WEBVTT - Make The Switch | Joel Osteen 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.160 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:05.920 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.440 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:09.720 blessing and share it with a. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.040 Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.279 your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.400 come into your homes, and if you're ever in our area, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.479 please stop by and be a part of one of 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.840 our services. I promise you we will make you feel 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.880 right at home. I like to start with something funny, 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.440 and I heard about this eighty five year old man. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.040 He was out fishing one morning. He heard a voice saying, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.920 pick me up. He looked around, didn't see anybody, thought 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:40.840 he was dreaming. He heard it again, pick me up. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.920 He looked down and saw a frog. He said, in amazement, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.160 are you talking to me? The frog said yes, pick 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.080 me up and kiss me, and I'll turn into a 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.760 beautiful bride. The man quickly picked him up put him 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.400 in his front pocket. The frog said, wait a minute, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.960 I said, kiss me and I'll turn into a bride. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.200 The man said no, thanks. At my age, I'd rather 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:07.119 have a talking frog say it like you mean it. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.520 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.360 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.160 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.279 talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.720 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.560 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.960 to talk to you today about make the switch. One 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.400 prayer we're taught to pray, is God, not my will, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.480 But let your will be done. Many times we don't 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.120 know what's best for us, and when it comes to 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.600 guidance and direction, it's important to ask God to show 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.280 us his will. God. If it's your will, let me 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:54.320 get this position. If it's your will, cause this relationship 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.320 to move forward. That's honoring God showing our dependency on him. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.480 But there are some things we don't have to pray God. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.920 If it be your will, we can look into scripture 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.640 and find out what the will is. When it comes 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.320 to healing, you don't have to pray God. If it's 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.040 your will, you can heal me. All through the scripture 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.400 we can see it is God's will. Matthew fifteen says 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.200 they brought the sick the lame the blind to Jesus, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.920 and he healed them all fourteen times. In the scripture 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.000 it says he healed all that were sick. I can't 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.440 find one time where Jesus turned someone away and wouldn't 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.520 heal them. He didn't do it the same way, but 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.200 he healed them all. You don't have to pray. Lord. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.280 If it's your will, you can bless me. Jesus said, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.360 he came that we might live an abundant life to 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.840 the full till it overflows. Well, God, if it's your will, 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.480 you can free me from this addiction. Otherwise I'll endure it. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.119 I'll take up my cross and follow you carrying the cross. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:13.720 Isn't living addicted? Sick defeated? That means not giving into 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:19.280 carnal desires, not compromising. But as long as you think, God, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.120 if it be your will to heal me, to bless me, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.320 to free me, it will limit what God does. You 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.080 have to make the switch from God. If you want 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.960 to heal me to God, I know you want to 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.000 heal me from God. If you want to bless me 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.360 to God, I know you want to bless me. Well, Joel, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.440 if God wants me to carry this sickness, If he 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.600 wants me to endure it to show that I trust him. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.000 I'll gladly do it. You don't have to carry it. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.920 God's already carried it. Isaiah said, Jesus took our infirmities 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.600 and carried our diseases. It is not faith to say 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.600 if it be your will, you have to have the 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.000 boldness to say, God, I know it is your will. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.720 That verse goes on to say, by his stripes, you 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.920 were healed. Jesus took thirty nine lashes on his back 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.240 before he was crucified. Studies tell us there are thirty 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:26.720 nine major categories of disease. He took one for each one. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:32.240 He didn't leave anything out. By his stripes, you were healed. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.960 It's past tens. He's already done it. Our attitude should be, Lord, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.200 I receive you're healing. I'll receive what you've already done. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.680 If you don't have to beg God to do it, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.600 try to talk him into it. Wonder what the will is? 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.120 Make the switch. God, you carried this sickness, so I 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.479 don't have to carry it. So Lord, thank you that 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.120 healing is flowing into me. Thank you that I'm getting better. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.720 Thank you that the number of my days you will fulfill. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.200 When the Israelites were in the desert, headed toward the 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.360 Promised Land, there were two million people out there. They 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:16.120 wandered around for forty years, it says in Psalms. God 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.760 brought them out, and there was not one sick or 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.720 feeble one among them. They had been in slavery for years, mistreated. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.880 You would think somebody would be sick out in the desert. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:36.160 They didn't have pharmacies, hospitals, modern medicine. Surely somebody would 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.080 have a migraine, somebody would come down with the flu, 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.360 with dizziness, with kidney stones. But not one of them 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.039 were sick. God was showing us his will. Yes, we 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.080 have to fight illnesses. Things come against us. But if 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.599 in the back of your mind you think this sickness 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.919 must be God's will for me, it must be his 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.400 plan for my life that will keep you from getting wound. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.920 God works where there's faith. You have to know it 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:11.800 is His will for you to be healthy, whole, and energetic. 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.640 You may be dealing with an illness. Let me encourage you. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.440 It didn't come to stay. It came to pass. It 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.479 is not permanent, it's temporary. Healing is flowing into you. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.400 Even now, you're getting better as you're listening. The same 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:33.400 God that brought them out without one sick or feeble 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.159 one is in the process of bringing you out right now. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.159 One of the names of God in the scripture is 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:46.240 Jehovah Rapha. That means the Lord, our healer. You may 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.560 know God as a savior, and that's important, but he 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.159 wants you to know him as a healer as well. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.200 I talked to a man that was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.440 He'd taken different treatments, wasn't having any effect. His doctors 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.560 were somewhat puzzled. This cancer is treatable. Most people go 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.320 into remission within six months. He was two years down 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.880 the road and not seeing any improvement. He'd had a 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:21.320 stem cell transplant, chemotherapy, radiation, nothing was helping. He told 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.000 how his prayer was, Lord, if it's my time to die, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.840 I'm ready to go. I'll endure it and I'll honor 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.880 you to the end. But if it be your will, 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.200 you can heal me. He was waiting to see what 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.240 God's will was. One night he was flipping through the channels. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.920 He heard me talking about how God wants us to 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.360 be wound and how he wants us to live an abundant, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:52.160 dictorious life. Something came alive on the inside. Faith was 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.880 ignited in his heart. Instead of praying Lord, if it 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.440 be your will, he started praying, Lord, thank you that 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.320 you have all already healed me, that I will live 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.560 and not die. He prayed from a place of faith, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.000 a place of victory. Two months ago, he went back 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.360 for a checkup for the first time in two years. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.240 He got a clean bill of health. Today he is 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:22.840 one hundred percent cancer free. Amazing things happen when you 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.720 make the switch from God, if it be your will 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.160 to God. I know it is your will. That boldness 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.960 is your faith being released. That's what allows God to 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.880 bring healing, favor and blessings. And this man loved God. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.720 He was ready to endure to the end to carry 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.720 that sickness. But he found out he didn't have to 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.120 carry it. That was the turning point when he made 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:55.320 the switch. There's a big difference between praying God, if 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.560 it be your will you can heal me to praying God, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.040 I know it is your will. I know the price 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.800 has already been paid. I know You're Jehovah. Rapphah, the 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.320 Lord my healer. So thank you that healing is flowing 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.959 into me. It's difficult to have faith if you don't 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.480 think it's something God wants to do. You have to 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.920 be convinced. It is God's will for you to be healthy, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.720 It is his will for you to be blessed, to 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:30.080 live an abundant life. When you know this, you'll do 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.360 like him, and you'll live out of a place of faith, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:38.480 not doubt, not wondering. The scripture tells us to come 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.360 boldly to the throne to find help in our time 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.360 of need. It's not boldness to say God, if it 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.680 be your will, you can take away this sickness, this cancer, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.840 this chronic pain. That's not coming boldly, that's coming with doubts, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.960 that's coming unsure, not knowing if it's supposed to happen. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.680 You have to make the switch. Some things we already 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.840 know are God's will, And one of the best things 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.000 we can do is remind God what he said. If 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.520 you want to pray with confidence, bring the will to him. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.160 Pray what he promised. God, you said you would restore 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.840 health back into me. You said you took my infirmities, 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.400 carried my sicknesses. You said by your stripes, I was healed. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.400 When you pray the promises, you won't say if it 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.400 be your will, because you know the will. Imagine Jesus 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.600 sitting at the right hand of the Father. He hears 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.760 the prayer, Lord, if it be your will, you can 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.360 heal me. He turns to the Father and says, you mean, 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.520 after all the stripes I took, after all the pain 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.800 I endured, after I sacrificed to carry their sicknesses, they're 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.440 still wondering if it's my will. He doesn't honor God 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.280 to say, if it be your will, after all God 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.760 has done, after the price he paid. The way to 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.920 honor him is to say, Lord, I know you want 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:17.360 to heal me. March chapter one. This leper saw Jesus 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.480 walking down the road. He ran up to him, fell 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.720 at his feet, and said, Jesus, if you want to, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:27.400 you can heal me. Jesus had never seen the man, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.600 had no relationship. He could have kept walking, thought don't 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:37.400 bother me. Instead, he reached out in compassion, touched the man, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:42.360 and said three simple words, I want to Instantly he 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.440 was healed. There are nineteen miracles Jesus performed that are 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.720 recorded in the scripture. He did many more, so many 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.160 the Scripture says they couldn't be contained in one book. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.840 It's significant that this one was chosen to be recorded. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.480 God wanted to make sure we understood what his will 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:08.559 is when it comes to healing. The man asked, if 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.880 you want to you can heal me. Jesus said, as 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.120 clear as can be, I want to. God is saying 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.360 that to you today. I want to heal you. I 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.240 want to take away the cancer. I want to free 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.360 you from the pain. I want to break the depression. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.480 When you know he's an I want to God, you'll 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.920 pray bold prayers. You'll live out of a place of faith, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:39.319 not doubt, not wondering. What's interesting is leprosy is contagious. 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.120 That man shouldn't have come to Jesus in the first place. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:47.400 They were supposed to shout unclean so people would know 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.440 not to get close when he came to Jesus. Jesus 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.000 could have moved away quickly like everyone else, or he 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.600 could have healed the leper by simply speaking to him 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.960 from a distance. He healed others that way, but on purpose, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:08.839 Jesus reached out and touched the leper. He broke protocol. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.120 He went against the norm. I can imagine people thinking, 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.120 oh no, now he's going to contract leprosy. Now he's 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.840 going to get infected. God did this to show us 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.240 he will break the rules to heal you. He'll do 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.000 things out of the ordinary, things that have never been done. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.920 He's not intimidated by what you're facing, by how bad 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.520 it looks, by how rare it is. Others may have 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.680 to stay away, but he'll come right in. He's a 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:44.560 very present help in times of trouble. This leper never 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:49.640 doubted Jesus' ability. He didn't say if you can heal me, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:54.080 He said, if you want to heal me. Most of 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.240 us like him. We believe God can turn it around. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.600 He can heal us. We don't doubt his power. We 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.960 believe he created the universe. The question we have is 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:11.160 does he want to This story should forever settle it. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.800 God is saying I want to heal you, I want 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.240 to bless you, I want to free you. But sometimes 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.440 religion tells us that God puts sickness on us to 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.440 teach us something. Yes, you may learn something. God may 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.240 use the sickness, but he does not send the sickness. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.360 He doesn't send afflictions addictions to teach you. This scripture says, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:41.040 if you be in an earthly father, give good things 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.000 to your children, how much more will your heaven his 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:48.520 father give good things to those that I I can't 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:53.120 imagine one father that's in their right mind saying I'm 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.320 gonna put this sickness on my children to teach them something, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.240 to teach them to obey, to teach them to be grateful. No, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.880 sickness does not come from our God. There are forces 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.640 of darkness trying to keep us from our destiny. The 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:12.600 good news is what the enemy put on you, God 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.560 wants to take off of you. His power is greater 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:25.040 than any cancer, any heart trouble, diabetes, migrains, back pain, leukemia, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.600 those are in the process of leaving you. Right now, 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.280 every day, thank God that you're getting better. Say to 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.800 that sickness, you will not defeat me. You will not 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.080 keep me from my purpose. Greater is he that's in 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.040 me than he that's trying to stop me. A lady 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.440 told me that God put cancer on her so her 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.640 daughter wouldn't have to have it. They thought her daughter 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:54.160 had breast cancer, but the test came out fine. This 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.280 lady meant well. But the truth is God doesn't have 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.040 cancer to put on you. There's not any cancer up 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.240 in heaven. God's not going around saying, let me zap 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.160 this one with cancer, and zap this one with diabetes, 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.080 and zap this one with heart trouble. As long as 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.200 you think it's coming from God, you won't have the 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.080 faith to get well. You need to see every sickness, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.960 every addiction, every pain is the work of the enemy. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:29.080 Don't take possession of it. Don't say my cancer, my diabetes, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.680 my arthritis is acting up. No, it doesn't belong to you. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.280 It's on foreign territory. Your body is a temple of 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.840 the most high Gods. You are not a sick person 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.280 trying to get well. You are a well person fighting 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.040 off sickness. You are not an addicted person trying to 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:54.040 get free. You're a free person fighting an addiction. The 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.560 scripture says resist the enemy and he will flee. You 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.720 have to resist the sickness, resist the cancer, resist the 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.520 heart trouble. And I don't mean live up tight and 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.240 on edge, but don't accept it as the norm. Don't 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.439 learn to live with it. Seeing is foreign. It doesn't 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:17.080 belong to you. In Luke thirteen, Jesus saw a woman 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.320 that had been sick for eighteen years. She was all 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.640 bent over and not able to stand up. He said 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.840 in verse sixteen, should not this woman, being a daughter 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:33.440 of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, be loosed from her sickness? 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.200 Notice where the sickness came from, whom the enemy has bound. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:43.720 Jesus touched this lady after being bent over for eighteen years, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.320 after trying many different doctors, no doubt, she thought it 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.879 was permanent. But God showed up and said, this is 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.080 your day. I'm here to take off of you what 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.880 the enemy put on you. Instantly, she too was healed. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.640 No matter how long you've had that sickness, no matter 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.159 what you tried and didn't work out, Like this woman, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.280 your time is coming. God is going to make things 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.119 happen that the medication couldn't make happen. He's going to 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.159 do what the treatment couldn't do. The doctors, the experts, 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.600 they did their best, But when they run out of options, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:27.000 God steps in. He's supernatural. He made your body, He 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.320 breathed life into you, and what the enemy meant for 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.760 your harm, He's about to turn to your advantage. Jesus 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.200 called this woman a daughter of Abraham. That was significant. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.800 That meant she was in covenant with God. She had 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:47.439 rights and privileges because of her family line. In the 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.080 same way, because you're a child of the most Time, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.280 because you're honoring Him, God is going to make things 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.879 happen for you that may not happen for others like her. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.679 It may not look good, it may have been a 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.280 long time. Get ready, God is about to loose you 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.760 from that sickness, loose you from the depression, loose you 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:15.000 from the pain. It is his will that you be free. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.480 Now make sure you're in agreement with him. Lord, I 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.480 recognize this sickness didn't come from you. You put good 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.320 things on your children. I believe you want me to 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.720 be well. So Lord, thank you that healing is coming, 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:36.400 freedom is coming, Victory is coming. That's how Lakewood got started. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:41.120 My sister Lisa was born with a birth injury similar 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.120 to cerebral pausing. The doctors told my parents she'd never 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.080 be able to walk, never be able to feed herself. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.639 For the first year, she had no sucking reflexes. She 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.560 couldn't lift her head up off the ground. When my 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.679 father had been taught that sickness was God's will, that 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.159 was our cross to bead, that kind of suffering was 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.199 to keep us humble. But when he looked at his 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:10.080 little baby, everything in him said, this is not God's 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.679 plan for my daughter. It went against all that he 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.879 had been taught. On the inside. This battle was taking 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.399 place over what he believed. He went to a hotel downtown. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.280 He spent the week by himself, searching the scriptures. As 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.359 he studied the life of Jesus, he saw how he 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:35.119 went around healing the sick again and again. He was 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.840 taught that the day of miracles is over. Yes, Jesus 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.840 did that back then, but he can't do it today. 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.359 Then he read the verse in Hebrews Jesus Christ the 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:52.680 same yesterday, today and forever. He realized there never was 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.479 a day of miracles. There's a God of miracles, and 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:01.600 he's still alive. And well what happened? He made the 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.359 switch from Lord, if it be your will, to Lord, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.800 we know it is your will. He and my mother 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.000 prayed the prayer of faith over Lisa. Not Lord, help 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:17.840 us to endure, help us to manage this hardship. They pray, Lord, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.240 we believe you want to heal our daughter. We know 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.160 you're bigger than this disease. We know that you carried 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.280 this sickness that by your strife. She is healed. And 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.120 it didn't happen overnight, but little by little Lisa got 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.960 better and better. Around a year and a half, she 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.000 was able to lift her head off the ground. And today, 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:43.320 at seventy eight years old, Lisa is perfectly healthy and home. 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:49.960 I couldn't resist. Have you made the switch from God? 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.880 If it be your will to God, I know it 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.000 is your will to bless me, to heal me, to 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:00.679 free me. My father had a younger sister named Mary 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.640 that lived in fort Worth. In her forties. She became very, 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.680 very sick. The doctors finally sent her home nothing more 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.879 they could do. His mother called and told him that 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:14.920 Mary wasn't going to make it much longer. He drove 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.800 from Houston to fort Worth and when he walked in 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:21.600 and saw how bad Mary was, she was lying in 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:26.520 a dark room, her hair was matted, unconscious. He didn't 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:31.639 recognize her. My father felt this holy anger rise up 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.679 on the inside. He said, very forcefully, don't tell me 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.440 God did this to my sister. He took her by 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:42.800 the hand and said, Mary, in the name of Jesus, 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:48.280 be healed. It was like somebody pulled puppet streams. Suddenly 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.840 Mary sat up in the bed, opened her eyes, and 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:55.520 started talking to my father. That day she walked for 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.600 the first time in months. She went to the table 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.879 and fed herself for the first time in over a year. 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.840 She was able to get off all the medication perfectly well. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:10.160 She told my father later, when you said, don't tell 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.480 me God did this to my sister, it was like 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:18.280 a bomb exploded on the inside. She had always believed 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.560 that that sickness was God's plan for her life, that 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:25.840 it was his will. When she found out otherwise, that 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:30.880 stronghold was broken. Once she made the switch, God stepped 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:36.120 in made her perfectly hull. Well, Joel, does everyone get healed? 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:41.280 Who believes? Yes? But let me explain. Some people get 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:45.679 healed like my mother a divine touch, where there's nothing 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:49.879 medically speaking the doctors could do. Other people get healed 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:55.400 with the medication, with the help of doctors and experts. Ultimately, 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:59.200 God is the healer. Medicine may help you get well, 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:03.639 but only God can heal. It's not God or the medicine. 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:09.680 It's God in the medicine. Well, my loved one prayed 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:13.199 and believed, but they didn't make it. They went to 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:17.200 heaven at an early age. The truth is they did 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:21.200 get healed. The moment they took their last breath, there 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:24.000 was no more cancer in their new body. There was 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:28.200 no more trouble breathing, no more pain. They were healed. 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.280 Maybe not the way you thought. It might not have 0:24:32.400 --> 0:24:36.080 manifested here. But when God says I am the Lord, 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:41.159 your healer, you can rest assured healing is coming. My 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:45.880 mother was healed from terminal cancer at forty six years old. Today, 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:50.919 almost forty years later, she's still healthy and home. My father, 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:55.359 at seventy seven, got his healing a different way. He 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:58.159 went to heaven, but I can tell you he doesn't 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:02.440 have kidney failure now and have high blood pressure. I've 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:05.800 made up my mind. I'm going to die in faith. 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:09.720 We all face illnesses, we all have things against us. 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:14.800 But let's die believing that healing is coming. Not if 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:17.080 it be your will, But Lord, I know it is 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.680 your will that I be healthy and home. And yes, 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:23.639 we're gonna die of something, but I don't believe we 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:28.359 have to go all frail, we can't see, can't move, 0:25:28.480 --> 0:25:32.879 defeate it. When Moses was one hundred and twenty years old, 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:36.440 it was his time to die. God told him in 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:40.879 Deuteronomy thirty three to climb to the top of Mountain Nebo. 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:44.080 That's where he was going to pass. Well, you would 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:48.520 think at one hundred and twenty Moses would be weak, frail, 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:53.160 knees hurt, can't see, grumpy God, I can't climb that mountain. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:59.520 But Moses was still strong, still healthy, still energetic, still sharp, 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:03.640 good looking, still had his hair. I know, I saw 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:09.520 the movie. The scripture says his eye was not dim 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.480 and his strength was as strong as ever. He was 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:17.160 like a young man, still healthy when God took him. 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:20.360 Get rid of this notion that when it's your time, 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:24.280 you're gonna be frail, overcome with sickness, can't move. No 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:28.720 thanks God, take us like Moses, still climbing mountains, still 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.959 taking new ground, still making the world a better place. 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:37.840 I believe we can go at an old age in 0:26:37.920 --> 0:26:41.520 our sleep, go to bed one night, strong and healthy, 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:45.320 wake up the next morning in heaven. I'm asking you 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.280 to make the switch from God, if it be your 0:26:48.320 --> 0:26:51.119