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But you know, just in in the way of example. You know, Jesus said concerning what we call the Great Commission, he said, go into all the world and preach the gospel, the good news to every creature. And he said, He that believeth and is baptized will be saved or rescued. He that does not believe will be condemned. All right. King James uses the word damned. There will be condemnation. Well, we know what that condemnation is. That's eternal separation from God. So if I think about that right, then there are people that are not going to believe and they're going to be eternally separated from God. With no hope of ever being right in his sight or connected to him ever. And the Bible says they they will be in that place of eternal punishment, eternal torment, uh that uh we call hell the lake of fire. Well, here's the point. If I think about that right, then witnessing's not so hard. Because the person I'm talking to may or may not spend eternity in hell. Right? If if I'm thinking about that right, uh, if I'm thinking about you know the word of what the word of God says correctly, all right, then it makes it easier for those things to operate in my life. But it's how do I think about it? You know, uh a lot of people, when they, for instance, they think about the end times, you know, the end days, and people say we're in the end days. Well, you know, they're looking for tragedy and and horrific events and wars and rumors of wars and devastation. And and certainly the Bible, Jesus said that those things uh would occur, uh, many of them largely after the rapture of the church. But he said for the believer that what the end days held was uh being mighty and doing exploits for God, glory and the power of God flowing. So how it's how you think about the word of God. When uh in Bible school, I would always I would teach on on end times and I would teach on the second coming of Christ, and I would always ask the question how do you see the second coming of Christ? How do you think about it? Because how you think about it determines what you're expecting, it determines what you believe. The Word of God is a record, and it's a record of basically three things. Number one, what God has done. It's a record of what God has done. Secondly, it's a record of what he's doing today. All right, what he's doing right now. And thirdly, it's a record of his will and desire for every person that will believe. All right, a record of what he has done, what he is doing today, and his will and desire for every person that will believe. In Exodus chapter 3 and verse 13, uh God has called Moses and he's sending him back to Egypt. And in verse 13, Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and they shall say, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they say to me, What is his name? What will I say to them? And God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, That's what you'll say to the children of Israel. I am, hath sent me. I am that I am, the I am has sent me. So God introduced himself here as the eternally self-existent one. I am that I am. I need no one else to make me who I am. I am everything in myself. I'm eternally self-existent. Alright? Now, the reason this is important in healing is the the Bible never tries to prove God's existence, it just states the fact that he is. In the very beginning book in Genesis, it doesn't tell us where God came from, it doesn't tell us how God exists, it just says in the beginning, God. That's it. Amen. People always make a mistake when they try to prove the existence of God. I can prove there's a God. No, you can't. If I don't want to believe it, you cannot. That's just it. Well, look at the trees, look at the stars. Oh, there's a perfectly rational, human, evolutionary-based reason for that. Perfectly rational to a person that believes that. Now, the reason I'm saying this is so to try to prove the existence of God is futile if I don't want to believe in God. All right? I've got to have the seed of a desire to believe in God. God is not trying to prove that he exists to people. Amen. You've heard people say, and and this, and people say, I wouldn't say that for anything in the world. If there's a God, let him strike me dead right now. And then they walk off not dead, and they say, see, he told you there wasn't a God. Well, God recognizes fools when he sees them. You know? So, but but the the point is, if he just wanted to prove he was God, that's it. So he says, Who do I say sent me? And he said, the eternally self-existent one. All right, I am that I am, or I will be what I am. Or I will be, in the Hebrew, what I will be. What God is, he's eternally that. What he is, he is eternally. And every attribute of God is an eternal part of his nature. When we make a statement like, I'm God, I change not, or God cannot lie. All right, that has to have a gravity because it's saying something about God. And it's telling me how I'm supposed to think about it. All right? How I'm supposed to think about him, how I'm supposed to think about his word. Every attribute of God is an eternal part of his nature. It's something that he is eternally. And we're not going to go into it, but all the seven compound names of God throughout throughout the scriptures. Uh that this is is is uh we're gonna read one of them in just a minute, where he said, I'm the Lord your healer, I'm Jehovah Rapha. All right, that's eternally who God is. He is eternally our peace, he is eternally our provider, he is eternally our righteousness, he's eternally our covering. And when I when I grasp that concept of eternity and I begin to look at at the things of God from an eternal standpoint, you know, eternity by definition is without beginning and without ending. All right? And when people sit in the drive-thru line and they say this is taking an eternity, they show that they have no concept of eternity or forever. Right? So when when when I understand that God cannot change, he cannot be different today than he was 2,000 years ago. When someone makes the statement and they'll say, well, you know, the early church needed all those signs and wonders for people to believe in God, then they're saying, without saying it, that somehow God has changed. But if God has changed, he can't be relied upon. How can I pray to a God that may change? How can I put my faith? Faith has to be put in something substantial. If I'm putting my faith in someone that can change, how do I know I'm going to receive what I'm building my? How can I build my faith from the word of a God that may change his mind in six months? If God can change, if his word can change, then the book is not eternal. It's no different than the Koran or the Book of Mormon or the Book of the Dead, it's no different than a comic book. You might as well tear the pages out of it and roll old bugler in it. Why? Because it's just paper and ink. It's not real. But when and you take it and you see that everything about God is eternal, it never changes. What his will was, his will is, and his will will be. What he wanted then, he wants now, and he'll want it tomorrow. What he said then, he says now, and he will say it for time and eternity. So what he is, he is that eternally. Every attribute of God is an eternal part of his nature. In Exodus 15 and 26. Again, he's speaking with Moses concerning the people of Israel, his people, which would include us. And he said, if you'll diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, and give ear to his commandments, and keep his statutes, I will put, I will place, I will not allow any of the diseases upon you that I brought or that I allowed upon the Egyptians, for I am. Now see, that that that's important because he uses the first introduction. I am the Lord. I am the Lord, I am Jehovah, I am the eternal. When you read it in the Hebrew, that's how it reads, I am the eternal. God refers to himself in eternity. And he says, I am the eternal that does what? That heals you. All right, now think about this. So if he was the God, the eternal, if he was the Lord, the eternal that healed them, everything he does is eternal. These are his people. I've been brought into that covenant, you've been brought into that covenant if you're a believer. Now, why is this important? Because it's telling me everything about God is eternal where his promises are concerned. Hallelujah. And, you know, in healing school, we have people that come and and and that know the word of God. But the Lord reminded me one time, I've got people that watch all the time that have no concept about God or healing or the word of God. And the Lord said this to me. He said, if people that have a knowledge of my word are dealing with sickness and disease, how much are people without a knowledge of my word dealing with it? And they need to understand, and we have to understand, every time I've trained myself to look at things through this filter, every time I see the words the Lord in Scripture, I immediately think eternal. Because that's what it means, eternal. And so it's when we say this is the word of the Lord, then you're saying it's eternal. Because he said, He said, nothing I've said will fail to come to pass. And so he said, I am the Lord, I am the eternal that heals you. And so there are those that say, Well, God can heal, and he can. But it's more accurate to say God is the healer. Because he can. But you know, you can do something. If God's God, he can do anything. But he could have the ability to heal and yet choose not to be a healer. But he calls himself the healer. Well, if those words were uttered, we could say it this way. If those words came off of God's lips and out of God's mouth, then it's eternal. If he is their healer, he's my healer. Because he cannot say something that then he says, I'm not that anymore. Are you with me? And that's where people mess up, is they'll say, well, you know, the God of the Old Testament. God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. He hadn't changed. He cannot change. Well, but you know, he's not that wrathful, judgmental God. He wasn't wrathful and judgmental in the Old Testament. The only people that you see coming under the judgment and the wrath of God in the Old Testament are people that would not obey God. And the only people in the New Testament that you see that will come under the wrath and the condemnation and the judgment of God are people that won't obey God. They won't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. That's it. That's the only ones. God is love. If God is love in the New Testament, he had to be love in the Old Testament. Because he cannot be something in the new that he was not in the old. Now see, I'm trying to, what I'm wanting to get across in this class is how you view the word, how you view the promises of God. All right? You can know that it's God's will to heal you. But you have to grasp this eternal concept. And so if God is Jehovah Rapha, and he is the Lord that heals you in this verse, then he's the Lord that heals you today. Because he hasn't changed. And healing is not just something God does. It's a part of who God is. You know, every scripture that has to do with salvation throughout the entire Word of God, from the beginning all the way to the end, every scripture has to do with your life being better. Every scripture about salvation, every one, just because of what of, number one, because of what the words mean. Primarily in the Hebrew, it's the word shalom, which the compound meaning is completeness, wholeness, healing, and victory. Prosperity. In the New Testament, it's the word soteria. It's the word sozo. It means the same thing. All right? And so everywhere it says, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. Right? You and your household. Well, obviously that has a reference to eternal salvation. But it also means you're saved, so a lot of other things are going to get better. Because you're saved from what? Galatians 3.13 says, I'm saved from the curse of the law. I'm redeemed. Salvation came through redemption. All right? Salvation came through redemption. I was redeemed from the curse and saved. By redemption, I was saved. Salvation didn't come first. Redemption came first. I was redeemed. The price was paid. And then I was saved. And I was redeemed, saved from the curse of the law. Every sickness that you can find, I've been redeemed from it. What does that mean? The price has been paid. How long was the price paid for? Eternity. Eternally, the price was paid. That's why I can go to God for my healing whenever, because the price has been eternally paid. And that's why I emphasize so often, healing is not something so much that God has to do as it is something that must be received as a finished work and part of the price paid. And so healing has been paid for. And that's why whoever will look in the word, whoever will hear the word and hear that God has paid the price through the sacrifice of Christ, and I can receive healing based on that paid price. Eternally. Healing is so eternal that the Bible says in the book of Revelation that along the river of life are trees whose fruit is for the healing of the nations. Now you would think we're in perfection, we're in eternity. Why would we need healing? Look, I can't figure that out either, but he said they're there for the healing of the nations. It's eternal. Amen. Because whatever God is, he's eternally that. So even in eternity, even when we're in heaven, even when we're in glory, God will still be the healer. Whether there needs to be anybody healed or not, he will still be that. Because he can't change. Say it out loud, he cannot change. Oh, hallelujah. And so when thoughts come, well, will he heal me? Well, he can't change. And the Bible says concerning Jesus that as many as came to him, he healed them all. And so, right? And so when someone says, Well, you know, I just don't know if it's God's will to heal me. Is it God's will to heal me? Well, was it God's will to heal in Exodus? Well, yes. Well, was it God's will to heal in Acts and Mark and Luke and John? Well, yes. Well, then it's God's will to heal now. Hallelujah. And what what God will always act in line with what his will is. Always. Always will. Amen. God cannot do anything that he is not. So if we've ever seen anybody healed, and we have, then we have evidence that God is a healer. He cannot do anything that he's not. So healing is a part of who God is. That's why we can know what God will do and how God will act because we know his nature. Hallelujah. And see, this is important. Because people will come from time to time and they'll say, I just don't understand why God hasn't healed me yet. There's a breakdown there in what they believe. Alright? Because the reason this is so important is if a person's mindset is, I don't understand why God hasn't healed me. The understanding there is I haven't received it. See, I can't put the emphasis on the healer when I have to receive my healing. Why hasn't God? No, wait a minute, hang on. See, here. Here's the challenge. You ready for a challenge? Here's the challenge. The Bible says I have to receive those things by faith. Right? And I know that a lot of times people they just banter that about, well, they must not have had faith. I don't believe that's that the case 100%. But here's what I want you to see. When someone says, I don't understand why God hasn't healed me, and you go through the list. Are you living in sin? Are you born again? Is there anything between you and God? Well, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, well, do you have faith that God will heal you? Oh, absolutely. I believe God will heal me. Then why isn't He? You see where I'm going? Because people will say, well, God hasn't. Now, wait a minute, hang on. In every other thing, if you're talking to somebody that's not saved, if they were to say, Well, why hasn't God saved me? You would say, Because you have not believed in your heart and confessed with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. And you would tell them, the price for salvation has been paid. Eternal salvation, salvation from sin has been paid. You just have to receive it. The price for your healing has been paid. You just have to receive it. And so it's not necessarily an issue of faith, it's an issue of have you received. You can go through the scriptures and see the scriptures and confess the scriptures and have and have great belief and faith that God will heal and God wants to heal you, but you have to receive what you believe God can do and what you believe God wants for you. You have to receive it. See, it's one thing to say, I believe God wants to heal me. That's his will, that's his desire. And another thing to say, and I receive it. I receive it right now. One is saying what God can do and what God wants to do, the other is saying, and I believe he's done it for me. I receive it. And see, that's what that's what makes the diagnosis, the doctor's report, ineffectual in a person's life is because they believe they've already received their healing. Amen. And again, I have to always reference this. We're not denying, we're not, we're not denying the report. We're saying, in spite of the report, I believe I've received my healing. Amen. And so so the difference then is someone saying, well, God can do anything, so of course God can heal, but do you have you received your healing? You know, there's a there's a scripture in the book of Acts, it doesn't have to do with healing, but it has to do with this emphasis, this subject. Uh the apostle Paul said he found believers at Ephesus, and he asked them, he said, Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? And they said, we didn't know whether there'd be any Holy Ghost. Right? So how do you receive the Holy Ghost? If if if if you're, you know, you believe along those lines, Pentecostal, charismatic, how do you receive the Holy Ghost? The Bible says you've got to receive him. You have to receive the Holy Ghost. What did Jesus do? He blew on the disciples. What'd he say? Receive ye the Holy Ghost. What if one of them would have said, I don't receive, he wouldn't have got none? Because you have to receive. Amen. And so this is how I've got to think about this. If if I know God's will and how God will act, then I have to receive it. And so it's not even necessarily that a person doesn't have faith. It's not that they're not doing something right, it's have they received. You can block receiving by emphasizing on everything you've done. Well, I've been confessing the word, I've been declaring the word, I've been standing on the healing scriptures, and I've been doing this, and I've been doing that, but have you received? Or do you think by your much doing that's how you're gonna receive? Faith is this final act. I have received my healing. That's it, I've received it. Now I'm gonna declare the healing scriptures because they are proof of what I believe. Amen. When when I declare I will not die, but I will live, and declare the works of the Lord, what am I doing? I'm taking life. I won't die, I'll live. Amen. Because God is the life giver, not the life taker. He gives life, he doesn't take it. When people say God took him, it just it just shows they don't know anything about God. God doesn't take people. Amen. The one person that we talk about, God took him, God took him alive. And he didn't take him with sickness and disease. I don't know how in the world somebody can die with a sickness or a disease that's under the curse, and people say, Well, God took him. God didn't take him. God didn't take her. Amen. It's it's what I receive. Am I helping you? I know there's a lot, I'm saying a lot, but it's it's what you receive. And in and in charismatic circles, we use that phrase a lot. Do you receive? And it's what you receive. And people say, I don't receive that report. You can only say, I don't receive that report if you've already received another report. That's the only way you can say you don't receive this one. You have to receive this one. What are you not receiving this based on? It has to be on the reception, the receiving of a previous report. Remember the prophet, he said, Whose report will you believe? In other words, I got two. Whose report are you gonna believe? And then he gave us an a uh uh hell. I'll believe the report of the Lord. Right? So when somebody goes to the doctor and the doctor says, This is what you're dealing with, and they say, I don't receive that report, based on what? What are we basing that on? See, that's why you've got to look at this as eternal. He is my healer, he took stripes on his back, he carried my sickness and my disease to the cross and paid the price at the same time that he paid the price for my sin. I was totally cleared of sin. I was totally cleared of sickness, I was totally cleared of poverty when Jesus paid the price on Calvary. All of those I have to receive. The price for the salvation of every man, woman, boy, and girl on the face of this planet has been paid for by Jesus Christ. Every person that was ever born will be born or ever has been born, the price has been paid, but they have to receive it. Hallelujah. When someone says, Well, I don't believe that God would allow me to go to hell. Based on what report? Because he said you got to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and then you'll be saved. So you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you were saved when? Instantaneously, not a few hours later, not two days from then, instantaneously you were saved. The moment you what? You received the revelation that he died for you. And so when you receive your healing, you have received it. Here's what I want you to see. When you received the report about salvation, you didn't necessarily feel saved. How do you feel saved? Religion came up with saved feelings, not God. God never said in a word, you get saved, you'll feel better. Feel different about yourself. Well, of course you're going to because you're a new creature. That load of sin is gone. You've been freed from condemnation and guilt and shame. But you know, about two weeks later, you woke up and you thought, dear God, this salvation thing, I don't know if it's still working because I don't feel no different. Amen. But what'd you do? You said, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm saved. I'm born again. Is that right? The way you receive salvation, spiritual, eternal salvation, is how you receive salvation in any area. Healing is just a part of salvation. It's it's it's the package. Amen. I told you the story about my dad. My dad's in heaven, but he he used to like that the greatest thing you could do for that man was go to the mall and go to that uh hickory farm store and get him one of them beef boxes. Dear Lord. No, there wasn't anything healthy about that man. Nothing. He he didn't eat healthy, drink healthy. He laughed at exercise, and that's okay. I'm not mad at him. But boy, you'd bring that, and you know they had beef sticks and sausage sticks and cheese, cheese, whatever they called it. Cheese log. That just always sounded bad to me. You want a cheese log? No, no, I don't. I I do not. But though that would that would bless him, and and he'd show you the variety. Look here and kill my son and all these different things. Right? It's called a variety box. How do I know? I bought him a lot of them. Salvation is a variety box. It's it's yes, it's eternal salvation from sin and from the curse, and and and yes, you get saved and you you make heaven your home and you miss hell, and that's certainly the largest part of that. But then over here, in salvation, in that box of salvation is healing. And you receive it the same way you receive salvation. How did you receive salvation? You confess Jesus as Lord, and we could say it this way: over your spirit, over your spirit, man. He's Lord of my life. How do you receive healing? I receive Jesus Christ as the Lord over my health. He's Lord over my health. He's Lord over these things that want to take my health. And I that's the report I have to receive. Whose report will you receive? Well, I deny that report. I I refuse that report that I received from the doctor. Then that means I have received this report. Right? So faith has an answer. I mean, I want to keep reiterating this to you. So if somebody said you're not born again, you would say, Yes, I am, because whatever you would say. I remember when I got saved, I remember when I got born again, I remember where I was, I remember what I did, right? I'm saved because of that. So when somebody says, Well, are you healed? Yes, I'm healed. Well, I may not can point them back to the time that the symptoms left my body, but I can take them back to the moment I believed. Amen. I can take them, when the Lord healed me, I can take you back to the moment that I made the decision. I see me as healed. And that settles the issue. From then on, it was just it was just a matter of the of the manifestation showing up because I received it. Because you remember, you remember when you first got born again? Living through certain things and dealing with certain things were not as easy as they are now. But you can remember the day you got victory over it. Because you received the report. Amen. He said, I'm the Lord that heals you, I'm your life giver, I'm your physician. Whatever you're dealing with in your body, it takes one moment in time for the healer to remove it forever. That's it. No sickness or disease can stand in the face of God's ability. Just cannot. And that's what when when you're reading that, that's what you're keeping in your mind. Amen. So don't put the eternal self-existent healer in the corner by giving your attention to the sickness. You understand what I mean by that? Sickness is not eternal. It's changeable. Oh, hallelujah. It's changeable. It can change. Healing can't. It's eternal. It'll always work. It's the higher power. Right? Because it drives sickness out. It removes disease. That's what he said. He said, I'll take sickness and disease from your midst. Amen. Well, when did he do that? When you saw the clear doctor's report? No, when Jesus said it's finished. That's when he did it. See, that's why it has to be received. This is important. Because people will look and they'll say, Well, you know, that person's faith must not have worked or whatever. No, that's not necessarily true. You can have faith and not receive. Because I'm building my faith. I believe, everybody in here, I believe, believes God will heal. Believes God can heal. That's faith. If you believe God will heal you, that's faith. Now, will you receive what you say he will do? That's the difference. I've known people that would tell you that God wants to bless them, and then you try to give them something, they'd say, no, brother, no, no, I can't let you do that. Well, why not? You said you believe God wants to bless you. I was watching a minister the other day, phenomenal minister. I love his ministry, and he's got a great church. And a guy, there was there was a guy there, they told him they had driven like seven days to come to that church. And they had moved their entire family to come to that church. And they felt like God wanted to be there. And the pastor, they they they need help, and the pastor's up there, and he's praying for them, and he says, Okay, here's what we're gonna do. He said, I want you, and he's talking to whoever is over this, he said, I want you to write out a check, get a check for $50,000 we're gonna give to this family. And the and the guy there that needs everything, needs everything. No, no, no, don't do that. No, we just, we just we just want to be, we just want to give a and the pastor being a good pastor, he said, you're not gonna block my blessing, give him the check. You do whatever you want to do with the check, but we're gonna give it to you. See, this is important. And so someone will say, I believe God will heal. I believe God can heal. Will you receive it? Amen. Now you should confess scripture every day, you should declare healing over your body every day, ever how many you want to confess and declare ever how many times a day. But always be cognizant of this. That's not how that's not why I'm gonna receive. I'm gonna receive because the price is paid. And my declaration of the scripture is evidence that I believe what Jesus did. I've said for years, people complicate faith, and they give you 18 ways to have strong faith, and 21 ways to make sure your faith works, and 14 ways to fail-proof faith, and 55 ways. Now you know I'm joking about that, but it right, it's it's all these ways. The Bible gives one way. Believe in your heart. That's it, that's faith. Faith comes by hearing. Do you believe what you're hearing? Have you received what you're hearing? Then you got faith. And healing is inevitable. Oh, hallelujah. So don't put the eternal healer in the corner by giving attention to the sickness. I'm not I'm not saying deny it. That's not what's got my attention. Something unchangeable has my attention. Let's think, think about this in terms of marriage. You know, now I there there are individuals, you may have been married longer than me, and that's that's great. That's wonderful. Uh Michelle and I will celebrate 33 years of marriage this year. And uh, you know, here's the thing. She's been through everything with me. When we had nothing, she was there. When no, listen, when people were staying away from our ministry by the hundreds, she was there. Amen. I got an invitation last night on the way home to minister, and I can't because we have something going on here. But the the point is, you know, there were there was a day I wasn't getting invitations from nobody. Right? And she was there with me. When we didn't have two nickels to rub together, she was there. Right? When we were driving the car that would overheat every 25, 30 miles, she was there. She drove the car. She went with me to Kansas City and stayed, or she went before me to Kansas City and stayed at the KOA campground in a tent with our children because we wanted to be in the will of God. Now, I'm saying this for a reason. You see everything she's proven to me? Everything we've been through together? Now you think I'm you think I'm gonna throw that away for some flighty goofball? I don't even look their way. Why? Because she's been through some stuff with me. We've overcome some things. She's eternal. She's proven, right? If God has done anything for you ever in whatever area of your life, it is proof that he'll heal you. Because he's done too much already. Oh, hallelujah! That's good stuff. So when we say don't give your attention to the sickness, it's not denial, it's not acting like it's not there, it's just you don't have my focus. What I have received has my focus. Right? When when when a person decides in whatever area, I want to get healthier, I want to, I want to, I want to build muscle, I want to lose weight, I want to run, I want to do what whatever it is. If you give your focus to the wrong thing, you won't do any of the right thing. Right? Because when people want to lose weight, here's what they do. The first thing they do is they think about calorie restriction. I can't eat this, I can't eat that, I can't eat the other, can't eat pie, can't eat cake, can't eat donuts, can't eat, can't, can't, can't, can't, can't. Right? And here's the problem with the body, it doesn't like cank, kink, cank, cank, can't. It likes pie and donuts and cake and whatever else. Right? But if you think of it in terms of I am gonna find a substitute for this, I might not have cake, but I can have this. See, now you're setting yourself up to receive what is inevitable. It's not very often, here now this is gonna come right back to this. It's not so often that people are eating. I started to say not eating the wrong thing, but that would be wrong. It's not that they're eating too much, they're eating the wrong thing. It's not that you can overdose on the word. We've heard people say, you know, you can't overdose on the word. No, you can't. You can't overdose on the word, and you ought to declare it all the time. But are you receiving what the word's bringing? If I focus on the wrong thing, if I if I stay focused on what is temporary, whatever you're dealing with in your body, online or in this room, it's temporary. Why? That you've received the power of God, it's moving it out of your body, it's uprooting it and taking. It out. That's what you're focused on, the uprooting. And so when we talk about believing the good report and staying focused on the good report, we're saying no matter how small it is, no matter how incremental it is. I've heard of people going to the doctor, and the doctor going, well, I mean, it's changed a little bit, but it's nothing that they get excited about. It's not your body, and it didn't change in your body. It is something to be excited about, regardless of how small it is. Well, it's just slowed down, it's just shrunk a little bit. But it was, it wasn't shrinking at all. It has reversed course. It has slowed down. It is shrinking. Why? Because the eternal, self-existent Lord, my healer, is working on it right now. Right now, he's working on it. Healing my body, bringing me into perfect alignment with his purpose and plan for my life. Which is long life and good days. Not a short life and bad days. Oh, glory to God. Amen. Malachi 3.6, and you can write that down. You can turn there if you want. We'll just quote it. He said, I am the Lord, I change not. Now remember, I'm I'm I'm I was emphasizing a moment ago, when I read that, when I read the Lord, I think immediately, eternal. So I am the eternal, I don't change. Now, now understand why is that important? If he's eternal, he can't change. So that that's that's not something that he says, I, you know, I'm not going to change. He said, No, I'm eternal, I don't change. In other words, we could say that he's almost saying, I can't change. Because I'm eternal. Amen. So God doesn't change his mind in the sense of about his attributes. God may say something concerning a person, you know, that's conditional. When when, for instance, when he talked to Eli in uh 1 Samuel chapter 2, he came to Eli and he said, Here was my plan was that you and your family and your posterity after you would serve me as high priest over my people. He said, But not now. Because look, you won't do right. Well, God didn't change, he changed his mind about that circumstance. But what God has voiced as an attribute, he is my healer. See, Jesus did not take stripes on his back for someone to stay in ministry. He took stripes on his back for salvation and healing. And anything that Jesus paid for is paid for eternally, God cannot change his mind about it. Cannot. He can change his mind about those temporal things that have no eternal significance, but he cannot change his mind about what's been paid for. Hebrews 13, 8, the amplified Bible says Jesus Christ, the Messiah, is always the same. Yesterday, yes, and forever to the ages. Another translation says Jesus Christ is the same now as he was previously, and he will be the same forever. Forever. Now, we hear those verse. Yes, amen, hallelujah, God's the same. Receive that. Amen. You'll hear people say, you know, if Jesus was on the earth today, he would be doing the same thing that he was doing then. My brother, sister, Jesus is on the earth today, and he's on the earth through the person of the Holy Spirit and through the Word of God, and He's still doing the same things that He did then. Why? Because He cannot change. What was the prerequisite you see over and over in Jesus' ministry? If you believe. Do you believe I can do this? Do you have faith that I can do this? Amen. Well, you know, people would say, well, of course. I mean, that was easy. They saw him heal the blind, and so have we. I've seen Jesus heal the blind. No, I don't mean just me laying hands on him. In the Bible. If you've seen it in the Bible, you've seen it. That's not just a story. That's not a mural. I saw it. I saw Jesus heal that man named Bartimaeus. I saw it. In the Word of God. I saw me become a new creature in the Word of God. That's how real the Word has to be. That's not just a story about you became a new creature. You saw it in 2 Corinthians 5.21, 17 through 21. You saw yourself become a new creature and become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In Galatians 2.20, you saw yourself crucified with Christ. I saw it. You've seen it. You've seen Jesus heal the deaf and the dumb, and you've seen Jesus raise the dead. So everything you've seen Jesus do, if he was physically here in a body, he would still be doing what you've already seen him do. I gotta receive that. I say I gotta receive that. There are people that wouldn't receive it. And you know, surprisingly, we only have you know one small account of that in the Bible, but it tells us it's possible. Why could they not receive? Because they were focused on the temporal. Who is this guy? Joseph's son, Mary's boy. You know, we know his brothers. You know, whatever they did, Judas and Simon and his brothers and his sisters, they're all here with us. And and and and what did Jesus say? He said, Boy, here's the problem. He said, A prophet's not without honor except in his own hometown, and among them that know him. Right? They couldn't receive. Would he have healed them? Evidently, they were some of those that were sick. Would he have healed them? Of course. Well, they have to receive it. Try this out right now. Just raise one hand to fell to heaven and say, Father, I receive my healing. Say this, in spite of the circumstances, in spite of the report, I received my healing in Jesus' name. Oh, hallelujah. See? How do you think about God and his word? You've got to think about it in eternal terms. One translation says, Jesus Christ is for you just what he was for them, the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is for you just what he was for them. Now you may believe that wholeheartedly. There are multiplied thousands of people that don't. And they don't believe it because they've never heard it. And they go to churches that say you'll never know what, you don't know what God might do. You don't know if it's God's will. Well, if I can't know God's will, how can I put any confidence in God? If I don't know what God wants, how can I put any confidence in God? Well, you know, the Bible says, who hath known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? In other words, that's just saying, who's smarter than God? Who can tell God what to do? Nobody. But his word, remember, one of the three things his word is, is his will for every person that will believe. I know what God will do. Because if I've seen him do it, he'll still do it. He's honor bound by it. And so when somebody says, you know, you just don't know what God might do. I've had I've I've sat in churches and said, is anybody in here sick? Yeah, uh, you know, people raise their hand. Well, uh, you know, if you want to, come on up here and we'll see, you know, if it's God's will to heal you. Just sit down, just stay seated. Because nothing's gonna happen. Because the preacher that's gonna be laying hands on you doesn't even know God's will. That's like being a teacher and you're teaching mathematics. Anybody anybody in here want to do a math problem? Well, come on up here to the board and let's see if we can figure it out somehow. We'll find out if it's true that two plus two is four. Well, if you don't know, see, this is important. And and and and depending on what circle you're in, you you can think everybody understands this and everybody believes. Well, why wouldn't they believe that God heals them? Because they go to a church every Sunday and every Wednesday that tells them it might not be God's will to heal. I'm not against anybody's church, but that's where it's at. If you're not taught God will heal, wants to heal, has provided your healing for you, how can you receive it? Oh, hallelujah. Psalm 107, 20 said, He sent his word and he healed them. So the word was sent. And that word that was sent is still doing what it was sent to do, it is still healing. Now, I don't mean the word is still healing in the sense that contained in here, the word is still actively healing. And so, hands laid on you, and this is important to understand. The Bible says you'll lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Hands laid on you is the point of contact. It's your place of agreement with what the word said. I want you to lay hands on me, and I believe I'm going to receive my healing. That's your place of agreement with the word. What does the healing? The laying on of hands or the word? The word. Your action where the word of God is concerned. Now, here's what's so important. That's why people will come and they'll say, I want you to lay hands on me, right? And very often I have people come and they'll say, I want you to lay hands on me, and it's never, I want you to lay hands on me, and I believe I'm gonna be healed. It's I got a bad report, and I want you to lay hands on me. For what? I mean, is it just like a talisman that I can go away with comfort because you laid hands on me? Or am I gonna receive something when you lay hands on me? No, I'm gonna receive something when you lay hands on me. When you lay hands on me, this sickness is leaving my body. When you lay hands on me, this problem's gonna go away in the name of Jesus. Amen. And notice he said any believer can do that. Not just the big shot preacher, not just the great healing evangelist. Right? These signs shall follow them that believe. In my name they'll cast out devils. They'll lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Is that what it said? Who'd he say would do that? Believers. Who's a believer? Everybody in this room. I don't know about everybody watching online, but everybody in this room is a believer. What does that mean? You can lay hands on the sick and see him recover. Based on what? The word of God. Why is it based on the word of God? The word of God never changes. So for time and eternity, laying hands on the sick will be right. Oh, hallelujah. But you got to receive it. I'm receiving what's coming into me. I'm receiving the healing power of God. Why? I'm following the steps. Lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Is there any sick among you? Let them call for the elders of the church. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. That's what he said. Well, why am I calling for the elders of the church? Why am I asking them to pray for me? Because the Bible says to do it. And if the Bible says to do it, and I do anything the Bible says to do, I'll get what the Bible said I would get. Whoo, glory to God. Ha ha. The word is healing. The word is healing. You know, you don't take a vitamin C capsule and talk about how you took vitamin E. E wasn't in that capsule. C was in that capsule. When you take the word, you're taking healing. When you receive the word, you're receiving healing. Well, I don't understand why this thing hadn't moved yet. You're focused on the temporal. Did you take the word today? I did. Then it moved. Why? Because that's what the word says will happen. Amen. Well, you know, I went up for prayer and nothing changed. Hmm. I thought the Bible said when you had hands laid on you, you'd recover. See, this is, I call it, this is the essence of faith. Faith is this simple compound that just requires you saying, there it is, I believe it. I acted on it, that's it. Hands were laid on me, I'm healed. Hallelujah. Amen. And so, well, what if I go back to the doctor and nothing's changed after hands were laid on me? Hands were laid on me, and I was healed. Well, you know, I know hands were laid on me, but I went back to the doctor and they can't figure out what the hands were laid on me, and I was healed. I'm not talking about denial. I'm saying, what are you focused on? The eternal thing that happened or the temporal thing that may be trying to hold on. Hallelujah. So what happened when hands were laid on you? According to Scripture, recovery started. Is that true? You'll lay hands on the sick, and what will happen? Now notice, recovery and instantaneous healing are two different things. If you recover, couldn't it take a week? Couldn't it take a day? An hour? Six months? A year. Would that be right? Now, how quick do we want it? Every one of us wants it. Win. Right now. Right? I may not see the results right now, but what can I do right now? Receive. I can receive right now. Amen. Do you see that? I told a guy one time about uh a vehicle I wanted to give him. And uh I told him, I said, uh, uh, now I want to clean it up and I want to detail it and bring it to you. I said, but uh, here's the title. As far as I'm concerned, it's yours. I said, I'm gonna drive it for a couple days and get some things taken care of, but as far as I'm concerned, it's yours. Well, he received the title, and in reality, what did he receive? He received that car. He didn't have the car physically, but he had the title. So he had more possession of the car than I did. I was driving the car, but I didn't have legal right to the car because I didn't have the title. When you receive anything based on the word of God, you just took legal right to what belongs to you. It doesn't matter if you're still dealing with a symptom, you have legally received what belongs to you. That settles the issue. And it listen, it doesn't matter if if you've been saved six months, if you just got born again today, if you will just make up in your mind, I receive what Jesus did for me, that's it. That's it. I receive what Jesus did for me. Faith does not have to be this long, drawn-out process that you say enough scriptures till finally enough faith comes and you receive. Faith comes by hearing. And I know we often emphasize and hearing, and hearing, and hearing. That just means the more you hear the word, every time you hear the word, faith is coming. That there were people that came to Jesus, and we have no evidence that they ever heard him speak. And he said, according to your faith, be it unto you. Well, how long did they have to hear him speak before faith finally showed up? Or did they just say, you know, Jesus can heal. He's, you know, he's the Son of God, He's the Messiah, He can heal. I'm gonna go get my healing. Hallelujah. As you ingest the word, it's it's presently healing, it's bringing your body back into alignment with God's plan for your health. And that's why I'm always cautious to tell people. I'm obviously I preach, I've got series after series after series after series on declaring the word of God and confessing the word of God, and you'll have what you say according to scripture. I believe that wholeheartedly. But here's what I'm trying to get you to understand. If you're quoting 15 pages of scriptures every day and you're not receiving, you're not receiving. See, you're not receiving what the word's bringing you. Every time you say, with his stripes, I was healed, it's like the waiter shows up with healing. Are you gonna receive it? Because I've got to receive it. Okay, there it is. I have it, it's mine. Hands were laid on me. I received in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. And somebody, somebody that is trying meaning well, they'll come up and they'll say, Well, do you feel any better? You don't look no different. Amen. You know they mean well. I mean, they're not trying to be ugly, but here's the thing: don't let that move. If you look in the mirror and you look worse tomorrow than you look today, don't let that tell you you haven't received. I have received. Amen. I was dealing with a situation one time. And as far as healing goes, you know, it it looked like the goal wasn't reached because uh the individual that we were standing with uh went on to heaven. Well, you know, there are worse things than going on to heaven, and and I I said this to my wife, and I said this to the family, and I still hold to this. We were believing God, we were doing right. It's always right to believe God. I don't know if they received. And people say, well, and that's not a knock against them. I'm not putting my faith up there and saying, I was doing the right thing, I don't know about them. No, I don't know if they received. I've watched people go through such horrendous physical battles that they were in a position that they just wanted to go home. I just I just stood through this with my mother not too long ago. And you know, you can get to the place with pain in your body that you can only think of one thing, and that's leaving. Just going. She asked my wife one time, she said, I just I don't understand why the pain is so horrible. Yeah, that just made me hate cancer even more. It made me determined to preach healing even stronger. Here's my mother, 81 years of age, less than 80 pounds, probably 70 pounds when she passed, dealing with this. I can't fix it. Nobody can fix it in the natural, right? But here's here's the thing. I would talk to her and I'd say, Mom, we're we're just gonna keep believing God. Yeah, but she died, she died with cancer, so it didn't work. That's not how I look at it. We were believing God. I don't know if she received. You gotta receive. Amen. Receiving is I have it, I take it. It's mine right now. If I reached in my pocket and pulled out a hundred dollar bill and said, you know, whoever will come and get this hundred dollar bill, it's yours. Well, it's who who wants to receive it. And so it's the same word, it's the same Jesus, it's the same God, it's the same results. I have to receive it. Remember what the Bible says? As many as received him to them, who? The receivers gave he the power to become the sons of men. The receivers. So who who gets healing? Those that receive healing. And so it's not so much God has to do this as it is I have to receive it. I have to find myself in a position of receiving. And I think the the better statement very often is not to go to God and just say, you know, do I have enough faith? Am I missing it in my faith? As it is, am I receiving? Because if you truly believe God will heal you, that's faith. I just got to receive it. And so it moves on from then if the symptoms persist, I received my healing. Amen. I received my healing. I have received it, whatever the issue may be. You know, when when when you receive a package, you got the package on the porch. Whatever you got the package for, it's not alleviated yet, but you're gonna go in there and you're gonna open the package, and what you have received will take care of the problem. Oh, hallelujah. All we've done today is just open the package. Now we're gonna receive. I say, now we're gonna receive. Amen. Let's close our eyes for a moment. I want you to receive today. This has to be so clear. I'm not the healer, no man, no woman is the healer. There are people anointed by God, all believers. I lay hands on the sick. I've seen people healed, I've seen horrific diseases, no chance, 0% chance to live, and God has healed people. And I believe that with, we'll always believe that. But here's the thing: I have to receive it. I don't know what you may be dealing with, I don't know what the issue may be. Blood disease, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, you name it, whatever it may be. I want us right now to understand all of that is under the curse of the law. And as we pray today, as we make this declaration, we're gonna receive what Jesus did for us. Hallelujah. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for every person present today. I thank you, Father, that according to your word, Jesus took stripes upon his back, and when those stripes were laid on his back, it was sickness and disease being laid on him, and he carried all of those sicknesses and diseases father to the cross. It's been said before, Father, that 39 stripes were laid on Jesus, and that at one time there were 39 major diseases in the world. All of those diseases were laid on Jesus Christ, and he carried them to the cross. And when he paid the price for our sin and paid the price to make us righteous, he paid the price to make us well, to make us whole, and for healing in our bodies. Now, Father, we take the steps right now today that just as we receive salvation and just as we receive the precious Holy Spirit to live on the inside of us, we make the choice to receive our healing. We make the choice to receive it. Say this out loud. Say, Father, in the name of Jesus, I have seen from the Word that you've given me healing as a gift. And right now I receive my healing. I take it, I have it, it is mine, it belongs to me now. And in spite of any circumstance, any diagnosis, any feeling, I choose to believe that I have received my healing. And because I have received it, the manifestation is inevitable in the name of Jesus. Oh hallelujah! I believe God. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Every blood issue is cleared up in the name of Jesus. The Bible says that the life is in the blood. And Scripture declares to us that when we were born again, we received the blood of Jesus. God became our Father. There's been a change. Hallelujah. The life of God flows through us in the name of Jesus. I, Father, I just declare over your people, those watching, those here, I don't know how many or who, but I declare cleansing in that bloodstream in the name of Jesus. I come, I declare complete healing to those kidneys in the name of Jesus. And I know there might be dialysis going on there, might be things that are going on. Don't worry about that. Don't allow that to shake your faith. That's a temporary help for a permanent solution. Hallelujah. Right now that's what's cleansing your bloodstream. Right now, that's what's cleansing your system. Go praising God and glorifying God and thanking God for the opportunity for that to operate in your life temporarily. And it shall be temporarily, and it shall be momentary, and it shall be just a small space of time. For the same God, the same God that created those kidneys and created them to function perfectly, is on the scene and on the job and working and creating and fixing. And you shall see that come to pass in Jesus' name. Oh, hallelujah. Every cyst, every tumor, I command it to drop off. I command it to die in the name of Jesus. I command you to be separated from your life source in Jesus' name. And no longer be supported by any of the bodily systems in that body. No longer be supported by the bloodstream. No longer be supported by the enzymes and the nutrients in that body. You shall cease to exist. You don't belong to that person. Wither up and die in Jesus' name. You shall not affect them in Jesus' name. Oh, hallelujah. Foul, foul spirit of cancer. I bind you, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. You, you, you, you exist off of the life of the person that you're trying to destroy, and I bind you up, I curse you in the name of Jesus. You foul spirit from the pit of hell. You shall not afflict them any longer. You will not take their life in Jesus' name. They're cleansed, made pure, made clean, made whole by the blood of Jesus Christ. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. And all of those issues, iridal bowel syndrome, celiac disease. You can't continue to function in that body. If you're watching online or even in the room, if that's if you're dealing with that right now, reach out and receive it. Reach out and receive that. He wants to heal you from that in the name of Jesus. Every joint pain, every every ligament pain, every every damage. Well, they said I've damaged this and I've damaged that in the name of Jesus. I speak new ligaments, I speak new cartilage, I speak new joints in the name of Jesus. If man can give you a joint replacement, God can give you a joint replacement. And Father, I receive it in the name of Jesus. You said while Jesus was on the earth physically, Father, that he healed the haught and the maimed. People that didn't have arms or legs or hands or fingers, he healed them. They grew out. Father, I receive it in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Oh, thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you for moving among your people. Thank you for the direction of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Just receive it. Just receive it. Just receive it. Hallelujah. Oh, we receive it. Oh, we receive it in the name of Jesus. Father, we receive it. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you for ministering to us. Thank you for healing our bodies. Thank you for doing a work in your people. Oh, thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that some will see uh a quicker manifestation, some will see a little lengthier, but it shall all come to pass in the name of Jesus. It shall all come to pass. That knee, I see that knee. Whatever is going on with that knee, there's a grading, there's a like a grinding. And there's a weakness there sometime. The first thing you're gonna begin to experience is strength in that knee. And you're gonna see strength in that area in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. You're gonna see strength, and then you'll begin to see other signs. And I don't know what they are. I can say no more or no less, but I know you're gonna begin to see strength, and I know you're gonna begin to see other signs. It's gonna tell you you've received. Okay, Lord, I'll say that. And your age has nothing to do with it. Don't limit the healing power of God because of whatever age you are. He said in his word that he renews your youth like the eagle. My youth is renewed as the eagle. I mean, you say, old man or old woman, I don't listen and I don't answer. Because we are renewed. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead has quickened our mortal body. Oh, Father, we thank you for it. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Now we'll close here. We've gone a little over, but we'll let the Holy Spirit have his way anytime. This is the simplicity of the gospel. Jesus saves, Jesus heals, Jesus delivers, Jesus is coming back. That's the simplicity of the gospel. Everything else is important. What people teach. Listen, it's all important. But if we if we move away from the simplicity of the gospel, we move away from the power of God. Hallelujah. But we're grateful that you were here today. I believe you received. I believe many were healed. And of course, we'll be here ministering the Word of God tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. And uh so until we see you here, there, or in the air, please remember to keep the switch of faith turned on and build your faith in Jesus' name. God bless you.