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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 soles of my feet. Welcome. We're so glad to have you with us today for Jesus the Healer. We're continuing with our series called In Christ I Can. And that talks about you. That means you. And we are learning and discovering who we are in him, who he made us to be, who he is in us, through us and for us. Amen. And so we invite you, follow along with us, take notes and maybe get your Bible and write some notes. Follow along with us in that Bible. And we're expecting you to receive answers in your life because how many of you know the Word is the answer book? And so we have been looking at our golden text for this series, which is found in Colossians 2, verses 9 and 10. This is the living Bible translation. And it says, for in Christ, there is all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you have Christ. And you are filled with God through your union with Christ. So know this. There's never a time that you're to come up empty because you have everything when you have Christ. So don't ever think that anything you face is going to overwhelm you. You have everything in you to overcome everything that tries to oppose you. Why? Because victory is always yours. And in Christ, that victory is yours. Now, we've been looking in the last several episodes at Isaiah, chapter 48, verse 17, the King James translation. God makes this statement. He said, I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. How many of you know God has a plan for your life and he's the only one that can lead you in that plan. You can't look to others to author that plan or define that plan for you. Only God can do it because he's the author of that plan. Not only that, it says this that God will teach thee to profit. That's not just a financial term when we see this word profit, but in the Hebrew, the word prophet means to climb, ascend, excel, gain ground or rise above circumstances. So what does this mean? It means this, that God intends that we never stay where we've been, that there's always further to go. And we all, we as believers ought to be living in the place called more. That we're not just staying content with what we used to have, but we're advancing and we're laying hold of more. Because what is this God said? Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread, I'll give it to you. So what's he talking about? He's talking about never just being the same. Everything is always on the increase, developing, advancing, always more. And there's. You're never going to run out in the plan of God. The plan of God holds so much for us. And one of the ways that we're going to have to follow him because no, he's. It says he'll teach us to profit. Well, we know this what is going to be involved in this profiting what's going to be involved in this advancing. What's going to be involved in him being able to give us higher assignments. It's our faith. So our faith should be ever growing. This is one thing that Paul said in 2nd Thessalonians, chapter 1, in verse 3, he said, we are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet or as it is right, because that your faith groweth exceedingly. So know this, if our faith isn't growing, our spiritual life isn't developing. If our spiritual life is developing, then our faith is to be growing because we can't move. We can't move with God apart from faith. It's faith that pleases God. You know, we can have a lot. We can have a life full of good works, a life full of good behavior. And those things are good and they're right, but still not be pleasing to God if we're not in faith. Because it's faith that pleases God. And I want you to know God is real easy to please. All he asks for is faith. He's not hard to please, but he asks for faith out of us. And not only that, then he supplies the faith that pleases him. It's amazing. It's amazing setup for us because we just take his faith, we make it our faith, we live by it and he's pleased in it, then rewards us for operating with his faith. It's a great setup, people. It's a winning setup for us, but we know this. It's going to call for our faith to advance to profit. He'll teach us to advance, but it's going to be by faith. We've been looking in a couple of the previous episodes about how is our faith going to grow. Number one, we have to plant the Word in our hearts. Why is that? We the Bible calls the heart our spirit, God's garden. And God is helping us to cultivate that garden. Number one, the seed is the Word of God. We plant the Word in our hearts and that is the seed that's going to grow and produce. Number two. Well, let me just say this. Without that seed being planted, it's powerless. You can value the Word, you can appreciate the Word, but until we plant the Word, it's not going to benefit us. We have to get it in our hearts. So we have to know this, that the Word is the seed. Prayer is not the seed. Thank God for prayer. We should be fellowshipping with God. We should be praying. But prayer isn't the seed for faith. The Word is the seed for faith. We cannot pray our way into faith. We must sow the seed of God's Word. And getting full of that Word makes it easy for us to stand in victory whenever opposition tries to oppose us. Number two, after we've planted the seed, the second thing we have to do is keep watering that seed. Why is it if the seed is to grow, it must be kept wet, it must be kept moist? It's because of a lack of of constant watering that many of the plants wither instead of grow. And so know this constant watering, not just periodic watering, but a constant flow of watering. The more we water the seed of God's Word, the quicker it will produce, the quicker we will receive manifestations. You know, when we're giving the Word an all out attention, it won't take long for it to produce. Amen. It doesn't have to take years, months and months and years and years. If we will give it our all out attention, if we will sow that Word, water that Word, we can accelerate the manifestation of what we're believing for by living full of the Word. Why is that? Because when you're full of the Word, it's hard for the devil to sway you off of off of that Word. And so we have to understand that we water the Word that we have planted by continuing here to continue to hear. The first time we hear the Word taught, we're planting it. From then on that we hear that same message taught. We're watering it so it's not just enough to hear truth once we have to hear and keep hearing. And that's what it tells us in the Word, that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It's speaking of repetition. Repetition is so important to establish the word in. In you. So I would say this. You say, well, how do I continually hear, what about this? While you're getting dressed in the morning, turn on sermons, while you're driving the car, while you're running errands. Take. Take advantage of every available moment to keep that word going around you. Not just so you can say, well, I'm doing all I need to do just because I'm hearing the word. No, you hear it so you'll know how to do it. And so it's the doing of the word that's going to produce. But as we keep that word watered and it causes that word to stay. To stay wet, to stay fresh, to stay moist, and it can produce. Now, when God was delivering, he delivered his people out of Egypt. He intended to turn them into owners, but they would not go with him. That first generation would not move from slavery to ownership. He already had the land prepared for them to receive it. But they didn't receive it. Why is it they did not plant what he said to them in their heart? They did not. Water was only Joshua and Caleb who held to that word. They're the ones that sowed it in their hearts and they watered it all the time. We know this about Caleb because he said that when he was 85, his birthday present that he asked of Joshua was this. He said, give me my mountain. It was a mountain full of cities. He wasn't just asking for one city on that mountain.
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He was going after every city on that mountain. And that mountain was where the giants lived. He wasn't looking for the mountain of least resistance. He was looking for the mountain of most productivity. The giants, they had the big houses. The giants, they had the big. The big beds. They had the big properties. Everything was big to accommodate the giants. He says, I want the best. I want the biggest. And that's what he want. He went for. And he said, all these years, I've been meditating on this. I've been feeding on this. And he said, it's my 85th birthday. Give it to me. And so Joshua told him, you can have that land. And he went and he took charge of that. Why? Is it because for years he had been watering the seed of what God said to him. Others who didn't water that, didn't plant that seed in their heart. Those of his generation did not plant it and they did not water it. And they died without arriving. Because everything you receive from God, you have to plant it in your heart and you have to water it. Amen. You have to keep hungry for it. I tell you, it matters that we keep hungry because it'll keep us going in the face of opposition. The third thing that you have to do if you're going to be able to be led by God into a place of advancement, is you're going to have to cultivate the seed. Number one, you plant it. Number two, you water it. Number three, you cultivate that seed. What's that mean? You protect that seed. That means you're going to have to pay attention to what you allow in the soil of your heart. Your heart is the soil. And when you plant the word in your heart. When I talk about the heart, I'm not talking about the organ of the heart. I'm talking about the spirit of man, your inner being. You are to plant that seed. But make sure there's no weed in there growing. Make sure there's no unforgiveness. Make sure there's not the pest of offense, the pest of ill will. What about this disobedience? What about this rebellion? The Bible says rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. You go, what do you mean by that? No more than we would as Christians ever bow down and start worshiping a false idol or perform witchcraft. The Bible says rebellion is equal to doing that. That if your employer tells you to do something and you rebel against it, that's equal to performing witchcraft. That's how offensive it is to God. That's how offensive it is to your faith. That's how damaging it is to you. So make sure you get rid of all rebellion. What's this mean? Someone in rebellion is always arguing. They their boss tells them do something. They'll argue against their spouse. They argue against any instruction given to them. What is that? That's rebellion. That will keep the seed from producing. So I would say this. Whenever we are sowing the word, it's not just about getting the word in. It's making sure nothing is robbing the word of itself power to produce. Because all of these negative flows that did not come from God, the Bible says they will. They're weeds that will choke out the. They'll choke out the water, they'll choke out the seed. Why, you know what weeds do is they steal the nutrients out of the soil. They steal the moisture out of the soil so that the seed doesn't get any of it. And so that's exactly why you have to deal with things that would offend your harvest, because you have to make sure that nothing else is getting what's intended for the seed. Amen. How about strife? How about not walking in love? All of these things are weeds or pests that will rob the seed of its power to produce now. So, number one, we. We plant the seed. Number two, we water the seed. Number three, we cultivate the seed. We protect that ground. I want to look at something we were looking at in a previous episode. If you weren't able to see the previous episode, go back and watch it because we spend some more time on these things. But I want to. I want to again visit something we touched on in the previous episode, the different definitions of cultivate. It means this, to one definition, means to improve by correction of faults. You know, there can be faults in land. My dad, being a cotton and wheat farmer, if he recognized if certain mineral levels were too low, he would correct that. He wouldn't go ahead and just sow the seed in it anyway. He would make the correction to the soil before he sowed the seed. And so he would make sure that he didn't just leave things out of place that he knew were out of place regarding that land. Well, when we know that we've allowed something in, we need to correct that. Don't just keep sowing the seed because that needed correction is going to choke out what that seed can produce. So to cultivate, to cultivate that seed, cultivate that land. We have to improve by correction of faults. And sometimes people will say, well, that's just the way I am. That's the way I was raised. That's my personality. That's my temperament. Well, if it's a fault, you need to correct it because it will choke out what your life can produce or. Or what that word can produce in your life. And then we see this, that another definition is to cultivate the love of excellence. Look at that. To cultivate. One definition is to cultivate the love of excellence. If you're going to. My dad was never okay with a crop that produced very little. He was always looking for it to produce its fullest potential. He wanted to have an excellent crop. He didn't want to have. He would call this a sorry crop. He didn't want to have. He didn't want to have a crop that was an embarrassment to all who could look on his field? Do you know, there are so many times that we would be with Daddy and he'd go down and check his land, and his crops were. Or his farms were scattered throughout the county. They weren't always in one location. And he would sometimes ask us to go with him. And he'd be checking out his crops, and you could drive by all the other farms. And you knew a lot about that farmer just by looking at the condition of his crop. When someone had a crop that was full of weeds, you knew a lot about that farmer. He was lazy. He didn't care about the crop the way he should. If you saw a crop that wasn't being watered properly, you knew that there were some issues there. If you saw all kinds of things that just affected the crop negatively. Weeds not shielding the seed. And Daddy, many times we would have. Because we lived in the plains of Oklahoma, that land was flat. That dirt would start blowing in the middle of the night, the wind would start blowing. Daddy would get up and he would go out and he would plow because he said, I can't lose my topsoil. But there are many who were okay with losing their topsoil. And it always showed up in their crop. What was I trying to say? I was trying to say that in any time, we would go with Daddy to look at the crops. Everyone could see your life by looking at your crop. And this is what it means. One definition of the word cultivate. To cultivate the love of excellence. Always reach for greater excellence. Because everybody can see. I don't want somebody. I don't want God to be misrepresented by a low level of excellence in my life. I want to become more and more excellent. And, you know, excellence should grow. Whenever I lived at home as a child with my parent, excellence. If you asked me to define excellence, I would think, well, if I got candy, life is excellent. You know, if I got the toy I want, life is excellent. But what mother called excellent was a clean room. I didn't call that excellence. I called, did I have toys? Did I have friends? Did I have candy? That was what I called excellence. But as I grew, my definition of excellence increased. It grew. And so what I was okay with 20 years ago, I'm not okay with anymore. Why? Because we should grow in our love of excellence. Why is that? Because as we mature, everything around us should show that maturity. Whenever the Queen of Sheba went and visited Solomon, it said that she was. When she saw how those around him served, when he. She saw how Those who served him were dressed. When she saw the way he ascended to the temple of God, it says that there was no breath left in her. Now notice this. She's the Queen of Sheba. For her whole life she's been around royalty. For her entire life, she's been around the best. But when she saw Solomon, she saw a standard she had never seen in any other nation. A standard she had never seen in her own country. A standard she had never seen in her own realm. And I want you to know that God's word will show us a standard. And if we will allow him to, he will take us into the highest level of excellence that represents his standard. And not just the standard of others, not just the standard of this world. But here it says to cultivate the love of excellence. I think that's so important because it's going to show up in the way we live our life. What about this excellent way of speaking, excellent way of conducting our home. What about this? A marriage that looks excellent. Children that behave with excellence. What's that mean, with honor? It doesn't mean that their children acting like adults, but it does mean this, that they don't have wrong behavior toward the parent. That means that they don't. They don't violate the home, but they regard the home. All of this is part of our flow of excellence. And we have to cultivate these things. I just think that this is remarkable that one of the definitions of cultivate is to cultivate the love of excellence. What's this mean? Don't be okay with where you're at. Always be reaching for more. Don't say, well, I'm better than I used to be. Well, there's always more. There's always further than we can. That we can go. Don't get rutted and think, I'm okay. I'm capped out here. You know, whenever. Whenever I hire people on staff, it's. It matters to me that they don't have a lid on their life. It matters to me that they're not okay with a ceiling over their head. Because if they are, then it's very difficult to take them further. And so within ourselves, let's take the lid off, let's break the roof off. Let's not be limited in how we think. Because if we're limited in how we think, we're limited in where God can take us. Because if we don't, if we're okay with where we're at, that's where we'll stay. But cultivate a love of excellence. Know This I can always do better. I can always have more. God is always wanting to bring me into more. So I'm never just going to settle down and be okay with where I'm at today. That doesn't mean I'm dissatisfied and I'm discontented. It means that I know God's offering me more and I'm going to go with him there. And I don't take that from a negative of if I could say this, beating myself up, that I'm not there because this is something you grow into. This is something you advance into. Like I said, my definition of excellence when I was a child is far different than it is now. But just know this. We should all be growing and we should all cultivate the love of excellence. You know, people will say, some of the times, they'll say, you know, my house isn't very nice, or my car isn't very nice, or this isn't very nice. My furniture isn't very nice. You know, they say, well, if I had more money, I could have nicer things. Well, I would say that this, I know this. It's not money that bring it. It's not money that brings excellence. It's excellence that draws money. It's. It's excellence that draws prosperity. People will dismiss themselves from excellence by thinking, well, I don't have money to be excellent. It's not money that makes us excellent, it's our insides. It's when we develop and cultivate a life of honor that says, I want to represent God rightly. I want to represent him appropriately. And I would say it's very important in the body of Christ. It's very important, our local churches, that we don't let our standards look too casual, that we don't let our standards look too less than excellent. One of the things that Jesus said to dad Hagin, Kenneth Hagin was a spiritual father to us. And in one visitation that when Jesus appeared to him, Jesus made this statement. He said the local church ought to be the nicest building in town. What's he saying? Prosperity doesn't offend him, it represents him. And so it means this. He's okay if you want more. Don't try to cheat yourself by thinking you're saving money, that you're just trying not to put more of a demand on the finances. I want you to know God will fund everything. You'll believe for God will fund excellence. That if we. If we raise our standard of excellence. How about this? How about excellence in speech? How about excellence in communication? How about excellence in our job performance? How about excellence in the way we conduct ourselves in the home? How about this? The way we handle our home. What we allow our home to look like, what we allow our yards to look like. It's not about earning something by, or trying to impress other people, but it's trying to represent the excellent one in us. And this is what took the breath out of the Queen of Sheba when she saw King Solomon. It says when she saw all his wisdom that her breath left her. How do you see wisdom? His wisdom showed up as excellence. And when she saw his excellence, she was seeing the way he thought. When people see the standard of our life, they see how we think. And so here to cultivate means to bring up our standard of excellence. Another, another definition of cultivate is to cultivate gracious affections. What's this mean? Do you know that one of the definitions for the love of God, divine love, we have, you know, what we would call the love chapter? Love is kind. Love is all these things that love is. One translation in defining love says love has good manners. That's one translation. Do you know that if someone isn't carrying appropriate manners in their home, they're not walking in love? That if they mistreat their spouse and they're nicer to a stranger in the store than they are to their spouse at home, they're not walking in love? Why? Because good manners represent the flow of the love of God. We cannot imagine God having a low standard of excellence. We cannot imagine him mistreating. He's never mistreated anyone, even though they've mistreated him. Why is it his standard of honor is too high? He will not allow him to mistreat someone. Well, I want you to know, here it says to cultivate gracious affections. That will hinder what kind of a harvest we can reap that if we are, if we lack proper etiquette. And I'm not just talking about manners. I'm talking about the quality of our heart. Pay attention to who you're around. You know, my mother would say to us, there are four kids in our family. And she would say, if you go to school and you talk back to your teacher, she said, I'm going to let them give you licks. That meant you got spanked there at school. And she said, when you get home, you'll get two, you'll get double. She would not allow us to go to school and show a lack of excellence or show poor manners. She would deal with us. And so we have to realize this. That doesn't just stop with childhood. That should always be increasing all through our life that we cultivate gracious affections. Because if you want to stay in the room with or be in the room with people of high standards, then you have to bring your etiquette up to that. I will often refer to in some of my teachings. I talk about the etiquette of the room, know the etiquette of the room. You know who's your peer. If they're not your peer, you shouldn't be acting like they're your peer. If someone is your superior, if someone is your elder, if someone is to be honored to don't treat them like they're the buddy on the playground. I remember my one of my sons came in one day from school and he was talking to me and he said, hey boo. And I stopped him. I said, I am not your boo. I am not your buddy on the playground. I'm your mother and you're not going to dress me that way. I have a good time with my kids, but I couldn't let them treat me too familiar because if they they started treating me too familiar, I wasn't going to get the kind of response out of them that I could that I needed to take them further. And so these are things that play into the kind of results we're going to get in the word Amen. So hey, you don't want to miss next time. I thought we'd get through it on that time, but we didn't. But you're going to have to come back and spend this time with us again. So until next time, remember this Jesus is the Healer. God bless you.
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