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See terms and conditions at UNEs 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.080 dot co. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.800 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.880 We enjoy spending this time with you. I hope you'll 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:38.679 leave Inspire. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.959 Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.240 We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:02:09.480 Enjoy the message. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.640 Well DoD blead you. It's a joy to come into 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.600 your homes and if you're ever in our area, please 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.200 stop by and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.440 I promise you we will make you feel right at home. 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.440 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.240 about this eighty five year old man. He was out 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.920 fishing one morning he heard a voice saying, pick me up. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.679 He looked around, didn't see anybody, thought he was dreaming. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.960 He heard it again, pick me up. He looked down 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.160 and saw a frog. He said in amazement, are you 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.560 talking to me? The frog said yes, pick me up 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.000 and kiss me, and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.920 The man quickly picked him up put him in his 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.639 front pocket. The frog said, wait a minute, I said, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.480 kiss me and I'll turn into a bride. The man said, no, thanks. 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:51.079 At my age, I'd rather have a talking frog say 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.080 it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.520 am what it says. I am. I have what it 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.080 says I have. I can do what it says I 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.440 can do. Today I will be talked the word of God. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.440 I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.440 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.760 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.040 Nate the switch. One prayer we're taught to pray is 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.280 God not my will, But let your will be done. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.280 Many times we don't know what's best for us, and 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.920 when it comes to guidance and direction, it's important to 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.799 ask God to show us his will. God, if it's 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.640 your will, let me get this position. If it's your will, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.640 cause this relationship to move forward. That's honoring God showing 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.480 our dependency on him. But there are some things we 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.680 don't have to pray. God. If it be your will, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.400 we can look into scripture and find out what the 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.000 will is. When it comes to healing, you don't have 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.840 to pray God. If it's your will, you can heal 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.440 me all. Through the scripture we can see it is 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:09.320 God's will. Matthew fifteen says they brought the sick, the lame, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:15.000 the blind to Jesus, and he healed them all fourteen times. 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.719 In the scripture it says he healed all that were sick. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.320 I can't find one time where Jesus turned someone away 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.799 and wouldn't heal them. He didn't do it the same way, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.080 but he healed them all. You don't have to pray, Lord, 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:35.159 if it's your will, you can bless me. Jesus said 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.240 he came that we might live an abundant life to 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.719 the full till it overflows. Well, God, if it's your will, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.360 you can free me from this addiction. Otherwise I'll endure it. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.039 I'll take up my cross and follow you. Carrying the cross. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:58.520 Isn't living addicted? Sick defeated? That means not giving in 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.000 to carnal desires, not compromising. But as long as you 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.760 think God, if it be your will to heal me, 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.480 to bless me, to free me, it will limit what 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.760 God does. You have to make the switch from God. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.120 If you want to heal me to God, I know 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.200 you want to heal me from God. If you want 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.279 to bless me to God, I know you want to 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.839 bless me. Well, Joel, if God wants me to carry 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.960 this sickness, if he wants me to endure it to 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.640 show that I trust him, I'll gladly do it. You 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:39.320 don't have to carry it. God's already carried it. Isaiah said, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:45.200 Jesus took our infirmities and carried our diseases. It is 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.760 not faith to say if it be your will, you 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.599 have to have the boldness to say, God, I know 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.240 it is your will. That verse goes on to say, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:06:00.800 by his stripes you were healed. Jesus took thirty nine 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.960 lashes on his back before he was crucified. Studies tell 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:10.120 us there are thirty nine major categories of disease. He 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.560 took one for each one. He didn't leave anything out 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:19.360 by his stripes. You were healed. It's past tens. He's 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.680 already done it. Our attitude should be, Lord, I receive 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:28.159 you're healing. I'll receive what you've already done. You don't 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.800 have to beg God to do it. Try to talk 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.960 him into it. Wonder what the wheel is, make the switch. God, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.080 You've carried this sickness, so I don't have to carry it. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.919 So Lord, thank you that healing is flowing into me. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.039 Thank you that I'm getting better. Thank You that the 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.599 number of my days you will fulfill. When the Israelites 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.600 were in the desert, headed toward the Promised Land, there 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.480 were two million people out there. They wandered around for 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.960 forty years. It says in song, God brought them out, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.280 and there was not one sick or feeble one among them. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.440 They had been in slavery for years, mistreated. You would 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.160 think somebody would be sick out in the desert. They 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:21.160 didn't have pharmacies, hospitals, modern medicine, Surely somebody would have 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.000 a migraine, somebody would come down with the flu, with dizziness, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.840 with kidney stones, but not one of them were sick. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.360 God was showing us his will. Yes, we have to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.320 fight illnesses, things come against us. But if in the 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.280 back of your mind you think this sickness must be 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.400 God's will for me, It must be his plan for 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.440 my life that will keep you from getting wound. God 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.000 works where there's faith. You have to know it is 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.680 His will for you to be healthy, whole, and energetic. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.160 You may be dealing with an illness. Encourage you. It 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.520 didn't come to stay. It came to pass. It is 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:10.840 not permanent, it's temporary. Healing is flowing into you. Even now, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.920 you're getting better as you're listening. The same God that 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:19.120 brought them out without one sick or feeble one is 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:23.160 in the process of bringing you out right now. One 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.440 of the names of God in the scripture is Jehovah Rapha. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.800 That means the Lord, our healer. You may know God 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.880 as a savior, and that's important, but he wants you 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.559 to know him as a healer as well. I talked 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.840 to a man that was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He'd 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:47.800 taken different treatments, wasn't having any effect. His doctors were 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.720 somewhat puzzled. This cancer is treatable. Most people go into 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.320 remission within six months. He was two years down the 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.960 road and not seeing any improvement. He'd had a still 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:06.800 sell transplant, chemotherapy, radiation, nothing was helping. He told how 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.880 his prayer was, Lord, if it's my time to die, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.720 I'm ready to go. I'll endure it and I'll honor 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.760 you to the end. But if it be your will, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.080 you can heal me. He was waiting to see what 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.120 God's will was. One night he was flipping through the channels. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.840 He heard me talking about how God wants us to 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.240 be wound and how he wants us to live an abundant, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:37.040 dictorious life. Something came alive on the inside. Faith was 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.760 ignited in his heart. Instead of praying, Lord, if it 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.320 be your will, he started praying, Lord, thank you that 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.640 you have already healed me, that I will live and 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.040 not die. He prayed from a place of faith, a 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:55.000 place of victory. Two months ago, he went back for 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.480 a checkup for the first time in two years. He 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.600 got a clean bill of health. Today he is one 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:08.040 hundred percent cancer free. Amazing things happen when you make 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.560 the switch from God. If it be your will to God, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.640 I know it is your will. That boldness is your 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.440 faith being released. That's what allows God to bring healing, favor, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.920 and blessings. And this man loved God. He was ready 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.960 to endure to the end to carry that sickness. But 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.719 he found out he didn't have to carry it. That 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.840 was the turning point when he made the switch. There's 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.839 a big difference between praying God, if it be your 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.360 will you can heal me. To praying God. I know 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.640 it is your will. I know the price has already 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.840 been paid. I know you're Jehovah Raphah, the Lord my healer. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.040 So thank you that healing is flowing into me. It's 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.880 difficult to have faith if you don't think it's something 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.800 God wants to do. You have to be convinced. It 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.160 is God's will for you to be healthy. It is 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.240 his will for you to be blessed to live an 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.680 abundant life. When you know this, you'll do like him, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.440 and you'll live out of a place of faith, not doubt, 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:24.200 not wondering. The scripture tells us to come boldly to 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.800 the throne to find help in our time of need. 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.120 It's not boldness to say, God, if it be your will, 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.800 you can take away this sickness, this cancer, this chronic pain. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:42.400 That's not coming boldly, that's coming with doubts, that's coming unsure, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.320 not knowing if it's supposed to happen. You have to 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.960 make the switch. Some things we already know are God's will, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.920 And one of the best things we can do is 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.520 remind God what he said. If you want to pray 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:03.160 with confidence, bring the will to him. Pray what he promised. God, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.760 you said you would restore health back into me. You 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:11.240 said you took my infirmities, carried my sicknesses. You said 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.600 by your stripes, I was healed. When you pray the promises, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.160 you won't say if it be your will, because you 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.640 know the will. Imagine Jesus sitting at the right hand 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.160 of the Father. He hears the prayer, Lord, if it 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.440 be your will, you can heal me. He turns to 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.960 the Father and says, you mean, after all the stripes 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.160 I took, after all the pain I endured, after I 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.160 sacrificed to carry their sicknesses, they're still wondering if it's 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.560 my will. It doesn't honor God to say if it 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.640 be your will. After all, God is done after the 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.319 price he paid. The way to honor him is to say, Lord, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:13:01.240 I know you want to heal me. One this leper 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.880 saw Jesus walking down the road. He ran up to him, 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.600 fell at his feet, and said, Jesus, if you want to, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.280 you can heal me. Jesus had never seen the man, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.480 had no relationship. He could have kept walking, thought, don't 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.920 bother me. Instead, he reached out in compassion, touched the 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:27.000 man and said three simple words, I want to Instantly 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:32.200 he was healed. There are nineteen miracles Jesus performed that 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.160 are recorded in the scripture. He did many more, so 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.040 many the Scripture says they couldn't be contained in one book. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.720 It's significant that this one was chosen to be recorded. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.400 God wanted to make sure we understood what his will 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.480 is when it comes to healing. The man asked, if 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.760 you want to, you can heal me. Jesus said, as 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.000 clear as can be, I want to. God is saying 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.240 that to you today. I want to heal you. I 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.120 want to take away the cancer. I want to free 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.240 you from the pain. I want to break the depression. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.360 When you know he's an I want to God, you'll 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.800 pray bold prayers. You'll live out of a place of faith, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:24.200 not doubt, not wondering. What's interesting is leprosy is contagious. 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.000 That man shouldn't have come to Jesus in the first place. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.280 They were supposed to shout unclean so people would know 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.320 not to get close when he came to Jesus. Jesus 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.880 could have moved away quickly like everyone else, or he 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.520 could have healed the leper by simply speaking to him 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.840 from a distance. He healed others that way, but on purpose, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.760 Jesus reached out and touched the leper. He broke protocol. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.000 He went against the norm. I can imagine people thinking, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.720 oh no, now he's going to con track leprosy. Now 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.440 he's going to get infected. God did this to show 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.040 us he will break the rules to heal you. He'll 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.080 do things out of the ordinary, things that have never 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:17.320 been done. He's not intimidated by what you're facing, by 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.000 how bad it looks, by how rare it is. Others 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.680 may have to stay away, but he'll come right in. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.240 He's a very present help in times of trouble. This 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:33.560 leoper never doubted Jesus' ability. He didn't say if you 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.280 can heal me, He said, if you want to heal me. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.560 Most of us like him, We believe God can turn 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.840 it around. He can heal us. We don't doubt his power. 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:51.080 We believe he created the universe. The question we have 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:56.040 is does he want to this story should forever settle it? 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.640 God is saying I want to heal you, I want 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.120 to bless you, I want to free you. But sometimes 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.320 religion tells us that God puts sickness on us to 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.320 teach us something. Yes, you may learn something. God may 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.120 use the sickness, but he does not send the sickness. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:22.280 He doesn't send afflictions addictions to teach you. The scripture says, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:26.040 if you, being an earthly father, give good things to 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.960 your children, how much more will your heavenly father give 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:34.600 good things to those of that. I can't imagine one 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.440 father that's in their right mind saying I'm gonna put 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.680 this sickness on my children to teach them something, to 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.120 teach them to obey, to teach them to be grateful. No, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.760 sickness does not come from our God. There are forces 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.520 of darkness trying to keep us from our destiny. The 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.480 good news is what the enemy put on you, God 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.840 wants to take off of you. Power is greater than 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:09.280 any cancer, any heart trouble, diabetes, mygrains, back pain, leukemia, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.480 those are in the process of leaving you. Right now, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.159 every day, thank God that you're getting better. Say to 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.679 that sickness, you will not defeat me. You will not 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.960 keep me from my purpose. Greater is he that's in 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.919 me than he that's trying to stop me. A lady 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.359 told me that God put cancer on her so her 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.520 daughter wouldn't have to have it. They thought her daughter 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.040 had breast cancer, but the test came out fine. This 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.200 lady meant well, But the truth is God doesn't have 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.919 cancer to put on you. There's not any cancer up 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.160 in heaven. God's not going around saying, let me zap 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.040 this one with cancer, and zap this one with diabetes, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.960 and zap this one with heart trouble. As long as 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.520 you think it's coming from God, you won't have faith 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:05.240 to get well. You need to see every sickness, every addiction, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.600 every pain as the work of the enemy. Don't take 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:14.439 possession of it. Don't say my cancer, my diabetes, my 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.560 arthritis is acting up. No, it doesn't belong to you. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.200 It's on foreign territory. Your body is a temple of 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.720 the most Ah God. You are not a sick person 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.200 trying to get well. You are a well person fighting 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.919 off sickness. You are not an addicted person trying to 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:38.920 get free. You're a free person fighting an addiction. The 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.479 scripture says, resist the enemy and he will flee. You 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.600 have to resist the sickness, resist the cancer, resist the 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.000 heart trouble. And I don't mean live uptight and on edge, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.600 but don't accept it as the norm. Don't learn to 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:58.240 live with it. Seeing is foreign, it doesn't belong to you. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.239 In Jesus saw a woman that had been sick for 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.840 eighteen years. She was all bent over and not able 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.560 to stand up. He said in verse sixteen, should not 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:16.080 this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:21.080 be loosed from her sickness? Notice where the sickness came from, 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:26.480 whom the enemy has bound. Jesus touched this lady after 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:31.280 being bent over for eighteen years, after trying many different doctors, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.640 no doubt she thought it was permanent. But God showed up. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.480 And said, this is your day. I am here to 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.359 take off of you what the enemy put on you. Instantly, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.960 she too was healed. No matter how long you've had 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.680 that sickness, no matter what you tried and didn't work out, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:54.400 Like this woman, your time is coming. God is going 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.160 to make things happen that the medication couldn't make happen. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.280 He's going to do what the treat couldn't do. The doctors, 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.480 the experts, they did their best, But when they run 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:10.800 out of options, God steps in. He's supernatural. He made 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.240 your body, He breathed life into you. And what the 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.320 enemy meant for your harm, he's about to turn to 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.480 your advantage. Jesus called this woman a daughter of Abraham. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:27.120 That was significant. That meant she was in covenant with God. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:32.040 She had rights and privileges because of her family line. 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.320 In the same way, because you're a child of the 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:39.520 most Time, because you're honoring him, God is going to 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:42.800 make things happen for you that may not happen for 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:47.120 others like her. It may not look good, it may 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.520 have been a long time. Get ready. God is about 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.359 to loose you from that sickness, loose you from the depression, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.040 loose you from the pain. It is his will that 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:04.280 you be free. Now make sure you're in agreement with him. Lord, 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:08.080 I recognize this sickness didn't come from you. You put 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.840 good things on your children. I believe you want me 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.600 to be well. So Lord, thank you that healing is coming, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.280 freedom is coming, victory is coming. That's how Lakewood got started. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:26.000 My sister Lisa was born with a birth injury similar 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.000 to cerebral pausing. The doctors told my parents she'd never 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.920 be able to walk, never be able to feed herself. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.520 For the first year, she had no sucking reflexes. She 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.439 couldn't lift her head up off the ground. Well, my 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.560 father had been taught that sickness was God's will, that 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.040 was our cross to bear, that kind of suffering was 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.080 to keep us humble. But when he looked at his 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:54.960 little baby, everything in him said, this is not God's 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.560 plan for my daughter. It went against all that he 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:02.760 had been taught. On the inside, this battle was taking 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:07.280 place over what he believed. He went to a hotel downtown. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:12.160 He spent the week by himself, searching the scriptures. As 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.240 he studied the life of Jesus, he saw how he 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:20.000 went around healing the sick again and again, he was 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:23.720 taught that the day of miracles is over. Yes, Jesus 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:26.760 did that back then, but he can't do it today. 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.280 Then he read the verse in Hebrews, Jesus Christ the 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:37.560 same yesterday, today, and forever. He realized there never was 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:41.359 a day of miracles. There's a God of miracles, and 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:46.480 he's still alive. And well, what happened? He made the 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.240 switch from Lord? If it be your will, to Lord, 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.679 we know it is your will. He and my mother 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.880 prayed the prayer of faith over Lisa. Not Lord, help 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:02.720 us to endure, help us to manage this hardship. They pray, Lord, 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.119 we believe you want to heal our daughter. We know 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:10.040 you're bigger than this disease. We know that you carried 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:14.159 this sickness. That by your stripe she is healed. And 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:18.000 it didn't happen overnight, but little by little Lisa got 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.879 better and better. Around a year and a half she 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.880 was able to lift her head off the ground. And today, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:28.200 at seventy eight years old, Lisa is perfectly healthy and home. 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:34.879 I couldn't resist. Have you made the switch from God? 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:37.760 If it be your will? To God, I know it 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:40.879 is your will to bless me, to heal me, to 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:45.560 free me. My father had a younger sister named Mary 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:49.520 that lived in fort Worth. In her forties. She became very, 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:53.560 very sick. The doctors finally sent her home nothing more 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:56.800 they could do. His mother called and told him that 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:59.760 Mary wasn't going to make it much longer. He drove 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:02.720 from Houston to fort Worth, and when he walked in 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.480 and saw how bad Mary was, she was lying in 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:11.399 a dark room, her hair was matted, unconscious. He didn't 0:24:11.440 --> 0:24:16.480 recognize her. My father felt this holy anger rise up 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:20.560 on the inside. He said, very forcefully, don't tell me 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:24.320 God did this to my sister. He took her by 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:27.679 the hand and said, Mary, in the name of Jesus, 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:33.200 be healed. It was like somebody pulled puppet streams. Suddenly 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.720 Mary sat up in the bed, opened her eyes and 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:40.359 started talking to my father. That day, she walked for 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:43.479 the first time in months. She went to the table 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:46.760 and fed herself for the first time in over a year. 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:50.720 She was able to get off all the medication perfectly well. 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:55.040 She told my father later, when you said, don't tell 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:58.359 me God did this to my sister, it was like 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:03.159 a bomb exploded on the inside. She had always believed 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:06.439 that that sickness was God's plan for her life, that 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:10.680 it was his will. When she found out otherwise, that 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:15.760 stronghold was broken. Once she made the switch, God stepped 0:25:15.760 --> 0:25:20.560 in made her perfectly hull. Well, Joel, does everyone get 0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:25.760 healed who believes? Yes? But let me explain. Some people 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:30.200 get healed, like my mother, a divine touch, where there's 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:34.360 nothing medically speaking the doctors could do. Other people get 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:40.280 healed with the medication, with the help of doctors and experts. Ultimately, 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:44.080 God is the healer. Medicine may help you get well, 0:25:44.359 --> 0:25:48.520 but only God can heal. It's not God or the medicine. 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:54.600 It's God in the medicine. Well, my loved one prayed 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:58.080 and believed, but they didn't make it. They went to 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.080 heaven at an early age. The truth is they did 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:06.080 get healed. The moment they took their last breath. There 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:08.879 was no more cancer in their new body. There was 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:13.080