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There's enough power in every sick room and in every hospital room to raise up that sick one that may be describing you. You may be in a sick room, you may be in a hospital room. And I want to remind you, power is present. That power is there to do a work, believe in what's not. Try to get something, but notice that he's already made it yours. It's present right where you're at. Say, I receive that power. I receive that power. I receive it right now. I receive it right now from the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the healer. And it is such an honor to share this time with you and to the great honor of bringing the Word to you. Amen. I mean, the Word takes our life and it sets it on course. The Word takes every arena of life and makes it God's best whenever we comply with the Word. Amen. Thank God he didn't leave us like he found us. Aren't you grateful for that, God? You know, God took me like I was, but he didn't leave me like I was. And that's the wonderful thing about it. And there's always more for us. And we've been talking in this series, ministering and teaching about being in Christ, that what belongs to us. And certainly we can never exhaust this topic. But as we learn who we are in Christ, it causes life to be different. And that's what we want. We want the life he planned for us. Amen. I want us to look, turn with me if you would, in your Bibles or get a notepad also and take notes, whether it's on a device or some kind of pen and paper. But let's look at Ephesians, chapter one, and I want us to look at verse 16. This is a prayer that Paul prayed for Christians. And we say this. It's a spirit inspired prayer. The Holy Ghost gave him this. And we're so grateful that we have it recorded because this lets us know an accurate way to pray. Always pray the word. Amen. So Ephesians chapter one, in verse 16, Paul writes, and he says, I cease not to give thanks for you. Do you know that that's so important when we pray for people, thanking God for the people that are in our lives. Amen. You know who I'm most thankful for so far as fellowship? The Body of Christ. I mean the blessing of belonging to the body of Christ and getting to fellowship with people who love what we love, love who we love. Amen. And so he said, I cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers. Verse 17 reads that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and give unto you the Spirit of revelation. Look at this in the knowledge of Him. When you find out what belongs to you because you're in him, life is going to look different. Everything of him belongs to us. None of him has been withheld from us. Amen. So what we need though, is the Spirit of wisdom and revelation. It needs to be revealed to us by the Holy Ghost so we can. It can dawn on our spirits what is ours because we're his now. I think one of the most wonderful things about it is this. God planned that, that we would be in Christ. It's his idea. I mean, it was. We didn't even have, of course, what it means to us. But we didn't have to give God that idea, coerce him into it. It was his plan. God planned it. Jesus purchased it. And it's the Holy Ghost that leads us into this, to lead us into a life of in Christ. We need the Holy Ghost to lead us into this. He reveals it to us. He unfolds it to us, he discloses it to us. Because without it being revealed, we will live as one outside of Christ when we were in him all the time. We want to live as rich as we are, not find out how we could have lived all along. Amen. So Paul prayed. He said, I pray that God would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Notice this, that the wisdom of God is who we are in Christ. For us, that is the wisdom that he wants us to have who we are in Christ. And that that would be revealed to us in such a way we can live it. You know, if I could say it this way, sometimes you can hear a sermon and you go, okay, I hear the truth of that sermon, but I don't know how to apply that. You know, sometimes. And you'll hear it preached and it's right to preach it. You need to have faith. You need to have faith in God. You need to have faith. Thank God. We need to hear that. But then we also need to hear, how do we have faith? What does that look like? What do I do? To live a life of faith, we need to know the how tos, right? Yes. So if I could say this. Right here is a cup. One thing that makes this cup so secure in my hand is the handle. Because then I can easily hold it. There's not the same chance of it slipping as if I'm just holding it this way and it could slip from my grasp, especially if it got wet, or what if it's too hot. But the handle makes it holdable in a whole nother way. When we are taught who we are in Christ, it puts a handle on the life God planned for us so that we can easily grasp it. Revelation is the handle. It's revealed to us so we can grab it and live it. Amen. So we need the Holy Ghost to reveal these things to us. I can teach it to you, but I can't reveal it. Only the Holy Ghost can make it land in your spirit, unfold to you. So you say, I see that you know. I can tell you the steps I took to get through certain seasons of opposition, times of difficulty, and we need to share our testimony. We need to hear steps that someone took, but only the Holy Ghost can open that up and make that a living thing to you, to where you, it dawns on you. It's not just a story, it's not just my testimony, but it's a revelation to you. It's the handle on the how tos. So in Christ doesn't just belong to us, who we are, but the unveiling of that, the revealing of that belongs to us so that we can live it. And then in verse 18, it says, the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us would who believe. Now, look at this. These words, they're not so easy in English language to understand the full meaning of that. What does that mean if we gave it in its simplest form? He's saying that you would know who you are in Christ, that you would know what you have because you're in Christ. And that you would know what you can do and what you can receive because you're in Christ. Amen. So he's saying this needs to be revealed to you. Look at this again, verse 18. The eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling. What's the hope of his calling? A life in Christ. In Christ. He said that you would know that if we are living less than who we are in him, we're not walking out. Our calling. Our calling is to live as he lived. Walk as he walked, speak as he spoke, think as he thought, produce what he produced. You say I couldn't do that because he was a son of God. Yeah. And so are you. Right. And he's in us to produce in us what he lived on this earth. Amen. He showed us in his own life what life was possible for the new creature in Christ. Why? Because he's in us now. It has to be revealed to us now as we go about daily life. Can I tell you the Holy Ghost will reveal to you not some great, deep, dark revelation of that no one else can grasp, but he'll tell you, don't say that anymore. That's a revealing of the Holy Ghost. That's going to pull you outside of functioning like you're in Christ. You'll be swayed. What about this? Have you ever said something you go, oh, that grieved me. He was revealing to you. Your own spirit was revealing to you. And Christ doesn't do that. Right. What about give this amount of money? Oh, in Christ, I can do that. Christ would have me to do that. So thank God for the Holy Ghost. That helps lead us into who we really are in Him. Now. How many times I have been shown something in my own personal life that I needed to change. Why? Because we are changed from glory to glory. Notice this. It is not what we are doing right that's hurting our life. It's what we do wrong. It's how it's wrong thinking that troubles our life. It's wrong actions, wrong words. I want to know. I don't. I want to recognize those things so that I can change them. And when I change them, what happens? Greater glory. Amen. Change. When the Holy Ghost shows us change to make that is a privilege of being in Christ. That he shows us that so we don't stay doing it the wrong way, that we are living out the hope of his calling for our life now. It's what God has shown me that I was doing wrong that I'm most grateful for. Yeah. Because it was a rescue to me. He didn't leave me going down the wrong path. Do you remember when Isaiah was sent by God? Go tell King Hezekiah a message. How would you like to get that order from God? God told him, go tell the king, set your house in order. For you shall surely die and not live. Set your house in order. There sounded like no hope in that. God was not sentencing King Hezekiah to death. God was Revealing the way you're going now, the road you're on is going to end you in certain deaths. When he said that, that was a rescue from God. He's offering him change. Now, if he doesn't make a change, you're going to end up where I just said is what God was telling him. But if you'll change, this doesn't have to be the outcome. So God said through the prophet Isaiah, Hezekiah, set your house in order, for thou shalt surely die and not live. So Hezekiah, when we think set your house in order, Hezekiah did not set his physical house in order. You know what he did? He turned himself to the wall. And what did he set in order? The spiritual house. He corrected something on the inside. Why? Because it was revealed to him in Christ. The Holy Ghost will reveal to us what needs to be changed and what a kindness, what a rescue, so we don't end up in the direction we chose for ourselves, the wrong road. So when King Hezekiah made that inward adjustment in his spirit, his body responded. He was on his deathbed. The inward choices changed his health. Because God said, before the prophet ever got out of the courtyard of the king, he said, go back. Tell King Hezekiah I'm adding 15 years to his life. Ah, his. His life got lengthened because he changed. Oh, that's so good. In Christ, he will show us changes. And what a privilege, what a benefit. Don't get touchy. When the pastor preaches a sermon and you choose to be defensive. Well, that was too hard. That was harsh. Ah, that was a rescue. Amen. You know, if a man is drowning out in the ocean and someone sees him, comes up in a boat and throws a life ring, the last thing a drowning man needs is a life ring that's thrown about 100ft from him because he can't reach it, although it's in proximity. You know what that drowning man wants? Get that life ring as close to me as possible. The best thing, hit me in the head with it so I know exactly where it's at. Sometimes when God speaks, it's as it's a rescue that hits us right in the head. Make sure it didn't hit your emotions and you get touchy over it and you become offended because of it. What if a man throws a drowning man a life ring and it hits him in his head and he says, how dare you hit me in the head with that? No, a drowning man's grateful that it hit him in the head, right? It's A fool that would be offended at the man who rescued him. Corrections are a rescue. And when they come through a pastor, when they come through the Word, when they come through a friend that has God's word in his mouth, when it comes through the Holy Ghost showing you something, be grateful and show gratitude. Because if you change, there's glory on the other side of that. There's more of God on the other side of that. I remember a time years ago, my goodness, I would say 35 years ago or so. And I went to bed one night, and right before I woke up the next morning, I had a dream. And in the dream, there was a casket laying at the foot of an opulent stairway. And it was like a stairway that veered off, it came down. It, like, had two balconies that came into one beautiful extended stairway. And there's a casket at the bottom of that stairway, and I'm the one laying in it. And I see my husband walking down the stairway and he's bowed over, grieving. And I saw that God didn't speak to me. I saw it and I knew it wasn't the devil. I would have liked for it to be in the devil, in the sense of. I would have liked to have thought I was on course, but I was off course and God was showing me. The course you're on is going to arrive you here. What was he offering me? Change. So as soon as I woke up from the dream, I knew it was God. Now, let me share with you real quick. How do you know something a dream is from God? Number one, when you wake up, you'll sense the anointing. It's the influence that it's him talking. Number two, you'll know the meaning. If you don't know the meaning and you got to run around, that's four. People don't accept it because God's an intelligent being and you're an intelligent being. And if he's going to talk to you in a way you can't understand, that's not God. But the devil operates that way, not God. That's good. Number three. There will be no fear. If there's fear, God wasn't doing it. If you wake up and you sense fear in the room, that's the devil. I don't care how clear it was what you saw. I don't care how real it seemed. If fear was produced in you, it was the devil. So don't. Don't spiritualize every dream. Don't think that every dream God was talking to you. Don't be unsound, stay with the soundness of the word. But this time when I woke up, the anointing was in the room. There was no fear with it. And I knew the meaning. I knew that I was going to have to change something. And the moment I woke up, God said to me, I'll talk to you about it later. Well, I didn't like that. I wanted, let's handle it now, right? And I could sense that God was displeased. God never leaves us. He'll never forsake us. But we can lose his sense of pleasure. We can sense his pleasure's not there anymore. He didn't leave, but he's not pleased. And I don't sense his pleasure anymore. So that happened on a Tuesday morning. I tell you, the rest of Tuesday was difficult. Wednesday was difficult. Why? I didn't sense his pleasure. I knew he wasn't pleased. On Thursday, I said, God, I don't like this place, this place of being outside your pleasure. I said, is it later? You said you'd talk to me later. Is it later? He said, it's later. Get pen and paper. And for the next little bit, he talked to me about change, this change that. He wasn't upset with me, he wasn't angry with me, but he was displeased. And I want him pleased. And so I made a note of all those things and I implemented them. And I'm here today why? The change brought me into greater glory. What is that? Extended life. It wasn't shortened by disobedience. Was I living in some deep, dark sin? No, but just areas of omitting to do some things, just neglecting to do some things. And some of the things I was doing, I was doing them the wrong way. I can't tell you the number of times I've gone back to God in my fellowship and said, thank you for that. Thank you for that correction. Because if I had not known to make that correction. Because can I tell you, when God started talking to me about corrections out of that experience, there were several he wanted me to make. I said, God, I had no idea. Seriously. It had never dawned on me that that was wrong. It never dawned on me that that wasn't part of your will for my life. I had no idea. But thank you for showing me. Notice here. That God would give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. The Holy Ghost will bring us. If I could say this, moving further with him by showing us what's not him. Yeah. And so the eyes of my understanding were enlightened. Yes, they were enlightened. I understood on the inside of me. It wasn't just somebody outside saying, you need to change this, you need to change that. From the inside of me, I saw it. The eyes of my understanding were enlightened. Why? So that I would know the hope of his calling. So I wouldn't just live at that lower flow, but I would live as he called me. To live as one in Christ, producing the life like his life produced, having the same. If I could say this, well, it goes back to Acts 17. In him we live. In him, we move. In him we have our being. When we correct something in our spirit, man that needs adjustment, maybe coming into agreement with the Word, coming into agreement with the will of God, being a doer of the Word in a certain arena. Because have you ever noticed God's always dealing with us about something? Now notice that he's always dealing with you about something. He's always dealing with me about something. Why? Because we haven't arrived to the fullness of the stature of Christ. We belong to him, but our life needs to produce like one in Him. So he's always dealing with us. That means if we're not always dealing with something, we're missing his leading. If we're not always adjusting something, changing something, then we're missing his leading. And he doesn't address these things to push us down. They lift us up. Why? Condemnation pushes you down and shows there's no way out. It's hopeless. Feeling conviction of your own Spirit will lift you and show you how to make that change. You know, when God visited me, he didn't just show me that dream. He didn't just show me the outcome. He told me what changes to make. What is that? He lifted me. Condemnation pushes you down and takes out hope. Conviction of your own spirit shows you what to do and shows you how to get out of it, how to exit that place and come to a further place. Amen. Amen. So when I made those changes, what happened? God could take me further. Because those were things that were going to hold me back spiritually. Now, when I made adjustments inside, it didn't just affect that. It affected my peace. It affected my ability to hear what God was saying. Because these things were getting in the way. Sometimes if the physical body is not functioning as it ought, sometimes it's not just about getting the body in order, the diet in order, the exercise in order. Sometimes it's about getting something in the Spirit, in the spirit of man, in order. If we will adjust things in our spirit. Our body will start responding. Instead of struggling to be healed, the body will change. One of the. I think one of the testimonies that I share is a testimony that my husband often shared. So I'm not sharing something. In an unfortunately seemly manner, he often shared it. But in his late. No, it was more in his mid-50s, he was diagnosed with cancer. And he came home from the doctor that day and he said, God, you don't miss it? I've missed it somewhere. Where did I miss it? What's he doing? He's asking, where do I need to change? Embrace change. It's your friend. Amen. God rewards change with greater glory. And so he said, God, you don't miss it? I've missed it. See, many times people blame God when something gets out of place in their life that doesn't work. Why? Because it's not true. And so he said, God, you don't miss it? I've missed it. Where have I missed it? And God said two places, just as freely as they're having a conversation. He said, number one, you don't rest your body properly. I've dealt with you about it for years. You'd make adjustments for a short time, then you'd go back to the bad habit, not resting your body properly. And he said, because of that, your body's worn down. Then when this physically tried to come on you, your body couldn't fight it. It's worn down. And he said, number two, you didn't obey me. In the office you stand in, I would tell you to warn, speak something into the body of Christ, and you wouldn't do it. And my husband said, okay, I repent of those two things. And God said, okay, within 30 days, it'll all be gone. And day 28, he went back to the doctor, and the doctor said, somebody up there likes you. There's no more cancer in your body. See, when he made inward adjustments, his body responded. Responded to what? Healing power. So I want you to see this, that one of the ways the privileges of being in Christ is the Holy Ghost will reveal to us changes to make. Why? Because he's bringing us further into the stature of the fullness of Christ. Amen. And part of that is change. And it's a positive. Be grateful for it. I said, be grateful. Don't be defensive when your pastor says something that lands at home and you say, thank God somebody said it to me because it's easier to learn it from somebody you can hear and see in this realm. So be grateful. However, God chooses to bring us into an understanding of who we can be in Christ and who we are in Christ and how to walk that out. Amen. The reason we're able to come into your home is one reason. 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