So in 91 to 2000, I was Pastor David's associate pastor. 2000,
we had a young man come in that was our youth pastor, brand new
youth pastor for us. His name was Earl Glisten.
So that's how I got to know Pastor Earl Glisten.
And I was, you know, I loved it. I loved him from the very
beginning. He, he had some fire that the
rest of us didn't have. And I'll just never remember,
you know, I never forget. I mean, as that I'll never
forget the different messages that he had that, you know,
really spoke to our youth and gave us the, the men that we
have today. Like, you know, Pastor Marcus
was one of those. Joshua Clay, my son was one of
those. We had several people that had
come down here eventually because of his influence in
their lives. And so, you know, one of the
things that I during that time when I was the associate pastor,
I had buried a lot of friends, not very old from cancer.
And as you know, hungry Bible student.
I was wanting to know, OK, Lord, we did everything that you told
us to do. We laid hands on.
We taught him the word of God. We also, you know, took elders
over, anointed with oil. Everything your word said we
did, but they didn't make it. And that bothered me because it
had the appearance at the time that your word doesn't work.
And so I went to the Lord about it and I asked him.
I said, tell me what is up, tell me why they didn't make it after
we did everything in your word. And I'm growing, I'm growing as
a Christian. I'm I'm wanting to know, you
know what, what are what are these things about?
And one thing that the Lord showed me, he said there was a
common denominator with all the people that I buried and I and
he said, just think about them. And I did.
I just called their name before for the Lord.
I was just sitting there in prayer and he said, Randy, he
said they didn't they didn't find or embrace their purpose,
man. They were just going through
life, the emotions they were going to work trying to raise
kids, coming to church, some serving, some not, you know, and
they and he said they just never found their purpose.
So I, during that time in, in, you know, Oklahoma and serving
on staff, I preached hundreds of times, ministered hundreds of
times. I got, I got AI got file
cabinets full of tapes. You know what a tape is.
Anybody know what a tape is? ACD, Not ACD, but a cassette,
right? Hundreds of them.
All right, I'm going back a little bit.
And as I administered in different times on healing and
different things, I, I, I came up with this basically my own
quote, all right, that I wanted people to think about if they
were ever struck with cancer or any other disease that could
possibly take their life. I said this, if cancer ever
attacks your body, you will need a reason for being here that is
stronger than cancer. Now, I thought that was a great
thing. Never had any idea in the world
that I was going to have to put it into practice.
You've heard that saying before. Practice what you preach.
Well, every now and then there comes those opportunities.
Now, I thought it was interesting because anything
else that attaches attacks your life.
It doesn't have to be cancer, but something that can take your
life. You need to have a reason for
being here that can overcome anything that attacks your body.
All right. Now, I heard somebody say this
one time. I, I, I looked to see, you know
who quoted it. And I even think it was probably
Smith Wigglesworth probably had a version of it.
But he said, he said, if you have to get ready, you're too
late. And I always remembered that.
I thought, man, you know, So what is it that we have to do to
get ready? You know, the worst time in the
world to figure out if you've got a spare in your car is when
you have a flat. You know, what's worse than that
is finding out your spare has no air.
But did you know a lot of Christians today treat their
faith like that? You know, they get a bad report
or they feel something in their body or something abnormal or
whatever. And the next thing you, you hear
is, honey, where's that Bible? That, that's, that's not how
we're supposed to be living. It's, it's, it's not time to
start a fight with no ammo. You, you've got to start from
the beginning. And I began to develop myself in
that. Now I want to give you a
scripture that if you do not have this scripture as part of
your arsenal, OK, and you have not made your mind up that this
scripture is absolutely, irrevocably true, OK?
I mean, it is true. You're going to struggle when it
comes to healing. It is found in Exodus chapter
15, verse 26. And this is what God is telling
them when they are, He is bringing them out of the land of
Egypt. This is the children of Israel,
He said and said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice
of the Lord your God, and will do that which is right in his
side, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of these diseases the Hebrew bears
out. I will allow none of these
diseases to come upon you which I have brought upon the
Egyptian. I want you to notice the last
sentence, for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
If you cannot grab a hold of that and say that is the
absolute truth in my life, you're going to struggle in
healing. Now the word healing there or
the word healeth in the King James is the word we've all
heard, Rafa. And as a matter of fact, the
phrase the Lord that healeth thee is the term Jehovah Rafa.
I am the Lord that healeth thee. Let me give you the definition,
the word Rafa means to heal, to repair, to cure or thoroughly
make whole. Now see, this is what God said
that he is. Remember when Moses asked him,
he said you know you, you want me to go free the people.
So he's scrambling in his mind to come up a reason, said he
can't do it. And one of them happens to be,
well, what if they ask me your name?
He said, what am I going to tell him your name is?
And what did he say his name was?
I am. His name is right before what he
does. I am the Lord that healeth thee.
And if we can't make up our minds that he's telling us the
truth, we'll struggle when it comes to healing.
All right, now I'm going to give you 2 other words that are going
to be important so we can move forward.
OK? In the New Testament is written
in Greek. And the scripture that I have
for you here is Matthew chapter 8.
Two times the word mentioned is mentioned, healed and healed.
But they're two different words in the man manuscript.
Take a look at it if they have it.
I do believe you guys got it. It says in verse 5 it says and
when Jesus was come to Capernaum, there came unto him a
centurion beseeching him and saying, Lord my servant lies at
home sick of the palsy and grievously tormented.
And Jesus said, I will come heal him.
That particular word in the original language is the word
therapy, O in the Greek THER APEUO.
All right, THERAPEUO, and here's the definition.
To heal the cure, to restore the health, or to relieve of
disease. Can you hear an English word in
there? How about therapy?
Therapeutic. That's where we get that word.
Now think about it with me. We've got some people that help
us in our physical bodies, even in the room tonight, that know I
understand therapy and that they will give us things to do that
will help us. All right, a therapist lets you
know this is what I need you to. They don't do it for you.
They want you to do it. OK, now think about with me for
a second. Let's just think about a little
bit about Jesus ability to heal, because this word, when you see,
if you put all the words of healing and health and and and
healing health and and he loved in the in the King James season,
you see those words healed, healing, heal and health.
He said, You see those words in there 60% of the time.
It is this word therapeuto. Think about Jesus healing.
He sees a man in the synagogue on the Sabbath day.
He always does it on the Sabbath day and it's an irritant to
certain people in the crowd. But he sees a man with a
withered hand and he said stretch forth your hand and he
heals it. Remember that.
Then he goes on and he has a guy that is blind.
He spits in the dirt, make some mud and smears it on his eye.
I think sometimes I my mind goes kind of like over I'm like how
much spit did he have to make to get a mud glob smear?
But remember what he told the guy?
He said go to the pool and wash therapy.
How many times did he do that? He said to the the 10 lepers,
remember he said and they said you can heal us for me.
And he goes OK, go show yourself to the priest.
And he says as they went, how many times did he say pick up
your bed and walk, take up your bed and go to the house.
That is the picture of their PIO in the Bible.
All right, now let's keep reading because he said the
centurion answered him, said, Lord, I'm not worthy that you
come under my, come under my roof, but speak the word only
and my servant will be healed. You see that that's a different
word in the Greek. It is the word that saved my
life. And I'll explain that here in a
minute. But it is the Greek word EA O my
and the Greek word EAO my. Let me spell it for you.
If you're taking notes, and I encourage you, if you don't
usually take notes, get the phone out.
All right, 'cause I'm going to give you some scriptures tonight
that you're going to be able to use when you have a flat.
But when you see that word healed, the Greek word EAO my is
IAOMA i.e. AO my, all right, here's the
translation. Translation to cure, to mend, to
recover, to restore. So when we take a look at these
words, it didn't have any definition in there that said
put up with be patient. All right, so we can finish
that. We can, we, we can, we can
finish this story out knowing that Jesus was amazed at this
guy's faith, totally amazed at his faith.
He marvelled, he said I have not seen so great a faith.
No, not in Israel with this guy. He was a heathen.
He had no covenant. He was from Rome, and yet Jesus
said he had more faith than all of them, He said in Israel.
Does anybody believe that Jesus was an exaggerator?
Jesus told the truth. And when he said that, there's
nobody in Israel that had the kind of faith that this guy had.
And what was that faith? And we're going to talk about
faith briefly tonight, all right?
And how important it is to understand how to use it to see
God move on our lives in their arena of healing.
Pastor Marcy mentioned one of my favorite scriptures.
OK, just in, in all the scriptures that she listed, you
need to jot this down. When I teach healing in Kingdom
Institute, I have a a week that I teach scriptures that must
become part of your life. OK, They must be.
And if not for you, somebody that's going to need them.
Psalms 107 verse 20. Listen to this.
She read it to us many times. In this time it says Psalms one
O 7 one O 720. Guys, do we have it?
There we go. Look at it.
He said His word and healed them and delivered them from their
destructions. This is my #1 scripture.
Because if you're going to get healing in your body, you need
to know what was sent to give it to you.
He sent His word and healed them.
You know what I didn't find is that He sent the best doctors in
the world to heal you. Now listen, you want to talk
about doctors? I can promise you, I have been
before more doctors than this entire crowd.
Oh, yeah? Oh oh, Now Jesus wasn't an
exaggerator and I'm trying not to be either, OK.
But when I got the revelation that He sent His word and healed
me and delivered me from all my destructions, a light went off.
And that light basically told me that I might need to get to know
His word when it came to His will on keeping me.
Well, right. March 11th.
Anybody know what day that is? That's a special day in all of
our lives. Pastor Earl's birthday, 2006,
Melanie. And I'd come home and, you know,
just an evening. I remember where we went to eat
his hamburger, had a hamburger. We were just kind of sitting
there reclining on the bed. We were watching Andy Griffith.
Anybody know Andy? This particular episode was
about Aunt Bee's Pickles and how they tasted like kerosene.
And we're watching them and we're waiting for the boys to
come home. They went and they were doing
their thing and, and we knew they'd be coming home pretty
soon. It wasn't very late.
Melanie looked over at me. She goes, I feel like I'm going
to pass out. Well, I got to thinking, well,
you're laying on the bed, you know, I mean, you're not going
to fall anywhere. Thought it was weird.
So pass on out, you know? All of a sudden she began to
have difficulty breathing. Her eyes locked wide open and
she began to, as the best I can describe it, began to swell
before my eyes. Now fun and games is over.
Andy Griffith and all that don't matter.
Something has hit our house. She was struggling to breathe
and the only thing I knew to jump into action was I.
I had a scripture come to me in Romans chapter 8.
When I was sitting there just looking at her, I just, I could
not believe what I was seeing. And in Romans 826 it says like
why? The Spirit himself helps our
infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought,
but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with
groanings that cannot be uttered.
I remember I looked at her and I put my hands on her so fast and
I begin to pray in other tongues and as I I I continue to pray
that you know, the Lord reminded me of this verse because you
know, I've become a student of the word to know what Jesus and
the Holy Spirit was meaning when they gave us the words.
The word helpeth. There is the word that means a
partnership between you and the Holy Spirit that you come
against something to move it out of the way.
It's about this long in the original language, but then the
next word and you got to get an understanding.
This scripture in context is talking about sickness in your
body because they said the Spirit Himself helps our
infirmities. That word infirmities is the
generic word in the Greek for sickness.
And so I knew something is up. I put my hands on her and I just
began to pray in tongues. I probably didn't pray more than
15 seconds, Just pray it. I got on the phone 911.
The dispatcher was telling me, tell me what's it, what are you
seeing? What's going on?
I said it, it seems like she's swelling, that her tongue is
swelling. She's having such a hard time
breathing. I can't even I, I don't even
know what's going on. I have no idea what's going on.
She said, just watch, get something and make sure that you
keep her airway open. And, and I said her eyes are
locked open and, and I, I don't know, I don't know what's going
on. She said, just hang on, they're
coming. Well, I knew it was going to
take them a minute or two to find us because we lived in the
country. And as a matter of fact, I heard
the ambulance go by two or three times and before they finally
made it. But as we're, I'm on the phone
with her and and I'm on the phone with her.
And all of a sudden Melanie began to blink and I thought she
she's back and, and I started asking her questions.
I said, honey, can you hear me? And she goes, yes, she goes, but
my head, it's my head. And I said, can you feel me
touching your arms? And she said yes, but my head.
And I said, can you feel me touching your legs?
And she goes, no. And she goes and I can't see
you. So we finally get the ambulance
there. We get her loaded up.
We get her to the hospital. The next morning they show me an
MRI that she had had an aneurysm rupture behind her right eye on
the main artery. I am praying in tongues.
She is in ICU, and I'm in there praying in tongues.
And I didn't quit praying in tongues.
And, you know, we had people from the church wanting to come
by and visit, you know, and the only ones that I would let in
there were the ones that I knew how to pray in other tongues.
Nobody got in except one person and that was her Mama.
And I looked her in the eye and I said, I don't want you to say
a word. I don't want you crying.
I don't want you in there, you know, and, and having any
remorse or anything, any, you know, thoughts.
I said, you just go in there, you sit in there, you be quiet.
And then and then when your turn is over, you come out.
And I'd let nobody in there that did not have faith.
All right, because this serious now, I mean, we never had
nothing like this in our lives happened.
Not not anything like that. All right.
So as we we continued through this, this particular time, you
know, I walked back to my office that next morning because they
were doing a changing of the nurses station, walked to the
office and it was that we were close enough.
My office was real close to the hospital.
It was just several blocks away, but not that far. 7:00 in the
morning, I get a phone call from a friend of mine and he said,
Randy, we heard what happened to Melanie last night.
You know, if it was me, I'd take my wife to the Mayo Clinic.
And I said, well, bro, couple things.
You haven't seen Melanie. And she is wired up like nothing
I've ever seen. Got tubes and everything in her.
And I said, 1, I don't even know where the Mayo Clinic is and #2
how would I get her there if I could?
And he says, well, listen, there's a lady in my office that
had an aneurysm. Call her.
She's waiting on your call now. I called her, I'm praying in
tongues. I tell you, all night long, I
prayed in tongues. All, all, all the morning
walking to the I'm praying in tongues, I'm praying in tongues,
I'm praying in tongues. Why?
Because it is the Holy Spirit when you don't know how to pray
as you ought, it is the lifeline that you have to heaven to be
able to give to you the wisdom you're going to need.
And I told him, I said, I've got to lay down.
I said, I cannot be making decisions that impact her life,
even maybe to death without the rest and the different things.
And I was just praying for the Holy Spirit to just give me that
supernatural rest and ability to make decisions.
But I made the phone call. The lady said, Randy, tell me
about your wife. I said she had a ruptured brain
aneurysm. It is a miracle she did not
bleed out. And I said, and she said, well,
listen, they she said, what are they saying that they need to
do? And I said, well, there's nobody
at this hospital can help her. They're thinking they're moving
her to Dallas, TX. And they said they said the same
thing about me. And I told them, why do you want
to send me to Dallas, TX? Because they have teams there
that can work. And she said I didn't want to go
to Dallas, TX. I told her, if I'm going to get
with the team, I'm going to the Mayo Clinic.
And she said and, and I said, OK, so you know what happened?
She said, well, they told me that I wouldn't be getting in
there for six weeks. And she said, but the deal is my
my aneurysm. They caught it before it
ruptured. She goes, Randy, I got in there
in six days. And she says, call this number
and see if you can get her in. And I, you know, I don't know
nothing, but the Holy Spirit knows everything.
I mean, you know what in the world?
I make a phone call and they said, oh, that surgeon's in the
office, would you like to talk to him?
Well, yes, I would. He gets on the phone.
He said, Mr. Clay, he said, tell me about your wife.
And I said, that's all I know. I said that's what they told me.
I seen the pictures. It was, you know, pretty
serious. And and, you know, she can't see
her, her her legs were gone, you know, not able to use those.
I don't know what you know, she's not conscious enough to to
tell us anything. And he said you just don't go
tell the nurses station. We'll take her today.
OK. That's great.
How am I going to get her there? Where are you, by the way?
Oh. Oh, we're in Rochester, MN.
Well, you know, it was kind of like a movie slow MO, you know,
they, they do slow MO for effect, right.
So coming down the hall is 2 people in flight suits, nurses
and, and it was kind of funny because when the doctor came, he
goes, your wife's going to the Mayo, your wife's going to the
Mayo. The doctor, the surgeon, they
couldn't do anything. And he's telling all the girls
are buzzing around in the in the the nurses department up there
in ICU and they go, she's going to the Mayo, she's going to the
Mayo. And I'm sitting there going,
yeah, I know. I didn't know I'm I'm going with
her. You got that?
So we get on a Learjet and we are flying in the middle of the
night heading up there. And I could, I, I was looking
out the window and I couldn't figure out, I said, why is
everything all the same color is pitch black dark and, and I
could very well come to find out we're flying in in a snowstorm
and we didn't know it. So when we landed, we kind of
landed and slid for quite a while.
I am like, you know, I'm, I'm watching this plane and I'm
feeling it as we're on the ground.
We get to the hospital and they said we didn't think you guys
were going to make it me either. And they said, they said they
shut the airport down an hour ago.
That's obvious because whatever they were using to, you know,
clean off the runway, somebody wasn't there.
And we got in, by the time that we got there, Melanie had got
her eyesight back. And listen, I'm praying in
tongues in the back of that plane by myself.
I'm just praying in the Spirit. By the time we got in there to
have the ER look her over, she got her legs back, she got her
eyes back, and she was communicating with them.
And I just keep praying in tongues.
All right, now, I'd already done the research during the day and,
and on that plane on what kind of procedure they were hoping to
give. And there was only one procedure
that I began to pray for, and it was called a coiling.
All right, now those of you know what I'm talking about.
If you don't know what an aneurysm is, you've got an
artery. All of a sudden the artery
develops a little spot on it and begins to expand.
It expands too much, it ruptures, and you can't get in
there quick enough to stop the bleeding.
And most people pass away. All right, I believe that her
aneurysm stopped when I laid my hands on her.
OK, now they were surprised because it was a pretty good
size aneurysm, they said. But they have a procedure now.
Listen, I don't know who the first person was that they tried
this song, but I felt pretty confident after talking to this
surgeon that he was going to be able to pull this off.
But where they start is it on the inside of your leg and they
run a wire, platinum wire thread up through your artery system
and goes up into the brain, begins to coil it or put it.
And it looked like to me a ball of string inside the aneurysm
somehow burn it off and then it grows, the artery grows around
it and makes a scar tissue. You never have another problem.
Now remember what year I said this was 2006.
Stand up baby. Every doctor that has ever
looked at her after the fact says you can't even tell it.
Now, what's the name of this? It didn't say made halfway whole
every time Jesus said he wanted them whole.
That was the original plan. You know, I let them know when
we were up there. I said, you know, I really
appreciate you guys because the Mayo Clinic is like, I mean,
they are second to none, all right.
And just the way they treat their patients, the way that
they, they work with each other, all the different things.
They're an educational hospital and they said, you know, the,
the thing that they were amazed of is it with the fact that she
did not just bleed out. She said, we have it.
We have it all the time, but hers didn't.
I said, I, I, I think we got an edge because see, I'd let them
know. I said, you guys are great
service providers. All right.
It's kind of like, you know, you got a car and and you know, it's
getting up in age a little bit and something goes wrong with
it. Is Macy in here tonight?
Oh, she's serving. OK.
All right. Well, she knows what I'm talking
about. OK.
And you have And you go to a mechanic to try to fix this,
Right. But then if they can't fix it,
what do they tell you you're going to need to do?
Go back to the dealership, Right.
Every now and then, we need to go back to the manufacturer.
I told him. I said, you guys are great
service providers, but I'm glad I don't have to stop here that
if I need to, I can go all the way to the manufacture of the
human body. And when we're praying in
tongues and we're doing that, I think it, it's just it's, it's
so interesting to me that that we have him available to US 24/7
and that he'll now they told me, they told me they said it's
going to be a 21 day event for you.
OK. And I thought, oh man, you know,
what am I going to do? I mean, wow, the business, the
boys, the everything, you know, I mean, OK, Lord, we got to go
and and when we were going up there after that surgery, they
did not have to. It was not invasive as far as
you know, because other types they actually have to go in
through the skull and the different things to go in there
to fix those things with her. They did not.
And that's what I prayed for. I was in the reflection room
praying in the spirit and and they hadn't made a decision they
were going to be able to do it yet.
I said, Father, I said please let her be a candidate for
coiling that there's no intrusion.
There's nothing other than that they can get this done.
And I just begin to pray in the spirit, pray in the Spirit, pray
in the spirit. I get a phone call from the
doctor and he says, he said, hey, Mr. Clay, we are in there.
We're taking a look. We're going to go ahead and coil
that I'll, I'll see you in about an hour.
Click. I had questions because I'd read
the pamphlet. The pamphlet said that they may
stroke in the surgery and we won't know it until she comes
back too. So she could lose one side, the
other side, you know, she could go totally blind when they got
back up in there, you know, the whole bit.
So I sat and wait and he comes up.
He said it was a total success. I thank the Lord.
OK. Then he said.
He said, you know, she'll be in recovery about an hour.
And I marked my watch. 20 minutes later, the nurse comes
in and says your wife would like to see you.
Are you sure it's my wife? Because the doctor told me 20
minutes ago she'd be about an hour.
No, she's back in her room. OK.
I go back in there. She's in ICU, and she stops me
at the door. The doctor stops.
I mean, the nurse drops me at the door and said, Missus Clay,
how many fingers am I holding up?
She goes 2. How many now?
Five, you know, and they did what I call neurological
aerobics. They said push down with your
hand, push up with your hands and you're getting everything,
legs, arms, eyes, perfect. And so, you know, when we we
talk about, you know, can God do it?
Yes, he can, whatever it is. I mean, he's the manufacturer.
Anybody ever bought a weed eater?
And how bad and how sad would it be if you bought a weed eater
and the manufacturer couldn't fix it?
I mean, that that's a poor manufacturer.
There is nothing in the human body that God did not design and
has an answer to fix it. Did you hear me?
It's kind of like pastors, you hearing what I'm saying All
right, nothing. There's nothing in your body
that he can't repair. And so you know when last week
we had prayer line and can I get just give you some help with
prayer lines because I've learned a tremendous amount
about prayer lines. OK, that the purpose of a prayer
line is to allow the person that is doing the praying, such as
Pastor Marcy last week, to attach their faith to your faith
in obedience to what Jesus said he would do in that situation.
Got a scripture? Matthew chapter 18, verse 19 And
again I say unto you, Now that's interesting.
That must mean Jesus must have said this before, because he did
it again, right? That's what it said.
And he said unto them, he said, I again I say unto you, that if
2 of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they
shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father, which is in
heaven. The word touching is the word
concerning, OK, if 2 of you will, if 2 of you shall
concerning anything on earth, I'm sorry, agree on earth as
concerning anything that they ask, it will be done there for
them and my father, OK. That is a scripture you need to
believe when you come down for a prayer line, you need to be
thinking about you and that other person coming into
agreement at that moment to be able all right to receive what
they have. They are going to be pronouncing
over your body. Now, Lovett, last week, Pastor
Marcy took the time to find out what's Aylandy.
All right, now when we when we talk about that, here's the
deal. Sometimes we know when the
prayer lines are coming just like we did.
This one was coming. Did she not tell us?
We knew it was coming? OK.
Sometimes it by the move of the Spirit.
We have people that'll come up here and say we're going to do
here a healing line and we didn't, we didn't know about it.
So everybody flocks down, they come down.
But here's the thing. What are you thinking about when
you go down to that prayer line? If you got other things on your
mind other than the scriptures of God, you are distracted.
All right. I mean, that was one of, you
know, one of the things that I, I, I learned, I said, what are
people thinking about? You know, and here's the thing,
we have some people when they have hands laid on, they fall
out. They fall out.
OK, but here's the deal. Don't be sitting there thinking,
oh, they just fell out. I wonder if I'm going to fall
out. What happens if I don't fall
out? If you fall out, you're going to
fall out. But don't be thinking about
falling out. OK?
What are you supposed to be thinking about?
Does anybody remember Bishop Garraway coming?
And, you know, one of the things he said that I, I, I remember of
all the things that he said in three days, one thing that he
said, he said some people come to the healing line and can't
even quote 10 scriptures on healing.
You are coming to an healing line on an empty tank.
OK, So you need to make sure that you have got those
particular things because you are coming really before the
court of heaven making a request and somebody is going to agree
with you by the laying on hand, laying on the hands and that
they're going to be able to pray with you in faith.
We don't lay hands on people just because that's the thing we
feel we ought to do. Everybody individually that
comes up here, you have a need. But here's the thing, and this
is what I've noticed a lot of people.
Is that the worst and the most dangerous thought that'll try to
enter your mind after you've been afraid for and you don't
notice a change? As you say to yourself, I guess
I didn't get it. I want to tell you where that
thought came from. It wasn't from the word of God.
It was the devil. It came from the pit of hell.
He's trying to get you to doubt what His word says, what the
Lord's Word says. Think about those words that I
gave you just a minute ago, EAO my, to cure, to mend, to
restore, to recover. When you think about those
words, that lets me know that in some cases, EAO my can be a
process. So when do you want to make up
your mind the process begins? I think the saddening thing is
the precious believers going from prayer line to prayer line
to prayer line to prayer line and never get in their healing.
I know why. It's because you violated
scripture. James, chapter 1, verses 6
through 8. Verse 6 But let him ask in faith
nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a
wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think he shall receive anything from the
Lord. A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways. Did you, did you realize that's
the Bible? Did you know the Bible's true
and when he tells you that in there, he said for do not let
that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord, that
you're not going to receive anything from the Lord If you're
not asking in faith and you're doubting.
That's the key. Doubting will get you to a start
over point. And that's why even in my own
life, and I'll tell you just bits about it here in a minute,
but I let pastor know that when the time came for me to go to
healing line, I let him know I said, yes, I move when we moved
down here and and and and I'll explain all that in a second.
But my thought on healing line is this.
If I have hands laid on me and I am in faith and I turn around
and leave and I don't feel anything in my body, OK, I have
to make a decision. Did I really get it or is my
body just telling me something different?
So I have to make up my mind. Am I going to believe what the
word says or I'm going to believe what my body says?
You, you've got to come to that place if you want to see the
results that you're looking for. You know, people say, well, you
know, you mean I, I shouldn't go.
I said, listen, if you believe that you got it all right when
you prayed. The question I have to ask is
why would you need to go to another prayer line for the same
thing? And, and, and Scripture, you
know, scripture bears that out as far as let's talk about this
for a second. Mark 1124, guys, I don't know if
I put that up or not. Mark 11/24.
I got a quote. I I got it.
Oh, there you go. Awesome.
Look at this, this is on the heels of Jesus cursing the fig
tree. Remember story he was hungry,
saw a fig tree far off. He went over there.
There was no fig figs on it. He said no man will eat fruit of
you hereafter forever. And it said and the disciples
heard it. Next day they come by Peter
who's always first to notice things concerning the Kingdom of
God says, master, look at the tree that you cursed yesterday.
It is dried up from the roots. Jesus says in verse 21, verse
22, he says have faith in God. Better translation in the Greek
is have the God kind of faith and he begins to tell us what
the God kind of faith is. He said, he said, whosoever
shall say to this mountain, be thou removed, be cast into the
sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but believe that those
things that he says shall come to pass.
He'll have whatsoever he says. Verse 24 Therefore I say unto
you that whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe
that you receive them and you shall have them.
Listen to this again. Therefore I say unto you, what
things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you
receive them and you shall have them.
Every time I teach this Scripture, I ask one question
according to this verse, What did Jesus say you would have?
And you can tell me, Yell it out.
Somebody said what you desire. OK, you know what you pray for
Makes sense? Not the answer.
Listen to it again. Therefore I say unto you, What
thing so ever you desire when you pray, believe that you
receive them, and you shall have them.
The only thing that you are going to receive from God when
you pray is what you believed you received at the time you
asked. Did you hear me?
The only thing that you will receive is what you believed you
received at the time of your asking.
So what does he tell us in the previous verse before that He
said, don't doubt in your heart, but believe that those things
that you say shall come to pass. Therefore I say to you, what
things so ever you desire when you pray, believe you receive it
when when you pray. And he said, and you will have
that didn't say you'd have your thoughts of well, I guess I
didn't get anything all right back in 2010.
It starts a little earlier than that really 2007, you know, we
were in Oklahoma and I had an opportunity and I took that
opportunity and taught me, taught me a great lesson.
I had the opportunity to become offended, and I took that
opportunity and I dwelt on that opportunity.
And all of a sudden, within just a few months, I noticed a growth
beginning to appear in my body. I went to the doctor.
The doctor says that's cancer, We can remove it, thought about
it, even prayed about it. I said, no, I've been, you know,
teaching on healing for 15 years.
I said, I believe the Lord is going to heal me, and I passed
on surgery. Well, in the midst of that, we
get to 2008 and we come down here for an anniversary service
and, you know, still got the cancer, really didn't, you know,
bother me much and got down here and the Lord start dealing with
me about moving here. Well, it's funny because
Thanksgiving of 2007, Black Friday, as a matter of fact, I
spent the time with the Lord and I usually do that just to hear
what I'm missing for the year and what I need to make up
before the end of the year and we start a new year.
And the Lord spoke to me. He said, Randy, you're not
Kingdom minded enough. I thought, OK, what does that
mean? You know, and he said, but I
want to prepare you because I'm going to increase your teaching
ministry. I said, OK, what does that mean?
All right, so you know, we get here, you know, for anniversary
service, April of 2008 and still carrying the cancer.
Lord says, I need you down here. And I said, I'm looking behind
me to see if he's talking to somebody else.
I said, you got to be kidding me, man.
Do you know what I have going on?
Lord? You want me to move everything?
I mean, come on. Well, Needless to say, we wound
up in here a year later. And I think it's interesting
because I didn't deal with the offense and the cancer kept
growing. But I'm confessing every day.
Thank you, Jesus, I'm healed. This cancer can't live in my
body. It can't live in my body.
You know what? I want to warn you that you
know, when we do communion here, pastor will warn us about you
know, taking it quote as the scripture tells us unworthily
all right, that you will bring condemnation on yourself and it
goes on to say it says and because of this, many have are
sick among you and many have died early.
So he lets us know how important it is to be right when you come
to him at communion. Let me tell you, the same thing
comes in the realm of healing. You got to be right.
OK? I wasn't right.
Still had the offense. OK.
So the offense kept growing. You know, just how bad it was
and how they treated me. And I couldn't believe it.
And the cancer kept growing. I get to 2010 OK pastor comes
out to the house. I had gained 60 lbs in just
water in my legs. Rest of me from here up look
great but I was just like sweatpants were the thing of the
future because I could not get in regular pants.
Had many, many people tell my wife, I think your husband is
dying, honey, I can't be dying. I'm I'm believing God.
I can't, I can't be dying. I'm believing God.
One day pastor brings a whole staff out to the house.
Mike, remember this pastor, Mr. Berry, y'all came out to my
house. I'm sitting there in a recliner
in my office and y'all got all these chairs in here.
How you doing? Da da da da da.
Pastor asked a question. If it wasn't for this question,
I would not be here today, guaranteed.
He said, Randy, he said we've done everything that the word
said to do. All of a sudden stuff start
coming back to me. And he said we've done
everything we have. We have, we have prayed for you.
We have anointed you with oil. We have called the elders of the
church to come pray for you. And you're not getting any
better. Is there anything that you can
think of as keeping that from happening?
And in so many words, I said, yeah, I'm offended.
I was offended. Somebody offended me greatly
before I moved down here, you know, and I named that person
and everybody in the room knew who that was.
And Pastor, I'll never forget. He goes, don't you think we need
to get that taken care of? I said yes.
Every head bowed, every eye closed, and I've repented.
I prayed. I asked the Lord to forgive me,
violating his word. You know one of his words says
this, it's right after that one scripture I just gave you.
Therefore I say unto you that you know whatsoever you things
you believe you receive, you'll have OK.
The next scripture says this. And when you stand praying,
forgive, if you have ought against any, that your Father
also in heaven may forgive you of your trespasses, you better
forgive them in theirs, because if you don't forgive them their
trespasses, he's not going to forgive you of your trespasses.
So you know what that revelation got to me?
All you can confess, all you want to confess you can quote
every scripture you want to quote.
You can go in every prayer line that comes and lay hands on you
until you are bald headed and you will not get healed 'cause
you can't be in violation of the word of God when he comes in and
and he has the desire to heal you.
Finally the day came, I was hurting so bad, excruciating in
the middle of my back. I'd be up at night 2-3 in the
morning, hot shower trying to get some comfort.
Could not find any comfort. One day Melanie said that's it,
said I'm not I can't take it anymore, I can't take and seeing
you in this kind of pain. So guess where we wound up?
The Mayo Clinic. Seems I've been here before but
it wasn't that one it was this one here in in Florida after a
night in ER and a chewing out by a nurse.
I didn't know her from nobody. She come in there and started
yelling at me. I wasn't in the mood to be
yelled at to be honest with you. But the diagnosis was the cancer
in metastasized is now stage 4. It had eaten the T3 in the
middle of my back. The cancer completely eaten the
front of that vertebrae out. That's where the pain was coming
from. It fractured two or three others
below that, and yes, we have begun.
OK, well, I knew what to do. I didn't watch TVI was in there
six weeks. I didn't watch television.
I just meditated the Word, Meditated the Word, meditated
the word. I knew I'd given God something
to work with because He had forgiven me for being a fool and
having an offense that should have never had.
All right, So now I figured that, you know, we're going to
get this right and we're going to, we are going to start
making, you know, Scripture part of the life that I needed to,
you know, have and combat this and go back to that.
Now I think it's interesting because even though, you know, I
was in there for six weeks, I started chemotherapy and the
chemotherapy basically they said, OK, we're going to give
you 5 days of chemotherapy. We're going to do it by the
artery in your arm, your vein in your arm and, and you're going
to go 5 days and then we're going to give you, you know, 17
days off. OK, well, I did so good in the
first cycle. They said we're going to do it
again immediately. What happened to vacation?
I'm thinking I went through 4 cycles of that.
All right, now this is what I did and I want to encourage you
because remember I said you get 10 scriptures, all right?
Can you get 10 scriptures that you can work with?
Especially when you're in a prayer line.
Don't be thinking about what is going on.
Think about Father, I'm coming to you and I am bringing Your
Word and I'm going to reason with you and You're going to
heal me because of Your Word. So when we got home, I started
with this verse, Proverbs 422. It's not up there.
Listen carefully because I want you to take these down My son,
attend to My words and give ears to My sayings.
Let them not depart from thine eyes.
Keep them in the midst of thine heart, for they are live to
those that find them in health to all their flesh.
I took that verse and I wrote it out on an 8 1/2 by 11 piece of
cardstock and hung it on the mirror on the dresser in the
bedroom. OK Scripture, listen to what he
said. Listen to my words.
Incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your
eyes. That's key.
How do you not let the word depart from your eyes?
Is that the only way that you can do that?
It is got to surround you. So I began writing all these
scriptures, the ones I'm give you plus hundreds more, and
putting them up everywhere in my bedroom, my bathroom, my office,
on on the closet doors line in the closet doors, anywhere that
I could get it. Because the first thing I wanted
to see when I woke up was the word of God.
The last thing I want to see before I went to bed was the
word of God. Because what did he say?
He sent his word to heal you. OK so you got to get serious
about your word intake. I love this verse 22 in Proverbs
chapter 420 through 22. Jot this one down.
This is what I just gave you verse 20 said for they are live
to those that find them what his words and health to all their
flesh. The word health there is
translated in the Hebrew Medicine.
Was everybody strung out on
medicine? I mean, we got commercials now
about medicines that crack me up because the side effects are
worse than what I originally had.
You got the gut ache, you got diarrhea, you got bad.
I wasn't that bad before the medicine showed up.
Think about it. But he said the word of God can
be medicine to your flesh. Deuteronomy 715.
We're going to go through these quickly, OK, All right.
Deuteronomy 715 And the Lord will take away from the all
sickness, and we'll put none of these diseases of Egypt, which
you know upon you, but He will lay them upon those that hate
you. God don't hate you, He loves
you, but He says He will take away from you the diseases.
Now the next thing that I did, in addition to putting all these
scriptures, and I'm going to continue giving, I only got a
dozen of them I'm going to give you is that I had a dear friend.
I love her, love her still. She's sitting right over there.
Miss Elizabeth, She took ACD from Kenneth E Hagin, called
Healing Scriptures. Healing scriptures.
I had asked her. I said, can you type?
Yeah, she can type like most adult female women.
And she said, yeah, I can type. I said, would you take this and
convert this into print? For me, it was page after page
after page. I put it in a notebook.
Thanks, Elizabeth. You saved my life.
And I don't know. We talked about it.
I said, did you cut and paste? I mean, that have been easier.
And if she didn't, man, that was a lot of typing because there's
hundreds, hundreds of scriptures that Kenneth Hagin had.
I'd either listen to those C DS every day at night going to
sleep. But if I felt I could read, I
read those scriptures every night, page after page after
page. My wife is my witness Page after
page just reading the healing scriptures.
Didn't watch TV. It's life and death.
OK Psalms one O 3 verse 3 Write it down.
Talks about the benefits of being with God.
He said Who forgives all thine iniquities and heals all thy
diseases. Psalms 130 verse 2 Jot it down.
O Lord my God, I cried unto you, and you healed me.
Psalms, 3419. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.
Isaiah 54, Four and five. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows. Yet we did a stream, steam him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised
for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was
upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
Jeremiah 3017 jotted down. For I will restore health to
you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 33. Six.
Behold, I will bring health and a cure.
I will cure them, and reveal unto them the abundance of peace
and truth. Matthew 817.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken to Isaiah.
The prophet himself took our infirmities, and bore our
sicknesses first. John 5. 1415 And this is the
confidence that we have in Him. If we ask anything according to
His will, He hears us. And if we know He hears us
whatsoever we ask, we know that He we have the petitions that we
desire of Him. 3rd John verse 2. Jot it down, beloved.
I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health
even as your soul prospers. OK, wrap this up.
Just want to let you know what the Lord did for me, OK?
After all the chemo, went back to the doctor's.
The doctor said nothing has changed.
In fact, on your tumor markers and everything, you've gotten
worse. All of a sudden there was a
knock on the door. Man came in, introduced himself
to the end as the end of life. Counselor Melanie freaked out a
little bit. He gave me his card.
I said I appreciate the card. I don't know that I'll be
needing to see you anytime soon. You know, everybody's shaking
their heads. Poor guy.
He's in denial. You know, I'm at that time I was
in a wheelchair. I had a body brace on from the
waist up because of my back. We're she's pushing me down the
hall. I can hear her crying.
I said, honey, what are you crying about?
She said that was the worst report we gotten since we've
been here. I said yeah, I know, I said, but
let me tell you how it's going to go.
And I quoted because it was in me Psalms 1/18/17.
I said I will not die but live and I will declare the works of
the Lord. I said, honey, all we have to do
is come back to every appointment until their report
lines up with our report. Amen.
And that's what we did. I went back, you know, they
decided that they could do, they wanted to try surgery.
They wanted to try surgery. So they took the source tumor,
finally took it out. They didn't want to do it in the
beginning because I was so swollen.
They didn't know what that was going to do.
They took the tumor out. It was right after Christmas
2010, the 29th of Christmas, they called me and said Randy
had to call you. Yeah, I guess you did, doc.
I said it's, it's it's 9 O clock and I said, miss your cell
phone. He said, yeah, it is.
I had to call you. He said pathology came back and
gave us a report on that tumor and said there's no living
cancer in there. And he said, I want to let you
know chemotherapy, don't do that.
He said, we don't know what's happened.
And I said, well, what about the other two tumors, the one in my
back? And I had one between my
kidneys. It was causing me problems.
He said we'll do a PET scan next week and see.
He came back and told me after the PET scan, he said, you are
cancer free. Every time I saw somebody up
there, they said, did you realize you're cancer free?
Yeah. Yeah, I realize that.
And if you ask me how, I'll tell you not one person was
interested in how. It's OK You know, that place in
my back, I didn't get to see a neurologist for eight months
after this whole thing started. But I noticed in the midst of
that, my back quit hurting. And they said, what's?
Cuz you're on drugs, Randy. Anybody ever heard Pastor say
that? He he, he was a slobber, an
idiot. He said that from the pulpit.
Randy was a slobber. Need.
That's what drugs will do to you.
Well, they didn't know that. I went off them drugs, cold
Turkey, oxycodone, Oxycontin, gabapentin, and they had drugged
me to die. That's what the whole deal with
the end of life counselor was about.
They later told me we knew you were going to die between
Thanksgiving and Christmas, Ha. So I go see this neurologist,
OK? He walks in first question, how
old are you? I asked him, how old are you?
He said, I'm 35. I looked at my wife.
I said, he shaved a day in his life, and this guy's going to do
surgery on my back. And I thought that was
interesting because he said, well, Mr. Clay, can I ask you a
few questions? And I said sure.
And he said, did you dress yourself this morning?
I looked at my wife and I said, is it that bad?
I said that. I said, yes, Sir.
I dressed myself. He said, well, I didn't see a
wheelchair. I said, no, I'm out of the
wheelchair. He said, well, you're not
wearing a body brace. You're not.
And I go, no, Sir. And he said, well, he said, can
you get up and do a few exercises for me?
Yeah, yeah, I did them. And he says, does this hurt?
You know, he started hitting me right in the back where that
that that T3 was. I said no, it doesn't hurt at
all. He said, well, I want to show
you your MRI. Here's your first one.
I knew what it looked like. It's horrible, man.
It's gone. He goes, here's your new MRI.
He said it's completely grown back.
He said we can't believe you're in, not in any pain.
And he said your spinal cord is gone, right back into position.
And he said, we got to be honest with you.
This is nothing less than a miracle.
You write that down on that paper.
Write that down on that paper, he said.
There's no surgery that we could do to make you better than you
are. That's 2011.
What year is it now? Never had another pain.
OK. The thing that we've got to
understand is that the Word of God works.
If you'll work the Word of God, get your life straight, make a
decision. I'm not going to compromise when
it comes to the Word of God. Listen, that what I told you was
just the tip of an iceberg on the on the things I could tell
you about the chemotherapy. I didn't read the fine print
says it's going to fail your kidneys, it's going to fail your
heart. Yes, I had kidney problems.
Yes, my kidneys failed. Yes, I wound up in dialysis.
I was there Not one time did I watch television with everybody
else watching Gunsmoke Gomer pile.
I meditated to word a gun. 40 weeks later, I'm out.
My kidneys kicked back in. I didn't have to have surgery.
No, no donations of kidneys. Anything.
All right. The only thing that happened one
time I went in the hospital with a urinary tract infection.
All I wanted was an antibiotic. A little relief.
Wound up a week later with open heart surgery.
Didn't give me time to go home and get my faith going at to
full speed. They locked me in that hospital
for seven days. But you know what?
Psalms 3419 is true. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous, but my God delivers them out of them all.