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Faith Principles | Nancy Dufresne | Mississauga, Canada | JTH Crusades 2024 | Wednesday PM
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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Hallelujah. How many of you know Jesus, when he was on the Earth, as he walked about ministering to the people, he said, my Father in me, he does the work. He does the work. He does the work. Hallelujah. He does the work. The work in us. He's doing it. Amen. Just raise up your hands and thank him tonight. We thank you, Father. We thank you. Hallelujah. That greater degree of anointing came into my hand while we're worshiping. And so I thought, why wait? I can't think of a reason. So in looking to how to minister that anyone who needs a creative miracle, meaning this isn't a healing, it's a creative miracle, meaning something is missing, something needs to be put back. Not healing. You understand the difference? Something isn't there, and it needs to be created. It could be an organ. It could be. Could be a myriad of things. Well, there's miracle anointing here. Amen. Hallelujah. So if that's you, raise your hand right where you're at. I want to see how many we're talking to in that. Hallelujah. Those of you who have your hands raised, come up here. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We glorify you. We glorify you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Congregation, you hooked in with us. You're releasing your faith. Hallelujah. It matters to us that they receive what they need, doesn't it? We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We worship you, Father. We praise you, Father. We glorify you. We glorify you. Just leave her right there. You just leave her right there. That's perfect. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you. We worship you, Father. We glorify you. Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. What is it with you, love? What is it? Radiation burnt my right eye. Radiation burned your right eye. And you can't see. Taken away. Yeah. I need a vision test to get my life. Sure you do. Sure you do. It matters to God. It matters to him. It matters to him. Father, we thank you. We thank you for wholeness. We thank you for that anointing, that created power, creating what's been destroyed, Making whole. We thank you for it. We receive that power. We receive it. We receive it. Say, I receive that. I receive it. Hallelujah. And you just. You just thank him for it. Amen. Our job is to believe. His job is to do the doing. And there's a tumor on the back. There's a tumor. Yeah. Yeah. Father, we thank you. Every bit of that. Every bit of that. Gone. Every bit of it. Die. In Jesus name. Wholeness. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. Yes. We. And we add our faith to you. Every person in this room. We're joining our faith with you. It matters to us. And we're not coming out of agreement with you. Amen. And I say this to everyone that's up here. Your job is not to. If I could say this measure to see what happened. Your job is to say, thank you, Father. That power is working in me. That power is working in me. Hallelujah. What about you, sir? Uh huh. Yeah. Yes Father, we thank you. There goes that anointing in you. We thank you Father, we thank you Father. What about you, love? Yeah. From Father, we thank you for recreating. We thank you whole. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. And he does the work. He does the work. He does the work. Yeah. What about you love? Say again? Yeah. Father, we thank you for holding In Jesus name. What about you love? The cartridge in your knee is gone. Uh huh. Father, we thank you for new knees. We thank you Father for new knees. In Jesus name. We thank you for it. What about you love? Yeah. Yeah. Father, we thank you for feet that function. Feet that are complete. No pain. But that which is needed, we receive it in Jesus name. Wholeness. In Jesus name. What about you love? I pray for my fibroids to go. Yeah. Father, we thank you for wholeness. Every bit of that dry up and leave. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. There goes that anointing in you, love. Yeah. What about you Valentina? Say again? Uh huh. Father, we thank you for making whole. In Jesus name. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you Father. We thank you for wholeness. We thank you for recreating. We thank you for it. Thank you for it. In Jesus name. With you love. Uh huh. Do you know, I want to say maybe eight or nine years ago I was in finishing up meetings at a church. The next morning I was to fly out. The last night I was there in the hotel, I had a dream. And in that dream I walked into a big room. It looked like an empty warehouse. Massive room. There was no one in the room. There was one chair in the middle and a man sitting in that chair. As I walked into the room, an old, older and no one I recognized no one I knew, but an older minister, more seasoned than me.
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As soon as I came in the back door into the room, he saw me and just fell into step right beside me. And we walked up from behind the chair, from the back of the room. And I didn't know the condition. There was a man sitting in the chair. We walked around and there was from the knee down, it was missing both feet, the lower leg, the ankles, the feet. And this older man, minister took both of them, the stumps that were right under the knee in his hands. And I didn't even hear what he prayed. But it was a very short prayer because God wasn't trying to get me to the prayer, wasn't the instruction. And when the man let go of those stumps, he didn't just let them fall, he planted them as though he was putting them in shoes. And when he did, I watched the feet grow on. I watched from down below the knee, all the way down. I see saw the ankle grow. I saw the feet grow. It was the most beautiful, elegant thing I'd ever seen. And God said to me, he reminded me, because my husband used to ask when he would go into congregations, how many of you have ever seen feet grow on or limb that was missing or a hand that was missing? How many of you have seen it grow in front of you? And he only invited me in. Thousands and thousands of people that he asked that of. He said, one person responded that they had seen that this generation needs to see it. And God reminded me. Jesus said, I only do what I see my father do. And God spoke to me when I woke up from that dream and said, because this generation hasn't seen it, you need to see it so it can be done. So I showed it to you. Amen. That's what heaven has in mind for this earth. Amen. Father, we thank you. We thank you for new body parts. We thank you for recreating. We thank you for wholeness, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We receive. We receive. We receive that power. We don't have to figure out anything. We don't have to to work it. All we do is we're fully occupied with the Miracle worker. We keep our attention and our focus and we say thank you on our miracle worker. We thank you. We see our miracle worker working in Jesus name from the top of her head. We thank you for that anointing. We thank you for that creative power making whole in Jesus name. We thank you, Father. It belongs to her. And it's your delight, Father. It's your delight. It's your delight. I love Pastor Amy. She ministered this morning, and I love when she tells the story that she vision or dream a vision, and she was in the warehouse of heaven that had spare body parts. She said something. I've heard different ministers talk about it before. She said something. All the parts were living, and I had never thought about that. Of course, there would be no dead body parts up there. All the parts were living. And angels would go. Absolutely. Angels would go and take the parts that were needed and they would bring them to earth. We believe in the power of God. We believe in angels. Angels aren't healers, but they cooperate with healing power. They minister something good to us. Are they not all ministers that are going to minister to those who are heirs of salvation? They minister something good. Amen. So however God does it, our job is say, thank you, Father. There's body parts for me, and I'm taking mine. I'm. I take mine. I take mine. I take mine. I take mine. Amen. Those parts are. Are waiting for faith. Those parts are waiting for faith. Amen. I also love the story of this one little mama. She had never heard the healing message preached. She started attending the church of Pastor John Osteen down in Houston, Texas. I don't know if you've ever heard of him. Oh, yeah. And she heard for the time, first, first time about Jesus the Healer. Her little boy was just maybe three or four years old, but he was born a cripple. He had never walked. He had never been out of a wheelchair from the time he grew up enough to be out of a bed, he would be in the wheelchair the rest of the day. But she started hearing about Jesus the Healer through her pastor. And every day she would take her little boy, put him on his tummy, take him out of the wheelchair and pull him around on the floor like they were having playtime. And he thought, they're just playing. But for an hour every day, she said, thank you, Father, that my little boy walks. Thank you. Thank you for legs that work. And she would just spend that time and she would do in the sense that she moved him as much as she could. She did that for a year, an hour every day. Not long after a year, one day she went to pick him up out of the wheelchair and he jumped off. He jumped up and took off running. You see, Too many times, we don't know how to continue. Faith continues. Faith continues. Amen. We get cheated because we think, if God's doing it, he does it. Instantaneously sleep. He may. But don't limit him to that. Don't limit him to that. Amen. Because we know this. The moment we release faith power always begins working. Always. Always begins working. Amen. So all we do is continue. Faith continues. Amen. Our faith is set with you. Our faith is set with you. Amen. Hallelujah. We're so glad you're here. I am, too. You knew him? Were you in services with him at all? Yeah, yeah. At his church. I remember. Years ago. He was there. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes, he was. I'm so glad you came. Thank you for coming. Hallelujah. Amen. It's a joy to be here. Love. What about you, love? I had colon cancer. They gave me an iliosity bag. Yes. And the tissues and swan have not. They just not formed properly for me to reverse it. Yes. Somehow, I guess the treatments damaged my legs and my back. Yes. Yeah. Legs, back and this abdomen area. Yeah. Yeah. Father, we thank you that you do the work. We thank you for miracle. There it goes in you. There it goes in you. We thank you, Father, for wholeness. We speak to that abdomen area. We speak to that colon. You be whole. We speak to the back, the hips, the legs, whole. In Jesus name we receive that miracle power. We receive it. And, Father, body parts from heaven. We receive them. We receive them. We receive them. We rejoice. We rejoice at heaven's supply in our lives. We thank you, Father. What about you, love?
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My back?
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Your back? What's the matter with it? I don't know. They can't almost wax rays and everything. They can't find nothing wrong with my back. Yeah. Father, we thank you for wholeness in Jesus. Every bit of that. Every bit of that made whole. What about you, sir?
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Your knee. The kneecap is gone. Gone. Bone on bone. Yeah. Father, we thank you for new knees. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. We receive that creative power. We receive that creative power. We receive it. And because we receive it, we rejoice at it. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Now, the word says, he that believeth hath. It doesn't say he that seeth hath. God said at the believing, you're authorized to say you have it. Why? Because once that anointing goes into play, what happens is God considers it done. Why the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Once anointing is flowing, once anointing is ministered, and once anointing is received, it's working. So God authorizes us to say at the believing, you have it. See the unsaved world. If they have a problem, they can't rest until they see their answer show up. God doesn't want us limited to we can't rest until we see our answer shows up. So he says, I tell you what I authorize you and to believe you receive it at the time you release your faith. You don't have to wait to see it before you rest. Once we receive of that power, it's as good as done. Amen. We receive it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Sir, what about you? What about you, sir? What is it you need?
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Prostate cancer years ago and it ruined all my parts.
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Yeah. Almost like a unique. Father, we thank you so much for. For recreating wholeness in Jesus name. We thank you for new body parts. We thank you for new body parts. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father, we thank you. We thank you. Thank you for it, Father. Oh, we thank you for it, Father. Hallelujah. What about you, love? For your husband? What's he needing? A new hip. Father, we thank you for this miracle anointing going into this cloth and when it's laid upon his body. That new hip from heaven, Father, we receive it. We thank you. We believe in the power of God. And one expression of your power is angels that bring body parts. And we receive those in Jesus name. And we thank you for it. We thank you for it. What about you, sir? What happened with your ankle?
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A ligament. It's torn or almost. Almost torn. Father, we thank you for restoration. We thank you for supernatural recovery of that. In Jesus name. We thank you, Father. Jesus, you told dad Hagin, when people are under the care of doctors, you'll speed up the process. So we thank you for accelerated process. In Jesus name. What about you, love? Cerebral spine. Yeah. Father, we thank you. Wholeness. In Jesus name. Come down. If everyone just come down here, this area, if you would, come on down, love. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. If there's more, there's more. Some seats down here, if they're able to come around. There's. You have five more seats. So if we can get five more people down on that end and then they. Hallelujah. That's perfect. Thank you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is that all? Okay, I'll start at this end. Again, we thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. What is it that you need, love? She needs new blood. Well, among other things, lots of. And knees and knees and hips and head, shoulders, knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Yeah. Father, we thank you for an overhaul. We thank you, Father. From the top of her head. We thank you for it, Father. You do the work, we do the believing, which gives you permission to work. And we give you permission. We give you permission, we receive. So because we receive, we don't worry about it anymore. We don't wonder about it anymore. We just thank you for working. We thank you for working. Hallelujah. Can I tell you what faith is? As simple as you saying, I agree, God, I give you permission to do in me what you've already provided for me. You understand that, God? I give you permission to work in me what you've already provided for me. What's that mean? We partake of it. We're partakers of his power. Amen. Hallelujah. So the easy part. He gave you every day. He's still working in me. He's still working. What about you, love? We need a new pancreas. Yeah. Yeah. Father, we thank you for new body part. We thank you, we thank you. We thank you by your power. What about you, love? Your brother? Yeah. Can you get this to him? Father, as we lay hands on this cloth, we believe your word that tells us that that power can be stored in this cloth. And when it is laid upon the body that stands sick one, that power will go into their body and will drive out pain, symptoms, sickness and disease it will create. And we believe you for that, Father. In Jesus name we receive it. Hallelujah. Thank you, love. What about you? Say that again. Uh huh. Father, we thank you for making those teeth whole in Jesus name all of his life. He has all of them. And they function, they work and they're blessed. In Jesus name we receive it. What about you, love? What is it that you need? A healthy heart. Okay. Yeah. And legs. And legs. Yeah. Father, we thank you for. We thank you. We thank you, Father. Wholeness in Jesus name. We thank you, Father, for making whole, making right that which is needed. We receive it. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. Hallelujah. What about you, sir? What is it that you need? Yeah. Hallelujah. Father, we you thank. Thank you. Yeah, I can see that. Father, we thank you for vision, for new eyes. We thank you, Father, for wholeness in his eyes. Father, you have so many. So much supply for our life. Part of that supply is Every body part working, fully functioning. And we receive new a new eye in Jesus name. We thank you for it, Father, we thank you. Hallelujah. And you had the joyous part of just thanking him. Amen. Hallelujah. What about you, love?
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Diagnostic fibrosis and I'm scheduled for surgery in my gallbladder. Gallstones, yes. And rheumatoid arthritis. Yes. Uh huh, uh huh. Father, we thank, we thank your. Ah, there goes that anointing in. We thank you Father for wholeness from the top of her head to the soles of her feet, her joints, every part whole in Jesus name. Satan. You take your hand off. You take your hand off. And we receive that power in Jesus name. We receive it. What about you, love? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes Father, we thank you for restoration, restoring that in Jesus name. No more difficulty, no more pain because we receive wholeness in Jesus name. Thank you love. What is it you need, love? Yeah. Father, we thank, we thank you for wholeness, every bit of that. You be normal, you be normal in Jesus name. We thank you for it, Father. For him, for you. What's he need? Yeah. Father, we thank you for wholeness. We thank you for everything as it ought to be. So we thank you for accelerated, accelerated skills, accelerating and not only making whole but catching him up so speedily. We thank you Father. We thank you Father, for my husband, for his right eye, his right eye, his left ear and the balance in his brain. He came through 30ft on top. Okay. Father, we thank you for that miracle anointing that goes into this cloth and as it's laid upon the body of her husband that that miracle anointing goes in and recreates, makes him whole. And we receive it in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you, love. What about you? Yeah. Father, we thank you for new parts. We thank you for new parts in Jesus name. What about you, love? Yeah, Father, we thank you. We thank you that the power in this as we lay hands, the power of God goes into this cloth and when it's laid up on his body. We thank you for complete wholeness. And not only that accelerated catch up in Jesus name. He catches up to where he ought to be. And we thank you for it. And Father, Father, it's your complete joy. It's your complete joy and it's our joy to receive it in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Thank you love. There's something about him. There's something about him. There's a reason, there's a reason that there's been opposition to him. And we lay hold of the plan. You pray in the spirit for your son. Do you go to church somewhere? You go to church here. Take time to pray for him. There's something about the plan of God for his life. Amen. The devil's trying to interrupt and interfere with that plan, but he's caught. Amen. God bless you. What about you, love? Cancer. Yeah. Cancer in the brain, liver and lungs and vision. We curse. We curse, curse that cancer. In Jesus name. You dry up, you take your hand off her body. In Jesus name and Father, we thank you for new body parts, restoring and making whole. And it is your pleasure and it is our joy to receive it. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. What about this? So Thomas here started to get a curve in his spine when he was younger and it got worse as he got older. He's also underdeveloped for his age, with smaller bones and weaker muscles. So he needs to be healed of all of that. Yeah. And it's so easy. It's so easy for God. Father, we thank you for that power. We thank you for straightening. Father, we thank you for restoring, strengthening and making whole as he ought to be. And in your plan, in your goodness, in your mercy is wholeness. And we receive it for him. In Jesus name. We receive it. In Jesus name. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you that. That anointing destroys every yoke. We believe in the power of God. We believe in the power of God. Hallelujah. Working in him. Hallelujah. Thank you, love. What is it you need, love?
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Sure it does. Just stand right back here in front of this chair. Thank you, Father. We thank you for new thyroid. In Jesus name. We thank you for recreating. We receive it, Father. We receive it. We thank you for wholeness. In Jesus name. What about you, love? My 10 year old son has autism, down syndrome. Is he here? He's not here tonight. Give me a cloth. Father, we thank you for the anointing of God. Goes into this cloth. And when it's laid upon his body. We thank you for making whole. We thank you for recreating in the brain that which would be missing. We thank you, Father, that you have all the parts needed. And we receive it. It's our joy to receive it. For you do the work and we believe in it. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. What is it that you need, love? It's for my husband. He needs new lungs. New lungs? Yeah. Father, we thank you for lungs and kidneys. Oh, in Jesus name. We thank you for it. We thank you for it. What about you, love? My blood cells are fighting. Everything was wrong with me three years ago when I came in. I'm off five heart medicine. Since you prayed for me, I've lost 35 pounds with God's health. Wow. My blood cells are fighting each other. More than good blood cells. Father, we thank you for completing the work. That which you began, you complete in J. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you for it. Congregation, just lift up your hands. Just lift up your hands. We thank you. We thank you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Those who you were ministered to, your only. Your only assignment is believe. Keep the switch of faith turned on. How do you know it's turned on? By what you're saying. By what you're saying. So all you. You don't have to figure out anything. You don't have to run anything out of your body. You don't have to. If I could say this. Try to get the body where all you do is say, thank you that it's done. Thank you, Father, that it's done. Thank you that it's done. And you say, well, if it's done, how come nothing's changing? Get out of the mental arena. We don't walk by what we see. Stay in the faith arena, and God can work. So our only job is say thank you, Father. It's working in me now. It's working in me now. Wholeness is my now. It's working in me now. Hallelujah. Congregation, don't we join our faith with these precious people? Yes, we join our faith. We believe with them, Father. We believe with our brothers, our sisters. We thank you that. That anointing is working in them. We join our faith, and we will not come out of faith. But every day when we think of it, we'll say thank you for their miracles, thank you for their body parts. We thank you for it, Father, in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Okay, the front rows can come back and we can do what we do. My husband, he used to minister and talk about streams of ministry flowing together. Why is that? Because when you do that, have you ever seen somebody who. They're setting up an appliance, and it's not just, you know, if you're just running your hair dryer, it's a single cord. But if you get a big appliance, there's multiple cords twisted together to make a Greater draw on power, because this piece of equipment needs a greater flow of power to it. I so appreciate when God's plan has multiple streams of ministry coming together because it's a greater draw power, a greater flow of power. Amen. So I'm just what I have in my heart. I'm going to ask different ones to come up, and they're going to teach a sermonette on faith. 15 minutes tops, clock it, and everyone has a part to it that I call on. Amen. And we have our assignment. Hallelujah. Pastor J eberly, come up. 15 minutes, brother. Just because every one of us, God's been teaching us about the disciplines of faith, and there's different components to this. So whatever's in your heart, Pastor, go ahead and be seated.
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Hallelujah. Faith is the victory. Faith is what receives. Hallelujah. There's a difference between something being given and that thing being received. The giving is God's part. Everybody say the giving is God's part. We talk about, you know, like Ephesians, chapter number two talks about, by grace are you saved through faith. Grace is God's part. Grace is what he did. Grace gave. Say it out. Grace gave. What has been given doesn't need to be. Well, it doesn't need to be given. It has been given. It is given. Hallelujah. So anything that is given doesn't need. I know it sounds funny, but it doesn't need to be given. It doesn't need to be asked of God to give it. That little understanding. By grace are you saved through faith. That applies to salvation. But salvation includes everything that has been given in grace. Everything healing. In fact, the same word. Translated, saved, translated, healed. In God's eyes, it's all the same thing. By grace are you saved through faith. Grace saved you. Faith doesn't save you. Faith doesn't heal you. Grace healed you. It's already done. God's not going to heal anybody. But that's God's part, the giving of what is provided. In other words, everything that God gave is already ours. It's already given. It's not something that needs to be wrenched out of his hand, something that we need to twist his arm to get him to do or get him in the notion or the mind of doing it. He's already done it. Right? So that's God's part. God is the giver. God is the one who provided. He's the one that through, because of grace or graciousness. You know, you could almost use that word because of graciousness. It has been given. Hallelujah. It's not, you know, the Bible says in Psalm 145, it talks about it in one place. It talks about the Lord. The King James says, the Lord is gracious. The literal Hebrew says he's disposed to show favors. That's what he did in Christ. He showed it, he gave it, he graced us with it. Well, then why don't I have it? Because of what you just said. That's a confession of trying to get him to still do something. In other words, there's a receiving side. That's our part. Say to your neighbor, that's your part. That's my part. God can't do that for you. Right? And listen, receiving is tangible. Take a husband and wife. Any married folk in here? Folk means people. If you're from Canada, if you're married, you know, okay, husband, wife, whichever. We're not going to pick sides here this evening. But you know that you can start being sweet and cuddly and the other spouse receive it. Just keep looking straight ahead. No testimonies tonight. Right. And you can perceive that it's something perceptible. It's not something. In other words, that's the way receiving is. Receiving is done. It's an act of your spirit. Your spirit man has a hand. He's a man. The physical man is a man. But your spirit man is just that, he's a man. The Bible talks about walking by faith. How do you do that? You do that with your spiritual feet. The Bible talks about, you know, First Timothy 6:12. It talks about, fight the good fight of faith, not fighting the devil. The good fight of faith. Lay hold. Say it out loud. Lay hold. Fight the good fight of faith. Then he tells us two ways to do it. Lay hold of eternal life and make a good confession. He's talking to Timothy, a man who is born again. He tells him, lay hold of eternal life. A man born again. Eternal life is more than being born again. It's the God quality of life in this earth. And he said to Timothy, just because you got born again doesn't mean you've laid hold of everything that's in eternal life. So there's a giving part, but there's a laying hold part. The way you lay hold is with the hand of faith. I said, with the hand of faith. Say the hand of faith. Take hold. Take hold with the inward man. You can say, I take that. Those who were up here, Oral Roberts, used to talk about the point of contact. This was your point of contact, to lay hold of it. Now, how do I do that with my mind? Your mind can't function. Your mind can't process faith. It can't. The faith doesn't process through the mind. Faith is of the heart. With the heart, man believeth. That's the only part of your being that you can believe with the Bible kind of faith. And when we say it's provided by grace, that means it's available to anyone who. Everybody say it's available to anyone. But those who lay hold, those who receive. You ever heard of the believe you receive? Mark 11:24. That's what that is. It literally in the Greek says, believe that you take it. Believe that you take it. And there needs to be a point. And that's what this line was about tonight, that point of taking what has been given. Pastor Craig could hand me that nice. Whatever that is right there and notebook or whatever. He could hand that to me. But it's. But it's not. But see him handing that to me doesn't mean I'm enjoying it. When he says, I want to bless you with this. Didn't I hear you say, I want to bless you with this? I could go, oh, please, Please, Pastor Craig, that is so beautiful. Never seen one like that. Oh, I heard it's all good. I heard Louis Vuitton's wonderful. He has.
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This transaction of faith that we're talking about has two sides to it. I said it has two sides to it. One side is the giving part, and that's not your part. The other side is the laying hold part, and that's your part. That's my part. And listen, if I don't lay hold of it, it's not God's fault that I'm not enjoying it. And how many of you know crying doesn't lay hold of it? Begging. You can beg and not lay hold. You can say, oh, God, please, and not receive. Are you listening to me tonight? So this. These meetings, Pastor Nancy has on her heart to do these miracle crusades. That's what we want to get across. Pastor Nancy has this in her heart to bring healing again back to the forefront. But it's not just all up to God in these meetings, and it's not just up to Pastor Nancy. She has a strong healing anointing. And that healing anointing is for you to take hold of. Hallelujah. Say it out loud. Take hold of it. That's your job. That's your part. And how many of you Know your neighbor can't take hold of it for you. Your pastor can't take hold of it for you. Right? Nobody can take hold of it for you. Hallelujah. And so when the Bible says, Mark 11:24, believe that you receive.
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Believe.
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Say it out loud. Say it out loud. This is my part. Believe that I receive when we pray. Or we could say when hands are laid on us, whatever the point of contact is. I love that brother Oral Roberts. I don't know if he's the one that originated that statement, but there has to be a point of contact. And that doesn't always mean the contact of somebody's hands. But a point of your point of contact can be a verse that the spirit of God prompts you on for you to take hold of that verse. It's a tangible thing, isn't it, Pastor David? You can tell you've ministered. You can tell when people take hold of something, and you can tell when people don't. They're sort of waiting for God to do it. And that passivity. You know what I mean by passivity? That passivity means nothing flows because it flows on a take. It flows on a take. Glory to God. And you don't need to. You don't need God's permission to take. You've already been given permission. Let me say something to you about the woman with the issue of blood. The woman with the issue of blood. The Bible says that she heard of Jesus. How many of you know, faith comes by hearing. She heard of Jesus, came in the press behind and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his garment. That's her point of contact. She kept saying. The Greek actually says. She kept saying. She kept saying. And she said, if I can touch but the hem of his garment, I shall behold. Behold. And the Bible says that she did that. She touched the hem of his garment. And the Bible says Jesus immediately knowing in himself. Now look at this. I saw this years ago, and this helped me. It changed me. This is the last thing I'm going to say. The Bible says immediately Jesus, knowing in himself that virtue. What's the next word? Had. Had gone out of him, turned about in the press and said, who touched my clothes had gone out of him. Listen very carefully to what I'm getting ready to say. By the time Jesus knew had already happened. Already happened. So Jesus wasn't controlling whether it flowed out or not. He didn't have time in that situation to say, wait a minute, wait a minute. I got to determine whether I'm Supposed to lay hands on her or if this is God's will or something like that. It had already happened by the time he knew it. He immediately knew that it had happened. What am I saying? He wasn't controlling that. He wasn't controlling the flow of God's power. People's faith was controlling the flow of God's power. People that took it. Whether people took it or passively or maybe just touched to see if something was going to happen, it was determined by the take. Take. The flow is determined by the take. Hallelujah. Say it out loud. I'm a receiver. Amen. That's something we got to get real good at doing. Believe you receive. King James says, Mark 11:24, believe you receive. I say it this way sometimes. This is the way the Lord said it to me years ago. Receive means to take. If you look it up and believe. To believe means you have a firm persuasion. So I say it this way, take it with a firm persuasion. Did anybody in this line take it? Maybe the mic went off. Did anybody in this line. I'm talking about the line that came forward to have hands laid on them. That was your job, I take it. I'm persuaded. I take it with a firm persuasion. Glory to God. That's faith. That's faith's job. Hallelujah. And it's faith that receives.
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Anything. You can look back over your life and you hear Pastor J talking about taking. If you ever laid it down, let's say somebody laid hands on you, or let's say there was something at one point your faith did take, but it laid it down before it reached this realm, you can take that back up. You don't have to be ministered to again for that. Anything you lay down, you can pick it back up. You understand that when somebody maybe five, ten years ago laid hands on you for something and you didn't know what he just said tonight, and you go, wait a minute. I did not perform my act of receiving that power that was administered to you didn't leave you. It's still in there. It just went dormant. What's dormant? Inactive. Not dead. Inactive. You can activate it again. The problem with the world, the church world, religious world, is they focus on God's part, trying to get God to do their. Do his part. All that. If God will, You know, if God will. If God wants me healed, he'll. They're talking about God's part and totally oblivious to man's part. Why they're not taught. And so people are focusing on. I'm talking about the religious world, focusing on God's part. We're not even authorized to touch into his part. We're only authorized to do our part. Now, I love something that Brother Copeland says. He says this. God works with man from the inside out.
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Right?
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Now, that's what Pastor J's talking about. That inward man of the heart. The Bible calls him inward man. Your spirit man is an inward man. And when God deals with you, he ministers to you through that man. Not through the outward man, through the inward man. And when the inward man agrees with God, it's as good as done. From your standpoint, from your standpoint, how do you know if your inward man took it? Remember, he said it's perceivable when you take, when you receive. How do you know that the inward man took it? Because you're thrilled.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Inwardly, even though you don't see it, you go, ha. I got. I gots it. I gots it. There's a thrill. There's a thrill. There's something settled on the inside of you. You say, I don't understand that. This is the faith world we're talking about.
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That's right.
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We're talking about faith. So you have to understand anything God has for your life, it's ministered to your life through that inward man. Meaning it's received there first before it shows up out here. People are wanting it to show up out here so that their insides can agree. No, the insides agree first, and then the outside manifests that agreement. It testifies, it shows that agreement. God works with mankind from the inside out. And everything of this world is from the outside, trying to get in. Offense, bitterness, it shows up out here and tries to get in. When God ministers these things and we lay hold of them with our spirit, then it begins to work from the inside. And then it starts showing up in the body. Then it starts showing up in the finances. Anyone who received something out here received it first in here. We live from the inside out.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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We live from the inside out. And that's what he's talking about. Your answer exists in two forms. If you need healing, if you need prosperity, it exists in two forms. What is it? The invisible form. What's that? The spirit realm. Then the visible form. What's that? The natural realm. While it's still invisible, Faith says, I'll lay hold of it. I don't have to wait for it become visible first. While it's still unseen. While it's still invisible. We have faith in God that says it's ours. So we say, okay, I agree with what God says. I'm not agreeing with the natural realm. I'm agreeing with God's realm. And when we lay hold of it while it's yet invisible with that hand of faith, with our agreement, with our receiving, then it will become visible and take on its second form.
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Hallelujah.
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But just because it's invisible doesn't mean it's non existent. It exists in its invisible form in the spirit realm. In the spirit realm. Then he made a statement. Crying won't accomplish receiving. Emotionalism won't accomplish receiving. Dad Hagin talked about in his book called I Believe in Visions. He talked about how there was a time from the time he married Mom Hagin, he had an inward knowing that the plan of the enemy was to take her out and shorten her life for her to die prematurely. He sent that and he sensed that that time was approaching and she had some kind of a condition that the doctors wanted to operate on about. But they were concerned because they thought this could mean that she would not survive this. So dad Hagin had this sense, he never told her, but she, when she was talked to or counseled by the doctors, that this needs to be dealt with medically. She would not give her consent to an operation because she also sensed that it would mean a premature death. So dad Hagin had been talking to Jesus about this in his prayer time. In one service, Jesus at the end of a service, Brother Hagin was sitting down on the steps leading up to the platform because they were praying as a congregation together. And Jesus stood in front of him and said, I've come to answer your prayer. He knew what prayer he was talking about. It was talking about dealing with that, knowing of her premature death. And then he said to her, he said to dad Hagin, she will live and not die. But I have heard your prayers and I have come to answer them. She shall live. Then Jesus said something. This is dad Hagin. Jesus said something that absolutely melted me and I've never been able to forget it. Listen to this. He said, son, I did this because you asked me to. You don't know how I long to do for my children. I listen to that. He longs. He longs for us to receive everything he has already given provided made ours. He said, you don't know how I long to do for my children. Then he puts out the condition of his longing being met. He has a longing, but he wants his longing met. But we have something to do with his longing. He said, you don't know how I long to do for my children if they would. Only then he says, ask me. Ask me and believe me. Many times they beg, they cry and pray. Just because they're praying doesn't mean they're believing. Because they're praying, crying and begging. They're not praying, believing. Many times they beg and cry and pray, but they don't believe. And I cannot answer their prayers unless they have faith because I cannot violate my word. But how often I long to have help them if they will only let me. So crying and begging is not letting him, it's stopping him. If they will only let me, then he tells us how to let him. By taking me at my word, by bringing me their problems and trusting me to undertake for them. Once you see, say I receive it, I believe it. You're done worrying. You're done talking about it as a problem. Now you're talking about it as an answer. You understand that? Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. These are critical things to faith. Pastor Craig. Just come up, whatever's in your heart. 15 minutes. That's like nine o' clock fight. Not that I don't trust anybody. I'm just helping. I should have been kind and told him the time, too, right?
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Yeah.
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He didn't, though.
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I know.
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My wife was preaching. I got to talk real fast. You're going to have to listen up real fast. Okay. My wife was preaching a few weeks ago and she made a statement and it hit me very hard. And she said, by the Holy Ghost, anything that is against the message of faith and victory is a religious spirit. And I turned on the Christian radio. We're on radio, but I turned on just to listen. I was mortified. I was shocked and astounded at the dribble, at the cotton candy fluff that is coming off Christian television and radio today. And I'm just telling you the truth about it. And a lot of it has a form of godliness, but they deny power. And what we need is power. Faith and power work together. Faith activates power. We don't want to be religious. And what pastor just said, if you heard her, the religious world puts everything on God. Well, when God's ready. Well, when God wills it. Well, if God's in the mood. Well, if God. Maybe when you know anything that takes responsibility off you, you better be very wary of. Now, people get upset with that and say, well, you're doing. You're trying to do it. You're saying that you're. You're doing it. No, the power of God is What does the work, but the responsibility is on us in many, many capacities. And there is a graveyard of revelation about this, I think, at least in Canada. There is, I'm sure, in other parts of the world as well, where everybody is trying to put everything back on God. So if you'd read very quickly with me in Matthew, chapter eight and verse five. Matthew, chapter eight and verse five. And it says here, you know the story, but I will read it. Let's actually start verse five. And Jesus entered into Capernaum, and there came unto him a centurion beseeching him, saying, lord, my servant lieth at home, sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Jesus said unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof, but speak the word only my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, very important, having soldiers under me. This is a military man. And I say to this man, say to this man, go. And he goes, and to another, come. And he comes. And I say to my servant, do this. And he does it. And Jesus heard it. When he heard it, he marveled and said unto him that followed, verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith in all of Israel. The man wasn't talking about faith. He was talking about authority. He said, I have authority, and I say, and it obeys me. And Jesus said that authority is faith. Now, Mark 11:23, if you will say to the mountain, be removed, be cast into the sea, and don't doubt, but believe what you say will come to pass. You'll have whatsoever things you say. In other words, God wasn't in that equation other than his power moving the mountain. But we were commanded to say, Jesus said, you've got great faith because you've got a revelation of your saying you've got a revelation of your authority. And so faith. I mean, there's so many aspects of faith. It's a diamond with multiple aspects. We could have 100 people come for 15 minutes and no one say the same thing twice. Faith is such a multifaceted, glorious subject. But I'm just saying, what rose up in my spirit if I was called upon was the great responsibility of the believer to activate by their saying with their faith and command things and believe. But the thing is, a lot of people say so, but they really don't believe. If you have anything in the back of your little mind thinking, well, I'm not sure it won't listen to you. It Won't listen to you, Ernie Rabb. Dad Hagen would say about this man in the Philippines. And he had a property, he was building a house. Very short, compressing the story. But as he hired all these Filipino workers, and all of a sudden, they were screaming and kerfuffle. And he comes out and he sees this worker struggling with an invisible force. Everybody can see it, everybody can hear it. And the demon is biting him and blood is gushing and flowing everywhere. He can see the fangs going into his skin, but he can't see the demon. And he's screaming. And so Brother Reb understood that this is not a time to pray. This is not a time to pray. This is a time to use the authority of faith. Great faith was authority. And he walked outside. And I'm saying, not just with devils. You can do this with your body, you can do this with cancer. You can do this if your child's having nightmares. You can do this with anything that is not of God's kingdom. And he said, I bind you and I commend you. Get off that, you man. And he said something very important that I've always remembered. He said, you're not welcome on my property. This is my property. This is not your property. This is my property. I command you to go. That demon left. Let go. Left. They put the man in hospital. He was out for three weeks. He was seriously wounded with puncture marks all over his body. And all the workers stayed away because they're superstitious and they think it's going to come back. And so the witch doctor showed up on his property with a chicken and a pig. Dad Hagin told the story, and he came up to that to Brother Ernie Reb, and he said, listen, he said, according to our laws and customs here, you know, if this were to happen again, you will be responsible financially and legally. Because if somebody dies, then you have to take care of their wife and children for the rest of their life. That's how we do it here. So I've brought a chicken and a pig. We're gonna do a blood sacrifice to appease that demon. And Ernie Reb said, I don't want your chicken and I don't want your pig. And I tell you to get off my property. You and your chicken and pig aren't welcome on my property. And that devil is not welcome on my property. And I've told that devil he's not permitted back on my property. So he kicked the witch doctor out and he told all the workers, come on back, and they wouldn't at first. And finally they came on back and he said, because I say and I believe in faith, and I command unseen forces, they will obey me. And I'm in India at 20 years old, many years ago, and we're crossing a bridge. And I'm crossing, and the pastors won't come with me. Three of them. And I said, come on, pastors, we have to go to preach. Oh, no, we can't cross that bridge. Why, Pastors? Oh, there's a troll that lives under the bridge. I said, what are you talking about? That's a nursery rhyme. The Troll under the Bridge. Sing it. They said, this is not a joke. This is not funny. There is actually a troll. He lives under the bridge. I said, are you crazy? And they said, no, just last week, somebody tried to cross the bridge. And this unseen force grabbed them, pulled them 30ft off the bridge. They fell into the river and drowned them. And a whole crowd formed. And I heard. I said, holy Ghost, what do I do? And he said, go onto the bridge. I'm just telling you. So I said, I'm going. Are you coming? We're not coming. I walked into the middle of the bridge and a crowd formed because they were waiting for it to take me. It's like live entertainment. They were waiting for it to take me. And I stood in the middle of that bridge. I'm only young, but, you know, it doesn't matter how old or how young. It matters that you believe when you say to the mountain. But you've got to believe it. You've got to really, really believe it when you say, great faith is when you believe it will obey you. And anything, cancer, demons, anything will obey you if you speak. This is faith. And I stood in that. And I remember the people were gathering and some of them were eating, you know, and they're watching. They're waiting for it to kill me. And I said, I address you troll. And I thought, that sounds so weird, but that's what they told me it was. I said, I address you troll. I said, you hear me in Jesus name. And they started translating so the people could understand what I was saying. I said, I bind you in Jesus name. You'll never come onto this bridge again. And I just stood and everybody's waiting. It's like you could hear a pin drop. And I said, pastors, come. They said, oh, no. I said, pastors, come. It took me 10 minutes to coax those three senior pastors onto that bridge. Slowly, one step, they would put their foot and go like this to see if the devil would attack them. You know, that's a culture that has no revelation of understanding who they are in Christ. And of course, they eventually came and other people, and they told me later, they said there's never been another attack on that bridge. I don't have to see the troll. I don't have to feel the troll. It's really just a demon that they call a troll. But when you believe and you speak, I'm the head of my house. I'll end with this doctor. I don't know where I'm at, but I'll end. I think I have two minutes. Dr. Norvalhays. 847, 902. I've got too many. Dr. Norvalhayes. With Zona's 42 growths, 42 ugly growths, he went to heaven. Taking a step in his living room, transported to heaven. White cloud. Jesus spoke to him and said, how long you gonna stumble around in darkness?
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Darkness.
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How long? You, you, you, you, not me. You see the responsibilities on the believer. How long you gonna put up with those growths on your daughter's body? You see, you don't go to a church. If you go to a church that don't teach this, you'll put up with a lot. That's why you need a pastor and that's why you need a church. And we need crusades like this. But we don't just go to fancy fun events. We need a regular diet of faith and victory. How long are you going to put up with them? I'm putting up with them. I'm the. And he said, you're the head of your house. In other words, you're putting up with them. And he said, lord, he saw. And it dawned on him, I am putting up with them. What do I do, Lord? And he said, you're from heaven and those growths are not from heaven. Why are you putting up with them? He said, what do I do? He said, have you cursed them in my name like I cursed the fig tree? If you'll curse them from their roots, they'll die and disappear. If you believe and don't doubt. And he started descending from heaven into the earth's atmosphere. And he heard Jesus voice getting fainter and fainter. If you believe and don't doubt, you'll see the glory of God. Jesus called this type of power the glory of God. That's what Jesus said. If you believe and don't doubt, you'll see the glory of God. You'll see the glory. And he walked into that where she was having with Bobby, her boyfriend, watching a movie. And he said, zona, I've come from heaven. And she's all embarrassed and Bobby's shaking. And he says. He said, if I curse those graves, he said, do you believe it, Bobby? And he said, yes, Mr. Hayes. Whatever you say, Ms. Hayes. Yes, Mr. Hayes. Whatever YOU say, Mr. Hayes. And he said, I curse those gross in Jesus name. From your root, I believe you will obey me and you will die and disappear. This is the kind of faith we need back in the church. Instead of a bunch of wimpy Christians, we need this kind of power. But did you notice the gross didn't fall off that night? 40 days. 40 nights. And what did he do for 40 days and 40 nights is what Pastor talked about last night. He just said, praise God. Praise God. I thank you for removing the growths from my daughter's body. Praise God. You're removing the growths from my daughter's body? They are removed by faith. I've taken it and I've cursed them. And I believe it. On the 40th day, she's taking out clothes from her closet. She saw herself in the mirror. She knows where the growths are. She put some clothes on the bed. She came back. And her skin, all 42, had instantaneously disappeared with baby skin in return. It works. You might have to stand a little bit. It might not happen the moment Pastor lays hands on you, but if you will believe. Most people think if I went to heaven and Jesus himself spoke to me, it's going to happen the same day. But for him, it took 40 days of his faith being tested, but it did come to pass. And to this day, Zona is growth free. Doesn't matter what your problem is. You've got to believe. When you say something, it will obey you. Hallelujah. Thank God for the message of faith and victory. It's changed my life.
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I was talking to one of our church members, and they were in the military. I don't know, maybe 30 years or so. And he now works, you know, he's a senior man over a certain facility. And he said, Pastor Nancy, he said, working in the civilian world is hard for me. Because he said, in the military, if something was said, it was done. Yeah. He said, in the civilian world, people say things and they never fulfill it. You tell them to do something and they don't do it. He said, I don't. My mind cannot compute words unfulfilled. He said, my mind can't compute that. And I'm having to now Work among a society of people that words are not fulfilled to them. See, in heaven, words are fulfilled. And we're from heaven, words are fulfilled. We need to treat words as though they're true. God's words are true, dad Hagin would say to us, believing is acting like God's word is true. Believing is acting like God's word is true. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. Without acting like God's word is true, it's impossible to please God. The just shall live by faith. The just shall live by acting like God's words are true. That's why confession is so important. Because this realm looks like it's not true. But we're from another realm. With our faith, we're talking about God's realm dominating this realm. So it takes talking and words from God's realm to change this realm. That's why we keep confessing. And not just once. Because we're changing realms with words. With words, we're changing realms. When we get to heaven, we won't have to repeatedly confess things over a period of time because there's no opposition there. The opposition's on earth. That's why we have to more than once confess it. Because every confession takes us further past opposition. It's dealing with the opposition in the earth. That's why we're saying it more than once. Not because God's not doing it, but because opposition is trying to hinder it. And every time we say the Word, we're stepping past that opposition, past that opposition unto manifestation. Does that make sense? Yes. Then Brother Norville Hayes would often say to people, there was one person that came up to him and she was quite upset because she said, my husband was a faith man. He believed the Word and he died, you know, of a terminal condition. And she said. And he said to her, how many times did you hear your husband talk to that thing?
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Yeah, there it is.
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And she said, what do you mean? He said, how many times did you hear your husband say, cancer. You cannot kill me.
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Yes.
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How many times did he talk to it? She said, well, I never heard him say that. Then he didn't fulfill Mark 11:23. He wanted something to be removed, but he wouldn't talk to the mountain. Words, words. It's not enough that God says it. God says it so we'll know what to say. God doesn't say it so we don't have to say it. God says it so we'll know what to say. Because what God says is true. And then he tells. He feeds us the answer, and we just repeat it, believing that his words work for us. And then it happens. Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father. Father, I pray, I pray for this one, for the fullness, the unveiling. Let me have your hands, Father, for the next thing, the next thing that you have for him in clarity and in accuracy. So go home with the clarity. Go home and walk it out. Fulfill it. And even if it looks different than you thought, that's okay. That's okay. Just follow what he reveals. And I thank you, Father, for the revelation he needs. I thank you for it, Father. I thank you for it, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. That's why it matters that you be where God tells you to be. That couldn't have happened over video, over livestream. That couldn't have happened. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Because when I saw him, God said something. He didn't say something to me when he saw me. He said something to me when I saw him. That's the problem with thinking the digital ages of enough. Yeah, it's a help, it's a benefit, but it's not a substitute. Hallelujah. Just a little bit of instruction and not. Not really to. Just to you. Because, you see, you do see me, and I do see you. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Pastor Edwin, if you would just come, just whatever's in your heart. Hallelujah. Everybody's looking at the clock, so that'd be like 9:25.
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Thank you for doing the math.
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You're welcome.
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Amen. Turn with me to the. To the fourth chapter of Romans. Romans, chapter four. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Verse number three says, for what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. William Barclay's translation right here has always been a big help to me. Where it says, Abraham believed God. Barclay's translation says, Abraham took God at his word. Now get this. Abraham took God at his word, and this act of faith was accounted unto him for righteousness. Faith is nothing if it's not acted on. James said that faith without actions, it says works. Of course we understand. It's not talking about works unto salvation. It's talking about things that accompany the way you act, the way you behave, how you talk, what you do when you say you've believed God. If you believe God, that's good. But it's still dead. Faith. What is faith? Substance. Things hoped for, evidence of, not things of things not seen, still dead. Till you Act. Faith without action. Abraham took God at his word and this act of faith. So how did Abraham act on his faith? Well, if you go back and study the story in the book of Genesis, God changed Abraham's name to give him something to act on. Now, Abraham had gone by one name all of his life. And suddenly he has to tell all of his friends and everybody he knows. My name is no longer Abram. They'd called him Abram all his life, and he had to tell them, I am now the father of a multitude. He didn't have a multitude. He didn't have that. That hadn't happened to him yet. He. He had to change his action. He put action to his faith. When the man in the. In the third chapter of Mark, Jesus is there in the synagogue or. And he's preaching, there's a man there with a withered hand. Now, a withered hand. I don't have a picture of that, but I can just imagine. And. And the Greek said that the condition was not congenital. It wasn't something that he was born with. It was either the result of an accident or an illness. And it says that his hand had withered. In other words, that that hand had lost. He had lost use of that hand, and it had begun to shrivel up to atrophy. And Jesus said, stretch forth your hand. Now, that's the place right there where most people miss it. They believe they have their answer, but they won't stretch forth their hand. He said, stretch out your hand. And I can just imagine this, the thoughts going through this mind. That's what's wrong with me. I can't stretch out my hand. Can't you see, Jesus? My hand is withered. Jesus said, stretch out your hand. And when he acted on what Jesus said, the miracle took place. Glory to God. Too many believers are talking faith, meditating in the Scriptures, quoting the Scriptures, praying in tongues. And God has given you an action. Now, not everyone's action will be the same. You can't. You can't listen to someone else who has a similar situation to yours and do what they did. Because then you're not acting on the word of God. You're acting on somebody else's word. But for every situation, God has given you an action of faith. If you'll listen. You remember when. When dad Hagin told the story, we've all read it, how he was on the bed of sickness and he didn't understand what faith was. He would pray about his body and then he would look to see if his body was well, and he would just say, I was just sure God heard me. I was just sure that he had healed me. And then I'd looked at my body and it wasn't healed. I was still immobilized. And I'd begin to cry and say, lord, you know, I knew you. I just knew you had healed me this time. And he stayed in the word of not minimizing the word of God. That's the foundation. He stayed in the Word until he began to see it. He began to see that, oh, I've got to believe I receive it before I see it, before there's any manifestation. So he said he made that slight adjustment and he's just laid there in his bed. He said, lord Jesus, I just thank you. I believe now that I receive healing from the paralysis and the blood condition and the deformed heart. I just believe I receive healing from my bodies from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. But he still had to do something during this time. He tells the story. He said, now, Lord Jesus, if you appeared to me and stood right in front of me and said, son, your problem is you don't believe. He'd say. He said, lord Jesus, with all tenderness. He said, not in meanness, but I'd have to say, lord Jesus, you're lying about it.
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I do believe.
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And Jesus said something to him so important. He said, you believe as far as you know. And then the spirit said to him. The spirit said to him, not somebody else's story, not somebody else's testimony. The spirit said to him, healed people do not have any business being in the bed at whatever time it was ten o' clock in the morning. He said, healed people are up by 10 o' clock in the morning. Of course, that's not in our era, they're not. But. And he saw it. He saw that he had to give action. He had to give act. He had to act on his faith.
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Faith.
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I'm telling you, faith will not, will not produce until it's acted on. And again, that's where listening to the direction of the spirit, listening to the voice on that inward witness, on the inside, that inward voice, it's very similar to the inward witness. But instead of the witness is sort of a hunch. The inward voice is, your spirit will speak to you. And the Lord speaking through that inward voice said, you need to be up. Well, people aren't in the bed at 10 o' clock in the morning. And so when he put forth the effort, you know the story, he said, I'm getting out of this bed. He's acting on his faith now. And so he picked those legs up. He couldn't feel them. He couldn't feel anything. Swung his body around, put his legs down underneath. The only way I knew they were on the floor is I could see them. I couldn't feel them. And so he grabbed the headboard and pulled himself up. And he's just hanging there, just acting in his faith, just doing. And the enemy all along was saying, you're going to lay in the floor all day long. You know, your father, I think, is out of town, and somebody is, you know, grandfather, they're not going to be home. Nobody's going to be able to get you up. You're going to have to lay here all day. He was acting on his faith, and that act of faith energized and rejuvenated his limbs. He said he felt the.
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The glow of.
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And the. And the glory and the warmth of that healing virtue hit him in the top of his head, and it went out through his fingers and out through his toes, and he was completely, well, glory to God. Acting, acting, acting. Faith acts on what it believes. I love the story that Keith Moore tells. When he was teaching in healing school, there was a man that came up that was addicted. He was addicted to cigarettes. And he said, I just. I've tried to quit. I've tried all these different things to quit. I just can't quit. And Brother Moore, led by the spirit, no doubt, he said, I'll tell you what you do. He said he didn't tell him, well, you just got to put your cigarettes down. That's fine. The Lord made, There's a woman in my church. And when she was delivered from cigarettes, she was instantly just delivered. God just took it away. She never had any more desire for cigarettes, never smoked another cigarette. But Brother Moore told this man, he said, I tell you what you do. He said, every time you light up a cigarette, the holiness people wouldn't have gone along with this. He said, every time you light up a cigarette, you say, thank God I'm delivered from cigarettes. I'm delivered from smoking. And said. He did that. I don't remember what the story was. Several days. And then one day he started to, you know, to thump out a, you know, another cigarette out of the pack, you know, and. And started to light. And he thought, I don't even want this. I have no desire for this cigarette. What was he doing? His words were actions. Sometimes that's all the action you need are words. Other Times there's a physical act. But be led by the spirit of God and act on what the Lord says. Act on what the Word says and act what the Spirit the Lord says to you. Amen. Now I don't have to go. 15 minutes do. I am in.
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Hallelujah. The multifaceted flow of faith. Aren't you hearing so many aspects of it? You know, you're not hearing this down at the mall, you're not hearing this at the theater. These are things that are dealing with another realm so we can live like God in this realm. Amen. Aren't you blessed tonight? Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your word. We thank you. We thank you. Say this. I have the faith of God in me. I have the word of God in me. All that God has given is already mine. So I live acting like the word is true, talking like the word is true, thinking like the word is true. Because it is true in me. Hallelujah. Now can you think about that? Something you want changed? It might not be a cigarette, but talk it, talk it, talk it. Talk yourself into acting like it's true. Amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, ministers. Thank you. That was a bless. I enjoyed that tag team preaching. Can I tell you one of the first times I ever heard a tag team preaching? Because really my husband, Happy Caldwell, Jerry Savelle and Buddy Harrison, who was brother Hagin's son in law, they used to do meetings together. And the whole. All the meetings were tag team, tag team. One might, they might all preach something. One might minister by the spirit. They would just tag team and share it. So Dr. Dr. Sumrall loved it. He said he called them the Four Horsemen because he says, I've never seen such unselfishness in a service, you know, and the first Ed had never really heard me preach too much. And years ago, this was in the 80s, and he came to church on a Sunday night. We had a church there in Tulsa before he moved to California. And he came to church and he said, God told me that we're to have a tag team service. You could tell he was a little frightened by that. He didn't hide it very well. So I said, who's going first? He said, you go first. So I can clean up anything. Did that offend me? No, because if something needs cleaning up, I want it cleaned up. I should have given him something real big to clean up, but he didn't have to clean up anything. But I love the tag team preaching. There's a freshness in that Right, right. But that's not just something I came up with. The Holy Ghost led it for this service. I love the diversity of the Holy Ghost. That's why you don't want to live on autumn autopilot with your services. Amen. That doesn't mean that every Sunday morning service is going to be like a miracle crusade service. It doesn't mean that because in the home, there's simply a greater order in the home services of a local church. Just like your home has greater order. Right. You know, it's one thing your kids. Have you ever found out your kids love going and spending the night with other people. You want to know why they don't have clean the kitchen, they don't have to clean the bedroom. There's not all the duties. They're treated like guests. So they come home and think, well, I'm treated better over there. No, you don't even belong over there.
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So you're not treated better over there because you really don't have a place you're leaving there. Right. But home gives you a place to belong, so it gives you a system to fall into. Your local church may have more of a system in the service services, but don't live them on autopilot. Amen. Be open to the Holy Ghost because it blesses us. Amen. Well, stand with me tonight, Father. We thank you for what you have for us and we receive of it. We give you glory and thanks. Just lift up your hands and thank him. We thank you, Father, what we've received tonight. You know, I love something, dad. Dad Hagin was quoting PC Nelson. He was a general in the body of Christ when Dad Hagin was young in ministry. And PC Nelson said this to young ministers. Now you're listening because I'm not dismissing you. This is not a dismissal statement. I'm telling you. I'm letting you change position around, you know, all of you needs a little bit of switch around. But dad, PC Nelson would say to these young ministers, he said, every day, feed yourself on the subjects of faith and healing because either you're going to need it or someone you come in contact with is going to need it. What's that mean? We can't live behind in this great. The great truths of God's word on faith and healing. Why we needed it. Without faith, we can't conduct business with Heaven. We need to be able to conduct business with him every single day. Amen. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at defrainministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.