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Taking Our Place In God’s Best | Nancy Dufresne | Collinsville, Oklahoma | JTH Crusades 2025 | Tuesday 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. We worship you, Father. Just lift up your hands. Lift up your voice. We worship you. We worship you. In the monitors, please. Praise the Lord. We worship you, Father. We glorify you. We glorify you. Hallelujah. Put me in the monitors, please. Hallelujah. We worship you, Father. We glorify. We glorify. Hallelujah.
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We worship.
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Praise the Lord. We glorish. We worship you, Father. We worship you, Father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Father, your name.
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Precious. Precious Father.
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Precious.
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Precious Jesus. Precious. Precious. Holy Spirit moving in all the earth.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Somalia. I. I sort of Ike, bless thee. I can't do the fishy to you. No, no, no. I just. Yeah, yeah. Yes. You have to do this, Ma.
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Yeah. There's much to be said.
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Yes.
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And there's much to know of the fullness of the plan for this hour.
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Yes.
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So don't be overwhelmed at the vastness of the revelation, the flow, the move that God wants. Because know this, the Holy Spirit leads very specifically. So all you need to do is don't be concerned with the vastness of the plan, but be sensitive to the sensitive, specific leading of the Spirit. It is so precise and so accurate and so easy to know.
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Yes. It is easy to know. Easy to know. Easter Mayor. Easta Maya. Easta Maya. Easta Maya. So I just sifra kisi tiba. And we just sudo branch of Manasseh. And so you suto bruko free. And you see, braha. Yeah. Yes.
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There's so much that has been sown in your hearts, and you're going, which part do I. Don't Be preoccupied with all that's therein. Be sensitive to what the Holy Spirit draws out for that moment. For that minute, for that situation. So don't be occupied with the fullness of what's in there, but be sensitive to what is for that moment. Because the Holy Spirit is so keen, so keen and so knowing the mind of God that he knows exactly what is called for. For that moment. So get out of that mental arena and tap into the spirit arena that sets aside everything else and hones in just on what the Spirit says. For that moment.
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For that moment.
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For that moment.
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And Bon sebe. Yes.
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Yes. Because it's not in vain that I said by my Spirit to you, in him you live.
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Yes.
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In him you move. And in him you have your being. So don't Be occupied with all that is to be, but be occupied with what he says is to be. Right now.
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Right now? Right now. I can talk in English now? Right now.
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Understand?
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That's everyday living with the Holy Spirit.
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Yes, it is.
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Every day living with the Holy Spirit. We listen to him every day and we live moment by moment with him. With what he says.
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Yes.
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Why do we do that? Because that's what Jesus did. He said, what I say is what the Father says to me. Well, the Holy Spirit is the Father's spirit speaking to us. And he. Whatever he says is what I do or say, nothing more, nothing less. And that's what the Spirit of God wants us to comprehend and get hold of that. It's not just for this crisis or that crisis or, Lord, what am I gonna do about this? It's everyday living with the Holy Spirit, moment by moment, hour by hour.
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Yes.
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Day. I get up in the morning, I say, okay, Holy Spirit, what do you have for me today after I celebrated?
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
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Have you been celebrating? Yes. Hallelujah. But because it's important to me. Do I always make it? No, but I'm better every day than I was the day before.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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I'll be better tomorrow than I was today.
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Why?
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Because I'm continually doing it. Yes, continually. Speak forth, Holy Spirit. What do you have for me today?
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Yes, yes.
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Not what I have, but what do you have? Yes, but even, you know, even in the apartments and things that, you know, we feel we have to have and. And we do. And everything. Even in those. Ask the Holy Spirit for his wisdom in those.
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That's right.
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And I know this is a little.
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So important. No, it's not. It's vital.
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You know, even in the nail salon, there's been so many times.
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Yeah.
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That by the Spirit of God, I have spoken something to someone in there that has set them free.
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Sure, sure.
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That has opened their eyes.
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Sure, yeah.
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Brought understanding to them. And to me it was just a simple explanation. Yes, but to them it meant everything.
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It was the voice of God.
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It was the voice of God. Exactly. Exactly. So wherever you are and whatever you're doing, expect his wisdom to come forth. And you speak it.
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Yes.
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I mean, you know, it's not a Thus saith the Lord. They don't know what that means. Majority of people. No, it's just a matter of. May I say this to you, please? You know, that type of thing. And may I say this to you?
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Yes, yes.
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I have seen. The Spirit of the Lord says, I have seen Your consistency. And I have seen your. What's the word, Lord? Your balance, working on balancing everything with your consistency. And the Lord says, you're doing good. Hallelujah. But he says there's more.
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Yes, there's more.
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There's more. And you know that.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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You know there's more.
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Yes.
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But in this time, in this season is the time to prepare for that more.
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Yes, yes.
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This season, in this time is to prepare for that more. So prepare yourself.
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Yes, ma'.
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Am.
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Prepare yourself. Hallelujah. In your consistency. What does that mean? That means continually, every day doing the same thing. Not necessarily saying the same thing, but the way you do things, the way the Lord has directed you by the Holy Spirit in your consistency, to listen to him and to be obedient. And we've heard it all week. Obedience is the key, folks. Obedience is the key. So the Lord is just admonishing you, now's the season to prepare for that more.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Ha ha. And some people, I can hear them saying, how can there be anymore? Listen, the older I get, the less I feel. I know.
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No, that's right.
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I mean, there's. It's vast. The vastness of God and his richness and his goodness. You know, the Lord has had me. I usually take a scripture a week and just meditate on it all week.
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So good.
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And it's amazing the different things that the Holy Spirit will bring out in just one scripture. And I've been meditating on Romans 8, 11. And you know, it says it's the Holy Spirit, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead. In the King James, it says, well, quicken your mortal body. What does that mean? Makes it alive. Yes, he makes it alive. Not only that, it means when you talk about quicken, it means revive, restore and flourish. Well, revive, as I was reading that one day this week. They all run together now.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But he said to me, he said, revive. That means I am reviving, means bringing someone to life, right?
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Yes.
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He said, I am continually, all the time reviving you in life.
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So good.
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All the time reviving you in life. All the time reviving you in life. I am him, the reviver.
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He said, yes.
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Hallelujah. And then he is the restorer.
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Yes.
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He is the restorer.
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Yes.
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Of the body, you said.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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He will quicken your mortal body. So he is a restorer of the body. So all that we've heard this week, the Holy Spirit is doing. Yes. Restoration, restoring. Hallelujah. You know, I had to make a declaration When I was in California and I made it. And I'm still making it.
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Yes, yes.
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Because it's so. Not only because it's so, but because God told me to. Because of what I received.
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Yes.
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So you don't let go. You keep going.
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Yes. Hold fast.
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You hold fast to that which God has said to you and ask of you. So I stay in obedience to that.
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Yes. Yes.
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Excuse me. And then the next thing is flourish. And flourish means successful. It also means, let's see, prosperous.
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Wow.
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There's another word. I wish I could think of it anyway.
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Yeah.
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So what is he saying to us in that? He's saying, in flourishing your body, I am making it prosperous. I am making it prosperous. I am making it successful. And it shall flow as God made it and as God intended. When you acknowledge that I quicken your mortal body.
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Yes.
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I'm the one that quickens it.
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Yes.
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Oh, my, my, my, my, my.
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So good.
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My, my, my, my, my. Hallelujah. Praise. Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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He makes us prosperous in our body. I mean.
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Yeah.
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What else do you want?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Prosperous in the body means everything's functioning like he designed it and he created it. Successful in successfully accepted what he has done and is working in you.
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Yes.
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Hallelujah.
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Every day. It's a lifestyle.
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Every day.
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Every day.
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Every day. And I can remember when I was reading my dad's book on the anointing, he talked about in there, that Brother Wigglesworth, this friend of his, heard Smith Wigglesworth speak and was telling him. He said. He talked on this verse and he said he kept coming back to Quicken and he kept acknowledging Quicken and he kept talking how important Quicken was for you to understand. So my dad said, I feel that there's something there that we need to study on. We need to research and meditate and let the Spirit of God speak to us. Just this week, just what I have said, you know, the Lord has said to me. Some of it he said to me before, but he said it a different way this time.
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Yes. Yes.
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To bring more understanding and keeping me alive. Hallelujah. With the life of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Keeping me alive with the life of God. I praise God that I have his life in me.
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Absolutely, yes.
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Hallelujah. My, my, my, my, my.
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Isn't God good?
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I love him. I love him so. I love the Holy Spirit.
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Why?
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Because he's everything to me. Jesus said he would be. Hallelujah.
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Always, always, always.
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Hallelujah. Spirit of truth. Hallelujah. The Reviver, the restorer. Hallelujah. And the flourishing of my body.
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Whoa.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
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So good.
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Hallelujah.
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I want you to pay attention to what she just said. She really meditated publicly right there to demonstrate to you. And let the spirit of God reveal that. Because that's when it becomes a living thing to you.
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Yes, that's right.
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So good. Thank you for doing that.
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Praise the Lord.
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Keep going.
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Yeah. Well, as I was meditating on that and I was talking and I was looking at success, you know, he makes the body successful.
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That's so good.
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And as I was meditating on that, I thought of, you know, like a successful businessman.
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Sure.
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Why is he successful? Because the abilities that God has given him, he has sharpened. He has sharpened. And he hones in on what he knows are his abilities and allows that to work in him, to bring forth whatever business or whatever it is into his business. That it's so that it's successful.
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Yes.
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So in our bodies, then we look at the Spirit of God. And you say, holy Spirit, you make my life, my body, successful. So I'm honing in on that which you have given to me to keep myself in that successful position that you have made me. That you have made me. Amen. My, my, my, my, my. There's so much there. And Sondele B. And Gabriel.
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And I quicken you according to my word. Not according to your circumstances, not according to situations and how others lives have played out. But I quicken you according to my word. For don't settle for anything less than the quickening that my word gives. Amen.
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Why is that? That's the only way he can quicken you. Because he is the spirit of truth.
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Yes, that's right.
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That's the only way he can quicken you. Because he is the spirit of truth. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm done.
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All right. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Lift up your hands and thank him. Thank him. Hallelujah. The flow of the life of God is not a moment. It's to be our daily draw on his life, that it's a continual flow. We're continually dependent, continually leaning. I love something that A.B. simpson wrote. He said, this life in God is not simply a permanent deposit. It's a constant dependence. A constant dependence. Hallelujah. Depending on him every day that he's doing the work. You can be seated real quick, but not unhooked. And I was reading something, a book that Oral Roberts had written decades ago, and he made this statement. He said, One day I had all my partner letters that we had received, you know, during that month before me. And he said there were so many really large desperate needs written in by people in their letters. And he says I had them, I'd been reading them and they were laying out before me. And he said I started praying so hard for my partners. And he said I was praying and praying and praying so hard for my partners. And he said in the midst of it, God said to me, you don't need to pray hard. I'm the one that does work. Pray easy. Well I say this, you don't need to believe hard. He's the one that does the work. Believe easy. It's easy. Following the spirit is easy. Hearing the spirit is easy. But what makes it hard is when we start mingling the mental and the soulish in. But the Word says that his word, the Bible says, Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12. It says that the Word is what? Alive, quick, sharper than what any two edged sword. What about this? Dividing, dividing, dividing asunder between soul and spirit, between what came out of the soul and what came out of the spirit. Look at this. You divide it, you don't mingle. When God says something, don't mingle human reasoning into it. Don't mingle opinion into it, don't mingle experience into it. And this is where we learn to follow the Holy Spirit more accurately. When we take what came out of our spirit and we don't draw it up into the middle arena to analyze it. Because then we start mingling our own thinking in with what God said. And then it, it doesn't pan out the way God said. And then we say, well, I thought I heard from God. Well you did, until you brought it up into the reasoning and started adding your own thinking in with it. But we're learning and it's not hard, it's easy. The devil would love for you to think that the plan of God is hard. Knowing his mind is hard. It's so easy. It's so easy. That's what Paul said. Don't be pulled away or duped from the simplicity of the gospel. Amen. Because then we start treating it hard. We get tangled up. Well, praise the Lord. Thank you David. Thank you worship team Tony and Jacob. Thank you so, so much. I told brother David, I said, brother David, what I love is when he leads the worship portion of the service, it becomes an event. And I said, that's what I want. I want the event of the Word should be honored by the event of the worship. Of the one who authored the Word. Amen. One shouldn't be a lesser flow and one anointed and one not anointed. Amen. And so praise the Lord. Well there's so many. I have, I don't know, probably about six sermons right here in this one. And you'll believe with me for the right utterances to come out. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I so appreciate how God is weaving things together for us in these services. Don't see them as services independent of one another because one builds upon another. And what God once said, and I'm stirred up and I was talking about it last night, that in the body of Christ we're settling for far less. And we know this, that God will allow us to have everything okay with. And we had to just say, you know something, I'm not okay with something he didn't author. I'm not okay with something that's less than what he dreamed for me. And not only that, than what he not, not anything less than what he purchased for me. Amen. So I want to tap touch back into a few things that we said last night. We referred to dad Hagin's book I Believe in Vision. The chapter called the hospital Visitor. When Dad Hagin was had fallen and injured his arm and he had to go, this was years ago as a young minister and he had to go to the hospital for them to just set it right. And in the course of them keeping him in the hospital overnight for observation, he heard footsteps. He thought it was just the nurse coming down the corridor. And he looked up at his door to his room to expecting to see the nurse walk in. But Jesus walked in. He said the hair on the back of his neck stood up. I would think so, wouldn't you? And Jesus pulled up a chair and sat down next to his hospital bed and talked to him for the next hour and a half. And in the course of that one of the things he said, he said it is best, it is my best that my children, number one, are never sick. Don't you like that? Never sick. Number two, that they, that they never have operations. And I want to say it this way for people who would misread that never need an operation. Because sometimes people hear you say that and say well that's it, I'm not going to have the operation. Well if you need it, you say well it's God's will. I don't have it. Well, but you have to be, you have to be knowing how to receive God's will, number two. That we never need an operation. Number three, that we never have accidents. And then Jesus said, but he said, very few listen to that. Very few ever live in my best. And then he gave three reasons why. He said, number one, the reason people don't live in my best is, number one, they don't know what belongs to them. He said, number two, even if they do know what belongs to them, many have not developed their faith enough to receive that. And he said, number three, disobedience. So notice all three of those causes that hold us out of God's best are all fixable. Every single one of them are so fixable. Amen. Isn't that great? And if we have experienced something of those three that he doesn't want for us, we don't have to keep experiencing them. We can fix. We can fix it. And we can live in his best. And don't just say, well, you know, I'm out. I've already had, you know, I've had. I've been sick, I've had operations, I've had accidents. But we can put a deadline on that. We can put a deadline. So what's that mean? We have to expect that of our lives. We're not putting up with what we used to put up with. We're not okay with it. Amen. So notice James even made this statement. He said, is there any sick among you? Meaning it gives. He was under the impression that it is possible that there not be any sick among you or he wouldn't have said, is there? Dad Hagin made this statement. He said, if James were writing to the church today, he would say about 80% of you that are sick, well, that's not God's best. And let me say, will everyone walk in God's best? No. Will everyone receive Jesus? No. But his best is still available. And I'm not going to preach less than his best because. Because people will never move into something that isn't preached to them. So we preach God's best. We don't preach those who don't receive God's best. We preach God's best. Why? Because there are us who will say, I'm taking it and I'm going to take my place in God's best. Look at this. I'm not going to earn God's best. I'm going to take my place in God's best because there's a place for me in God's best. Amen. I want you to know there is a turn. Somebody find me in. Where do I want to go to Deuteronomy, chapter 28, I believe. Deuteronomy, chapter 28. Somebody find that for me in big enough print that I can read it. Deuteronomy, or. You can read it. You can read it. Deuteronomy, chapter 28. Let's start at verse one. Going to ask Pastor Greg. Would you read that for us? Love, King James. King James. Yeah, King James, please. New King James is probably pretty new, but it's newer than me. Okay.
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Verse 1. It shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
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Look at that. Hearken. What's that mean? Listen. Listen diligently. Not just Sunday. Listen, listen. It's a lifestyle. Listen.
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Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God.
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Notice this. Notice this. The voice of the Lord thy God. Not just any voice. You're going to hear a lot of voices. He's very. He's being very specific here in this instruction. Thank you. Go ahead.
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To observe and to do all his commandments which I've commanded thee this day.
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That the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.
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Earth. The Lord God will set thee on high. What's that mean? He has a place at the top for you. That's what I wanted to get to. He has a place at the top for you. What's the top? His best. So take. We are. I'm stirred that we start taking our place in his best. Not earn it. Take our place. That place already set for us. What is it contingent upon? Our obedience to be listen and to obey. Amen. So when James writes, is there any sick among you? Let's take our place that there be no sick among us. Because that's what God planned. No sick among us. Amen. And when we look at someone, if you come into a congregation, that. That's taking our place as a. Not just a person, but as a congregation. Let's take our place in that. That when someone that comes in and they're sick, they can look at people who are taking their place in wholeness and they can say, wait a minute, I like their place better than my place. And they are. They are encouraged to come up because we're demonstrating what. We're demonstrating what God has offered us. Amen. So this implies that it is possible that no one among us be sick. It is possible. And then we looked last night at Psalm chapter 105, 37, and it says, and God brought them forth, speaking of the Hebrews out of Egypt. He Brought them forth also with silver and gold. What's that mean? Just complete provision. And there was not one feeble person among their tribe. So slave bodies that were overworked, abused, neglected, mishandled, mistreated, came out. Not one feeble. Not one feeble. Not one feeble. This is Old covenant, people. And ours is better. And ours is better. The New covenant is better. And I'm going to read again for those of you who were here last night. I read it, but I want to read again for those who weren't here. That Dakes in his Commentary on the Bible, he wrote this about that passage. He said the reason there was not one feeble person in all their tribes was because God healed them. Such is the will of God for men under the New covenant, which is based upon better promises and is more glorious in power and provision than the Mosaic covenant. Then he makes this statement. It is the shame of the church to fall so far behind Israel in receiving promised benefits. It is the shame not to God, but of the church. It is not logical that New Covenant Saints should meet it is not logical that New Covenant saints should meet the physical and spiritual qualifications of the Old Covenant. What then is wrong with the church that it does not get the superior blessings of the New Covenant? It is because of unbelief and widespread rebellion against such teaching. What such teaching? That it is God's best that no one be feeble, lame, or some people kick against that they will defend their physical situation. I had gone. I would go in and pass just for, you know, an annual physical. And my doctor, she's a Christian woman and more of a holistic type approach to medicine. And she was talk. I talked to her. I said, we were talking. It was during that Covid season, and she moved her children out of the school they were in because they were requiring Covid shelter. She says, my children aren't getting. And I said, well, have they. Are they making requirements for, you know, the doctors to get them? She says, if they do, I'm quitting. I'm quitting the industry. And she said. I was talking to. She said, one of my patients came in and they had taken the COVID shot. And she said, it's perfectly fine if they want to. But she said this particular patient was having all kinds of problems. And the doctor said to her, that is due to the COVID shot. And this woman said, no, it's not. She said, yes, it is. She said, no, it's not. Yes, it is. And she says, well, the news hasn't talked about it she said the news is not reporting everything that's connected with these things. What am I saying? That people will defend the wrong thing? We need to defend what God provided. God has provided that none of his children. And I will not defend that. In the face of symptoms, in the face of pain, in the face of difficulty. I'm going to defend the place that God has provided for his children. Amen. So we would be quite appropriate to say, to make it a slogan, no more sickness in the body of Christ would be appropriate to do that. And that includes getting boxes, parts put back. Right? Right. But to have God's best, we have to hear it preached. Amen. We have to develop our faith for it so that it's not a foreign thing to us and we have to expect it. When I pray, I receive. I love. Something that Brother Copeland says to us often, and he says, today is my receiving day. Every day is my receiving day. I'm a receiver. I always receive. Instead of say, I never get better. I pray and nothing ever happens. People say, well, I don't say that, no, but people think that about their own ability to lay hold of things. Amen. Go with me, if you would, to Colossians chapter two. Colossians chapter two. And we're going to start reading in verse nine. And I'm going to read this out of the living Bible translation, Colossians chapter two and verse nine. And I'm just going to read through a few chapters. Is it okay? Not chapters, but verses. If we want to kill some time real quick, we can go through chapters if you want. But Colossians 2, verse 9, we need to hear these things and settle them on the end inside of us. You know, the Bible says that the word of God is settled in heaven. It's already settled there, but you got to settle it in you. Colossians 2, verse 9. For in Christ there is all of God in a human body. So listen to this. You have everything. When you have Christ and you are filled with God through your union with Christ, how about saying that every day I have everything because Christ is in me. I'm in Christ and I am filled with God through my union with Christ, how about we agree with that instead of agreeing with recurring symptoms? Yeah, I love something. Pastor Noel said he was ministering to someone, I think, in our church, and I was watching online, and a gal had come up with a recurring problem. And he said to her after he laid hands on her, he said, when you get up tomorrow, do not expect the pain to be there because People will get up expecting to have to navigate how they get up. And because they expect it to be there, I expect it not to be there. Amen. But you can get used to something that has been present for so long, you unconsciously just start making physical accommodations for it. But we're expecting. I have Christ. And because I have Christ, I have everything. And I have everything because I'm in union with him. Then go with me, if you would, to First Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 21. Again, I'm going to read out of the living Bible on this. I just want to. I just want to build in us some of these wordings. You have, the one we just read. You have everything when you have Christ. You have everything when you have Christ. First Corinthians 3, verse 21 says, so don't be proud of following the wise men of this world. Look at this. For God has already given you everything you need. God has already given. God has already given. God has already given. God has already given you. Not your pastor, you. Everything you need. Settle that. I have. Everything I need.
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And we need to build that in us. I have everything I need. And it's not in me. It's in him who's in me. You have everything you need. Verse 22. Then he singles out some things you have. He has given you Paul and Apollos and Peter as your helpers. What's he talking about? Not only have I given you everything you need, I've given you men who carry in them what you need. And I said this on Sunday night. When I get before a congregation where God sends me to be. Let me say it that way. Where God sends me to be, I don't belong to me. I belong to that congregation in that service. They can draw anything out of me that they need. Yes. Amen. Because I belong to them. And that's one thing Paul writes here. He says he has given you. God has given you Paul and Apollos and Peter. Who were they? Divine helpers. Divine connections. And it says this. He has given you. Look at this. He has given you the whole world to use. This is unfathomable to most Christians. He has given you the whole world to use. Not to be. Not to be dominated by, not to be covetous about. But just use it. Just use it as you need to fulfill the plan. He has given you the whole world to use. Look at this. And something else he's given you. He's given you life and even death. Are your servants meaning this? I decide when I Leave symptoms. Don't decide, Pain doesn't decide. I decide. And I made this statement. I believe it was Sunday night. God has the power to take you, but not the authority. Because he's given you the authority over life and your exit. And Jesus was the sample son of that, of how to carry that out. He said, my spirit, I commit to your hands. Even the Son of God. God did not take him. The Son of God released himself because he was in authority. Then look at this. He goes on. He has given you all of the present and all of the future. These are amazing statements. All are yours. And you belong to Christ. And Christ is God's. Now listen, we're not done with the all. Let's go to another one. I'm trying to awaken us to what is already ours, instead thinking those terms and living in those terms daily. Second Peter, Chapter one, verse two. And I'm going to read out the King James translation on this. Second Peter 1, 2. It says this. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So notice this. Your grace. Grace can grow and your peace can grow, and it should be growing. How is it multiplied to us as we. As we learn him and find out more of what he's already made ours? Everything you will that will belong to you in heaven already belongs to you here and there. We'll see it more clearly and we'll know it more clearly, but it still all belongs to us here. And the more we find it out, the better life is. So according, it says, grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God. Why do some people. Why are they not peaceful? They need more knowledge. They don't need more peace, they need more knowledge. And when they get more knowledge, there's more peace in the knowledge. There's multiplied peace in the knowledge. Verse three, according. Look at this. As his divine power hath, we could say, has already given unto us all things that pertain to life and godliness or godlikeness. How? Through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. Promises that by these you might be partakers, not just possessors, but partakers. Because you can possess something and not partake of it. That you might be partakers of the divine nature, because you have the divine nature now partake of that, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Notice this in verse 4. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. What do they exceed? All opposition all demon power, all circumstances, all situations. What he has made ours exceeds everything that is not of him. Then go with me to Second Corinthians, chapter 9. Second Corinthians, chapter 9. And again. This is a King James translation. Second Corinthians 9, 8. And God is able to make what? All grace abound. Not just leak out toward you. Abound, abound toward you. That you always having all sufficiency in all things. My, my, my. These large words may abound to every good word.
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Every everything. All these large, encompassing words. I like reading it this way. You always having. I always have. I always have. I always have. What do I always have? All. All. Amplified translation, same verse, verse 8. And God is able to make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing come to you. You don't chase it.
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I'm not chasing it. Amen. It comes to me. It comes to me. It comes to me. And God is able to make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing come to you. How? In abundance. Look at this. So that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need, be self sufficient. Whatever the need. Not just financial. Whatever the need. Whatever the need, be self sufficient. Possessing enough to require no aid or support. Meaning this. No leaning on anyone. No leaning on family. Thank God for family, but don't have to lean there. They're not my support. No leaning. Because self sufficient, possessing enough to require no aid or support. Why? Because I'm furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation. Always having these huge, huge, all encompassing words we have just just glanced over instead of camped on. 2nd Corinthians, chapter 3 and verse 5. 2nd Corinthians, chapter three and verse five. I want you to go back later if you don't get all of these noted and make these part of your meditation time. Second Corinthians, chapter three, verse five. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves. Look at this. Our sufficiency is of God. What's that mean? In Him, I am sufficient. There's nothing lacking. There's nothing falling behind. Because to say I'm lacking is to say he's not enough. To fall behind is say he's not enough. Our sufficiency is of Him. I want to let. I want you to hear this statement. We're of his kingdom, and everything of his kingdom is far more than enough for everything I'm going to need in this life, that I don't have to go to the world to find my sufficiency in the kingdom is everything my Life calls for. We don't have to go to the world to find our help, to find our healing, to find our provision, to find our loans, to find our properties. There is sufficiency of the kingdom that we always have. Sufficiency and all things. But what's happened? We have gone to the natural to find our sufficiency, and we have laid down a higher flow. No, you don't get there overnight. You have to grow in knowledge of this. You have to grow in the knowledge. But sometimes we're so used to a lower flow that we're not even reaching for the best. And what is the best? No sickness. What is the best? No lack. Amen. And it is the best to have no debt. It is the best. But I know this, that we. It's a process to get there. It's a process. Amen. God's not against us going to the world, but he offers us a higher flow. And there have been times, but because of where our faith was, he would say, use this. Use this. Go get alone. God has told us that. I'm not against that. I'm just saying when we've used or leaned on something that's less than is best, let's not keep making that our practice. Let's use the less than the best for the time we're at, until our faith grows. But let's keep feeding, let's keep reaching, keep developing and growing. Because we say, I'm not going to keep operating at this level. For example, when Brother Copeland started coming, he started coming and preaching every January for us in 2014. And he's come every year. And I said to myself, I gave him the best offering we could give him in 2014. And I said, when he comes in 2015, it will not be the same. Because I'm reaching that every year. I give more and more and more. Why? Because I don't want him to think I'm stuck at one flow and one level. This is not about pride. This is showing that our reach should be calculable. Yes. Yes. So good.
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And if God had us, because. Listen, God. God's not against medicine. Can I tell you this? And I want you to know, withholding medicine will not heal you. And taking medicine won't keep you from being healed, but it will sure help keep down symptoms while you're believing God. It'll keep the distractions back. But let's go on to his best. That's what I'm saying. We don't diminish or devalue anything that we have even been allowed to be helped by. But let's just not stay on where we've always been. That's what I'm saying. Let's go on to his best. And God has helped us in the ministry to. We're now debt free in our ministry. And when Ed went home to be with the Lord, we were millions that we had to come up with in the sense of we had obligations and God has helped us to finish buildings and they're paid off. And he's helped us. I mean he has helped us. But then I remember I was in the parking lot one day and God said to me, he said, if you're going to continue to live in a paid for flow, he said, you cannot function the way you used to. And he said to live in a paid for flow, you have to look ahead and forecast what is coming and get your faith on it now. So that when it comes time to step into it, you have already got your faith in place to receive what that project is going to call for. That means you just don't wake up one morning and say I want to do this. And you go get the credit card. You can do that if you want. But I'm just saying there's a higher well. Even so with medication, the body, everything, every arena, let's not just keep living where we've been. Let's go the best, the best, the highest flow, all that God offers us. Why? So that we. Because when we have Christ, we have everything. Let's not accept less than everything. And I want you to know, and this has just been going off on the inside of me, everything that's in the kingdom is more than sufficient. That I don't have to go to the world because his kingdom is more than enough to supply the needs of every one of his children. Amen. And I don't have to go to the world to get motivated for what I'm born for. Because the Word motivates me. That's right. Amen. We need to stir ourselves up. Amen. We have to put a demand. Because everything that belongs to us in Christ we will not float into. We will step into that on purpose by coming into greater understanding and revelation. Amen. So again we see that Peter said we have been given everything that pertains to life and godliness to live like God would have us live on this earth. So we can quit going to the world and relying on the world for our provision, our sufficiency. Because everything we need is in the kingdom. It's in the kingdom. It's not outside the kingdom. It's in the kingdom. And Jesus said, in the kingdom of God is within you. Well, praise the Lord. But we have to develop for that because this world has trained us to lean on it, to go its ways, its systems. I was. And don't ever go by what God tells me personally about my conviction. You go by what God tells you. And don't you ever try to live by another preacher's convictions. I love something Pastor Anderson said. He said, I don't preach my convictions, but I sure have them. Meaning, that's not the word. My conviction is not your word from God. But I'm gonna tell you something that God said to me. I'm not telling it to you for you. I'm saying, this is what God said to me. That same doctor, I just turned 64, which is not a problem for me. It's a problem for some people, but. Because she harasses me about that. But that's okay. The only options aren't one I take. And so the doctor, I don't know when I was in there, maybe two years ago, and she said, well, you're about the age when I just recommend that people go and I don't know what the word is, if it's an mri, not an mri. They go and they take a picture of your heart. It's just. They put you in a tunnel, whatever that is. A cardiogram, echocardiogram. It's just a picture. It's nothing invasive. And she says, that way, if there's something that needs to be addressed, we can just locate it before it becomes an issue. I said, I don't care. I don't care. You know, they have to give you paperwork, so love their paperwork. And so then I set up an appointment. The day before the appointment, God spoke to me and he said, do not go to that appointment. He said, do not step into their system. He said, they will find something because they don't make money finding nothing. I am not telling you not to get in their system. I'm saying what God said to me. But what is he talking about? The world has a system, and if we're not careful, our feet get entangled in that system. And we take that as our system when it's the world system. And I not saying it's a sin to be in it. I'm saying God has a higher system. Let's take our place in the higher system. And it's okay to use their system while we're growing in our knowledge, while we're developing. And while we're learning God better and while we're learning to follow the Holy Ghost better because I would tell you this, some people have died prematurely because they didn't go to the doctor, and some have died prematurely because they did. Dr. That's exactly right. That's true. It's not about. It's how he's leading you for where you're at today, today. And you can't follow God based on where you want to be in faith. You follow God based on where you are in faith. And I want you to know the Holy Ghost knows your faith today better than you know your faith today because he will direct you. There have been times that the spirit of God said, lay hold of this. And I go, oh, that looks big. Well, if he told me to do it, he would not tell me to go out beyond my faith. The devil would love for you to get out beyond your faith because then you're overwhelmed. But the Holy Ghost will never lead you to do something that is beyond the development of your faith because he's only leading us into success. He's not leading us into failure. And if we failed because we stepped out beyond what we could believe for that day, God did not lead us there. I remember years ago, there was a precious couple that I knew and they were looking for a home. And they looked at a home and the man had a very good job, a high paying job. And they saw this lovely home. It was large and God's not against large. And so they walked through the home and the husband said, this is the home I want. And the wife said, honey, this home is beyond our faith. Faith. And he said, I make more than enough money to cover this cost. She said, it might not be beyond your paycheck, but it is beyond our faith now. There's a difference. And he persisted and insisted, just know this. Being adamant is not faith. That adamant, it's going to be your way and no way. That's not faith. And so they purchased that home. And two weeks later he lost his job. And now they were left to their faith. And his wife was right. They had not developed enough. And for the next eight years they struggled and it was a complete devastation. And they ended up losing the home. And there was so much, if I could say this pressure that they didn't know how to handle. They ended up losing their marriage and everything else because they stepped out beyond into something they wanted without the leading of the Spirit. The spirit of God will never lead you beyond where he knows you'll succeed. He's our helper in success. Not fail, failure. He's not helping us to fail. He's helping us to succeed. If we stepped in place of failure, you know what? He'll still step in and help us back into success. He certainly will. He certainly will. So know this. The spirit of God and I so appreciate that. The spirit of God started a bit this way in the service. Follow how he's leading you today, not where you want to be. And the devil will say this to you. You should be further along. Devil, let's not talk about where you should be, because you're not even where you should have been. You got kicked out of where you should have been, so don't bring up where I should be. The shouldas are a failure in his existence. Right, but the devil will use this on you. You should be able to believe God for that. I'm not taking counsel from a failure. From a failure. That's right. No, not taking counsel from a failure. And he'll say, you know, you've been in this church. You should don't even listen. You go by how the spirit of God is leading you today. And then keep growing, keep hearing, keep using your faith, keep developing your faith, keep becoming more skillful. And then you will arrive at. At a place where you've always wanted to operate. And there is no shame and there is no condemnation to not being where you want to be. Amen. Because he's leading you today based on where you are today, not where you wish you were. And I had a woman said to me years ago, the doctor said, you know, you need an operation. She came to me and she said, pastor Nancy, the doctor said that I need an operation, but I'm not going to have it. And I said, okay, why are you not going to have it? She says, I don't want it. I said, love, nobody wants one. Nobody got it and said, I want an operation today. And I said, not wanting it does not equal the leading of the spirit. How is the spirit leading you? Don't talk to me about what you want or don't want. How is he leading you in here in your spirit, not up here, because you can decide up here and then call it. Just because you label it the leading of the spirit doesn't mean it came from the spirit. And know this, there is no failure in anything he ever leads you to do. Because people will start. If I could say this accusing, I should be further. Oh, Father, I'm so sorry. If the spirit led you to do that, he is never a partner to something that displeases God. Amen. And he's not, you know, where the. Where God's pleased when you just use faith to obey what God told you to do today. Amen. So how do we know if we're out beyond our faith? Dad Hagin remember that they were. I believe they had just quit pastoring, and so now they're launching out into the traveling ministry. And they got a home. And they've now, before they were living in church parsonages. There was furniture provided. The congregation members would often bring food to the house. So they had a lot of increase that came just because of that pastoral office. But now that they're on the road, dad Hagin said, now he doesn't have a weekly income like a pastor would have. His income is based on his travels. And he said, so now I don't have a parsonage. I've got to buy furniture. I've got to buy food. He said, I've got to buy clothes for the kids. And he said, so everything had changed in how their income was reflected. And he said, and they had just got a house. And he said, it took all the faith I had to believe God for those immediate needs. And he said, then, you know, Mom, Hagin came to him and said, honey, we need drapes. He said, honey, I've got my faith pulled as tight as it can be. Pulled, he said, just like a rubber band. It's pulled as tight as it can go. And if you throw drapes on that, he said, my faith is going to pop and all of it's coming down. What's he saying? He knew. He knew. Yes, he wanted his wife to have drapes. But he was sober about how from his insides. What he could add to. Let me. I don't know if I have this in front of me. Let me. Will you give me a moment to find this passage? I want to. Hang on, hang on. I got it. I got it amongst. I've got it. I've got it. Wait a minute. I've got it. No, it's not there. Wait. I should pass these out down the row and say, tell me when you find that. Okay, I found it. I knew I had it. Luke, chapter 17. Luke, chapter 17. This is what happens when you write three sermons in one day. Luke, chapter 17, verse 5. Luke 17. 5. And this is the King James translation, I believe. King James translation. Hallelujah. Luke 17. 5. And the apostles said unto the Lord, increase our faith. So what's the subject here? Their faith growing and the Lord said, if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this sycamine tree. So notice this, when you have faith, you're saved. Okay. Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea, and it should obey you. But which of you, having a servant. He's talking now about faith, isn't he? He's talking about faith, but in verse seven, he's still talking about faith. But which of you, having a servant, plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he has come from the field, go and sit down to meat, and will not rather say unto him, make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself and serve me till I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Well, he's talking here about faith and telling about the tree. Now he's talking about servants in the household. No, he's still talking about faith. He's calling faith the servant. And he said, after the servant, faith has worked in the field and it's finished that project and it comes in the house, don't let it rest. Don't let it sit down and do nothing and produce nothing and start eating. Tell it, serve me now. Keep your faith moving. That's what he's saying. Don't let your faith pause. Why? Because there is such a thing that I call the momentum of faith, that if you will believe something, get your faith on something, and once it's completed already, have your faith on the next thing not to. You know, what you can do with a servant is overwork the servant. Don't overwork your faith. Don't put too much on it, but keep it working all the time. Why? Faith loves to work. Amen. Faith. If it is left to not work, it starts losing momentum. It stops growing, it stops developing. There's no such thing as faith that idles. It is either increasing or it's diminishing. And the short life, the shelf life of faith is very short. Well, praise the Lord. So whenever you're believing God, keep it going. And as soon as you finish something, the pastor does a great, a great favor to a congregation that wants one project that the congregation's faith is on, that he's got the next one ready, instead of the congregation saying, wow, thank God we got that done, now we can rest. No, because that's the worst thing that can happen for faith, because it stops developing if it gets a pause. Keep it going. And when your pastor gives you a faith project, if you will Take the momentum of that faith that went for the vision of the church. Take it home and get your own vision moving with that, that your pastor is doing your faith a kindness. Because then the faith that's in movement for the vision of the local church is also the same faith that will help carry out the vision that God's given your house. Haven't you seen it this way? Everybody goes to church on a workday. You have a workday to get ready for jth Collinsville. You know, we're coming here and everybody gets together and they clean. You know what happens? You go home, you go, this house is a mess. Come on, let's clean this too. Right? And you start seeing because you're in that momentum, and you start letting what happened at the church now happen at home. So your pastor does you a favor to help get your faith going. Amen. And so here, keep your faith working. Now, as I said, the Holy Spirit will always lead you in line with your measure of faith or the development of your faith. Where it is at today. How do you know if you are out beyond your measure of faith? I want to. To say It's Romans, chapter 15, verse 13. I could be wrong on that. Can you pull that up, Pastor Greg, for me? And that's King James, Romans 15, verse 13. How does that read? That's it. Say it now. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Look at that. How do we know if we're within the development our faith or out beyond the development of our faith? If you're in joy and peace, your faith is not overwhelmed. If you have a bill that shows up unexpectedly at your house, let me just say an example like this. A bill, $10,000 you weren't expecting, and you go, oh, and your husband and your husband said, well, let's just believe for it, honey. I would love to just believe, but I'm just overwhelmed at the thought of that. Then back up, back up. Well, I want to believe for 10 because the bill's 10. Well, let me just say this. What about five? Well, my heart starts slowing down a little bit, but I'm still breathing a little hard. Okay, what about a thousand? Oh, yeah, I believe for a thousand, easy. Good. Believe for a thousand ten times. Take it in bite sizes. But if it is overwhelmed, you start losing joy, you start losing peace. When you think of it, it's just because you're out beyond where your faith has developed. Step back a little bit. Well, faith doesn't back up. It better back up and stay within its. Within its limits. Because then it works. If you get out beyond it, it's going to falter. And the devil will always advise you beyond what you can believe, for he'll always try to counsel and get you acting beyond, trying to get you to act beyond, because he knows you'll fail about out beyond it. Let me give you another example. God spoke to my husband and I. We were living in a home, but we knew it wasn't the final home. And so God said to us, I have another home for you. It was eight years later we found that home. When we found that home, I said to Ed, do you. Do you believe this is our home? Do you have peace about it? Yes, that's our home. And he said, but, honey, he says, I've got my faith on so many things with the minister ministry. He said, I don't. I can't take faith and put it on this house. He says, I'm going to delegate this house to your faith. See, being head of the household, you can do that, share the faith responsibilities. And he said, I just. I'm not even going to touch it with my faith, he said, because I've got my faith on other stuff. I said, that's fine. Leave it to me. Why? Because it's very personal now, that house. It's very personal, right? And so we believed God and we got in that house. What I want you to see is this, is that he wasn't saying, yes, I'm a faith man. I can believe for everything. No, you can believe for everything. The spirit's leading you in. A minister asked me, he said, how did you. How were you able to navigate the transition of your husband's homegoing with all the things we had to handle? I said, one way I heard when I heard. Faith comes by hearing. Once I hear how the spirit of God's directing me, I got faith for it. Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. What is the word of God? It's what God says about it. When I hear what God says about it. Now, faith comes. And know this. Anytime you're going to do what God says, the enemy's going to oppose it. But no problem that he opposes it because you heard from God. And when you hear from God, now you have the answer to say to every devil that tries to stop you. No, God said, you have to tell your opposition what God said. And if you didn't hear, you don't have a ready answer to tell the devil. Well, praise the Lord. Well, we went a little Bit different direction today, but one of the things I wanted you to see in the kingdom is all sufficiency for every need. Put your faith, no matter what you're leaning on or what, of the world is helping you. You know what I'm saying by that? Whatever you're drawing on of the world system, there's nothing wrong with that. But God offers us a higher level. Let's keep developing, let's keep growing. Let's take our place in God's best and not just relax at the place and the flow we're in now. Amen. Because God doesn't just want the best for a few. The best is reserved for God's people. Amen. Let's take our place at the top. Let's take our place at the top where the head and not the. We're above and not beneath. Amen. Let's take our place. And if we settle down into a lesser place, God will let us stay there. But we have to stir ourselves up. We have to stir ourselves up because we will not float into God's best. We go there on purpose. Amen. We have to contend for the faith. We contend for it. Why? Because there's enemies to our faith. God's not trying to withhold the best, but there's enemies trying to hold us in lower flows. And we have to say, I'm not okay with being now where I was last year, where I was five years ago, my marriage should look better, my health should look better, my finances should look better, my relationships, everything should be better. Show an increase. And if it's not, stir yourself up. Because God will not dump something on us of his best. He's provided it, but he says it's up to you to take it. Amen. And this is why I say, no more sickness in the body of Christ. Right? Let's stir ourselves up for that. Let's take our best. It cost heaven everything for us to have the best. And let's not be okay with not having everything. God dreamed for his own children. Amen. Hallelujah. Can you think of something today that you can say, you know what? I'm going to put my faith on this next thing. And if you've been trying to believe for something and you've been, if I could say this, overwhelmed and even disillusioned, then back up a little bit and get within where there's peace and joy. Because your faith will flourish when you have peace about something and when you're in joy about something, because that's a sign you're in faith about it. Hallelujah. Stand with me if you would. Father, we thank you tonight.
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Hallelujah.
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So this, really, this whole week, I love how the Spirit of God is leading us because we stirring ourselves up. Why? Because there's a last day revival and it's going to take. This going to take God's highest flow. Amen. And it's available to us and we're going to go there with him in that highest flow and not just keep treading water at where we're at. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you tonight that we always having all, that we have everything because we have Christ. That within the kingdom is every provision, every supply that our life will ever need. And we draw on it. We draw on it spiritually, mentally, physically, materially. And we thank you, Father, that you already have a place assigned to us at the time. Top, above and not beneath. And we're not okay with anything less than your best. And we thank you for your word that doesn't leave us where it found us. And we're so, so grateful. And everybody said amen. Let's. Let's just sing a moment and then we'll go further.
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I will move up higher what about you? I will move I'll set my sights I'll set my sights above the clouds where God does dwell Every day I will move up higher in every way I will move up higher I'll set my sights I'll set my sights only on you and these things on earth will rose up strange One more tag a testimony I will be.
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I'll set.
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My sight the clouds where God does dwell and his glory does prevail.
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Will move up higher and every day I'll move I will move up higher I will set my sights I'll set my side that back half. I'll set my sights on him.
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That one more tidy. Want to set my sight I set my silence only on you and these things on earth will grow strangely.
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Hallelujah. Well, I want to. We're going to minister in a moment to anyone who came tonight to have hands laid on you for healing. And you cannot be here any other night because Thursday night we're going to lay hands on anyone needing healing. And if you can't be here Thursday night or tomorrow night, we want to minister to you tonight. But before we do that, I have something else that just came up in my heart to minister to. When I say God has a place for us at the top, how many of you know at that place at the top, there's no torment. There's no depression. There's no harassed mind. There's no harassing thoughts that dog you every day. And he just impressed upon me to minister to those who are just entrenched in a flow of depression. And you need help getting out of that. Well, there's help for you. But let me just say this. Sometimes people say they, you know, they. Pastor Nancy, I just want you to cast this off of me. Well, just know this. You can't cast out an unrenewed mind. But there are people that get under something that is oppressing an oppressive depression and you want out, but you feel it's too much for where you're at with your faith. Well, there's divine help, but we all have a responsibility when we leave this building that we just can't go back to the way we were before we came in the building. What's that mean? We're going to feed on the word. We're going to keep the door open for God to continue to work through us. And that is we're going to feed on the word. We're going to say the word, we're going to speak the word, we're going to celebrate our victory. We're going to walk by what we. What the word says and not by what we feel. Amen. So I'm going to minister to those and you're going to those of you who would say it's almost like something has just had a clamp on my mind. Well, there's freedom for you. Amen. There's help for you. Hallelujah. But it's not to relieve us or dismiss us from doing our part. Hallelujah. So if that describes you, your mind, you just say, pastor Nancy, I've just been harassed. Now, see, we all have to deal with thoughts. We understand that. So I'm not talking about a very general, but you know, specifically what I'm referring to. And you say, that's my need. Come up here and we will. And I would say this. It seems to me there's someone that's been harassed by suicidal thoughts, feelings, as though every. Everybody would be better off if I weren't here. Well, that's a spirit talking to you because God would never tell you that. Amen. So in that call, you come up here because there's help for you. Praise the Lord. You don't have to live your life trying to outrun harassing thoughts. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We praise you. How many of you know peace belongs to us? I said peace is part of Our inheritance in Christ. It belongs to us. Hallelujah. Come on up here. Because once I start ministering, I'm going to ask no one else come up for that. I need you to move right now at this call. Don't wait until I start ministering. That's part of just training the body of Christ to respond when God calls. So right now, if that's your need, come up here and we'll minister to you. Because once I start, I'm not going. Because we've got to go on to other things. I can't just keep lingering and drawing it out. We want you to receive the help you need, but you have to respond to that. Hallelujah. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. Come just.
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I will set my s. I'll set my eyes only on him. These things are.
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I'm going.
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Move I will move I will move the higher I will set my. I'll set my fire Retire.
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Move the fire Every day I I set my s only and these things on earth will go strangely.
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Those of you that are, I want you to raise your hands. I want you to close your eyes. I'm going to say these words, and I want you to say them after me. But I want you to say them from your heart. Let your heart agree. Say when hands are laid on me. Say it out loud. When hands are laid on me. The anointing of God will go into my body. It will drive out any harassing thoughts, troubling thoughts, fear, depression. And I shall be free. No matter what I hear, no matter what is said. I call myself free. Hallelujah. Congregation Reach your hands out toward these. Father, we thank you. We thank you. Be free in Jesus name Be free in your mind, in Jesus name Be free in your mind in Jesus name Be free in Jesus name Be free in Jesus name Be free in Jesus name For you love him yes. Be free in Jesus name Be free in Jesus name Be free in his name Be free in his name Be free Satan, you take your hands off these. You take your hands off their minds. Be free in Jesus name Be free in Jesus name Be free in his name Be free in his name Be free in his name. We thank you, Father, that when this is laid upon them, is it for someone else? My sister's got a tumor in her brain. She's got a tumor in her brain. Father, I thank you for this healing anointing going into this cloth. And when it's laid upon her Body, we say that that tumor will dry up in Jesus name. We thank you for it, Father. Thank you. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. If you say, Pastor Nancy, I can't be here tomorrow night or Thursday night, but I came to have hands laid on me for healing. We want to minister to you. So if there's anyone this side of the building over here, raise your hand if that describes you. You came for that. Just raise your hand. Come on up here, if you would. Praise the Lord. And then this middle section. Both middle sections. Anybody in these two middle sections, raise your hand. Come on up here, love. Anybody else? Come on up now, this far section. If that's your. If that's you, come up here and we'll minister to you. Praise the Lord. We thank you, Father. We glorify you. Say, why don't you do it for everyone? Because we want you to hear more and more word. The more word you can get in you. My, my, my. It's going to. It's going to enhance. Enhance your faith.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We thank you, Father. We thank you. We thank you. We thank you. There it is. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. What is it you need, love? What is it you need? I need my blood sugar label sticker. Okay. Okay. Father, we thank you for. Behold, we speak to that. Behold, in Jesus name. Behold, in Jesus name. Behold, in his name. Behold, in his name. We thank you for it, Father. Be whole. Oh, shh. In his name. Be whole in his name. There that anointing one in your love. Be whole in his name. There it goes. In. Be whole in his name. We thank you for it, Father. Be whole in his name. There you go, love. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on up, love. Behold, in his name. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. What is it you need, sir? Huh? Father, we thank you. We thank you, Father, for wholeness. There goes that anointing in you. It's working. What is it you need? Love. Aha. Father, we thank you for freedom from that we speak to behold in Jesus name, be whole. Those of you that came up and had hands laid on you as you leave this building, even as you go back to your seat, you say, the power of God's working in me. The anointing of God is working in me. It's working in me. I thank you, Father, that I'm whole. Because of the anointing. The yoke shall be Destroyed because of the anointing. So we're authorized to call ourselves whole once that anointing is administered to us. Amen. Hallelujah. The anointing going in equals. Equals healing. The anointing going in equals wholeness. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's just raise up our hands and thank him tonight. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father. We thank you, Father.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Well, come here, love. We want to hear about this. What is it that you needed when you came up? Whoa. What is it that you needed when you came up?
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My knee.
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Your knee? What was the matter with your knee?
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They've been wanting to replace it, but I say, no, my God reigns. Hallelujah.
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Woo.
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Hallelujah. My thyroid. They wanted to do another biopsy. I said, no, my God reigns.
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Well, how different is your knee tonight?
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It's still loose.
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Every time I turn around and I try to help my mother.
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Did you have pain in your knee when you came in tonight?
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I was hobbling, but.
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You were hobbling.
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I couldn't jump like that.
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You couldn't jump like that? Let's see you jump like that.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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Yes. Yes, yes, yes. You can tell a testimony.
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God has healed my body so many times.
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Through the last Sunday of 2012, I went in the hospital, having chest pains really bad. I get to the hospital, and they're feeding me nitro pills and baby aspirins. My pastor comes up before he goes to preach, and he said, woo. I'm about out of breath. He said, sister Joyce, on the way up here, the Lord said to you, take a big deep breath and everything's gonna be okay. Woo. Glory. I took a big deep breath, thought I was relaxed. Next thing, I'm throwing up. They said, we're sending her on to Tulsa to a heart specialist. I get up there, they did a who would die stress test to where they could look at my heart and see what was there. Oh, get back to my room. The doctor comes in later, you've had a heart attack. You got blockage in the front part of your heart. Heart, it's not working, but 30 to 40%. I looked over at my family. I said, I guess that means I'm one step closer to home. That no more come out of my mouth. To the most horrible, helpless feeling you ever felt come over me. I said, well, Lord, I have never felt so helpless in all my life. I said, God, I am totally in your hands because there's nothing I can do about this. Yeah, but Lord, whatever it is, I know you can take it and turn it around for your glory.
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Wait long. The nurse comes in, she has me by the hand. She said, they're gonna do a heart cath on you, but not tomorrow because it's holiday, which is January 1st, and they're gonna either put a defibrillator in your heart, send you home with the deflipulator vest, depending on what they find, and you'll be on heart medication the rest of your life. I looked up at her and I said, you know, I'm in a win win situation. If God decides to take me, if he decides to leave me, I'm gonna be okay. And the holy Spirit went through my body and she felt it. And instantly tears went to running down her cheeks. She said to thank God, come in today with a natural. And you blessed me. I didn't bless her, God did. That's what I told her. I said, I'm just the vessel he used. Well, the next day was my birthday. They bring me a birthday cake. They don't do this in hospitals. Yeah. So that night I got in the bathroom and I got to singing. There ain't no grave gonna hold his body there. I'm telling you. I got to singing that. And I came out of that bathroom kicking up my heels and a shouting. My family said, mama Joyce, stop. You're gonna set off the heart monitor. They said, you think so? I said, I can't help it, I'm excited. So the next morning they come in early and they said they want to look at your heart one more time before they take you in. And they put dye in my arm and was doing an ultrasound to look. And it caused me to have another episode. They said, honey, we're gonna stop because of this. And they'll probably bump you up to the front of the list. Well, I get back to my room and this young black man comes in. His name was Morgan. I'll never forget him. Him. My daughter and my sister joins hands and prayed before we went down. And then my daughter said, mom, I've got something I want you to listen to. Out of the mouth of babes. Hallelujah. My son in law recorded my two grandsons. They were seven and four, praying. They were so in sync with each other, you'd have thought they had rehearsed this. And I know they didn't. Said, dear Heavenly Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus and who is that? And they said something about mamaw, but I Couldn't understand, said, and touch my mama. Cause we love our mama oh, so, oh, so much. And we love our mama oh so, oh, so much. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. And I told my daughter, said, that touched my heart. I said, to hear those babies praying. There's a lot of adults. There's a lot of. A lot of adults don't even know how to approach the throne. In Jesus name, we're going down the hall. And Morgan kept calling me sis. And sister said, sis, you're going to be okay. Now, don't you worry. You're going to be okay. Cannot describe it. Something swept over me, and I looked up at him and I said, you know, I feel privileged for you to call me your sister. I said, because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. He said, yes, we are. He said, said, I'm gonna come see you before we leave. But when they slid me on that table to do that heart cat, the Lord brought back to my remembrance what he told my pastor. And I said to myself inside, I said, lord, I'm taking a big, deep breath not to tell people. I said, I probably look like a balloon. I suck it into my chair and I let it out. And I said, okay, Lord. I'm relaxed. Glory be to my God. Next thing they know, you're going to feel pressure on your leg. And I did. And then all of a sudden, they started calling out this doctor's name, said, hurry up. You got to get him. He's got to see this before I pull out. And he did. And they're coming in, they're talking medical stuff. I have no clue what they're saying. I felt that pressure on my leg. That doctor gets up out of my head. He said, I don't know what to tell you, but we could not find nothing, absolutely nothing. Your heart's as smooth inside and working excellent. I said, praise God. And he said, yes. They had the picture there showing what was there. They sent me home with an 8 by 10. Just a smooth and perfect heart.
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And now you got a smooth and perfect knee.
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Oh, yes.
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My God.
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Sing it again. Let's sing it.
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Praise the Lord. God bless you, love. God bless you. God bless you. Hallelujah. Let's raise up our hands and thank him. Father, we thank you. We thank you, Father. I tell you what dad Hagin used to say to us. It's when you get thrilled with the word that it works for you.
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It's when you.
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You get thrilled with the word that it works for you. It's when you get thrilled with the word, that it works for you.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. I've seen people, you know, I'd say, well, how you doing now? Fine. Have any more pain? No. Okay, go sit down. Okay. But don't you love it when they.
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Just do this all across the sky?
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Jesus, we thank you tonight. We thank you for your word. We thank you for not leaving us like you found us. We thank you that there's a place at the top for us, and we've been raised and seated with Christ, but now we become a partaker of that which you have provided for us.
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You have provided the best. So we take our place in the best every single day. Not just Sunday, not just during meetings, but every single day. We choose with our words. And we thank you that the Holy Spirit is always leading us into the best that you have for us each and every day. And we thank you for the precious Holy Spirit. Hallelujah. Pastor, I'm going to ask. Ask you if you would come wrap this. Oh, we got to do offering. Well, you come up. You come up. Pastor Chris, Pastor Chris, Pastor Chip, whatever your name is. No, Chip Chipper Billy's boy. Come on up. Would you receive the offering? And then you close down with the altar call.
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Praise God. Thank you, Lord. Well, praise God. Did anybody receive anything today? Oh, glory to God. You know, we have a saying here. The very first time I took over as senior pastor in this church, it wasn't we grown since. But my very first sermon was with the senior pastor sitting here and mom and everybody else.
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And.
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And. And I said, well, if you ever told anybody you have to tithe. If anybody from this pulpit has ever told you you have to tithe. I said, they're wrong. You don't have to tithe. And. And both Pastor Lee and mom were both going. And they're saying, he ain't going to make it very long.
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And so I got to the place where the Lord showed me something. He said, you don't have. You can. If you're born again. Listen to me. If you're born again. And you received him as your savior and he wrote your name down in the book of life. You're going to heaven and you don't have to tithe. From then on out, out. You don't have to walk in love, slap your neighbor. You wonder where I'm going. Now Nancy's going. He said, you don't have to. You get to. And a champion knows they don't have to Practice. They get to practice. You understand what I'm talking about? They don't have to have discipline. They get to have discipline. And so when you start doing that, because of the get to, there's the benefits that come with the getting or, you know, getting to. There's benefits that come along with it. And so, glory to God. You don't have to give in to this ministry. You get to. Are you kidding me? This seed going into this right here, going all around the world. We have a man from Pakistan here today. Stand up, sir. One of our members in our church was coming back to. From Pakistan, met him in the airport or airplane and said, hey, if you're going. If you're coming to America, why don't you just come to. We're having a meeting. He doesn't. He's never heard of Nancy Dufresne. And he shows up. Welcome. Praise the Lord. So glory to God. Everybody say, I get to. I get to read the word. I. I get to have faith. I get to walk in love. Because love never fails. Amen. I get to give right pressed down, shaken together.
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God.
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Glory to God. All right, so, ushers, if you would do what you do, you can tell I haven't done this very often. And pass them around. Glory to God. Thank you, Father. And if there's anybody in this place. Oh, thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Give me utterance, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. If your name is not written in that book, glory to God. And you want to know that you know, that you know that you're going to heaven. And if you don't know, Brother Chip, I don't know. You know, Let me tell you an interesting story. And I don't know. I was given an altar call at a church that I was preaching at. My daughter was there, and she was 10 years old at the time. Now, her story, she's 30 now, but her story was when she was 5 years old, pigtail with a little lisp, cute as could be. She doesn't have the lisp now. You know.
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We. We had a meeting and we went to Taco Bueno, and she goes to the bathroom, comes back out and says, I got saved in the bathroom. And so we're all like, well, praise God. You know, it was real cute. Five years old. Tacos for everyone. And so five years later, she's 10, I'm at a meeting. She came, brought her whole little basketball team with her, and I had an altar call, and she's the first one down there. And it embarrassed me. I'm the preacher they asked to come in and my daughter's the first one up there. So I kept walking by her going, taylor, don't you remember Taco Bell? I'd whisper that to her and I'd walk by, you know, and I'm talking real, you know, Arbueno. The third time she takes the microphone and she said, yeah, dad, but you said, if I'm not ashamed of him. Or you said that Jesus said that if I. If you're not ashamed of me, I will not be ashamed of you before my father. If you're not ashamed of me before men, right then I will not be ashamed of you before my father. And she said, there were no men in that bathroom room. And I said, praise God. Tacos for everyone. But. But here's. Here's the point. Okay, Think about this. Naturally. A father. My. My heart was so proud. A good proud. A good pride of. Of my daughter to. No matter that whole basketball team she brought. None of them were born again again. But she wanted. She said there were no men or no people. And I want to do it and I'm not ashamed of it. And my heart just. Oh, you know, tears. And I thought of. I thought of God in his heart when somebody does that for him. And I thought about that. I'm not ashamed. I am not ashamed. If you're born again and you're not ashamed, I want you to stand up right now. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. And you're not ashamed to be a Christian. You know, we didn't get any watered down word tonight. Sheep. She's bringing us up a level. Glory to God. We thank you for father. So every head bowed and every eye closed, if there's somebody. You know what I haven't chip, I don't know for a fact that if I am born again, if, if right now we went to. If I died right now, I don't know if my name is in. Written in that book, but I want to know. I want to say a prayer with you and I want to know if that's you. Raise your hand right now and we'll make sure of it. We will make sure of it. Tonight you can be guaranteed of it if that's you. Glory to God. Is there a hand over there? Praise God. Isn't God good? Praise the Lord. Anybody else want to make that commitment? Praise the Lord and join the ultimate team. Praise God. See any hands over here? Glory to God. Praise the Lord. Well, who is that that's got their hand over there? Come on up. Oh, it looks like a youngster. He's running. Well, praise God. What's your name? Josiah Tyson. Tyson. Tyson is what they call him. Praise God. Well, do you believe that Jesus died on the cross for you? You believe that he's the Son of God? Then you want to pray together, and let's make sure they'll write your name in that book. Let's all do it together. Say, dear God, forgive me for all my sins and I forgive others. And I believe with all my heart that you're the Son of God and that you died on the cross for me. And now I receive you in my heart. You're my savior, my Lord. Thank you. Amen. Praise God. Welcome to Heaven.
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