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Thank you to Kenneth Copeland Ministries for sowing the airtime for this broadcast.
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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.
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I receive it right now from the
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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 you're with us today. For Jesus the healer, it is such a joy to be able to spend this time with you. So thank you so much for joining us. And we are just in the midst of a series that we don't know when it's going to end, but we're just enjoying following the Holy Ghost in this. Amen. We've been teaching on in Christ and what that can look like in our daily life. Our beginning point on this was something that God said to brother Copeland. He said, I want you to sow $50,000 to Kenneth Hagin Ministries. He said that back to him in the 70s, when Brother Copeland was just learning about the laws of prosperity, he himself was believing God to get out of debt. And God g this command that sounds so large. And I love the skill of brother Copeland's answer. When God said, I want you to give that amount. God wasn't trying to get that money out of him. He was trying to bring him into the flow of that amount. And so brother Copeland's skill in answering was this. In Christ, I have it, and in Christ I can give it. Listen, if we will learn to go first to who we are in Christ, when we're faced with anything God commands of our life. But what about when the devil opposes our life? We start going first to who we are in Christ. And so brother Copeland not only gave that answer, he gave. And God blessed that giving. And he was able to fulfill that request. And he did what was impossible to him because he realized, in Christ I can accomplish this. It's not about us trying to do something apart from Christ. It's about us yielding to the one in us who does the work. If God can just get our agreement and get our movement, why? Because faith is an act. Faith is not immobile. Faith is moving with God. And if God can get us to just move with him, God will fill that movement with his own provision. He fills that movement with himself. But we have to go first, just like Brother Copeland did. We have to go first to talking about and thinking about who we are in Christ. Because in Christ, the impossible is possible. And what was impossible for Brother Copeland to give out of his own resources, he didn't have that amount. So he didn't try to fulfill that request himself, but he went to in Christ to fulfill that request. What was he doing? He was letting God do the work through him. And so he was able to fulfill that request. But this is because he had gained the skill of going first in his thought life to who he was in Christ. And because Christ was in him, it made everything doable. We were talking on the previous episode about something. We're talking about Elijah and the widow woman from Zarephath. It was during a time of famine, and God had fed and taking care of the prophet of God, when he said, go dwell by the brook, cherith. And so every day he was provided for at that brook. But one day the brook dried up. And God told him, he said, I have commanded a widow woman in Zarephath to. I've commanded her to provide for you. So what was this? He. He obeyed God. He got up and he was ready to move with the next place God sent him to. So when he got to Zarephath, he found a widow woman. There was. What was she doing? She didn't look rich. She was gathering sticks at the city gate. He recognized this is the one God sent me to. He had to perceive his help. And so he gave this widow woman. He gave her a command. He gave her something to do. Why, this woman needs a miracle. And have you ever noticed that when you need a miracle, the first thing God will do is give you something to do. He is not going to meet our miracle appointment from us. He is going to meet our miracle through us. That when we obey the command he gives us, then he can fill that movement with himself and work a miracle on our behalf. So when. When the. When the prophet got to the city and he found this woman, he said to her in First Kings chapter 17. Go back up to. Let's go to verse 10. It says in verse 10, First Kings 7. Excuse me, 1710. It says. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks. And he called to her, look, at this, he's giving her something to obey. Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink. How easy the command. God doesn't give us something hard. He does the hard part. He just gives us some movement to make so he can feel the movement with himself. And then look at verse 11, it says, and as she was going to fetch it, so notice this, she heard what the prophet said, and she agrees with it. She's going to go get him some water. And it says while she's going that he calls after her and he says, bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. So notice he added to the command, the first thing was so doable for her. Why is that? Because he said, get me water. What's water? A public resource. So she's going to go provide a public resource. It's easy on her, right? Yes, it's a time of famine. Because why is there a time of famine? Lack of water. Well, she knows where there's some water, so she's going to fetch him some water. But now he upped and increased the command. He said, bring me also a morsel of bread. And look at the next verse. She answered him. Now, before, she didn't say a thing. She just goes to fulfill it. But now he's touching into something else. He's not anymore in her public resource. He's in her private resource. When he says, bring me some bread, she's going to have to go get that out of her house. And so now she's talking back. Now she's answering, now she's engaging. Because up until this time, she hadn't said anything. She was just obeying the request he made of her. But now she has something to say. She said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake. Well, she goes on and she says, I have some meal, I have some oil. I'm going to go home, I'm going to cook it, my son and I are going to eat it, and then we're going to die. Meaning there's nothing left for us. So what is she doing? She's telling the prophet why she can't. Well, thank God for preachers and men of God who help us pass the wrong answers that we give. How many times have we thought the wrong answer or said the wrong answer or acted in line with the wrong answer? And our pastor just keeps teaching us. God just keeps working with us. The Holy Ghost just keeps dealing with us. Amen. Why? To bring us out of the wrong answer. To the right answer. She gave the reason why she couldn't do it. Why did she say that she couldn't do it? Because she's thinking of her provision. Why did God have Elijah to give her this command? Because God is thinking of his provision, not her provision. She's thinking of her provision, but God wants us to not think of our provision. He wants us to think of his provision that belongs to us. Amen. So he's got to get this woman. The prophet of God has to get this woman into obedience. And so notice in verse 13, Elijah said unto her, fear not. Ah. Notice the skill of the man of God. He recognizes her giving the reason why she can't obey the command is simply based on fear. It's not based on provision. It's based on fear. Notice that because she had the provision to do what he said, she thought she didn't have it. Remember what he said? He said, bring me a morsel of bread. And she said, I have not. But then she said, I do have meal, I do have oil, but it's earmarked for me and my son. So she had plans for that. So when the prophet asked for it, she's thinking, no, I don't have any plans for yours. I only have plans for mine. And so the prophet did not ask her to do what she didn't have. Notice this. That God is not unreasonable. And he says. He's basically saying, take your plan off of your provision and obey what God's telling you to do. Now, the prophet recognized this. Elijah recognized it's fear motivating what she's saying. It wasn't simply lack of resources, it was fear. He said, fear not. Notice this fear will rob you of who you are in Christ. When you establish in your own spirit, you are made righteous. You are already in Christ if you're born again. But you have to establish that truth in your Spirit so that that truth governs your words, governs your actions, governs your thinking, governs your believing. So notice this. He said, fear not. Don't let fear rob you by you thinking of just what you can accomplish on your own. And so he said, fear not. How was she not going to fear she was going to obey what he said. When you obey God, it pushes fear back. Why? Because fear comes to try to immobilize you, to keep you from advancing, to keep you from going forward. So he tells her, fear not. And then he tells her how to take a stand against that fear. Go and do. Go and do. Look at that. Go and do as Thou has said, well, what did she say? She said, I'm going to take the meal I have, I'm going to take the oil I have, and I'm going to make some bread out of it. He said, go and do just what you said, but make me thereof a little cake first. So notice this. He said, you're already going to go make bread. Go ahead and do that, but bring it to me first. Don't eat it. Bring it to me. Now, as we were saying on the previous episode, somebody might an onlooker, if they could watch this whole scene, how they would say, I can't believe that preacher asking her for her last bit. The preacher's not trying to take her last bit. He's trying to keep that from being her last bit. He's trying to take what she only has left and turn it into a miracle. If she carries out her plan with it, she dies. But if she follows what God says through the man of God, she gets a miracle. Amen. So the prophet was not being selfish, he was being generous to help bring her into a miracle flow. Look. Look at this. God said to her, God said to the prophet, I have commanded a widow woman there in Zarephath to sustain you. Look at that. He said, I have commanded her. But all along this. It doesn't sound like she acts like she knows anything about a command, right? What is this? Sometimes you need to be around somebody who knows God better than you to help you recognize what God has commanded of your life. She did not seemingly know what God had commanded of her. But when the prophet came, he articulated what God had commanded her before he ever showed up. Amen. So he told her how to fulfill. Because he said, fear not. Go and do as thou has said. This is what preachers are. They are encouraging. Keep doing the word. Go. Go ahead into what God says. Keep doing the Word. And he said, but make me thereof a little cake first. Bring it to me. And after make for thee and for thy son. Notice. Bring it to me first. It matters what you put first. When you need a miracle, you cannot put the circumstances first. You can't put what the devil threatens to you first. What is God telling you to do? Put that first. So he said, make me a little cake first. Look at this. And he said, and bring it unto me. And after, after you have made mine. After you have brought it to me, then go back and make it for you and your son. Now notice this. He's saying, don't make mine and then make yours and your sons make mine. Bring it to me. Get it out of your hands. Get it sewn. Sow it quickly. Amen. Why did he tell her, make it, then. Bring it to me so she won't be tempted to eat it. Not only that, her son is hungry. What about a mama with a crying baby? He's crying out of hunger. And he smells that cooking. He would want to have it. And he's saying, bring it to me first. Bring it to me. Why keep away from your own appetite that which would be your miracle? Don't eat the seed. Amen. Bring it to me. So he said, make me a cake. Bring it to me. And then after, make for thee and for thy son. What's he telling her? You make something for me, you're going to have something for you and your son. But if you just make it for you, you're done. Amen. And so in verse 14, for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of mill shall not waste. What's that mean? You're not going to hit the bottom. Neither shall the cruse of oil fail until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth. He says this provision will endure throughout the lifetime of this famine. For the length of the famine. You will never be hungry again until the rain comes upon the earth and this miracle will be sustained. Amen. So he's telling her before she. Even before she's even acted. He's telling her, this is going to be the outcome if you'll do what I say. Now, she had to move by faith to do that because she's got no sign that this is going to work. She's got to believe his words. So notice what he's doing. He's. God is allowing him to articulate to her what God intends to do for her. So go to the next verse at verse 15, and let's see what the Word says on that. And she went and did. That's what faith does. Amen. How did she agree to go and do? No doubt it bore witness to her. Her own heart. Why? God had already commanded her. And she recognizes that's my help. That's my answer. And she went and did. According to the saying of Elijah. Look at this. And she. And he. Who's he? The prophet. And her house did eat many days. Isn't that something? What was that? She was supplied because she allowed what God said to be her provision. She acted on what God said. Do you know that when you say, in Christ, I have it, then you're allowing God to. To provide based on who you are in Christ, not based on who you are in your own resources. Her resources were changed that day because God got involved in Christ. God gets involved. Amen. And so we see this, that the prophet of God helped her to receive her miracle because he was. He knew what would happen in if she drew from a different place than her own ability, her own resources. I want you to know in Christ, something more is always there than you could ever provide for yourself. So what do we have to do? Train ourselves to immediately go to, I'm in Christ. I don't care what the need is. I don't care what unexpected bill shows up. I don't care what difficulty showed up. Christ in Christ is helping and provision and supply for every single need I will face in this life. This is the skill I so appreciate of Brother Copeland. When God said, sow that offering, he immediately went to in Christ. He did not immediately take out his checkbook and see what he had in the account. Amen. He started talking first about in Christ. Now, for us to live as rich as we are in Christ, we're going to have to train ourselves that we go first to who we are in Christ. We turn first to that revelation. Well, if we're going to turn first there, then that means we have to learn something. We have to know what the Word says. Amen. So we encourage you. Get hold of in the New Testament. Get hold of scriptures that say, in Christ, in him, in whom, through whom all these. All these phrases that depict in Christ. Feed on those. Put them in your mouth. Build that awareness in you. Meditate on that. Because what you're meditating on is the first place you're going to go in a time of crisis. So build that on the inside of you. I want to read to you something that Isaiah 54:14 says. The amplified classic translation said this. It says, you shall establish yourself in righteousness. Look at that. You shall establish yourself. It doesn't say, God shall establish you. You establish yourself. Well, what's that mean? Well, Christ made us righteous because we are in Him. Everything he is, we are. Amen. You cannot be in Christ and not be as he is, because as he is, so are you. So he is righteous. Therefore we are righteous just because we're joined with Him. Amen. So when it says, you shall establish yourself in righteousness, he's not saying you have to go and establish your own righteousness. The Word is saying here that you have to establish in your spirit that he's already made you righteous. Now, in the Old Testament, you Don't see these words in Christ. Why? Because until Jesus died, until he became head of the Church, until we became one with him, we couldn't be in Christ. So anytime in the Old Testament, you see righteousness, you could also use the word in Christ because that's the New Testament, equal to righteousness. That's what righteousness means. We are in Christ. And so any time we could establish, we could read it this way. You shall establish. Establish yourself in who you are in Christ. Amen. And we could be correct in saying it that way. Now notice this. You shall establish yourself. You have to build that truth in you. Now, when you build that truth in you, look what it says will happen. You establish yourself in righteousness, rightness, in conformity with God's will and order. You shall be far from even the things thought of oppression or you shall be far from even the thought of destruction. And you shall not fear and from terror, for it shall not come near you. What's this mean? That when you know who you are in Christ, you're done participating with low flows. You're not allowing them to operate in your life. Because you know something. You've established it in you. Now what? Let's talk about establishing it in you. How do you establish it in you? First of all, you have to put it in your mouth. You have to put it in front of your eyes. You have to look at it. You have to see what the Word says. The Word tells us in Proverbs chapter 4 that his words are life to those that find them. Look at this. His words aren't life to everyone. His words are life to those that find them. What's that mean? We have to be interested enough to find out what the Word says about us. Because these things don't flow automatically. We have to find out who we are so that we can draw on who we are. Find out who you are in Christ. All that belongs to you in Christ. You are made righteous. You have the wisdom of God. You have the strength of God. You have the nine fruits of the Spirit that are in you. What are those? Those are the forces of God's own character in you. Not only that, you are new in Christ. That means the old has passed away. You're not who you used to be. You have to find out these things because these words are life to those that find them. You have to find them and establish their truth in you. Now let's see what we can look at the Hebrews and see what happens when someone doesn't establish the Word in Them God worked mighty miracles delivering his people out of bondage. Notice that when God's people left Egypt, there was not one feeble one among them. Notice that they carried out the wealth of Egypt with them. Then God sent them to the wilderness with the wealth of Egypt. Notice this. He sent them to a place where they couldn't spend it. Why? Because he did not want to train them to trust in the riches they had. He was training them to trust in him. So he sent sent them to a place where that physical wealth could not deliver them, that they had to learn to trust God. He told them, I have already given you a land. It flows with milk and honey. Notice they did not build that in them. They did not establish that in them. And when they arrived at the wilderness, they wandered for 40 years. That first generation never arriving. When people don't establish the truth of what God says to them in them, they never arrive at what God has for them. That first generation didn't arrive. Why? Because they would not hold to what God said. We have to build in us who we are in Christ. Why? So we'll hold to that in the face of opposition that will turn there first in our daily life. Don't wait until something goes wrong in your life before you start speaking. Spending who you are in Christ. He intends that we draw on who we are in Christ every day. Not just at a time of emergency, not at a time of only opposition, but every day. He intends that we draw on that for our daily life. And because the Hebrews delivered out of Egypt, they did not take what God said and build it in them. Who did? Joshua did, Caleb did. But the multitude did not. And so notice the only ones who arrived at that generation in the promised land, the ones who established what God said in them. This is why it's important here in Isaiah, when it says, you shall establish yourself in righteousness, we could say it this way. You should establish in yourself that you are already made righteous. You have to establish that God has given us the truth of that. But it's up to us to take that truth and build it into us. You say, how do I do that? Meditating on it. You have to meditate on it. What's that mean? Well, when you hear sermons like this and you replay them, you're meditating. When you read the Word, you read scriptures and you confess them, you're meditating. So we invite you meditate on these things. They will not drop into you without your notice. You have to on purpose establish them in you notice. If someone is have you ever seen outside of a building established in 1980 or something? They'll tell the year that was established. What's that mean? They took great effort to start that business. It takes so much to establish that you have to give attention to establish a company, establish a business you're starting. Well, even so, be that interested in establishing in you who you are in Christ. Amen. Well, we put some resources on our website available to help you do that free of charge completely. Go to our website@jesusthehealer.org and we have a small booklet that just has a of the main scriptures that teach us who we are in Christ. And then we have a complete listing also for you. So you can go download these for free. You can print them out or you can put them on your device and feed on these. Speak these to yourself, meditate on them, speak to them, speak them to yourself. And know this. Train yourself to turn that direction. No matter what shows up in life, don't just keep thinking the same way. Make yourself take on the thoughts of the word. Fill up with it and they will flow easily. Amen. Well, we want to invite you to join us next time because we're going to keep continuing this direction. And until next time, remember this Jesus is the healer. God bless you.
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