Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in
Speaker 1: your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to
Speaker 1: come into your homes, and if you're ever in our area,
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Speaker 1: our services. I promise you we will make you feel
Speaker 1: right at home. I like to start with something funny,
Speaker 1: and I heard about this eighty five year old man.
Speaker 1: He was out fishing one morning. He heard a voice saying,
Speaker 1: pick me up. He looked around, didn't see anybody, thought
Speaker 1: he was dreaming. He heard it again, pick me up.
Speaker 1: He looked down and saw a frog. He said, in amazement,
Speaker 1: are you talking to me? The frog said yes, pick
Speaker 1: me up and kiss me, and I'll turn into a
Speaker 1: beautiful bride. The man quickly picked him up put him
Speaker 1: in his front pocket. The frog said, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I said, kiss me and I'll turn into a bride.
Speaker 1: The man said no, thanks. At my age, I'd rather
Speaker 1: have a talking frog say it like you mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about make the switch. One
Speaker 1: prayer we're taught to pray, is God, not my will,
Speaker 1: But let your will be done. Many times we don't
Speaker 1: know what's best for us, and when it comes to
Speaker 1: guidance and direction, it's important to ask God to show
Speaker 1: us his will. God. If it's your will, let me
Speaker 1: get this position. If it's your will, cause this relationship
Speaker 1: to move forward. That's honoring God showing our dependency on him.
Speaker 1: But there are some things we don't have to pray God.
Speaker 1: If it be your will, we can look into scripture
Speaker 1: and find out what the will is. When it comes
Speaker 1: to healing, you don't have to pray God. If it's
Speaker 1: your will, you can heal me. All through the scripture
Speaker 1: we can see it is God's will. Matthew fifteen says
Speaker 1: they brought the sick the lame the blind to Jesus,
Speaker 1: and he healed them all fourteen times. In the scripture
Speaker 1: it says he healed all that were sick. I can't
Speaker 1: find one time where Jesus turned someone away and wouldn't
Speaker 1: heal them. He didn't do it the same way, but
Speaker 1: he healed them all. You don't have to pray. Lord.
Speaker 1: If it's your will, you can bless me. Jesus said,
Speaker 1: he came that we might live an abundant life to
Speaker 1: the full till it overflows. Well, God, if it's your will,
Speaker 1: you can free me from this addiction. Otherwise I'll endure it.
Speaker 1: I'll take up my cross and follow you carrying the cross.
Speaker 1: Isn't living addicted? Sick defeated? That means not giving into
Speaker 1: carnal desires, not compromising. But as long as you think, God,
Speaker 1: if it be your will to heal me, to bless me,
Speaker 1: to free me, it will limit what God does. You
Speaker 1: have to make the switch from God. If you want
Speaker 1: to heal me to God, I know you want to
Speaker 1: heal me from God. If you want to bless me
Speaker 1: to God, I know you want to bless me. Well, Joel,
Speaker 1: if God wants me to carry this sickness, If he
Speaker 1: wants me to endure it to show that I trust him.
Speaker 1: I'll gladly do it. You don't have to carry it.
Speaker 1: God's already carried it. Isaiah said, Jesus took our infirmities
Speaker 1: and carried our diseases. It is not faith to say
Speaker 1: if it be your will, you have to have the
Speaker 1: boldness to say, God, I know it is your will.
Speaker 1: That verse goes on to say, by his stripes, you
Speaker 1: were healed. Jesus took thirty nine lashes on his back
Speaker 1: before he was crucified. Studies tell us there are thirty
Speaker 1: nine major categories of disease. He took one for each one.
Speaker 1: He didn't leave anything out. By his stripes, you were healed.
Speaker 1: It's past tens. He's already done it. Our attitude should be, Lord,
Speaker 1: I receive you're healing. I'll receive what you've already done.
Speaker 1: If you don't have to beg God to do it,
Speaker 1: try to talk him into it. Wonder what the will is?
Speaker 1: Make the switch. God, you carried this sickness, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to carry it. So Lord, thank you that
Speaker 1: healing is flowing into me. Thank you that I'm getting better.
Speaker 1: Thank you that the number of my days you will fulfill.
Speaker 1: When the Israelites were in the desert, headed toward the
Speaker 1: Promised Land, there were two million people out there. They
Speaker 1: wandered around for forty years, it says in Psalms. God
Speaker 1: brought them out, and there was not one sick or
Speaker 1: feeble one among them. They had been in slavery for years, mistreated.
Speaker 1: You would think somebody would be sick out in the desert.
Speaker 1: They didn't have pharmacies, hospitals, modern medicine. Surely somebody would
Speaker 1: have a migraine, somebody would come down with the flu,
Speaker 1: with dizziness, with kidney stones. But not one of them
Speaker 1: were sick. God was showing us his will. Yes, we
Speaker 1: have to fight illnesses. Things come against us. But if
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind you think this sickness
Speaker 1: must be God's will for me, it must be his
Speaker 1: plan for my life that will keep you from getting wound.
Speaker 1: God works where there's faith. You have to know it
Speaker 1: is His will for you to be healthy, whole, and energetic.
Speaker 1: You may be dealing with an illness. Let me encourage you.
Speaker 1: It didn't come to stay. It came to pass. It
Speaker 1: is not permanent, it's temporary. Healing is flowing into you.
Speaker 1: Even now, you're getting better as you're listening. The same
Speaker 1: God that brought them out without one sick or feeble
Speaker 1: one is in the process of bringing you out right now.
Speaker 1: One of the names of God in the scripture is
Speaker 1: Jehovah Rapha. That means the Lord, our healer. You may
Speaker 1: know God as a savior, and that's important, but he
Speaker 1: wants you to know him as a healer as well.
Speaker 1: I talked to a man that was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Speaker 1: He'd taken different treatments, wasn't having any effect. His doctors
Speaker 1: were somewhat puzzled. This cancer is treatable. Most people go
Speaker 1: into remission within six months. He was two years down
Speaker 1: the road and not seeing any improvement. He'd had a
Speaker 1: stem cell transplant, chemotherapy, radiation, nothing was helping. He told
Speaker 1: how his prayer was, Lord, if it's my time to die,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. I'll endure it and I'll honor
Speaker 1: you to the end. But if it be your will,
Speaker 1: you can heal me. He was waiting to see what
Speaker 1: God's will was. One night he was flipping through the channels.
Speaker 1: He heard me talking about how God wants us to
Speaker 1: be wound and how he wants us to live an abundant,
Speaker 1: dictorious life. Something came alive on the inside. Faith was
Speaker 1: ignited in his heart. Instead of praying Lord, if it
Speaker 1: be your will, he started praying, Lord, thank you that
Speaker 1: you have all already healed me, that I will live
Speaker 1: and not die. He prayed from a place of faith,
Speaker 1: a place of victory. Two months ago, he went back
Speaker 1: for a checkup for the first time in two years.
Speaker 1: He got a clean bill of health. Today he is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent cancer free. Amazing things happen when you
Speaker 1: make the switch from God, if it be your will
Speaker 1: to God. I know it is your will. That boldness
Speaker 1: is your faith being released. That's what allows God to
Speaker 1: bring healing, favor and blessings. And this man loved God.
Speaker 1: He was ready to endure to the end to carry
Speaker 1: that sickness. But he found out he didn't have to
Speaker 1: carry it. That was the turning point when he made
Speaker 1: the switch. There's a big difference between praying God, if
Speaker 1: it be your will you can heal me to praying God,
Speaker 1: I know it is your will. I know the price
Speaker 1: has already been paid. I know You're Jehovah. Rapphah, the
Speaker 1: Lord my healer. So thank you that healing is flowing
Speaker 1: into me. It's difficult to have faith if you don't
Speaker 1: think it's something God wants to do. You have to
Speaker 1: be convinced. It is God's will for you to be healthy,
Speaker 1: It is his will for you to be blessed, to
Speaker 1: live an abundant life. When you know this, you'll do
Speaker 1: like him, and you'll live out of a place of faith,
Speaker 1: not doubt, not wondering. The scripture tells us to come
Speaker 1: boldly to the throne to find help in our time
Speaker 1: of need. It's not boldness to say God, if it
Speaker 1: be your will, you can take away this sickness, this cancer,
Speaker 1: this chronic pain. That's not coming boldly, that's coming with doubts,
Speaker 1: that's coming unsure, not knowing if it's supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: You have to make the switch. Some things we already
Speaker 1: know are God's will, And one of the best things
Speaker 1: we can do is remind God what he said. If
Speaker 1: you want to pray with confidence, bring the will to him.
Speaker 1: Pray what he promised. God, you said you would restore
Speaker 1: health back into me. You said you took my infirmities,
Speaker 1: carried my sicknesses. You said by your stripes, I was healed.
Speaker 1: When you pray the promises, you won't say if it
Speaker 1: be your will, because you know the will. Imagine Jesus
Speaker 1: sitting at the right hand of the Father. He hears
Speaker 1: the prayer, Lord, if it be your will, you can
Speaker 1: heal me. He turns to the Father and says, you mean,
Speaker 1: after all the stripes I took, after all the pain
Speaker 1: I endured, after I sacrificed to carry their sicknesses, they're
Speaker 1: still wondering if it's my will. He doesn't honor God
Speaker 1: to say, if it be your will, after all God
Speaker 1: has done, after the price he paid. The way to
Speaker 1: honor him is to say, Lord, I know you want
Speaker 1: to heal me. March chapter one. This leper saw Jesus
Speaker 1: walking down the road. He ran up to him, fell
Speaker 1: at his feet, and said, Jesus, if you want to,
Speaker 1: you can heal me. Jesus had never seen the man,
Speaker 1: had no relationship. He could have kept walking, thought don't
Speaker 1: bother me. Instead, he reached out in compassion, touched the man,
Speaker 1: and said three simple words, I want to Instantly he
Speaker 1: was healed. There are nineteen miracles Jesus performed that are
Speaker 1: recorded in the scripture. He did many more, so many
Speaker 1: the Scripture says they couldn't be contained in one book.
Speaker 1: It's significant that this one was chosen to be recorded.
Speaker 1: God wanted to make sure we understood what his will
Speaker 1: is when it comes to healing. The man asked, if
Speaker 1: you want to you can heal me. Jesus said, as
Speaker 1: clear as can be, I want to. God is saying
Speaker 1: that to you today. I want to heal you. I
Speaker 1: want to take away the cancer. I want to free
Speaker 1: you from the pain. I want to break the depression.
Speaker 1: When you know he's an I want to God, you'll
Speaker 1: pray bold prayers. You'll live out of a place of faith,
Speaker 1: not doubt, not wondering. What's interesting is leprosy is contagious.
Speaker 1: That man shouldn't have come to Jesus in the first place.
Speaker 1: They were supposed to shout unclean so people would know
Speaker 1: not to get close when he came to Jesus. Jesus
Speaker 1: could have moved away quickly like everyone else, or he
Speaker 1: could have healed the leper by simply speaking to him
Speaker 1: from a distance. He healed others that way, but on purpose,
Speaker 1: Jesus reached out and touched the leper. He broke protocol.
Speaker 1: He went against the norm. I can imagine people thinking,
Speaker 1: oh no, now he's going to contract leprosy. Now he's
Speaker 1: going to get infected. God did this to show us
Speaker 1: he will break the rules to heal you. He'll do
Speaker 1: things out of the ordinary, things that have never been done.
Speaker 1: He's not intimidated by what you're facing, by how bad
Speaker 1: it looks, by how rare it is. Others may have
Speaker 1: to stay away, but he'll come right in. He's a
Speaker 1: very present help in times of trouble. This leper never
Speaker 1: doubted Jesus' ability. He didn't say if you can heal me,
Speaker 1: He said, if you want to heal me. Most of
Speaker 1: us like him. We believe God can turn it around.
Speaker 1: He can heal us. We don't doubt his power. We
Speaker 1: believe he created the universe. The question we have is
Speaker 1: does he want to This story should forever settle it.
Speaker 1: God is saying I want to heal you, I want
Speaker 1: to bless you, I want to free you. But sometimes
Speaker 1: religion tells us that God puts sickness on us to
Speaker 1: teach us something. Yes, you may learn something. God may
Speaker 1: use the sickness, but he does not send the sickness.
Speaker 1: He doesn't send afflictions addictions to teach you. This scripture says,
Speaker 1: if you be in an earthly father, give good things
Speaker 1: to your children, how much more will your heaven his
Speaker 1: father give good things to those that I I can't
Speaker 1: imagine one father that's in their right mind saying I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put this sickness on my children to teach them something,
Speaker 1: to teach them to obey, to teach them to be grateful. No,
Speaker 1: sickness does not come from our God. There are forces
Speaker 1: of darkness trying to keep us from our destiny. The
Speaker 1: good news is what the enemy put on you, God
Speaker 1: wants to take off of you. His power is greater
Speaker 1: than any cancer, any heart trouble, diabetes, migrains, back pain, leukemia,
Speaker 1: those are in the process of leaving you. Right now,
Speaker 1: every day, thank God that you're getting better. Say to
Speaker 1: that sickness, you will not defeat me. You will not
Speaker 1: keep me from my purpose. Greater is he that's in
Speaker 1: me than he that's trying to stop me. A lady
Speaker 1: told me that God put cancer on her so her
Speaker 1: daughter wouldn't have to have it. They thought her daughter
Speaker 1: had breast cancer, but the test came out fine. This
Speaker 1: lady meant well. But the truth is God doesn't have
Speaker 1: cancer to put on you. There's not any cancer up
Speaker 1: in heaven. God's not going around saying, let me zap
Speaker 1: this one with cancer, and zap this one with diabetes,
Speaker 1: and zap this one with heart trouble. As long as
Speaker 1: you think it's coming from God, you won't have the
Speaker 1: faith to get well. You need to see every sickness,
Speaker 1: every addiction, every pain is the work of the enemy.
Speaker 1: Don't take possession of it. Don't say my cancer, my diabetes,
Speaker 1: my arthritis is acting up. No, it doesn't belong to you.
Speaker 1: It's on foreign territory. Your body is a temple of
Speaker 1: the most high Gods. You are not a sick person
Speaker 1: trying to get well. You are a well person fighting
Speaker 1: off sickness. You are not an addicted person trying to
Speaker 1: get free. You're a free person fighting an addiction. The
Speaker 1: scripture says resist the enemy and he will flee. You
Speaker 1: have to resist the sickness, resist the cancer, resist the
Speaker 1: heart trouble. And I don't mean live up tight and
Speaker 1: on edge, but don't accept it as the norm. Don't
Speaker 1: learn to live with it. Seeing is foreign. It doesn't
Speaker 1: belong to you. In Luke thirteen, Jesus saw a woman
Speaker 1: that had been sick for eighteen years. She was all
Speaker 1: bent over and not able to stand up. He said
Speaker 1: in verse sixteen, should not this woman, being a daughter
Speaker 1: of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, be loosed from her sickness?
Speaker 1: Notice where the sickness came from, whom the enemy has bound.
Speaker 1: Jesus touched this lady after being bent over for eighteen years,
Speaker 1: after trying many different doctors, no doubt, she thought it
Speaker 1: was permanent. But God showed up and said, this is
Speaker 1: your day. I'm here to take off of you what
Speaker 1: the enemy put on you. Instantly, she too was healed.
Speaker 1: No matter how long you've had that sickness, no matter
Speaker 1: what you tried and didn't work out, Like this woman,
Speaker 1: your time is coming. God is going to make things
Speaker 1: happen that the medication couldn't make happen. He's going to
Speaker 1: do what the treatment couldn't do. The doctors, the experts,
Speaker 1: they did their best, But when they run out of options,
Speaker 1: God steps in. He's supernatural. He made your body, He
Speaker 1: breathed life into you, and what the enemy meant for
Speaker 1: your harm, He's about to turn to your advantage. Jesus
Speaker 1: called this woman a daughter of Abraham. That was significant.
Speaker 1: That meant she was in covenant with God. She had
Speaker 1: rights and privileges because of her family line. In the
Speaker 1: same way, because you're a child of the most Time,
Speaker 1: because you're honoring Him, God is going to make things
Speaker 1: happen for you that may not happen for others like her.
Speaker 1: It may not look good, it may have been a
Speaker 1: long time. Get ready, God is about to loose you
Speaker 1: from that sickness, loose you from the depression, loose you
Speaker 1: from the pain. It is his will that you be free.
Speaker 1: Now make sure you're in agreement with him. Lord, I
Speaker 1: recognize this sickness didn't come from you. You put good
Speaker 1: things on your children. I believe you want me to
Speaker 1: be well. So Lord, thank you that healing is coming,
Speaker 1: freedom is coming, Victory is coming. That's how Lakewood got started.
Speaker 1: My sister Lisa was born with a birth injury similar
Speaker 1: to cerebral pausing. The doctors told my parents she'd never
Speaker 1: be able to walk, never be able to feed herself.
Speaker 1: For the first year, she had no sucking reflexes. She
Speaker 1: couldn't lift her head up off the ground. When my
Speaker 1: father had been taught that sickness was God's will, that
Speaker 1: was our cross to bead, that kind of suffering was
Speaker 1: to keep us humble. But when he looked at his
Speaker 1: little baby, everything in him said, this is not God's
Speaker 1: plan for my daughter. It went against all that he
Speaker 1: had been taught. On the inside. This battle was taking
Speaker 1: place over what he believed. He went to a hotel downtown.
Speaker 1: He spent the week by himself, searching the scriptures. As
Speaker 1: he studied the life of Jesus, he saw how he
Speaker 1: went around healing the sick again and again. He was
Speaker 1: taught that the day of miracles is over. Yes, Jesus
Speaker 1: did that back then, but he can't do it today.
Speaker 1: Then he read the verse in Hebrews Jesus Christ the
Speaker 1: same yesterday, today and forever. He realized there never was
Speaker 1: a day of miracles. There's a God of miracles, and
Speaker 1: he's still alive. And well what happened? He made the
Speaker 1: switch from Lord, if it be your will, to Lord,
Speaker 1: we know it is your will. He and my mother
Speaker 1: prayed the prayer of faith over Lisa. Not Lord, help
Speaker 1: us to endure, help us to manage this hardship. They pray, Lord,
Speaker 1: we believe you want to heal our daughter. We know
Speaker 1: you're bigger than this disease. We know that you carried
Speaker 1: this sickness that by your strife. She is healed. And
Speaker 1: it didn't happen overnight, but little by little Lisa got
Speaker 1: better and better. Around a year and a half, she
Speaker 1: was able to lift her head off the ground. And today,
Speaker 1: at seventy eight years old, Lisa is perfectly healthy and home.
Speaker 1: I couldn't resist. Have you made the switch from God?
Speaker 1: If it be your will to God, I know it
Speaker 1: is your will to bless me, to heal me, to
Speaker 1: free me. My father had a younger sister named Mary
Speaker 1: that lived in fort Worth. In her forties. She became very,
Speaker 1: very sick. The doctors finally sent her home nothing more
Speaker 1: they could do. His mother called and told him that
Speaker 1: Mary wasn't going to make it much longer. He drove
Speaker 1: from Houston to fort Worth and when he walked in
Speaker 1: and saw how bad Mary was, she was lying in
Speaker 1: a dark room, her hair was matted, unconscious. He didn't
Speaker 1: recognize her. My father felt this holy anger rise up
Speaker 1: on the inside. He said, very forcefully, don't tell me
Speaker 1: God did this to my sister. He took her by
Speaker 1: the hand and said, Mary, in the name of Jesus,
Speaker 1: be healed. It was like somebody pulled puppet streams. Suddenly
Speaker 1: Mary sat up in the bed, opened her eyes, and
Speaker 1: started talking to my father. That day she walked for
Speaker 1: the first time in months. She went to the table
Speaker 1: and fed herself for the first time in over a year.
Speaker 1: She was able to get off all the medication perfectly well.
Speaker 1: She told my father later, when you said, don't tell
Speaker 1: me God did this to my sister, it was like
Speaker 1: a bomb exploded on the inside. She had always believed
Speaker 1: that that sickness was God's plan for her life, that
Speaker 1: it was his will. When she found out otherwise, that
Speaker 1: stronghold was broken. Once she made the switch, God stepped
Speaker 1: in made her perfectly hull. Well, Joel, does everyone get healed?
Speaker 1: Who believes? Yes? But let me explain. Some people get
Speaker 1: healed like my mother a divine touch, where there's nothing
Speaker 1: medically speaking the doctors could do. Other people get healed
Speaker 1: with the medication, with the help of doctors and experts. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: God is the healer. Medicine may help you get well,
Speaker 1: but only God can heal. It's not God or the medicine.
Speaker 1: It's God in the medicine. Well, my loved one prayed
Speaker 1: and believed, but they didn't make it. They went to
Speaker 1: heaven at an early age. The truth is they did
Speaker 1: get healed. The moment they took their last breath, there
Speaker 1: was no more cancer in their new body. There was
Speaker 1: no more trouble breathing, no more pain. They were healed.
Speaker 1: Maybe not the way you thought. It might not have
Speaker 1: manifested here. But when God says I am the Lord,
Speaker 1: your healer, you can rest assured healing is coming. My
Speaker 1: mother was healed from terminal cancer at forty six years old. Today,
Speaker 1: almost forty years later, she's still healthy and home. My father,
Speaker 1: at seventy seven, got his healing a different way. He
Speaker 1: went to heaven, but I can tell you he doesn't
Speaker 1: have kidney failure now and have high blood pressure. I've
Speaker 1: made up my mind. I'm going to die in faith.
Speaker 1: We all face illnesses, we all have things against us.
Speaker 1: But let's die believing that healing is coming. Not if
Speaker 1: it be your will, But Lord, I know it is
Speaker 1: your will that I be healthy and home. And yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna die of something, but I don't believe we
Speaker 1: have to go all frail, we can't see, can't move,
Speaker 1: defeate it. When Moses was one hundred and twenty years old,
Speaker 1: it was his time to die. God told him in
Speaker 1: Deuteronomy thirty three to climb to the top of Mountain Nebo.
Speaker 1: That's where he was going to pass. Well, you would
Speaker 1: think at one hundred and twenty Moses would be weak, frail,
Speaker 1: knees hurt, can't see, grumpy God, I can't climb that mountain.
Speaker 1: But Moses was still strong, still healthy, still energetic, still sharp,
Speaker 1: good looking, still had his hair. I know, I saw
Speaker 1: the movie. The scripture says his eye was not dim
Speaker 1: and his strength was as strong as ever. He was
Speaker 1: like a young man, still healthy when God took him.
Speaker 1: Get rid of this notion that when it's your time,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be frail, overcome with sickness, can't move. No
Speaker 1: thanks God, take us like Moses, still climbing mountains, still
Speaker 1: taking new ground, still making the world a better place.
Speaker 1: I believe we can go at an old age in
Speaker 1: our sleep, go to bed one night, strong and healthy,
Speaker 1: wake up the next morning in heaven. I'm asking you
Speaker 1: to make the switch from God, if it be your
Speaker 1: will to God. I know it is your will to
Speaker 1: heal me, to free me, to bless me, give God
Speaker 1: something to work with. If you'll do this, I believe
Speaker 1: and declare right now, God is loosing you from sickness,
Speaker 1: loosen you from pain, loosen you from addictions. Healing is coming,
Speaker 1: Freedom is coming, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: If you receive it, can you say amen? Today? I'd
Speaker 1: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the
Speaker 1: lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll
Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Amen. Well, if you
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