see that there it's it's an hour of evil and sin, and and it's it's not their fault. We are the light of the world. We are set on a hill, and we are to put ourselves on a candlestick so that we can be the light that lights up the room. And so it's not that there's so much sin in the world, it's that there just aren't enough stars that are shining. In Matthew 5, Jesus seems to contradict himself in this passage I read because he says at first that ye are the light of the world, a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. It can't be hid. And then he says, the next verse, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, which means it is hid. Right? But on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house. And then he reveals why. Number one, you you can't be hid, but you do hide. In verse 16, he says, then let your light shine. It's not the world's fault that we've lost our light. It's that we have hid it, and we don't give our light permission to shine. Jesus said that if I be lifted up, like that analogy, a candle with a candlestick. He said, If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to me. And as dark as that day was for everybody that could see, it was without question the brightest his light ever shone in the world. We blame the night, but we possess the light. We have to stop blaming the night around us. We've start, we've got to start shining. And that's out there. It really doesn't matter how much we shine in here. You know, we just do that kind of automatically. We have synergy. We just all get together, and if you weren't smiling out there, you start smiling in here, right? If you kind of down and sulking out there when you come in here, man, somebody says, How are you doing? Everybody goes, Man, I'm doing great. Because you feel like you are, because you're in here, you're in a fellowship, right? And and and we get strength from one another, but where you really shine. I love history, and from history, we know that when France fell during the beginning days of World War II, Winston Churchill had a famous speech, and he said these words, he says, This is the darkest hour of France. And he went on to talk about the darkness that was in the kingdom, uh, the European world, and it was just engulfing Europe and many countries. But it wasn't the darkness itself that was memorable or or something that really uh resonated with people. You would have never remembered his line that was following in that statement when he said, This is the darkest hour. You never would have heard that because it meant nothing in the moment. Everybody knows it's the darkest hour, so what? You know, you're just saying the obvious. But the reason we talk about it today, and the reason it is so inspiring today, is that someone stood against the darkness. Somebody said, Yeah, it is. But I'm not just gonna sit on the sideline, I'm gonna walk into this darkness because I have the light. He said this. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour. Not because of the darkness, but because of the light. And he rallied a nation by confessing the darkness, but not yielding to it. And I want to know for somebody here today, did your darkest hour become your finest hour? Because human nature is our darkest hour, remains our darkest hour. Like, you know, that's just my identity. I I'm I'm the abandoned one, I'm the betrayed one, I'm the hurt one. But when you when you respond the right way, when you lift that light and you put it on a candlestick in the darkest of nights, you light up the situation, and that's what people remember. Did you let your light shine or did you hide it when darkness needed it the most? And to someone who may be waiting for life to get better, you know, when when things just start working out, when my finances start coming back together, when my relationship is healed, when when you know I stop making the dumb choices and mistakes in my life, then I'll let my light shine. That is not how this works. And what we know about human nature is that the better things are, and and and we live in a world of modern conveniences. My father was born not far from this place towards the the east in this province, and and and when he was raised up, he lived in a stone house that had no toilet. It was no no restroom in there, and he had to go out as a little boy in the cold of the night and and go into the outhouse and go to the back. So we we don't do that anymore. But just because we have an easier life and have more conveniences doesn't mean that our light shines brighter. Prosperity in the old days didn't bring light. It seemed to cause people to hide their lights because they're like, I just need enough light for myself. And we think that the reason our light goes out, and there's somebody here today, I'm really speaking into your life right now. Maybe it's been a few months, and you kind of noticed that maybe I've lost my light. Some of you, it might have been years, you know, you're not who you used to be. Some of you, you don't even remember ever having a light because the way you were you were raised up as a child, and and you look at these situations of trials and suffering and think that's why I don't have light. But that is not exactly true because Jesus said, You are you are the light of the world. He didn't quantify that, he didn't tell you the circumstances in which you were intended to be the light. He just said, You are the light. I don't care if you're down or up, I don't care if you're out or in, I don't care what your situations or circumstances of your life. You are a light and you are set on a hill and you cannot be hid. Nobody can hide your light. The thing that causes us to hide our light the most is prosperity. Amen. And we all want the good life. There's nothing wrong with having a nice house, a nice car, a good job. Don't ever feel guilty about that because God gave you that. But what we ought to be aware of is did that change me? Laodicea was an extremely wealthy banking, textile, and medical city in the ancient world. And the church reflected the culture of their time. And Revelation says this about them. You say, I am rich, I have acquired wealth, and do not need a thing, but you do not realize that you are wretched, poor, pitiful, blind, and naked. So they had everything materially, but their light had grown so dim that their culture was darkened. The sinners aren't the problem, the church is. Amen. We we look at the world and we go, man, they're bad people. You know, look at that bar, it's full filled up, and and and look at them, what they're doing, and man, isn't it horrible what our society has become? And and God is looking at us to say, it's not the sinners. Because I gave you a light and I set you on a hill, and you can't be hid, so somebody's got to take this, it's in here, out there. Timothy warned us about these days. Chapter 3 has said, but mark this, there will be terrible times in the last days, and then he says something that doesn't seem to fit. Terrible times. What do you think when you think terrible times? Hunger, pestilence, famine, wars. But this is what he said. People will become lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, without love, having a form of godliness, but denying its power. In other words, the terrible days are not all that the world can throw against you. The terrible days are when the church hide their light. And in every case, whenever you find that the darkness descended, the problem wasn't the darkness was more powerful because darkness has no power. Light has power. And it wasn't that darkness was overcoming the church, it was that the church was receding, was was relinquishing ground. It was it was surrendering, it was giving up, it was compromising, and and and so don't please don't ask me to quantify or qualify or clarify to everything. Just try my spirit because I'm not being judgmental. I'm not speaking directly to anyone or down to anyone. I'm speaking to myself. Because I know that Brendan and I have struggled with our lights going out, and I'm big enough to admit it. I'm not up here, the paragon of virtue. I'm not up here telling you, look at me, and I you're you follow me. No, I'm just saying, I'm just saying what he's saying. Follow him. But we've been missionaries many years. I was raised as a missionary kid, but man, I'm just telling you, once we got into the world, the underbelly of our cultures. I was raised in the Philippines from age two, K through 12 there, and man, we started getting involved with street children. The video said 300,000 orphans. That's just in one city. Can you imagine that? For a moment. Just neglected, trafficked, abandoned, even harvested organs taken out of living children and sold on the black market. And uh Brent and I have just decided that we're gonna let our light shine. Because I'm not satisfied with that darkness out there. I'm not really willing to surrender to that darkness. And we struggled a bit with all of this, and she said when she went to the Philippines in 1996, she she saw those children and and she's a wonderful lady of God, but she's human. And God spoke into her life and said, do something. But all she felt was pity. And pity, the world doesn't need more pity. Because pity doesn't roll up its sleeves. Pity um doesn't step into the darkness. Pity stays safe and looks into it and says, Man, that's terrible. What we need is compassion. Because compassion can't stay still. Compassion doesn't doesn't separate itself from the situation it sees. Compassion wants to go there. I want to go into that world. And just by the fact that you surrender to the compassion inside of you, you light your world. Pity is an observation that a machine can do, that a reptile can do. But compassion is action. And faith without works, compassion is a spark. And too many of us don't do something because we're waiting for a bonfire. But how does a bonfire start? With somebody saying, I'm just gonna strike a match. I'm a fire starter in this world. And when you're a living flame, you see beyond your situation. It lights up the next person, too. And how many times did the Bible say Jesus was a man just like us? He was hungry, he was thirsty, he was tired. He ended up a long journey at the woman at the well, and he sat down with her. He told his disciples, You've got to go find some food. I am starving. Right? And they went and got that food, but when they came back, they said, Here's your food. I'm sure you're even more hungry than you were before we left and went hunting some food for you. He said, No, I'm not hungry anymore. Why? Because compassion kicked in. How many times did the Bible say that when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion, and then it says he healed them all. It seemed like light, love lit the fire, and the fire is where the power's at. Little girl named Zoe, that's not her name. I we're online, can't say everything. We'll call her Zoe. Nine years old. No father ever. Her mother had ten children by six different men. She don't know how many siblings she Actually has. She had to learn to fight. And what's sad is she had to learn to fight her own mom. Because as a little girl, her mom would get into these states and probably alcohol was involved or something, and she would just beat that little girl. And Chloe got to the point where I'm gonna fight back. She's a little spark plug, man. You don't just you don't just hit her without her. I don't care how small my fist is, you're getting my fist. And she learned to fight by fighting her own mom. And finally the mom just kicked her out. She'd kicked out all the other children, but she finally kicked her out and or gave the other children away. And so she's on her the streets. She wears a baseball cap backwards because it looks tougher. She has to be that kind of, you know. And no one to defend her alone on those streets. I'm telling you, man, it it's it's not a good situation. The day they introduced us to her, though, um, they they were saying the standard, you know, this is Papa J. They call me Papa J. I'm Jeff, Papa J. That's Mama B. And everybody accepts that, but Chloe didn't. She said, no. I looked at her. What do you mean, no? She said, I will not call you that. She said, You're my mom and dad. So you're daddy and your mommy. And that's what I'll call you. And I looked at her and immediately thought, where'd that come from? You've never had a good dad. You've never had a mom worth having. You've never had any of that in your life. But she still carried that desire. She'd never seen it. But she recognized it. That's safety, that's security, that's love. And I want to accept that. And I want to give to that. It's like that little girl, her compass still pointed true north. And when she said that, she created her own world. Instead of just allowing somebody to say, This is your reality, this is the definitions of things in your life. This is the terms that you're gonna have to live your life in. She just put up her fists and she said, No, I've got another life. My first story is not my only story. I still got stories to live. And I choose another one. She'd been hurt and wounded her whole life and abused her whole life. First time she heard me preach. We brought them. We preach all over the Philippines. And so we were able to bring them to a small church in the Philippines. I'm in Manila. And I actually read that scripture for the first time I'd ever done it. And in a message about that. And it was a very simple version of this. And it was basically the point was just let your light shine. Sometimes we lose our light. We let it go out. Let your light shine. Little Zoe was the first to the altar. I'm looking at her. She's never been to church. This has started quite recently. And she's at the altar crying and praying. And I'm sitting back behind the pulpit. And she comes up, she gets close to me. And she said, Daddy, I don't want my light to go out. She said, I want my light to shine. And imagine caring about yourself so much that you will forgive any hurt. Instead of holding on to that grudge, being bound by that abuse. Being trapped by your own failure and shame. You let it go. Because I want my light to shine. These children have taught us a lot. And over again, I consider myself looking at them. You have to understand when judgment day comes, you won't be standing alone before God. You'll be in a line. And there'll be others beside you. And all of our excuses and explanations before God that we rehearse. Well, I did that because of this. And I'll stay away from the altar today because somebody said something that I didn't like. I've had a bad day. I've had a bad week. Maybe you've had a bad month. I know what it's like to have several bad years. And we shut down. We hid our life. Expecting others to make me happy. If you will change, then I can be happy. Right? Wives don't expect your husband to be the source of your happiness. That's giving them way too much power. And and we blame others for our lost joy, and we look outside for peace, or we live without gratitude. And we all got excuses, right? Our other orphan, I'll call her Cassie, is now looking to her future. And she finally is in a situation where she can actually see her future. And she said, When I go to college, I want a degree to be a social worker. Because I want to work at Hope Village and I want to help other children like me to get out of their situation. Who does that? Who does that? Who draws from their suffering and says, Because of my pain, I can heal you. My pain didn't disqualify me. That pain qualified me. And now you're in position to change the world. I'm wounded, but I'm a wounded healer. We planned an outing for them before we left. This last time we just we're only here four weeks, so we got to go back. We plan an outing for them, and it's part of our program and our our foundation that every month the children get to have an outing somewhere. They go camping or something. But we were busy, so we we decided we're just gonna take them to Manila. We had work to do there, and so there's a hotel that we stay that it's a very nice hotel, but we've stayed there for 25 years. They give us an incredible rate. And um the management knows us, we're basically family with that property, and they have a swimming pool. In all those years, I've never seen the swimming pool. And I love water, but it's just like we're working, you know. It's never never even saw it, much less dip the toe in it. But the girls, of course, they wanted to swim because all they knew was sewer water. And when the monsoons came, they'd they'd they'd run in the gutters. And so they wanted to swim. So Brennan and I were in a cabana on one side of that that pool, and we're just sitting there. Some of our staff were there with them and supervising the kids in the pool, and we'd given them like a GoPro camera. And little little Zoe. Um, we didn't know it. We they were on the other end. But little Zoe asked our head of security names Angie. She was a police officer and retired or resigned from the force so she could work at Hope Village because that was more rewarding to her. And so Zoe uh Zoe asked her to hold that camera. She said, I have something to say. And when she was done, she ran to over to us with that camera and she said, In Tagalog, because she always tells me, Daddy, Tagalog, which means Tagalog only. She can speak English, but she wants her daddy to speak Tagalog to her. And I'm I know a lot of it, but I can't just haul off and speak it, so she's always correcting me. Um and so we didn't have time to see it. It was a few days later. We're actually in the US already by then, and we didn't realize how special it was. And you can you can show the video, no sound. There you won't understand it anyway. She's in Tagalog. But Zoe asked for this video, who had never known a faithful person in her entire life, had never had anyone to depend on. Mother to her meant pain, abandonment, stolen childhood. And then I looked at that, the contrast of what she had been through, and now how she's exposed, expressing herself and expressing love. And it seemed impossible. My question for you today is what if we could pray like an orphan? A lot of our prayers are God bless me, right? Increase me. I need a better job. And and there's no nothing wrong with praying material things, but there's more than that. What if we could say I don't want to be bitter? She hates her mom, but she's working through it. How better would our lives be if we loved always? If we forgive while being hurt. If we dance while we're weeping, we choose anger because we forget love. It's the absence of love. But you don't know what I've been through. No, I don't, but tell that to Zoe. You know what we're finding out is that orphans pray. Time and time again we found that something happened in their life that was a result to a prayer, and what we also find out is nobody taught them to pray. You don't have to learn how to pray. You just have to have your light. Let my light shine. They call into the darkness of the night in their life without the assurance that anyone out there can hear them. But they prepare for joy tomorrow. They're in a position for a new life even though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Brenda, I Brenda told me, I'm trying to wrap this up. Brenda um said that I've been sick a lot, and I have. I was healthy all my life. Construction, sports, strength. Never went to the hospital, and suddenly I'm the sick guy. Suddenly I can't trake out the trash. I can't touch the light bulb and the doorknob because or the light switch and the doorknob because I don't have an immune system anymore. I had stage four cancer with tumors everywhere. It's called incurable. I was accepted into a clinical study, not really to help me, but to help science. It's like it's over for you, but maybe you can help us. Got to go home three nights in nine months. You see me up here, but you don't know where I've been. Give me that bag. My bone marrow was 70% cancer. And it and and it was over. They they were saying it's over. You know, this disease is a killer. It was called mantle cell lymphoma. It's not one of the good infl lymphomas. Everybody was dying in the study. They said you're next. I had tumors just coming out of everywhere. And that's when Brenda was telling you that it was the end was there. The end was there. And I'm looking into the situation where there's no health, there's there's no future, there's it it's it's just that kind of a situation. And I said, Brenda, we need to meet. And I I didn't have it all figured out, I didn't know what I was doing. I just knew I had to do something. And what I was doing in that moment was saying, I've been surrendering to the dark too long. The night is not going to define me because I am a light. And I looked at her that day and I said, What if the doctors are wrong? I want somebody to know there's power in your voice, there's power in your words. Stop defeating yourself by accepting what if the best is yet to come? Come on, somebody, what if the best is yet to come? I don't know where you are at. I don't know what's going on in your life. But I said, what if a new anointing is coming? Don't go out of the valley the way you came in. Let it change you. Yeah, though I what? What not day though I sit or they that I stagnate or they that I surrender. No. I'm gonna walk through this valley. My reality. We have more power than we think we have. Somebody's here saying, man, there is too much silence in my life. Silence has no power. It has a little bit of sound. It's easy. A baby's voice can break the silence. Emptiness is not a thing. Emptiness is the absence of something. But it's not a thing. Poverty likewise is nothing. For poverty is just a lack of wealth or resources. So all you need to do to break poverty, and I'm talking about the poverty of the mind. You just get some resource into your mind. I'm on a thousand hills. I don't care how my situation looks. I don't care how what they say about me. It's not a thing. It's the absence of human. It's the absence of life. This is the absence of hearing. None of these things have power. The solution has power. It's the absence of life. A dry place is the absence of moisture. Come on, somebody. Filament is the absence of motion. It's not move. Liness is the absence of compassion. Sadness is the absence or deficiency of happiness. If you if you aren't happy or you it takes a lot to make you happy, I have a I have a piece of advice for you. Get happy easier. It takes a lot to make you happy. You won't be happy a lot. I'm alive. I don't have purpose. You know what you need is purpose. I know I'm not really being deep here, but we get trapped by the weakest things that are actually nothing. Nothing is the absence of something. So if you're looking at your life and saying, Man, I got nothing, just add a little something. And darkness is really nothing. It is the absence of light. Hallelujah. And the most beautiful words ever written, I think, in John chapter 1, verse 1 through 5, it says, In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning, with God, all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. He was the source of it all. There was nothing, and then He stepped in. He populated your dreams, He populated your purpose, He populated your love, He populated gratitude. All you've got to do is step with Him. If you can't move, you can't follow God. And then He said, Verse 4 In Him was life, and the life was the. If you lost your light, you've got to fight for your light, and you've got to take whatever is stopping that shine, and you gotta remove it and say, I'm letting my light shine again. I'm tired of Verse 5, and the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. I don't even understand what's happening, but something has changed me. I was in darkness, but now I walked into his marvelous light. And my life changed. Hallelujah. I want somebody to know in this house, I don't care where you're at, what you've come from, your life experience, you have the power to change. God gave you a voice, and you've got to use it to create your future. Amen. Light, your light requires your permission. Amen. They can't stop your light. But you have to let, he said, let your light shine. Hallelujah. Everybody stand. I want somebody to know if your light has gone out and there's a lot of bad stuff in your past, and you've made a lot of mistakes and failure, you have just identified a space that needs to be filled with something. Hallelujah. I got a lot of empty spots in me, but the answer is I'm just going to put something in there. If you don't have any love, show love. Then you've got love. Right? If you don't have any joy, he said, This joy that I have, I'm going to give to you. My peace. I give to you. So if you don't have peace, all he has to do is wake up in the middle of your storm and say, peace be still. But you've got to call on him. Let your light shine. Hallelujah. I feel faith in this house. I want you to know there's a miracle here for you. But it's not here for the ones that just surrender to their, you know, diagnosis or whatever. There's somebody here that says, I'm tired of just living this way. I'm tired of being discouraged, depressed. I'm tired of the constant, you know, thing that I'm in. You got to learn to resist. You got to be like a nine-year-old little Zoe that can put up her fists and say, I might be little, but I ain't going quietly. I might be small, but I got some fight in me. Devil, you're not going to defeat me. I'm going to fight you to the bitter end. It's called the good fight. Hallelujah. It's the good fight of faith. Hallelujah. Devil, we're going to round two. It might be round 10 for you. It don't matter. Sometimes knockout comes in the round 15, but I'm going to hit you. Hallelujah. So, so. It was a church service like this, an altar like this. Finally, the doctors, the experts, surrendered me to. They said, We're going to sign you out of the study because it's over for you. You can't even benefit science anymore. I had a tumor that was on the liver at the bio duct and it was growing fast. They said, you know, you can really only hope for three to five days. I'm sorry, we tried everything. There's nothing this is your chance to make everything right. If somebody offended you, forgive them. If you offended them, ask them to forgive you. You know, this is it. Get your will and testament because this is it. And I want you to know you don't have to surrender to their word. I love, I love science. I respect doctors, nurses are my heroes, but none of them are God. And so we went to church that next day. And my logical mind, because I'm a logical person, my logical mind was they've prayed for me already. They fasted for me. I fasted for myself. My wife has anointed me with oil. My wife has prayed for me, and everybody's praying for me, and I still am in this situation. And they let me sit on the platform. I was up there. I was so weak. And I couldn't hardly move. There were some people that I I looked at and thought, you should be running right now. You're healthy. You know? But that was wrong on my part. I was being judgmental. Because the Lord convicted me and said, Well, you're not praising me. I'm like, well, I can't really, but he said, just do what you can. You see, it doesn't take a lot. In fact, the Lord said that you couldn't do what you wanted to do because of your unbelief. For if you had faith as what? A grain of mustard seed. That was the smallest identifiable unit of measurement in that world, right? It was the smallest amount. You don't need a lot. Doubt has no power over you. Faith has power over doubt. So all you need is a little bit. And I was sitting up there and I was saying, Yeah, they're not running, but I ain't worshiping either. I can't do much, but I can tap a foot. I started tapping a foot, and I'm telling you what happens is when you activate, you get power. And while I thought I couldn't do anything, I found out I can tap a foot, and then I realized I can actually raise a hand. I can use my voice. I wasn't loud, but you don't have to be loud. It's not about volume, it's about mentality. That I'm gonna speak into this situation. I'm gonna speak life, I'm gonna speak faith. And I found my way down. I couldn't get up the stairs without help, but somehow I got down in the altar and I began to worship God. I don't know what they were doing, I didn't care because they weren't my miracle. I knew where my help came from. And I'm walking, I ain't walking fast. I look like death, but it doesn't matter how you look, hallelujah. It matters how you believe. And faith is not a feeling, faith is a choice. And I just made the choice. I don't have a I don't have power over whether I live or die. That's up to God and the doctors, right? If they can figure it out, maybe they can help me. And if God wants to heal me, he can do that at any time. But if he don't, I gotta go with it, right? Whatever he decides, I'm good with. And I'm walking there and I'm not asking God for anything. I'm just speaking faith. I'm just talking to him. Because in his presence is fullness of joy. His right hand is life evermore. You can't die in him. You just sleep in him. You take a good nap, and when you wake up, you're on the streets of glory. And I'm walking this area, and I felt something happen that I had heard about from others. I'd never experienced it myself, but I knew what it was immediately when it happened. It started at the top of my head, and it was hot. I I felt like it was almost like a laser scanning me. Like hot oil, warm oil just pouring down my body. And I I had they just released me, said you got stage four cancer again. Your bone marrow is just full, you're ate up with it. You got a tumor everywhere we look, you you're full of disease, it's the end of your life. But that why do we think that stage one is any different to stage four than with God? And I felt that happen. I told my wife, I said, I said, Brenda, I went over to her. I said, Brenda, God just touched me. But that wasn't the miracle. The miracle was when I decided to fight. We celebrate over the healing, but there was something before the healing. There was somebody that said, I believe. Maybe you have to say, but help my unbelief. But it don't matter. You're gonna help me, but I because I made the choice, I'm gonna believe. I went to the doctor after that, the short version. The doctor said, I don't know how. I have never seen this in my entire career as an oncologist, but somehow every tumor in your body disappeared.

SPEAKER_01 56:30

Somebody that can dance, I want you to dance.

SPEAKER_00 56:45

It never leaves. They checked my bone marrow and said, man, we did a flow cytometry test on you. Out of two billion cells, if there had been one cancer cell out of two billion cells, we would have found it and we didn't see one.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

Don't tell me, don't tell me it's over.

SPEAKER_00 57:14

Don't tell me God can't. Hallelujah. Somebody's gotta let your light shine. Amen. I want if if there are anybody here, something's activated in you. You're standing, you're already standing. I want somebody to take a step. When you take a step, you're walking into that zone. You're filling that space.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

That space that they told you, the experts said it'll go home, it's over. Hallelujah. Somebody just walked into it right now. Come on. Somebody walked into it. Hallelujah. I'm on my way up.