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Just with your hands and come on, say Holy Spirit. When Jesus left, he handed me over to you and your care, and he said that you would help me. He never said you would do it, that you would help me do it. You're my helper more than anybody else. Anybody with skin on, you want to help me? Help me tonight. Hear what I'm to hear, see what I'm supposed to see. Help me begin to change what needs to be changed. I give it all to you tonight, and I promise to give you the glory in Jesus name. Come on, give him a mic. Come on. You gotta do a little bit better than that. Hey, hug your neighbor and say that Dave Williams is something. Come on, just hug your rib and watching God work, watch him change people's lives. And we'll share a few of those testimonies tonight. We have one sitting right over here that saw her somewhere. Crystal. Yeah, right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Happened right here. But it's all about not what you know. It's what you know and believe. See what you already know. Enough. But that knowledge isn't operational. So it's operational knowledge. Not the John Deere in the garage that you never drive. Come on, somebody. Not the boat in the backyard that's on cinder blocks that never floats. Do you have a boat? Yeah, kind of, sort of. But it don't work. It's not operational. And so we have a lot of information that we have that when we get sick or afraid, we don't use it. You know, we don't run to that. And, you know, if you're going to help people, and that's why I'm kind of aiming this class tonight, you helping other people at the same time. If you can pick some of this up for yourself, it'd be. It'd be well worth it to do it. And that we're after operational information. Too many people in the pandemic, too many believers were terrified. Two weeks before that, they were singing victory songs and faith songs, and they had the best notes in all of Mount Hook. Come on, somebody say amen. And yet when something like that hits, that's. That's what you're made out of, you know, so we have to be good in fair weather. We have to be good in the storm. Because if. If the world's going to look to us, maybe in whatever the next issue is going to be in America, which we think it's brewing right now. Come on, say amen then. We want to be a signpost, you know, we want to be able to say with words and with truth. That, hey, we stood and saw the salvation of the Lord. We saw the waters part, we saw the sky split. And that's going to come by having more than just knowledge. Because I would say. To say, I mean, if I said these two words. You finish it for me. Okay. By his stripes. There you go. By his stripes. For God to love the world, you know, and so we could just go on and on with these verses. You know, the no weapon, all things work together. I'm going home. We're done with this class. Come on. See, so. So what we're here for is not just to tap into what you already know, but to somehow get that quickened with practical information. And some of this I did, I just stumbled into it. Most of what I've learned, I've learned at this altar, in front of people, in front of crowds and Bible studies and over the years, because my heart is to help people, not to present a good Bible study. You know, I'm not here just to give you a bunch of more notes. I'm here to help. Please. Something will be activated to take you to another level. But you're going to have to, you know, you're going to have to be aware that other levels create new devils, you know, and it's those new devils or the cost of that new level, maybe it's not a devil, but just the cost of it is something so enormous. Most people don't want to go there because we have a lot of people that are just living in neutral, you know, I mean, atheists take vitamins. And I'm. I know Dr. Gear right now is getting really mad at me right now about this. Atheists take vitamins. I mean, you know, I mean, some of the kidnappers and abductors are the. Some of the best shape of exercising. So we can't have the church just becoming all natural without anything spiritual. And I think what's happened is the church, a lot of the church has turned into just take care of your body, take. Stay in shape, get your diet right into whatever and get it in. And all of a sudden. But they don't know the scripture and they don't meditate and they're still doing things they shouldn't do with their mind. Your mind has to be freed up from pornography so you can have more room for the anointing. Come on. See, anything that's bad that I'm dwelling on is taking up space, creative space, you know, and you don't want that because most of what you need starts with that thought, then you begin to. You think it, you say it. And pretty soon it becomes doing material. You know, it just. You don't have. Shouldn't have to work at. It just becomes like an automatic flow out of my belly. Will flow. Do you ever know? So freely you just swear. Am I with honest people here tonight? You say, like, shut the damn door and think, oh, my God, I shouldn't have said that. Where'd that come from? In you and from the learned culture. I tell people in learning to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, we. We don't know his voice, but you know, Elvis Presley's. Close your eyes. Hear Elvis. How many can hear Elvis? Raise your hand. Look at that. The whole place here is Elvis. Look at that. We'll just stay with him. But yet we struggle to hear Holy Spirit. Well, how can I hear Elvis but not the Holy Spirit? T I M E time. Cultivating. Cultivating. Come on, say the word. Cultivating. It's an agricultural term that just means prepare that fertilizer. Prepare that soil with fertilizer, with water, with everything, with all proper irrigation, and you can grow anything. Come on. See, I can grow as much faith as I want to. You know, we just don't choose to do that. You know, you may have a mustard seed tonight, but boy, this. By this time next year, you could be. You could be doing some amazing things all because of the faith that's in you. Or you could be given over to more fear. And here we want to cover some of that tonight. But in your Bibles right now, turn with me to the Gospel of Mark, chapter 16. And. And right before we say that, I don't know what to say about the 20 years. That's amazing for anything to be 20 years, right, Kevin? Pastor Kevin, 20 year marriage. Wow. 20 year working at the same place. Wow. 20 years going to the same church. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Come on. But for this place, Gilead, we're standing at a vision tonight. Not just a building. We're standing in someone who had a vision and it's. And it's become real. Say, visions can become real, tangible. They can become places, they can become things. They can become acquisitions of real estate, of finance. Don't ever think just because in its visionary form this. I'm sure this was in Pastor Dave years. How many years ago that. That you get this vision for Gilead? 1985. So in 85, it was just a thought, then a vision. Then we put a plan to the vision, and here we sit. So you may not have been on the beginning of all of that. But somebody was somebody named Walt. Walt. What's his name? Walt Disney. I mean, that's an amazing story, how that all started out. Just a thought. Whoever thought, where was the money going to come from? I'm sure Pastor Dave thought that. How's it going to come together? Don't underestimate God trying to put that thought inside of you. I used to work for Robert Schuler when I was in California. I was going through school and he met with me. They had put me in charge of 300 volunteers when I worked there. Just a young kid, 20, 21 years old. And he said, I like you. And where are you from? I told him. He said, we have a lot of students from Melly Lynn, but they don't all work out here. He said, I hope you will work out. He said, before you go, Billy, I want to tell you something. He said, you know, we have about a half million thoughts go through our head every day. Each of us look at your neighbor and say, you have a half a million thoughts go through your head. Come on. Now. Here's what he said. He said, these are not all God thoughts. They're not all God thoughts. But he said, there's a few of these thoughts in there that are. That are visionary, that are destiny, and that you're supposed to be said you got to take the time to just grab one of those. Just to let them all go in and out of your. And there's stuff that's already passed through your heads already that you haven't taken quite so serious. You know, you're thinking, maybe when I grow up, maybe whenever the kids get out of school, or maybe, you know, whenever we get the house paid for, or maybe in our retirement years. And you have something right there, boy. Nurture that. Sit on that day. Don't ever get to the place where you're too old, too young, too white, too black. Your credit score is not good enough. Now, maybe that's a different one right there, the credit score. But just don't ever rule yourself out. Because as long as you have breath in you. Come on. As long as I have breath, I can be healed, delivered, fully restored and operational. Come on, give God a big shot. Can you do that? I was sitting there, as you were saying, 20 years, Pastor Kevin and Pastor David. It don't seem like that because we're living in acceleration. Everything's accelerating. It just seems like yesterday I walked through these grounds and into the church, and I was in the Gilead. And it was a While. And it's still, wow. But with the work that it took, I can't even imagine what you've had to do to accomplish this behind the scenes. And it's worth it. Any sacrifice for God is worth it. You know, I mean, we just did meetings in Las Vegas last week, last weekend, and we were driving down the Strip, and I thought, boy, where's Sammy and Dean and Frank tonight? Who are they tonight? Because the phrase is they built the Strip. Well, that may not be something to be too proud of. Right. They built the street, but a lot of work weren't. Did they end up okay? I hope they did. I don't know. Meaning what? You can work your whole life and end up in the wrong place? Nothing's automatic. Automatic ended when the garden closed. As long as that garden was open, automatic was presence, power. It was all their fellowship. It was automatic. They didn't have to do anything. But the day that garden closed, then came the ark, then came the sacrifices, then came hundreds of years of tabernacle, just the journey of presence, you know, through the Old Testament. We sit here tonight because what, Jesus went to Calvary, he paid the price that we might not just be healed, but carry his presence. Come on, give God a shot for that powerful. Come on, come on, come on. So this tonight, this is the healing teaching, I guess you would call it that. And we're going to come at it a little bit different way. I don't want to teach long. We'll teach a little bit then. I want you to think about what's being said and ask some questions. You know, a lot of times you learn more off of questions than you do off of reading. And if you may not have a question, somebody else else may have a question that you kind of have. But whatever it is, I don't have all the answers. But that's why Dave Williams and Kevin Berry are here. That's why I said you must be here in case those hard questions come. This the uni story, it's found in Mark 16, and it's up here. We're going to start with verse number five. And it says, entering into the sepulcher, they. They saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment. And they were frightened. He said unto them, be of good. Be. Be not frightened. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified. He's risen. He's not here. Behold the place where they laid him. Look at verse seven. That's what I'm talking about tonight. But go your way. Tell his disciples and Peter. I thought Peter was a disciple. Pay attention. Go your way. Tell his disciples and Peter that you shall go to the Sea of Galilee and there you will see him as he had said unto you. Interesting. He separates Peter from the disciples. And I like the Bible because it's exact in Greek, in Hebrew, whatever. It's exact. There's a reason this is said like that. It's because on that particular day, Peter wasn't feeling too much like a Christian. He just. He just denied three times, right? He hadn't seen Jesus yet. So imagine denying Jesus. You're one of the top three disciples. You're not just part of the 12. You're part of the inner circle, the three. Jesus had a 12. One betrayed him, but then he had three. They say the inner circle was Peter, James and John. So Peter is one of those special privileged people, sovereignly chose. So he had that privilege and he knew it. And he wore it. Come on. He wore the badge. He wore the badge. And so here he. He's tell. But he failed miserably. I mean, it was a miserable failing, you see. But failing in the Bible is never about a person. It's an experience. God never called anybody a failure, but he. They failed, but it wasn't them. It was the experience that they had. And you know what happens can do whenever what happens. Whenever you fail or you make mistakes, you don't feel worthy, you don't feel up to it. The number one reason in our meetings, in our crusades, over all these years, if you would ask me, what's the number one reason people have a hard time getting healed, they don't feel worthy. That's why many people can pray for other people. They get healed, but they can't pray for themselves. Why is that? They have no grace for themselves. They have grace for others. Why do they have grace for others? Because they don't know what they're thinking or doing in their private time. They don't know anything. They don't know what's going on behind closed doors. So here's what they preach, man. No matter what you did, it doesn't matter what you're into. Praise God. He's a God of love and he'll rescue you and he'll pull you out of that miracle and put your feet on ground to stay. And I mean, and we just. We scare people with the love of God because these people are thinking, does he know what I'm thinking? What I did today? Does. He has no clue that I. My thumb slipped on the Internet. And I was in the wrong website and he has no clue. And, and yet we preach that grace so easy to others, yet we struggle so much ourselves. Why don't we save that same powerful stuff to ourselves? Because we know what we thought that day. We know what we did that day or that week. We know we're still doing, you know, we know that. So then when it comes to us asking to heal us ourselves, we struggle with that. There's no confidence there. Even though we're looking by the stripes and we get caught in that lie. It's a big lie. It's preached. And that is God heals us because we're good. He doesn't heal anybody because it's good. He heals us because he's good. He didn't heal one Christian, not one Christian. Did Jesus heal. Let me just swallow hard on that. He hadn't gone to the cross. Now, this doesn't mean you go out and sin tonight. Come on, somebody. This doesn't mean that at all. I'm trying to help you. Because if this is for you or for other people, there's nothing worse than praying for people that are dying with cancer, paralyzed, you know, and, and they were, as a drunk driver, they were drinking or they were doing this, whatever, all kind of things. And they're sitting there guilt ridden, trying to keep it together. Amen. Receive your prayers. But sometimes it just seems like nothing's getting through. All they know is I screwed up. And then you can say, God loves you. God loves you. God loves you. But see, indoctrination is deadly. If it's the wrong doctrine, if it's, even if you're, if you're indoctrinated by your parents, sometimes it's the church, we're all learning. Come on, say revelation is progressive. So we're all learning. You know, I mean, I don't even choose not to learn and just stay in. And then it becomes a stronghold. You begin to think, well, it's because I smoke. It's because I still swear. One lady was in her meeting, she had an oxygen tank. I could smell the nicotine on her. She had emphysema. And she goes, she said immaculate. She could hardly stand to smell the nicotine. But I had to push that aside because God didn't heal her. Whether she smokes or doesn't smoke, we can talk all night long on, well, that grieves the Holy Spirit. Probably she shouldn't do that. Definitely that could hinder her problem most likely. But at the end of the day, he's Rich in mercy. And if you study your Bible, you'll find out that more people are healed out of mercy. Anything. Even though the end of the story said, go your way, your faith. But what they don't tell you is when you read the whole story, like syrophoenician woman, blind Bartimaeus, the 10 lepers. On and on they came saying, have mercy. But after he got done with them, he would say, go your way. Your faith has made you. Faith in what? They heard about a man who didn't hold your sin against you. They heard about a man who showed mercy, and they had faith in his mercy. That's why so many of them, when they came, have mercy. Have mercy. These weren't. These weren't people that lived right. Some of them came out of leper colonies. They were not good living or fun living people. And somehow in the church, we've gotten this to be where you have to be good. Well, we want you to be good. We want you to think right and talk right and act right. How about that? Think right. Come on. See, that's a tall order. Got to get my thoughts right. Got to get my thought. Got to get my confession lined up. That's negative. State of negative. Got to get my confession. Got to get my thoughts. Got to keep my hands from the unclean thing. I mean, by the time we give people a laundry list, it's like, how long is it going to take for that to happen? I was teaching this in a school in Dallas, and they all had. We had tables all over the place and notebooks. And I said, you know, we're supposed to think right, and we're supposed to talk right? We're supposed to act right. But sometimes you get cancer before you do that. Sometimes you're in a wheelchair before all that happens. Sometimes surgery didn't go well, and you didn't have time to cultivate all of those things. Things or. Or show God that you had a good heart. You wanted to do that. I said, so what do you do in the meantime? Have mercy. Mercy lets something not happen that's supposed to Grace gives you something that's not supposed to. One doesn't let something happen. One less something happens. Grace and mercy are different. This kind of little boy went to the ice cream store and he reached over to. He stole something. And the owner of the store caught him. He said, I'm calling your mother. As he held him by the wrist. He puts his hand up on the phone. He says, calling the mother. He looks at a little boy and he says, I'm not going to do this to you. Get out of here, kid. Well, the kid was worthy of being told on because he stole something. Get out of here. That's mercy. As he was going out the door, he said, hey, kid, just a minute. Get back here. He gave him a couple scoops of ice cream. Come on. Say that's grace. So the distinction between the mercy and the grace and what we need a lot is that mercy. And you know, I find myself a lot of teaching says you don't need mercy, just claim it, grab it. He suffered for it. But I don't know about you, but I still get my feet dirty. I still think things I shouldn't and say there's words that slide out that I shouldn't. And sometimes I think, where'd that come from? Then the Holy Ghost is. It's in you. It's, we're still working on you because we forget how what a stronghold the enemy had on us. And then you start feeling unworthy because you're just not behind the scenes. You're not talking right, you're not thinking right. Your hunger isn't there. You only want God when you need him. How about that one? He never hears from you until you're sick or until you need money or something in your marriage. But you don't have that abiding fellowship. And when people around you, they don't sense anything. You can sense lust. You can sense evil. How many business that guy's evil. You didn't know the guy that, that guy is on drugs. You don't even know. Boy 1. Oh, honey, be careful. Those people hanging out in the corner down there, just look at them. We feel evil. Easy. But there's a sense of presence around everybody in this room. Jesus. Out of your belly flow rivers. Nobody's going to get wet here tonight. There's no water coming from us. Presence. What do people feel around you? And you think I don't care what they feel about? That's the problem. That's the problem. What's it matter to me what I don't care? They don't give a flip about what they feel around me. I'm not here for them. You should give a flip. You should. It should matter to what people sense around you. And that's why we had people right in church lusting after somebody else's wife. Right in the church. We had people in the church just planning how to get the money out of that guy. We have all kind of stuff. And you sense it. That's the way you'd like to hug him. That's why you told your husband, honey, I don't want that man near me. I don't want that man near me. Why? He hugs too long. Come on, say too long. So you sense evil and you sense the lust, you sin. And there's also a sense of Holy Spirit. See, there's a presence that people can carry you. Come on, say me. That is so noticeable and so tangible. That's healing just by. Just by you not doing anything, but just by carrying his presence that comes from you spending time with him. So in this story we're reading here, let's talk about this because it's so powerful. Here's Peter, who blew it big time, had all the privileges. And that's whenever it hurts the most. The more privileged you are and you messed it up, boy, the greater that fault is. Those are the hardest things to recover from. Now, if nobody knows you in the church, then you can have the vantage point of recoverings privately. You come to church, you hug people and they don't know anything. But if something goes public, I didn't recover from that pretty, pretty hard. Well, Peter's was out and out and on purpose. And he felt basically like quitting. So here comes here. Here's the angel at the garden tomb. He said, hey guys, Jesus is waiting. He's not here, he's at the sea. He's waiting for you guys. He wants you to go meet. Oh, by the way, he wants you to bring Peter. Come on, give God a praise right now. Come on, come on. You all know people and sometimes it's yourself you won't know people. People where you're just not in position to receive because of something you're considering or feeling about yourself. You may answer the altar call, but. But the confidence isn't there. You may, you may even be slain, but the confidence isn't there. And he said, go get him and tell Peter. He was saying, you know, some days we ever worse than other days. Some days you need Holy Spirit more than you do other days, come on, say, some days I have a bad day. Some days I have a really bad day. Some days I want to forget about completely. Yeah, but the trouble, the sickness rumbles on. So does viruses and germs and bacteria and pandemics and storms, in my case in Florida, they don't wait for anybody. And it does catch you at a bad time whenever maybe you're not in the right place spiritually. And so it's all in how you perceive God's love for you. How fragile is, how deep is it? If you. We ever find that, how much he loves us. Like I said, he doesn't heal you because you're good. In this room alone, how many people really, really eat right? Never mind. Let's forget past that question. How many really, really, really forgive people as fast as we should? How many people really, really tithe the offerings? Every week, three hands go up, we're in trouble. See, we all know it. And maybe not consciously, but because, see, what works against us is the unconditional love of God. God, we know he loves us no matter what. Doesn't mean we love ourselves. It means he. We know that he does. That's why you come to church. And there's still stuff going on at the end of the day when you try, it's okay to go to church. But when you try and receive healing, when you're trying to minister to healing, to people that are dying, they've just been in a bad car accident. They've just been raped, gang raped, you know, and she knows that. She was a major part of that. And you're there ministering to her the love of God. The love of God. But she's there thinking they don't know. I. I invited half of this stuff to happen. I was in New York, and the. The NYPD chased a girl into our meeting with her with their guns raised. And she fell in right at my feet at the altar, bleeding. I guess one of the bullets had just swinging by her head. Well, my heart went to the girl. I didn't know if she was guilty or innocent of anything. I told her, I said, hey, hey, no, no, not here. You can't do that here. It was fun telling policemen what to do. I said, not here, not now. Can't do this. They said, we won her. She did thus and so, and she's laying there crying. She's saying, help me, help me. I'm thinking, what a position to be in. So here's what I said. We have her for an hour. We have her for this next hour. After the service. You can have. We have her for now. So I knew I had an hour to get inside her head, hopefully into her heart, and at least get some kind of cleansing process started. Come on, put your hands up and say there's time for me, there's time for everybody that I know. I shouldn't be judging anybody. I should be judging, judging myself. Come on. See, I got to get into position. So that story went really well at the end because, you know, she accepted Jesus. She Went through some healing there at the altar of the church, was all excited about it. Then we gave her over to the. To the nypd. And later she contacted me and she said, I can't thank you enough. I've had to pay some money. I've had to pay a fine and to serve some time, but she said, I found God. I found God, you know, so come on, give him praise. Come on. So in this story of healing, how's this got to do with healing? If you're a divided kingdom, if you're divided about yourself, if you're not on your own side, even though God's on your side, but if you're not on your own side, this where a lot of people are. He's trying to heal you, but you're not letting him heal you or fully permitting him daily. Because you're just front and center. And you're thinking, is what you did, who you used to be. So you've never fully captured what is the power of that blood. Is there ever a day that I won't remember? No, probably not. You won't remember. Is there a day I can be set free from it? Of course. Of course. I did stuff when I was younger, and some of my friends in Pittsburgh, then they see me, they want to remind me of what we used to do. So I said to my one friend, I said, I know you're talking about. That guy died. This is. What do you mean he died? You're right there. I said, no, that guy you're talking about, he's dead. I love messing with people. They go, what are you talking about? You're. You're way out of bounds with this religion stuff. You're just gone overboard. I said, billy Burke that you knew died, you know, and then after a while, they think, oh, my. You're. And you've lost it. It's important to not just know knowledge, but to believe it, no matter how you're behaving. Because Christianity is not fragile for you or for anybody else. It's a strong. Come on. It is so strong. Come on. It shook the earth when he was on that cross. It shook the earth and he died. He died for every sin and every type of sickness that there is. So I was in Miami, south beach, and I'm just. I'm going to move on here a little bit because I want to get to the point of the story, because it is simply this. The. The healing presence that you carry can be in you. You can be carrying it all the time. If you're receiving it you can't carry. You can't carry what you don't receive. And the greatest thing you ever have to help people get healed is the very presence that you carry. Not just why I believe this. I'm, I'm fully purposed. I, you know, I'm fully persuaded. That's great. But I mean, are you considering, are you considering that, that you yourself are struggling to get over something that you were a part of, that you did? That's why it's so important that you come into forgiveness quickly. Did you get free from this stuff? That. Is that real blood work? Is that, does the blood really work? Does it cleanse? Or is it just a religious symbol when you drink that juice, you know, is that, is that because even in First John 2:1 it says he'll not only forgive, he forgives your sins, but the propitiation. That word propitiation, I got so excited about that word. I don't know that word. I looked it up. It means not just the sins you did, but ever will do. You might be going to do some bad things in the next few years you're living. It's covered. You say that's crazy. That's the power of the cross. We can't get over something we did. Well, you know, and then you carry that. No matter what you say, you carry a spirit everywhere you go. You carry presence and you still want people to. You don't want people to just feel your divorce your whole life or you're a wounded woman and you're an upset man. People carry wound all their life. That's why Proverbs says in 18. The physical pain of a person, they'll carry it, that they'll sustain it. But a wounded spirit, who can bear it, those wounds just don't want to go away. And they jade and they color your destiny, then you're done. It takes away your boldness. Yet part of healing, you, helping other people get healed is you getting healed and you carrying that. You becoming a single minded person, that, hey, I'm a forgiven man. I think I told that story here, but I mean, was it two years ago, Charles Manson's grandson came into our meeting, you know, and he, I didn't know who it was. He was at the altar there and we were in Sarasota. He said, I want to hurt people, I'm going to kill people. I just thought he was some guy that really just needed deliverance, which he did. And he got it that night. Took about 45 minutes. Devils were coming out of him like it Was incredible. I didn't know who he was. I mean, not that that would have mattered, but he might have frightened me before I did it, though. And so he gets all. He gets all this deliverance. And so afterwards I'm in the back room just getting ready to go humble. They came back and they told me, he said, I said, I'll let you know my real name's not who it is. I'm Charles Manson's grandson. Well, then it hit me like this is generational. He said, can I come and see you at your office? I said, sure. He came with his urn. He had the urn of Charles Manson and he brought it on my desk. Secretaries just ran out every door. Come on, somebody. Well, what it did, was it tested at me thinking, well, how strong's your faith? Do you catch what he has or did they catch what you got? See, we're. This, this fear stuff's got to go. Greater is. So if God in me is not greater than the ashes of a man on my desk, then I better go back and get some help myself. I don't know about you, but I want to improve. Come on. I want to go from strength to strength. I want to have more faith next year than this year. I want to help more people because my faith is covering more space. But if I'm going to be judgmental and fearful and I can't get past my own boundary. Before you push an outside boundary, you've got to push an inner boundary. You're going to push your limitations. And I knew then that I was startled by that. I said, that's his ashes right there. He said, I thought I'd bring it to you. I said, great. That's just great, you know, and we had a camera, we had a television camera because we filmed this interview. I wanted to film it because I wanted to capture it, tell people. So he said, well, we're going to do this filming. And I said, yeah. I said, so what do we do? These ashes, I don't know what you want to do with them. I couldn't find any in my office. They were just disappeared. They just, they got scared. Scared. Then I thought, why are they scared for? And then the Holy Ghost said, be honest, you're scared too, you know. You know, it's just. It's just one of those knee jerk where you can't hide. You can't hide. Whenever you realize I'm afraid I am going to die, I'm not going to get healed. I'll never see again. I'll never get rid of these hearing aids. I have aids. I prayed for a guy who, in a meeting in Tampa after somebody here has HIV positive. You take the cocktail, you're near death and you're God's going to heal you tonight. Nobody answered. Nobody said a word. So I came back because I heard what I hear. I believe I hear. I came back maybe 20 minutes later. Nobody moved. So I forgot about it. I thought, okay, that's up to you if you don't want to answer it. I just delivered the mail some about a half hour later. I said, there's somebody also who has a fever. Well, this place lined up with fever people. Fever people have nothing to lose. What's the deal with fever? Right? So some going down the line with the fever and he'd fall under the power. Should fall under the power. Fever, fever. I came to this guy and went to him. I couldn't touch him. I said, are you, you okay? He said, what do you mean? I said, I don't know. I said, there's something here more than a favor. He said, how do you know? I said, I don't. Just Holy Spirit. He said, well, I have the virus. He said, when you called that virus, I don't want to come up, but I snuck in on the fever word. Don't we do crazy things? Come on. Don't we do? I said, well, guess what? Everybody knows now. He was healed. He was healed now. He was healed now. I mean completely healed. And he was ready to be. Was breaking out into full blown aids. See, there's a lot of people that can't do what they'd really like to do because they're imprisoned within their own small version of Jesus. They got Jesus at J.C. penney. He's not the Jesus of the Bible. When he forgave you, he forgave you. I mean, of all the stuff that none of us don't want to know, basically. But that is a chain and a ball for you. Not just for you, but from caring. That presence is, hey, you can be set free just by hanging around me or you can be convicted. So they went and said, hey, Peter, he wants to, he wants you to come along to the Bible study out at the Sea of Galilee. And of course, that's where Jesus said, do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me? What Jesus was saying is, some days we just need more help ourselves. And if you don't, if we don't let him reach in, we become stuck in neutral all of our life. We preach it good to others. But we're bound privately. We can't even make the promises work. We can't believe for more money, for more peace. We can't change our words. And we try to fight thoughts with thoughts. You fight thoughts with words. Only thoughts. But you have to know. So how do we do this? But what was they trying to do? What did the angels. Was he trying to. They were trying to get Peter back in his presence. That's the tip of what I'm talking about tonight. You can't carry something that you're not in. You can't carry something that you're just visiting. More people visit the glory than carry the glory. Yet they want Oral Roberts anointing. They want Kathryn Coleman's anointing. These people live in that presence. Presence. It changed the way they looked and talked and lived. They paid a high price. And you do pay a price. What's the price you pay? Quit being like you. As much. We're personality driven. Why aren't there more results? If we know all the promises and we're praying for all the people, why is there not more results? You see all the right things. I mean, you know the curses. Three generations by stripes. And we all do that. All the schools are trained that way. Yet there's so little productivity that way. What's missing is his presence in it. Before he turned to water, to wine, before he turned to water, to wine, he was there. He was present. His presence was there first. Before he made wine and made wine out of water with no grapes, say no grapes. When Pentecostal fell, before the power fell, they had presence. They were praying. You know that word prayer? That guaranteed doorway into the supernatural. It's so overlooked. You mean. Prayer takes you to the supernatural? There's a portal. It's a doorway. Well, I never saw it like that. That's why I'm talking to you about it. You're in another dimension. The moment you begin to pray in Jesus name, you leave this dimension and you go into another dimension. And the more you visit that throne room, that's where you get impartation. Not from hanging out with a guy like me. That's what impartation happens. When you are in that throne room and you're there, you're a frequent visitor there. Pretty soon God's going to think we're serious about him. Come on, say this is all about him, not about me. It's all about him. But see, we can't hang with him on a regular basis because our interest isn't where it needs to be. Until you really decide I'm going to push some kind of a boundary on the inside of me. I need more. No one can give me more. No one can meet what I want. I want to help people, but I can't even be committed to helping people. Nurses don't want a nurse. Doctors are tired of being doctors, and people are changing careers because there's no satisfaction. And it's important that you understand that you sitting here tonight as a believer can carry a presence that will shock you and shock other people. This girl, we just came two weeks ago. We were in Cleveland, Tennessee. A completely blind woman. Close your eyes. What do you see? No shadows, no nothing. Lives in Atlanta. And she said, I got to get to that meeting with Billy in Cleveland, Tennessee. I don't know this person, and I can't get there. So she took a taxi cab, a $500 taxi cab, blind. What's that mean, $500 and trust, right? They could have taken her anywhere. So she's into me. They bring her up. They have to help her up. And there she was in front of me. She said, I'm blind. I can't see anything. I was born this way, yada, yada, yada. And she said, I'm too tired. And I thought if I could just see. She didn't have any presence, or if she did, it wasn't strong enough to help her. And maybe where she was going to church wasn't that strong either at that time. I didn't ask her about that, but evidently she would listen to the broadcast. You know, she was listening to what other people were saying. I got to get there. See, people want to get into another presence that will challenge their disease, challenge their dysfunction, where they can have faith, more faith in what they feel from somebody else. So she said, I heard about this. This meeting here. And I came, I saw. And it's intimidating. I mean, I. I see it all the time. I think, well, hey, he went to the cross, you know, and. And she's coming to me. She must feel something, see something. And I said, lord, just heal. Just pop her eyes wide open. Let her see him. The whole place is watching, you know. So I touched her eyes, and she opened her. And she couldn't see. I can't say. But she said, I feel something. There you go. There you go. She didn't feel a dead man, dead Christian. A drum beat. She. She felt presence. I knew the moment she said, I know we got her. I know we got her. His presence is unstoppable. It's irrefutable. It's invisible, but it will manifest if you believe that. And so I. I said, I put. I prayed a couple times, and that didn't manifest anything with her. I said, she. I said, you're staying here for the weekend. She said, I'll be back tomorrow morning. But she said, I got to get home. The cab. She was keeping the cab driver there. Well, if I was a cab driver, I'd stay there, too. Come on, there's another 500 bucks. But when she came back the next morning, she walked. She said, I can see. See both of your eyes. Come on, somebody. And. And here's the. Here's the kicker. I mean, I was so excited. I didn't know. I felt like crying. But the church didn't know how to respond. Like, please don't do that. It reveals unbelief. Come on. No. Another girl that was completely blind. This was in Washington, D.C. capitol Hill, right across from the White House. The lady that owned the Marriott called me. She said, if I. If I let you use the Marriott, she said, I own it. If I let you use the Marriott, would you come and hold a service? I said, sure, I'd love to do that. So we had this room filled up, and I. The third person I prayed for, they brought a blind girl, Afro American girl. She came up and her mother stood her right here. And she said, I can't wait, you know. And she said, we can't do nothing with her. I don't know what that means. I don't want to get into that. But sometimes people don't feel any presence of God in their home. They don't feel presence of God sometimes in their church or the synagogue or whatever. And so I said to the girl, I said, hey. I said, how old are you? She said, I'm 19. 19. I said, well, today I'm going to pray and you're going to see. She says, okay. She was very negative. I said, so I'm going to pray. And so I put my hand on her eyes, brought my hand back. I could feel my faith return to me. And I said, can you see? Can you see? And she said, nope. Just like that. Nope. So I prayed again to nope. And the Holy Ghost said, tell her to stick out her tongue. I didn't know what. I never did that to anybody in my life, right? So she stuck out her tongue. So I said, now watch what. I'm telling you the truth. This is mentoring. I looked at her tongue and I said. I said to the girl, I see the problem. I see it. She Said, you do? I said, I see it right there. Where? It's on your tongue. She said, what's there? I said, just hold on. Give me some help here. Risk nothing, reward for nothing. And I said. He said, I want you to take your fingers and I want you to put three words on. Touch her tongue with your fingers. No, I have not done this since. I'm not going to do it at Mount Hope. So. So she had a tongue. I said. I said, I'm going to touch your tongue with my hands. I'm going to put new words on your mouth that I want you to say for me. She said, okay. I said, this is going to help you see. And she took. I said, favor. And I touched your tongue. Favor. I'm favored. I'm among the healed. And the third one, I don't remember what the third one was. I remember feeling that tongue. I was like, oh, God. And. And I took my. I took it away. And I said, close your eyes. Because she had her eyes on, beautiful brown eyes. And she closed her eyes after. I just barely touched her. And when I took my hand away, she screamed, mama, he's a white man. Mama, he's a white man. He's a white man. I was blown away. I mean, the first thing you want to do is make a doctor. And I'll then practice it everywhere you go. No, it doesn't work like that. Doesn't work like that. But these people that. All these miracles, they're stuck in the place where they are. They don't feel like they're good enough. Maybe they don't feel like they're really forgiven. You know, this. This stuff's how you feel about yourself is going to depend what you carry. Do you feel like you're forgiven? Well, I don't go by feeling. I'll go by, well, there's a tangible presence to what you do. The Bible don't say no healing. It just says, no, faith is. We've made that verse say now, healing. It doesn't say that now. Faith is always now. But healing manifests whenever God's happy with you, listening to what he wants you to do. Here's an instruction that he wants for you. He wants to see you move in the right direction. You may not have to accomplish something tonight, but you can say, hey, I will. Help me by your grace. I want to move in the right direction. That's when what. The prodigal was walking home, but. The prodigal was walking home, but. But the father was running. If you read that story in Luke 15. When the prodigal was coming home, the prodigal was walking, taking his time, going back. But because he was moving in the right direction, God was accelerating his recovery. He was running to him. It's an amazing story. So when you make a move towards heaven, when you make a move towards, you know what God wants you to do. And it may seem so simple to you. You may say, I'm smoking, I'm only hurting myself. You may think, what's a few swear words? Even preachers swear. Look what that preacher did. You begin to excuse everything in your life because you can find up some other people, they're doing bad things. You're responsible for you. And you couldn't just. You might just be holding up your own growth. You could be holding up that wonderful presence moving through you that touches people, that challenges people to be better. We had a guy, Dave and Kevin, he was in Sarasota. He came to every meeting for a couple of years. He was an invalid. He was in a motor scooter. And he's come in hunched over like this, you know, and. And the Holy Spirit said, if you're gonna. If I'm gonna give you crowds, I want you to deal with when I tell you. Don't you deal with one on one people too. I don't want you getting caught up in crowds. So I go to these nice, large meetings. And he'd be in the way in the back, and I'd always go back privately, and he'd be sitting back, just hunched over his motor scooter. I'd always put plant seeds in his ear. Hey, God's touching you. Your day of recovery is at hand. I don't know what happened, how this happened, but you got to get out of that guilt, get out of that shame. It wasn't your fault. You're going to walk again. You're going to get out of this motor scooter. Every time I saw him for a couple years, Sarah Stone, I'd go see him, Fort Myers, I'd go certain cities, he would, they would get him there. Well, this one time we were in Naples, Florida, I walked in, place was full, and there he is right in the back parts down here. He was able to, because he was hunched over, he was deformed, somewhat deformed. And so I ran over to him, I said, hey, how you doing tonight? I said, you know what? I think tonight could be your night tonight. That seed of faith in there, trying to cancel out his stupid thinking, trying to help somebody not think the way they shouldn't. Be thinking. And I said, you know, I just think it could be. Just be careful. Tonight could be your night. You could be jumping right out of this chair on this scooter. I said, you better listen to God. So I let me said. He just laughed. You don't quit, do you? Saw something. We had a great service. I had an altar call. There's all these people at the altar. And I was way down the other side of the church. I was praying for people. I looked over, see, how many people do we have to pray for? He was standing at the altar. He's standing at the altar. So I run over to him like this. I said, and this was. And this is just a honesty. I walked there, I said, h, how you get here? He said, well, I sin back there. And so I heard a voice just say, get up and get up now. What's that mean? What's that mean? It means that whatever was taking place unlocked the voice of God to him. That's all. Some of you are waiting on that inner voice that, like it said to Lazarus, get out of this tomb. Lazarus didn't hear a preacher, he didn't hear a singer, he didn't see a Christian movie. He's laying in the tomb dead. So when he was telling his testimony in church that week, they said, lazarus, how'd you get healed? I just heard a voice. I just heard the voice. What's coming in these end times? I'm telling you, it's going to be just. People's going to walk off the. Out of the bars, out of the hellholes, out of the strip joints, come on off of the Baker gang. And they're going to say, I heard a voice. But where's that all come from? By being around people who carry heavier presence than you do. And that's not to put them up. It's just to say there's people that carry a heavy. I've been around those people all my life. And you walk away and you think, well, I want to grow up. I want to carry that presence. Matching knowledge is easy. Matching presence. Just because you know it don't mean you carry it. Say, just because you know it don't mean you carry it. If you really want to get people healed, I mean, more than you could ever thought you could get that combination of knowing it and carrying it, and the more you know it, then the more you. The more you cultivate that and marinate in that, you will carry that. Because basically, being honest, nobody wants to be around you. Who wants to hang out with You. That's why friendships don't last that long. He said, well, we love our church. They don't know you yet. Come on, say amen. That's true. Why do you think people don't like home groups? Why don't people like home Bible studies? You would think that's the perfect place to grow. You get discovered, you know, it's. It's not funny. It's not. This whole world is. Is crying. What's the Bible say in Romans 8? The whole earth is groaning. It's entrail. For what? For the manifested sons and daughters. Come on, give God a shout. The manifest. Come on. Those. Who are those manifests? The word manifest. They carry presents. Grandma does. Teenagers do. I'm running into so many people that it surprises you they're teenagers. They're some of the youth, Some of them. I've hugged some old ladies. I mean, I could hardly stand the power hit me when I just hugged some people. And I said, that one lady, she's a grand. I said. I says, dear Lord, Grandma here, she's a black lady. You can be my black grandmother any day you want. She says, I got the power, don't I? I mean, you go to a bar, you don't have to smoke to smell like smoke. Just come out smelling like smoke, huh? Because you were. You were in that atmosphere. Who are we hanging with? What shows are we watching? What news channels, what anchors on there? When's the last time somebody, any one of these anchors, called you for prayer? Called out a word of knowledge? Or do they continue to stir the political juices in your life? We're hanging and spending time in the wrong places. I could teach you all night on verses and how to pray for people and tell you what they want, what they need is presence. I'll tell you one more story, is in the church in the Bahamas. They put me on paradise island in the hotel casino. The rooms were at the top. The kids were there, and Melanie was there. They dropped me off one night about 1:30. It was a real late meeting. And I walked in the foyer of this hotel, which ended up being in a casino. I had to walk through a little bit of it to get to my room. And a prostitute, a Lady Prose, met me in the foyer. Didn't take me long to figure out who she was. I. I came out of a great meeting. We had a blind girl healed, a deaf girl healed. And I was like, oh. And I walked into this thing. She says, hey, baby. Hey, ma'. Am. That can make you happy. I said, Ma', am, I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm thinking, please don't mess with me. I. I'm gonna tear your head off. You don't know where I come from. She said, I'll make you sing tonight. I said, ma', am, I've been singing all night. I've been singing all night. I was trying to avoid contact, and she said, well, baby, I can I make happy make a sing? I said, ma'. Am. She said, well, where'd you come from that you're so happy? I said, I came from church. She said, see you later. See you later. So sometimes presence follows your words. Sometimes just follows your presence, you being there. Sometimes it comes out in your humor. But it's a vital possession that you should want to have, that people do more than smell your perfume or your cologne or your new dress, but they sense something about. Yeah, here's the part. You can have this. You can't have it by just taking good notes, but you can have it by what? By desiring it. I was around Catherine Coleman quite a bit. I'd come home from a Catherine Coleman and private meeting. I would meet her at the William Penn Hotel. And downtown, I'd take my friends to meet her. And I'd always smell something. You know, I think, what is that? So I went home to my grandma. I said, what's. What perfume does Catherine wear? And my grandma says, billy, she don't wear perfume. I said, how do you know that? She said, because I know she doesn't wear any perfume at all. Why not smell something around her? She said, what's not perfume? So the next time I went down to was with her. So I thought she didn't know I was doing that, right? And she called me young Billy. And she said, young Billy, are you okay? I said, Ms. Coleman, nobody called her Catherine. We called her Ms. Kuhlman. I said, Ms. Coleman, I just. I smell something here. And she said, oh, young Bill, you have a lot to learn. I'm thinking I do. She said, when you know the Holy Spirit as I do, you'll know all about odors. You know all about sound. You'll know all about it. Well, I went right to my Bible. There's that verse in Second Corinthians, chapter one. There's an odor of life unto life. There's an odor of death unto death. And Paul said, I would. I would challenge you to have odor of life unto life. So there's an odor about people that says, I'm going to live. I'm not going to die. I'm going to get through this. I'm gonna have enough money. This marriage is. This marriage. It went from the rocks to the rock. Come on. There's this presence that you can have the ability to carry. Isn't that amazing? Well, sounds too costly to me. Maybe it is. But I teach people, don't. Don't let a store tell you can't afford it. You go to that mall, you walk in that store and you may not have a dime in your pocket, but look at the price tag of that three thousand dollar jacket. Come on, somebody. And then when the clerk comes over and says what can I help? You say, not right now, just looking. Right now, just looking. But break that barrier. Push that boundary. Those car dealerships you never even stepped into because you can't afford anything there. In the natural. Come on, say in the natural. But say I'm not all natural, I'm half supernatural. So you pour your little old botswagging into that dealership and you go and say, hey, can I help you? I'm just looking at this Newton do whatever it is. I'm looking at it, just yeah, we got this one. Just go along with it. I pulled in, I did that. I actually practiced that. And I pulled in this dealership and a guy come and says, hey man, how can I help you? I said, well, I said, just looking at this car, I saw it driving by. I said, sharp looking car. He said, you look like a lawyer. I said, I'm not a lawyer. He's. You're a doctor. As I said, not a doctor. He said, you're come some kind of CEO. I said, I'm a preacher. He said, praise the Lord. Praise. He. I was asking God to send me somebody today. I may be blonde, but I'm not stupid. Come on, somebody help me here. It's amazing presence. And you all want to carry presence because you don't want to be stuck to your personality your whole life. So we hear sermons every week on how to change, how to be somebody else. But you can carry not just presence but a healing presence. But you can't be ashamed of your testimony. How many here have great testimonies? Nobody knows it. How many times? How much has God been faithful to everybody in here? And yet you won't even share over Thanksgiving dinner this year why it makes my husband upset. Well, you know, hey, there's more people than him on the earth. How about where you work? How about where you shop? How about the girl at Starbucks? How about it? Anything that's like a Magnet for presence. That's a magnet. You won't just feel good, you'll draw. And when God sees that you're faithful with that, you'll begin to feel and sense him more than you. You'll check out of half of your problems. We spend way too much time thinking about ourselves. And you're not half as bad as the person that lives two houses down. Healing is about presence. It's because of the stripes. It's because of Calvary. Everything's because of the stripes. But when you walk into a hospital room, do you walk in? Do you carry negativity with you? Are you just going because you're curious? Or do you care? It's not the prayer that you pray. It's the care behind prayer. Well, what if I don't care? Should I got no visit? Say, God, give me a caring heart just for this visit. Overshadow me. Come on, say overshadow meadow me. Come on, say, you overshadowed Mary. You overshadowed all the laws of physiology. Didn't need sperm. Didn't need an egg. You just overshad. If he can overshadow that, he can overshadow your negativity. He can hide you the way you really are so you can really send a seat of glory across. Because people want to feel something coming from you. If you're the. If you're the vessel to pray for them. I mean, how much do we really believe what we say? You know, this lady that was blind. I mean, when she began to see, I thought, lord, you're so good. And then he became. He said, now you got to trust me deeper. I need more trust from you, Billy. I've been faithful to you. I've been good to you. I need you to trust more of me. I didn't tell you about the girl at the Tongue. Did I tell you that many? So when that all happened, the mother said to me, after, she said. She said, you know, I never heard of you. And she said, my friend told me about you. And she said. I said, I never even heard of Billy Byrd. And she named some of the people that she's heard of. And I said, yeah, I know them. They're amazing people. I said, I'm the least of these. She said, you're not the least of these in my book. I'll tell you what, right now, you're the most of these. That's what you are. I said, no, no, no, no. She says, my God. She said, I didn't really think my daughter would see I did it to be a good mother. When are you going to make it? When are you going to take time to say, hey, I need to start believing this? I've been. You think you're standing on something? Are you? How many, how many days? It's frequency that builds. Breakthrough frequency. There's frequencies in the Holy Spirit. Consistency and frequencies. And I think sometimes we just, we get a prayer. If it don't work, we get discouraged. Like Peter. Peter was not planning on going to see Jesus out of the sea. Had the angel said, hey disciples, he wants to be. And Peter, that's like a last minute invitation. Come on, say amen. He was saying, hey, God's not done with you. He knows you denied him. It kind of grieved him. He don't want you to be like that, but he knows you need, you need to get back into. You can be in church, but not in his presence. Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're in his presence. And everything in heaven, not heaven, everything in hell and earth will try and keep you out of his presence. That one woman, she couldn't get in. Disciples didn't let her in. And then Jesus said, you know, the children, breads for the children, children of Israel, not you. And fighting just to get contending. How much do we contend for what we want? You know, I mean, I'm half these people I pray for, I'm not them. This girl, this lady paid 500 blind in a taxicab. I don't know how many hours that would take. Did she see how long that took? 2 and a half hours. 2 and a half hours in a cab with the stranger. And I mean, she couldn't see anything, but she said, I gotta go for it because my desire is greater than my fear. God don't want you to feel forgiven one day. He wants you to feel forgiven every day. He wants you to really know that man, what was done is done. You're covered. You're free from that and free up space. Free of space for presence of Holy Spirit because He can be felt through you. Sometimes just the preachers are up there sweating and preaching. There's not a presence about them. It's all about them. It's not just everywhere there's excitement and activity. Sometimes it's in the smallest and the quietest of places that if, that if you'll begin to really act like, you know, you tell me, you know, do you visit him or do you know, Come on. See, if you visit, you're not going to carry it. But if you become, if you come frequent, you're going to pick up deposit. Well, hence his reward. He's a rewarder of those who Dylan seek him. What. What can he possibly reward me with? Presence number one. I feel that presence more. I was in a meeting not maybe a year ago. I've never felt this. It scared me. And I told all the people in the meeting. It scared all of them too. Then we were all scared in the same Holy Ghost meeting. I was praying, Kevin, for these people. We were over off of Tampa Bay. We rent. There was a big lodge that we rented. As I was praying for him, I went to pray for this lady. And I felt my arm inside of another arm. Honest to God, he did not to take. Then I felt that arm. I was in that arm. Then I felt the hand. I thought, am I, you know, am I having an issue here? What do I need to rest about? A sabbatical? How about. How about a free trip to California? Come on, somebody. And I just. Boom. And the power hit. Then I came back and I thought, what's wrong here? I just see anything? But I knew what I just felt. So went back. And then I went. And there it is again. I'm. I'm in this arm of another person. Now you're looking at me. Now you're getting afraid too. And people start falling all over the place. I thought, what is this? And the voice came and said, it's me. You're moving inside of me. And I thought, oh, my God. So I thought I'd tell the people I tried to do this. Oh, God. I said, everybody, I'm feeling my arm tonight inside of another arm. Oh, you should have seen that audience. Black people turn white and white people turn black. I mean, it was crazy. And it took them a while to process that. Do we expect any kind of these manifestations that he promised would come in these last days? See, my job is to keep people that leave seeming. Seeming seemingly the same, but they're not. But they don't know it. So the devil steals that seed when he cursed the fig tree. It seemed like nothing happened. Nothing happened till the next day when they wrapped his tomb, his body, in the tomb. His lifeless body and silk and fine linen. And Joseph of Arimathea, a rich man's tomb. They were watching that tomb. They were watching the lifeless body. No brain waves, no heartbeat. They watched them seal that tomb. Seem like he was dead. Seemed like by all natural intent and purpose, it seemed like. Seem like you're going to be in that wheelchair forever. Seem like you're going to be paralyzed forever. Seem like you're in stage four, pick out your tombstone. Seems like that. Until they run into somebody who believes beyond what it seems like, that's where you come in. Not just loud and yelling and throwing a verse at him. Ain't gonna work. Ain't gonna work. But you come in there after you've been spending more time, frequently with him, the healer. Come on, say the healer. The deliverer. I'd rather spend the day with Dave Williams, then read seven of his books. Give me one day with the author. Just let me have lunch with this guy. Just put us tap in him and get everything he knows. Come on. You can do that in one day. But I'd rather have the person than the book. And today everybody has the book, but not the person. The balance of both of those. The balance of both of those is what brings presence to you. Because you and I both know to take time out to really invest in relationship to an invisible God. Invisible. Talking to somebody all day long. You can't see. Engaging, acknowledging him everywhere you are. You're in Starbucks. Hey, Lord, you okay over there? Oh, yeah. I'm gonna give me a grande. Gonna give me. Just to practice. Acknowledge him everywhere. Because if you. You're not going to take him to pornographic stuff, you're not going to take him to certain places, but you're going to bring his presence. And you practice that, he will reward you. You'll feel something that's not of this earth, and that presence will protect you. And then pretty soon you'll be run to other people and they'll start getting excited about what's changed about you. Did you get a facelift? A neck job? Get your tummy tucked? Well, something's different about you. That's because these waves of glory are coming off of you. I'm telling you the truth. This is something that's available to every single person in this place. I was praying in Miami Beach. I didn't see this guy. I said, hey, you. Well, he's sitting down. He didn't look that big, but he was the leader of the Hell's Angels. California had the clothes on, the jacket on. He was the executioner for the Hell's Angels. He had heard about the meeting. Him and his two sons came to that meeting. And when he stood up, I thought, God, maybe I missed the wrong guy. And he. He was. He was. He was the guy they sent to break your legs. He's you talking to me. I said. And I was like this. I said, you. And I thought. He came walking up and he had to close everything. And his two sons followed him. Right next to him, one on each side, big dudes. And he walked up to me and he said, so what do you want to do with me? I said, I just feel like I'm supposed to pray for you. He said, go ahead, man, give me. See if you can do in me. Would you do. These people here, they're laying on the floor, you know, and there was no carpet there. It was just concrete floor. You know what I said, God, please don't let him get hurt. I didn't. He didn't hear that. Come on, say amen. And so I put my hand up. He had to be six, six, something like this huge dude. I just barely touched him. Boy, the power hit him. No catchers. No catchers. He hit that deck. And the sons, he. They later told me, the son told me, I wanted to kill you right there. He said, don't you think these guards you have, these policemen would have started. I'd have killed you. He said, you know what? I don't know what can held me back. Something I do. I do. Point is, later he said to me, because he then came to one another meeting, he said to me, I just felt something with you. I just felt something. Say these words with me. Say these words. Greater is he, not greater is me. Greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. See that greater that's in you grows as you feed him, as you worship him, as you say, lord, I'm sorry. As you try to do your best to live as a Christian. If you get caught up in something, I'm going to get delivered. If you're a cross dresser, I want to quit cross dressing. And if you're into a lifestyle that's not. I want to get set free. So there's no mystery as to what's holding up your blessing. And then what can happen. Watch this. The more mixture that's out of you, the more that flow can come through you. Come on, say unhindered flow. Say it again. Unhindered flow. I called your own UHF channel. Right there. Unhindered flow. Meaning even though you're going through something, people won't feel that. They'll just feel. Feel the flow. Because I go through stuff. Everybody goes through stuff. But wouldn't it be great if you, if you. If none of that would go through to the people because you were doing everything over here you're supposed to do. Lord, cover me. Today I said a bunch of words to my ex husband I shouldn't have done that. I yelled at the milkman. There's no. There's no milkman today, is there? What is it? Amazon? Yeah, Amazon. But see, people want to learn healing. Watch this. So they can go do it, but not. They don't want to learn it to carry it. See, Jesus carried it, the apostle Paul carried it. And all these people, they carried Peter's shadow. The influence, the effect of just his shadow. Now we know shadow doesn't have any power except the Peter. They'd get in his shadow and get. He would fight to get into it in the prayer cloth. The mag group with a prayer cloth. I grew up with that prayer cloth, you know, and. And so we hand them up, we put them over the Internet. People get them. And we had a one kid, the mother came, she couldn't even bring him. He had a disease. He couldn't grow. He was trying to think how old he was. Not all. Do you remember the age of that boy? Four years old, five years old, something like that. He couldn't grow. He couldn't. And so I said to the mother, here, take this prayer cloth home. And I told her about my grandmother in the prayer cloth, which we had nursed hear from her for several months. Finally, she called the office with me. She said, ask Pastor Billy. She said, this prayer cloth, he has not let go of it since I gave it to him. And she said, it stinks. It's dirty. Ask Pastor Billy that if I take this prayer cloth away from him, would it affect the power? Oh, by the way, tell him he's grown 3 inches. In other words, he locked in. He locked into it. Come on, say he locked in. He locked in. He wouldn't. He wouldn't let go of it. See, a lot of times people come up for prayer, they may fall under the power, but they don't walk in. They think that's it. They don't understand there's more to the. There's more to this paralyzed man in Pittsburgh. I went to the chair, put my hands right on the chair. Not only did that, because I was led to do it. I can't do this with everybody here. I was led on this case and I put my hands on the chair and I said, tonight I pray you walk. He said, you're embarrassing me. I said, I don't mean to embarrass you. I don't want to embarrass you. He said, I come for prayer. Pay attention. Pay attention. He had prayer expecting nothing. Yeah, that's what we do. Prayer makes you Feel better. Prayer makes you act like. Make you think. Like you're really reaching out for help. Could be. Not necessarily. So I said, no, no, no. I want to pray. And you walk. Billy, you're embarrassing me. It was going over the microphone. I said, I'm here to embarrass you, but I want you. You're supposed to walk tonight. He said, you're embarrassing me. I said, okay, here's the only deal I have. I pray, you stand. He said, don't you understand? I can't. I've been in this chair for 20 years. And I. And I felt. I felt like, lord, I don't like who I am right now. He said, well, then die and let me talk. I said, okay, go ahead and talk. And here's what he said to that guy. Stand. I checked myself, because I certainly don't impose me on anybody but faith. I'll impose faith all day long. I said, come. He stood up. His. His legs. He'd Never walked in 20 years. He could hardly stand. He's just wobbling like this. I was so excited. I said, look at this. Look at this. He said, I don't believe it. He said, I don't believe this. As he's. As he's standing. As he's standing, he's so used to being paralyzed. So used to it. He said, I just. I don't get this. I said, what would you like to do? So I'd like to walk. I said, there you go. Walk across the front of this church. Go ahead. Just walk. So he's walking like this. He's shaking, and he's looking at the congregations. He said, I don't believe any of this. As he's walking. Is this in real. Then I have to get up and say, don't pay. Please don't watch this guy. Because there's no. None of this is real. This just. That's what's happening to people today. You get so used to being the way you are. You don't have any expectation of change. So you go to church for what? Why do you. Why do you pray? You pray for intervention. You pray because you believe something can change. Why do we sing all these songs? Because something can change. Why do you sow your seed? Because something can change. But if you're doing all that and you're expecting nothing, every time you sow a seed, you're expecting something. Come on, say amen. And I. I can see today where just so many people have lost that seed of expectation. I didn't know Kathryn Coleman at that Time before I knew her, I didn't know her. But my grandmother said, when she touches you, you'll be healed. When we got there, David and Kevin, we. The place was so packed, the church was packed. We were out on 6th Avenue in the city on a Friday morning. And I'm standing there, I mean, half paralyzed. I had no feeling. Numb on one whole side. I had a patch over my eye because I had double vision. And cancer metastasized, was metastatic into my lungs. I didn't want to be there. I didn't know why I was there. I didn't know this lady. All I heard my grandmother say for four days is, when she touches you, I'm thinking, I want to go, I want to go. She said, no, we're going. We're going to get in this service. I'm thinking, how are we going to get in there? We can't get it on the sidewalk. And just about that time, one of the ushers came out the side. We later met him, know knew him well. He said, I don't know why I went out there. Some just told me to go out the side door. And I saw your grandmother and I saw you. He went like this. We came up through that crowd. And right when you walked in that side door, there's a balcony, steps to the balcony, and that was taken up that and then put on the front row of the upper balcony where I watched Ms. Coleman come out and do what she did. I'm thinking, what am I doing here? I said to my grandmother, how can that old woman help me? She said, don't say that. She's not an old woman, Number one. Number two, the power of God's using her. I said, oh, wow. I was bored. I just wanted to get out of there. All of a sudden, Ms. Coleman turned and says, you, wow. All of a sudden, I'm standing in front of her. All of a sudden, her hand is reaching towards my head. What do I hear? Do I hear her? No. I hear my grandmother's voice when she touches. You see, my grandmother had done for me what I didn't know how to do. She planted a seed of expectation. Today. It's one of the most needed things inside the people to believe and to expect that everything you're doing is going to make a huge difference. You're going to lose the weight, you're going to buy the boat, you're going to get the house. Your kids, your prodigals are going to come home. Your excessments, they will apologize to you for years of Stupidity. Come on, somebody say amen. There was an old song years ago, said, it's too late, baby. Come on, somebody. But there's days you don't even feel like you're any closer. You want to supposed to go by your feelings. How do you counter that? Then you got to get into a presence stronger than yours. That's when you know you need a presence stronger than yours. If you can't stir up presence, then you've got to go somewhere where there is presence. That's a radio program or some, a podcast you're listening to. But you got to drag your sad, sorry self to a meeting. Come on, somebody get yourself up to that altar. Listen, somebody believe for you since you. Quit believing for yourself, you know, and this. And just believe something because you're pushing a boundary. I pray for so many people. I didn't want to come. One guy said, I don't even like you. What does he tell me? He said. He said he's, I don't like anything. I like the way you dress. I like the way you look. And he was a Baptist. He was a good old Baptist guy. He said, I don't like anything about you, but I saw your thing in the newspaper and I thought maybe. He said, if I can go there and get help, then I won't have to have surgery. So it blows my mind that somebody would come to a meeting with that kind of an attitude. But he did. He did. And he left there a healed man. And I'm thinking, lord, honey, I can't figure this out. He says, I don't want you to. I want you to trust me. I'm working. I'm working with people you don't even think I can work with. I have a love you don't understand yet. So it's important that where you sit tonight that you don't rule yourself out. Whenever God says, I want to visit you this week, whenever you say, like, like Peter, tell Peter. Because just because Peter wasn't feeling like he was worth going, Peter probably said, I can't look in his face again. He's really back. He's really alive. He's really the one. And I denied him. And the angel said, you're supposed to go, wow, get in that. He knew. He knew. I'm telling you, just staying in his presence is going to continue to really help you way more. You may wonder, why am I listening to this broadcast? Why am I going to church every week? You may have to re examine that because I know the times I've been in Delia here or Mount Hope years ago. We're going to be there Sunday night. I'm so looking forward to that. That presence. There's something about getting into that presence. It's like, wow. And miracles happen, happen. Healing happens. Let me tell you one more story. Can I tell you one more story? You sure? One more. We were in Dallas, Fort Worth at a Calvary Cathedral church, and they brought a lady in, sweet lady. And I don't know, maybe seven early 70s, and she had the thickest glasses I've ever seen. I mean, they were thick. And I came off the platform and I said, what do we want to do here tonight? And there was three state of the art cameras rolling. So they were right on me filming everything. So I had. I know I had to be extra careful. What I said to her, I said, so, so what's wrong with you? She said, well, she said, I'm not blind, but I'm nearly blind. They call it legal blinds. But she said, brother Billy, my. My cataracts are so bad. She said, I can't even see you. I can't even see your face. I smell you, but I can't see you. I said, well, let's change that. Let's change that tonight. She's. That's why I'm here. That's why I had them bring me here to see you. So I put my second. Can I put my thumbs up underneath your glasses? She said, you go right ahead, honey. You go up and put your thumbs or do whatever you want to do. And I said, no, I don't want to do anything because I put my thumbs up. Touch you. I said, touch right a little bit. Both eyes a little bit. I said, unbelievable. Holy Ghost going to heal you tonight. And so I put my thumbs up underneath her and I did exactly what I told her and I pulled my thumbs away and I said, so how's your eyes? She said, perfect, but wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. But there's no emotion. She said, perfect. She said, I can see you perfect. She said, I can't thank you enough. And she turns, she turns her stuff off and away. I said, I said, man, I said, I don't think nobody's gonna believe me. I said. She said, why wouldn't they believe you? I said, well, these cameras are catching you right now. Now. And people at home are watching this on television and they're going to wonder. You don't act like a healed person. She said, what? I said, you don't act like you were blind, nerdy Blind. And now you can see perfect. And you act. This is all you got. She's. She said. She said, you mean you're talking about like carrying on all that yahoo, yahoo stuff? I said, yeah, kind of. She said, I did that at home before I came. I just came here to pick it up. I just came and I carried on at home. I shouted, I danced, I called heaven down. But I'm visiting this church. I don't know how to behave here. So I come, just pick it up. But she did it. But she did it. I wanted this school, this time to just be some real practical examples and some dealing with some worthiness. And where do you get that worthy? Where do you get worthiness? All the people. All the people that love you are going to love you, but that's not enough. Whatever you're getting isn't enough because nothing can give you what you want except his presence. Then when you mix his word with it, of course, there's all kind of dynamics with that, but just to be able to feel tangible presence. Tangible. And many of you have. It's just that it's. Maybe it scares you, or maybe you don't value that enough. Maybe you don't think you can have it all the time. Maybe you don't think you can have it at home. I tell people, do it at home. The guy says, what if? Who's going to catch me? I said, stand by the sofa, for dear God's sakes. Stand by the bedroom, whatever. Don't risk the least of your worries. He's, wow, we got hardwood floors. I don't want to fall into hardwood floors. Isn't that interesting to think like that? One service, they all fell forwards and the pastor came up after. He said, what's this? I never saw this. I said, I never did either. He says, this a new thing. I said this. Never saw it before. Pastor, he's unit. I just trusted him. And they just. They were just falling with the good catches up here to catch them falling forward. Think about that. Because when you value what you value what you value, you will draw. You didn't hear me? What you value, you will draw. So everything I'm saying here today, I believe you're receiving, and I feel you're receiving it. But when you begin to value this, don't be intimidated by people who carry a stronger presence than you do. Don't be jealous. Receive. Get in their shadow. Get as many shadows as you can. Amen. You know, just. I got some more. I got another download, got another deposit. Show God you're hungry and you don't care. I mean, just so it's coming from him through them. Yeah, but I'm too old to do that. You're never too old to do that. Let's start. Well, who am I going to go see? Well, you got an Internet, don't you? I had to drive a little sports car an hour away, go through Scroll Hill tunnels on brick roads that would almost throw your car off the road, drive into the city just to see the person that helped me. You don't have to leave your home. You can go home tonight and click on Smith Wigglesworth or you can research anybody. In the moments being a Allen's audience, this generation is going to be held accountable for more than any other generation because the knowledge is so great. It's being laid right at your table. You can prosper. You can prosper. You can be healed. You can get the gifts moving in your life. You can be emotionally healed in a service we don't hurt no more where you remember what they did to you, but there's no twang there. You'll have the memory of it, but not the pain of it. And the more that you're healed, the more you can forgive. Come on, say the more that I'm healed, the more I'm able to forgive. But I thought I was healed 10 years ago. You were. Now you're getting a deeper cleansing. Remember that. The Bible says, say first John 1:9, he's able to forgive and cleanse. They're different. He's able to forgive and cleanse. More people are forgiven, but they're not cleansed. That's why they're repeated victims. The evidence of that stays inside of you. You haven't truly forgiven yourself. You haven't taken the time to really release yourself because the older you get, the more stupid you feel for what you did. This happens to me. I mean, you wondering, I think, how could I do that? Was I. And God says, am I not using you now? Yeah, you are. Aren't you an older man? I'm older. Not old because he older. Say older and am I not doing. Yeah, yeah, you were myself then why are you going back there and fishing in that pond? Okay, again, now you don't get it. Hey, I have that space reserved for more anointing. I have that space reserved for a truckload of favor. I have that, you know, see, I'm getting the space that you're giving to. That stuff is taking up space. That's why Malachi says there'll be no room to put it. It's hard. It's hard to comprehend that. It's hard to comprehend that. But then he's a Hill's angel. Got up. He got up off the floor. He said, ma', am, what. What was that? Because that's the Holy Ghost, he said, the holy who? I said, the Holy Ghost. It scared me. And when he came, and later he came to another service, it was just kind of like, you see, you keep saying it scared you. I'm human, but I don't. Don't stop me. Sometimes I. I'm. I check, I'm. I hesitate about getting on a plane, but I still get on it. I push boundaries. I don't live by feeling. I push a boundary. Sometimes you let stuff just stop you. And you can't do that. I mean, you can do that. You can go on with your life and be blessed and be healed completely. Come on, say inside and out. Can be healed, can be made whole. Come on, give God a big shout tonight. Can you do that? Hey, you have any questions? Give me. Give me some questions. For any questions of what I'm talking about tonight. Any questions at all, has to be a couple questions right here. It costs so much. It costs so much. It costs so much. And another thing I would say, too, is that leadership keeps people from being anointed. There's a lot of insecure leaders of which these two are not a part of that. But these people, these guys are pushing people. Dave Williams has encouraged me so much, and Kevin, these guys are phenomenal. But a lot of the churches I go to, they don't want anybody to get more anointed than them. What's the.