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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.
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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. Come on in. We're just so grateful we get to spend this time with you. And, you know, aren't you so thankful for the Word? I mean, it takes our life and rewrites everything. But notice this. It has to have our cooperation. I so appreciate something that dad Hagin, Kenneth Hagin, was a spiritual father to my husband and I for decades before he went home to be with the Lord. And he would say this. He would say, God is a perfect gentleman. He will never insert himself. He has to be invited. Well, I invite God into every single flow of my life because I don't want anything to be like it used to be. I want all God has for me. And aren't you thankful God doesn't leave us like he finds us, that when we obey God, the story of our life is rewritten. The Word says it's the doer of the word that's blessed. You know, Jesus was preaching in the synagogue one day, and he was revealing things that no man had ever heard before. He was preaching a sermon, and he was telling about teaching about how the kingdom of darkness works. He said, when an evil spirit is cast out of a man, that evil spirit goes to dry places seeking rest, and he can find no rest. So he says, I will go back to my house. And he comes back and finds that man. He's calling that man his house. And he says he finds that house empty, swept and garnished. And he comes back in and brings seven more wicked than himself with him. See, no one ever knew that about how the devil worked. But Jesus revealed that and was exposing the king of darkness. What's this mean? Jesus was showing that when Satan is run out, he always tries to come back with a counterattack to gain entrance. But what was the problem with this one house? It was this. It was empty, swept and garnished. You can't be empty. You got to stay full of the Word. You got to stay full of the plan of God. And I could say this. Stay full of faith. Because when you're full, there's no room for the wrong thing. Know this. If someone's tank is empty, any old thing can fill their tank. But if you're full of the Word, full of the Spirit of God, there is no room for the wrong flow. So Jesus is really teaching people, don't be empty. Once you receive help from heaven, the devil, he has to leave, but he will launch a counterattack. And when the devil launches a counterattack, it's not a sign that the Word's not working. It's not a sign that your faith isn't working. It's not a sign that God has failed you or you lost your victory. It's just a strategy of how the enemy works. He always comes back with a counterattack. When the devil tries to come back with a counterattack, what are you to do? You say, no, you don't. You resist and you stand your ground. Well, how long will he attack? It doesn't matter how long he attacks. You just stand your ground for as long as it takes. So Jesus is revealing and giving revelation that. That this earth had never heard before. And in the midst of this, a woman calls out from that congregation in the synagogue that day, and she says, blessed is the woman who raised you, basically. And she's missing the whole point. I mean, she starts. She starts listening to this from an emotional, motherly approach. And he's talking about how the kingdom of darkness works. And she's saying, oh, your mother must be so proud, you know, type thing. This is her response. And Jesus said, blessed are those that hear and do what I say. So he's saying this. The doer of the word is more blessed than the woman who gave birth to me. Notice that it's not just knowing what the Word says. It's doing the Word. We can hear a sermon preached. This woman was hearing the Son of God reveal things that no man had ever heard before and missed the whole point of it. Do you know you can sit in church and you can hear revelation fresh from heaven for your life and still miss it. And this woman missed it. How do you keep from letting the truths that God is wanting to author in your life pass you by, become a doer of what you hear? Can I say this the moment you hear the word preached and implement it? Because what you're using, the Devil can't steal from you. What is it that you're liable to lose is what you're not using. And so always be a doer of the Word. Because then the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. What does he come to steal? He comes to steal the Word out of us. But if we're doing the Word, he can't steal it. Let me say this here. I've got an ink pen here. If I'm writing and using this, I won't be losing it because I'm using it. If I lay this down and I have no watchful eye over it, it could easily drop. Someone could walk by maybe and pick it up and have it for their own use. But if I'm using it, I will not lose it. It's the same thing with the Word. Jesus said the doer is blessed. Why? Because what you're implementing can't be stolen from you. So when you hear the Word preached, always do it. What are we talking about in these episodes? We are talking about we are in Christ. Use that place in Christ and make a demand on him who is in you. Don't let these truths just slip by and us go back to just living life the way we've always lived. You know, I've pastored for 25 years. I've seen the Word work in people. But I've also seen that when I preach the Word and some don't take it, don't implement it, and just live life like they've always lived, they're robbed from a higher flow that God offers them. It's not enough to hear the Word preached. That's only the place the Word has its beginning. But to bear fruit in our life, we have to be doers of the Word. Now, to know whether or not we're being a doer of the Word, we need to evaluate what fruit is my life bearing. You know, my dad, I talk about my parents, refer to them often in my episodes that I teach. But there are so many truths that I've learned just paying attention to how they raised us. And my dad was a cotton and wheat farmer. And my dad had such skill as a farmer that as the wheat grew and the cotton grew, he could drive just alongside that field and he could tell you how much wheat and cotton he's going to get out of that crop. He was so used to examining the fruit of that field that he could get very close in telling. He wasn't vague about what kind of harvest he was going to have. He Was very expectant and he was watchful over that. We need to in our life, pay attention, wait, is my marriage better than it used to be? Is my health better? Is my financial situation better? Are the relationships better? Is my spiritual development apparent? We need to not just live life on autopilot, but say, wait a minute, if I'm a doer of the word, something is going to be obviously increasing in my life. And too many times, if we're not careful, we have the divine genius of heaven in us and still living like we did 10 years ago, evaluate from year to year, did something in my life. What kind of progress has been made. And if there's not progress, we need to take ourselves by the ear, so to speak, and straighten up. I remember something years ago. I was in my 20s at the time, which is just for those of you who don't know, that'd be about 40 years ago. And I remember I had been having some, just some irritating symptoms, nothing critical or serious. And I was giving, if I could say, a half hearted attempt to the word, the healing word. And one day I just said, you know, in my spiritualness, God, why don't you just go ahead and heal me? In other words, I'm kind of, I'm blaming him for the symptoms lingering. And God said this to me, he said, if you wanted it bad enough, you'd do something about that. And I saw, ah, if something is lingering, it's because I'm permitting it to listen. What you don't resist has permission to stay. What we put up with will stay. And so we have to decide, this is done in my life, this is done in my life. I'm not putting up with this in my marriage, I'm not putting up with this in my home, I'm not putting up with this in my body or this in my finances. And when you start using your authority and taking the Word and putting it to work in your life, Heaven will back you up. But if we just sit back and wait for heaven to do something, Heaven's not going to do something apart from us. And what does that demand? Being a doer of the Word when we are in Christ, that means we're to live as one in Christ. We're to have the results that my life looks like I'm in Christ. That means my finances are getting better. That means my health is getting better, every aspect of my life is getting better. Because as a doer, that Word is producing in my life. And some if we're not careful, we just be okay with Living life on autopilot. And our life just looks like it always has looked like. I don't want my life to be recognizable. I want my life to demonstrate what the Word being acted on will do. And that's what belongs to us in Christ, is that everything is advancing, everything is increasing. God knows nothing about. Well, let me just say it this way. Everything about God is increase. Everything about God is more. In God, there's nothing that's less and less and less. It's always more and more and more. Why? Because he's the God of more than enough. So what does that mean? If we're not, if our life isn't reflecting the more that God has made ours, then we're allowing ourselves to be robbed from. We have to renew our minds to who we are in Christ. And we have to put a demand on ourselves, not on God, but a demand on ourselves to be more skillful at being a partaker of what is ours in Christ. There's not more that belongs to one believer than another believer. Every single believer has the same rights, the same privileges, the same blessings, the same benefits, but also the same responsibilities. Every single one of us are equal in. In. In as heirs, what we receive from God. But we can look across the body of Christ and we can say, well, it looks like some have more, some have less. That's not because of God. That's because of how much someone is or is not being a partaker of who they are in Christ. Now, I want to read to you such an important verse. It's a passage, rather it's found in Ephesians, chapter one. And I'm going reading in verse 16. This is a prayer that Paul would pray. And let me just say this. You need to learn to pray the Word when you pray for loved ones or even yourself when you pray for family members, don't just pray out of your emotions. Pray out of the knowledge of the Word. And this is one of the primary prayers to be praying for all those loved ones, believers, even yourself, your own family. Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 16. Paul says this. I cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers. And this is what he would pray for them, verse 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation. Look at this in the knowledge of him. So he's saying, I'm praying that you would have the wisdom and the revelation of what belongs to you because you are in him and he is in you now, how is this revelation and wisdom going to come? Verse 18 tells us, the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened. What's that mean? What's the eyes of your understanding? The eyes of your spirit. With your spirit you understand. With your spirit you grab hold of things. Can I tell you this? Your spirit can believe things and receive things your mind can't figure out. But here he says, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Some things need to dawn on us. We need to see some things we hadn't seen before. So he says, I'm praying that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened. That number one, you may know what is the hope of his calling. Number two, that you would know what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. And number three, that you would know what is exceeding greatness of his power to us Ward who believe. So he's saying this in a nutshell, that you would know who you are in Christ, what you have because you're in Christ, and what you can do because you're in Christ. But notice this, it has to become revelation to you. How do. How does something become revelation to you? Only the Spirit of God can impart revelation. You can't have just book learning and get revelation. Revelation dawns on your spirit. But can I say this? When something is revealed to your spirit, the struggle about that is over. I remember a couple of years ago I had God told me to do something and I obeyed God, I did it. But after that the enemy would say, you put yourself in a great difficulty by doing that. Now when the enemy would say that, I'd always answer, nope, God told me to do that. And so I am, I'm on safe ground doing what God told me to do. And that, that, that, that pressure would stand off. I recognized the devil that was suggesting that would stand back. But if I could say this, I could sense he didn't leave the scene, so to speak. He just stood back. The pressure wasn't the same, but it just stood back. And so a couple of weeks later, again there would come the thought about this thing that I had obeyed God in. And the devil says, you shouldn't have done that. You're just put yourself in a very difficult position. And I'd always answer, no, what did I answer with? What God said. That's what you answer with. That's why it's so important you know what God said to you before you move ahead. Because when you know what God says, now you had the answer that you're to give the devil when he opposes your advancement. So I would say, no, God told me to do that. And this went back and forth for several months to where it seemed like that devil would stand off but not leave the scene. In one day, probably about two, three months into this, I was in a hotel room, I was preaching on the road, and I was in my hotel room one afternoon, and that same threat, that same accuser, the brethren, came and said this. You just put yourself in a very bad position by what you did. And when he said that, God said to me, talk to me about that. What was he saying? Talk to me about that threat. Because, see, I would just automatically answer, which is true, which is right to do. But it did not, if I could say this, it did not put an end to that opposition. It would just stand back and then come back and oppose again. It would stand back and pose and come back. And basically God was saying, when that is the result, ask me. Evidently I needed more revelation. Why? Because revelation helps you deal with the devil. To deal with the devil, you have to know something. And so God said to me, when the enemy again, again threatened me, and he said, you put yourself in a very bad situation by what you did this time. God said, talk to me about that. And it hadn't dawned on me to talk to God about that. I was just resisting that. And in all honesty, I would not even touch it in my thought life what the devil was threatening with, because I could tell it would. It just seemed like if I touched it in my thought life, the doors would swing open wider and I can only sense more opposition. So I wouldn't even touch it in my thought life. But God said to me on this particular day, talk to me about that. So I said, God, what about that opposition? What about that threat? I've been answering with what you told me to do, but I noticed that it keeps returning. What about that? And he said, he doesn't want you to release your faith for the harvest on that which you obeyed me in. And because I was guarding my thought life against that, what was happening, I wasn't releasing my faith for the harvest on that. And I go, I got it. I was just resisting the devil, But I wasn't releasing my faith for the harvest on that. And so I said, I see that, I see that. And once the revelation came, the devil left and I never had that struggle again. What am I telling you that for? When something is revealed to you by the spirit of God, that which you are struggling with is done with because it's revelation that you have to walk in to deal with opposition. This is what belongs to you in Christ Revelation. Because when you know how to answer something, when you know what the enemy is trying to accomplish against you, then you know how to have the ready answer for that. Now let me give you a scriptural example of that. Remember when Jesus. There's the passage when Jesus went to minister to. He got in a boat and traveled over and there met a man who had come out of the tombs to meet him. He's called the Madman of Gadara. Remember that? This man had been. Basically, he had lost his mind. Devils had taken him over, and these demon spirits that would manifest through him were so strong, they gave him supernatural strength that when they would try to bind this man with chains and iron, you know, he could break the iron off. Well, that's not human. That's demonic power. It's strengthening him to do that. And the Word says that when this man came and met Jesus, when he arrived there, and it said that Jesus said, what is your name? Because if you will, they're putting that scripture up on the scene. If you would back up that, back up that by going to the previous. Let me. Yeah, let me go to verse 28. So this is Luke 8, 28. It says when he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, what have I to do with thee, Jesus? Thou son of God most high, I beseech thee, torment me. Verse 29 said, look at this. For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Now notice this. Jesus had commanded that spirit to come out, and it didn't come out. Ah, did you know that Jesus commanded something of that spirit and it didn't come out. Okay, then it goes on. And it says, for oftentimes that spirit had caught the man and he was. It hid off, had caught him, and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and he break the bands and was driven of the devil into the wilderness. And verse 30 says, and Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name? And he said, he said, legion, because many devils were entered into him. Now the word legion stands for anywhere between 2 and 2000. That's what made up a legion. And he had commanded. Look at this. He had commanded the unspirit, the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Look at that. Jesus saw the man, commanded the unclean spirit to come out, and he didn't. What was it? He needed more revelation. What revelation did he need? He had to know the name, he had to know the number. See? And then once he got further revelation, the struggle's over. That's what I wanted you to see. If you're resisting and the devil stood back, the devil recognizes your authority, but he's still there causing struggle. What do you need? More revelation. This is what Paul prayed. He said that God would give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Because when you get revelation about that financial situation, revelation about that physical situation, revelation about that marriage problem, revelation regarding your children, that's the end of struggle. If you'll act on that revelation given. So notice. This is that Jesus needed revelation to get the desired result. We need revelation to get the desired result. What belongs to us in Christ? Revelation. And that is something given by the Spirit. You can't study it enough to get it. It's given. I want you to go back to Ephesians chapter 1 with me and look at verse 17, Ephesians 1. See the wording in this passage? It said that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him or who you are in him and who he is in you. Notice this word. It's given. It's not earned. You can't study it enough. But I will say this. You still have to show interest for him to give it to us. Amen. For revelation to be given, we have to show we're interested. What's that mean? Be hungry. Be hungry for light of the Word. Be hungry for what God knows about your situation. Because the Holy Ghost will not cast these revelations before people who are not interested. We have to show we're hungry and we're interested. Amen. And when we do that more revelation, the light of the Word will come. And when revelation comes and you act on that revelation, struggle is over. Amen. Well, we're so glad we've got. We've gotten to take this time to spend with you. Teaching the Word, ministering the Word. And it is one of the greatest joys of my life. But there is only one reason that we are able to come to you and spend this time teaching and fellowshipping around the Word because of the generosity of Kenneth Copeland and Kenneth Copeland Ministries. I don't know if you know it or not, but Brother Copeland made the decision that no programmer on the Victory Channel would have to pay for the airtime that they use. It is gifted to every programmer, including me, by the partnership of those who are part of Kenneth Copeland Ministries. And so if these teachings are a blessing to you. This network, this channel is a blessing to you. Not just me, but other programmers. You want to keep this coming into your home. Well, one of the ways to do that is become a partner with Kenneth Copeland Ministries because it keeps voices and teaching and the Word of Faith coming into your home. You know you can't turn on every channel and have the Word of Faith coming into your home, but on the Victory Channel you do. And so I say if you're not already a partner, become a partner today. And you can become a partner by going to KCM and you can sign up to be a partner there on the website we invite. 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