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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. Hallelujah. Now, you think about it. When the Hebrews advanced through the Red Sea, then they danced, and you notice that's the last time they ever danced. And that's the last time they ever advanced. Notice it. Amen. If you need to advance, start dancing. You need to advance, you start dancing. That's exactly right. That's the truth. Amen. That's right. Dad Goodwin said whenever the finances would look like they're gonna start running low, he'd go in his office, shut the door, and start dancing.
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Because you advance through that release of faith, through the D. You know, Pastor Debbie and I, she's staying at my home, and. And we were driving out last night, and I was telling her something that happened years and years and years ago. I was invited to do a meeting. And in that service, I. I walked out and I was ministering by the spirit to people, and I ministered to a certain lady about, you know, that. That the future's bright and take hold of God at his word and something like that. And I saw her grab hold of a certain part of her body, and I thought, she's just been diagnosed with something. Come to find out, she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. And whenever she got the diagnosis, her pastor, she was. They were leaders, her and her. This woman and her husband were leaders in the church. They weren't fivefold ministers, but they were a great support to their pastors and very dear to their pastors. And so the pastor's wife, when she got that support, got that report, she came over to this woman's house. The woman was in bed, and she crawled up in bed and cried with her. And I thought, death sentence. And she ended up dying. Why? When you know something, you dance your way into the answer, you don't cry. It matters if you. Why was she crying? She was seeing the wrong end in her image, and she set the wrong end. And God in that service was trying to rewrite. You can have a different ending. And I tell you what, whenever you get something, a diagnosis, a circumstance that speaks loud, you talk back. You write the ending. You write the ending. Amen. When Ed went home to be with the Lord, my focus for days was just worshiping around, walking around, praising God. I praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. I praise the Lord. And in that came the clarity. In that came the instructions. In that came the direction. Because if I take a Sad grieving posture. Then I write a different ending. It matters. When you get a report, you. You better dance your way past that report. Shout your way. And can I say this? You can't just pray your way out. You better faith your way out. Because faith doesn't just pray and pray and pray. Faith says some things. Faith dances. Faith shouts, faith praises. Amen. Some people go to praying when they need to go to praising. I'm not against prayer, but faith, faith, you take something, you take it. You take it. You don't have to pray your way into taking. Now, I'm not saying don't pray. God may show you something to adjust to, correct. Talk to him. But I'm just saying if the last thing you do is pray, you're off. Because your prayer has to end you at praising. Hallelujah. So when you need to advance, dance your way forward. Dance your way forward. If you need out of something, dance your way out. Praise your way out. Because that's simply an expression of releasing faith. Amen. We're not just moving. We're learning to release our faith through laughter, through dancing, through shouting, through singing. These are all expressions through which we release our faith. Amen. Hallelujah. Well, we've had a good week so far, but I know many of you are just waiting around for this morning. Cause Stephen Dufresne, come up here.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. I saw Jesse come up. I was thinking about him, and right when I thought about him, I see him come out of the shadow. All right, Tony, what you got? You got a little bit for me? It's. I want to hear something a. A little different. That one didn't do it for. Sam. Hallelujah. Are y' all awake this morning? Praise God. That's a blessing. That's a blessing. Thank you, Tony. Thank you, Jesse. I used to play that thing. I couldn't ever play it, though. My mom forced me to play something, and that's what I picked. But you do a lot better than I used to do. Praise God. Praise God. Well, you may be seated. Greet someone, say hi, good morning. Do whatever you want. What a blessing to be with this wonderful group this morning to speak faith to you. We've had a good week. Dr. Bill was amazing and wonderful and such a blessing. We got a lot of stuff there, and it's just been a good week. Amen. Well, this morning, I want to talk about faith, and I want to. I want to talk about healing and faith, both in one. This morning, I want to Minister on giving up. Is that funny? Giving up is something that we all can do, and some of us are doing it without really knowing we're doing it. You know, And I've been thinking about this, because when I lay hands on people and I pray for people, I notice that sometimes they're not getting it. But if I ask them how they're doing, they'll have a voice of victory, but they're not getting it. And I noticed they've given up. And I noticed something here that you can have a voice of faith with an action of giving up. Isn't that true? Isn't that true? And this is how I look at life. I'm not pointing to nobody. I'm not trying to make no one feel bad. I'm just seeing life. And if you want to get offended, that's up to you. But one thing about me is when projects to me are unfinished, I don't sleep well. And I won't start a project unless I can kind of finish it, because men's yards are littered with stuff that's not finished. Now, I'm not judging nobody. I'm just saying it's evaluation. And my dad didn't teach me to be like that. And if you go to a man's backyard, a lot of times they have all these cars laying in the back, and every one of them has a vision, right? They have a vision of what it could be, of how it should be, but nothing's happening. And so they go to the first car and say, this is a hot rod that I'm going to rebuild, and it's going to be like this, and I'm going to redo this motor. Well, why haven't you done it? All right, come on, now. Well, because of certain situations, really. Come on, now. And then they go to the next car. Look at all this stuff that I'm going to be doing. I know. Billy's just crawling. I'm not talking to you, Billy. I'm not talking to you. I never looked at you. But Kelly's just smirking like crazy. And what this is, is it's a vision. But there's no execution of the vision. And there's excuses why it's not gonna happen. Have you ever been to someone' house and you walk in and they say, oh, excuse this or this or I was gonna do that. They don't want to really tell you that they're not gonna do it. So if we be honest, let's walk into the garage and you can say, you know, you see all this crap on this house, I'm never gonna do that. I'm just gonna leave it because I'm lazy. You won't say that. You won't say that. Always something you can come up with to excuse getting it done. So basically, all these cars, I'm not looking at this one. All these cars have vision, but no execution. Because there's something why I can't do it. Whether it's money, time, whatever, and it's excuses. At the end of the day, you had a vision, you brought it in, you started on it, and then you rolled it to the back of the property. So they did a survey of how many people actually finish those types of projects. They actually will start them. And with six months, they're done. And it sits in the back in a bucket of bolts and the panels are laying down and all this stuff and it's not done. Only 10 to 15% of men will ever accomplished their vision for a car. 10 to 15%. So that leaves 90% of men. But if you go ask an 80 year old man, oh, I see that truck in the backyard, you know what? He'll have a vision for it. He'll have a vision for it. You're 80 years old. What are you, what are they going to put you dead in a casket, in it and roll you to the graveyard? How about you live your life and enjoying it? No, you didn't enjoy it. You just kept a vision. But really you gave up. Let's be honest here. Let's just say, how about we walk to your backyard and say, you know, see all those cars? I actually just gave up. And I've been lying to myself that I'm gonna get them done. That's really the truth? That's the truth. I don't know. What kind of women hobbies do you have? You guys like to knit, sew clothes? I don't know, like, I don't know what women like, but whatever. You like makeup or, you know, all those things. I was gonna say something. I better not. But you know, whatever your hobby is, you'll notice there's an excuse why it's not finished. And I'm sober enough to say, steven, you're a loser and you're lazy. Why don't you get up and do it? Quit making excuses. Time's not relevant. Well, I don't have time. If there is water pouring out of your ceiling at your house, I'm sure you're gonna find time to get it fixed. So all of a sudden, what if you walked in Oh, I don't have time for that. And you walk off. You wouldn't do that. No. Right. You would get it fixed. So all of a sudden what you were doing can be put on hold. So don't tell me, don't tell me you didn't have time. Time's not relevant. Then start at 4 in the morning. Oh, my God. That's really early. So giving up can be cloaked with faith. Okay, write this down. Vision. Giving up can have a voice of victory and an action of failure. Write that down. So let's go to numbers 20 and 8. Numbers 20 and 8, can you put it up on the screen. Like Bill said? We gotta get someone new back there. They don't know the last guy did better. They don't got it yet. We need the other guy. I'm just giving you a hard time. If you can. I'm not gonna mess with you. Too bad. So here is Moses. And Moses has been. You know what he's been doing. And so basically here God is promoting him to a new place to get away from a physical object and to use his voice. And he says, I want you to take the rod and you and your brother gather the people together and I want you to what? Speak to the rock before your eyes and it will yield water. Thus bring forth the water of the rock and give drink to the whole people and their flock. Verse 11. And Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice. With what? The rod. So did he do what he was told to do and the water came out abundantly. Verse 12. And the Lord spoke to Moses because you did not. What? Believe. Believe. So he did an action of faith, but he didn't believe that his words would carry through. The body of Christ is littered with people. That I can ask them if they're believing, they will tell me 100%. Yes. But really, they're lying. They've given up. Amen. What time is it? Okay, so basically, if I said, I have never heard someone tell me this. There is people that have come up to me and said, I need to lose weight. And I look at them and go, yeah, you do. You're pretty heavy, right? And the next time I see them, they're no different. But if I ask them, hey, how's it going? What are they going to tell me? I'm working on it. I'm getting better. You're a liar. The truth is, why don't we just be straight and say, you know what? I can't help myself. And I go down at 3 in the morning. And I eat a pound of cake and I eat a hamburger before I go home to my family. That's really the truth. And I'm not getting better. I'm getting worse. I would appreciate that, but they won't tell me that. What are they gonna tell me? I'm doing better? I'm getting better? No, you gave up. You quit. Let's be honest here. You gave up. That's really the truth. Am I right, Pastor? We gotta dig through them and finally find out the truth. I ate a pound of hamburgers before I came down here. I can't help myself. That's the truth. So he says, because you did not believe me. He's basically telling him, you will not go where you needed to go. And so we go to Deuteronomy 34. 4. And he says, here, I'm going to just kind of skip through it. He says, I will give it to your descendants. I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over. So he knew he messed up, and he knew he was doing part of faith, but not what he was told to do. And what was that strike of the rod? It was, I'm giving up because I can't believe. Believe that. And that is something we can all fall into of where we become. So we're speaking faith, but not acting faith because it's not biblically correct to not do what it says it would do. We're supposed to speak faith, but really we're not doing it. Let's go to. Where do I want to go? Luke 1:18. Luke 1:18. My son came up last night. He goes, yo, you preaching tomorrow? My friends are pumped because they say you're funny and you don't preach long. They like you. So I thought, well, if they like me, the adults must love me. I guess. I don't know. So here Zacharias has been praying for a son for generations. A long time. I don't. Maybe decades. I don't know the correct word. I wasn't that smart. But 30 years, 40 years, whatever, right? And he's praying. And if someone were to ask him, what? What would he say? That God is going to give me a son? Is that what he would say? That's what he would say. But really, what does he believe? He believes it's over. It's over, it's over. And so he's saying, here. And the angel came to him and said, how should I know this? For I'm an old man and my wife is well advanced in years. So he's believing with saying, but not believing it in here. So what has he done? He's given up. But he wouldn't say that. And then the angel calls him out on the carpet and he's really telling what's inside of him. Now it's passed from me. It's no longer possible. And he says, and he says, behold, you will be mute, not able to speak until the day that these things take place. So it shows us it's possible that even though that you're believing that you cannot believe it in here. And your circumstances around you have tamed you to a way that you no longer believe that it's possible to happen in your life. But we would speak faith, but not execute it through doing what we're supposed to do. Faith is always in action. If we were to say it like this, if that man said, you know what? Today I'm pulling one of those cars out and I'm going on the website and I'm buying one thing. Because I'm not going to let time and money dictate what my dream is, what I have in my spirit for it. Why don't you just do something towards that way? Why do you gotta make excuses? Well, I don't feel like it. Who cares? Because we can always come up with some excuse, but really we've given up. And I'm so nice, you know, I don't always come to someone's house and see something and they tell me something, I go, go, you're just a liar. You just giving up. Let's be honest, they'd be shocked. You can say that. So it's important that we keep that faith, that faith is always a physical movement, a physical movement to the words that we're saying. Isn't that true? So if you tell me you're going to lose weight and the next time I see you, you don't look it, I'm gonna assume you gave up. The holidays are rough. And if you tell me it's not possible for you to lose weight, well, you gain the weight, you can get it off.
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That's right.
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Are you just picking on chubby people? No, I'm not picking on chubby people. But how many times have we said we're gonna do it and don't do it, and now we have to lay down to button our pants because we're losing weight. No, no, no, no, no. You're getting bigger. You're getting bigger. Pants than you. They do write this down. Movements must be made, even if it's very small. There you go, There you go.
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That's so good.
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I was sitting down a couple days ago and I just took a shower and I'm thinking about. And there was two things I didn't do that day. I had to put a fuse in my truck and I had to check the oil. And I was thinking about it and it started to really bother me. And I thought it would take me five minutes, but I don't feel like doing it. But I said, steven, why don't you quit being a lazy person and get up and just go do it real quick. And so I got up, I had my pants on, you know, I just took a shower and I went and did those things. And after that I felt better. And I thought, what if I just lived my life with all those things adding up? How would I feel at the end of the day, you know? And I just live like that. I convict myself. When's it going to get fixed? Well, stop it, stop it. Just get it done. You know, I have seen ministers, people that have been in faith longer than I've been alive. And you'll go talk to them full out, faith speaking, but no execution of the faith. So what have they done? They've given up, but they've convinced themselves that they are actually still in faith. Because nobody wants to say, you know what, I've given up. We have convinced ourselves of things that aren't true. We've all done it right. We can make excuses till the end of time because nobody likes failure. And we will always make an excuse. So it's important that excuses aren't made. Why don't you just be straight with me and say, you know what? I'm not believing for a new building. I'm really not. I'm saying it, but I'm not doing anything. Let's just be straight. So what's it come down to? You have to say, am I giving up? Yeah, I probably am. Then fix it, get it done. I thought to myself, I thought, you know what? I don't want to live my life with a car sitting down there and I can't enjoy it. And I look at it and just talks to me and I go and I make an excuse why I can't do it. Doesn't matter, just get it done. God is more than enough. You say, well, that's a luxury item. Who cares? Then do it. Amen. I'm telling men, if you want to get it done, get it done. Quit making excuses, whatever. I don't know what you want in life. Maybe it's not cars, maybe it's a deck, whatever. Why don't you just shut up and get it done? You know, faith is speaking, but it's acting. I don't care if you just go buy a box of nails. It's movement, you know, I mean, you could do something. Movement. What are you waiting for? For, you know, faith is an act that you have to do no matter what it looks like, no matter what it feels like. And I've seen people and they said, well, I physically, you know, can't do that. Well, did you try? Well, no, I didn't try. I just know I can't. But I believe I'm going to get better. Are you sure about that? Because faith is always an action. It always has a physical movement. We, you know, it's important if you say something that you are who you say you are and you're going to do the things you say that you're going to do. I was just talking with Josh and said, josh, how long have you been here? Just about 10 years. We hired a pilot 10 years ago when we didn't even have a plane. But it was a movement towards getting an aircraft. And today. And we would do flight planning, we would do all these things. We would go look at hangars and act like we had a plane. They'd say, what kind of plane you have? We're in the market, you know, there's no we can come up with a big plane. How much space you got? We have two spaces. Two spaces sounds good. We'll take two spaces. That's no problem. Because we acted like we had one. We just started moving. We didn't wait till all the stars line up. We didn't wait till we had X amount of people in the church before we moved. We just started doing stuff. There's a minister that has been renting a church since I was a child. And it's like, when are you going to buy a church? When are you going to believe for it? And to this day they still don't own any property. And I think to myself, oh my God. But what if I asked him, what did you think he'd say? I'm believing. I'm believing God. We're going to get us a bill building. No you're not. No, you're not. You're not doing anything. You just pay the rent bill every time it comes and don't do anything. So giving up can be decloaked in faith. It can be hungover and hidden where you've convinced yourself of something that's not true. You have to be careful. Got to be careful. I'm halfway through my sermon, me. Okay, so write this down. Giving up can be deceiving. It can be cloaked with positive words. The meaning of cloaked means hidden or disguised. It's disguised as faith. So the question is, how long before you give up? How long before you give up? You can have vision for something based on unrealistic conditions that you have set. Basically, when they say, well, when such and such happens in my life, then I'll do it. You sure about that? You sure about that? When are you going to get your business straightened out? Well, when I get more people. You sure about that? When are you going to get the foundation of your business straightened out? Well, when such and such happens. That's not true. That's not true. You're not building a business. You're building a job. A business should be something that you've created such a foundation that you can walk away from and go do what you want. But if you can't do that, you've not created a business. You've created a job for yourself. Don't convince yourself that you're doing something you're not. Be sober. Be sober. It takes money to make money. Amen. That's a side trip, but whatever. So let's go to Luke 18:2. And there was a certain city, a judge, who did not fear God nor man. Now there was a woman in the city, and she came to him saying, give me justice for what I want, and he would not for what? But afterwards, he said, within himself, though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow's trouble, I will avenge her, lest her continuous coming wearies me. So it's somebody that makes steps every day to get to where you need to go, that you don't give up. And let the devil talk you out of timelines and money and certain things that you've made up yourself that are not realistic. That you say, I'm making a step towards the next thing, I'm making a step towards that way. So here's a woman that wouldn't quit. She came back every day. Do we have any strong women in here? Amen. That wasn't very strong at all. That was. Y' all must be housewives. Y'. All. Y'. All. Y' all a bunch of housewives. Come on now, let's hear it. Look, look. They come alive. They come alive. There you go. Now you're away. Now you're awake. These women are empowered. Now they come Alive. So it takes somebody with enough unction and say, I'm not giving up. You say, well, I want to build a building, and the city's telling me no. Then keep bugging them. Keep doing stuff. Get a shovel. I don't care what you got to do. Just do something. Because if you're not, then you're giving up and you're convincing yourself that you're actually in faith. And you're not. And I realized that there were certain things that my dad taught me, some good, some bad. But one thing my dad did not like was junk laying around. He said, I grew up seeing that crap in my life, and I don't want to see it now. So all that junk that you have vision for, get it done. You know, quit making excuses, because it takes vision to get it done, but it takes action to complete it. You need action in your life to tell. You need to tell yourself you're being a lazy person. Amen. I'm just thinking of something my dad would say. There's preachers. He said, there's truck drivers that should be preachers and preachers that should be truck drivers. I thought, that's pretty good. I don't know if he came up with that or not, but I was just thinking about that a couple days ago. I thought maybe I wanted to be a truck driver. Shifting gears and passing well, you can feel in the rest. So the question is, how long before you give up? We know dad Hagin was dying on a bed, but he knew that healing belonged to him. And he's waiting for God to do something. Is that true? And he says inside of himself, why don't you get up? A healed man should be up at this time of day, he says. He wears the varnish off on the post because you got to get up and do something. You got to get up and act healed. Because laying there is just giving up. It's giving up with words of faith and actions of doubt. So it takes somebody with faith to say, you know what? I'm getting up. No matter what pain comes, don't let pain tell you what to do, because it won't be long until the next morning. I mean, now I can just turn my head slow, and all of a sudden, I pull a muscle in my neck. I don't even know what happened. And I'm walking around like Batman, you know? So I'm thinking to myself, I'm not gonna let this thing tell me what to do. Don't act like I'm the only person that's happened Well, I can't look that way. Well, move your whole body, stupid. You know, quit being dumb. Do something. So God will let you have whatever you want. Write that down. God will let you have whatever you want. If you want to talk to all that faith and do. No, no acting. You can have that. You can convince yourself that you're a faith person. But really, you've given up. So it takes people to speak it and act it on it every day. So when you're believing for healing, if you aren't doing anything physical, you've missed it. If you believe what you say, why don't you do it? Why don't you make goals? Why don't you say, you know what? Tomorrow I'm getting up and I'm walking down to that place. I'm walking out of here. I'm doing something with every pain. Well, it hurts. What do you think it's going to do? Get up and do something. I have seen people time and time again. I'm almost done. That have given up because they don't feel like getting up. Well, I didn't feel like getting up and putting oil in my truck and putting a fuse in it. But my conviction told me, you're a lazy SAP. You have to talk to yourself with that tone. If you don't, you won't ever get nothing done. I'm sitting outside and I'm looking, and we had all that rain, if y' all didn't know. Boy, we had buckets of rain. And them weeds are just like, I'm coming out. I'm coming. And I'm like, oh, my God, and here comes the sun, and they growing three inches a day. What am I gonna do? What do I gotta do to get hold of it? I gotta get out there and deal with it. Get out there and deal with it to get results, because it will get worse. But I can convince myself, I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow. You know, I go, I don't want to do it, but I got to do it. Because you know what I'm doing? Doing? I'm saving myself for tomorrow, and I'm saving myself for the next day. I'm creating a person that I need to be. I'm training myself that. Why don't you just go ahead and deal with it now? Deal with it now. So that's the way that you have to process it. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I'm not. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have cars or stuff. I'm not saying that. That's my conviction. But don't fool yourself into thinking something that you're not. You've bamboozled yourself. Amen. So we know the lady with the issue of blood. How much did she spend? All that she had. So that's an action of faith, that you would spend all you had to do it, and she was still, what, no better. But that didn't stop her because she don't have nothing left. So what does she do? And she hears about Jesus, what she say? If I could just, what? I will be healed. She needed to do some action, not just sitting there. So it matters what you convince yourself of. It matters what you tell yourself. Be sober about yourself. If you're believing God for a house, go look at it. Walk into that house like you own the place. I can afford this. That's no problem. That's not a problem for me. If you always go and dismiss yourself and just speak it but believe, you'll never get it. You've already set yourself in stone. It's over. I don't care what you say. It's what you do. Your faith speaking should result in faith acting. It should have results. Amen. I was looking at buying a. Which I did. I was looking at buying a car lift and this thing. And I was. Last Thanksgiving, I was looking at buying one, and I was up at your place. And, man, I'm just thinking about it, and I'm thinking about, well, this is a car lift where you put your car on and you can raise the car up real high and park another car on the bottom. I want to stack them because I want to be cool. I want to be the coolest kid on the block. The man that dies with the most tools wins. That's the way it goes. Am I. I'm beating y'. All. You guys gotta catch up. And I'm looking and I'm thinking about this thing. One thing that I do. I sit and I figure everything out about everything I'm gonna purchase. And I'll think about it and I'll read more about it. I'll go to forums. And I think about it so much, I wear myself smooth out. And I said, I don't even want the thing no more. I just thought about it so much. Well, a year ago I thought. And then they had the Black Friday deal, and I was like, okay. And I went to your night service and I came back and they were sold out. I thought, oh, my God, I missed it. And I thought, well, you know what? I'll See if it comes up. Well, then the tariffs hit and everything just went sky high. So I just dropped out. I was like, well, forget it. And that really bothered me that I gave up. And I said, you know what? That really bothers me, and I don't need it, but I want it. And I thought, you know what? And so this year rolled around and I said, you know what? And I found a different company that's local, and I said, you know what? I'm gonna buy one, because I'm not gonna let that thing have me. I'm not gonna give up on it, because I don't like living with the thought of, oh, one day I'm gonna get it. One day I'm gonna. I'm just gonna go buy it. So I went down and bought it and put it up, and it's beautiful. And I thought, you know what? I don't even need this. But I'm not gonna live thinking about it no more. I don't think about buying it no more. Now I'm like, do I need another one? I don't know. What else do I want to buy? But that's one thing about me, is I break something down. I was looking at a certain piece of precision machinery, and I've never seen one in my life, but I developed a hunger for it. Isn't that crazy to sound? But I developed it in such a way that I became precision minded because I realized the junk I'm using now cannot create the results I need. So I need to get onto another level of precision. And the precision I'm talking about is with a human hair or less. And I thought that's where I want to be. Because the stuff I'm using now is pretty. It's kind of a general ballpark on a tape measure, you know? And I thought the only way I could get this is, you know, it's a 3000 machine. It's precision accurate. And I thought, that's where I want to be. And I fed myself on everything. I've never seen one in my life. And I went to go see it, and I knew everything about it before I even touched it, because I walked. I'd never seen one in my life in person, but I watch videos after videos. I probably had 30 hours building up myself. And I knew all the collets it needed and the bits and all the stuff and the run out and all these things because I developed a hunger for it. And I wasn't gonna let price or time beat me. And so after I knew enough, I said, Now's the time. And I called the company and I said, I want it. And I went and got it. And this day I developed myself. But that's the way that I am. I don't like to be beat by not knowing how to do it. I want to know how to do it. The greatest thing you can learn is how to figure it out, you know? And that's what I do. And that's a side quest. But what I'm saying here is don't give up because you can't figure it out or you don't know or there's no more path. You can always go a little bit more. You can always dig a little bit deeper to be better. You can do those projects that you've had. Don't give up. Don't stop believing God for what you got. Don't, don't. Don't give up inside of yourself. Don't convince yourself of a lie that you've told yourself. Have you been blessed? So I'm not even going to go this way, but yeah. So we know that it's important that you continuously develop. Don't lie to yourself. Next time you convince yourself, well, I'll do it. Stop. I can do it now. I'm going to get it done now. Because you're setting yourself up for success, that you can say, you got a pain. You go, well, you know what? I can tolerate this a little bit. I can put up with this a little bit, and the devil will just pull a little bit more out every day. Every day. Before long, you're bedridden and you've convinced yourself, well, tomorrow I'll get better. Tomorrow I'm going to get better. But really, no, you're not. No, you're not. Let's be straight. You're just lazy. You're just lazy. But it takes men and women of God to really say, you know what? I'm dealing with this right now. I'm getting out of this bed. I don't care if you got a gauze around me because I'm bleeding. Just put me in a sack and I'll just walk around. You think it's crazy, but I'm talking faith here. I'm talking biblical stuff. I'm talking 4D here. I'm talking about faith for miracles. Because you can say you believe in miracles, but really, come on, are we giving up because we've never seen it? Dr. Bill was talking about a stick that is a staff. And it started growing leaves. To us, that's not possible. But he's in another place. So he's feeding himself on miracles. Things that are not possible, that we've never seen. We're going to have to get to this place to say, hey, I believe that. I believe that. Hold on a minute. Are you convincing yourself? Are you really believing? Because it sounds good. Because you would never tell me, oh, I wouldn't believe for that. But you wouldn't act on it. Have you been helped today? Let's go ahead and stand. Just real quick now. Tony, where you at? There you are. So look at that. Y' all should be out by a certain time. I'm not a long preacher, but I've knocked you in your teeth. You feel good? Y' all not offended, right? Men are like, man, I got all these cars laid out in my backyard. I'm gonna go get them. Do what you want. I'm just saying, it's. It's that. That. That's how I evaluate life. You do what you want. But if. If you can't be here tonight, you absolutely can't be here. We want to lay hands for healing on you today. Because when hands are laid on you, you will be healed. This is a ministry of miracles. We're believing for the most miraculous things that our grandfathers saw that the old people. I'm not gonna live on Smith Wigglesworth's miracles and say, wow, look how cool that was. And there's two words I hate. Fixing and getting ready. God's fixing to do this and he's fixing to do that. Get ready. How about now? How about now? It's a dismissal of faith because it puts no responsibility on you. Oh, I'm fixing to do that. No, you're not. You gave up. You gave up. Don't lie to yourself and me. Don't convince yourself of victory. Act on it. Act on it. So if you need healing, cannot be here tonight. Come up if there's nobody. That's fine. Father, in the name of Jesus, if you're watching, I say in Jesus name that you are healed. From the top of your head to the soles of your feet. Your head is healed, your back is healed, your legs are healed, your stomach's healed, your feet are healed. In Jesus name, and I say, receive it now. And from this day forward, you are healed. In Jesus mighty name, have you been helped today. Don't give up. Don't convince yourself of stuff. Be a man of your word. Say, you know what? I'm doing it. We're gonna get it done. I'm not gonna let time and money push me In Jesus name. Amen. And Amen.
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Hallelujah. I mean, like, if anybody else said that. But when he says it, we go, yeah, yeah. Hallelujah. You can be seated. Would I be right in saying this? Our public faith needs to match our private faith. We don't want our public faith and our private faith to be different. They have to be one and the same. Amen. And dad Hagin, when somebody had asked dad Hagin, he made this statement. He said, my greatest problem is me, not the devil, me. And he said, and my greatest difficulty has been to live what I preach. Because he refused to say something that he wasn't doing. Amen. I love something that Dr. Winston, he was saying. And he said. He said, I refuse. I refuse to not show what I say. Amen. So, so good. That's one thing that we saw demonstrated with Ed. Those of you who are around, the man was a doer. We were running to keep up with the doing of that man. I mean, we felt like we were the cowboy tied to the back of the horse, and the horse was running and we were being drugged. I mean, because the doing was so much a part. In fact, he was doing before he was saying, you know, and it matters what spiritual habits we get into, because these are habits. Amen. We trust. You've enjoyed this message. Visit us@DefrainMinistries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings. Share your testimony, become a partner, or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.