In Luke chapter 12 verse 32, I'm going to talk to you about being
touched today. In Luke chapter 12 verse 32, it
says do not be afraid. A little flop.
For your father has chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom.
God has chosen gladly to what? Give you the Kingdom?
Aren't you glad He's given you a Kingdom that cannot be shaken?
Hallelujah. The Bible's about a king, his
Kingdom, and his royal offspring, who are the royal
offsprings of the king He is the king of.
Who are those kings? You are those kings.
So He's chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom.
So there's No Fear in us because our Father is the king of the
Kingdom by which He has given us that Kingdom and we can function
and operate in it today. How is it that you can get into
this Kingdom the Father wants to give you?
John 33 Jesus answered and said, truly, truly.
I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom
of God. So you cannot, through any other
form of immigration, make your way into the Kingdom.
Yet you must be born of it. Must be born of it.
Now what's so awesome? Naturally, you can be born in
any nation on the planet. But when you confess Jesus
Christ as your Lord, then you become born again, or rightly.
The correct word for again really means from above.
You are born from above. You become born spiritually
alive, you become a new creature in Christ, and you have now a
citizenship that is in heaven. Can I get an Amen?
So you were in a Kingdom that had a taskmaster who was your
father. Now there was a time that man
was created in the image of God, but when Adam fell from
dominion, Adam then created after his kind, which was no
longer of the God kind, but of his father, the devil.
He be his spirit. Man became dead, just like the
devil is cut off from God, separated eternally, and so he
produced after his kind. And Jesus said to the Pharisees,
which were religious people who had access to the word, but
their spirit man was dead. He said, you, if you were of me,
you would not try to kill me, but you are of your Father, the
devil. So our old father was the devil,
and we were in his domain, his authority, his rule, his power,
and he was a wicked father, very abusive to us.
But God being rich in mercy, come on now, while we were yet
sinners, children of the devil, he died for us so that we could
have a new Father, The Father that's supposed to be ours, the
one that rightfully created humanity in the 1st place.
We could be born again. That spirit man that was dead to
God leaves us. We become a new creature in
Christ, have a brand new Father who gives us a totally different
Kingdom. Hallelujah and so that comes
through confessing Jesus Christ as Lord.
Ephesians chapter 2 tells us in being born again.
It says this it says for by grace you have been saved
through faith and not of yourself.
It is a gift of God. So the grace of God in this
case, this definition of grace is unmerited favor.
Although grace has different definitions depending on the
application because there's a multi facets of grace.
Grace is not only unmerited favor, though it includes
unmerited favor. In this case.
We did not deserve it, nor did we earn it, but God, because of
the death, burial and resurrection and the finished
work that He did by paying for all of your debt of sin, that
when we accepted that payment, that blood that redeems us,
faith, meaning we called on the name of the Lord to be saved.
We were saved, Hallelujah. And then grace functioned in our
lives. So faith activated grace so that
we could be born of God. Now Galatians 220 says this, if
you have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who
live Paul saying, but Christ lives in me and the life I now
live in the flesh, meaning in the body I live.
How? How do we live by faith in the
Son of God who love me and gave himself up for me.
So Paul saying, listen, if Christ has died on the cross for
all of sin, he's taken on sin. The man who knew no sin became
sin. He took on your sin, your
transgression, your sickness, your disease, and he was
crucified and died on the cross. Well, we've died with him,
meaning our life apart from God. We willfully say I'm done with
it. I don't want it.
I'm dead to my old self, to my flesh, to my way of living, to
the the ways that honored a Father who did not love me, care
for me, but only wanted to destroy me.
I'm dead to that life. I've been crucified with Christ.
What I did, he put on him. Now that I'm alive to God and
I'm still in the earth, in my skin suit, I'm no longer going
to live like I used to. Live by what I saw, by what I
heard, by how I felt. But I now live by faith, and I
live by faith in the Son of God. That's Jesus Christ, who is the
King. I live by every word that
proceeds out of his mouth. That's how I live.
Another translation, the Amplified Classic, says it this
way. I've been crucified with Christ
in him. I share, I have shared his
crucifixion. It is no longer I live, but
Christ the Messiah lives in me and the life I now live in the
body I live by faith in. I live by faith in, by adherence
to and reliance on and complete trust in the Son of God who
loved me and gave himself up for me.
Hallelujah for Romans 117 says, for it is the righteousness of
God, for in it the righteous of God is revealed from faith to
faith as it is written. But the righteous man shall what
shall what live by faith. Again, when someone says, what
do you do for a living, do not say I'm a plumber, I'm an
architect, I'm an accountant, I'm whatever your title is at
work, business on whatever. You don't live that way, you
live by faith. The other is just an outlet by
which you witness to the world that you're not of this world,
that God pays you in those title positions to be an ambassador
for Him and show them the life of faith, what a person looks
like who lives by the word of God.
Because when you live by faith, you're no longer limited to the
pay associated with your title or position.
You're not limited to the healthcare associated with the
benefits associated with your employment.
You live by faith alone in God. Because when you do that, you
can leave a job. You're no longer bound to it.
Amen. You can move as God directs you
because you live in another realm.
Now if we are to live by faith, then what is faith?
Hebrews 11/1 says. Now faith is the assurance, this
is the amplified, the title deed, confirmation of things
hoped for, divinely guaranteed, the evidence of things not seen,
the conviction of their reality. Faith comprehenses facts, what
cannot be experienced by the physical senses.
So in essence, faith is the assurance of something no one
sees. Neither I see, but I see it
through the eyes of faith, or see it through the Word or what
the Word has said. It has painted a picture of what
it is that I can be, what I can possess, what the Church rightly
has. And I believe that even if I do
not see it in the natural. That's right.
That's what faith is. That's faith.
Faith is a firm persuasion. And the best way that I again
can describe what firmly persuaded feels like 2 + 3
equals do not answer. But are you confident you could
give the right answer? I mean, if someone put a gun to
your head and you had to answer that equation, are you confident
you would get it right? Do you have any doubt at all?
That's what it should be like when you read God's word
concerning a situation. You should see it as simple as
that kind of equation. And if you do not see it that
way, where I know the answer, I know it.
I mean, seriously, Ryan, do you know 2 + 3?
Do you know it? Are you pretty confident?
I mean, how confident are you? Would you bet your life on it?
I extremely. Would you?
Would you be willing to give all your money away?
Come on. Yeah, I mean, that's and that's
not arrogance, That's confidence in knowing the answer.
And this is the problem. Religion hates this because
religion wants to keep you in ambiguity.
It wants you to be guessing and act like you can't know and you
can't know, and God knows everything and you can't know
nothing and you just should be lucky that you're in.
But God says that's not what I gave to my kids.
I give them my word and they have confidence in it.
This is why you boldly with confidence, go before the throne
of grace with I'm confident. My dad wants me to know the
answer to come out of any situation I may be encountering.
And once I hear from him, I know I got it.
I got it and I call it that way. I say it that way, and this is
not mythical because it is this way, period.
So when I know 2 + 3 equals something you can't tell me, 4
you can't tell me -1 you can't tell me a you can't tell me.
I don't know enough yet. There, I should do some more
equational studies. No, I know, I know.
And if this is not how it is with healing, this is not it.
It is with prosperity. If this is not how it is with
mine renewal, this is not how it is with joy.
If this is not how it is with relationships, then you're not
in faith. So don't say you're something
that you're not, because faith is firm persuasion.
Romans chapter 4 verse 20 and 21 says he staggered not at the
promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving
glory to God and being fully persuaded that when what he had
promised he was able to perform fully, firmly, fully persuaded
means this, to fill one with any thought, to fill one with any
thought. It's a conviction and
inclination to make one certain to persuade.
Convince 1. Be persuaded, persuaded, fully
convinced or assured. That means I know that I know it
is what he said. Period.
And another thought I will not take.
Amen. That's why to take doubt is to
be in rebellion to the king and his Kingdom.
Because when you know the word to take a thought contrary to
that and put yourself in doubt. Because the enemy, all he wants
to give you is reasonable doubt. Because if he can make you
reason so that doubt can occur, then you're no longer in faith,
even if you're praying. It said that he stagger not,
which means he did not let his mind get intoxicated with other
thoughts contrary to the word of God.
And I'm telling you today, we are living in a society that
there is much intoxication. You understand the church in
general has a drinking problem in the natural, but what's worse
than that is the drinking of words more.
Saints are intoxicated with words that they cannot take
captive of because they do not have a healthy diet of reading
the word themselves. This is why Peter said to be
sober minded because he prophesied of a day in his
writings when there will be so much information, so many people
using things in a way that was to turn and manipulate and
basically create reasonable doubt in the believer.
So that Jesus himself said, when I return, will I find faith in
the earth? If there's any subject or any
situation in your life that you're like, well, you know, I'm
just not really sure that will can't will become problematic
for you to overcome because until you're firmly persuaded
what God says about it, then you will not overcome in that area.
So if faith is a perp persuasion, then how does faith
come? Now I'm talking to a lot of
people here that know these things.
But listen, please do not let go because I'm telling you right
now, faith comes by. So you need to hear this again.
You eat steak all the time because you tasted good.
Guess what? This tastes good.
And the first time you ever heard this, you were like, what?
Right. So don't let this be like what
Pastor Chase said last week, that these words are so common
that you're just like, well, wait till he gets the next
Scripture. No, you need to hear this again
because I can conclude right now, there are many even in this
building that may not be walking by faith, although they have
knowledge of how to walk by faith.
You have to stir yourself up. You have to keep yourself in
this constant firm persuasion because again, what are you
believing for that you can't see right now?
And if the answer is, well, I guess nothing, well then guess
what? You're not in faith because
faith is not religion. Well, I'm of the faith.
No, you're not. That's a religious statement.
That's a tradition of men. Faith is believing what God
says. And you know what?
If you don't have anything that you're personally believing for,
I can guarantee the church that God assigned you to has things
that you can. Because the reality is, if
you're going to grow in faith, you need to grow to a faith that
goes beyond believing for yourself.
This is what I love about Jesus only talked about great faith
for a couple of people. One of the occasions was a
centurion and he had great faith not even for himself.
He wasn't even believing God for him.
He was believing God for his servant.
He was healthy, he was had a position, he was taken care of,
he was honoring God, He was building churches for the Jews.
Yet one of his servants was sick and he sent word with some to
Jesus and say to him, would you kill my servant?
And as Jesus approached, because he was before the new birth
experience, obviously when you're confronted with Jesus,
your sin is laid bare. He said, I'm not even worthy for
you to come under my house. He said this, I am a man like
you, just speak the word only and my servant will be healed
because I'm a man like you. I'm under authority and I'm in
authority. And when I tell my servant to
go, he goes. When I tell him to come, he
comes and I tell him to do this, he does it.
And Jesus marveled and said, I've not seen such great faith.
No, not in all of Israel. Hadn't seen it.
Hadn't seen it that this guy is functioning to receive a word
and it's not even for himself yet.
We teach faith on the personal side so much that the minute
you're healthy, wealthy and wise, then we're not believing
for anyone else. How many lost people are in
Saint Johns County right now? How many are you actively
calling in the lost? How many are believe in God that
the North will give up the law, S will give up the laws, the
West will give up the law, E will give up the loss.
That's in Scripture. How many are believe?
Because we sure don't have a full place right now of people
lost being saved. So that's just activating your
faith in that arena. How many people do you come
across that are sick that we need to be believing God for?
So the principle of faith isn't just a personal revelation.
It goes beyond to a corporate and a church revelation where
the church and this is who God's coming back for.
A church that's not just thinking about themselves
individually, but thinking about things corporately and how they
can impact a community. Amen.
Hallelujah. Romans chapter 10 verse 16 and
17 says, however, they did not all heed the good news for
Isaiah said Lord, who has believed our report.
So faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of Christ.
And so the message says the latter verse.
The point is before you trust, you have to listen.
But unless Christ's word is preached, there's nothing to
listen to. Now I love this because faith
comes by hearing period. Faith, again, it's not a
religious word. We had like faith's a religious
word. It's not a religious word.
The lost live by faith. In one sense.
They live by faith. They live by what they hear.
There are people still to this day that are firmly persuaded
that wearing a mask protects them.
Still to this day, I can go into airports and still see people.
Wearing mad. Why 'cause they believe that
word. They believe it.
How do you know they believe they act on it.
Now, I'm not saying that's bad, I'm just saying that's an
evidence of their faith. They're acting on it.
Now, I don't know everyone, but some may be doing it and have
never actually looked at any study to determine what's the
outcome of that because the majority of the United States
has abandoned that idea. We've we've developed reasonable
doubt. Well, we doubt that is necessary
how? And that's why we don't act on
it. That's why we don't have them on
our face today. But there are people who have
that. There are people that have, are
firmly persuaded concerning fear, concerning failure,
concerning all kinds of things. So faith comes by hearing what
you hear and you allow to govern your life.
You are walking by faith. But our faith was to be built
only on the word of God, not on what our president says, not on
what's going on in the world, not what the stock market's
saying, not what the doctor tells me.
My faith is on the word of the King.
That is my firm persuasion. And so if I'm going to listen, I
need to be listening to Christ. So all the voices can say
something, but I'm only going to listen to the word of the King
and every other one I will cast out Hallelujah.
Here's the thing. If you are illiterate in the
word, you're going to have a very difficult time casting out
other thoughts. So what we hear is very
important. Faith comes by hearing.
Now you're not in faith just because you hear, but that's how
it comes that that's how you access it.
Mark chapter 4, verses 23 and 24 says this.
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
Here we go again. Then he said to them, take heed,
say take heed. Come on, say take heed, take
heed what you hear. Can you say you're doing that?
Are you actually taking heed to what you hear?
Now I know a tangible take heed because when I'm hearing
something and it starts to modify my behavior, then I'll
shut things off. Because if if what I'm hearing
starts to move my behavior and my words to not sound like what
the Scripture says as a believer I'm supposed to be like, then I
make adjustments. It doesn't say God will control
what you hear. It does not say that.
It does not say God will control what you God's in control.
He's not controlling what you hear.
You are controlling what you hear.
In fact, he says you need to take heed what you hear.
And why is this important? Because hearing is the gateway
of belief. Amen.
Bleep. Pastor Marcy, didn't you just
minister on this a little bit? All you want to.
OK, well, you get some notes then take heed what you hear.
Now, here's the thing with the measure.
You use it, it will be measured back to you and to you who hear
more will be given. Now what you're listening to is
and how much you listen is what This is why the Paul had to warn
in the last days. Some people will give themselves
to fables to to arguments. I mean I've been around Saints
who have released the title of Christian and picked up the
title of conservative. I mean they are in every
political scandal and they are tying every little thing and
they are so into it. But yet they can't love their
brother, can't walk in forgiveness.
Actually they instantly turn into self-righteous and they
don't even know it. News flash, the Republican
Party, it did not come from God. It didn't.
Now, that doesn't mean there's not principles within that party
that you can put in Scripture, but it is not technique.
It is not ordained by God. In that context.
You understand what I'm saying. Neither is the Democratic Party,
neither is the Independent or the Libertarian or the
Greenpeace Party or the Tea Party or whatever party you want
to have. I'm in the Kingdom Party myself.
That's the party I'm in. It's of every tribe, every
tongue, every nation. It's the only one where freedom
occurs. And I vote every year from that
platform. Amen.
But there are many believers that are turning in their
Christian for liberal, for progressive.
Well, you understand, in Christ there is liberty.
There's things you're pretty liberal about.
You know what? In Christ it's quite progressive
because it's not of this world and you'll progress out of the
things of this world. Amen.
Hallelujah. And there's a conservative side
because I can serve myself to not be in the flesh.
All right, see, And you want me to have conversations and yet
people lock up even on this little bit of stuff.
That's a test to see how you're hearing is tell us, Pastor,
really, do you want it? So what you hear, if all you do
is listen to CNN all the time, guess what?
That's what your belief system. If all you do is listen to Fox
News, that's your belief system. If all you listen to is Joe
Rogan, that's your belief system.
If all you listen to is Charlemagne, the the, the God,
that's going to be your belief system.
Cause the measure or standard that you put weight on, all of
those other words. Yeah, that's good.
Amen. We put all this above God and
His word. But if you'll give the most
earnest heed to the Word of God in the Spirit of God, then you
won't be duped by any of those platforms when they try to use
Scripture. All right, the Passion says it
this way. If you understand what I'm
saying, you need to respond. Then he said to them, Be
diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you
hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given, and
according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more
will be added. Are you hungry just to hear
God's Word? Amen.
James 122 But prove yourselves doers of the Word.
This is how they amplified. But prove yourself doers of the
Word. Notice James says you need to
prove it. As believers, we should prove
that we have faith, not just say we have faith.
Again, my wife can say I love you.
Prove it. I mean, we throw words around
like that. Well, you know I love you.
Well, your behavior doesn't let me know you love me.
Well, if you love me, you would. Amen.
Oh, Hallelujah. But prove.
I'll just stay there. I'm not going any further.
I don't want to lose you. But prove yourself doers of the
Word, actively and continually obeying God's precepts, and not
merely listeners who hear the Word but fail to internalize its
meaning. Deluding yourself.
That means deceiving yourself by unsound reasoning contrary to
the truth. You know how many people have
been in this sanctuary with you that when I preach from the
Word, line upon line, precept upon precept, they will reason
why they are not going to believe that for a reason.
Oh, I've never heard that before.
Well, that can't be right. Well, just 'cause you hadn't
heard it don't mean it's not right.
And again, I'm not, we're not like a lot of places where we
give a couple scriptures and a few, a bunch of stories and
antidotes and, you know, life scenarios and then, you know,
there you go. I mean, we, we unload Scripture
because it's the word that's the most important thing in our
lives. So again, you have to prove
yourself a doer. Faith has to be proven.
Anyone can say I'm in faith because it's an unseen thing,
but it's not till it comes in and you know what it should come
in. We say this, we say it.
When you receive the baptism of the Spirit, the physical
evidence is that you speak in an unknown tongue.
Now you're going for the power, not the tongue.
The tongue comes with it. It's evidence.
Do you understand what the evidence of your faith is?
We everyone gets to see what you're confessing that is not
yet here. And eventually it does show up.
Because if it does not show up, either you abandon your faith
concerning that, or you are believing for something that God
Himself did not authorize you to believe for.
So don't accept that you're in faith if you're not seeing a
result. Now I'm going to, I'm going to
bring everything down to this passage of Scripture in Mark
chapter 5, verse 25. I'm going to read the whole
passage, this account, and then we'll give some some points on
it. And then I'm going to lay hands
on the sick today. So if you have any symptom in
your body today, I want you to know that he is Jehovah Rapha.
He is the Lord that healed you. He's already done it.
He's paid that price. He has taken stripes on his back
and it is already done. And if you'll come down when I
give a call for it and I'll lay hands on you because the Bible
says lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
Not maybe not could they will you will recover.
Amen. So I want you to hear this
because you have a part to play in Mark chapter 5, starting in
verse 25. It says a woman who had who was
there who who had suffered from bleeding for 12 years.
So she's had a problem for 12 years.
She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and
had spent all she had but no, but to no avail.
Instead, her condition had only grown worse When the woman
heard, say, heard, When the woman heard, say, heard, heard
about Jesus, or we know that Jesus is the Word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.
In the Word was God. That's John 11.
Then John 114, and the Word became what's His name?
So Jesus is the Word. So we could easily say, when she
heard the word, when she heard about Jesus, she came up through
the crowd behind him and touched his cloak.
For she kept saying, for she what?
Kept saying, for she what? So when she heard Now let me,
let me read it all, and then I'll come back.
For she kept saying, If only I touch his garment, I will be
healed. Immediately her bleeding
stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed from
her afflict affliction. At once Jesus was aware that
power had gone out of him. Turning to the crowd, he said,
Who touched my garment? Then the disciples says, you
see, you can see the crowd pressing in on you, and yet you
asked who touched me? But he kept looking around to
see who had done this. When the woman, knowing what had
happened to her, came and fell before him, trembling in fear,
she told him the whole truth. Daughter said, Jesus, your faith
has healed you. Go in peace and be free from
your affliction. Now go back up to verse 28.
She kept saying, she kept saying, she kept saying.
So when she heard about Jesus that He was the healer and that
anyone that He touched was healed, She got it in her mind,
If I just touch His garment, I will be healed.
If I just touch His garment, I'm going to be healed.
And then she acted on it. How do we know it was a real
belief? Because she did not stay home,
nor did she let the weakness of her condition keep her confined
to her house, nor did she let the religion of the day keep her
to her house. Which is when you have an issue
of blood, you had to come out. And when you got in the crowd
you would say unclean. Unclean.
Because here's the thing, by according to the Law, she knew
Jesus can't touch me because he would be unclean according to
the law. So I'm just not going to touch
him. I'm just going to touch.
I don't even want nobody. So she pressed in.
And everybody she's touching right now, they don't know it,
but they're unclean according to the law.
But she don't care about them. What she cares about is what she
has heard and then what she is saying.
And what she is saying is that this 12 year issue is about to
end for my life because the minute I touch this man's
garment, it is going to dry up. I am going to be healed.
I am no longer going to suffer anymore.
He is the healer and I'm going to get to him no matter what.
And I have to believe, because it just seems one translation
says the hymn of the garment, she already knew in her
condition, by the time she pushed through that crowd, about
the only place she's going to be is at the lowest part dragging
herself to him. And so here's this crowd and
this woman somehow presses through and she finds herself
right at the edge and touches, and the minute she touches
something on the inside right, because something left God,
Jesus Christ, the King of glory, the whole healthcare system of
the Kingdom pulled out of his body and went right into that
woman. Well, glory to God and healed
her of her infirmity and she knew I'm healed.
I got it. Listen, there will be times
where the natural report appears to be more evident than his
report. But faith always believes the
report of the Lord. faith in God believes the report of the Lord.
We must never allow our natural experience to determine the
finality of our hearing. Go to the doctor?
No problem. Find out exactly what's wrong.
Find the name of your disease, please, so that you can speak
the name above that name because you say at the name of Jesus,
cystic fibrosis must die. At the name of Jesus, leukemia,
you're under his feet. At the name of Jesus, cancer at
stage 4 dies and goes to zero. And we're not talking remission,
we're talking go. Are you hearing me touched?
She had faith. faith in God will stop him in His tracks.
You want God's attention? Believe, believe it is stopping.
There will be issues in life, but your issues are not the only
voice you should listen to. Quit rehearsing your issue.
Quit letting it play over in your mind.
When the tax in my mind come and they seem to keep talking even
when I'm quoting scripture, the best way that I eradicate them
from playing over or making interest is I just begin to pray
in the spirit out loud. Because when I'm praying in an
unknown tongue, man, my mind cannot get bogged down with
natural thoughts. There are plenty of voices out
there that will want to shut up your faith.
Are you hearing me? So you got to keep yourself like
this woman. She kept saying, she kept
saying, she kept saying, she kept saying, she kept saying,
she kept saying, she kept saying do not allow anything or anyone
to talk you out of your faith in God.
Don't do it. Don't do it Randy Clay, y'all
know his testimony being cured of cancer.
There was a time that he was having some challenges and what
I knew that he knew. I'm like if you are believing
and we are seeing no progression anywhere, something's up.
So it became where I was a true friend, true love will confront
and I care about him. I said what is the problem,
'cause there's something that has not been addressed because
everything you're saying is not producing at all.
It's getting worse actually. Well, there was something on the
inside, a spiritual offense offense.
And when he yelled that out, you all, we all knew.
There it is. You're going to have to get
forgiveness right there. And the minute that happened,
everything began to change. Now, there was still a process,
but it changed. I said it changed.
So you got to understand you cannot let anything shut your
faith up. You can't let an offense on
forgiveness, bitterness. You can't let something of your
past. What you have to do is continue
to press on. You must decide that Jesus has
the final say to your situation. You must.
Now let me give you some general statements concerning faith real
quick. When you assemble around the
world Word, are you spectating or activating?
The woman was not the only one there.
There was a crowd and the crowd was around the Word, but they
were spectating the Word. They were not activating it,
which tells me I don't care how many people show up in a
congregation. If nobody's touching God, then
God's not being touched. Are you hearing me?
If we are not careful, we can become so familiar with the Word
that we become ignorant of when it is operating.
Peter is right beside the Word, and when power left him, left
Jesus, Peter didn't even know. Listen, Saints, this is a
problem because many Saints like, where are the miracles?
How come we're not seeing them? Have you become so familiar with
coming to church, sitting and spectating, that when it starts
to get in operation, you don't even know what's there?
Let me give you another little traditional myth.
All we need is the presence of God, because once you get in the
presence of God, it changes everything.
Didn't change the crowd at all. Only one, when they got in His
presence changed. It's the one who touched him.
The rest were not changed at all.
In fact, I would submit to you that the crowd that was there
spectating, wanting to see a miracle, not participate in a
miracle later said crucified. So again, church is all over the
place. We just need the presence of
God. The presence of God does nothing
if you have no faith when the presence is there, just like
when Pastor Marcy says he's here.
So because his Holy Spirit can blow right past you and you'd be
like, I didn't feel nothing, but the person beside you has got
healed, delivered, set free, got a word from God, got the next
assignment. I mean, God's done something
amazing. Why?
Because they're touching him. They're not spectating, they're
activating. You understand every service can
be an activation. Say Amen.
Being around the Word is not enough for it to work in your
life. Neither is being around others
who are around the word. What does matter is if.
What does it matter if we have a large crowd and nobody knows how
to touch? The word will never operate in
your life until you bow down and submit to it.
Until you choose. I'll do the word.
For the word is consistent. For the word to consistently
work in your life, you must believe yourself.
You must believe yourself, Hallelujah.
And even when you don't understand God's will or or
excuse me, even when you understand God's will through
his words, circumstances can change from bad to worse.
When this happens, you need to address the fear, resolve it,
and then say I only believe. I only believe.
I only believe, I only believe. Come on, do I have any believers
in here?