1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,560 Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:06,920 from St. Augustine, FL. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:12,360 Now enjoy this message. First Corinthians chapter 12 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,280 verse one says this. Now concerning spiritual gifts 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,320 or spirituals. Brethren, I do not want you to 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,320 be what? Unaware, ignorant, uninformed. 7 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,960 We want you to accurately flow and function this way. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,080 Do you understand God wants you to function this way? 9 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,480 Because the gifts are not just for the fivefold ministry is for 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,360 the believer. And guess what? 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,120 Again, to echo, it's not for in here alone. 12 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:43,520 In fact, it should happen more out there than in here, and it 13 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,400 will function in here. But when it functions in here, 14 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:51,760 it's for the edification of everyone, not for one person to 15 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,000 be able to. Now Brother Hagin said this 16 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,680 Kenneth E Hagin, who's gone on to be with the Lord, he was a 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,040 man used mightily of God in the realm of faith. 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:06,160 He was of the generation of Oral Roberts, Lester Sumrall, those 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,400 individuals that were carriers of the power of God and the 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,680 working of faith. He was around during. 21 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,160 Mayor, what's her name? Catherine Kuhlman. 22 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,360 OK, they performed some miraculous during what they 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,400 called the healing revivals. And Brother Hagin said this, He 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,480 said the healing revivals ended, he said, because the Church 25 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:35,360 missed its intent, that God had used certain fivefold ministers 26 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,400 to reacquaint the church with what? 27 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,960 They reacquainted the Church with what they possessed. 28 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:49,800 But the church or the Saints as a whole look to the individual 29 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:55,360 carrying the gifts. Instead of saying I can do this, 30 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,760 they started idolizing the one carrying and he said it was 31 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,680 thwarted or aborted. Well, I don't want this last 32 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:14,040 move to end because you're looking for a person and don't 33 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,960 think it won't. It's going to happen in these 34 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,360 last days because the Bible already tells us. 35 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,640 Then in the last of the last days, they'll heap teachers to 36 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,840 themselves, having itching ears to get what they they're going 37 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,760 to go. They're looking for the next 38 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:30,120 person. Quit looking for the next 39 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,200 person. You have the person. 40 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,560 He's on the inside of you. He's called the Holy Ghost. 41 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,440 He functions in the church. He wants to use you. 42 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,120 This is not a competition. It's us completing and 43 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,880 complementing each other. And again, if you're an Obadiah 44 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,280 which gets 1 chapter, big deal. Take your chapter and run. 45 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:02,600 I mean, just because they may not move constantly in your 46 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,240 life, when they do, aren't you glad they have? 47 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,640 Because we all can. Have them. 48 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,920 And we all should function in them. 49 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:15,240 Amen. Now, I don't suspect that I'm 50 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,360 going to be up here in worship and I'm going to have a line of 51 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,280 20 people saying I think I have something. 52 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,120 Because first and foremost, here in the Corinthian church, 53 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,640 ultimately, he said that after they do about two or three, they 54 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,560 need to move on to the preaching of the Word. 55 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,720 So how do you know whether you have something in a service if 56 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,280 you are within the first 3, Right? 57 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:43,400 That's right, because if two or three people, three people have 58 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,320 already come up here, then you're, you're for the next 59 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,040 service. Amen. 60 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,480 Now, here's the thing. I know this God put some of you 61 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,600 on weight, meaning I want to use this person first. 62 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,840 But in case they do not yield, as Pastor Angie told you last 63 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:10,760 week that she at times did not, he'll have someone on backup to 64 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,440 yield. This is why a lot of times in 65 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,440 churches, it seems like the same people. 66 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,160 But it's really not that God wants to use the same. 67 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,400 It's that he's having to use ones that have become proficient 68 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,680 at yielding. And again, this was what Pastor 69 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,440 Angie the challenge we all have this challenge. 70 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,240 We know we have something, but we're asking it, do I go? 71 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,000 Because it could be that God wants someone else. 72 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,920 And so you're having to since that I know some people have 73 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:53,000 missed a move of, of of a gift of the Spirit because God spoke 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,760 to them in a worship or a praise song. 75 00:04:56,280 --> 00:05:00,200 They held back and held back. We moved on to another song. 76 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,840 Then they came, but the moment had passed. 77 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,000 I said, man, if you had come earlier, we could have released 78 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,800 that now that all that means is you heard accurately next time, 79 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,480 move quicker. And you know what? 80 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,000 God's bigger that if that didn't happen, we can pick it up 81 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,760 somewhere else or it'll pick up somewhere else. 82 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,720 Amen. I know that some have come down 83 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,240 and said, Pastor Earl, I've got this word and I say, what is it? 84 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,480 And they tell me that particular word and I know what I'm 85 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,840 preaching the very next week. And I'm like, man, that's next 86 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:33,080 week. Do you understand God can give 87 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:40,120 you something that's in advance, something that's going to happen 88 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,040 in the future. Word of Wisdom would be in the 89 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,400 future when we got to that place and then we released it and be 90 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,040 considered a word of knowledge at that time. 91 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,760 The point is that you may have something that may not be for 92 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,840 this service, but could be for another one. 93 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,120 Amen. And, you know, I want us to 94 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,920 become proficient because one of my biggest things as a pastor, 95 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:03,360 there are some things that I've always asked before I moved into 96 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,560 this position. And one was, can you be a large 97 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,560 church running thousands of people and still allow the 98 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,840 Saints the ability to move in the gifts? 99 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,640 Because I have found that when churches have gotten larger that 100 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,160 it gets relegated to the staff members. 101 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,120 But there has to be an order. You just can't stand up in the 102 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:35,600 back and start going off. You can't do that. 103 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,440 Are you hearing me? Now, can that happen? 104 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,160 Yes, there can be, but most of the time there's going to be a 105 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,000 different order about it because you're, again, the Holy Ghost is 106 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,280 not going to interrupt. Let me give you a case in point 107 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,160 of how that would happen. Maybe I would say, man, I'm 108 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,840 sensing that someone's got something. 109 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:56,760 And then at that point, now I'm given the occasion as opposed to 110 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:58,280 I'm preaching. All of a sudden someone jumped 111 00:06:58,280 --> 00:06:59,960 something. Now, why would God interrupt 112 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:03,600 himself? He would not do that. 113 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,520 Amen. Because God does things decent 114 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,480 in order. So we need to desire them. 115 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,560 We're learning how. And again, there are many, as 116 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,200 Pastor Angie alluded to last week, we have some, whether 117 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:17,720 you've been here a week or whether you've been here 10 118 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,760 years, 15 years, or the 20 years that we've been in existence as 119 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:26,680 a church here, OK? We all need to remind ourselves 120 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,280 of these truths because just because you've flown in it, have 121 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,520 flowed in it at one point doesn't mean that you're staying 122 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,920 sensitive to flow in it still. Amen. 123 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,640 And again, you understand, if I do not know you at all, I'm 124 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:46,480 probably going to have to give a little opportunity meaning. 125 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,400 OK, And here's some testing I did. 126 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,760 David, would you stand up? When David first came to our 127 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,520 church, you know, I didn't know David from anywhere. 128 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,920 I know that he was at a different church. 129 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:58,760 That was a Rhema church down in Orlando. 130 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,280 You know, I knew that he has written 20 something books. 131 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,920 OK. I realize he loves God, but at 132 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,960 the end of the day, I don't know him, know him. 133 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,480 And here's a service that all of a sudden he's got something. 134 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,520 So he knew the order. He went to an usher At that 135 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,080 point. I went over and I listened. 136 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,720 Well, you know, it seemed accurate, but I didn't know 137 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,360 David. So I said, OK, thank, I'll 138 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,680 release it. Because here's the thing, if 139 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:33,200 it's coming from God and he just gave it to the overseer, if I 140 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,320 release it, we're still honoring. 141 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:40,120 God is not making me. Now what I always do in those 142 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,880 moments, I'll say someone had this word, I'm going to give it 143 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:46,360 because again, it didn't come from me. 144 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:49,320 It didn't originate from me. It is of God, but it came 145 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,280 through another vessel that way. I want you to know that God's 146 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,160 using people in the church. Hallelujah, David, you can be 147 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,920 seated. But as I grew and learned David 148 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,640 and then all of a sudden, a lot of Times Now if David has 149 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:08,280 something and I hear about it and and I'll either go to him 150 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,600 because I'm kind of getting the flow or I may get it already. 151 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:17,640 And I said sending. And he'll come on up and he'll 152 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,680 deliver that. I remember one time, very 153 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:22,960 specific, he gave me something concerning healings. 154 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,080 Trying to think of what that was. 155 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,240 Now was it back? Or it was a heart issue and it 156 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:36,040 was a heart issue and I gave the word, but I had David lay hands 157 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,720 on everyone because it originated through him. 158 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,400 I sense the anointing was on him because again, lay hands on the 159 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:48,520 sick and they shall recover. That's the Saints can do. 160 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,680 The Saints can do that. Which means if he got a word 161 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:55,800 from God, then he could be functioning in the gifts of 162 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:00,680 healing. And who am I to deny the gifts 163 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:03,600 or the Holy Ghost working through him to lay hand because 164 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:09,800 it's God doing it anyway. It's God doing it anyway, the 165 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,440 only time. You and I are going to have a 166 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:16,240 resistance with the gifts is if your motives off and we'll look 167 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,400 we'll look at that here in a second. 168 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,080 So there are a variety of gifts, verse 4 but the same Spirit, 169 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,240 there are variety of ministries, the same Lord, there are variety 170 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,440 of effects, but the same God who works all things and all 171 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,200 persons. But each one is given the 172 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,320 manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 173 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,440 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit, to 174 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,520 another word of knowledge according to the same spirit, to 175 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,520 another faith by the same spirit, to another gifts of 176 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,440 healing, by 1 spirit, to another the affecting of miracles, to 177 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,520 another prophecy, to another distinguishing of spirits, to 178 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,360 another various kinds of tongues, and to another the 179 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,760 interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit 180 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,600 works all these things, distributing to each one 181 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,440 individually, just as. He wills as who wills who wills. 182 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,840 He wills not you will. All you can do is earnestly 183 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:06,200 desire them, but your earnest desire doesn't make. 184 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,000 Him do it. But it does give him the ability 185 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:16,040 to use you because you have a willingness and you're seeking, 186 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,320 in essence, you have a desire would be a better way to say it. 187 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,840 OK, so Hebrews chapter 2 four says this God also testifying 188 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,760 with them both by signs and wonders, and by various 189 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,120 miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit. 190 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,760 According to what? His own will. 191 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,000 So again we see this concerning the the the disciples that when 192 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:41,040 they went out after Jesus was ascended to heaven that he would 193 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,720 testify through them with signs and wonders. 194 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:47,000 These power gifts we're going to talk about and then other gifts 195 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,840 of the Holy Spirit according to his will. 196 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:52,200 Again, as the Spirit willed, he did things. 197 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,560 He moved and he and he had some some function again. 198 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:58,480 Jesus said it this way in John 1412 through 13. 199 00:11:58,680 --> 00:12:01,320 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me, the works 200 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,720 that I do, He will do also, and greater works than these. 201 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,120 He will do, because I go to the Father, whatever you ask in my 202 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,120 name, that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in 203 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,440 the Son. The gifts always glorify God, 204 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:22,010 not you. Amen. 205 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,760 And if you start taking the credit, you're going to. 206 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,560 Open yourself up, give you another testimony. 207 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:32,840 Kennethy Hagin During the healing revival there were some 208 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:38,160 other men's that were there a Allen a a Allen was a person. 209 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,280 Give me some other names that was along those lines. 210 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:48,160 Branham, William. Branham, Jack Coe. 211 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,600 I said Oral Roberts already, but Jack Coe, those those 212 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,080 individuals now Oral Roberts was not but one of these others. 213 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,480 I'm not going to mention who it was, but Brother Hagin went to 214 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,280 that person specifically and says you. 215 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,320 Need to stop. Entertaining familiar spirits in 216 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,520 your service, He says you're yielding to the Holy Ghost in 217 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,800 one service, and then the next service you're yielding to 218 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,880 familiar spirits. And this minister said to him, 219 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,640 Brother Hagin I. Have to. 220 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,600 Because the people expect me to perform. 221 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:25,760 Now here's the thing, know this, that when the gifts get in 222 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,960 operation, selfish people will push you. 223 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,880 Selfish people will make a demand on what they want. 224 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:45,880 And This is why I say to those who are 54 or older, that many 225 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:51,560 in the generation, you know, really 60s beyond me, that those 226 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,560 that were in that line of faith, I can't tell you how many 227 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,720 ministers I had say, oh, so and so. 228 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,880 Reminds me of brother, why are you following a man anyway? 229 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:15,480 Why are you doing that? Why are you not following Jesus? 230 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,840 Hallelujah. And again, when you get around 231 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,960 certain certain administers can be very common in doing certain 232 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,040 expressions of God. And it's not because God wants 233 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:37,200 to do it, but because the people demand again William McDowell, 234 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,960 not our Bill McDowell, but William McDowell, who is a 235 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,320 worship minister and pastor down in Orlando. 236 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,160 He's wrote a song called Isurant. 237 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,360 What was that song? I give it give myself away. 238 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:54,360 And so he had a, a very, you know, popular praise album. 239 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,160 And so he would go minister at churches, and the churches 240 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,960 wanted him to sing that song. Well, he said, you know, I got 241 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,800 into these services and the Lord didn't want me to do that. 242 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,880 I just started ministering on and all of a sudden it's like 243 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:12,240 they were booing me. They were making a demand that I 244 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,480 sang a very specific, which means the spirits not moving in 245 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:21,800 the song, he said. I quit singing when I went to 246 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,760 minister in churches because they made a demand on me to 247 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,400 basically they wanted me to perform. 248 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,480 Now, not too many ministers are willing to let go of that kind 249 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,600 of popularity, and I'll go further. 250 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:42,280 Popularity and provision associated with performing for 251 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,760 someone because we understand in the entertainment industry 252 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,480 today, they are some of the wealthiest people. 253 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,680 Why? Because they're giving the 254 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:57,440 people what they Amen. We have the reigning spirit, 255 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,720 though I said we have the reigning spirit. 256 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,160 I know there's a way to test the spirit, especially when it comes 257 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,880 to guest ministers. Some I'll tell them directly 258 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,600 what I want them to minister and if they will not do what I 259 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:20,960 asked, then I know they yield to whatever the following demands 260 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:29,440 of them. Yep, because I know what the 261 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,440 House needs, this local body and you know, some of these 262 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:39,640 ministers have some really great content if they wouldn't yield. 263 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,320 To the pressures of the people, Hallelujah, because people will 264 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,800 feel like they didn't get a service if it didn't go a 265 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,440 particular way. Say Amen anyway. 266 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,000 So Jesus said these works or you're going to do who's going 267 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:03,680 to do you are say I can function in the gifts. 268 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,359 Come on, say I can function in the gifts. 269 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:09,839 Some of you are not even talking. 270 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,040 I mean, the first way to function is just to yield to 271 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,359 easy instruction. Because if you're like, I'm not 272 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,280 going to do what he says, I guarantee you you're not going 273 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:28,119 to do what the Holy Spirit says who you can't see and doesn't 274 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,200 say it audibly so that you hear it like this, but it's an inward 275 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,120 witness. OK, I'll give you another 276 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:39,960 chance. I function in the gifts of the 277 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,800 Spirit. Amen. 278 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,560 And you've got to believe that again. 279 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:50,360 There's a line in the nation of Israel hearing a giant taunt 280 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:54,520 them and they all believe God could take him out, but no one 281 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,760 believed that he would use them except David. 282 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:06,040 David showed up and says what? I go down there, I'll go down 283 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,600 there. Now you can say David's up on 284 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:09,360 the mountain. He like, he ain't that big, get 285 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:13,200 down there, he's that big. But it didn't move him, right? 286 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,360 Because David knew God could through him. 287 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,040 And you've got to say God can use me, Amen. 288 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,000 Because again, we're not even, we don't care about you anyway. 289 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,160 We care about what God wants to do through you to edify the rest 290 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,920 of the body, Amen. So as Pastor Ange, you said 291 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,560 don't be selfish. Which brings us to James chapter 292 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:35,680 4 verse one. It says this. 293 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,360 What causes fights and quarrels among you? 294 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,280 I'm going to read out the NIV. They don't. 295 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,560 They come from your desires that battle within you. 296 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,280 Now I'm going to say this real fast. 297 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:56,160 Just a little infomercial. Some of you are watching too 298 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,840 much stuff on YouTube about people's Bible translations. 299 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:08,400 God will make sure that there's the authenticity of His Word. 300 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:14,280 And if I use any translation, I've already checked multiple 301 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,280 translations to make sure it's accurate. 302 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:21,520 And this particular one may just read in such a way that allows 303 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:28,560 you to digest it quicker because some people, if it's not the 304 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,440 authorized King James Version, which is not what Jesus spoke, 305 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:42,080 Jesus did not speak King James. The minute you begin to, if you 306 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,520 have enough discernment that you can jump over and say what's 307 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,080 saying here is what's saying here, and you're picking up the 308 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:55,080 spirit of the Word. So be aware of that because 309 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,640 there's some translations that I read out of that. 310 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,240 There's places that I don't read from because they have a 311 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,520 traditional slant to it. So I do not use that one. 312 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,720 But I do not disregard the whole text because I've taken the time 313 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:13,560 to go into the Greek anyway to make sure that it's where it's 314 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,760 at in its original. Or Hebrew. 315 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,080 Or Aramaic, whichever original context it was in. 316 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,000 Amen. All right. 317 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,000 So verse 2 you desire, but you do not have. 318 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,080 So you kill. You covet same word and 319 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,760 earnestly desire, covet spiritual gifts, same word. 320 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,360 You covet, but you cannot get what you want. 321 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:38,920 So you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do 322 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,720 not ask. And when you ask, you do not 323 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,120 receive, because you asked. With what wrong motive? 324 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:48,680 So that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 325 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:53,920 Many, as Pastor Angie said, unfortunately in the church 326 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:59,280 world, want to function in spiritual gifts so that they are 327 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:07,960 recognized. And here's the thing, sometimes 328 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:13,680 they do and they're accurate because Caiaphas was accurate. 329 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:21,760 But ultimately, ultimately, you're not going to get the 330 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,680 results and you will not stay with just the Holy Spirit or the 331 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,040 reigning. Spirit when you have. 332 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,200 A motive that's off God is merciful. 333 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,440 God is so merciful, say he's merciful. 334 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:35,880 He's merciful. Do you understand? 335 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,600 He's merciful to the ungodly. I mean, he rains down on the 336 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:46,840 just and the unjust. God's merciful, I mean, 337 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,120 blessings will even come to the unrighteous. 338 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,640 That doesn't mean God approves of their life. 339 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,840 I mean, God's a merciful God. God does good things to horrible 340 00:21:58,840 --> 00:21:59,760 people. Why? 341 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,720 Because it's the goodness of God that draws men to. 342 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,320 I mean, because again, some of the greatest repentance in a 343 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,240 person's life are drawing back to God. 344 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:15,320 Is that when God blesses them and they know man, He should not 345 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,760 do this for me. I am in total rebellion to him 346 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:24,720 and I know it and He knows it. But man, he still does it 347 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,280 because God. That doesn't change God's 348 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:34,200 ultimate judgment. If you persist, then judgment 349 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,960 comes in the persistency. But if you repent, then we can 350 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:39,520 rejoice. Amen. 351 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,640 We can rejoice Hallelujah. So you know, I've been around 352 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,680 some people that I know, man, their life, it and all that. 353 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:47,800 They ain't this, that and the other. 354 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,160 And then pastor, I got a word or, you know, I got OK, you 355 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,000 know, because at the end of the day, I'm not going to despise. 356 00:22:54,040 --> 00:23:00,280 I can judge. Sometimes I'm like, man, they 357 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:07,320 were right, even though they're wrong, right. 358 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,280 I mean, God is so merciful saying I'll I want to use you. 359 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,400 Oh my gosh, I want to use you. Amen. 360 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,800 Now, why do I say that? Because we instantly think when 361 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,440 someone starts to function in the gifts of the Spirit that 362 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,680 they must be spiritually mature and that is not true. 363 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,480 And all of a sudden, we'll actually go follow the person I. 364 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:33,480 Want to get the next one? I was reading concerning these 365 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,600 power gifts concerning Smith Wigglesworth and Smith 366 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,880 Wigglesworth. They said if a person got in his 367 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,640 healing line twice, he would kick them out. 368 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,520 Literally, he would turn them around and kick them. 369 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:55,200 Oh yeah, man, the church couldn't handle Smith today. 370 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,840 No way. Smith Wigglesworth, that guy had 371 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:04,440 cancer and they said he punched him in the gut and he flew 372 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:11,480 across the, I mean, fell and, and they're like, he's dead and 373 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,320 he's like, he's not dead. He's healed and kept on 374 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,840 ministering. He was out for 10 minutes and 375 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,680 then got uphill to the Lord. No cancer. 376 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:25,160 Amen. Hallelujah. 377 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,920 No, but we won't think. Come here, Dustin. 378 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,200 We won't. We want the gifts like this, 379 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:34,240 right? I mean, what are you gonna do if 380 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:38,560 all of a sudden the gifts go right? 381 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,440 I mean, Rodney Howard Brown testified of healing deaf ears. 382 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,400 He said. I don't know why deaf ears pop 383 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,120 open in my ministry more, he said. 384 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,000 But I have on more than one occasion that the power came on 385 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,480 me and next thing you know, damn, I slapped him upside the 386 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,400 head and they hit the ground. But they get up hearing and then 387 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,200 we asked, you know, did you feel me hit you? 388 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,800 And they're like, Nope, didn't feel you didn't know you even 389 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,920 hit me because it was the power of God. 390 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,600 But yet you understand we have it on mind. 391 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:13,440 Thank you. What we think because many 392 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,720 people would all be like. But I ain't. 393 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,040 That's not the that's not the gifts. 394 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,800 That pastor just punched that dude in the face. 395 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,400 Slap that tumor right off your head. 396 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:33,960 I mean, it can happen today, Hallelujah. 397 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,960 But let me say this, Rodney Howard Browne said this 398 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,160 concerning the gifts. He said whenever God uses you, 399 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,200 you must realize it's God. It's not you. 400 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:49,000 All you've got to do is make yourself available for him to 401 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,560 flow through you. If we could make it happen, if 402 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,080 we could turn the switch on to make it happen, we'd keep it on 403 00:25:56,080 --> 00:26:03,080 all the time and we can't. So again, one of the the 404 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,720 thoughts of the church is that, well, you know, if God's healing 405 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,120 and we ought to be able to just go into the hospital, can't do 406 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,400 it. And in fact, again, the reason 407 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,400 why if you want to get the answer to the question, why are 408 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,440 we not seeing more miracle signs and wonders, look at yourself in 409 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,680 the mirror. Look at yourself in the mirror. 410 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:32,600 Because again, God is not in to raising up 1235 anointed 411 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,680 individuals that the whole world has to come to to receive. 412 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:44,160 It's not doing that. He says, I'm in you, I'm going 413 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,920 to use you. I mean, we should be able to 414 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,360 come and say, in fact, I did this test with the pastors at 415 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,600 Raymond one time because, you know, again, where are the 416 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,800 miracles? And I'm like, and I did this 417 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,120 with you. I said, how many people here in 418 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,800 the church was sick and had symptoms the last month? 419 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,280 And I had the church raise their hand and so many raised their 420 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,120 hand. I mean, really, almost half the 421 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:08,400 church, if not more. I said, now how many of you that 422 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,080 had symptoms of sickness in the last month, you've asked the 423 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,000 Lord to heal you. You stood in faith and you were 424 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,080 healed basically the same amount. 425 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,760 Raise their hand. I said. 426 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,000 Now if I had done a service where I called for healing and I 427 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,480 laid hands on all of those individuals and they all 428 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,960 testified they were healed, we'd be like, wow, we're seeing 429 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,840 healings again. Yet people are functioning and 430 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,720 healing all the time by birthright. 431 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:35,320 But you know what we're not doing? 432 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,800 We're not testifying. You know, I was sick the other 433 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,480 day, but the Lord healed me. I stood in faith and the healing 434 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,320 power of God. Still working in the church 435 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,160 today. The reason why? 436 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,640 It's because we're really not talking amongst ourselves 437 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,960 because you know what? We're ashamed to actually say we 438 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:54,160 had symptoms because it's like we have a lack of faith. 439 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,640 Well, the reality is we're in a suit that is still dying, right? 440 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,600 That we're doing everything we can to keep it rocking and 441 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,040 rolling with the word and God can quicken your mortal body, 442 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,520 don't get me wrong. And you can function in a way 443 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,880 that symptoms are few and far between. 444 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,920 But even Brother Hagin, when he said to that I've not had a 445 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,880 headache in 33 years. His grandson, Pastor Craig said 446 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,880 what do you mean by that? He said, well, you know, when my 447 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,280 head started to hurt, I'd get on it immediately and it would go. 448 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,400 And he said, but Poppy or whatever, you know, he called 449 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,920 his grandfather, he said, by all rights, you actually had a 450 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,840 headache. It just was gone quick. 451 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,360 So again, what happened in the circles that we run in is that 452 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,360 they assumed that he never felt a headache for 30 something 453 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:48,080 years, which is not true. Now, again, why did he do that? 454 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,120 To emphasize that you can stay in healing so that it's as if 455 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:58,080 you've not had one because when it comes, you don't tolerate it 456 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,280 because you know who you are in Christ and you're going to 457 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,600 stand. But you understand God sometimes 458 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:10,960 wants to use the body. So you could have something. 459 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,840 You're standing, but the Lord is in this particular case, 460 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,520 whatever why that symptoms on and where it came from. 461 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,720 God may want someone to lay hands on you and there he's 462 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,760 encouraging them through you to get your healing because again, 463 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,440 you can receive healing just through the simple laying on of 464 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,200 hands, but then some of you are contracting some stuff. 465 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,600 Unfortunately, that or you're in some situations that the gifts 466 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:42,200 of healing need to get in play. Which is is beyond natural. 467 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,200 When I say natural, it's still supernatural, but your ability 468 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,040 to believe on your own to receive. 469 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,960 OK, so the power gifts are this. They are gifts of action which 470 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,720 produce signs and wonders. They operate in the realm of the 471 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,560 physical. Meaning you see something 472 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,360 change. Now I'm going to say again. 473 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:06,200 We've said this for years and teachers say this I'm apartment 474 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,320 to teach. But with that being said, of the 475 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,840 9 gifts of the Spirit, which are the most powerful, it's the one 476 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:17,960 needed at the time We sensationalize gifts. 477 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,080 Man, I want to see the power gifts. 478 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,520 Well, if the power gifts not necessary, there's no reason to 479 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,640 have it and you're not going to make the Holy Ghost show it. 480 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:32,280 In fact, every time the Lord was made a demand on to produce the 481 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:37,000 gift, the power gifts in His ministry, He was like, not doing 482 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,680 it. I don't have to do it to prove 483 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:41,920 to you. You understand, if anyone comes, 484 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,880 well, let's see. God is not in the business of 485 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,800 having to prove Himself because He's already proved Himself by 486 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,560 creation. The lost and dying world are 487 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,480 already out without excuse by creation alone. 488 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,520 God does not have to perform to prove. 489 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,960 So again, do not think man, we've got to have these gifts so 490 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,920 that the world can change. You don't have to have them, all 491 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,480 you need is the word. But the gifts will work and will 492 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,280 help and do help. Some come on over into the 493 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:16,760 Kingdom and be changed. Amen. 494 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,240 So we should desire them so the. First one I'm going to deal with 495 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,920 is the gifts of healing, and that's the supernatural 496 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,520 intervention of God's healing power over sickness and disease 497 00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,440 without natural means. I'm going to give you a couple 498 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,560 of examples in the Bible. Turn to John chapter 5. 499 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,160 In John chapter 5, we'll start in verse 5. 500 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,120 It says this, there was a man who there who had been ill for 501 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,360 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying, he 502 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,440 knew that he had already been a long time in that condition. 503 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,360 He said to him, Do you wish to get well? 504 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,840 The sick man answered, Sir, I have no one, no man to put me in 505 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,840 the pool when the water is stirred, but while I am coming 506 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,880 another steps down before me. This is at the pool of Bethesda. 507 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,800 Jesus said to him, get up, pick up your mat and walk 508 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,000 immediately. The man was made well, picked up 509 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,120 his mat and began to walk. Now it was on the Sabbath. 510 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,480 It was the Sabbath on that day. So the Jews were saying to the 511 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,640 man who was cured, it was the Sabbath, it was not permissible 512 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,760 for him to carry your pallet. But he answered, he said, he who 513 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,280 made me well was the one who said to me, Pick up your pallet 514 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,760 and walk. They asked him, Who is the man 515 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,120 who says to you, pick up your pallet and walk? 516 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,800 But the man who was healed did not know who it was. 517 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,640 For Jesus has slipped away while there was a crowd in that place. 518 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,480 Afterwards Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, 519 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,760 Behold. You have become well. 520 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,720 Do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse. 521 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,320 Happens to you? First thing I want to point out 522 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,960 is this last verse. When the gifts of healing 523 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,320 function in your life, it does not guarantee you'll never get 524 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,360 sick again. So when the gifts of healing are 525 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,280 in operation and the many times people come down and the gifts 526 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,080 of healing get in operation and people are healed, completely 527 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,000 healed, it's gone. They know it's gone yet what 528 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,600 does Jesus tell this guy? Your lifestyle is going to 529 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:16,040 affect your body and what I did for you, that you were in this 530 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:21,560 condition for 38 years. Not only would it come back, but 531 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,800 be worse. And you know how many people 532 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,680 have left the gifts in operation, completely healed, 533 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,800 come out of the wheelchair, drop off their canes, everything. 534 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:37,880 But not too far in the future, start to develop, the symptoms 535 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,320 again get worse and what do they say? 536 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,080 I guess God didn't heal me. That's not true. 537 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,560 It could be and most likely that they did not repent and change 538 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:56,320 the way they were living. Say Amen anyway, because again, 539 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,560 many people are bad advertisers for God when God did. 540 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,720 If you come down and hands are laid on you and all of a sudden 541 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,159 what nothing you could do could change you or cure you or heal 542 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,480 you, but now you're healed and it's gone, then you need to 543 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,920 praise God and say now self examine me because I sure don't 544 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,920 want this to come back and it works. 545 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,679 And I'm going to learn about my covenant right in healing so 546 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,960 that I can keep things at Bay, so that the gifts of healing 547 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,719 technically are going to have to get in play in my life. 548 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:33,040 Say Amen. So we need to recognize that the 549 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,199 next thing is why is this the gift of healing? 550 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,120 Number one, this man had no faith concerning it, didn't even 551 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:42,000 know who Jesus was. Jesus is healing him independent 552 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,760 of a belief system that this man has doesn't even know. 553 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,920 This is not like the woman with the issue of blood that her 554 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,120 Jesus was in town knew he was the healer because it was not 555 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,560 the gifts of healing that healed her. 556 00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,640 He turned to that woman and said your faith has made you well, 557 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,880 not my the gifts of healing that came out of me. 558 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,600 Power left him, but power left him because of her faith, not 559 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,280 because of the gifts. But in this case, he was on 560 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,680 assignment by the Father. He knew who he was looking for. 561 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:18,720 He was the only man, the only person at the pool that was 562 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:24,160 healed that day, the gifts. It was what the Spirit wanted to 563 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,720 do through Jesus for that man. And he did. 564 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,240 Amen. Another one here is in Acts 565 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:32,600 chapter 3 verses one, one through 8. 566 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,480 Chapter 3, verse one through 8. Now Peter and John were coming 567 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,800 to the temple in the ninth hour. The man had been lame from his 568 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,880 mother's womb, being carried along whom they had set down 569 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:43,400 every. Day at the gate. 570 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,480 Of the temple which was called beautiful in order to beg alms 571 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,080 of those who were entering the temple. 572 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,320 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began 573 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:58,520 to ask. He began asking to receive alms. 574 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,800 But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, 575 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,360 Look at us. And he began to give him his 576 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,320 attention, expecting to receive something from them. 577 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,600 And Peter said, I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do 578 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,840 have I give to you in the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene 579 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,240 walk. And he seized him by the right 580 00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:14,400 hand. He raised him up, and 581 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,360 immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened with a 582 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,920 leap and a shout. With a leap he stood upright and 583 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,720 began to walk. And he entered the temple with 584 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,040 them, walking and leaping and praising God. 585 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,520 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So when it says that he fixed 586 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,200 his gaze on him, this this phrase fixed his gaze comes from 587 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,200 a Greek word. It's a combination of two. 588 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,360 And when you put them together, a is at the beginning, then you 589 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,880 have which is alpha, and then you have the ladder, which means 590 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,320 to stretch. And again, we define this as, 591 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,040 you know, looking intently, but the reality is if it's alpha and 592 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,240 the word means stretched, then basically you are looking it 593 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,080 from the stretch or from the perspective of Christ. 594 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,240 He's he's stretching his sight from heaven down to this man. 595 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:07,040 In essence, he is hearing God concerning what he wants to do. 596 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,640 The gift got in operation. He was just going by then all of 597 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,640 a sudden the Holy Ghost came on him. 598 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,160 And the Lord wanted to heal this man. 599 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,920 Now, this man had no faith for healing. 600 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,760 What he had faith for was money. But what did Peter say? 601 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,800 He addressed what the man's desire was. 602 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,200 He says silver and gold. I have none. 603 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,720 That doesn't mean that Peter was broke. 604 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,520 It means he wasn't carrying any coins that day. 605 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,720 But that wasn't what he was supposed to give anyway. 606 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,600 What he was giving was healing. And again, this man was lame, 607 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,320 which does not indicate he had anything missing. 608 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,280 What he had was just not operating and he was so 609 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,760 confident that the Holy Ghost was speaking to him about it 610 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,920 that he spoke to him first what was going to take place. 611 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,840 Then he grabs him by the hand that was functioning because 612 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,040 remember, he lifted out his cup. Now I don't know, but it could 613 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,600 have been that Peter slapped that cup out of his hand and 614 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,480 then grabbed his hand or just grabbed his forearm. 615 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:10,280 But it says he he pulled him up. That define means he snatched 616 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,480 him. This wasn't no all right, let's 617 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:21,600 try like we see all right, you ready now I'm not saying that 618 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:22,760 people can't be healed doing that. 619 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:27,440 I'm not saying, but I'm saying equally it can be that get up. 620 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,120 I mean talking about confident expectation and yielding that 621 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,320 you know you've heard God about this deal snap, because if it 622 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,400 ain't working, I mean you understand he's just pulling him 623 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,840 dragging his face. It's. 624 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:46,120 Like OK. OK, he sat and all of a sudden 625 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:51,520 everything was made. Strong nerves, his his muscles. 626 00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,000 Now I'm not going to tell you he went boom. 627 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,120 His legs got big like that. I'm not telling you that. 628 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:01,400 But there was strength in those little skinny legs I can 629 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,040 identify. Hallelujah. 630 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,680 All right, the next one is working a miracles, working a 631 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,200 miracle, supernatural gift from God to work a miracle. 632 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,280 It is in an intervention of God in the course of nature. 633 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:20,480 OK, here's 1 Matthew chapter 14 verses 25 to 29. 634 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,120 And the fourth hour of the night he came walking on the sea. 635 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,840 And when he his disciples saw him walking on the sea, they 636 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,360 were terrified and said it is a ghost and they cried out in 637 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,960 fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to 638 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,480 them saying take courage. It is I do not be afraid. 639 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,200 Peter said to him, Lord, if it's you command me to come and walk 640 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,640 on water. And he said, what come? 641 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,680 And Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came 642 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,400 towards you. That is a working a miracle. 643 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,960 Now, again, when we think of working a miracle, unfortunately 644 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,600 we tend to only think about, you know, body parts growing out. 645 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,200 We always tend to for whatever reason associated with the body. 646 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:03,120 OK, again, some of our congregation members that are 647 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,920 here that are deaf, there's different. 648 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:11,280 Reasons some could. Hear at a time. 649 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,200 But lost it, which means they had everything there and it left 650 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:20,360 or everything's there but the nerves just not sending to the 651 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:25,080 brain yet there are some that don't even they do not have 652 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:30,720 everything within the eardrum. It's not there and that requires 653 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:34,320 a working of miracles. You're going to This is why when 654 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,960 Jesus, in one of the occasions of a blind man, he stood dirt 655 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,000 and put it on his eyes because man was made out of what? 656 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,960 The dust of the earth. So what he was doing is what 657 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,520 wasn't there for him to see because he had never seen. 658 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:59,600 He put it on him, the dirt. Now I'm not telling you to go 659 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,000 grab dirt and throw it in someone's ear. 660 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,960 What I'm saying is you hear what God says, but in this case God 661 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,080 Jesus had heard that put, you know spit on the dirt, put it on 662 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,040 his eye and said go wash in the pool of Salome and he went and 663 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,840 washed it. When he finished washing he 664 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:22,040 could see which it manifested. OK, so we see here that to walk 665 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,720 on water is a miracle. So do not relegate the gifts of 666 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:32,520 the spirit to only hit some some kind of healing manifestation. 667 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,280 It can be other things. I'll give you this 1 John 668 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,880 chapter 6 verse 9 through 14 for the sake of time, because most 669 00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:43,960 people know this context, write it now. 670 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:48,360 So you read it yourself. But this is where God fed 5000 671 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,280 men, not counting the women and children. 672 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,120 So there were more than that. And he wanted to feed them. 673 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,120 They found a lad with five loaves and two fish and they're 674 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,520 like, there's no way this is going to feed everybody. 675 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:05,040 But he said sit them down, Jesus blessed it began to divide it 676 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:10,480 and it multiplied that when they everyone was had eaten and were 677 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,560 satisfied, which means they didn't want to eat anymore. 678 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,200 He collected the leftovers and it ended up being 12 basket 679 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,160 fulls. OK, that is a working of 680 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,400 miracles. Now I'm going to give you a 681 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,640 testimony of my own working of miracles when I say that where 682 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,080 God used that gift. Mr. Berry, would you stand up? 683 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,600 Mr. Berry will testify of this work in a miracle. 684 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:40,560 OK, Mr. Berry came over to 312, our last location before we 685 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:46,800 moved here, and he donated wood pickets to put on a fence that 686 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,560 we had to build for the preschool that we were about to 687 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,200 start. OK, so the cats out of the bag, 688 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,960 he was the guy that donated it. All right? 689 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:55,360 I mean, we've been here 20 years. 690 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,960 We should be all right. OK cuz I need him to testify 691 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,440 now. I did not tell him this 692 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:06,240 personally but when he brought it I knew that it was not 693 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:09,600 enough. And I'm sure when he saw the 694 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,320 fence, when he got there, he himself was like, right, Well, I 695 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,680 didn't buy enough. So I started to put the pickets 696 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,640 up and saying the whole time, this is not enough. 697 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,960 And I'm trying to think, you know, how are we going to get 698 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,120 more? We can't even open this 699 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,400 preschool till this is done. This is going to delay us more. 700 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:29,760 And it's not like we have the money. 701 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,800 I'm extremely thankful that he did this and it won't cost me as 702 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,080 much. But at the end of the day, you 703 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,240 know, when the account zero, it's still 0. 704 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,400 You know, when you're, you don't actually have extra to do this. 705 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:45,280 And I got, you know, probably from that step to this step, 706 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,640 maybe a little bit further when the Lord spoke to my spirit. 707 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,640 Now, Mr. Berry was probably doing this already, but I sure 708 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,000 wasn't doing it. And you know, there's more power 709 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,400 when people get in agreement, but there's real power when you 710 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,160 begin to hook up with the word of God. 711 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,520 So the Lord spoke to me and he says, is that what you're going 712 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:09,560 to call it? Now when he talked to me, I knew 713 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:14,800 he gave me an instant image of this 5 loaves and two fish and 714 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,680 the woman with the little bit of meal. 715 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:25,360 And I knew God can multiply natural things supernaturally. 716 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:32,200 So I only confess from that point on that we will have more, 717 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,920 we will have enough, we'll have more than enough. 718 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,480 And sure enough, we got to the end and around the corner. 719 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,040 That should have been it, but we made the next corner and the 720 00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:47,280 next corner and the next corner, and the link that I complained 721 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,120 was all that was left undone. And when I got to that link, the 722 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,160 Lord spoke to me. He said that was the link you 723 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,400 complained and doubted me. You can pay for that yourself. 724 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,640 He said that to me because He wasn't paying for my doubt and 725 00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:04,160 unbelief. Now, did that happen, Mr. Berry? 726 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:11,160 We saw a working of miracles take place where God multiplied 727 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,160 natural materials supernaturally. 728 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,480 Amen. And I know at other times, 729 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,520 especially in the realm of food, it has happened in this church 730 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,880 as well. We've had kind of a time of 731 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,520 fellowship and all of a sudden way more people showed up than 732 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,080 we were expecting and people had made. 733 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,480 And it's like, man, whoo y'all better speak over this right 734 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:34,560 now. Again, when you're saying that 735 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,720 it's not that we willed it, we recognize the Holy Ghost was 736 00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:41,920 wanting that to occur because what was he doing? 737 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,160 Everyone that was in play of just serving that food and I 738 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,960 know y'all can testify, stand up Don and Michelle because they do 739 00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,040 our dining with Daniel Monday. They've called me before and 740 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:55,480 says, pastor, we did not prepare enough. 741 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,520 And they sought the Lord Lord and the Lord granted them a 742 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,320 working a miracle because they know Lord, we earnestly desire 743 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,600 because it's got to happen or it's not going to work. 744 00:46:05,720 --> 00:46:08,840 So they got with the team, they prayed and the power of God fell 745 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,440 and they began to declare. And sure enough, before that 746 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,760 money was over, fed everybody more than enough. 747 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,480 And you had leftovers, right? They can testify. 748 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,520 See that's happened again. Where are the miracles Anchor 749 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:24,600 Faith Church, They're right here, they're right here. 750 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:27,920 Amen. Now, again, if I was in a 751 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,320 congregation that did not know you'd be seated, that did not 752 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:36,040 know me like you, they'd be shouting, they'd be jumping and 753 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,760 running. They'd be leaping. 754 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:42,360 Because when Brother Hagin got into churches and would talk 755 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,600 about the miracles, people are like, wow. 756 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,840 I mean, if we earnestly desire, you ought to be excited that in 757 00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:01,600 the local church you're a part of, God is doing that. 758 00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,160 Now, I can't tell you it's going to happen every week, but I'm 759 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,680 just saying, don't think the gifts aren't flowing here. 760 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:14,800 And if they've done it with us in these capacities, again, I 761 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,160 wasn't even at Dining with Dignity. 762 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,120 OK. That means then it can happen 763 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:24,480 with you where you're at, wherever you're at, and you 764 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,400 should desire it and expect it to take place. 765 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,200 The gifts of faith. That means it's a divine, 766 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,000 supernatural manifestation of God's faith imparted to. 767 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,760 You at a specific time, at a specific place for specific 768 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,840 purpose. It is a. 769 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,280 Supernatural gift from God to receive a miracle we could 770 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,800 almost say this concerning the power gifts that when Jesus 771 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,600 functioned in the working of miracles or the gifts of 772 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:53,920 healing, he also had the gift of faith associated with it anyway 773 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,240 because he said I don't do anything but what my. 774 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,120 So there's a gift of faith concerning, and I'll give you a 775 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,000 really good case in point here in John Chapter 11, verse one 776 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,040 through 6 says now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, 777 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,920 the village of Mary and his sister Martha. 778 00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,120 And it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his 779 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,520 feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 780 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,680 So the sister sent word to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom 781 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,320 you love is sick. When Jesus heard, he said, the 782 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,680 sickness is not to death, to end in death, but for the glory of 783 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,240 God, so that the Son of man may be glorified. 784 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,840 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, so he. 785 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,520 So when he heard that he was sick, then he then stayed. 786 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,480 Two days longer in the place where he was didn't even go. 787 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:50,560 Pastor, I'm going to the hospital. 788 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,320 All right, I'll see you in a couple days. 789 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:56,520 Now, people get offended over that. 790 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:02,320 Jesus said OK, but he heard something. 791 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,840 I said he heard something and he spoke. 792 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,360 He said it will not end in death, though really at the 793 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,240 time, if you calculate this, at the time that he is hearing 794 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:21,080 this, Lazarus just died. He cannot get to him. 795 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,440 So he stays two more days. Then by the time he gets to, 796 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,840 he's been in the grave now four days. 797 00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:32,360 Took him two days to get there. Now this is good for Jesus, 798 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:35,600 because now Jesus. Is going to see someone come out 799 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:39,840 of the grave in four days which gives him confidence that he 800 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:43,840 coming out in three. Are you hearing me? 801 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:49,080 His daddy is good to him because Jesus's mouth side the planet, 802 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,680 but he's wants you know, son, your word, it's going to work. 803 00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:56,840 I can get them in four. I'm only leaving you there 804 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,520 three. All right, verse 11 it said he's 805 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,640 go down to verse 11. This he said after that he said 806 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,920 to them, our friend Lazarus was has fallen asleep, but I go so 807 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,360 that I may awake him out of sleep and the disciples said, 808 00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,720 Lord, if he's asleep, he'll recover, meaning, you know, he's 809 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:14,520 probably getting rest. You know, whatever it was, you 810 00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,040 know, rest does good when you're sick. 811 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,760 But he's like, Nah, Nah, Nah. He goes on and says this. 812 00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,960 Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought he was Speaking of 813 00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,960 him literally sleeping. So Jesus said to them plainly, 814 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:28,120 Lazarus is dead. He's dead all right. 1st 39 815 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,920 Jesus said remove the stone. This is the gift of faith. 816 00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,080 He's heard something. I said he's heard something. 817 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,000 And he's functioning off that faith that it's going to be, he 818 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,320 goes on. Martha, the sister of the 819 00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,560 deceased, said to him, Lord, by this time there'll be a stance 820 00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,920 for he'd been dead 4 days. And Jesus said to her. 821 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,920 Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory 822 00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:50,760 of God? So they removed the stone, and 823 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,440 Jesus raised his eye and said to the Father, because again he 824 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,120 heard from the Father the gift of faith God imparted his faith 825 00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:01,040 to. Jesus, Father, I thank you that 826 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,880 you have heard me. I know that you always hear me, 827 00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,680 but because of the people standing around, I said it so 828 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,080 that they may believe that you sent me. 829 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,400 And when Jesus has said this, he cried out in a loud voice. 830 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,920 Lazarus come forth, and the man who had died came forth, bound 831 00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,560 hand and foot with wrappings in his face was wrapped around with 832 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,400 a cloth. Jesus said to him, Unbind him 833 00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,920 and let him go. Amen. 834 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,200 The gift of faith. And it cause you to believe for 835 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:32,320 something beyond your own natural natural supernatural 836 00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,160 ability to receive faith from God. 837 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,160 It'll kick in. I'll give you a case of two case 838 00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:40,360 in points one, we experienced this as a church. 839 00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,840 If you did not I I tangibly only because. 840 00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,880 Of being the overseer, that when the Lord told us to purchase 841 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,440 them all, and I got it, I did not waver. 842 00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,000 Right. Which means I had the ability to 843 00:51:54,000 --> 00:52:00,440 walk in that piece for five years, despite rumors and others 844 00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,920 wanting to come and buy it out from underneath us. 845 00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,960 While we were raising the money, so the gift of faith held it. 846 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,760 Are you hearing me another time, Matthew? 847 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,280 Maybe you were there. Maybe Brandon was there. 848 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:21,200 Help me to determine who went on this Nicaragua trip with us. 849 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:28,160 But we went to a penny L and it was raining and outside was 850 00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,760 basically this building. I mean, it was only about a. 851 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,440 Quarter of this building, but there's no size, just the roof, 852 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,840 OK. And all of a sudden it's rainy 853 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,560 season in Nicaragua and the water came. 854 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:43,880 And it was. I mean thunderous. 855 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,760 Now I'm speaking in English. We have a translator, he's on 856 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,320 the mic. I'm not using a mic. 857 00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,080 I'm loud enough. They don't need that. 858 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,240 But when the rain, they definitely can't hear me. 859 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,080 They can barely hear the interpreter. 860 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,480 And what we? Needed they needed to hear and 861 00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,760 so I'm preaching low and in my spirit the gift of faith took 862 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,000 place. The Lord said to me, he said, 863 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:06,920 tell the rain to stop. Who was there? 864 00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,080 You were there, David. You were there. 865 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,760 Brandon, you were there. OK, y'all stand up. 866 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,280 David, come down so they can see you. 867 00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:13,480 If y'all can testify this happened. 868 00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,320 This was this was a Brandon stand up. 869 00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,480 Thank you. Just stand there. 870 00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,200 I need a David move. I want you to stand so they can 871 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:21,680 see you. That way if they want to come 872 00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:25,000 and ask, you can testify to this. 873 00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:33,920 OK, so you know, I so I say rain in the name of Jesus, stop now 874 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,480 what I didn't know took place is the the guy that oversaw that 875 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,840 ministry. When I said that, he immediately 876 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,400 said in his mind, well, he just lost the crowd. 877 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,080 He's going to look like a crazy person now, talking like. 878 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:53,080 That. But these men's witness in 60 879 00:53:53,080 --> 00:54:01,280 seconds, the rain stopped. The rain stopped. 880 00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,720 Now I can't stop rain, but God can. 881 00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,720 And I just, I mean I'm preaching and I heard in my spirit tell 882 00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:10,040 the rain to stop in the name of Jesus. 883 00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,200 And then I just kept on preaching like I didn't even say 884 00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:18,640 it, but everyone heard it and there was a sucking the air out 885 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:20,680 of the room, which, you know, it's kind of hard since it 886 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,920 didn't have any walls. But you know, it's like, oh, but 887 00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,320 then the rain stopped. Then there was like this one 888 00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,400 section, maybe 2 minutes afterward a little bit more came 889 00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,400 and the Lord said tell them that had already fallen and gravity 890 00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,520 has just brought it down. And I said that, which 891 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,000 apparently was from a different cloud. 892 00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:39,720 Apparently it was layered and I didn't know that, but I said 893 00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:41,960 this is stopping and it was what, maybe 30 seconds? 894 00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,720 Then it quit and it wouldn't even, I mean it was like not 895 00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:47,080 even 30 seconds of dropping and then it stops. 896 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,480 No rain. The sun came out. 897 00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:56,840 I finished preaching, but I had preached long enough with the 898 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:01,840 rain that the Creek that we came across had made it to flood 899 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:09,000 stage and at that stage you can't cross it, which means we 900 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,560 cannot leave. But we were supposed to minister 901 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:17,520 at a university that night and I told, I said we've got to go, we 902 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:21,120 have another place to minister. They said Pastor Earl, I have 903 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,280 been here for 10 years at the time I think it was. 904 00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,800 And he goes with the water in the river is this high, it takes 905 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:31,440 8 hours for it to come down because it's just running. 906 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,160 Are now were you that you weren't at that one Anyway, with 907 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,160 that being said, I said no in the name of Jesus got to come 908 00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,680 down and God is my witness. 30 minutes, 20 minutes later, 909 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,680 everybody's running around screaming in Spanish like crazy, 910 00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,040 You know, we don't know. I don't know what's going on 911 00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,600 because none of us are speaking it, you know, And we're like, 912 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,240 what in the world's happening because someone drove up. 913 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:56,960 They're just like screaming, going crazy. 914 00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,000 Everybody's running around. Next thing you know, they take 915 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,120 off, they go down the hill, then they come back up and they say, 916 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:06,440 you will not believe this. It has gone down in 20 minutes. 917 00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,920 I said, well, praise the Lord, we can get to our next 918 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,840 assignment. That's the working of miracles. 919 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,920 Now, honestly, I kind of wish God would have let us go down 920 00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,880 there and slap it and it would have departed that way. 921 00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:22,480 That'd be cool. However, God didn't need to do 922 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:26,800 that to do now. What I did not realize is that 923 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:30,480 working a miracle, and there's always this language barrier. 924 00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:35,760 The next time I came into Nicaragua, I let them know we're 925 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,760 coming in on this day and they, for whatever reason, they always 926 00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:46,560 confused. 12:30 AM that day as the afternoon for some reason, 927 00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,720 you know, I don't know why they did that. 928 00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:53,600 So we get there, no one's there, and we're having to get picked 929 00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,680 up by someone else. Well, what that? 930 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:57,720 Did is it? Delayed us getting to Penny Ale 931 00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:02,840 and when it delayed us getting to Penny Ale, there had been 600 932 00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:07,000 people that were waiting to hear me Minister, but they had to 933 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:08,680 leave and go home. And this is what they were 934 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:11,160 saying. We wanted to hear from the man 935 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,320 who calls the rain to stop because it did not rain in that 936 00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,520 area the rest of the rainy season. 937 00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:28,040 Now I didn't do that, but that's what the miraculous will do. 938 00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:30,720 Where people then will want to hear. 939 00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:32,680 Y'all can be seated. Are you hearing me? 940 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,320 So we need to earnestly. Desire spiritual gifts. 941 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:42,520 Because it will create a hunger and people wanting to see and 942 00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,880 know God. Because many have. 943 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,920 Heard of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? 944 00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,800 People have heard. About the God of the Bible. 945 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,800 But they don't think he's functioning that way. 946 00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:59,680 But he wants to function that way through us. 947 00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,280 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 948 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,720 If you want more, subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 949 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,840 Google Play, Spotify, and SoundCloud. 950 00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,480 Rating and leaving a comment will go a long way with helping 951 00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:18,240 our messages get better circulation. 952 00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:21,040 If you'd enjoy watching our weekend messages, visit 953 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:25,080 youtube.com/anchor Faith. 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