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Don’t Let Sickness Rename You | Stephen Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Monday AM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Praise God. Well, turn to somebody before you're seated and just say hi. I guess, you know, you could say all these things if you want. You know, whatever. Just do what you want. Just do what you want. Praise God. Praise God. Well, I'm working on waking up, so, you know, women like to celebrate by giving their husbands a hard time. Like last night talked about celebrate. I think women like to give men a hard time by celebrating. I think that's their way of celebrating, right? My wife likes to give me a hard time. I said, honey, where's the coffee? Son's like, what coffee? And I was like, the one you said you were gonna get me. I never said that. Is in the kitchen. You just go get it. I'm like, this is your celebration by giving me a hard time right in the morning. So she's doing what mom said last night and celebrating by giving me a hard time. Praise God. Praise God. I love my wife. She's a nice lady. She's a blessing of the Lord, like Jesse would say. Such a blessing. She'll be up here tomorrow. She can trash me if she wants to be back. Praise God. Praise God. Well, your favorite is here. I know. It's me, you guys. Sorry. Hey, confession brings possession, right? We gotta. All right. Praise God. Praise God. You know, I've been working on some new sermons. You know, when does God talk to me? When I'm working. When I'm working and I'm coming up with two of them. And it's so funny because, you know, we need men back in the world. This has nothing to do with my sermon. This is all like another sermon that I'm coming up with. But men have gotten pretty weak, and they need a safe place and they need safe words. And one of my sermons is, hey, do me a favor and shut up. That's my first sermon. My second sermon is, hey, quit being a baby. I do, too. My kids, I tell them, I say, hey, do me a favor and shut up. They say, well, that's not rude. Hey, do me a favor and shut up. Because sometimes in life things, you just gotta tell them to shut up. You know? They say, I've heard the craziest things. They say, well, we need to talk this out. We need a safe place to talk this out. You need to shut up and be a man and work through it. You need some John Wayne. You need some grit. A little bit of things well, these things, they really bother me. They really haunt me. Why don't you shut up and get over it? Just blow through it. Quit your whining and get it done. My God. I guess that's part of me, you know, there's something to a man that just gets it done. Well, I get these bad thoughts that come to me when I'm by myself. Then just shut up and get over it. Well, I want to talk it out. We don't have time to talk it out. Just get it over with. You know, you're like, man, Brother Stephen. You're mean. Do me a favor and quit being a baby. You know, there just takes something that. Sometimes you just need to quit being a baby. You know, you don't need a safe place. You don't need to talk it out. There's some things that men, you just got to just barrel through. You just get through it. My God. You know, you just get it done. And men, you just sit back in the chair at the end of the day and stare at the wall. You know, you maybe got beat up, but that's what. That's what our grandpas did. They got home and they just stare at the wall and smoke a Marlboro Red. You know, it'. You just got through it, right? You just got it done. And these new kids. Well, let's talk it out. I want to get on social media and tell how I feel. No one cares how you feel. Do me a favor and shut up. You won't see me getting. I feel tired today. I feel all these things. I feel pressure. Nobody cares. Quit being a baby. This is the way I think what the Bible was trying to tell us. Love, Brother Stephen. Do me a favor. Shut up. There's a place for love, and there's a place for getting over things. Amen. Women love to love. I get that women are nurturers, but these new men want to be nurtured and feel. When our great grandparents were real men, they went out and bit the necks of the prey and got what they needed in life. Now we're going to sprouts and getting the things right. It's a different generation. That's not my sermon, but you know where I'm getting at here. You know, I like sprouts, too, but you know what I mean? I mean, there's just something about the old timers. You go, my gosh, they were like, my grandpa, I wake up and he's heaving to death, and he can't breathe, and he's standing on the stairs and I'm like, my God, he's got to go to the hospital. He's gonna die. And he goes, just leave me alone. I'm gonna make it. He ate watermelon and he doused it with salt. And he's taking water pills, and he's filling up with water and it's collapsing his lungs and he can't breathe. Cause all the water. But he likes the cantaloupe so much, it's worth dying for. You know what I'm talking about? This was the generation that did what they wanted and they blew through it. So he didn't like taking the water pill. He's like, my go. I gotta live with the catheter on me. I gotta pee all the time. I just stand and eat and pee at the same time, you know? I mean, that's the kind of man he was. So I kind of live. I try to live up to that, you know, I'm like, hey, if I'm heaving to death, don't worry about it. I'll be all right. I'm just working through some things. My lungs may be collapsing with water, but I'll be right all right. You know what I'm talking about? He didn't go to the doctor. I mean, you was dying if you was going to the doctor. I mean, they had hauled you off. And he would take these pills and he'd fall asleep, and he's talking and he'd fall asleep. He's like, I can't be driving. And he's falling asleep while he's driving. And then he's like, man, sometimes I end up in the bar ditch and didn't know how I got there. I'm like, dude, you crazy? Like, this is like. He was the man that had stuck stacks like cartons of Marlboro Reds. You know, the cartons, not a pack of cartons. You know, he'd go out to his farm and just work through it, you know, whatever was going on in life, they just smoke right through it. Let's get done. Quit being a baby. Shut up. Let's get it done. Those are my sermons coming up. Coming soon to a church near you, right? My God, Stephen, you're. Yeah. Hey, do me a favor. Praise God. Praise God. Well, this morning I want to talk about healing. How about that? I thought you were going to talk on that. No, I'm not going to minister on that today, but such a blessing. Well, today. Do you have your Bible or your tablet or something or something to take notes? If you don't, that's Fine. That doesn't matter to me. Whatever you want to do, it's up to you. You want to go smoke a Marlboro right out front and work it out, go ahead. That'd be a blessing. I was just at. I was in Pawnee a couple days ago, and we did some of the services there. And I told him, I said, man, I'm getting to the age where I like, if my truck. If my vehicles don't have an ashtray, I really don't want the car, because it aged the time that cars were built. Like, you know, they're built good now. They don't put an ashtray in the car, so it kind of indicates they're junk, you know? I mean, it was just built for a different group of people. So all my vehicles have ashtrays. That's the way I like them. Because they don't put them in there no more, you know, Come on, now. Just bring them back. Just, you know, at the restaurant, you know, smoking or non smoking, it was all smoking. They just set you across the hallway. We were all smoking. It was just a different group of people, right? We all smoked. Everyone smoked. Even if you didn't, we all smoked. You go take your clothes of the dry cleaners, come back smelling like smoke. Thank you. That's wonderful. Perfect. This is. You know, all the houses were coated in nicotine, right? Even the women were more. More girthy back then. I mean, they just dealt with stuff, right? And then put up with no guff, I think, oh, no. My grandma, she didn't like to smoke, but she goes, boy, I like the way it smells, you know? But she didn't like to smoke. It was just funny. Anyways, all right, I'm going to get on my line here. How about that? You guys are like, bro, you gone too far. Amen. Well, I want to talk about healing because that's what we're here for. This is a miracle crusade that we should probably minister on healing for a little bit. Like mama said, my son's got a healing anointing. I'm like, no, I'm talking about men being babies today. That's what we're talking about. No, but I want to minister on your name today because your name is so important when it comes to who you are in Christ. And I want to minister on that. Genesis 17:5. I'm going to back up to verse one. Abram was 99 years old, and the Lord appeared to him and said to him, I am the almighty God. Walk before me and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and you shall multiply you exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face and said, lord. And then he goes down to verse five. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but you shall be called Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. One thing, when it comes to healing, people do not rename themselves. They continue to walk in the name that they have come up with themselves. For example, if you go to the doctor and they say you have cancer, you walk out of there saying, I have cancer. And what you've done is you have renamed yourself sickness and disease and didn't realize you did that. Because Abraham at this moment did not see the fulfillment of what he had or where he had to go. But he knew to get there he had to rename himself. Many people do not rename themselves even when they are feeling such a thing. Most people just say, well, when I feel better, then I can rename myself. And that's not true. Healing has to be so much a part of you that it is your identity, just as your name is. We know now they talk so much about identity of who you are, but we know, for example, me or you, we all have a name. Well, that name cannot be separated from you, can it? You can go and try to change your name and literally change it to a different. But that's not your original name. You don't forget your original name even when you die. They say, here lies so and so even in death, your name is you. Every part of you is it. So healing has to be so much a part of you that you can't separate it. And many times we see that people separate themselves from who they are by just the doctor telling them who they are. If you came up to me and continuously told me, and you called me Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. And I said, I don't know why you keep calling me that. And every one of you called me that. I would still be confused because that's not my name. Just because you call me that doesn't mean I accept that and go, oh, my name must be Ryan. Not all of you could convince me that my name is Ryan. I can't be that. That's not who I am. But it's so easy to be something of sickness. Easy. And then we go, I have cancer, I'm sick. I have arthritis. I'm a diabetic. What are you saying? It's identifying you with sickness. I'm poor, I'm rich, I'm all these things. I don't have a house. I'm married. I'm not married, whatever. And so when it comes to these things, when it comes to healing, it doesn't matter how you feel. It doesn't matter what it looks like. It doesn't matter what you feel like. It can't be separated from you. I say, steven, you're the most healed person in this room. Wherever I am, I say, I am the most healed. Do I feel like it? No. But it doesn't matter because it can't be separated from me. If I can move your identity, I can move who you are originally, right? And we see people that force their identity shift because they're trying to be something that they're not. You got to be careful. You get shot in the neck for this kind of stuff, for saying stuff like that, right? But what I'm saying is you got to be careful because people always want to try to push you to accept what they are when it comes to perversion and filth and things like that. But it comes to us as Christians. We cannot be moved by what it looks like. We have to be moved by what the word of God says we are. And say, I call myself this and that's who I am. What if I can talk you out of salvation and say, you're not saved, you're not this. And it's so easy to get you out. I don't feel like I'm saved all the time. I don't wake up thinking about it. It's just who I am. It's part of me. I just walk in it. It's part of where I'm going. It's part of what I have. So I don't have to work for it. I just walk in it. So healing has to be part of your life. It has to be part of what you're doing, of how you see yourself. You go to the doctor, they say you have stage three cancer. That may be in my body, but it's not who I am. It doesn't have any identity with me. It's not connected to me. I dismiss it from my life. I'm not sick. I refuse to be sick. It's not who I am. It has no connection with me personally. It's not who God has made me. And I separate it from myself. I don't claim it. Over 50% of America has some kind of chronic illness that they accept into their life. Over 50% that is not curable. Because people love. Get this. They love sickness. They love it. People love it so, so much that we've made great lengths to accommodate sickness and levels that comfort of sickness you have to be careful of. Well, I get front row parking down at the store. I go to a theme park and they push me right to the ride because I get to be inside of a wheelchair. I get my medicine. I'm all these things. And they're proud of it. They wear it like a token on their body. And I've seen Christians that do it too. And it's a shame to see that because they're identifying. They come in here, they raise their hands. I'm not sick. I'm not that. And they go out and they're doing all the things that you do when you're sick. You have to be careful identifying with those types of things because you come in here, declare one thing, go out and do another. So who are you? Are you healed or not healed? You can't play with this stuff. It's either you act on healing or you don't. Amen. I'm not telling you to stop taking your meds, but don't accept them as part of who you are. Don't accept them as I have to have these. This belongs to me. I'll be on these the rest of my life. You have to say you hate those things. Those aren't part of me. My body doesn't need those things. I curse those things. I curse the sickness in my body. It's not who I am. It doesn't belong to me. It doesn't belong to you. So you have to walk in that and identify yourself as healing, that I am the most healed person. I accept it into my life. It's who I am. So you have to. So you have to change your name to healing. You are healing. Healing belongs to you. You are healing. Say, I am healing. I am healing. You say, well, that's goofy. Well, do me a favor and shut up. Because it takes some grit and some tenacity to get through these things. You can't just go and the nurse is telling you that you're sick. Your family's telling you you're sick. Your spouse is telling you you're sick. You feel sick, you look sick. What do you have left? You have to say, it doesn't matter what it looks like, it doesn't matter what it feels like. I don't care what the report says. I am healing. That's who I am. That's what I have and it belongs to. To me. Now. Physical senses always hold fast to the confession of your pains and symptoms. Be Careful about those confessions. The symptoms always want to come up. And you say, I feel. I feel this way, I feel that way. Don't let that get inside of you. Faith people should never let our senses tell us how we feel. Yeah. Amen. Edison said this. He said, or excuse me, someone asked him this, and they asked him, how did it feel to fail a thousand times? He replied, I didn't fail a thousand times. The light bulb was invented with a thousand steps. When you think about that every time you rebuke sickness and disease, you're one step closer to redemption. You're One sec. You're one step closer to receiving your healing. So he looked at the whole process, not as failure, but as steps to get through. So anytime you're believing God, don't think, I'm not getting nowhere. I don't feel anything. I don't. Don't go by feeling. Things can shift immediately instant. Well, I don't feel any warm honey. Well, neither do I. My God. Shut up. Just keep blowing through the Bible. Get through. Takes some grit to stand on these things. It takes what I call gnashing of teeth. You know, you got to just grit your teeth. Well, the devil bothers me with perverted thoughts. Get over it. Stop thinking about it. Well, I can't. I'm by myself and I just can't help because you're a weak person. Quit being weak. Quit your whining. Quit being a baby and get through it. I can't help myself. You see what I'm saying? Where's the old timers? We just smoked a Marlboro Red and just got it done. Smashed her finger and walked off. You know, just whatever. Look, I smashed my finger a while back, right? Just get through it. The nail falls off, just rip it off. Let's go. I need you to do all these precious things for me. Just get a drill bit and drill a hole in it. Let's go. Right, Stephen. I mean, what do you want me to do? Go to the doctors and sit there all day? Let's go. I know I'm ranting, but just roll with me, because I'm tired of hearing these weak people. Just get through it, bro. Stop your whining. My God, I can't help myself. Isn't that stupid? Stupid? I can't help myself. Yes, you can. You're just not man enough. You're not. Be John Wayne. You know, just be like John Wayne. Stop your whining. You know, I mean, my grandpa would just cuss something smooth to the floor. Blankety Blank, blank. Blank, Blank. That's how you worked it out. You just cursed it down to the floor. And we cursed it so much that it felt better, and we just kept rolling along. Now you need a safe place to talk these things out. I'm not telling you to curse, but you see what I'm saying? I mean, we just worked it out. Walk it off. It just blows my mind. Maybe I was meant to be in another generation. You know, I feel like sometimes I want ashtrays. I want trucks with no electronics. I like them smoking and buzzing, you know, I want to wear, like, an old hat. I don't like my stuff dirty, though. I don't like dirty, but you know, I don't like my stuff dirty. You're like, man, Stephen, you're way off. It's all right. Just roll with me. We're having a good time. We got a whole week together. I gotta make it fun, right? You don't wanna be bored, do you? You don't wanna be. I hate boring church. I'm tired of boring church. I grew up in boring church, you know, so, you know, I grew up. The funnest thing to do in the car was count raindrops going down the window. Now if these kids don't have three TV screens in front of them, they're all worked up. I grew up on a Game Boy that when you lost, you went back to the beginning and you just worked through it. It made you so mad. But what did you do? You just got through it. You just never played it again. I hate this game. Tetris. Terrible game to never get rid of all them stupid squares. Just throw the thing in the ditch. Hate that thing. That's how we worked it out. Now my kids go, you can't save the game. No, you can't save the game. You just are terrible. Can't you make it easier? No, shut up. You don't have Starlink in the car. Shut up. You don't have WI fi. What's the WI FI password? That's what we dreamed about, is having TV in the car. It was a dream. I never knew it would come to life, and it did. Wow. Yeah. Anyways, I'm just rehashing my childhood. I'm 40 years old. I feel like I'm 70, you know? You know, like, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Okay, Matthew 7. 7. Let's get back to the word here. That was the word. That was the word. You know, like men. We just figured stuff out. You just figure it out, you know, I mean, you just work through it. We would get ourselves so deep in stuff that the only way out was to figure it out, right? When you, like, you went in to be good and you broke it worse than what it was and you just worked to figure it out. Now they just go down and buy a new one. They're like, well, my God, I'm just gonna buy a new one. Ikea, you know, it's like, no, we just figure, why don't you fix it? You know? And anyways, that's another rant, you know, I think I value. As I've gotten older, I value real men, you know what I mean? And because I don't know what social media did to people, but it made them dumb and it made him. Well, I need to tell my feelings, you know, but that. You got to be careful with that stuff because nobody cares. Because I don't care. Today was a bad day. I don't care. I smashed my finger. Get over it. Nobody cares. Get over it. That's not my sermon, I promise. But it kind of is now, right? Matthew 7:7. This is a short one. Identity. That's what we're talking about. Changing your name to what God needs you to be. I'm not a long preacher, so I'm not going to preach forever. So I promise you. But it says here, ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be open. One thing about knocking is you have to knock to get it open. But what is the knock? And I was praying about this, and he said this to me. The miracle door is never locked, but it is only opened with continuous faith. That's how you knock on the door. That means if you have to knock, it means it's shut. But what's it shut to? Doubt and unbelief. And it's opened with faith. When you open that door, you get all that is in that room. So it takes somebody to identify and continue to knock. Most people don't like to continuously knock at faith. They give up. Are you saying he's keeping me out? No, I'm not saying that. But it takes some grit to not give up. It takes somebody to not give in to that type of things. Amen. So let's go to John 11:5. I'm going to skip through all that type of stuff, but we're going to pull out just some things here. John 11:5, because he's talking about Lazarus here. And I want you to see something that Jesus, how he talked about Death and how he saw it. Verse 5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he had heard that he was sick, did he rush over. He stayed two more days in the place where he was because he knew, I'm saying this myself. He knew what. What he could do and what was going to happen. Now, verse 11 says these things he said. And after that he said to them, our friend Lazarus. What's he doing? But really, what was he? He's dead. So he had to rename him, you see, that he had to rename his condition from a physical to a supernatural realm and bring it into life. But I go that I may what, wake him. And then he goes down to 14 because they just can't understand. And Jesus said to them, plainly, Lazarus is dead. I know what you're seeing from a natural point, but I am glad for your sake that I not go, that you may believe. Nevertheless, let us go to him. So what he's saying here is he continuously calls something that isn't in to pass. So even though he knows that he's dead, he says sleeping, because if you're sleeping, I can wake you. So he is making a new identity for the situation. He's renaming the situation sleep because I can wake him. He's not dead. So here's a man that is on basic, which is dead, probably by the time he has heard this and he renames him. I ask you, how do you name yourself in the situations that you have in your life? How do you contact it? How do you say see it? Do you see it as incurable or is it completely cured? If you're a diabetic, you can say, that may be in my body, but it's not who I am and I don't receive it. Therefore I am healed and I start walking those things out. One thing that I have seen, I've been in Church for 40 years. People do not walk out their healing when they don't feel healed. They won't go for a physical walk, they won't plan trips, they won't do nothing. Because sickness is fully circumflex around their life. It holds them tight. So when a believer, you have to start making plans to break out of the sickness routine. Sickness robs you and your family of life. Hands down. That's just the way it is. It robs you of everything, of yourself and your family. Amen. So you have to be careful what you identify with about those things. Because healing, you don't have to feel healed to be healed. As you Say, well, because there's times I don't feel born again. That doesn't matter. You have to receive it into your life whether you feel like it or not. Amen. So the miracle door is never locked, but it only opened with continuous faith. Mark 10:47. Mark 10:47. And when he had heard that it was Jesus, he began to cry out, saying, jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Then many warned him to what? To be quiet. But what did he do? He cried out all the more, son of David, have mercy on me. So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. Then they called the blind man, saying to him, be of good cheer, rise. He is calling you. And what did he do next? He threw aside what he was because he knew his day of receiving had come. He rose and came to Jesus. What would you have me do? Well, obviously Jesus knows that he's blind. He's coming up there with his arms out, right? But it's what does your faith want? What do you want me to do? The blind man said that I may receive my sight. And then he says, go your way. Your faith has made you well. You know what receiving healing does? It puts you back into the workforce. Most people don't want to go back into the workforce. They don't want to work. They enjoy the sickness that they sit in. And they come up in every healing line and say, man, I wish that I was healed. But really, do you, are you sure about that? Or do you like the way your life is? Do you like to complain about your knees? Do you like to complain about your back and tell people to have pity on you? There was person that was a single mother for many years and she had a lot of pity, let's say it that way, because people felt bad for her. Well, she got married, had a wonderful marriage, it turned out great. And people quit having pity on her and it made her mad and she started to ruin her marriage because she loved, didn't realize she was addicted to the pity. Think about that. Now we ask, now I ask you, is there something in that of your life that you said, if that went away, would I feel like people quit caring about me or would I, would I quit? Because once you get back into the workforce, nobody cares how you feel. You're blessed, you get to go to work. Proverbs talks about a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands. What comes next? Poverty. Poverty comes. It talks about if you're a well abled man, you can get up and do something. A well Abled woman, you can get up and do something. Amen. So you can say, well, I don't identify with being fat. Then get rid of the fat. You say, well, it's hard for me to lose weight. No, it was not hard to gain it. You can get it off. Over 40% of Americans have some weight related ailment. 40%. Over 40%. Why are you talking about that? Because you have to know that, that you can deal with yourself, that you can take hold of yourself, you can stop drinking sodas, you can stop eating the junk that you do. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I like ice cream, Tootsie Rolls, I like all those things. But I do it as a treat, not as a given. You know, so you can lose weight. We know. And how many of you know that weight is a huge problem in America? I mean, we know that you say, brother Stephen, I don't like that you're talking like that. Do me a favor, because who's going to tell you the truth? The doctor? They like you sick. You don't gain a business by curing people. You keep them sick. You keep your customer base. So it's important that you have to deal with yourself and don't identify with the big riches you've got in your room. We've seen the pictures that people said, man, I used to be this big. But I'm not like that no more. Amen. So you have to be careful that you don't identify with a plus sized person. Amen. Get it off. Quit being a baby about it. Get it off. You got it on, you can get it off. I want you to talk nicer. I don't really care. Quit being a baby. You can actually eat. Good. I promise. Possible. It's possible, right, Stephen? It's possible. You said, why'd you call him? I'm not gonna tell you, but no, I'm not. So you have to change your name to healing. No matter what it looks like, no matter what you feel like. Amen. Luke 8. 49. Luke 8. 49. I'm almost done. What did I tell you guys? While he was still speaking, someone came up from the ruler's house saying, you, daughter is dead. Do not trouble the master no more. But when Jesus heard it, he answered and said, do not be afraid. What? Only believe and she will be. What? It didn't matter what it looked like because he's renaming her. It didn't matter. So when he came into the house, he permitted no one to go in except for the son. And then we go down now. It says that here 52 now, all wept in mourning for her. But he said, do not weep for she's what? But she's sleeping. But was she really dead? Physically. But what did he call it? He had to rename her, because if she's sleeping, I just have to wake her up. And what did they do? They ridiculed him, knowing that she was dead. And I perceived they're right. I believe that they knew she was dead. How many of us have seen a dead dog or a dead cow or something? I mean, you know, the thing's dead. So it wasn't like they were trying to identify if it was dead or not. They knew it. But what did he do? He got rid of the people that couldn't see it. And then he put them out. But then he put them out, took her by the hand and said, little girl, what did he tell her to do? He said, I want you to arise. And her spirit returned to her. And she arose when? Immediately. So what he had to do was rename her her situation. I encourage you today, whether you have cancer, diabetes, problems with your eyesight, rename yourself. Rename yourself healing that you've received it and it cannot be separated from you. The greatest thing that I see is people separate healing from. From themselves based on other people's opinions and the way they feel, the way your doctor tells you, you have these things, this is who you are, and then you leave and go, man, I have cancer. And it starts to become who you are when it has nothing to do with you. So as Christians, in closing, don't ever let those things get inside of you. Stephen Dufresne was born 5-1-85, and I was given a name. And I can go change my name later because I don't like it, but it's still not my original name. I always have that. It can never be separated from me. As I move through life and I die and I got a headstone in the ground as I'm dead, my bones are laying there. Here lies Stephen Dufresne. Even in death, it's who I am. So I encourage you today, don't ever separate healing from yourself. It doesn't matter if I can separate it from you. I can take you out of the healing flow, no problem. If you walk yourself out of the healing flow, if you walk out of it yourself, healing doesn't belong to you no more. Physically, from a Bible standpoint, it does. But it takes some grit to say, I refuse to not walk out of that healing flow. Against all odds, if every one of you told me my name was not Steven, I would call you all crazy. That whole bunch is absolutely nuts. Because I know who I am. I know what I have. I know who I am. I know that I have three kids. I have a wife. I know their names. It cannot be separated from me. Amen. Have y' all been helped today? So this week, as healing is flowing, I want to encourage you, don't give up on those things. Be willing to lose weight, be willing to go for a walk. Don't wait till you feel better. Faith is an act that has to be taken before many times. Healing is received. Make a think. Tomorrow at 8 o', clock, I'm going for a walk. And I'm going to go far and I'm going to go a little further than I thought I could and then walk back the whole time. I am healed. I am whole. I am healing itself. It belongs to me. It flows to me. And if I am healed, then I can do healed things. And I step into it by faith and I grit my teeth and don't give up with it. I get it done. I get it done. Amen. I know I've helped you today. I'll be back not tomorrow, but today. What is that? Wednesday? I'll be back. My wife will be here tomorrow to fix me up. She's a blessing of the Lord. Oh, gosh, she's old. But I encourage you, don't give up on faith. Don't give up on healing. If there's a healing line, don't come into the line and say, well, I didn't feel nothing. It don't matter what you feel. I didn't feel nothing either when I'm laying hands on people sometimes. But that doesn't have nothing to do with. It has nothing to do with feeling. If I can get you to feel a certain way, I can manipulate you. And whichever way you need to go, I can manipulate you. Get you. If you come in and start complaining about your wife and I egg it on, I can get you to hate your wife more. I can feed those things. Is that true? So it's important that you don't give any say. I am healed. It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what it looks like because I identify as healing and I'm healed now. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. 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