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And this is where miracles begin. When you hear. When you hear, that's the beginning. You'll remember at the marriage when Jesus and his disciples were called there and they ran out of wine. And Mary comes to Jesus like he's the head of the catering department and involves him in something that's not his business. And she says, they've run out of wine. That's probably the first time he's heard it. But she's all up in it. She knows. Who knows? Maybe she had a role in some of that, the arranging of things, I don't know. But she needs help. And notice this. She was interested that they have their supply restored. Do you really think God was real interested that the wine not run out? Jesus wasn't real interested in that, but it was her interest. And she involved him in what she was interested in and put a demand on him. And I love it, because she goes to him and says, they've run out of wine. And he says, well, woman, what's that got to do with me? It's not yet my time. She decided it was his time. She decided it was his first miracle. She helped him. She believed. Yeah, and she helped him. And I love it because when she said to him, they have no more wine. And he answered and said, woman, what's that got to do with me? My time's not yet come. It says, she turned to the servant, I'm done talking to you. Done talking to you. This is a mama with a son. I love the dynamic here. It's a mama with a son. And she says, I'm done talking to you. She talked to the servant and she said, whatsoever he says, do it. She initiated the miracle by putting a demand on him, saying something. How do you put a demand for God to say something? Turn to him. I'm sitting here. I'm listening. You've got something to say. You've always got my help. You've always got my answer. I'm here to listen. I put a demand on that. What you're going to see, say by listening, it's listeners who put a demand on the saying. And so she said, whatsoever he says to you do it. Notice she didn't say whatsoever. You figured out whatever plan, whatever backup plan you may have for empty wine buckets, do that. No, whatsoever. He says to you do it. And they're thinking, well, what's he got to do with the catering of this thing? No, she put a demand on him to say something. God is saying something. Are we listening? Are we listening? That's our job, to listen to what he would say. Then you stop bumping into walls and trying this and trying that and trying this. And then you're. Then you get disappointed in your own faith life because you think your faith isn't working, when really it's the lack of hearing. To have a miracle, you have to hear. To have a miracle, you have to hear something. How many times are there testimonies of healing under Jesus earthly ministry? They heard report, they heard something, they heard something. They didn't just randomly start doing, I'm doing this, I'm going to do that. They heard something that directed the accuracy of what they did. And so Mary turns to the servant, says whatsoever he says to you, do it. And what he said made no sense. They're hand washing, foot washing pots. He says, fill them up. Remember when they bore the wine to the governor of the feast or whatever? He had no idea that came out of the foot washing pot. God uses vessels you would have never chosen. Doesn't matter that you feel like you're just only qualified as a foot washer. Guess what? You're the pot it's coming out of. Whatsoever he says to you, do it. And he said, fill up the water pots. So they did it. Labor intensive work. They don't have running water, you know, it's haul it, haul it, haul it. And they do it. And then they said, go give this to the governor of the feast. It's like you go give it to him. You don't want to say it, you go give it to him. We don't know when it turned into wine, we don't know. But they just did what he said. They didn't figure it out. They didn't try to tell him why this wouldn't work. Honor his leading enough to not argue with it. Amen. Praise the Lord. And when they did what he said, what he said bypassed every natural process. Nobody planted a grape seed, nobody grew a grapevine, nobody tended it, nobody reaped the harvest of it, nobody put it through the fermentation process, nobody bottled it. Miracles bypass natural processes. And if you struggle with that, there'll be miracles lost to you. That God has for you. God will set aside laws because his law is higher. The law of the flow of miracles, the law of faith. Amen. Praise the Lord. Faith requires revelation to work. That's why you have to hear first, what is God saying to you? Because it requires revelation, then you're not out. There's no risk to the faith life. Because when you're in faith, you're acting on what you've already heard. You're not acting on something you calculated and figured out. The only part of the Word that will work for you is the part you have respect for. I was raised in a denomination of precious people, but we didn't know anything about salvation, why we didn't respect that part of the Word. And because we didn't respect it. No one got saved, no one got healed in our church growing up because there was no respect for Jesus. Healer, the part of the Word you respect is the part you'll partake of. And if you don't respect something, although it's available, you can't partake of it. Jesus the healer showed up in Nazareth, but they couldn't partake because he did not respect him as healer. Amen. Praise the Lord. So for God to lead me into salvation, he had to lead me to a place where he was honored as Savior, where he was honored as healer, he had to lead me to a different place. When you need to go further. Sometimes it's dangerous to go to a church that doesn't honor. Even out of ignorance, it's still a dishonor. Amen. Go with me, if you would, to Second Kings, chapter five. Second Kings, Chapter five. Something I want to encourage you in. We're going to minister to people who need healing tonight. But in ministering of that healing, anointing, it will never dismiss us from doing what God's dealing with us about. God will not use a healing line to override his dealings. Amen. There was one woman in one of Hagin's meetings, and she came for the purpose of being ministered to. She had physical condition. And he would tell the people, if you're going to be in more services, don't jump into the healing line the first night. Hear the word for a while. Give your faith that advantage of hearing and hearing. And so she was going to be there for the length of the meeting. So she decided, I'm going to take his counsel on that and I'm not going to get in the healing line. Well, while he was teaching in a morning meeting, he was teaching on forgiveness, walking in love and she was reminded for over 25 years her brother and her had been on the outs because when their parents died and there was an inheritance issue that they didn't agree on something, and so they broke fellowship over it. And while she's sitting in that service, God begins dealing with her about that. So she, after the service, she goes to a phone. Back then, when you didn't have them in your pocket, she went to a phone and she called him and she said, I just wanted to repent to you over my dealings with you regarding the inheritance. And he says, well, I've been thinking about calling you and I was gonna call you. And she says, well, I'm glad I called, cause I wanted to repent to you. And he says, well, no, it's partly my fault too. She says, no, it's my fault. And they kept going back and forth whose fault it was. And so she said, well, just so we don't get into strife over that, let's just share the fault. She went back to her hotel room, laid down and took a nap. And when she woke up, every one of her physical conditions were gone. She said, I was trying to look for a reason to get in the healing line that night. And I couldn't even find one. Because what God dealt with her about fixed it to where she didn't have to get in a healing line and try to override the dealings of God. We're gonna lay hands on you tonight, but it's never gonna dismiss any of us from the dealings of God. Amen. Second Kings, chapter five and verse one. It says now, Naaman, captain of the host of King Assyria, was a great man with his master and honorable. Just because you're great in the eyes of men doesn't mean you're great in faith or great in spiritual things. He was a great man with his master and honorable because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a leper. And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought many captive out of the land of Israel, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid. And she waited on Naaman's wife, and she said to her mistress, would God my lord, were with the prophet that is in Samaria, for he would recover him of his leprosy. Look at this. This little girl is carried away into captivity, but yet she's still interested in the one. She's basically a slave to getting help. What a right heart that is right now, Flip down to verse nine, it says, so Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot and stood, stood at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him saying, go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, or he was angry and went away and said, behold, I thought. There you go. Circle that one. I thought. I thought I got a plan of how God's going to do this. I thought, I thought it through. I thought, he will surely come out to me. Why? Because he's a man of greatness and honor among his own. But there are different arenas than your own arena. I thought, he will surely come out to me and stand. So he's envisioned how this whole thing's going to happen. He's going to come out, he's going to stand, he's going to take a very noble position, and he will come out and stand. And he will call on the name of the Lord his God. He's going to make a display, and he will strike his hand over the place and recover the leper. Well, that's pretty good imagination. Since you've never seen that done. The miracle you need, you've never seen for you. So don't tell him how he gonna do it for you. And so then he goes on further with his frustration in verse 12. And he lists, these rivers of Damascus. They're better than the waters of Israel. In other words, the land I come from, it's better than this stuff. These are dirty waters. May I not wash in them? What? The rivers. I like the rivers I'm used to. I decide what waters me. May I not wash in them and be clean? What's the answer? No, you may not. No, you may not. No, you may not. So there's your question answered. No, you may not. You can't just do anything you want and get his result. You just can't. So, no, you may not. No, Naaman, you may not. So he turned and went away in a rage. Wow. You need something, buddy? You better not be getting mad. I don't think you got much platform for madness here. So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servant came near. Brother, this servant was taking his own life in his hands. This man's ticked off. And you're a servant. Servants really want to not be the first one to be around the madman. And his servants came near and spake to him and said, my father, your approach mattered. He didn't say, you Know you ain't all that. No, they're appealing to him and they know he's wrong. But how honorable they are in their approach because they're going to help bring him into an honor flow. So he said, my father, See, they're saying words of respect, even though he's not acting respectful. My father, if the prophet had bid thee some great thing. What's that mean? Something hard. Something real hard. Why, he's a military man. He is used to very daring things. He's used to things that set him apart. He's willing to risk things, and there's no risk in what he's told to do. And he said, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? You would have done something that had risk and daringness tied to something of hardship for you as a man. You would have done that. How much? Rather than when he said to thee, wash and be clean, he gave you something easy. He gave you something easy. The man was tripping over easy. So see, it appealed to him. He goes, yeah, that sounds right. Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God. And his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child. And he was clean. Naaman almost lost his miracle because he was not honoring the simplicity of the word he heard, It matters who you have around you when you need a miracle. It matters because if he would not have had men that cared about him, it matters that you don't just have people around you when you do a miracle who care about their doctrine. They have to care about you and they have to care about what will help you. So this man, he was offended by three things. Three things almost tripped him up. And that was number one. The prophet did not come out himself and give him personal attention. He sent out his servant to tell this man of military valor what to do. And because he did not get the proper attention from the man of God, attention he thought was proper, he was almost gonna bypass his miracle. Then the next thing is, the location offended him. I don't like that river. What if Abraham would have decided when he went to offer Isaac, I think I'll pick this mountain. This one's closer, the other one's several days trip. This one's closer. Just go there. Because the ram as a substitute was on the mountain where God said to be. The ram's not on the mountain you picked. And the one that's closest to your house and the one that's most convenient for you, the ram is on the mountain where he told you to be. And Naaman, the healing is in the dirty waters where God told you to dip in. It's not in every flow. And the third thing that almost tripped him up was the ease of the instruction he was so used to. He was, he was a fighting man, he was a man of war, he was a man of strategy, he was a man of risk and daring. And God just slipped him something easy. And ha ha, I can't do that. And God just says, just give your tithe. I can't do that. It's just easy. It's easier than going out and earning by the sweat of the brow that has sorrow attached to it. Amen. We can't direct God in how to work our miracle. We have to listen to the performer of the miracle, the Holy Spirit, because he will lead us into cooperating with him. Years ago there was a family in the church and some of. Some of their family members would come regularly and some wouldn't come regularly. And there was a man, I would say he's in his 30s and he came for a short time and then left and didn't come back over a several year period. And when he came back, he had aids. And because he had aids, he had cancer, he had tuberculosis, because the AIDS of course destroys immune system, so now you're susceptible to ravaging diseases. So he comes back in his 30s and he's got AIDS, he's got cancer, he's got tuberculosis. He came to a miracle service that my husband was holding there at our church and Ed laid hands on him. He was in a wheelchair, he was on feeding tubes. He had a nurse that was around the clock because his care was so extensive. And so Ed laid hands on him and the power of God went into him and it was obvious there was changes happening. And Ed said to the man, you come back Sunday and you testify to what God's done. So he goes home, they call us the next morning and they tell us he was bound to a wheelchair. He's out of the wheelchair, he's walking. He was out of a feeding tube. He's off the feeding tube. He's eating, eating everything. Every symptom, all the pain has left. He's just obviously a miracle has been worked. So he says, I'm going to go. He said, Dr. Dufresne told me to come and give my testimony the next service, so I'm going to go. And family members around him said, well, don't you know that the doctor said that you can't be out in public because you could catch pneumonia. You got aids, you got cancer, you got tuberculosis, and you're trying to protect yourself from pneumonia. And they appealed to him out of their own thinking, not out of what God said. What did God say they should have said? The man of God said to come back. We're going to help get you back there. We will pack you up, haul you out, prop you up if we have to, but you're going. It matters who you have around you and who you're listening to when you need a miracle because their unbelief can stop your flow. And he listened to them. And two weeks later, I performed as few funeral. The disease didn't kill him. The doubt and unbelief of those he listened to. Amen. Be someone who helps and encourages someone in their miracle. Don't you trip up over their miracle and then end up tripping them up. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. God has miracles for us. We believe in miracles. We honor what God tells us to do in a service. I remember Pastor Amy. We were in Fredonia, New York, and I don't remember what year it was. And during the praise and worship, it was a morning service. I was going to preach that morning, but I hadn't gotten up there yet. They were doing the praise and worship portion. And she just took off running around the. It was a smaller room, you know, not as large as this. And she took off and she ran around the building and the room there in the sanctuary. And she came back and she stood back at her seat, and the word of the Lord came to her and said, you just ran in your new home. And what was it? Within a couple weeks, they got a new home. Fabulous home. Large home. Large home. Can't I just. Why do I have to dip in that water? Why do I have to run? Just whatever he says to you, do it. Amen. Honor that he knows more than us. Honor that he's the performer and he's the worker and he's trying to get us into the place where we receive what he performs, not the performers. Amen. What if she had to run? I don't know what house she'd be living in. I don't know the struggle that they would have had of getting a different home or less than just whatever he says to you. And you know what? It might not sound like what he said to anybody else. That's okay. That's okay. I don't know of anybody else that. That was told in the Word Go. Dip seven times. It doesn't matter that your word doesn't sound like anybody else's word. Don't compare your word, just obey it. Honor and reverence the word enough to do your part and perform your side. And he will always perform his side. Amen. Stand with me to your feet. Father, we thank you tonight. We thank you for your word. It's a lamp to our feet. It's a light to our path. We are so grateful for your word. How we love thy law. It is our meditation all the day long. What you say to us, we give it its proper place in our life. We're so, so grateful for your word. We're doers of it. Whatsoever you say to us, we do it. Say that after me. Whatsoever. Whatsoever. Whatsoever he says to me. That's what I do. Not what I figured out, not what I calculated, not what I planned, what he says. Hallelujah. Our miracles in our hearing and then obeying what we hear. Hallelujah. Jesus, you're a wonderful healer. We praise you. We glorify. We honor you. We magnify you. We thank you so much. We thank you so much. We give you glory and honor. Hallelujah. God so desire that people receive their answer, their healing, their health restored to them that he has more than one method. And this is just one method we'll minister tonight. Laying hands on the sick, that's one method. There's other methods. And so whatever method and whatever he tells you to do, value that. Amen. But we're going to implore and employ this one method tonight. So if you're in here and you say, I want hands laid on me for healing, let me see how many hands we have. Just raise your hand if you need hands laid on you. Raise it real high so we can see. Hallelujah. I'm going to ask, too, that some of the ministers that are here that have healing and anointings on their life, that they'll assist us in this, too, because there's certain. There's certain arenas of healing that God will use them in. And we honor those gifts that are in them as well. Amen. If you've got a heart condition tonight, anything with your heart, high blood pressure, anything like that, come up here and we'll minister to you. Hallelujah. Those of you with heart conditions, come, come up here. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Congregation. How many of you know it matters to us that they receive what they need? It matters to us. So that means we're all in on this part, even if. Even if we don't need to come up in a healing line, we're all in because we're fitly joint together. And it matters to us that they receive what Jesus paid for them to have. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So release your faith with us. Hook up with us. There's a corporate faith, united faith that goes into operation and it can lay hold of a greater measure, a greater flow of power. So you release your faith with us. And those of you that are in here tonight and you say you already know. I want to have hands laid on me tonight. It's our privilege to do that. But I want you to say something. You declare something with us. And these that are up here, you declare this. Say, when hands are laid on me, the healing power of God will go into my body. It will drive out pain and symptoms, sickness and disease, and I shall be whole. Jesus, I worship you. You're my healer. You're my healer. I reverence you as my healer. I respect you as my healer. I have regard for you as my healer. I thank you for it, Father. I thank you for it. Be whole in Jesus name that heart be whole. Whole in Jesus name that heart be whole in Jesus name that heart be whole in Jesus name. We thank you, Father. That heart be whole in Jesus name that heart be whole. There it goes in love. That heart be whole in Jesus name that heart be whole in Jesus name. How many of you know if body parts or new parts of the heart are needed? Angels have. Angels will bring them. They'll bring them. Amen. Angels aren't healers, but they cooperate with healing power. Amen. They're spare parts. Don't be concerned about the severity of your condition. Hallelujah. Healed in Jesus name. We thank you for a heart whole. Made whole in Jesus name. In Jesus name. For. For you or for this one? For you. Father, we thank you for healing. We thank you for the wholeness that belongs to her. That heart be healed in Jesus name. That heart be healed in Jesus name. That heart be healed in Jesus. There goes in that power that heart be. Oh, there it goes in. In Jesus name. Hallelujah. For you or for the baby? What's the matter with her? Father, we thank you for healing wholeness in Jesus name. Every bit of the difficulty leave in Jesus name. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it. She's beautiful. Beautiful. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Pastor Chris, what areas does God use you in with healing eyes? Okay. Anybody you need healing with your eyes. Come up here. Pastor Chris Cody will lay hands on you, minister to you. Praise the Lord. Holly.