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Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.800 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.840 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.880 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:58.360 your life. Well, God bless you. It's a joy to 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.640 come into your homes and if if you're ever in 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.200 our area, please stop by and be a part of 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.400 one of our services. I promise you we will make 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.160 you feel right at home. I like to start with 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.880 something funny, and I heard about this eighty five year 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.239 old man. He was out fishing one morning he heard 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.680 a voice saying pick me up. He looked around, didn't 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.960 see anybody, thought he was dreaming. He heard it again, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.320 pick me up. He looked down and saw a frog. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.720 He said in amazement, are you talking to me? The 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.280 frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me, and 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.880 I'll turn into a beautiful bride. The man quickly picked 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.839 him up put him in his front pocket. The frog said, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.040 wait a minute, I said, kiss me and I'll turn 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.600 into a bride. The man said, no, thanks. At my age, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.720 I'd rather have a talking frog say it like you 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.120 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.000 I am. I have what it says I have. I 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.800 can do what it says I can do. Today I 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.280 will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.359 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.160 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.120 I want to talk to you today about make the switch. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.480 One prayer we're taught to pray, is God not my will, 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.520 but let your will be done. Many times we don't 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.200 know what's best for us, and when it comes to 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.680 guidance and direction, it's important to ask God to show 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.320 us his will. God, if it's your will, let me 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.360 get this position. If it's your will cause this relationship 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.360 to move forward, that's honoring God, showing our dependency on him. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.560 But there are some things we don't have to pray. God. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.960 If it be your will, we can look into scripture 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.720 and find out what the will is. When it comes 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.400 to healing, you don't have to pray. God. If it's 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.000 your will, you can heal me all. Through the scripture 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.480 we can see it is God's will. Matthew fifteen says 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.280 they brought the sick, the lame, the blind to Jesus, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.000 and he healed them all fourteen times. In the scripture 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:17.080 it says he healed all that were sick. I can't 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:21.480 find one time where Jesus turned someone away and wouldn't 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.599 heal them. He didn't do it the same way, but 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.240 he healed them all. You don't have to pray, Lord, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.360 If it's your will, you can bless me. Jesus said 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.440 he came that we might live an abundant life to 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.920 the full till it overflows. Well, God, if it's your will, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.560 you can free me from this addiction. Otherwise I'll endure it. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.560 I'll take up my cross and follow you carrying the 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:55.520 cross isn't living addicted, sick defeated. That means not giving 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.880 in to carnal desires, not compromising. But as long as 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.960 you think God, if it be your will to heal me, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.560 to bless me, to free me, it will limit what 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.960 God does. You have to make the switch from God. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.320 If you want to heal me to God, I know 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.400 you want to heal me from God. If you want 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.479 to bless me to God, I know you want to 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.000 bless me. Well, Joel, if God wants me to carry 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.159 this sickness, if he wants me to endure it to 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.800 show that I trust him, I'll gladly do it. You 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:36.479 don't have to carry it. God's already carried it. Isaiah said, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:42.400 Jesus took our infirmities and carried our diseases. It is 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.919 not faith to say if it be your will, you 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.760 have to have the boldness to say, God, I know 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.400 it is your will. That verse goes on to say, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.960 by his stripes, you were healed. Jesus took thirty nine 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:03.160 lashes on his back before he was crucified. Studies tell 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.320 us there are thirty nine major categories of disease. He 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.760 took one for each one. He didn't leave anything out 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:16.560 by his stripes. You were healed. It's past tens, He's 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.839 already done it. Our attitude should be, Lord, I receive 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.360 you're healing. I'll receive what you've already done. You don't 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.960 have to beg God to do it. Try to talk 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:33.160 him into it. Wonder what the wheel is, make the switch. God, 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.480 you carried this sickness, so I don't have to carry it. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.120 So Lord, thank you that healing is flowing into me. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.200 Thank you that I'm getting better. Thank you that the 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.800 number of my days you will fulfill. When the Israelites 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.800 were in the desert, headed toward the Promised Land, there 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.679 were two million people out there. They wandered around for 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.159 forty years, it says in Psalms, God brought them out 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.680 and there there was not one sick or feeble one 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.800 among them. They had been in slavery for years, mistreated. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.960 You would think somebody would be sick out in the desert. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:18.200 They didn't have pharmacies, hospitals, modern medicine. Surely somebody would 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.160 have a migraine, somebody would come down with the flu, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.440 with dizziness, with kidney stones. But not one of them 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.080 were sick. God was showing us his will. Yes, we 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.120 have to fight illnesses. Things come against us. But if 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.680 in the back of your mind you think this sickness 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.960 must be God's will for me, It must be his 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.560 plan for my life that will keep you from getting wound. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.000 God works where there's faith. You have to know it 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.880 is His will for you to be healthy, whole, and energetic. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.680 You may be dealing with an illness. Let me encourage you. 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.680 It didn't come to stay, came to pass. It is 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:08.000 not permanent, it's temporary. Healing is flowing into you. Even now. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.120 You're getting better as you're listening. The same God that 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.280 brought them out without one sick or feeble one is 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:20.360 in the process of bringing you out right now. One 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.640 of the names of God in the scripture is Jehovah Rapha. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.960 That means the Lord, our healer. You may know God 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.080 as a savior, and that's important, but he wants you 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.720 to know him as a healer as well. I talked 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:40.040 to a man that was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He'd 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.960 taken different treatments, wasn't having any effect. His doctors were 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.920 somewhat puzzled. This cancer is treatable. Most people go into 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.480 remission within six months. He was two years down the 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.280 road and not seeing any improvement. He'd had a stem 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:03.960 cell transplant, chemotherapy, radiation, nothing was helping. He told how 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.080 his prayer was, Lord, if it's my time to die, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.920 I'm ready to go. I'll endure it and I'll honor 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.960 you to the end. But if it be your will, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.200 you can heal me. He was waiting to see what 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.280 God's will was. One night he was flipping through the channels. 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.000 He heard me talking about how God wants us to 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.400 be wound, how he wants us to live an abundant, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:34.200 dictorious life. Something came alive on the inside. Faith was 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.960 ignited in his heart. Instead of praying, Lord, if it 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.520 be your will, he started praying, Lord, thank you that 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.840 you have already healed me, that I will live and 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.240 not die. He prayed from a place of faith, a 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.160 place of victory. Two months ago, he went back for 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.640 a checkup for the first time in two years. He 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.760 got a clean bill of health. Today he is one 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:05.200 hundred percent answer free. Amazing things happen when you make 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.720 the switch from God. If it be your will to God, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.840 I know it is your will. That boldness is your 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.600 faith being released. That's what allows God to bring healing, favor, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.120 and blessings. And this man loved God. He was ready 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.120 to endure to the end to carry that sickness. But 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.880 he found out he didn't have to carry it. That 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.000 was the turning point when he made the switch. There's 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.040 a big difference between praying God, if it be your 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.520 will you can heal me to praying God, I know 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.840 it is your will. I know the price has already 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.000 been paid. I know you're Jehovah Raphah, the Lord my healer. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.200 So thank you that healing is flowing into me. It's 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.040 difficult to have faith if you don't think it's something 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.000 God wants to do. You have to be convinced. It 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.320 is God's will for you to be healthy. It is 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.400 his will for you to be blessed to live an 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.880 abundant life. When you know this, you'll do like him, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.640 and you'll live out of a place of faith, not doubt, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.400 not wondering. The scripture tells us to come boldly to 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.959 the throne to find help in our time of need. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.360 It's not boldness to say God, if it be your will, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.600 you can take away this sickness, this cancer, this chronic 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:38.560 pain that's not coming boldly, that's coming with doubts, that's 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:43.000 coming unsure, not knowing if it's supposed to happen. You 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.960 have to make the switch. Some things we already know 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.040 are God's will, and one of the best things we 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.160 can do is remind God what he said. If you 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.560 want to pray with confidence, bring the will to him. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.199 Pray what he promised. God, you said you would restore 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.960 health back into me. You said you took my infirmities, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:10.440 carried my sicknesses. You said by your stripes, I was healed. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.440 When you pray the promises, you won't say if it 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:19.480 be your will, because you know the will. Imagine Jesus 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 sitting at the right hand of the Father. He hears 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.800 the prayer, Lord, if it be your will, you can 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.440 heal me. He turns to the Father and says, you mean, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.559 after all the stripes I took, after all the pain 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.880 I endured, after I sacrificed to carry their sicknesses, they're 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:43.520 still wondering if it's my will. It doesn't honor God 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.360 to say if it be your will? After all, God 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.800 is done, after the price he paid the way to 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.000 honor him is to say, Lord, I know you want 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:59.400 to heal me. March chapter one. This leoper saw Jesus 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.560 walking down the road. He ran up to him, fell 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.800 at his feet, and said, Jesus, if you want to, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.480 you can heal me. Jesus had never seen the man, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.680 had no relationship. He could have kept walking, thought don't 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:19.120 bother me. Instead, he reached out in compassion, touched the 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:24.200 man and said three simple words, I want to. Instantly 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:29.360 he was healed. There are nineteen miracles Jesus performed that 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.360 are recorded in the scripture. He did many more, so 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:37.240 many the Scripture says they couldn't be contained in one book. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:41.880 It's significant that this one was chosen to be recorded. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.559 God wanted to make sure we understood what his will 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.640 is when it comes to healing. The man asked, if 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.960 you want to, you can heal me. Jesus said, as 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.160 clear as can be, I want to. God is saying 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.840 that to you today, to heal you. I want to 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.680 take away the cancer. I want to free you from 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.600 the pain. I want to break the depression. When you 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.760 know he's an I want to God, You'll pray bold prayers. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.040 You'll live out of a place of faith, not doubt, 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:22.640 not wondering. What's interesting is leprosy is contagious. That man 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.960 shouldn't have come to Jesus in the first place. They 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.760 were supposed to shout unclean so people would know not 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.760 to get close when he came to Jesus. Jesus could 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:38.320 have moved away quickly like everyone else, or he could 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.920 have healed the leper by simply speaking to him from 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:46.000 a distance. He healed others that way, but on purpose, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.920 Jesus reached out and touched the leper. He broke protocol, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.200 He went against the norm. I can imagine people thinking, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.160 oh no, now he's going to contract leprosy, Now he's 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.240 going to get In fact, did God did this to 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.480 show us he will break the rules to heal you. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.000 He'll do things out of the ordinary, things that have 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.600 never been done. He's not intimidated by what you're facing, 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.360 by how bad it looks, by how rare it is. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.880 Others may have to stay away, but he'll come right in. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.440 He's a very present help in times of trouble. This 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.760 leoper never doubted Jesus' ability. He didn't say if you 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.440 can heal me, He said, if you want to heal me. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:39.760 Most of us like him. We believe God can turn 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.000 it around. He can heal us. We don't doubt his power. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.280 We believe he created the universe. The question we have 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.240 is does he want to this story? Should forever settle it? 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.880 God is saying I want to heal you, I want 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:01.280 to bless you, I want to free you. But sometimes 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.480 religion tells us that God puts sickness on us to 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:10.520 teach us something. Yes, you may learn something. God may 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.320 use the sickness, but he does not send the sickness. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.440 He doesn't send afflictions addictions to teach you. The scripture says, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.120 if you be in an earthly father give good things 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.480 to your children, how much more will your heavenly father 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.240 give good things to those that ask. I can't imagine 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:35.400 one father that's in their right mind saying I'm gonna 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.360 put this sickness on my children to teach them something, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.280 to teach them to obey, to teach them to be grateful. No, 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.920 sickness does not come from our God. There are forces 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.680 of darkness trying to keep us from our destiny. The 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.640 good news is what the enemy put on you, God 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.640 wants to take off of you. His power is greater 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:07.000 than any cancer, any heart trouble, diabetes, migrains, back pain, leukemia, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.679 those are in the process of leaving you. Right now, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.359 every day, thank God that you're getting better. Say to 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.840 that sickness, you will not defeat me. You will not 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.160 keep me from my purpose. Greater is he that's in 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.080 me than he that's trying to stop me. A lady 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.480 told me that God put cancer on her so her 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.680 daughter wouldn't have to have it. They thought her daughter 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.200 had breast cancer, but the test came out fine. This 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.360 lady meant, well, But the truth is God doesn't have 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.080 cancer to put on you. There's not any cancer up 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.320 in heaven. God's not going around saying, let me zap 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.240 this one with cancer, and szap this one with diabetes, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.120 and zap this one with heart trouble. As long as 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.240 you think it's coming from God, you won't have the 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.200 faith to get well. You need to say every sickness, 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:06.000 every addiction, every pain as the work of the enemy. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:11.160 Don't take possession of it. Don't say my cancer, my diabetes, 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.720 my arthritis is acting up. No, it doesn't belong to you. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.359 It's on foreign territory. Your body is a temple of 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.879 the Most High God. You are not a sick person 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.360 trying to get well. You are a well person fighting 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.119 off sickness. You are not an addicted person trying to 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:36.119 get free. You're a free person fighting an addiction. The 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.639 scripture says, resist the enemy and he will flee. You 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.800 have to resist the sickness, resist the cancer, resist the 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.280 heart trouble. And I don't mean live uptight and on edge, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.760 but don't accept it as the norm. Don't learn to 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:55.400 live with it. Seeing is foreign, it doesn't belong to you. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.840 In Luke thirteen, Jesus saw a woman that had been 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.560 for eighteen years. She was all bent over and not 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.600 able to stand up. He said in verse sixteen, should 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.320 not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:17.119 has bound, be loosed from her sickness? Notice where the 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:22.000 sickness came from, whom the enemy has bound. Jesus touched 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:26.639 this lady after being bent over for eighteen years, after 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:31.119 trying many different doctors, no doubt she thought it was permanent. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.520 But God showed up and said, this is your day. 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.359 I am here to take off of you what the 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.760 enemy put on you. Instantly, she too was healed. No 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.840 matter how long you've had that sickness, no matter what 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.920 you tried and didn't work out, Like this woman, your 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.760 time is coming. God is going to make things happen 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.400 that the medication couldn't make happen. He's going to do 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.560 what the treatment couldn't do. The doctors, the expert they 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.640 did their best, But when they run out of options, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:09.040 God steps in. He's supernatural. He made your body, He 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.359 breathed life into you. And what the enemy meant for 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.840 your harm, he's about to turn to your advantage. Jesus 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:21.280 called this woman a daughter of Abraham. That was significant. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.840 That meant she was in covenant with God. She had 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:29.520 rights and privileges because of her family line. In the 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.120 same way, because you're a child of the most time, 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.320 because you're honoring him, God is going to make things 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:42.000 happen for you that may not happen for others like her. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.760 It may not look good, it may have been a 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.320 long time. Get ready. God is about to loose you 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.840 from that sickness, loose you from the depression, loose you 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.840 from the pain. It is his will that you be free. 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.560 Now make sure you're in agreement with him. Lord, I 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.560 recognize This sickness didn't come from you. You put good 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:09.399 things on your children. I believe you want me to 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.760 be well. So Lord, thank you that healing is coming, 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:18.440 freedom is coming, victory is coming. That's how Lakewood got started. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:23.160 My sister Lisa was born with a birth injury similar 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.160 to cerebral pausing. The doctors told my parents she'd never 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.119 be able to walk, never be able to feed herself. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.679 For the first year, she had no sucking reflexes. She 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.639 couldn't lift her head up off the ground. When my 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.760 father had been taught that sickness was God's will, that 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.240 was our cross to bear, that kind of suffering was 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:47.280 to keep us humble. But when he looked at his 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.120 little baby, everything in him said, this is not God's 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:55.720 plan for my daughter. It went against all that he 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.560 had been taught. And on the inside, this battle was 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:04.480 taking over what he believed. He went to a hotel downtown. 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:09.360 He spent the week by himself, searching the scriptures. As 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.439 he studied the life of Jesus, he saw how he 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:17.199 went around healing the sick again and again. He was 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.920 taught that the day of miracles is over. Yes, Jesus 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.920 did that back then, but he can't do it today. 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.479 Then he read the verse in Hebrews Jesus Christ the 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:34.720 same yesterday, today, and forever. He realized there never was 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.560 a day of miracles. There's a God of miracles, and 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:44.120 he's still alive. And well, what happened? He made the switch? 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:47.600 From Lord? If it be your will, to Lord, we 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:51.520 know it is your will. He and my mother prayed 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.280 the prayer of faith over Lisa. Not Lord, help us 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:59.840 to endure, help us to manage this hardship. They pray, Lord, 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.560 believe you want to heal our daughter. We know you're 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:08.040 bigger than this disease. We know that you carried this sickness. 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.760 That by your strife, she is healed. And it didn't 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:16.280 happen overnight, but little by little Lisa got better and better. 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:18.560 Around a year and a half she was able to 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.880 lift her head off the ground. And today, at seventy 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.879 eight years old, Lisa is perfectly healthy and home. I 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:32.320 couldn't resist. Have you made the switch from God? If 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.239 it be your will? To God, I know it is 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.520 your will to bless me, to heal me, to free me. 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:43.639 My father had a younger sister named Mary that lived 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:47.520 in Fort Worth. In her forties, She became very, very sick. 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.320 The doctors finally sent her home nothing more they could do. 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.840 His mother called and told him that Mary wasn't going 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.800 to make it much longer. He drove from Houston to 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:01.080 Fort Worth, and when he walked in and saw how 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.840 bad Mary was, she was lying in a dark room, 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:10.199 her hair was matted, unconscious. He didn't recognize her. My 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:14.879 father felt this holy anger rise up on the inside. 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:19.240 He said, very forcefully, don't tell me God did this 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:23.119 to my sister. He took her by the hand and said, Mary, 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:27.159 in the name of Jesus, be healed. It was like 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:32.040 somebody pulled puppet streams. Suddenly Mary sat up in the bed, 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:36.560 opened her eyes and started talking to my father. That day, 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.920 she walked for the first time in months. She went 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:42.960 to the table and fed herself for the first time 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.640 in over a year. She was able to get off 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:50.200 all the medication perfectly well. She told my father later, 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:53.639 when you said, don't tell me God did this to 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:58.680 my sister, it was like a bomb exploded on the inside. 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.400 She had always believed that that sickness was God's plan 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.679 for her life, that it was his will. When she 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:11.119 found out otherwise, that stronghold was broken. Once she made 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:16.240 the switch, God stepped in made her perfectly hauled. Well, Joel, 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:21.440 does everyone get healed who believes? Yes, But let me explain. 0:25:22.280 --> 0:25:26.399 Some people get healed, like my mother, a divine touch 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.840 where there's nothing medically speaking the doctors could do. Other 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:34.800 people get healed with the medication, with the help of 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:40.120 doctors and experts. Ultimately, God is the healer. Medicine may 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.920 help you get well, but only God can heal. It's 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:49.560 not God or the medicine. It is God in the medicine. Well, 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.200 my loved one prayed and believed, but they didn't make it. 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:57.919 They went to heaven at an early age. The truth 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:01.880 is they did get healed. The moment they took their 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:05.320 last breath, there was no more cancer in their new body. 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.560 There was no more trouble breathing, no more pain. They 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:14.000 were healed. Maybe not the way you thought. It might 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.560 not have manifested here. But when God says I am 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:21.879