All right, so tonight's Wednesday night, we're going to
finish out on talking about God's Kingdom Healthcare.
I appreciate Pastor Mike ministering along these lines
last week. Amen.
And what a great message, right? I love that he started over in
Proverbs 4 when he was saying that we can be in health.
That's powerful. You know, I mean as many times
as I've read that, you know, I loved how he said now notice
it's not healing. You can be in health and in that
what you want to try to live towards where you're just
walking in health. Now again, we're not saying that
you couldn't have something come, but you understand, I
mean, I haven't been to a doctor.
I'm talking about because I'm sick.
I haven't been. I can't even remember the last
time and what few elements I have are so small that over the
counter should I need something is I need nothing powerful to
knock something out at all. And even those things man, I
mean Benadryl may be the only thing I take, or an aspirin.
That's it. That's it.
I can't think of another thing I've taken in a decade or more
now. Again, why?
Is it because I tell you was because of what I inclined my
ear to the word and you know, it was doing thing.
Now, I did other stuff too, OK. There was natural things that
I've done too. You know, I've stayed in in an
exercise routine because that's positive, right?
And, you know, I've had to change the way I eat as well.
So that's, you know, something I've done, but it's not like I
haven't gone off the reservation.
A few times. Right.
You know, I'm not religious eater.
I am a, you know, aware eater and, and I'm aware that when I
eat a little crazy, I feel it. And it's amazing when you get
clean, how quick it is to know that was not clean.
Food that was not clean 'cause you'll fill it in your joints,
the inflammation, you'll be like, I mean, you probably feel
this when you're 30. You know, we just thought it was
probably normal at the time. I don't know, it's just when you
get clean, you're like anyway, but I'd love that be in health.
And and so, you know, again, you know, people sometimes get
around us and are shocked you have no healthcare.
No, no medical, you're not. I don't go.
I mean, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't go and if I had to, but I don't go.
I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't, but I don't praise the
Lord. You know, when you live in the
will of God, doing what he's called you to do and you're in
the word, you can actually. And you know what me saying
this, I don't know why believers aren't like bro.
How does that happen? I want that.
I mean that really should be our response, not like.
I hope he gets sick and goes to the hospital next week.
You know, some people are like that, you know, because again,
well, I had to go. I'm not making let I'm just
saying I, I wasn't trying to be this way other than just trying
to be in the will of God. And this is the result of it is
what we're saying, because we're applying scripture.
And I'm just saying the word works and and and God's not a
respecter of person. And so you could go decades,
decades without ever having to be rushed to an emergency room,
rushed to a hospital, all of this, praise God, and we can
have this. Yeah.
I think that's the last time we've been other than people
outside our immediate family. Our pregnancies definitely went
to the hospital with pregnancies.
Although could I have done it at the house if my wife was about
to go? Sure, I'd have been ready,
right? Praying in tongues for sure,
however. You know, I like somebody little
more experienced than myself doing that, all right.
But my idea, I think the Sean was the last time we went to
emergency wrinkles, he broke his collarbone in high school.
He graduated in 2005, so that was probably 2000.
Was it 5? I think it was 566.
Nah, it was five. Yeah, it was 5.
So that was probably 2004. So that was what, 22 years ago?
Glory to God. Amen.
The Lord is good, so let's live and help.
Obviously Pastor Mike took some time to let you know there's
some things that can, you know, challenge you walking in health
and that is if you're in unforgiveness, right, it affects
your love walk. You need to be walking
forgiveness and then stress, right?
And so you don't want to have that and I'm thankful that he
pointed a couple of those out. I'm going to talk about one very
briefly tonight, although my emphasis is not to talk about
what hinders your healing. We'll come back and have to do
that later date tonight. I'm going to lay hands on
people. And so I just want us to be able
to see as Pastor Mike spoke last time and and I had learned just
recently that during this great the great healing revivals that
you could go on and watch YouTube of people being healed
miraculously. And you know where they're
coming out of wheelchairs and they're coming off their
crutches. And you know, people that are on
beds are standing up and walking all kinds of stuff.
You know, we're seeing that we're like, where's God doing
that? But you and he had said last
week, what we don't realize is those people were in those
meetings for weeks on end. So faith came by hearing and
those ministers were actually specifically saying we will not
lay hands on you unless you've been this many times in the
meeting because they knew they needed their faith because they
were not just functioning off the gifts, they were also
functioning with faith. And there's the faith of just
laying on of hands without any gifts being an operation and
faith of the person coming and man, when the faith of a person
comes and the faith of the ministers there, then it can do
it can heal a lot of things. Now the gifts do get involved
when they're required because just regular faith of man will
not get the job done. God has to bring His aspect
through the gifts, but you know, in today's society, we want
things so fast and you know the the even commitment within the
church. Now I'm y'all do really great
and I'm talking on Wednesday night you know, but I believe
and I want to encourage. You you should stir up.
Those that you see on Sunday and say, man, I need to see you on
Sunday, I need to see you on Wednesday.
When you see him on Sunday, you know.
When we first started the church, we.
Were only like 10-15 people difference between the two
services for like 2 years. It was amazing, you know, and I
know things get going, but again, what are those things?
And should those things? And we got to ask those
questions and all the mores we see the day approaching because
there's going to be a lot vying for your time.
And you don't want the trumpet to blow and you don't have
enough oil in your lamp. So with that being said, let's
stand for the reading of the word.
I'm going to start with this one verse.
So there'd be a quick stand. Amen.
And we're going to talk about His hands through ours.
Matthew chapter 8 verse 3 reads this way.
Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him saying I am willing
be cleansed and immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
You can be seated. We're going to see here and not
my the, the assignment that God gave me specifically tonight is
just to show you in Scripture that the laying on of hands will
transmit the healthcare provision and power through the
anointing into your body to be healed and you can receive it
and be healed period. And again, they are not it's not
it has nothing to do with my hands.
It has to do with faith in laying on of hands.
I'm going to be, I'm going to tell you, let me, I'm making
very clear, I have no special anointing.
I have no fire that's in my hands.
I'm not going to tell you that. I'm not going to say that at
times things haven't happened. But you know what?
It doesn't like Papa. I don't go flame on, OK?
I don't do that. I operate by faith and the
majority of things I do are by faith.
Now, I'm not against those that God wants to utilize and they
tend to, you know, operate along those lines a little bit.
I have no issue there because the result is not the person,
it's the healing and the minute you get your eyes.
And the reason why those healing revivals ended is because the
people got focused on the people that were laying on instead of
the one who did, and they miss that.
If he can lay hands, then I can lay hands.
So instead of people having to be drugged to a tent, they could
just start doing it in their own offices.
And so I'm always pushing things away from me, back to you,
because God wants the church to exercise all of its authority
and not just the fivefold gifts doing.
It. So again, that's why I don't put
any things on that. In fact, I'm going to be like
Jesus, I do not even want you to post your healing.
Just know you were healed. Then you can tell somebody and
I'll even tell our little camera if they take, we won't even put
we won't even talk about it because Jesus help people say
now tell no one. Now there's nothing wrong with
telling somebody. I'm not going overboard, OK, but
I'm just saying I'm not here. We're not here to advertise to
the point that we're trying to get people to show up just so
they can be healed. Now, if they hear that people
are being healed here and the Kingdom Healthcare is
functioning here, well, they ain't come on their own, praise
God. But more importantly, maybe they
don't even have to get here. They just come here because
they're like the person who was here laid hands on me at work
and I was healed. And it seemed like all the
people coming here are laying hands on people when they're
sick. Whether they have an allergy, a
cold, a fever, the flu, cancer, tuberculosis, doesn't matter.
They're healed. What's going on with this whole
group of people? Well, this called the Kingdom of
God, OK? But again, Jesus is willing all
the time because he has paid the price.
For us to be healed and immediately in this day, the
leprosy that was literally incurable was cleansed.
Hallelujah. And not only was he cleansed
from his sickness or his disease, he had the ability to
go back to the temple and worship his God.
Wow. So this is way bigger.
And you understand, we don't make that connection.
I'm going to make that connection right now.
Jesus is willing because he knew with leprosy, this isn't just
about curing you of a disease. This is a this affects your
relationship with God. This affects the purpose that I
have for you to worship me. You can't be in the synagogue.
You're unclean. You understand a lot of people,
they want to be healed but don't want to serve God.
And the Lord's like, well, I'm healing you to serve me.
I'm not healing you so you can go back in the world and
prostitute yourself. Come on now.
I say prostitute because it's true.
That's what idolatry is. It's called committing adultery
on God. Idolatry is putting something
before God. That's why he would look at the
nation and said you're an adulterous generation.
Not everybody in Israel was cheating on their spouses.
He was talking about they were worshipping other gods.
He sees that as adultery. So again, he's like, you want me
to heal you so you can go play the harlot.
I'm talking about the church now.
Now again, the loss. They're already playing the
harlot. They're already out there.
I mean, that's their daddy. That's the world they're in.
So it becomes an opportunity for him and say, I care about you.
I'll heal your body. And I'm not only hear your body,
I'll touch your mind. I'll change your soul.
I'll actually give you a brand new spirit and make you alive to
me again. Hallelujah.
So with that being said, you know, healing's awesome, but for
us as believers, it's about I want to be healed so I can be
doing the plan and purpose of God for my life.
No hindrances. All right, Look over to Matthew
Chapter 9, verse 27 to 30 it says, and Jesus went on from
there. Two blind men followed him,
crying out, have mercy on US, son of David.
And when he entered the house, the blind men came up to him,
and Jesus said, Do you believe that I'm able to do this?
And they said to him, Yes, Lord. Then he what?
Touch their eyes. How did he touch their eyes?
With his hands? He didn't touch their eyes with
his eyes. He didn't touch their eyes with
his nose or his elbow with his hands.
OK, Touch their eyes, say. It shall be done to you
according to your faith. So Jesus's faith alone wasn't
functioning. They had faith as well.
And when He touched them, it activated their faith.
His faith. Well, their faith was already
active. That active faith they had
activated the faith He had. They came together.
And when it came together, what's it say happened?
And their eyes were what? Open.
Then Jesus sternly warned them see to it that no one knows
about this and the reason why Jesus didn't want healings to
get out rampant is because it hindered him from being able to
be in certain places. The crowd started showing up so
much because they wanted to see a miracle that he it hindered
him from doing the very thing he wanted to do.
And that was preach on the Kingdom of God.
And he found itself that is fame, the Bible says, became so
spread so strong in the the more densely populated places.
He had to stay on the perimeter, had to stay on the perimeter.
So you, you, you think, well, if it's God's will to heal, why
doesn't he want anyone to know? Well, he doesn't want it to be
where the healing is idolized above the healer.
And if we don't watch out, that's what we'll do.
We'll start idolizing the healing over the healer.
OK. And Jesus didn't want that.
But did he want them healed? Yes.
Did they want to be healed? And when he touched them, what
happened? They were healed.
So he touched the leopard man, He was healed.
Touched the blind eyes, they were healed.
These are some pretty tough cases, people.
But what were they healed nonetheless, Luke chapter 4
verse 40 to 41 is Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever in that what the word says in in Hebrews 13/8.
The Holy Ghost just reminded me, he said, he said Jesus is the
same yesterday, today. And so if Jesus said, if we're
having documented historical accounts of his actions while on
the planet yesterday in the past, well, guess what?
He'll do that today and guess what?
He'll do that tomorrow, period. Now, let me just say it this
way. Listen, man, when I first
started hearing about healing, it was kind of hard to grasp.
And again, why it is, is a hard to grasp because experience
makes things sometimes hard to grasp.
And again, I you've heard my testimony before that in that
every Thanksgiving and it's selfish, OK.
And it probably no wonder, But selfishly, I wanted to eat a lot
during Thanksgiving because I was a skinny guy that wanted to
get heavier. And this is like a bounty, lot
of food, lot of opportunities go back to the table.
It's my time to gain weight, right?
Get a little heavier. So, you know, but it was always
in November and in Florida, you know, this is when the seasons
are changing a little bit and people would get sick and we
call it flu season anyway, so it's flu season.
Seemed like I was really good at catching flu.
I probably didn't ever go anywhere with deer season.
Didn't anything do anything of that nature.
I don't know if I'd have been good in those seasons, but I was
really good during flu season. I can put down some flu and it
would always show up couple weeks before.
So now I have no appetite. So I look at the food and
wanting. It's horrible.
Yeah, and it's every year. Every year.
Shots matter. Not because if shots mattered,
why do you get one every year? I'm just saying they're always
out every year to get another flu shot.
I mean, they're, they're supposedly just to help you not
be so contagious when you get it to help fight against it.
Well, you know what didn't matter?
I got it every year. Then I went to Bible school and
then they're talking about healing.
I'm like, huh. But it wasn't just healing class
I was in. And then I got into a class
called the Believers Authority and I'm like, what?
Then I'm like, seriously, why have I put up with this only
'cause I didn't know. So I'm like, man, I got to
exercise this deal now, you know, the first one came around
and I had symptoms, but they didn't stay as long.
You know, there came a point where I had to say I'm not going
to let my experience with things determine what he says.
And again, you know, it's already a challenge.
Number one, just think, how do you even put in your mind that
you're going to hell without salvation?
And what he did worked. I mean, it's just difficult if
you try to naturally rationalize that, right?
But when you did it by faith, then all of a sudden you're
like, OK, this worked. I mean, nobody had that to
pivot. I had, I'm like, I'm different,
this worked. I pray I'm different.
This worked. So I'm like, well, if Jesus said
that now, I didn't know what else he said because all I was
taught was that's what he said. You know, you need to be born
again. That's all he apparently said.
That's all I knew he said, and that's all I thought he said.
But then I found out he said a whole lot.
And faith wasn't just for. Salvation, you get baptized in
the Holy Ghost, you could be healed, you could prosper.
You could, you could, I mean, all kinds of stuff.
You could deal with the demonic realm and put them at Bay.
I mean, it was like, wow, where's this been my whole life?
It's in the book. I just didn't read it.
So, you know, I'm now having to exercise that.
You know what? I refuse to allow my experience
or someone who's been a believer and lived a life as good as they
did, but yet they just chose never to step over in that I'm
just choosing to go ahead and stay with God.
And you know what, God, I have to prove that it's a lie.
But the good news is God not a man, that he shall lie.
So the point is, is that did I do it perfect?
No, I didn't. But each year I kept growing to
be stronger in it. And then I would say, what don't
I know now? I didn't have situations where I
there were other factors that had to be involved.
I didn't have anything in my body that would have required
the gifts of the Spirit to happen.
As I've told you, you know, in the hearing impaired community,
deaf community, not everyone that's deaf is deaf just because
they hadn't lost it. And we've had some people here
that had it and measles caused them to be hard to hear.
And in fact, we had a gentleman that used to attend here that he
could hear. He was legally deaf, but he
could hear and he could pick out a tone and he could learn that
tone with a person enough that he could call his brother on the
phone and talk to his brother on the phone 'cause he had trained
himself to get that tone. Well, he trained himself to hear
me, to hear my tone, that he didn't have to look at the
interpreter anymore. He could look at me and I was
like you staring at me all the time.
How, how? What's the problem?
Why can't why aren't you like watching the interpreter?
You know, you're bored with a servant.
He said no, I can hear you. I'm like, what the God heal you?
No, no, no. So then he had to explain, but
his would have been a healing. But again, as I've said, like
Pastor Priscilla, she has things missing.
They were never there. So that has to have a working of
miracles and I can't make that happen.
So she I don't feel bad, she doesn't feel bad and you
shouldn't feel bad. What we should do is like covet
the gifts. That's why I like, Lord, we
thank you that spiritual gifts are happening at Anchor Bay
Church. Spiritual gifts, you know, and
sometimes when God pulls on those spiritual gifts, it is in
such a way that it becomes such a calling card in a community.
And at the end of the day, when that happens, there's a lot you
have to deal with after that. And I've told our staff before,
I said, Are you ready for the gifts to function at such a
capacity that we get a influx of people that will not assimilate
to the word but only wants the miracles?
And it forces Anchor Faith Church to shut down in Saint
Augustine and have to go somewhere else.
Now you say, how's that possible?
Jesus would not do things in certain places.
Anymore because the community refused the word only wanted the
miraculous. So again, when we're like we
want miracles. Are you studied enough to know
that can be a byproduct? And are you all ready to sell
your property and go with me to the next town?
Because the rest of the community has decided we don't
want Jesus. We make a demand on miracles
only. And if you don't give us
miracles, we don't. God's not there.
Oh, God's in his word. God's in his word.
And God doesn't have to prove himself to you.
He is, he's, I am. Say Hallelujah.
So again, you have to know what you're facing and you have to
begin to say, you know, if, if a situation you're aware of, then
what do you do? You don't have to feel bad if
somebody's not healed that you know, has something that
requires the gifts, but be a part of the process of saying,
Lord, I thank you for spiritual gifts to be in operation because
you don't understand. I, I, I'm like anybody at the
end of the day, if a person has called on the name of the Lord
and is saved and they never manifest healing in their life,
that doesn't change their salvation.
But I would not want you to be so complacent that you ignore
it's possible or have a desire for it because you're not
willing to exercise a fruit called patience.
And I'm patient because I know it's his will and the gifts have
to happen. And you know what?
I'm going to believe they will. And whether that's a month from
now, three years from now, whatever that is that causes
this. I'll believe to my grave firmly
persuaded not well, it doesn't really matter because the minute
doesn't matter. Now you are in no position for
it ever to change and that doesn't mean it was God's will
because you changed your position.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? OK, Luke chapter 4, verse 40 and
41. And while the sun was setting,
all those who had any who were sick with various diseases
brought them to him, and laying his hands on each one of them,
He was healing them right. Demons also were coming out of
many. So that means everyone sick
wasn't sick just by natural symptoms.
Some of their sickness came by spirits.
OK. And so they were coming out
shouting, You are the Son of God.
But he rebuked them again. I don't need you to advertise
for me. He would not allow them to speak
because they knew him to be Christ.
Hallelujah. Now the religious didn't know
the Christ was the Christ because they said well, you cast
out devils in the name of bells above right and but the demons
knew you got it wrong. Boys.
This is the Christ we going to testify but he won't let us.
OK, Luke chapter 6. But notice he's laying hands on
how many of them, each one of them, and what was happening.
Now I'm doing this because when you come down, this is what
we're doing. We're just doing the Word, OK.
Luke 617 and 19. Jesus came down with them and
stood on a level place, and there was a large crowd of his
disciples and a great throng of people from all Judea and
Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tara and this city who had
come to hear him and to be healed of all their diseases and
those who were troubled with unclean spirits.
Right here we go, we're being cured.
And all the people were trying to touch him, for power was
coming out of him and healing them all.
So again, he's touching powers, leaving.
They're being healed. They're trying to touch him
because they know who he's touching.
They're getting the power. All they got to do is touch him.
I mean, they're taking a playbook out of the woman with
the issue of blood. If I just touches him, I'm going
to be healed. I just need something that's
touching him to touch me. Because when he touches, change
happens. Hallelujah, change happens.
And for those who believe and want to be healed and have faith
in God to heal, then when they touch, when that touch happens,
healing power moves, period. And healing power is not a
feeling. I mean, this is the problem.
And I'm so convinced that if Jesus was here today, he
wouldn't let no cameras in the room.
He would post nothing on social media.
Why? Because we become creatures of
habit or what we think we see. So again, you get it.
You see one minister known for healing, they lay hands and they
wave their hand or whatever. People fall down and we're like,
oh, that's the Holy Ghost. So then you come down, they lay
hands and you don't feel that. And then you're like, well, I
didn't get it. No, you got it because we just
exercised the word. I laid hands on you.
You believed you were going to receive healing when hands were
laid on you. Whether we feel anything or not
doesn't matter because we just demonstrated the word by faith,
right? Because if you don't watch out,
one can fall. The next one doesn't have to.
And that doesn't mean someone had a better experience, but I'm
telling you, it's all over the place.
People are looking for signs that the Holy Spirit there
'cause he's don't see him, He's in his word.
He carries out that word. Whether you're going down or not
is not a greater anointing. Can we just say that, again, I'm
not against someone waving their hand and if power is really
hitting people, great, whatever. But man, if that power is
hitting, hopefully they're not staying in carnality when they
leave. Sometimes I like to follow
those. Sometimes I like to follow the
minister that's doing this. You see what they doing in the
backroom on Monday Because again, you can have an anointing
in the power of God, but still not be living right.
Again, that's not what's impressive.
I mean, the churches, if we don't watch out, we're like
chasing stuff when really we're here to receive the engrafted
word of God, which is able to save our soul and then carry a
culture out into our community because the greatest thing is
not run into a conference. The greatest thing has changed
in the community. That you live in.
I mean, what happened to church planting?
Why is it waned? Why do, why do believers not
have a passion to see other people's lives changed?
Because why? I've got Jesus now give me the
stuff that blesses me 'cause that way when I go to heaven, I
want to feel God. And they're like, there's a lot.
I mean, there's way more people dying and going to hell and
we're running around in conferences, shouting,
screaming, rolling on the floor. Yeah.
Hallelujah, Luke chapter 13. I'm going to have to get a speed
round through 13 and he was teaching in one of the
synagogue's on the Sabbath. There was a woman who for 18
years had had a sickness caused by the Spirit and she was bent
over double. We read this one last week.
Last time I was with you and could not straighten up at all.
When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, woman,
you are free from your sickness. And he laid his hands on her,
and immediately she was made erect again and began glorifying
God. So again, let me just go real
quick. Matthew 8, Matthew 9, Luke 4,
Luke 6, and Luke 13. That is 512345.
Let everything be confirmed by two or three.
Witness, I've given you 5 of He's touched laid hands and they
were healed. All right, let's do 6, Mark 6/4
through 6. Jesus said to them, a prophet is
not without honor, except in his hometown and among his own
relatives, in his own household. And he could do no miracle there
except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed
them, and he wondered at their unbelief.
And he was going around the villages teaching.
Now verse 6 lets us know that there was an unbelief issue.
And when unbelief is in the room, it can hinder, it hinders
God moving. And so the answer to unbelief is
teaching. So a lot of times when people
are saying in their churches, man, how come we're not seeing
the miracles? Well, you need some more
teaching apparently, because unbelief must be somewhere.
Now, I've never seen it this way, but I want us to look at
this again because I want us to ask this question.
Is this plausible? A prophet's not without honor,
except in his hometown, among his relatives, in his own
household. He could do know what miracle
now miracles come through the gifts.
But guess what he could do? Even though unbelief existed, he
could still lay hands on some sick people.
So healing the sick still manifested in an environment of
unbelief. Yeah, this is good.
Now, you know, 'cause many times we've gone through there, we're
like, you know, the reason miracles didn't come because
they're unbelief. And that's true of the miracles.
But unbelief did not stop healing.
Now, that doesn't mean it can't. I'm not saying because if you
know and don't believe, that's your problem.
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying unbelief is
always in play among the lost. So when you lay hands on a lost
person, guess what? They're not believing.
You're believing. Now, obviously Jesus laid hands
on people, but again, who was he primarily dealing with?
Those that were in covenant? And they did have faith because
faith is a firm persuasion. It's not even religious anyway.
You can be in faith whether you're in the Kingdom or out of
the Kingdom. Firm persuasion exists, I'm just
saying unbelief in and of itself did not stop the laying on of
hands to still heal some people. Because I would hate to think
that in church everyone had to be hooked up believing before we
have people come down. Because if that happened, no one
would. Ever be healed?
Because there's always going to be a room of unbelief.
But what he is saying is if people would have recognized,
first of all recognize this, y'all ready for this one?
Recognize the ministry gift. I mean, so again brother Earl,
enjoy brother Earl. I'm a brother just like you.
I'm righteous like you. We can be righteous but there
are things that flow with the gift of the prophet.
I'm not one. But in this case it like they
just saw him as brother Jesus and there are graces afforded to
the prophet to work miracles and because they had no faith in his
gifting then the grace to move in that gifting to distribute
miracles did not happen. And every time a St. wants to
get sideways and out of scriptural alignment with in in
first Corinthians Chapter 9 and say you know, you know, you put
your pants on just like me, you're that's irrelevant.
Pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist, apostle are gifts,
and if you do not recognize them and honor those giftings, you
lose out on the graces associated with those giftings.
And the majority of the Western church accepts the pastoral one
and the teaching one, but the ones that had more miracles were
the other 3. And maybe we're just asking the
question, answering the question now, why don't we see more
miracles? Well, because we don't honor the
apostle, we don't honor the prophet, and we don't even want
the advantages to be in the church.
They're supposed to be out because when evangelist comes,
we, we don't, we don't recognize their gift.
We're like, oh, they're not for me.
They're for the loss that's here tonight.
So you don't honor the gift for you, but yet the gift is for you
because an evangelist equips the Saints for the work of ministry.
Oh, I'm preaching way better than you're shouting, but that's
OK. Hallelujah.
Let me say this. Let me say this.
In 22 years of Anchor Faith Church, I believe right now I
have the greatest environment to preach in at Anchor Faith
Church. Now I do I I don't believe I've
had an atmosphere this easy to preach in in 22 years.
That says something about the majority of your hunger.
It's saying something about unity in the body right now.
It's saying us something about being submitted and committed to
the vision in your part to play right now.
I mean, it's like easy, very little resistant.
I'm gonna preach on money this summer so, you know, get it
together. Yeah, I have Dominion Air coming
out and I want to preach before it comes so that when we release
it, I have preached it. And so I'm going to start it
here super soon, all right? So don't lock up and, you know,
leave your wallets at home, right?
I mean, I'm not coming for your money anyway.
I'm trying to get you to function in Dominion, but I'm
not afraid to talk about your bank account.
You better help me better than that right now.
Say Amen. All right, All right, it's a
great environment, don't make it a bad one.
And I'm feisty. If it gets crazy, I'm going to
Hallelujah. So they laid hands and they were
healed, right? OK Acts 9/17/18 Just so you
know, Jesus not the only one who does this.
So Ananias departed and entered the house and after laying his
hands on him, said Brother Saul, this is Saul of Tarsus who just
had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.
And he's blonde and he's been fasting for three days because
he has had an encounter with Jesus Christ himself that has
left him without sight. And Ananias has obviously talked
to the Lord about this encounter he's about to have with this man
because he's like, this is a bad dude and he's he has papers.
I can get thrown in jail the minute I reveal that I follow
you. And he says, what, you going to
go talk to him anyway because he's with me now.
And that was obviously a shocking statement, right?
And so he believed Jesus had his word and he said, OK, I'm going
to go see Saul. Nice.
And so he walks in the room, right?
And so he says, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road
which you were coming, sent me, so that you may regain your
sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
And immediately. And what there fell from his
eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight and he got
up and was baptized. Glory to God and he started his
journey that would author over half of the New Testament we
read today. Glory to God and Ananias.
Not Peter, not John, not James, not Matthew, not the apostles of
the Lamb, but Ananias, a man of God in the body went, laid hands
on him, and he regained his sight.
Glory to God, I say, glory to God.
Acts chapter 19 Well did Paul learn something from that.
Acts chapter 1911 to 12 God was performing extraordinary
miracles by the what? By the hands of Paul?
By who? And what was he using his hands
so that handkerchiefs and aprons were even carried from his body
to the sick, and the disease left them in evil spirits came
out. Can I just say this?
Paul said I pray in tongues more than you all.
I wonder if he kept himself charged, so full of the Holy
Ghost that it just saturated things that came from him.
And he said I pray in tongues more than you all.
I want to heal. And why don't you just pray in
tongues more than you all like Paul and let's see what happens.
But we want stuff without exercising our effort's a good
word. Most people don't like it
because it sounds like it's self earned.
It's not self earned. It's exercising something God is
giving you by faith. And Paul exercised his language.
I'm not telling you that's a correlation.
I'm just saying he prayed in tongues more than you all and
extraordinary miracles came in his hands that even aprons and
handkerchiefs that left him healed the sick and cast out
devils. Acts chapter 28, verse 7 and 9.
And again, I'm not asking you to pray in tongue so you can come
and get up here and service. I'm saying pray in tongues so
you can go to work. Go to work, right, Dustin?
Go to work, be at a client's house, lay in their floor.
And you notice they come and they looking rough and you're
like, you look rough today. Excuse me, Can I say that?
And they're like, yeah, I'm not feeling too good.
You know what? I'm putting your floor.
Can I lay hands on you? Right?
Then you lay hands on them and next thing you know, they're
feeling great. They're like, wow, Dustin, I'm
healed. And you're like, praise the
Lord, he is the healer. And you just keep doing the
floor. And the next thing you know, you
may get 5 other houses because they tell everybody this guy
that did my floor laid hands on me and was healed.
I want that guy to lay on, lay my floor, right?
And then you may be laying floor and people walking on the floor
you're laying and they get healed.
The guy didn't even touch me, just installed my floor and and
it healed my arthritis, right? Wouldn't that be crazy?
But hey, crazier things can happen.
Whatever. It's for all of us, but it comes
through our hands because it's his hands through our hands.
All right? Acts 28, seven.
I think we're on #10 now, maybe through 9 now in the
neighborhood at that place where lands belonging to the leading
man of the island name Pubulus who?
What's wrong with y'all? You all right?
I'll pray for them down here in the front.
OK, Mr. P, since you're struggling.
OK. Who welcomed us and entertained
us for three days. Now, this is after Paul just got
off a shipwreck, people, OK? And he had a snake bite him.
You know, when he gets to land and they're like, this dude's
about to die. He was a murderer.
The sea let him out, you know? But he's been judged.
We don't watch this guy die. This is great.
And then 10 minutes, an hour, whatever went by, and they're
like, this dude is still alive. This is crazy.
He must be a God. So they shifted their thinking.
He's condemned murderer, and then now he's a God, right?
Sounds like humans, right? You're knowing it one day, and
then you're the devil. It's OK.
It happens. And what?
Jesus happened with you, Right? OK.
And it happened that the father of Mr. P was lying in bed
afflicted with a recurrent fever.
All right? I mean, this guy's got some
problems. And what's this word?
Medical people. Thank you.
What is that? Diarrhea?
Thank you. I thought that's what it was.
I just wanted confirmation from somebody else's mouth.
All right, So that's not good because, you know, there wasn't
plumbing back now back then. OK.
And Paul, just so you understand the environment and no air
conditions either, so you understand what he's walking
into. OK.
And Paul went to see him and after he had prayed, he what?
Laid his hands on him and healed him.
After this had happened, the rest of people on the island who
had disease were coming to him and getting how do you think
they were getting cured? So Paul was laying hands on
them. Hallelujah.
All right, so last verse here it is Mark chapter 16, verse 17 to
20. Powerful verses here and these.
These what come on, what are they?
And these signs will will maybe could be on occasions all right.
And these signs will accompany those who those who is that
apostles only? Is that profits only?
Is that pastors only? Is that teachers only?
Is that evangelist only? Is that graduates from faith
Christian University only? It's those who believe.
Are you a believer? Do you qualify then?
OK, he said. In my name they will drive out
demons, they will speak in new tongues, they will pick up
snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it
will not harm them. They will.
Who will, Who will? Those who believe?
Who will, who will? Those who believe will lay hands
on the sick, and they will be made well.
And the Lord Jesus had spoken to them.
He said after the Lord he got spoken to, he was taken up into
heaven, sat down at the right hand of God, and they went, who
went those who believe and who went?
Those who? Believe.
Are you a believer? OK, And those who believe went
and preached, are you preaching? Are you testifying of the
goodness of God at your work, at school, in the library, at every
coffee shop you're buying coffee at?
Are you somewhere testify 'cause those places are breeding
grounds for those who believe to see signs.
All right. And the Lord worked through who
those who believe. We got it finally.
And the Lord worked through those who believe, confirming
his word by the size that accompanied it.
So again, when you're testifying of the King's health care
system, oh, you know, in my nation, everybody's healed.
Come on. Amen.
I mean, started out that way. Oh, you're not feeling well.
OK. You know the nation I'm from.
Everybody's healed. What?
Yep, we got the greatest health care ever.
They're like, where you from? It's the World Cup.
What nation are you from? Mine's not even in the world.
I mean, it's in the world, but it's not of it.
It's actually a global nation. It's called the Kingdom of God.
And at the name of Jesus, if I lay hands on you, you'll be
healed. Hallelujah because you have to
believe signs accompany me because I represent him when I
touch it's it. It's as if he touched because I
invoked his name. Power of attorney.
I just had someone recently who came to me who's in the legal
side and it's the first time they heard this concept of power
of attorney and they were like, wow, you they were blown away.
I did not realize we had I know what power of attorney is.
I ride them all the time. And then the one that I read
concerning my mom, they're like, wow, she I actually like yours
better than the ones I write. You know, I said, well, ours are
pretty good. You know that my attorney does,
but they getting it because again, it's not yours.
It's theirs that they've given you to function it.
OK, so. Through just the scripture.
Reading today, there's enough in it for you to have health
because if you've given attention like Pastor Mike
inspired you last week to what I just said this week, then
everyone can leave healed.