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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. I receive it right now from the top of my head. From the top of my head. The soles of my feet. The souls of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today. For Jesus the Healer. We are still staying on a series. I. I didn't know how long, and I still don't know how long we'll be on this, but just. It just keeps coming up in my heart for us to stay on the series, teaching about who we are in Christ because it's an inexhaustible subject. I mean, it's as vast as God himself. Right. And so we invite you go back. We've. We've filmed over 60 episodes in this series alone. And we're just thrilled to be able to share some of the things. And can I tell you, let me just tell you how this series came about. I was sitting down because I bring lots of notes when I go to film, and I will maybe anywhere from 80 to 120 pages that I'll come into a week of filming with. And I sat down one weekend a couple months ago to go a particular direction. I intended to teach a certain direction. And when I sat down to write the notes, God said, I don't want you to teach that direction on the upcoming episodes. I want you to teach on in Christ. Now, this was like just two days before filming started. And I said, God, I've only got like 10 pages on that. And I said, but if you say we'll do it, let's do it. Let's just turn on the cameras. And so there's just a few basic scriptures and. And things I referen in these episodes. But really I just said, you know what? I'm just gonna keep my tongue hooked up to my spirit and let the Holy Ghost direct us, because we're believing that you as the viewer, that the Holy Ghost is prescribing answers for your life out of the Word. And so we are just enjoying that the Holy Ghost has led us this way. So we're not gonna try to, if I could say this, jump off of this topic too soon. Because to have the highest order of faith, learn who you are in Christ. Faith, the struggle of faith is over when you know who you are in Christ, what belongs to you because you're in Christ, and what you can do and what your life can produce because you're in Christ. This is what the devil doesn't want the body of Christ to come into revelation about. Because the devil knows that when a believer finds out all that belongs to them because they belong to God, God, that, that the devil's heyday in their life is done. The devil is not pushing them around anymore. So the devil wants to, if I could say this, keep these things unclear to us. And so we're just going to keep staying with this topic as long as the Holy Ghost leads us. And can I say this? Let me give you homework. Can I tell you, it's what we do at home that's either going to set us on the right course or the wrong course. It's not just what we say in church. Listen, everybody needs a local church. Every believer needs a local church. Every believer needs a pastor. No exceptions. Everybody needs that pastoral voice in their life because what is that? It's a spiritual parent to them. Just like a child needs a parent that speaks into their life and it saves them from so much difficulty when they have a parent that is helping speak into a child's life, it just saves them from going a lot of wrong directions. Well, even likewise, a pastor is the parental voice in the life of that sheepfold. And so there's a safety with having a pastor. But it's not what we do in church that's going to seal our success in our Christian life. It's what we do at home. It's what we feed on. It's what we allow in our thought life. It's what we allow to be spoken in our home. And so one of the primary ways to change your daily life is get hold of these scriptures. We have them posted free on our website. You can go to jesusthehealer.org you can download them, you can print them out, or you can just load them to your device. It's in Him Scriptures for. For you to feed on. What do I mean by in Him Scriptures? Well, there's scriptures that include these phrases in him, through him, by him, all of these phrases that depict who we are in him and who he is in us. And until we get this established in us, these truths. People will struggle with a poor self image. They'll struggle with the past, they'll struggle with faith, faults and failures. All of these things that the devil tries to capitalize on. But once we know who we are in Christ, we take from the devil his ammunition against us. And this is why I'm so grateful that the Holy Ghost has led us on this topic. Because it is so foundational in the life of every believer. When someone struggles with a poor self image, the prescription for that is find out who you are in Christ. Because when you know who you are in Christ, the devil is done working your past on you, done working your lack of education on you. Because can I say this, that we do not, we do not grow in Christ simply by academic learning. We grow in him by discerning. We have to receive revelation in our spirit. It has to land in us. What's this mean? Our spiritual foundation has to be established. It's not just a mental education. It's not a mental learning. It's a discerning and a revelation that has to be authored in us. And that only happens by the Holy Ghost. You know, as me teaching on these broadcasts, all I can do is offer you revelation. But I can't make it revelation to you. The Holy Ghost is the only one that can write it on the tablet of your heart, with your permission, with your cooperation. And so until people establish who they are in Christ on the inside of them, how do you do that? How do you establish yourself in that righteousness that you are? You meditate on it, you speak it, you think it, and you cast down any thought that's in opposition to who you are in Christ. When we look at the word righteousness, we are completely correct to also put alongside that the phrase in Christ, because our righteousness is in Christ. You know, it tells us over In Isaiah, chapter 54, it says that we are to be established in righteousness. Now that doesn't mean to go out and try to establish our own righteousness apart from him. It's telling us establish the understanding and the revelation. Yeah, it's Isaiah 54, verse 14. Let me read it to you. In righteousness shalt thou be established. Well, what's that mean? Well, in the new Covenant, Jesus made righteousness a gift. We have to establish that in our understanding, in our spirit. We have to establish that truth in us, that we are already made righteous by what Jesus did. What's righteousness mean? Right with God. So the devil can't use our past and say look how you missed it. Here, look what you did wrong. Here, look what embarrassment you brought to the family. Or look how you lost that business. Or look how that marriage didn't work out. The devil always wants to point to something that is a place of what he would call failure, weakness, faults, because he wants to hold you back. But when you establish, wait a minute. Jesus already made me righteous apart from my past. I'm not righteous because I've done everything right. I'm righteous because Jesus did everything right, then credited it to me and to my account, as though I'm the one who did it right. Can I tell you this? The natural mind cannot comprehend the greatness of that. That gift of righteousness. But you have to establish on the inside of you, I am free from my past. I am free from any. If I could say this, the failure that comes through my past because Jesus made me righteous. And the devil constantly wants to point to you outside of who you are in Christ. He always wants to get you mindful of you apart from Christ. But we have to live this life only thinking of ourselves in terms of, I'm in Christ now. We have used in this series a testimony that Kenneth Copeland gave. I so love this testimony because it paints some things so clearly for me. Years ago in the 70s, when Brother Copeland was just really learning and becoming skillful with the truths of prosperity, him and Sister Gloria were believing God to come out of debt. They were in debt at the time. And God gave a command to Brother Copeland. He said, I want you to sow $50,000 to Kenneth Hagin's ministry. Now, in the 70s, $50,000. It's a lot today, but in the 70s, my goodness, that was a large amount. If most Christians heard God say that how many times we would mentally derail, you know, we would go, I don't have that. I can't do that. Because we're thinking of our ability to make that happen. When God commands something of our life, he never intends for it to be fulfilled apart from him. He always intends to work that command through us, but he needs us to agree with him. And I so love the skill of the answer that Brother Copeland gave when God said, I want you to sow $50,000. Because like I said, Brother Copeland and Sister Gloria were in debt. They did not have $50,000 in their own resources. But Brother Copeland did not respond based on his resources, and he responded based on who we are in Christ. And listen to what Brother Copeland answered. When God said, I want you to sow $50,000, Brother Copeland said, in Christ I have it, and in Christ I can give it. He immediately went to the resources he had in Christ. The devil always wants to draw us to ourselves. And the natural mind tries to think of how we can fulfill it up ourselves apart from Christ. But to be established in righteousness is to be established in Christ. Meaning we first think, wait a minute, in Christ I can do that. In Christ I have that. In Christ I can move with that command. Now what's the word tell us? I can do all things through Christ. Look at this. Through Christ who strengthens me. So that means we're never to think of our ourselves in the terms of outside of Christ. Our life is hid with God in Christ. So what's that mean? Never think of yourself alone again. My husband went home to be with the lord unexpectedly in 2013. Months before that happened, the Holy Ghost began preparing me. Even really several years before that event. And do you know the Holy Ghost is called our helper? Can I tell you one of the primary ways he helps us is he prepares us. And I. So the skill of the Holy Ghost is so great that he can prepare you for tragedy without alarming you. Isn't that something? Now does the tragedy. Is God involved in that tragedy? No, never. And it was a tragedy the day my husband went home to be with the Lord because it was, it was outside the plan of God. It was premature, a premature death for Him. Of course, He. He was in the ministry almost 50 years. So much fruit was born. But there were more years that that God really had in mind for him. And so that's a tragedy in the sense of it wasn't what we wanted to see happen. But I will say this is that God knew it was coming, although he didn't author it's coming. And because he knew it was coming, he prepared me. And one of there, there were several ways he prepared me. And don't think that just because God prepares us for something that he's involved in making that, that wrong thing happen. You know, so many people think wrong. They think that anything that happens is the will of God. That's not scriptural. You cannot think in those terms because that's not based on the word of God. And but God will see things coming not because he authored it, but because he is all seeing, he is all knowing. And he will prepare people for things ahead of time. Sometimes we can change those things that, that God sees coming and he wants them changed. But sometimes there's other people involved, other people's wills and other people's decisions that we don't have the authority over. And so some things we can change and some things we can't change. And. But God will prepare us because that's one way he helps us. And so one of the ways the Holy Ghost was helping prepare me is for several months before my husband's homegoing, I kept having this phrase come up. You're never alone. And he said that to me over and over and over. And because when my husband went home to be with the Lord, my sons were grown. My youngest son was still living at home. But in a short time later, he moved out and moved into his own home. And I refused to ever treat aloneness like loneliness. Aloneness and loneliness are two different things. And I am alone, but I'm never lonely. And when I say I'm alone, I mean there's not another person living in the house in the sense of, I don't always have someone with me, but I'm never alone. And I refuse for the devil to paint my life as something missing because a person isn't there that used to be there. Because I have found this out through this personal experience, everything my husband's presence provided when he was on the earth, God himself fills that place. And it's God's presence that fills the presence that my husband once occupied. Does that make sense to you? What's that mean? I'm never missing out. There's never a vacancy in my life because a person is no longer there because God has filled that place with himself. But if people think wrong, then the devil will rob them and move them into a place of loneliness. And loneliness is a. If I could say this, it's a flow of the enemy to where you feel all alone. I refuse to feel that. If the sense of loneliness ever tries to come, I talk to her and say, no, you don't. That's not my flow. Because I'm not alone. And I refuse to feel loneliness. I talk to it. Why? Because I'm in Christ. What's that mean? I'm never alone. Now you have to guard your thoughts. You have to guard the way you speak. You have to guard. If I could say this, how you communicate with others about that. I was going. I was going out to eat one day at a restaurant, and I called my son because I was in town where he was at, and I said, would you like to meet me for lunch? And he said, mom, I've got so much, so many projects I've got to get done. I can't. And he said, this to me, are you eating alone if I don't come? And I said, yeah. And, but I said, but that's okay. You don't, you know, you need to get your work done. Don't, don't interrupt the project you need to get done. And he said, but I don't want you eating alone. Are you going to be alone? I said, yeah. And when I got off the phone, the Holy Ghost said, don't you ever say that you're alone, because with me, you're never alone. And see, you have to catch those words. Because even though I didn't feel alone, the devil will take those words and make them bigger than they are. And if I could say this, he can sway you into a flow of loneliness by stating, I'm alone. And I want you to know their life will not always put you in a room full of people. And I so appreciate my mother, the way she raised us. There were four kids in the family, but my mother taught us the value of being alone. She taught us the importance of learning to be happy and joyful with no one else in the room. She taught us, never let someone's presence dictate your level of joy and happiness because life will not always give you a room full of people. Sometimes you're going to find no other person in the room with you. But especially for the believer, we're never alone again because we have a higher flow, a higher, if I could say this, a higher realm we get to partake of. And if people will always just look at this natural realm and feel sorry for themselves. Can I tell you this? To feel sorry for yourself is you swinging open wide the door to the devil. Those feelings of self, you know, I'm alone in this because there's, there's a lot of situations to where somebody can even feel alone in a room full of people. Don't you ever let yourself go there because you are never alone. You are hosting the heavenly. You're hosting the heavenly Father, your heavenly Savior, the heavenly Holy Ghost that has set up. You are the temple of the Holy Ghost right now in this world, in this place. And you are never alone. Never see yourself as being alone. I don't know why I'm on this today, because we didn't. I didn't think of going this direction, but I know this. There are people out there that the devil tries to take advantage of, people being alone to make them think that their life is going to be less than. Can I say this? I so appreciate that my mother taught us, growing up, the value of being alone. Because I didn't have to have a marriage in place. I didn't have to have people in the room in place. Before I was joyful, I learned how to be joyful with no other person in the room. Amen. People have to learn this. And especially as a believer, when you establish yourself, I'm in Christ, I am never alone. The devil always wants to make you feel isolated, so he can make you feel like you're fighting a battle alone, or you're standing your territory, you're standing on your ground of faith alone, or you're fighting this good fight of faith alone. You're never alone. Are you kidding me? If it weren't for the Holy Ghost that is encouraging us in every situation, we would have given up a long time ago. But the Holy Ghost is present and you are never alone. And part of establishing yourself in Christ is to establish yourself. I'll never be alone again because I have. I am hosting. I'm hosting the Godhead in my life. Amen. And this is one of the great gifts of belonging in Christ, because we're not just in him, he's in us. And the great thing about was all God's idea. Isn't that amazing? It was all God's intention that he never wanted to be apart from us again. So he says. I said, I tell you what, I'll set up my. I'll set up my residency in them. They'll never be without me, and I'll never be without them. And it's all God's plan. You are God's. You're his reward for all. You're his harvest on the seed of Jesus that he sowed. He sowed his own son so he could have a harvest of many sons. And think of it, it was his plan. He wanted you. And people think, well, I don't mean that much to God. God, you know, there's so many people in the world. Can I tell you this? I have many relatives and family members, but one can never take the place of another. They each hold their own personal affection. I hold a personal affection for each and every one of them because they're such a distinct separate personality and person and supply to my life that I'm. No one else can take their place. Do you know what? In God's heart, no one else takes your place. I remember I was sitting down and I'm going to have to tell on myself. Oh, I do that a lot on these episodes. I tell on myself. But anyway, it helps us, doesn't it, to recognize Some things I remember I was going on a time of vacation with my family and I had gone apart to a small cabin that we had on one on a piece of property. And the family was in the main house and my son built me a little one room cabin on the property. And I went up there to study and I had my books around me and I was looking forward to, you know, just separating from the regular flow of daily life. And I just went up there, I sat down and I just, you know, just sat down, take a deep breath and nothing makes me happier than to see all my books around me. Can I tell you this? Just a blank piece of paper and a pencil. Oh, it thrills me because I'm, I'm a note taker. I'm always writing down stuff and just to have all my books and my journals and stuff around me. I was sitting there and I just kind of sat back to relax. And the moment I did, the word of the Lord came to me and he said, I've missed you. And I go, oh, that's not what I wanted to hear in that sense. What was that he was saying? No matter who prays, they're not you praying, they're not you fellowshipping with me. No one else's fellowship that God has replaces your fellowship with him. And that's one of the greatest reasons he paid the price of sending his son, because he wanted your fellowship. You're in his righteousness. Family, you have to establish not only I love God, but listen, you have to establish this. He loves me. And how the devil wants to taint our understanding of how much God loves us by pointing to our faults and failures, dismissing us from his love. That's what the accuser of the brethren tries to do. He tries to paint us as with our faults and failures of God's not pleased. God's mad at me. Can I tell you this? God's never mad at you. Why, he paid a price to have you. And he's not mad at his harvest. You're his harvest. We want to be pleasing to God. Don't misunderstand me. But it's faith that pleases God. God is so easy to please. He is not hard to please. He's not a hard taskmaster. And the devil's always, always trying to point to our faults and failures because he wants us to think that God is mad at us for those faults and failures. No, we're righteous in the eyes of God. Righteous. And we are pleasing to God as we live a life of faith, believing that I am right with him because I'm in Christ and he's in me. Well, we've enjoyed this time with you today, but you don't want to miss upcoming episodes. We're going to keep keep going this direction and until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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