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What's good to us? All the time. Amen. Of course, we welcome everybody. Welcome everyone here, everyone watching online. God bless you. Let's go over to Hebrews chapter 10. And we began uh two weeks ago. Of course, we took a week off because of uh our VBS but uh we were dealing with this uh subject of constant expectation. Constant expectation and uh dealing with uh what the word has to say to us about patience and um we made the statement that you know patience is not just waiting, patience is how you wait, it's uh there's a process to patience, and patience is vital, it's it's absolutely necessary uh where healing is concerned, especially if you're standing for something. Uh because the moment that the word of God was declared, the moment you believe, the word began to work. Uh the word is life, the word can only impart into you what it is. And the Bible says the word is life, it says the word is strength. In Proverbs, it says over and over again that the word is healing, it's life to all of my flesh. And those are things that, depending on your background, uh, but uh in charismatic full gospel circles, that can be something that's very elementary. But here's here's the thing: the the elementary things are the things that work. You know, elementary school, we think of elementary school and we think, oh boy, it's so much lower than college. But here's the the issue. If you don't have elementary school, you're not gonna be ready for college. If you try to abandon the elementary things, then when the challenge comes, there's gonna be no foundation. And and I realize the whole the whole desire is I want to be better. I want the pain gone. I want this that I've been diagnosed with or that I'm dealing with, I want it to be gone, and that's the ultimate goal, right? That's ultimately what what we do, what we're doing for. But there's always that period of time, years ago, decades ago, I heard a minister say this there's always that period of time between I believe I have received, and there it is. There's that period of time, and it's in that time frame, it's what you do in that period of time that determines the end result. Right? And so this patience is so important, constant expectation, and what we expect from the word has to be constant, because here's the reality of it. There's things that I'm told to constantly expect from what I'm dealing with. Does that make sense? The doctor will say, Well, this is what you are dealing with, and this is what you can expect. And so if you begin to experience those symptoms or that feeling or whatever it is, and you go back to the doctor, he'll say, Well, that's what you can expect from what you're dealing with. Now, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with him saying that, but I'm telling you that they give you what you should constantly expect. Right? Remember when you started getting to a certain age, everybody started telling you what you needed to start expecting. Well, at your age, right? Now, if you took it, then that's what you're experiencing. Right? But you can constantly not expect that. I have to constantly expect what the word says. F.F. Bodsworth made the statement, he said, when we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises in his word. All right? When I've learned, and here's the key, the key word, when I've learned the process of faith for receiving healing, when I've learned the process, part of that process is patience. Part of that process is constant expectation. The receiving is immediate. A manifestation oftentimes requires patience. The receiving is immediate. My pastor, Pastor Caldwell, made the statement concerning patience. He said, waiting or patience, it's a constant expectation of what God promised that he would bring to pass. It's a constant expectation of what God promised that he would bring to pass. And then he made the statement, there is no expiration date. So there is no expiration date to what God said to you. So whatever you're believing, there's no expiration date. Where faith is concerned, it's this if you don't quit, faith keeps working. If you quit, if you become silent, if you stop being a doer of the word, faith quits working. Right? If I'll keep declaring, if I'll keep working the word, faith keeps working. Why? Because faith is the servant of the believer. Jesus said in the book of Luke concerning faith, he said, which of you having a servant, if he comes to you and he's not going to say to you, uh, you're not going to say to that servant, look, you you eat and take care of yourself and then take care of me. He said, No, that's not how it works. He said, When you're operating your faith, your faith is your servant. You tell faith what to do. Hallelujah. So, for many, one of the main enemies in their stand for healing is time. How long? How much longer am I going to have to deal with this? And I'm dealing with this, and I'm dealing with that. And we'll get into this a little later in the lesson, but that becomes the enemy. The question becomes the enemy. Your stand is I have received what the Word of God says. I believe I have received my healing. Now the process of walking it out, the question will often become, when? When am I going to see the total manifestation? Focus on the receiving. The manifestation follows the receiving. In Hebrews chapter 10, verse 35. And we'll read through verse 36. He says, Do not cast away, therefore, your confidence. Alright, so confidence has to do with hope. It has to do with your belief. Don't cast away your confidence. Why? Because it has great recompensive reward. For you have need of patience. That after you've done the will of God, you might receive the promise. Notice it's it's after, after you've done the will of God. Well, what's the will of God? I believe I have received. That's the will of God. And then you have need of patience. But notice what it says: you will receive the promise. Hallelujah. One translation, Moffat says, Now do not drop that confidence of yours. It carries with it a rich hope of reward. Steady patience is what you need. So that after doing the will of God, you may get what you have been promised. Right? Now notice, not just patience, steady patience. Steadfast patience. In other words, I'm patient every day. I'm constantly expecting every day. That what? That what I believe I have received will manifest. This is why this is so important. That you're talking about yourself in terms of having been healed. And you're talking about yourself in terms of I am well. Right? You're not denying what you're dealing with, but you're also making your declaration that I am what God says I am. I am healed by the stripes of Jesus. Hallelujah. That you remember Galatians 6, and we use it in the context of finances, and it's right because it is in the context of finances, but it says, do not be weary in well-doing. For in due season you'll reap if you don't faint, if you don't quit. Right? But what's the first part of that? Don't be weary in well-doing. What is constant expectation? Well-doing. Don't get tired doing that. Right? Because uh not just the enemy, just your body, just your natural flesh body will try to get you focused on whatever you're dealing with, the pain of what you're dealing with, the weakness of what you're dealing with, the whatever the symptom may be. That's what your mind is going to try to bend you towards. Right? But you're still this and you're still that. And what that tries to not only erode your faith, it tries to erode your constant expectation. Right? It's hard to expect something in the natural if I'm constantly focused on the symptom or the report. We don't deny the symptom, we don't deny the report. It just doesn't have our focus. Hallelujah. You know, someone could come to you. I I've I've I've walked people through in our congregations before. I've walked people through cancer treatment with the Word of God. There's there is a lady from our uh Kansas location that we we walked with her through three years of cancer treatment and the Lord healed her. The end result was she cancer free. The Lord healed her. Had to walk her through it. Part of the challenge was to constantly expect the result that we're believing for from the Word of God. And people would ask her, they'd say, Well, aren't you a cancer patient? Yes, I'm taking cancer treatments, but I'm the healed of the Lord. See, there's no denial. Faith doesn't deny. If you're sitting here today and there's pain in your body, you're not going to help yourself by denying the pain. How you're going to help yourself is constantly expecting that pain to leave because Jesus said that he bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases, took our pain. Amen. So say that out loud. Jesus took my pain. I'm free from pain. I expect to be totally healed in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Amen. And when you turn that certain way and there's that pain, the question doesn't come. Well, if you were healed, would there still be pain? Thank you, Jesus. You took my pain. You took my pain. Amen. Another translation says, you must patiently continue to trust him in order that because you're of your doing what God wants you to do, he will give you what he's promised. Oh, hallelujah. Say it out loud. God will give me what he has promised. Oh, glory to God. You know, I've had people say, well, you know, you have people repeat things out loud. We are people that speak the word. Faith people speak the word. We don't just talk about needing to do it. We we do it. Right? And we never want to move away from that. You know, there's a whole slew of people today, and I don't know where they all come from, but it's like they're all talking about how we really don't have the authority the Bible says we have, and and I can't really do all things through Christ. I don't know where all that garbage is coming from, but that's what it is. It's garbage. I don't know where it's all coming from. But here's the thing I say this all the time. I had a person ask me, you're one of them name it and claim it guys. And I said, yes, and blab it and grab it and confess it and possess it. I'm all of that, right? Ever how you want to call it. Amen. I there was there was a group of people one time that wanted to take our Bible college into a certain institution, and and they they were they were having a meeting with all of the uppity people, up high people that had made the decision. And they said, Well, this is Pastor Phillip Seele's Bible School. And one guy stood up and said, No, we don't want that. He's name it and claim it. And I thought, well, why in the world wouldn't you want people to be able to receive what God said they have? You know, I mean, but I'm saying that for a reason. So when you get up and you're going about your day and you're declaring the word of God, that's part of you being constantly expectant. Amen. Whatever it is, ever how you're saying it, I'm the healed of the Lord. I'm strong in my body, I'm sound in my mind, my heart's strong, my lungs are strong, my every organ in my body functions in the perfection that God created it to function. Ever how you're doing it, 1 Peter 2.24 is coursing through my bloodstream, making me strong and effective in everything that I do in the name of Jesus. Oh, hallelujah. Why? Because you're constantly expectant. And one day you keep doing what the word says. One day you'll get up and you'll have to say, Oh, where did it, where's that at? Right? Or whatever it may be. One day you'll go to the doctor and they'll say, Well, we don't see it no more. Why? Because what what did he say? He said, He will give you what he has promised. Isn't that wonderful? The word patience, it means cheerful, hopeful endurance or constancy. Cheerful, hopeful endurance or constancy. And there's some keys there that we see. Cheerful, hopeful endurance. Not just endurance. Cheerful and hopeful. Why? Because the Bible says where there's faith, there's joy and peace. There's joy and peace in believing. In the New Testament, this patience is the characteristics of a man who's not swerved from his deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith. He's not swerved from his deliberate, deliberate purpose and his loyalty to faith. So I'm not swerved. Now again, that can sound very elementary. No, I'm healed regardless of what I feel. I'm healed regardless of what I see. I'm healed regardless of whatever. See, I'm I'm I'm not going to be swerved from my loyalty to what God said. That's constant expectation. Amen. So patience carries that idea of constancy, continuance. When we talk about confession, confession of the word, confessing the word. The word confession means to say the same thing. But it has the understanding of being constant with it, continuing with it, because it's what you continually do that produces results. I heard Gloria Copeland preach one time and she said, it is in the consistency that you find the power. Right? It's in the consistency that you find the power. And that's that's what I found over the years. We've been, I've been uh teaching uh healing school in our churches from the day that we started churches. So we've been we've been teaching healing school almost 30 years. And uh we'll we'll always do it. And I watch people come. And you know, sometimes over the years, now this is not you because you're here, but I've watched people over the years, you know, they want to come and and they're hearing something they've never heard before, but there's always that moment that it's like, okay, I've got to be constant in this. I'm here, I'm hearing the word of God. Now I've got to be constant in it. I've got to stay with it. And we've seen people come in and be instantly healed. But here's the thing: even though a person's instantly healed, they got to go be constant in the word. They got to go be constant in the word because it was the word that healed them. Hallelujah. This is this is so important. And and I remember one time a young lady came in, and uh I didn't know her. I didn't know her, as they say, from Adam. And uh she came in, sat down on the back row, had a young man with her. But I I could tell this, she was sick. She was something, she was very sick with something. All right. I mean, uh just gray circles under her eyes, no energy. You know, it breaks your heart when you see people that are sick because they're they're they're carrying this burden, this weight. And uh uh I I didn't get to speak with her uh during that service uh for whatever reason, that healing school, but she left and the next week she was back. Looked the same. Her and this young man looked the same, just not well. And uh after about three or four weeks of coming, the young man wasn't coming with her no more, but she kept coming. And um I started noticing some things about her. I started noticing there was a little more pep in her step, you know, and she looked like she was feeling a little better. And uh finally I got to talking to her to find out what was going on. Well, she had uh she had been diagnosed with Crohn's disease. And you know, the the problem with Crohn's disease is not only does it make you very irritable in your bowels and your stomach, your your body doesn't get the nutrients out of your food because it's not able to, it's not able to digest it the way that it should. And so you can eat, there's a lot of things you can't eat, and what you can eat, you don't want to eat it. And so she said, I have been housebound for over a year. I've had to do all my work from home. I I don't have I haven't had the energy to go anywhere. And she started watching online, started watching Healing School uh online. And in any event, uh she kept coming and kept coming. Man, she just, you know, was getting better and better. And then one day I just didn't see her no more. I didn't know what had happened to her. Uh, you know, she didn't tell me, she don't have to tell me. But in any event, uh probably three months later, I was ministering on a Wednesday night at church, and this young lady came in the back door and and and set about halfway up, I think. And uh I didn't think anything about it. You know, you have visitors at your church, and so I'm ministering and ministered the word, and I got done. She came up to me after church and she said, Um, uh, do you recognize me? And I looked at her and I said, Yeah, I said, You're so-and-so. Uh uh that came to healing school. She said, Yeah. I said, I wondered what happened to you. She said, I had to move to Colorado. I had to go to Colorado. And uh, I said, Okay. And she said, but let me tell you the story. She said, while I was coming to healing school, she said, I took what you said, and I just kept declaring the word over my body and coming to healing school. And she said, I've been back to the doctor, and there's no evidence of Crohn's disease in my body. I'm totally healed by the power of God. And she said, as a matter of fact, the reason why I was able to take that job in Colorado is because God healed me. She said, So God healed me and and I took this job. But here was the Thing. But a young man that was coming with her, he was battling the same thing. That's how they met, through like a support group or something like that. He was battling the same thing. Now, I'm not being critical of him, but he got to a point where he was saying, I don't know if this is working or not. I don't know if this is working. And the and the price, the the the work of going began to wear on him. Right? She stayed constant. Now I don't know what happened to him. He may be well and whole today. I don't know. I'd never talk to him again. But I know what happened to her. Hallelujah. So it's being constant. And when I think about constancy, I think about her because there were days it looked like she was dragging herself in the room to hear the word of God. Amen. But it's it's what I do constantly. Never be the person that says, you know, I used to do that. I've had people come to our church and and, you know, maybe they were apart before, or, or, you know, they uh uh used to go to a spirit-filled church, word of faith church, if that's what you want to say. And they would come up to me after the service and say, that was so refreshing. I, you know, what you were preaching on, I used to do that, and they would name a certain number of years ago or months ago or whatever it was. And, you know, I'm a pastor, I'm kind to people, but you often want to say, well, why'd you ever quit? Why did you ever stop doing it? Because it never stopped working. Right? Amen. Look at Hebrews 10 and 23. It says, Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised. Now, in almost every translation in the Greek, that word faith is hope. That's translated hope. All right. Let us hold fast the profession of our hope or our expectation. Right? Our profession, our confession of what we're hoping for. Right? What we're expecting. Hope is expectation. So notice what it says. Don't let go of what you're expecting. Faith and expectation obviously go hand in hand. In Hebrews 11:1. Faith is the substance. Faith is the title deed. Faith is the grounds of your expectation. Right? So he says, don't let go of what you're expecting. Keep it in your eyes. Keep it on your mouth. Keep it coming out of your mouth. Keep it going into your eyes. Amen. Hallelujah. You know, if you want to see a doctor's report change, one of the things that you can do to aid you is, you know, type out your own report. Type out what you want to see. And put it on your mirror. Cancer free, perfect blood pressure, heart disease free, perfect ears, perfect eyes, perfect bones, perfect joints, whatever it may be. I'm not telling you to go pass that out to people and say, look, here's my report. No, that's that's your report that you want to look at. Hallelujah. Why? Because that's what I'm hoping for. Right? I told you the story about a young man that went to a meeting one time, and it wasn't even a faith meeting. I'll tell you who is speaking. Zig Ziggler was speaking. Y'all remember Zig? Amen. He's in heaven today. And he, you know, Zig, Zig taught, you know, people say, you know, positive self-image or whatever. He taught the word is what he taught. All right? And he said, he said, if you want to do greater, you got to see yourself greater. And a young man was sitting in that meeting that was well over 300 pounds, not healthy, not happy with his life or his job. And he didn't even want to be there, but his boss made him go. And they gave away the tapes at the end of the deal, at the end of the seminar. He didn't even want the tapes. He didn't even like him. He didn't even want to be there. But he took the tapes. And he said, I figured I didn't have nothing to lose. And so he started listening to the tapes. And Zig was talking about, you know, seeing yourself the way you want to see yourself. Instead of seeing yourself where you're at, see yourself where you want to be. And he said, I started listening to those tapes. And he said, one day I was in the grocery store. And he said, behind me, I heard a little girl say, Mommy, look at that fat man. And he said, I turned around and was looking for the fat man. And he said, then I figured out she was talking about me. Now, you know, I mean, maybe that's rude of that little girl, but here's the point that he was making. I had so changed how I saw myself, I didn't see myself that way anymore. He said later he had been out doing something, eating, going to a movie or something, and he he he went by the appliance store. You know, when they still had TVs in the window. And he said, I was looking at the TVs and he said, I saw this big guy behind me. And he said, it scared me. And I turned around and he said, There was no big guy behind me. I was looking at myself, myself, my reflection, but I didn't see myself that way anymore. Hallelujah. I didn't see myself like that anymore. So when we say, I see me as healed, that's holding on to your expectation. Right? That's holding on to your expectation. How do you see yourself? See, how you see yourself is going to come across in what you say, it's going to come across in your conversation, it's going to come across in your declaration. Oh, hallelujah. You know, you all know people, and and I still hear them today. You know, somebody will say, How you doing? Day late, the dollar short. Ha ha ha. Well, I don't want to be in their shoes. Right? Or whatever it is. Well, how are you doing today? What do you expect for however old I am? I know what they're expecting, and they're holding fast to it. Right? You know, statistics say that most people, not you, but most people that retire die within five years of retiring. Because they're not expecting anything. I know people that say, I'm gonna retire, and I'm I ask them, well, what are you gonna do? Oh, I don't know. You better find something. You gotta find something to be expecting, something to be looking forward to. Right? So every day you're getting up, and what are you you holding on to? I expect to be pain-free today. I expect to have this better today. This is what I'm expecting. It's it's not it's not mental imaging, it's not positive thinking, it's as far from those things as East is from the West. It's the word of God. He said, You put the word of God in your heart, get it out of coming out of your mouth, and it will change your circumstances. The Bible says in Proverbs, my heart will teach my mouth if I've got the word of God inside of me. And it's not just negative and positive. That's not that's not what you're trying to avoid. Well, I don't want to say anything negative. No, you want every word you speak to be in alignment with the word of God. It's not just negative and positive. There are positive people that I know that have a positive outlook on life, and things are not going the way they need to go because they're just trying to be positive. Here's positive. All right. Well, you know, uh uh uh I'm soaking wet because it's raining. Well, but at least it's not hail, right? But you're still soaking wet. You're very positive about being soaking wet. There are people that are very positive about being sick, they're very positive about their cancer, they're very positive about their heart trouble, they're very positive, they're they're joyful, they're they're easy to be around, but they're not getting any better. Because being positive is not enough. I've got to be positive, but I've got to speak the word of God. I am healed by the stripes of Jesus. I'm positive about that. Amen. Hallelujah. Am I helping you? I preach myself happy. I don't know if you can tell. Hebrews 10 23, we read it. The Amplified Bible says, let us seize and hold tightly the confession of our hope, without wavering. For he who promised is reliable, trustworthy, and faithful to his word. Praise God. Another translation, the Newcomb translation, says, Let us hold fast the steady profession of our hope, for he is faithful, that is promised. So over and over again we see without wavering, steady profession. Without wavering, steady profession. And we won't take the time to go to James, but he he talks about he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and toss. And it said, Don't let that man expect that he'll receive anything from God. Why? Because it literally in the Greek means a man of two minds. One translation, the Wees translation, says, being a man of two minds as he is. Now here's the thing: are you healed or are you not? If you are, don't have two minds. Amen. I had a person ask me one time, well, what do you do if you if you die believing? Glory to God, what a way to go. Amen. I I if if I leave this world, I want to leave believing. Amen. But don't don't be double-minded. Why? Because that is not steady profession. This is what I am. Now what I gotta deal with stems from that. But this is what I am. I'm healed. Now, here's the key to this. Here's a key. When you're saying I'm healed, you're saying what you are. Pastor Michelle preached a message, taught a message years ago that it just imprinted my spirit. And she taught on state of being your state of being. Am, is, are, was, were, right? All of all of the state of being verbs. Right? The Bible says you are a new creature in Christ Jesus. You are the righteousness of God in Christ. You are sanctified. You are and have been made holy. Right? State of being. All right. I am healed. Say that out loud. I am healed. Now, why is this important? You just started the healing power of God flowing through your body. Now, whatever needs to be corrected will stem from that. As you steadily profess that, I am healed. You don't have to complicate it. Yes, get your verses together. Confess different things. But if it all comes down to, it boils down to I'm healed. Right? And what will happen? Your words, your words based on God's word, transport the healing power of God into your body. And as you're speaking the word of God, that healing powers flow into every part of your body, and whatever needs to be corrected, whatever needs to be healed, the healing power of God will do it. But it starts with you not being double-minded. I am healed. In the face of what you're feeling, in the face of what you may see, I'm healed. Amen. See, these these questions. Well, you know, if you were healed, wouldn't it be this and wouldn't it be that? I'm healed. All the peripheral things, I'm not worried about that. Oh, Lord told my wife some time ago, he said, you need to put on blinders. And don't pay attention to anything else but what I said. Just don't put on blinders. That's it. Pam's healed. That's it. Patricia's healed. Jeanessa's healed. I'm healed. Larry's healed. And you you, right? Maybe you need to print that out and put it on your mirror. I am healed. Put your name in there. Andre is healed. Amen. Why? Because I'm the establishing witness. It's up to me. And so when I say I am healed, I'm exercising authority over the body God gave me. My body has to come in alignment with what God said. Why? Because I'm declaring it. And so when you say, I'm healed, I'm going the long way around this, but when you say I'm healed, that's it. Charles Caps would say, Let whatever you say, let it stay said. I'm healed. That's it. Don't waver from that. Yeah, but I went back to the doctor and they said it had increased. I'm healed. That doesn't mean I won't do what they tell me. I won't uh uh uh follow procedures. That's not the point. If I gotta take medicine, as I take medicine, I'm not taking that medicine because I'm not healed. I'm taking medicine, I'm healed, and I'm taking medicine and it's aiding in the process. Oh, hallelujah. Do you see this? Hallelujah. Look at Psalm 41. As we're going there, say out loud, I am healed. Say this. My testimony is the Lord has healed me. And I'm well and whole. In Jesus' name. Oh, hallelujah. You know, that becomes, that becomes, I've said this over the years, and you've heard me say it. If you're believing God for healing, getting healed is your job. That's that's what you do. You spend time declaring the word. You spend time declaring those things. Amen. You know, you you practice what you preach. You know, it's a pretty poor doctor that tells you you need to watch what you eat and then goes has a chili dog. Right? I mean, that's right, that's that's so important. You got to practice what you preach. And so I'm not just up here talking about confessing the word because that's a cool thing, or boy, that's that's neat. Every day of the world, the largest part of my morning time with God is declaring what he said about me, about my body, about the things that he wants us to do. Why? Because you you've got to set the tone, you've got to set the course every day for the direction that things are gonna go. Amen. Psalm 41 and verse one. We'll read through verse 3. It says, Blessed is he that considers the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble, the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed upon the earth, and you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him on the bed of languishing, you will make all his bed in his sickness. So the question is, what is happening? Well, you're being constant and refusing to waver. I first heard this, was made aware of this verse years ago, uh 2003, actually, uh, because they uh they sent us all an email uh uh about Brother Hagin being put in hospital. And uh, and so this was one of the verses that we were all standing on. But in any event, when he says the bed of languishing, that's the bed of sickness. And it notice it says you will strengthen him on the bed of sickness. So what's happening as you're dealing with this, you're getting stronger. Not because of the sickness, because of the word. You know, there's no scripture in the Bible that says whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger. That's not a scripture, that's a country song. Right? So that that that's not Bible. So the sickness, what is sickness working in you? Nothing. Nothing. God doesn't use sickness, he doesn't use disease. Amen. But he says, while you're dealing with it, what am I gonna do? I'm going to strengthen you. And then he said, You will make all of his bed in his sickness. That word make, it doesn't mean like we think make his bed, like, you know, pull the covers up or whatever. It means you will restore him in his sick bed. Hallelujah. You know, I've been so thankful, been rejoicing. We have a family in the Kansas location, Jeremy and Sarah Wilder. And I've known Sarah since she was eight, I think. Uh her family was one of the first families in the church. And uh I uh uh have known them so long I married her and Jeremy, and now I'm ministering to their kids. And so, but here's the point is uh uh a few couple weeks ago, they were in an automobile accident. They were with other other family, and uh all the kids were and they were going down the road and had a blowout, a tire blew out, and I don't know how many times the car flipped, they said six or seven times, and uh off they have five kids. Uh uh, let me see, I think it's four girls and one boy. And in any event, uh I mean, quite frankly, everybody should have died. One person did die, everybody should have died, and uh uh three of the girls, uh one the oldest daughter had multiple skull fractures, uh broke her arm, other uh other things going on. Uh the middle daughter uh had a uh uh broke vertebrae in her neck, and the doctor said they did surgery. The doctor said if it would have been one half inch more, she would not be walking at all. There would be no feeling below the the the chest. And another the other daughter broke her arm, the two smallest ones, no issues whatsoever. But here's here's my point that I'm making. Is so, you know, I'm over there, I was up there this weekend, this past weekend, and and I went to the house and I'm praying for the girls that are at the house, and and then of course, uh uh the middle daughter is still in the hospital. They're they're doing rehab. And uh this is the scripture that the Lord gave me for her. While she's in that sick bed, the Lord is strengthening her. Amen. I turn that over to the prayer team here, and they begin to pray about it, and the word of the Lord began to come forth that they will recover faster than anyone thinks, and they will have no remembrances of the trauma of that accident. Amen. And you know what they're telling me? It's already happening. It's already happening. They're recovering faster than they're supposed to. But from the from the very beginning of that accident, they they came on the accident, and the two older girls were sitting there praying in the Holy Ghost. Sitting there, sitting there praying in the Holy Ghost. And and they were saying, they they said later, we didn't even really know what we were doing. Of course they didn't know what they were doing, because their spirit's not connected to their body and what they were going through, and their spirit started ministering to them. Your spirit believes that you're healed, your spirit believes that you're well. And as you feed the word of God to your spirit, the Bible says in the book of Proverbs the strong spirit of a man will sustain him in times of sickness and bodily pain. And so while you're on that bed of languishing, you know, you might, you might, you might be weak, you might whatever, need to sit down or whatever the case may be. God's restoring you, he's healing you, he's restoring you. One translation says the Lord helps him when he gets sick and heals him of all of his ailments. Amen. You know, I might as well say this while I'm there. It is a matter of life and death where you go to church. It's a matter of life and death. I stood there in the in, and you know what was so beautiful about it? The same hospital that this young lady is in is the same hospital that our young, our middle daughter was in when God healed her. Same hospital, same place. I used to work for Blue Cross right down the hill, and I'd walk up the hill to the NICU at Children's Mercy. Amen. And I stood there in that that hospital, and Jeremy, the young, the dad, he Looked at me and he said, Pastor, it is so true. It's a matter of life and death where you go to church. He said, If we had not been taught how to respond to these things, if we had not been taught how to respond. He said, if you could see the car, you couldn't see how anybody walked away from that. But they did. They did walk away from it. Why did they walk away from it? Because God was taking care of them. God is a healer, He's a protector. Amen. See, part of your declaration and your confession is your thankfulness. Well, yeah, but they found this in my body. Yo, be thankful they found it. Be thankful they found it. We know what we need to deal with. Amen. I told the church we spent ample time just rejoicing Sunday. I said, here's why we're rejoicing. We're not going to funerals. Nobody died. I know we got things we got to walk through, but nobody died. Look, you're here today. You're alive. The Bible says where there's breath, there's hope. That if there's life in your body, there's hope. No matter what is being said, no matter what has been declared over you by the medical profession or other people, you're here. You're alive. God is taking care of you. Your health is springing forth speedily, and the power of God's moving in your body right now. Oh, hallelujah. Glory to God. Another translation says, the Lord will be like a nurse to him when he's ill in his bed. Every time he is ill, you will make him well again. Oh, glory to God. Say it out loud. Every time I face sickness, God will make me well. Oh, hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Well, Pastor, I just want the pain gone. Do me a favor, don't focus on the pain. I know it can be hard, but don't focus on that. Focus on the fact that He took your pain. He carried your pain. If you get focused on the pain, you'll fall into this ditch of, well, maybe I'm not healed because I still have the pain. Pain is no evidence that you're not healed. Whatever it may be, weakness is no evidence that you're not healed. You gotta walk it out. Moffat said the eternal sustains him on a sick bed and brings him back to health. So as I'm being constant and refusing to waver, what's happening? God's restoring me. God's healing me. Amen. Whatever part of the body that you're believing for, as you lay down, you say, as you get ready to go to sleep tonight, thank you, Father, you're restoring me. As I sleep tonight, you're restoring me, you're healing me, you're making me well in the name of Jesus. My eyes will be better, my ears will be better, my whatever will be better. Why? Because that's what you said. Oh, hallelujah. So we're constantly expecting God to do what He promised. See, don't be constant about the wrong thing. And that, what I mean is, don't constantly allow yourself to think and talk about time, how long it's taking. You know, you're gonna live so long, you're gonna live to be so old old people call you old. Right? You know, and so you got a long life ahead of you. Yeah, but Pastor, I'm already, and you fill in the blank. Well, what does that mean? The Bible says live till you get satisfied, then go on home. But here's the thing don't get focused on that. Time. You got you you're okay. You got a lot of time, you got a lot of time left. You're gonna live long and strong. You got things to do for God, you got things that God's called you to do, that God wants you to be a part of. You're gonna live to do it, and you're gonna be strong doing it. Yeah, but what if it comes back? That affliction will not arise again the second time. Nahem chapter 1, verse 2 says, that affliction will not come back the second time. Hallelujah. When the Lord healed me, that's the verse he gave me. Nahem 1.9, that affliction will not arise again the second time. Did it try to come back? It did try to come back. Tried to come back with a vengeance. And I said, No, that affliction will not arise again the second time. I'm telling you, that's not going to come back. Okay, Lord, I'll just say that. So you're not just in remission, it's been removed. Remission means it could come back. Right? That's where we get the idea of remission, intermission. You know, if there's an intermission, if I said, okay, at 11:30, we're going to have an intermission. That means we're going to have a little break, and then we're all going to come back. So remission means, okay, you got a break, but it could come back. No, it's not coming back. That affliction will not arise again the second time. Look at Psalm 42, 11. Glory. It says, Why are you cast down, soul? Why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise him. Why? Who is the health of my countenance and my God? One translation says, He is my health and my life. Another says, God, my health, my God, my all. Another says, Find him still your health's eternal spring. Woo! Glory! He's still my health's eternal spring. Look at Psalm 118, 17. Oh, the Lord's good to us. And you know another thing to keep in your mouth is he that begun a good work and used faithful to complete it. He'll do what he said. If he started it, he'll finish it. He doesn't leave things incomplete. Psalm 118, 17. Notice, I will not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. That's your declaration. And you can fill in the blank whatever whatever you're doing. It doesn't just have to be death. Right? I will not have heart trouble, but a perfect heart, and I'll declare the works of the Lord. I'll not have cancer. I'm cancer free, and I'll declare the works of the Lord. Whatever it may be, that's your declaration. That's your confession as you're constant and unwavering. Amen. Let me wrap up with this. Charles Capps made the following statement. He said, in August of 1973, the word of the Lord came to me saying, if man would believe, long prayers are not necessary. Just speaking the word will bring what you desire. He said he didn't say prayer was unnecessary, he said long prayers about certain things. If man would just speak the word, we'll bring what you desire. My creative power is given to man in word form. I've ceased for a time from my work, and I've given man the book of my creative power. The power is still in my word. For it to be effective, man must speak it in faith. Now again, speaking the word, declaring the word, confessing the word, if we're not careful, that can become something elementary. That can become a formula. That can become, the Lord said to me one time, I when we were over in Markham, I preached for probably 21 weeks on this. The Lord said to me, He said, Many people are just parroting what they heard somebody else say. He said, There's no power in that. No power in that. He was talking about authority. He said, authority is not hearing and saying what you heard somebody else say. Authority is you believing the word and speaking the word out of your own mouth. And so we have to say the word, but notice what he said. He said, for the word to be effective, man must speak it in faith. Hallelujah. Jesus spoke it when he was on earth, and as it worked then, so shall it work now. But it must be spoken by the body. Man must rise up and have dominion over the power of evil. I spent a number of weeks just a couple weeks past now talking about the source of sickness. John Dowie said, sickness is the foul offspring of his father Satan and his mother sin. Comes from the devil, stealing, killing, and destroying. So man has to rise up and have dominion over the power of the devil. And he said, By my words, it's my greatest desire that my people create a better life by the spoken word. For my word has not lost its power just because it has been spoken once, it is still equally as powerful today as when I said, Let there be light. But for my word to be effective, men must speak it. And that creative power will come forth, performing that which is spoken in faith. My word is not void of power, my people are void of speech. The word is not void of power, my people are void of speech. Hallelujah. He said this. By observing circumstances, they have lost sight of my word. They even speak that which the enemy says, and they destroy their own inheritance by corrupt communication of fear and unbelief. Hallelujah. So it's not the words of the enemy to say, the doctor said I have this. It's the words of the enemy to say, I can't ever get rid of it. It's the words of the enemy to say, I'll probably die from it. It's the words of the enemy to say, I'm never going to get out of this. That's the words of the enemy. It's not the words of the enemy to say, I'm dealing with this. One time a young man came to me, he had gotten a hold of the word of God, and he was facing his first challenge. This was almost 30 years ago. He was facing his first challenge. And he said, Pastor, what do I do? You know, I've been doing this, and he told me some things he was going to do. And his name was Tony. And I told him, I said, Tony, take the word of God, load your mouth with it, and go change your circumstance. That never changes. That never changes. Never changes. There's no easier way. There's no better way. There's no more update modern way. AI can't do this for you. I've got to put the word in my mouth and go change my circumstance. My body's going to respond to my words. And so I don't want to grab other words and speak those words. He said, notice, he said, I can, I will corrupt my inheritance. I will destroy my inheritance. Part of my inheritance is being whole and healed and well. Oh, hallelujah. He said, No word of mine is void of power, only powerless when it is unspoken. Then went on to say, Jesus said to me, I've told my people they can have what they say and they're saying what they have. I told them they can have what they say and they're saying what they have. Now let me finish with this. I got five minutes. That's why, and again, people talk negative and positive. That's why you don't want to go around saying I'm sick. You're not denying anything. Jesus said you could have health. Quit saying what I have. And say what he said I could have. Well, I don't want to lie, I am sick. Well, I understand that. But why why can't you say, look, this is what I'm battling, but I'm the heel of the Lord. This is what the doctor said, but I'm the heel of the Lord. Not denying the report, but I'm not putting those words in my mouth. Amen. People will come for a prayer, and I'll say, you know, how can I pray for you? Well, I've been to the doctor and they've given me six months to live. I'll always say, what do you believe? Because if you believe you've only got six months to live, I can't help you. See what we read just a moment ago? If the doctor says, I've got six months to live, how do you respond? I will not die, but I will live. Right? Again, that sounds simple. But silence is agreement. If they say you got six months to live, and you just go, let me share this with you as we're closing. I saw this in my life, in my family. A number of years ago, well back in 2020, they diagnosed my dad with congestive heart failure. And uh he was living in Kentucky, and of course I was living here, and uh this was at the just the beginning of the restrictions and the things. And so uh my sister had been there for a week helping them, and she needed to come home, so I traveled up and and uh was there for a week getting them back and forth to doctor's appointments and things. And uh, you know, dad had operated in healing his whole ministry. He was healed during the days of the voice of healing, and uh, you know, but operating in a gift and seeing healing and experiencing healing doesn't mean that I have faith to get healed. It means I have faith God can heal. And so he was dealing with this, and and you know, I'm I'm helping him, and he's he's really weak, and I'm having to pretty much carry him everywhere we go, and you know, basically, and so we we went to the doctor, went to his heart doctor, and the cardiologist made a statement. He said, Well, it's not any worse. And dad just looked at me. I said, Praise God, Dad, it's not any worse. We can build on that, right? It's not any worse. So, you know, he was a little amped up. He was had a little energy. And uh then we went to his primary care physician. And uh he knew my dad and knew my mom, and so we're in there, and he knew dad was an evangelist and had traveled, and and he uh he was saying, Well, what'd your cardiologist say? He said, Well, he uh he said it wasn't any worse. He said, Okay, and uh so he did what he did, and you know, then he he sat down, put the stethoscope over his neck, and kind of looked down at his feet, and he was sitting in a stool, and then he looked at my dad and he said, You do know that your preaching days are over. You will never travel again. You can never do that ever again. And I watched my dad. He went. That was it. My dad passed away a couple months later, but he died in that room. I could never get him to rebound from that. Because we just left where they said, Well, it's no better or no worse. If it's no worse, that means we can turn it. It's gonna be better. Now, the doc, you know, the doctor was a kind man. He loved my dad, but he was one of these, I just want you to face reality. He never recovered from that. Why did he never recover? Preaching was my dad's livelihood, that's all he had ever done. My father had never held another job for 60 years. That's all he had ever done. And now you can't do it. How are you gonna take care of your family? How you gonna take care of your wife? Right? But here's here's here's the point that I'm making. Instead of saying, in that room, I appreciate what you're saying, but I will not die, but I will live. See, that's the difference in knowing a faith that is based on a gift and having faith that comes from the word of God. The faith that comes from the word of God is what you have to have to stand from what you're going through. Amen. So, as we're leaving, let's say some things today. Say it out loud. I believe, according to God's word, God's holy word, that I am healed. Healing is flowing through my body right now. Galatians 3 13, 1 Peter 2.24 is a part of my bloodstream. Healing is flowing through my body. Anything that's not planted in my body by my heavenly Father is rooted up, it's pulled up, it's done away with in the name of Jesus. I am healed by the stripes of Jesus. There is healing and no sickness in my body, in the name of Jesus. My body, my immune system will not be deceived by any germ or virus. Anything that attacks my body dies instantly in the name of Jesus, for I am the healed of the Lord. Oh, hallelujah. Glory to God, amen. Take this opportunity, just tell somebody there behind you or beside you, you know I'm healed. Oh, hallelujah. Glory be to Jesus. Isn't the Lord good? Amen.