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Praise the Lord. Let's welcome Pastor Billy. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. I came in, I heard all that praise and I came in looking for someone up here leading you. And there's. I thought there's an invisible band up there. And I thought, oh, my Lord, we're already high up in the faith level. I thought maybe I missed. I blinked my eyes, opened up again. There's still nobody up there. And you guys were worshiping. So beautiful. Remember this? Remember, even though you're in the crowd, the Holy Spirit knows who's worshiping and who's hitchhiking. A lot of hitchhiking goes on in praise and worship. Clapping, thinking about somewhere else, or just putting your hands up and thinking about something. It's okay if you don't sing. It's okay if the crowd carries you. We all need to be carried. But focus on him. Oh, you were only here for what, an hour, maybe two hours, I don't know. But make the most of your time with him. Make it sacred. You know, when you're underneath the car, fixing a car, you get when a brain surgeon's operating on you. You don't want him thinking about whatever, right? Or when the guy's fixing your computer, you want him focused on your computer. All God wants is his share. His share. Amen. Put your hands up all over the place. Come on. Say, I'm here today. My faith is present, not in the past. I'm not in the future. I'm here, alive in the now. I'm going to capture my now moment and it will launch me into the future. I thank God today I am a miracle in motion. I'm not where I was, I'm not where I'm going to be. I'm growing day by day. My giants will fall, my lions will shut their mouth, and the heavens are about to open in Jesus name. Come on, Give him a mighty praise. Come on, come on. You may be seated all over the place if you have your Bible with me. Turn with me to Mark, chapter John, chapter five. I'm sorry. Did everybody sleep well last night? Well, we had. I thought we had a good meeting last night. Did you learn anything? Don't be like a lot of people. Oh, there was so much. Oh, I couldn't write fast enough. Just tell me one thing you remember. We need him. I like that. Who said that? Stir up. Never be empty handed again. Oh, I love that. I love that. That was some people painting. Did I say John chapter five? Yeah, I'm getting there. Myself. Right, There we go now. So this is our last day of school. We have services tonight and tomorrow we're at the house of prayer. Make the most of this morning. I mean, push the boundaries. You're here. If I can answer you, I will. I certainly don't know everything, but I know more than I did 46, 47 years ago. That's up and done just quite a while. And I've been under some great people, with some great people, and I'm just. I just like things that work. I preached for so many years. Things are just. I don't think they worked. There was. I mean, they was. You can say anything in this Bible, but if. If you don't believe it yourself and if you don't see it in your own life. So, because I do see, and I say this very cautiously, as humble as I can, I see so many miracles. We could talk all day. And by the time we left here this morning, you. You would say, that guy's either he. It either happened or he's crazy. Send him to the psychiatrist. I've seen that kind of stuff in front of my eyes in our services and. And there's no reason why that can't be more widespread. Don't forget, God's working with you. That's the holdup. It's nothing. It's not the devil. Quit giving the devil so much power. He can only do what you let him do. You're supposed to have the authority. I told people years ago, I said, I'd rather cast devils out than counsel people. Why devils? Listen, You say, under my feet, there they go. You say, get out here. Go to a dry place. They go. You tell people, go study. I'll pray about it. Come on, somebody. Well, you know, and they go through that whole thing and devils listen. So don't. Before you start giving the devil all the credit for you or your family or the devil got your husband or whatever. Well, how much are you praying, really? What extent do you intercede? You know, when I was backslidden as a teenager, you know, I was with. I was healed at 9. Went with Catherine till I was about 13. My parents divorced when I was 13, and I went through a horrible 14 through 19. And during that time, I was really experimenting quite a bit. I worked at the beach in the summer. I was surfing a lot during then. I was just doing things I shouldn't do. And, you know, it just. It takes. When you do that, you really. Coming out of the darkness, you fight to come out of that, because the darkness is Meant to give you pleasure, not knowing there's a price to pay, you know, that's why the Bible says there's pleasure in sin, but only for a season. And so it's really, really important that you make the most of this new moment. That you have to get renewed and refreshed and reconnected because anything can still happen. You don't have to be on plan B or plan C because it's late in life. You can still go back to plan A. He's a restorer. He redeems time. I can't turn back your age, but he can turn back all that life he had for you in a shorter amount of time. It's amazing what God can do, but he needs a hundred percent cooperation from you. He needs you and I to be sold out as much as he was walking down the Via de la Rosa where there was no one to help him carry the cross. And here comes one. Come on, say all it takes is one. I don't need everybody to like me, just a few that like me a whole lot. It's true. That's so, so true. What do I want to do here this morning? So please, if you don't have any questions, make one. Tell me something a neighbor asks you and you don't know the answer. Pretend somebody else if you don't want to seem like you're yet you're the wisest person in the room. If you ask a question, it's the path that's grieves the most. The wisdom is asking questions. Because we already know that you don't know everything. And we already know that I don't know everything. So why would we ask? Because it stirs up this interest, this desire to really know what we don't know. Especially if it can help you practically. That's why I talked last night. I'm going to talk a little bit about it. We're going to expound that a little bit more this morning. I'm just. I'm an advocate of taking action. I'm an advocate of you got to do something. I'm an advocate that there's a balance between the natural and the supernatural. Meaning that you got to take care of yourself as much as you can. You should all know your blood type. I'm type O. That means I don't have any protein in my natural blood. I have no protein. That means I have to eat fish and chicken and beef and that's there. The rest of my life I got to be sentenced to protein. Or else what I'm going to really be subject to disease and viruses. You're going to know your blood, your blood pipe will tell you a whole lot about your system. Yeah, but that's natural. Well, so is the Bible full of natural stuff. There was a balm in Gilead. He sat by the well to drink. So? So this Bible doesn't give you and I the license to eat as much as we want, whatever we want, or to sleep as little or as much as we want. It's a book about discipline. That's what the word disciple meant. Discipline. Come on, say discipline. Do you know I made the craziest mistake. This was maybe just been maybe 10 years now. But I used to think all through my young preaching life that every time Jesus was talking to the disciples, he was talking to me. I just took that for granted. Here's what he said to Paul. Here's what he said to Peter. Here's what he said to John. That's me. That's me. And one day the Holy Spirit said to me, what makes you think that's you? I said, well, that's written in red. I say, written in red John, and I'm a born again. He's. You're born again, but you're not a disciple yet. You don't let me. You don't let me discipline you. I said, what do you meant by that? He said, well, it says, the Bible says if you continue in my word, then you're my disciples. You read when you feel like it. You have no habit to read. Oh, if you get sick, you find a healing scripture, but you don't. This is not the book that you read the most. So don't think you're a disciple yet. I was so upset about that. I thought I. But I thought I was. No, you're a follower, you're a believer, you're a Christian, but you're not a disciple yet because you still live by your own opinions. You still live by these famous words. Here's what I think. Wow. So good. I'm let that sink in a little bit. So he said if you want to qualify for everything. I said to the. That's why you don't see the results. If you want to qualify for the same benefits that the disciples had, then you need to really become a dis. Let me discipline you because right now you're just on your own except for when you need help. Your 91 1. And the problem is the preachers you're listening to, they're 911 preachers. They don't want to call you to discipline, because they don't. They think you may not be a member of their church. They need your tithe, so they. They soften the path. Then you die before your time. Your prodigals never come home. Your seed never brings you a harvest. This book is about commitment. It's about commitment. Once the plane takes off and Billy Burke's on it, I'm committed. So therefore, when I realized, I thought, I'm going to pray for that pilot, my God, I have to pray for the pilot and the co pilot and the landing gear and the tail and the rudder. Because you're committed. Once you put the scuba gear on, you go underwater, and you're committed. Once you jump out of a plane with a parachute, come on, somebody. And there's a little cord here that says you're gonna be okay. Once you're floating out there with that beautiful. Oh, look at that. You're committed. That cord better work that oxygen back there on your better work. Once you're under the knife in the hands of a surgeon, you don't know if they're Seventh Day Adventists, if they're of the Muslim faith, the Christian faith. You don't know if they're a racist, you don't know if they're perverted, but you're committed. Be opened up on a table, you're committed. Once you go to Starbucks and order that drink, come on, somebody. And it comes back and you look at that calorie full. I mean, that one glass will kill you right there. That one glass you said. But I like Starbucks. Well, their coffee's good, but what's that other stuff? I don't know. I was here this morning getting a coffee. I walked over to get a coffee and I sat on the stool and was watching them work. Honest to God, I never seen so many ingredients go into one cup. And so I was googling the chair, the what they call it the executive whoever of Starbucks. I think he said there's over 80,000 possible drinks that they have to be trained on to be able to serve you. 80,000. Give me a medium coffee with cream. Come on, somebody help me here. Right? Yet today it's how much we sign up for complicated and we commit to it. How do you know it doesn't work? Because it doesn't give you any confidence. That program you're watching that Oprah show, no confidence. You know, I mean, the Beatles, you like their music, I like their music. But when you look at the fruit of how things turned out, wow, why would I want that you got to be fruit oriented, you know, you got to be like, wow, that's. I want, I want the end result. I want my seed to count. I want my time to count, right? I mean, I have bodybuilders that come with, with cancer, with all kind of cancer. Their whole life is committed to a gym. And they find out there's another part that they have that they starved, which was their spirit. I spent all this time doing this, doing that, and doing the other. I have celebrities that come same thing, they meet private, they come in a limo, you go meet them, you know, and I just, I can't disclose who they are. But it's just, it's not fun to watch it. It's heartbreaking because they don't understand that the same rules apply to everybody. Come on, say the same laws of faith. This book will serve you if you serve. Has to be your final authority. He says, she says, they say, my mom says, my mother in law says that's all great. They all got opinions. They have a right to say, but this is your bottom line.
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It has to be. And you will have time, time and time again to prove that's true. Or else your mind will never be settled and they'll never be peace with your situation. And it needs to be the number one ingredient out here for this crazy time of uncertainty. Your God of provision, your God of health, you're God of what? Household salvation, your God of longevity. All of those issues really are settled if you settle them. Come on, say this book says Psalm 119. His word is settled in the heavens doesn't mean it's settled in you, man. This word settled in the heavens. Hey, man doesn't mean settling. You. You're still not sure yet because you still let circumstance affect you. You still have an opinion that you haven't surrendered yet because you know, some people that died or didn't make it or didn't, this didn't work for them. So you're basing everything on people. I don't know anybody's heart in here. I don't know who I'm talking to this morning that's 100% committed to your recovery or your wholeness. So I have to really walk a tightrope here. With grace and with truth, that perfect balance of grace and truth. And then I give it to you, and then it's how you make it work. It's how you. It's your time, what you put into your time. I mean, you put your time in, right? Like I said last Night, sleep time, leisure time, food time. If you can really let God cut into those time zones, you'll see a significant change in your recovery. Any recovery of anything. That's why Mark 10:27 says it with God. Some things. What's that mean to you? All things. I gotta remind myself this too is possible. You have to remind that to yourself. That's where you. That's where I hang my hat. That's the philosophy of this ministry. That's the number one thing I say before I go to any church. I just want you to know I'm not going to offend anybody, but I'm going to do my best to challenge your people to go beyond where they are. If I can't get you to push a boundary, then you're going to stay where you are. Just get better facial cream, get nipped and tucked and lose a little weight. But you're going to stay right where you are, health wise. And you're going to live in the the way of your family heritage, good, bad or ugly. But how you beat that is through belief in the promises. That's why this book, it's a history book, you know, It's a book about characters, it's a book about customs. But more than anything, it's a book of promises. 7700 of them, 1500 of them are about healing. How many do you know? I got to look all over the place. So somebody's going to think you were looking right at me. You were looking right at me. How many do you know? That's one. You have 1499 to go. You can probably name a handful. But really, you're not really interested. Do you know how to use that fire extinguisher in your house? If you had to go use it to stop a fire, could you pull it off the mantle and use it? How about that gun? Three people were saying yes. The rest of you I'm worried about. Come on, somebody. There's so many things we have in our fingertips, we have no idea how to use them. But a phone, they say a phone is your number one security of just feeling safe that you can call for help. It's the number one reason a phone is purchased. A cell phone. It's for security. Incredible. For security. Who would think that in this caveman culture? It's crazy, but until you make up your mind to not live by the way you got here, because times are different. John Lennon didn't get time to sing Help, I Need Somebody. It was a great Beatles song. But when that guy put Us the gun right in his head. He didn't have any time to say help. I need somebody, not just anybody. So a lot of these songs take you somewhere and I've listened to those songs. I. I was addicted to a lot of that music and I can still listen to them. But I have to know. This is a big one. I'm saying write this down. You have to know your own balance. You have to know what movie you can watch without it affecting your faith. I don't know that for you. And I'm not the Holy Spirit. So many things in here work or don't work. Not because you read it to be true, because the Holy Spirit, that's why it says in First John 2, you have the anointing that you don't need any man to teach you. It doesn't mean you don't need pastors and teachers. What it means is how to apply that in your life. Like if you can't watch that movie there, then you're going to be afraid. Then cut it. If that's going to disturb you and remind you about your ex wife or something you did with an ex girlfriend, cut it. All things are expedient, but all things are not necessary. That's what the Bible says. Let nothing control you. Except this book. Well, that's living by the law. Well, if you want to call it that, then just call it written. That's the law of laws of God. You don't want to get into issues where you're just giving room for anything to take place. But you have to know the balance. What can you watch? You know, what can you eat? When I was, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I used to love after coming out of a meeting like last night, I mean, chocolate chip cookies, a piece of pizza and a cup of coffee and go to bed. Come on, somebody. Now that would kill me for sure. I would never be here. You'd never see me again. So I've learned to think what's more valuable. Waking up and being ready for the next crusade or chocolate chip cookies, a piece of pizza and a cup of coffee. Oh, that's pulled me that just. That was. But when I saw the miracles and the presence, then it's got to go. Something has to change. Some people never get that message. They're as stubborn as a day is long. Which is witchcraft. Stubbornness is witchcraft. Well, I can do it. My dad did and he did it. And my dad used to swim in whiskey river. He's drank. He drank Seagram 7 and he. You Know, where's your dad at now? Well, he's in heaven. Okay, we hope so. All of a sudden, everybody that dies is in heaven. When's the last time I said, yeah, we's in hell? He's right. In hell. He's burning in hell. Nobody says that. Nobody says that. Hey, how's your mother? She's in hell. Everybody says she's in a better place. Come on, say better place. Oh, I know she made it. No, you need her to make it for your peace. But if she didn't make some. Some major call on the way out, that's. Then she didn't make it. The Bible says there'll be more in hell than in heaven. Broad is the way and many be there. Narrow is the way and few be there. You got to make sure you're going to the right place. That's. That's as. The older that we get and the closer that that comes, you got to. Really. Of course, in this day and age, you don't know. You don't know what. When your time to meet your maker takes place. Okay. The fight for life is the number one drive in your life. Number two is food. Number three is sex or reproduction. Number four would be satisfaction and security. These are the five major needs that drives in your life. Number one would be for oxygen or life. Number two would be for food. Number three would be for reproduction or sexual pleasure. Number four would be recognition. Number five would be security. Those are your top needs. Let me. I'm not even teaching on that. But these are her notes right here. Now, look at this. Give me that, please. Hurry up, lady. Let me hurry up with that. Look at this. See? So she hardened, wrote those down. Now, the devil's not afraid of this. Oh, my God. She wrote it down. Oh, my God. But if she dares to get thinking on this, hmm. Oxygen, food, reproduction. If the devil gets a hold of this, you're in trouble. Because so many people in the Bible are dead because of food. Most healing preachers today are dead before their time because of food. Brandon Jack Coe. I mean, that could go down the list. Their diets were horrible. Some of the famous healing preachers, because they didn't control their appetite. I'm sorry. With food, you mean? Oh, his health. President Trump. Yeah, he's a McDonald's guy. Leave McDonald's alone. Just don't mess with McDonald's. I don't really go there, but of course I do. There's times if I'm late, like it's way early in the morning. I'm late after a meeting, you can't find nothing healthy, right? So I'll stop and get a fish sandwich. So it's the safest thing I can get. It's not healthy, but at least it's better than some of that other stuff you get here. So she has done a reproduction. Reproduction? Sexual pleasure recognition. What's that? I said I'm going to write the oxygen. Yeah, that's up at the top. What's that say? Iq. What's that say? What'd you put IQ for? I wanted to be smart. You want to be smart. My point is, see, we take so many notes, but we never visit the notes. This makes you feel good that you're not just sitting there. What will you rehearse to change your reality? What you rehearse is your reality. What you rehearse. We're all in the same room, but our realities are different. We all get along because we love Jesus, not because our reality is the same. Meaning what? Your convictions. That has to be dealt with. If you want, I can teach all day long on this. But if you don't change some of your habits, that's hard knowing that people die before their time because, you know, they eat too many pork chops. No, they want to blame the devil. No, the devil's not going to stop your appetite. That's you. There's no devil involved in it unless you really give into that. But we create our own habits. Because out of desire, we don't read this, we don't pray. Boy, I'm feeling condemned. Well, I'm not trying to condemn anybody. Why would I come to all the way to Mount Hope in the middle of winter, God, to condemn you? I have better things to do. But I'm not a pillow prophet. I'm not here to give you a word. This is going to be. This is going to be. This is going to be. Because this book is settled. It's still in the heavens. I was in a meeting years ago. 4,000 people in Oklahoma. 4,000. A lot of people. I was standing up about 4,000 people. And I was getting ready to pray for people. And I saw somebody at the corner of my walk, across the middle of that auditorium. I knew who it was. And he was with another woman. And I thought, oh, maybe that's his mother. No, she's too young for the mother. No. Or could be his mother. Maybe he had a younger mother. And I'm in the middle of trying to preach. This is really disturbing me. And then I saw him put his hand around her and Cozy up on her and give her a big smooch on the neck. And I thought, oh, my God, and he's halfway back. And I thought, I'm sure that was him. I got out of my mind. We had a great meetings there. Three days it was all that. And then all of a sudden I was home. And he walked into my office. I say, how you doing? He said, okay. He said, you saw me. I said, I guess you mean that. Oklahoma. Yeah. You saw. I know you saw me. I said, I did. You saw me with another woman. I said, I did, I did. Maybe a friend, maybe. He said, I think you know better than that. One more time. I said, I think I do, too. Come on, somebody. And then he went into a rage. How dare you, Billy Burke, judge me. How dare you? I said, that wasn't your wife, right? He said, no, no. I said, and you were with another woman, right? He said, yeah. You were basically having an affair. Yeah, but who are you to judge me? I said, you know, and I was taking it. I'll take it. Then he pushed me that far. So I got my Bible like this. Can I use you for a minute, Pastor? I threw my Bible in the air that landed on my desk. I threw it like this. I said, I don't judge you. That book dust, that book dust, if you believe in that book, it'll heal you. It'll let you know where you're wrong. It'll show you where your convictions are way too shallow and where you need to make some adjustments. If you're sincere. How sincere are you? God wants you to quit this before you get lung cancer. He wants to quit this before you get syphilis, gonorrhea or chlamydia or get all three. I've seen all three in one person. But see, we run red lights and we just pray that you know, that red light don't show up. We just run them. Come on, somebody. We coast through stop signs. Come on. We don't stop, we coast. I don't see a coast sign out there. Do you. Do you see a coast sign? Do you see a coast sign? I can't hear you. Has the cold weather got to you? How many see a coast sign out there? It's red, it's yellow, and for some people it's just green. They don't see yellow or red. Come on. When my son was 13, I bought a traffic light. I bought him a traffic light, a big regular traffic light. Red, green and yellow for Christmas. And he unwrapped it. He said. I said, That'll save your life. I want you to get that on the inside of you and put that in his bedroom. And same for my daughter. If you learn those three lives in your spirit, you'll live long and strong and you'll be close to God. If you break those, nobody can help you. You'll be crying out for mercy your whole life. I mean, mercy is good, but we shouldn't need mercy our whole life. That's why mercy miracles were more common in the New Testament than any faith. Miracles, because he hadn't gone to the cross yet. He healed people on credit. How about that? He now, he said, go your way, your faith, but read what their faith was in. They didn't have the Bible, they didn't have Bible studies. They heard of him. They heard of his mercy. Bartimaeus, 10 lepers, cyber Phoenician woman, on and on and on, case after case after. And God had mercy on them. So there is mercy. Thank God for mercy. Thank God for grace. But when does your faith matter? When are you responsible for what you know? When are you responsible for what you know that's going to keep from getting a venereal disease? One girl. Was it a girl or a guy? It was a guy. He sat across from my desk years ago. He said, well, I need to get healed. I said, from what I hear, you're just having too much fun with the girls. He said, well, I'm a man. First I said, yeah, then you're a Christian. Then I said, when does this just stop you if you knew who it was? Just some other girls in the church. I said, I'm not here with some other girls. You're sitting across from my desk, aren't you? I'm talking about you. And here's what he said to me. And this is what guys say. He said, well, David did it. Really? Really? You mean David King David with beshemia? He said, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said two things. Number one, David did it one time. He pulled up a zipper after one time and he paid the rest of his life. Now you're not even pulling up your zipper. You just come to church and you just get forgiven. You get slain, you get a prophetic word, but you just keep going. You don't have any conviction. And you're going to be the first one in the healing service and say, I need healed. I can't control that. Maybe he will, maybe he won't, but I don't know. I gave up on trying to read everybody's mail. Something you get to read and Hallelujah. I don't want to read everybody's mail because you have the Holy Ghost in you. Supposedly. If you're born again, he'll talk to you. And the one thing he's really, really good at is keeping away from harmful food, harmful people, harmful places, harmful movies. One guy said, but we paid 8 bucks a piece to get in this movie. I said, really? Can't you walk out of a movie that compromises your morality? Did you get a cheap Jesus? Kathryn Kuhlman said to me one time, just her and I, she said, billy, some things in life are just cheap. I said, Ms. Coleman, what do you mean by that? She said, do you know what cheap means, Billy? I said, yeah, I think I know. She said, it falls apart. It doesn't last. It's cheap. We serve an expensive God. He didn't have type O, type B blood. He had precious blood. That blood never entered the placenta from Mary and Holy Ghost. The blood of Mary never entered the placenta of the woman. It was separated by a thin wall that made that birth virgin. That made human blood never touched him. Somebody better give God a shout. Come on, come on, come on. Give him a big praise. Now. Thank God for forgiveness. There's always forgiveness. But what we don't ever know is that after you get the alligators out of your house, praise God. Look at the damage. I mean, I live in Florida. We've had gators in our yard, and we've had cottonmouths in our house. We've had a lot of that. So just when you get a cottonmouth out of your house, it's out of your house, but someone's still in your head. Like that thing. How'd that thing get in? Well, we had our doors open, listening to Christmas music. I guess the snakes wanted to come in here, close. Come on, somebody. And we live on a double lagoon. Beautiful double lagoon. And it just. They just decide to come in through it. Open door. You need to memorize Proverbs 26:2. It says, the curse won't come without a cause. The curse comes causeless without a cause. What's a curse? Something you repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly. And you never take that issue to God for healing or forgiveness or even deliverance. And a lot of people are living under that. And they think the church is supposed to be soft on everything and that the preacher doesn't just give them a tap on the wrist and a little bit of love, touch. There's consequences if you don't. All right, at least acknowledge and say, I did it again. He's never going to get tired of you saying you're sorry. People will, but he won't. Come on. See, his door is always open. Grace is the throne, not judgment. It's a throne of grace. Someday. It won't be today. It still is. Every day, all day. I can come there, get mercy and grace in the time of need. Come on. Give God a shout all over the place. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. As a girl came to my meeting, I got to know her good friends with her famous quarterback. You would all know him in the National Football League. You know him, he's big. And he wanted to marry her and took her down to his ranch and introduced the family. And she called me and she says, he proposed to me and wants me to marry him. She said, I don't think I can. And I said, why not? She said, he's just. He's just so powerful. He just knows everybody and he can do anything and there's no boundaries. And she said, I wasn't raised like that, and so I can't tell you what to do, who to marry. I said, it's. But I said, you're pretty smart of trying to ponder the path of your feet. She said, I love him, but we don't have the same. The same standards. And she said, if he's this strong, no. What happens once he has me? She was thinking about all that. But she said, billy, I love him. I said, well, I'm sure you do. I mean, look who he is. I get all that. He's a handsome guy, you know, I heard he was a Christian. I don't know what kind of Christian. I mean, there's all kind of levels and types. Come on, somebody, right? Well, I thought maybe if I marry him, then I can change him. Really? You thought that? It's so important how. You need to find a balance. What's your balance? A balance for you may be an extreme for me, you know, I mean, it may. It may be. It may be, but you just. You need to know. You need to know what is no longer acceptable to you. You need to know what your zero tolerance is.
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You didn't know if you're exposed to that, okay, you see it, you eat it. But there's enough water in the tank. Enough Holy Ghost. It's going to get all absorbed. It's not going to hurt you to listen to a Beatles song or a Beach Boy song or whoever. You're not going to fall apart because you got enough in there. Come on. Say Amen. But you need to know that, because if you don't have enough in there, then you're going to be humming something all day long. You can't get it out of your head. Things change. My mother's favorite singer was Engelbert humperdinck. She loved Engelbert. I mean, I couldn't believe. All I hear is, please release me. Let me go. You know, he. And she just loved his records. You know, she was a believer. She loved the lord. Not as strong as my grandmother was, but my mother was. She really got strong at the end, and I'm glad for that. But My mother was 80, 88, I don't know, 89, somewhere in there. I said to Melanie, I said, why don't we take her to an angle bird concert? I want to be able to say that I'm not afraid of that. And she's strong enough, and she's never seen him in person, and why don't we take her to an angle? So I got tickets, called the right people. They got me tickets. I was in a big theater in Pittsburgh. So we got there, place was packed out. We were sitting right underneath the balcony, and my mother's right here, and my wife is right here. And here comes Engelbert out on the stage. And I'm thinking, boy, I'm a good sleep. And my mother says. She says, billy, we're not close enough. I said, mom, we're right here. She said, I want to be closer. I said, mom, we can. Right here. She said, do a miracle, Billy. Do a miracle. I said, mom, you don't work like that. She said, come on, just pray. Do something. You know how to do this. I was, oh, my word. I said, I'll be right back. I went down to the front, saw security, and I said, hey, you know Billy burka? And he said, okay, we know. What do you want to do? Can I get my mother down here? Closer, Bring her down. So we brought her down, and she Walking her down to the front, right up to the stage, to the stage. I was so like, oh, lord, you're amazing. Yeah, I don't want to be here. I'm not into this, but thank you, lord. Pay attention to what happens here. So my mother has her hands up on the stage. Here comes Engelbert. He walks right over. And there she. His feet. She can touch his feet. And she. He's singing. My mother looks at me, she says, billy, take me back to my seat now. I said, mom, you're here. You're here. Take me back now. I said, mom, Sheila. She said, billy, he's changed. He's different. He's changed. He don't look the same. I said, mom, don't look at my high school picture, please. You'll not know who I am. Everybody changes but him, the unchangeable God. He is the same yesterday. You got to get that in you. You won't know what's in you until you're really put to a test. And we're tested continually not to crush you, but God wants to make sure you're ready. If you're going to live in these end times, then you got to get ready for the kind of crazy world living in. We can't trust the Food and Drug Administration. They can't trust what you read on the labels. They're allowed to put certain things on vitamins that indicate they're all natural, but they're not. You don't know what you're reading anymore. Bill Gates was interviewing Oprah was interviewing Bill Gates. And he said, in five years, you won't know what's reality. We won't be able to morph all reality. He's probably speaking of AI but whatever. So that Bible you have, that seems to be antiquated and outdated and Moses and Elijah and Mother Mary and the little Christmas story is. Is the very fabric, you know, the very. The very quota, the very foundation of our belief system. You got to revisit that, make sure you still believe in it. And how much of it do you speak over your own life? What I'm going to talk about this morning, that was a little introduction. That was all introduction. Just trying to stir you up a little bit here. Look at your neighbor and say, please don't ever change. Please don't ever change. Tell your neighbor, please don't ever change. Please don't. Where'd my Bible go? Here, by the way, I threw the Bible over here. Let's go to John, chapter five real quick. I'm going to bring something out to you here in this particular story that I find very interesting, okay? And here it is starting in verse number five. And a certain man was there at the pool with the troubling of the water. Whoever would step inside the water. Verse number four. Who was when the disease would be healed? A certain man was there which had an infirmity 38 years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there that long. Say Jesus knew how long. And he said to him, he said to him, wilt thou be made whole? And the man said unto him, sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool. But while one coming, I am coming, another steps over me and down before me. And Jesus said unto him, rise, take up thy what and walk. And immediately the man was made whole. And he took up his what and he walked. On the same day was the Sabbath. And the Jews therefore said unto him, he that was cured, it is him, the Sabbath day, not law, for him to be cured. The what? The bed. The bed's mentioned five times in this story. Pay attention to me, please. If I have you undivided, this story is almost more about the bed than about the man's disease. Five times Jesus mentioned pick up your bed. And he picked up his bed. And he picked up the bed five times about the bed. What's the issue here? The issue wasn't his disease. The issue was he was comfortable in it. He got comfortable and he got used to diabetes. He got used to a dislocated hip. He got used to an infirmary. He got used to paralysis. He got used to being blind. There was no more contending, no more resistance. His resistance was worn down. He now was a dead fish floating downstream. That's not the life of the believer. Come on, say against all odds, against all medical understanding, come on, say, against my own intelligence, there is a God in heaven who still saves and heals and delivers. Come on, give God a big shout. Come on. Come on. It is very difficult to help people get healed who have become comfortable in their situation. It's easier to shoot insulin into your body than to work in faith. It's easier for people to drive you around blind than to continue every day. Now you'll do it for a while, but you'll get bored. You'll get tired, and you'll think it ain't going to work. And you'll somehow you'll settle into your particular situation. Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. You know, once dementia, always dementia. And sometimes you can't even find the spot of faith in the church that someone's just preparing you how to be like this the rest of your life. Wheelchairs are good for a season. Canes are good for a season, Walkers for a season. Come on, say everything's okay for a season, but I serve a God of intervention. Come on, you better give him a shout right here. Come on. Listen to me. Why pray? Why say, I believe you've already settled. That's a big problem in the church. That's why people had to leave churches to go to Helium Crusades. That's why Your people like Jack Coe and Branham and Ms. Kuhlman and Oral Roberts and Benny Hinn, on and on and on. That's why these crusades were created, is because people couldn't find in their own church the contending spirit, not to discredit the church. Because in the church, you have a lot of different kind of people to take care of. I mean, you have a lot of needs that are there, that are just so. Not just physical, but there's families and children and. And departments. So God raised up the FIFO for some of the specialized in these areas to help you see that you don't have to just sign in for a. Be a lifer. Everlasting life pertains to the believer. Everlasting life. Everlasting life. Life eternal. Everlasting. Come on, say everlasting. It means life. Zoe. Zoe that never ends. Zoe means salvation and healing and deliverance and reformation and restoration. It means everything you signed up for. Everything forever. There's no insurance policy that has that. Some of them, they. They call it term insurance. Term. Once you hit 50, you're on your own. Come on, say amen. Once you hit 60, you're really on your own. Once you hit 70, we're going to charge you double. Come on, somebody say amen here. Come on. Once you're 80, we cut you. You're too much of a risk. The Bible says everlasting. Everlasting. Memorize the right words, Get the right words in, you reglaze. Right? Everlasting. That means right after you die. No, no, you have eternal life going through you right now. You know, I don't feel like I've eternal life. It's because you're giving mind to that and the thought to that and habit to that. So it's just eating away at you like a termite. You don't understand yet. You have the component right now. Come on, say right now. To be stronger and live longer, to be bigger and brighter than I've ever been in my life. But it's where you give your thought and your time. It's what you rehearse all day long. I will say it over and over again. What you rehearse is your reality. People say, billy Burke, how do you get like you are? I rehearse. I'm not a robot. Every day I have choices to make, you know, and what do I have to do to get a break from. From my life? I. I have certain little pockets of life that I'm able to live and still, you know, still do what I do. But I've noticed as I've gotten older and the demand is greater and the needs are greater, I don't even have that wiggle room for that any longer. I moved to Florida so I could do what I do, plus surf. I don't surf anymore. I rented a board in Hawaii to go out, you know, and just do it one time. And I thought, dear Lord, I'm so out of shape. I'm in state shape, I'm in meeting shape, but I'm not in surfing shape. So I said to myself, I'm going to get in shape. And God says, where are you going to get the time to do that? Oh, Lord, I forgot. I can't. There's no time. I get too many meetings and I got to pray. I like to think of the people that are coming for help. Oh, my. Well, what do you want to do? You want to help them or do you want to serve? Well, surf. No, I didn't say surf. I said. And what you realize is you gotta let go of some things. If you want what you say you want, you want healthy, I can help you. If you want help, I'll help you. I can help you. I have a doctor that I go to and, well, he was in Florida. He's not there any longer, but I went to him and I said. He said, get on the scale. So I got on the scale and I said, oh. He said, billy. I said, that's not right. That is not right. He said, what's wrong? I said that. That can't be right. I said, what kind of scale is this? He said, well, this is the digital modern scale. You have a problem with that? He said, everything here is updated. I said, that can't be right. He said, billy, that's. No, that's right. And. Yeah, you're overweight. Yep, you are. Let me check the charts. Oh, my. Oh, you're ten pounds over. Where'd that come from, Billy? I don't know. I'm not with you. I said, that can't be right over a stupid little thing like that. Stupid. Let that ball. Stupid. Yet I was thinking, can't be. And he was right. I had to come down a few pegs. I guess you're right. If I'm writing scales right and you're doing something wrong, let's talk about it. I don't want to talk about that. Why don't you want to be better? You got to be better for the people. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be better for the service of the master. Yeah. Yeah. Then he Started hitting my heart. Is this what the prophecies predicted for you? You know what happened? And they named all the different people and Ms. Coleman died at 68. Jack. Code 59. I don't know. 60, 40, 39. 40. Random young age. The preachers like to eat, yet they had an anointing that was amazing. But they could never find their balance. The greatest balance you'll ever find in the whole scripture. I want to know what it is. It's in Genesis, chapter one. And the Spirit moved over the face of the deep. And God said, let there be light. His Word, his spirit working together. Come on, say the word. And the spirit is the perfect atmosphere for miracles. It was right in the beginning in the Garden of Eden. And the only way we can get that atmosphere now is if we put that Word of God first. And then we, the Holy Spirit, how we're to go about making that happen. The Holy Spirit wants to talk to you right now, today, about lengthening your life. Lengthening, giving you strong, making you stronger. The road to favor. And the anointing is available for you. But not just by attending a meeting, not by finding a good church. It's by applicating and getting into and finding something you can make that become so real to you. Am I helping anybody here so far? You may not like the work ethic of it, you know. And here again, here's where people defer. Because they say, I'm not into the Gospel of works. Well, read James 2:16. Faith without. What? I can't hear you. We think works that you think that's just making bread, cutting the grass. What do you mean? When you think out of works, you think that is. It means meditating day and night. Come on, say Joshua 1:8. Meditating day and night. How do you do you stay up all night, meditate. No. When you go to bed at night, when you sleep, when you go to rest, everything that's in your conscious empties into your subconscious. Your subconscious. What runs your body? Who keeps your heart beating? Who keeps your lungs respirating? Who keeps your blood circulating? Your subconscious. That means whatever's in your conscious state is emptied into your subconscious. And Joshua knew. God knew this. He spoke this through Joshua. So if a bad, scary movie is the last thing on your mind when you go to sleep. It's emptied into your subconscious. And that's what runs your body while you're sleeping. If you watch a sexually whatever kind of movie, you know, a little bit of whatever you watch that you don't go to hell right Away. You don't go to. You don't get in trouble. You just, you know, wow, that was whatever. And you go to sleep. That's what's running your body. If you had an argument with your boss, with your wife, with your oldest child, and there's no resolve, and you let the sun go down on your wrath, the more sunsets that are on your misbehavior, the more sunsets where something isn't resolved, settles inside of you, You got to deal with that. That will affect your reality. One quick prayer can change it. Master, just wash me. Come on, Put your hands up. Come on, come on. Say, I believe in the blood and the power of the Holy Ghost. I don't know what all I did wrong today. I had some crazy thoughts, some bad thoughts, and I'm sorry. Wash me clean, Holy Spirit. That's all God asked for. He wants to know that there's some level of resistance in you. Does your brakes work? Does your turn signal work? Does your tail lights work? You can be picked up by a state cop if your tail lights out. And you think, no big deal. My tail lights out. It's a big deal. We was in. I forget what. I was going to a church up near Pebble Beach. No, up through. Where was it? Through Las Vegas. There's a strip between Las Vegas and that northern town in California. I forget what it is in a moment. And there's a stretch of highway that's just too tempting not to speed. It's just too tempting not to speed. It's just. At least for me. At least for me. So I had. My wife and kids were in the car at that time, and we hit this. I saw that open highway and I thought, oh, man. Jesus, help me, Lord. I said, fasten your belts. We're just going to test this car. I think we had a charger, so why not charge it, right? Why not just charge it? I hit that highway. Boom. And the whole time I'm saying, oh, Lord. Oh, Lord, be with me. Oh, Lord. The car's shaking. My wife's going, you know. Well, I got picked up. The reason this story is so great is because of what that policeman said to me. I was. Thank God he didn't know me, didn't ask what I did. I was thankful. Oh, Jesus, thank you. Right there. He said, sir, do you understand people's lives? They depend their lives on these road signs. They base their life on the speed limit. And here you come. I clocked you at a hundred. Is there something wrong? Can you not read? Did you read it. I said, sorry. I read it. I said, I'm wrong. I'm sorry, I'm wrong. Yeah, I'm sure you are. But I have a feeling you'd do it again. And he's only a copper. Maybe God was moving through. Maybe he had discernment. Maybe he was moving in the gifts. I don't know. But he knew. He said, this has to change because you're not valuing other people's lives. Because when I hear people tell me I smoke, but it only affects me, really. I don't worry about what I eat. I'm only hurting myself, really. So if you leave a wife and three kids because of overeating, that doesn't matter to you? Most cancer in your. Oh, what's that? One organ. Help me, doctor. No, not the lungs. No, not the liver. No pancreas. Thank you, ma'. Am. Most pancreatic cancer is food related. From my studies, food related. From my doctors, food related. Well, why did the first sin happen? Was that over sex or food? Was it permissible or forbidden? Don't talk so slow. You're so whispering. These. Do you hear me? Forbidden. It hurts to say. Hurts to say it. Do you believe God's trying to sustain you and he wants you to sustain others? But you can't do that if you're going to compromise everything. Amen. Good word.
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This young couple came up. We was in Washington, D.C. big Church in Washington. And this couple came up and they were standing in front of me. I don't know, they were, I don't know, young, 20, 21. They're kind of holding hands. And I didn't ask them too many questions. I just. I heard and I said, hey, guys. 3,000 people in the audience. Pastor left me with the church. And when he left, he said, billy, I just trust you with everything. I said, okay, now you can trust me. And then I'm standing there with these kids and I'm thinking, these kids are just, you know, they're having a field day. They're not married, they're just sowing wild oats, you know, and so forth. I said, so I looked at both of them, I said, now I know what's going on here. They both looked at me and said, you do? I said, yeah, I know what's going on here. I was on a powered mic. I wasn't going to embarrass them. I said, both of you look at me. Look in my eyes. I know what's going on here. Don't. I know what's going on here. And the boy said, yeah, you do, sir. You know, He was shaking in his shoes. He said, and I knew that he knew. And I looked at the young girl and said, you know what? And she just put her head down and started crying. I said, you know what? He loves you, but we can't continue this. Can you hear me? I don't want to be responsible for this. And when you're in my. When you're in my district, does the gang say on our block, as Jesus said, in my shadow, you can't rubber stamp everything because you love people. It's because you love people. The church lacks boldness. We're so afraid of losing a friend or offending somebody. And I said, you know, we need. And I didn't say what it was, but I knew what it was. I didn't need to make a big deal about it. But I'm tired of praying for people after the fact, after they get syphilis or gonorrhea, because it's rampant in the cities. It's rampant. AIDS rampant. And here I have a chance to stop it before it gets there. I said, we know what's going on. Yeah, yeah. I said, let's just ask God to take care of this. Yeah, yeah. I didn't get anything from them other than what I trusted in, the Holy Spirit. That's what you have to put your trust. People aren't going to listen to you, but they will listen to the one person that can convince all of us. Holy Spirit. He does a better job at convicting people than I ever could. Sometimes the more people tell you what you don't want to eat, the more you want to eat it. Come on. Just taste better after you eat it. Come on. I ate it and I'm living. I'm going to go. And Holy Spirit is what convicts us. And I just. Boom. They fell into the power. And the people never heard me say anything. Well, the pastor called me when he got home from wherever he was. I heard you had a great meeting. He said, I heard you had. He said, you know, that's from a very important family in our church. Oh. I said, so those. He said, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're some of our biggest givers. You know what I was thinking, boy, I'll never be in that church again, you know, And I haven't been. I don't care. I thought I did a very good job. I was really sensitive. I thought I walked a tightrope. And I think they got the message. But somehow they went back and said, you know, that ought to die. So I said, I'll stand before my accusers bring anybody. You went in from that meeting. Bring the recording in. I did nothing to harm them publicly. If they can't take that, then that's on you, not on me. We got to tell truth. Somehow funneled through this love. That's what Paul said in Ephesians speaking. The what? The love. It's got to be done somehow. I mean, the doctor did the best to say that I was 10 pounds overweight. I didn't like it. But the more he explained it to me, I thought, okay. He said, we can beat this. Billy, it's only £10. You're still a young guy. Come on, get with the program here. You know, I feel like saying, doctor, you don't understand. That's what we all say about our situation. Come on. See, they don't understand. I'm smoking because look what I have to handle. Look what I carry. I'm on prescription drugs because of this. And I take high blood pressure because of this. And they come to a healing meeting and they want God to rubber stamp their lifestyle. He'll give you mercy. He'll give mercy and he'll help you. But why don't people get more healed and stay healed? Because they want to live by their own rules. Because they don't have that traffic light. They're on one speed. He's in you. Come on. Say the Holy One, the Holy Spirit. He's inside of me. I don't need a preacher. I don't need a group of laws. I have him. Just because you pay $10 for a salad bar don't mean you have to go back 15 times. Hold your hand up. Hold your hand up. That's the size of your stomach right here. Make a fist. That's the size of your stomach. Look at it. Look at that. Say, forgive me today already. Lord. Forgive me already today. According to that, you can't eat nothing the rest of the day, And yet you're still sitting. You're seemingly healthy. Remember, that first fall in Eden was over food. So when you're trying to help people get healed, it's not wrong of you to want to get into what they're eating. I think that's meddling. Really. You shouldn't have any. You should lay naked before him. It says in Hebrews, four, row, naked before him. So it says right in the Greek there. I mean, so it means that we really have to. That's what X rays produce. You say, but I don't smoke. No, but you're in the midst of secondhand smoke or maybe you're on diesel fuel. I pray for deaf people in these rock bands. Some rock stars that you know, have come to our meeting to deaf because of the sound system and the noise in their cruise, in their. Not their crusades, their concerts, You know. I prayed for a bull rider. He was a bull rider in Texas. Young guy, it's on film. Professional bull rider. You know, to get on there, you look real cool. The girls love you. You know, you got the hat on, you're on that rope. And they turn that gate loose. And there you look on that bronco. Brahma bull. There he is. Man, the girls love that. How did I marry that guy right there? I want that cowboy. Give me that cowboy. Well, that cowboy came up deaf because he got hit so big by a Brahma bull when he hit the ground. Named. Brought him deaf. They brought him deaf. And this is on film. This one's on film. I said, what do you need? He said. And he said he can't hear, read. His lips can't hear. So put my fingers in. His ears popped and his ears came right open. I mean, it was amazing. He cried. He grabbed me. Here's this cowboy, the cowboy hat on. He. He's on my. He. I felt the love I felt. And then I said, what are we going to do now? And guess what? He said, I'm going to ride bulls. I can't change that. It's none of my business. That's none of Billy Burke's business what you eat, what you watch. It's none of my business. But when you handle in these meetings the disease, the broken lives, what do we do with that? If nothing matters to you, if there's no. If there's no sense of conviction or contending, then all of the singing and all of the praying and all of the oil can't stop something that you're continuing to do. Something has to be purged. I love the story in John. Is it Matthew? John? I think It's Matthew. Matthew 20. Matthew 21. Where they were selling and cheating in the temple. Here's Jesus. He walks in. Watch what he does. He kicks all of the people that are doing the wrong thing out of the temple. Watch. Kicks them all out. Get out of here. He invites the children in. Right after that, they have a healing service. Miracles and miracles and miracles and miracles. Purging first miracle, second purging. Getting the temple ready for healing. Got to leave. Go. Some stuff that's not a popular subject. Come on. It's not a popular subject to leave go of stuff that's hurting you. And it's not easy to let go of anything, especially if it's. If it has a hold on your taste buds or on your mind. He came to set who free, You know, came to set the captives free. Yeah, you got to really have that in your mind if you're sincere about. Now. Here's what I want to say in honesty, in balance to this. When people get diagnosed with cancer, most of the time terminal, late stage cancer, guess what they're willing to do? Get rid of everything. They'll drink pepper juice. They'll. They'll juice beets and, you know, and they'll mail away. They'll go to Mexico to get some apricot stuff. And it's amazing and it's sad that it takes that to get you or whoever to take action, Because nobody thinks it can ever happen to them. My friend, my good friend was told he came to Florida. He was told not to snorkel that day. There was shark activity off of south beach in Miami. And he was told we were friends growing up, all through baseball. He was a good kid. We were good friends. We didn't get to connect that day that he was there. And that was the last day a mako shark got ahold of him and never brought him back to shore, just his snorkel and his flippers. The shark only wanted him, not his gear. He just thought it could never happen to me. I searched for years. I'd feel. I would say to my. I'd say to Mike, something just hit me. He said, oh, Billy, there's nothing out here but you and I and whatever. And I said, something just hit me again, he'd say. I said, what do you think it is? What could be out here? We didn't even think of sharks. We were so naive. We wanted to be in that Philoncello and Frankie Avalon, you know, surfing in the. Surfing in the 60s and 70s. And we were just oblivious to what could possibly happen. We weren't thinking of longevity. We weren't thinking of being here for our children, our grandchildren, of transmitting righteousness to another generation, handing the mantle to a younger. We. We weren't thinking that way. We were living for the moment. Then one day, what, that moment's gone, you look back and you say, what was that bumping into you? I'm afraid to say what I think it was. I think it was Jaws. That's what I think it was. Jaws. The only thing missing was the music. Come on, somebody when the music showed up, I'd have been out of there. Come on, say amen. So what do we do with this story? The beds mentioned 5, 5 times. How do we get out of this comfort level? Sometimes you don't. You have to wait for people to have a wake up. Call girl in Chicago came to the meeting. She said, I shoot myself five times a day. Billy, I'm so sore. I'm so tired of shooting. Five times. I shoot behind my knees. I shoot in my arm. Can I get rid of this? I said, let's talk about it. People were waiting. I said, let's talk about it. She said, I'll do anything. Really anything. That's all I needed to know. I didn't even ask her to do anything. But she showed me that she's willing to do anything. I touched her. That was the last day she ever took a needle. Last day. Come on, say desperation. Until you get there. Until. Until a lot of people get there, they don't want to do anything. Fight it every way you can. Fight it in the natural, fight it in the supernatural. But just to fight it. All natural and no prayer. All natural and no prayer and praise. All natural and no remembering. All the times God's been faithful to you. These are weapons. All natural. And you figure all the times you laid under the floor, supposedly under the power. All the communion you took, all the miracles you witnessed. But you're all natural. Everything. Your face shifted over to here. What happened to all that stuff over here? You didn't take any notation of that? That didn't impress you? Something about Billy Burke. Here's what you need to know about Billy Burke. I've stayed impressed. I've stayed impressed with God. I'm not perfect, far from it. He still has to corral me and work with me in so many ways. But I've stayed impressed with the next miracle. Amazes me. He said, you keep that. As long as you don't lose that, I'll use you. As long as you don't lose that. As long as you don't go back to a one string guitar. What's a one string guitar? All natural. All natural. Hear born again, spirit filled. Sing miracle songs. And yet you're just as natural as the atheist or as the Hell's Angels. Or as a sleep around movie star. You're no different. You're in the vitamin row. And I believe in vitamins. I take them. I take them. I'm coming here this morning. I had to take three just because of you. Because of you. I had to take three extra vitamins today. I'm just teasing you. But to have no prayer to no hands on yourself, to know if you don't think enough to pray for yourself. Dear Jesus, you know, if you don't have enough time to quote scriptures to yourself. I wrote this one verse, thought I wanted to. This would be a great verse for you to write down. I was writing it down for you this morning. I did put thought into this today. Isaiah 43:26 says, what God says. Remind me. You remind me of what I've promised you. God wants you. Come on. Say me to remind him that by his stripes I'm healed. Why does God want you to remind him? He knows if you remind him, then you have it in your mind to begin with. Mom, remember you said if I cut the grass that you'd take me to the Dairy Queen? That's right. I forgot. I will take you to the Dairy Queen, dad. Remember what you said when I graduated? We'd go to a ball game? Oh, my God. I forgot about that. We're good at remembering, honey. Remember you said when we got married, we're going to go down to the Gulf of Mexico and, oh, do some scuba diving? We elect to bring people into remembrance of what they've promised us. And God said, do that to me. You remind me of what I prophesy. Why do you forget your own prophecies? Why do you bring all these prophetic ministries in and you don't remember the last one? Because you don't value it. Not until you value something David said. I won't give God anything that doesn't cost me. Come on. Say his blood is valuable. His name is priceless. His prophecies are outstanding. His revelations are rich in treasure. Come on. But we don't. We forget them. It's the best thing you can put into your system is a prophecy that you got from somebody here that they had in here. But since you don't remember it, then they got to get a new one in to keep reminding you. It's not God's job to remind you. It's your job to remind yourself. That's what Isaiah 43:26 says, Put me in remembrance. Imagine God saying, billy, remind me of what I said to you on the day that you were healed in Ms. Kuhlman's. Remind me of what I said through her to you. Remind me. The only way I can remind him is if I remember it myself. And the only way I'm going to remember anything is if I value it. What do you value? Today, It's important. Today. Questions. Give me. Take some questions quickly. Yes, ma'. Am. Right back here. My question is praying for an evil man. Pray for who? Pray for an evil man. Can you say God put this prayer into this evil man's spirit? Can I say that again, ma'? Am? You confuse me there. Can I say God when you pray? Yeah. Can we pray? My prayer goes to him, Only to him. Okay. It cannot go into the evil man. Oh, no, no, no. My prayer goes to him. He disperses. He's my source, not people. People are resource. Come on, say one source, many resources. Money's a resource, people are a resource. Information is a resource, but they're not my source. The moment a resource becomes your source, you're done. You're going to get upset with people. They didn't give me any money, you know. They didn't give me a ride to church. He has four cars, I have none. What's the matter with that guy? Because you're looking to resource, good friends become good enemies. Because you got out of what? Knowing who your source is. Come on, say he is the door. Come on, say John, chapter 10, verse 9. I am the door. If you enter through me, I'll connect you to any resource possible. I'll connect it to the nutritionist, I'll connect it to John Gee and Dr. Denise. Connect you. You keep that perspective of he is my source, these others are my resource. It's a big reason why people get side sideways and lose friends. And there's confidence and they talk about the church. It's not the church's job to heal you. It's God's job. Look to him. If that church don't have it, he'll connect you somewhere. You don't even have to leave your church. You don't have to get all sideways with them. But you got to know where your source is. Who do you pray to? Who do you go to? Right. Are you with me this morning? So your prayers don't go to people, they go to him. Unto thee, o Lord. Psalm 25. Read it. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Teach me thy ways. Show me thy path. Let not mine enemies triumph over me. There's people that don't want you to get well. There's people that like you sick. There's people like you to be broke. Some of them are in your own family. What do you do with those people? You prove to them that your God is alive. You quit worrying about what people think and you get busy believing what God thinks. And Pretty soon he wishes above all things that you do what and do what as your what? You know it. Come on, give him a shout. Come on, give him a praise. Come on. You want to beat every enemy you have? Get happy. Just get happy. And even while you're in the trout, get happy. How you doing? Praise God. Your enemy's gonna. That's disgusting. Come on. Because people just don't want to find people that are really putting forth their faith. Sorry, but that's just being human. And it's surprising who it is. Very surprising. Yeah. Questions can hear the question by. Yes, ma'. Am. He had two.
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Okay, okay. The first one is how much of a part do we play in another person's healing? And can I give you a case in point?
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Be quick, man. Better be quick.
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I'll do it quickly. My brother in law, okay. 20 years ago he had a massive stroke. Life support for six or eight weeks. Got out and went through the rehabilitation. Came home with a crutch, but he was blind in one eye.
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Okay.
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On a Sunday night in water will leave with 20 people in the service. The pastor closed and he said, I'm done, but I don't feel like I'm
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supposed to close this good deal, huh?
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So he calls a couple up, praise for them. They go back. He said, I still can't close this service. So he goes up and he says, bring the choir up and let's begin to sing. And they begin to sing. He knows my name now. My brother in law who was totally blind right eye, he's been praying for healing. And he said when the pastor called the couple up for healing, he said to the Lord, lord, if you never heal me, I'm still going to serve you.
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Beautiful.
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When he called them up to begin to say he knows my name, he said the stage begin to widen. And he was totally healed.
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Beautiful.
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My question is. And we taught in the Bible college in Book of Acts. I said, what part of that could have been missed? And that miracle still taking place.
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Right.
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If the pastor had hadn't said, I can't close the service. If he hadn't called a couple up because they were the ones.
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Ma', am, you're dissecting the miracle. Yeah, yeah. No, every part of any miracle is invaluable. Every part's valuable. I mean, my. My part or the part. Whoever's leading here, not me. There's many greater than me, believe me. But whoever's leading here yet what their part is very valuable because what can come out. Listen. What can come out of anybody's mixture. Living for God, living in the world, reading the Bible, reading every other book. And a pastor can give you a mixture. It's the worst thing that anybody can give you as a Christian leader is a mixture. That's why the refining. Come on, say the refining. Come on, say less of me and more of him. All of me. All of him. All of him, none of me. It should be a refining process at least. As you age, as you get old, you should begin to realize, well, this is the more of me that's in this, the less power I decrease so he can increase. And it's hard to get out of the way. Kathryn taught us to. How she say that? She said, young Billy, learn how to attract so you can deflect it. You have to get their attention first, but then make sure you give them all the glory. And she did. And she did the best at attracting it and deflecting it. Who teaches you matters. Who teaches you and what they teach you matters. Because you're going to go home and that's your play dough to work with. That's who you become. Composite of the people I've sat under, and you're a composite of the people you've sat under. That's why I love these people here. This doctor and his wife. Two doctors have this school. They're doing this to get the better part of you ahead of the game. Elijah outran the finest Arabian horses for 20 miles. He got ahead of the storm. I couldn't outrun one horse for five miles. For one mile. Come on, say amen. 20 miles. He outran the finest Arabian stallions. What's God saying there? Get ahead of the storm. Get the knowledge in you now. Read your Bible today. Call on him today. Pick out five or six ministries that are really feeding you and begin to feed at their feet. Do what they do, say what they say. Yeah, but I don't want anybody controlling me. No, you don't want to saddle on you by even the Holy Ghost. You don't want the Holy Ghost to put a saddle on you. That's why Jesus said, bring me the donkey, bring me the one and bring me the colt. He didn't sit on the old meal. He sat on the colt because it hadn't been broken in yet. Jesus, I got to get down to Main Street. I'm thinking this thing may be set in its ways. I'm going to sit on this baby donkey and I will break him in the right way. Come on, give God a big shout here today. Come on, come on, come on, you gotta do it. You just gotta do it. You know, it's so easy to say, I gotta start lifting weights. It's such an easy thing to say. I gotta start working out. Then you go home and there's those weights, and you look at them and you're as tired as the day is long. And you know what you say to yourself? Not today. So you talk to the weights. I'll be with you tomorrow. I'll be with you tomorrow. Not knowing what tomorrow holds, producing this schedule. It's a week later. Here I am. Here we go. Phone rings. You know, I'll be back. I gotta answer that phone call. And those weights stay there. You know, hey, I can live on tuna fish, chicken salad. I can live on that for a couple weeks and no problem. Try it. See if your flesh answers you. See if your flesh is. Put a little whipped cream or sour cream on that. It'll go down easier. I'm going to read my Bible. Starting tonight. The flesh will say, yeah, lay on your bed and read it. Come on, I'm talking to a couple people. Come on. I'm talking to a couple people. Your flesh is there. At every best, you'll fight. You have more trouble with your flesh than you ever will the devil. Everybody in this room, including this man right here, you have more trouble with your flesh and those appetites than you ever will the devil. The devil is a defeated devil. Your flesh isn't defeated yet. It's what you do with your flesh every day. To say, that's not the Holy Spirit. That's not what the word says. That's not what the prophecy says. Oh, my. Oh, my. You get into this deep, you can become deep. If you want to become deep. Deep. You'll scare yourself and everybody around you. I was on a plane years ago, and I was sitting by the window. Did I tell you this story? I don't know if I did. I was sitting by the window and we went through some bad turbulence. I knew the lady next to me was afraid. I could tell. And I was shaking myself a little bit. I looked out the window and I said, jezebel's on the wing. Jezebel's on the wing. And she said, what'd you say? I said, jezebel's on the wing. She says, oh, my God. Who's on the wing? I said, jezebel, my God. She said, should we tell anybody? Where do you sit? Who's Jezebel? I mean the Bible. Jezebel, the spirit of. I said, the spirit of Jezebel you see a spirit. She's on the wing. She's shaking the plane. And I meant it. I wasn't lying to her. I perceived that's what was attacking the plane, and she didn't want me to get to the next destination. You have to put a value on yourself. Come, put your hands up. Put your hand up. Say, I'm the apple of his eye. I'm the treasure of his field. What I can do, nobody else can do. A person of destiny. He's called me by name. I am here until my mission is finished, until my testimony is finished. I can't go nowhere. Come on. Give God a shout. Come on. Come on. This lady was a nervous wreck, and she's like, where do you. I don't see anything. I said, ma', am, it's in the spirit. In the spirit. She said, you can see in the spirit. Oh, my God. So she called the stewardess over. She said, what's the matter, ma'? Am? She said, he said, jezebel's on the wing. Now you want to talk about having to get out of something like that? And she said, sir. Sir, really, sir. She said, are you okay, sir? To me. Are you okay? I said, I'm okay, ma'. Am. I said, I was just talking to her about what I see in the spirit. She said, okay, whatever, Ma', am. There's nobody on the wing. There's nobody on that wing. Imagine living with me. Come on. Just imagine that. But that's who we are. That's who we are. That's who we are. You're not really that developed until people think you're crazy. Agrippa said to the apostle Paul, you're a madman. You've lost your mind. And Paul's thinking. That's the best thing I've heard in years because I used to hate people like you. Now I feel sorry for people like you. You got to think anything is possible. The money is possible. You got to think that. Believe that. Practice that. You got to believe that. You know that, As I said, you're not. Where. Where's that scripture at? The two witnesses could not be killed till their story was finished. The moment their story was finished, they couldn't be protected. You got to become responsible. You can't trust what they're cooking in restaurants. You can't trust that things aren't filled with canola oil. That'll just block your arteries up faster than anything, take you to heaven early. And to get to heaven early, you have to sit in the waiting room because your mansion isn't finished yet. You're just sitting there for 10 years in the waiting room because you could have lived 10 years more if you'd just been controlling the fork and the spoon or the remote control or your iPhone. You can slide over to naked people, take a quick look, and slide back and, oh, Lord, I didn't mean to do that. If you do that every day, then the Lord's gonna say, I think you mean it. I think you have an appetite. You're mixing that food with that food. You have corruptible seed mixed with incorruptible seed on Noah's ark. Something was corrupted on the ark. Where did the giants come from? They opened the door up to a new earth. Eight people. Somebody on that ark had contaminated seed. I just threw that in there for you to do some homework. You can think about that. Talk to Pastor whoever about that. See, those are things that. Because I love what I do. I want to help people just like your doctors do. And I'm constantly thinking, how can I get people to get out of that wheelchair? How can I let them see that they have power to get out of that wheelchair, that this paralysis don't have to have them? It's hard to talk to people that just feel broken and gone and no hope. It's hard. I was in Greenwich, Connecticut, years ago, and I don't make hospital calls anymore. I used to go to five hospitals every week back when I was in my 20s. That was back with Fred Flintstone. Come on, somebody. I was in this church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Apache said, I got a great elder. He's in the hospital. He's dying. Would you go see him for me? I said, pastor, I said, I got to do a meeting. I got to be in New York tomorrow morning. Would you go after the meeting today? Just pop in, just as a friend. I'll do it. So I went down to this hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut. I'm going down the hallway. I'm thinking, I'm tired. I got to do all this. I got to do all that. But this is for my friend. So I get to the room where he is, and I heard all this noise in the room. In the name of Jesus, by the grace of God, come out and release them. Let him go. Isaiah 53. 5, and by his stripes in 1st Peter 2:24. And I thought, man, this guy is taken care of. I don't need to be here. I tucked my head back and I thought, lord, why am I here? He said, listen carefully and look at the man in the bed. They're praying for. He's terrified. He's terrified. They're yelling, screaming verses at him. And I looked and I saw the man he's leaning beat him. And I thought, what do you want me to do? He said, wait till they all leave, Lord. But I got to go. I got to catch. Wait till they all leave. So I stayed on the hallway and they didn't know I was. And they all marched out one by one and I walked in. When I walked over to his bed, he. I scared him. He went, ah. I said, they just left. Don't worry, they just left. Let's just talk. He said, what do you want to talk about? I said, I'm talking about, you know, I hurt so much. I hurt so much and I can't hold my food down. I said, well, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to put a prayer on you right now. I'm going to release a prayer. It's going to release a presence in that body. And guess what it's going to do. He said he was scared. I'm afraid that pain goes away. Forget the food. I don't know if you can hold food. I don't know. We're just not talking about food. We're not even going to mention the C word. No C words. They're just about that pain. The pain's going to go well. Yeah. And then he said, yeah, well, is that it? I said, here's what he said to me. I never forgot it. He said, no, I can believe for that. I broke it up in bite sized pieces. I didn't try to get the cancer out. I didn't try to get this fixed and that fixed. I tried to find out where his faith was. Give him a handle to get out of the pole. The pull of despair. Just give him a handle. That's all some people can handle. You go in there with guns a blazing man. The Bible says in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jesus said, grab a hold of them. We preached the whole gospel to somebody. All they want is some relief, you know, and I'll never forget this. I prayed for him and that pain went away. He said, wow, well, that was easy. I said, now we're going to pray to hold food down. Then he was able to hold food down. You make it palatable. Just because you know what you know don't mean you have to release all the fire power of heaven on people. Show them you care, listen to them. I mean, I can't listen here so much because we got so many people. We're on a time curfew and so things are a little different. But when you're one on one with somebody, oh my. The first worst out of your mouth should be, hey, Jack, I only got a 5 minutes, but I want to stop in and say, yeah, I got about 10 minutes, Jack. Jack's already nervous that you're not going to be able to hear everything he has to say. Act like you care, even if you don't. Faith is acting like you do. That's what faith is, is acting like you do. Put on the new man. You're a put on. I am. I put on the new man. That's faith pushing aside what you're feeling and believing what Jesus said. Questions quickly in this intersection. Questions, anybody in this section right here? Wait, ma'. Am. Okay, go ahead, ma'. Am. Speak more about how you establish a balance between the natural. That's really a good question. I began to see. This is. This is the truth. That's all I can tell you is the truth. I began to see people don't have the faith for the supernatural. It's out there for them. They're reaching for it, but they don't have the faith to believe that. But they can believe for a better diet, exercise, they can believe for medicine, but they're not. They haven't really put an investment into their faith. Part of it, when you run for an aspirin bottle, you're not even going to die with that headache. But you run for an aspirin bottle. There should be a place in our life where we get. Where we shake snakes off. Come on, Steve. We don't take them to church. We don't make them a matter of prayer. Did Paul pray for the snake? Did he take it to the elders? Did he take it to his wife? What did he do with it? We should be shaking off a lot of stuff so that it can't grow. That's how you know your faith is growing. Come on, say, I'm not going to deal with this. It was paid for. Come on, say, my miracle, my healing is bought and paid for. I come here to pick it up. Well, maybe you should take this medicine. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe you should pray about more things. Tell the doctor. Let me pray it through. You want to do things out of conviction, not out of suggestion. Well, that's powerful right there, but that's a newsletter coming to you. Come on, say out of conviction, not out of suggestion. But you got to be a lifer. You got to be full time. In this. Do you anoint yourself with oil? Do you speak the word of God? You know, I did a newsletter on this. I got so much response on this. It's Mark 11:23. Here's what Jesus said. Speak to the mountain. What most people never think of is that they're their own mountain. You're in the way. Speak to yourself. Come on. Say Billy Bear. No, don't say Billy Bear. Because they'd be. Think I'm in the way, but say it. To say your name, say I'm in the way. You think the devil's the mountain? You think tobacco is the mountain? You think that working overtime is the mountain. You think that your schedule is the mountain. You think that woman at work is the mountain. You think anger is the mountain? It's you sometimes, not all the time. It's you. You're unwilling to really say, you know what? I'm in the way of this. Watch this. I got a release. I prayed, I worshiped, I took communion. I gave my offering. Now I got a release. Now I got to do what I got to trust. Once you have that surgery, you come out of surgery and you know they've stitched you up and. And you've got to really trust it. God used and guided the hands of that skilled surgeon. You better trust the healing process of the body. You better trust that your faith on it is accelerating your healing. You got to trust enough that you don't complain. The Bible says in Isaiah 53, he was the lamb, dumb before his shears, and he opened not his mouth. Not one time did he say, you're killing the wrong person. Not one time did he say anything contrary to just suffering, taking it. And sometimes the worst thing we can do is just complain about everything. Take it to him. Trust him. Come on. Say, I'm trusting the Lord. I prayed the prayers. I went to a healing meeting. I fell under the power. They carried me to the car. Come on. I. Cause I was out for days. My God. Everybody was worried about me. I woke up and I'm back in Kansas. Come on, somebody. Come on. It's not what you know. It's what you believe. Everybody in this room knows enough. But it's not. It's not what you know. It's what you believe. And what you believe will be tested and tested and tested and tested. And when God proves himself continually, over and over again, then you should come into a place of, wow, this is amazing. And eventually, if you keep record, you'll have too many things that were proven true to you that should cause you never to look back. So for the next thing, you go through the next episode of your life, the next chapter, then you go in fully equipped. Come on. Say with the full force of the kingdom. Come on. Come on. Say the full force of the kingdom. The blood work works. The name works. Prayer works. Prophecy works. Healing meetings work. And oil works. Nutrition works. My God, I got the full force of the kingdom. But what happens if you die? Well, I guess you have to go to heaven. I guess you're having dinner with Elijah tonight. Come on. I don't know if you believe that that place exists, you know, I mean, if you're really truthfully sold out to a. To a heaven that eventually comes down on the new earth. We don't live in heaven. Heaven gets emptied. Nobody lives in heaven. Heaven comes down on the earth. We live on the new earth. The earth is renovated by fire. It's purged. And then that city, the city, the new city I beheld. That city lands right on the Fertile crescent, right on Baghdad. Then I ran right on that fertile crescent. And David is assigned to be our worship leader. King David. Not a bad day. Not a bad day. But you got to get more acquainted with that to get rid of the fear of it. Don't go before your time. Fight to stay here. But should that time come for you or for your relatives, you know, you know, that's. That is the ultimate healing. Contend for your health. But remember, we have heaven to gain, hell to shun, heaven to gain. That's why we're here. Heaven to gain, hell to shun. So if you know that people have gone and they're really there, they don't miss you. Nobody in heaven that's a Christian misses you. They expect you. They know you're coming. Wow. That's kind of chilling. It beats not having any place to go besides here. It beats thinking you just go to. Into the. Into the ground. Once you float in space, some cosmic force, or you come alive again in an animal. Come on. There's some crazy things out there. Jesus said, what? I'm. I raised from the dead, and I'm the only one back from. From the dead? He's the only one. Because Lazarus came back. Many came back. But he said, the only one that came back and never died again. Wow. Come on, give God a big praise. Come on. Come on. Give him praise. You know, with only two sessions here, I'm trying to spray this around so that you. Different pieces of this touch you. And. And I hope it agitates your faith to. To really begin to get as many people that it takes, if all it takes is one. But if it takes multiple people, multiple sessions, don't be ashamed of that. You spend a lifetime doing the wrong thing, and sometimes it may be stronger. It's why they call it a stronghold. It's not called a weak hole. It's called a stronghold. Strong. But in the. In the shutdown of the virus in 2019, what did we find out about the church? Full of fear. Full of fear. Had all that faith teaching and we flunked the test. We're just afraid. I understand fear, but you can't let fear get a hold of you to that point. Practice faith in the middle of your fear. That's when you should practice it. How you live under pressure is what's going to make the difference. Yeah. We just had a guy in Cleveland, Tennessee, this couple. I prayed for this guy for years. Couldn't walk in a motor scooter, and his wife would always assist him. He came in our crusades. I'm talking. I don't know how many years. Beautiful red electric scooter. He'd travel with it in different cities. And just a week or two ago, I was in Cleveland, Tennessee, and there he was way in the back. Randy. I waited there. May. Randy. I got to know him and never seen him out of that scooter in all the years I knew him because he couldn't walk. He was an invalid. And in this meeting, I was just praying for people around the front. And boom. Something. I'll tell you in a minute. Something just hit him. He got out of that scooter, walked right up to the front. I was so shocked. I said, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're not supposed to be walking. You're supposed to be in the scooter. He said, oh, no. Something just hit me that this was my time. That's what he said. His exact words. Every prayer matters. Ask any lumberjack which hitted the axe, brings the tree down. First hit or the last hit? All of them. Every hit weakens the tree. The last one gets all the credit. Come on. Billy Graham got more credit for getting people to heaven. Come on, somebody. And at that altar, Billy Graham was grandmother's prayers, Sunday school teacher's work. Come on. So many people have softened the ground. And Billy Graham was used to harvest their soul. It's a team. It's a kingdom. Come on. Say I'm part of the kingdom. Over here. Questions. Over here. Quickly. Come on. I know you're hungry. Over here. Questions. Nobody over here has a question. Right here, front row. Yeah, on what? Taking Communion. There's nothing greater you can do besides reading your Bible, praising the Lord, forgiving people. Nothing greater. It saved my life when I was 50. Is taking communion at home as much as you can. I was diagnosed with cancer how many years ago? If I tell you that, I'll tell you how old I am. Dear God, don't do that. But I was 50, and my son wouldn't go to the doctor. He needed a checkup. He wouldn't go. Said, billy, I'll go if you. If it'll help you. And I'll get checked up. You can get checked. He said, well, if you go, dad, I'll go. So I thought, I'll go with him. I'm the one that comes back with the cancer diagnosis. Stage 4 Advancing in your system. I thought, what? So I went and got a second opinion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I said to the doctor, I'm playing golf in Palm Springs next week. He said, you ain't playing golf anywhere. He said, we got to get you under treatment. I said, what? And then they told me, and they showed me the X rays. This is moving through your lymphatic system. Your 1 lymph node's over here, here. And you know, sir, it's just, this is fatal. I didn't feel that way. And I thought it so stunned me. So I told my wife, and she says, what are you going to do? I said, give me a moment. I'm kind of in shock. I'm in shock. And so I just spent a day or two thinking about what I wanted to do. And finally I heard him. In my storm, I heard him, and he said, take Communion, but take it my way. What do you mean by that? Study that word, take and drink. Well, the drink word there means to guzzle. How do you guzzle a little cup like that? And take and eat. The word eat means to ravenish in the Greek. You could study this. I never paid attention to it until I was dying. And how do you ravenish a wafer? So I thought, I said to my wife, I said, go buy as many jugs of grape juice as you can find. Let's buy as much Italian bread as you can get. And I was told to take communion for the next seven days. I turned purple. I turned purple. I drank so much juice. Not just the juice, but I drank and I said, your blood moving into my system. After I was done with that, he said, I want you to go to Epcot center in Disney by the Great fountain. And sing to me publicly. Not anybody who knows me. I mean, I sing along with our team, with Bruce and Lisa. I sing, but I don't sing solos, especially in Disney with everybody standing there. But I did what I was supposed to do. And then I went over to Disney, and right there's a big fountain right there. When you get off the thing at Epcot, you probably. If you know where that's at. I stood by the fountain. I said, what do you want me to say? Sing. People all around me doing what they do, enjoying the park. He said, sing so everybody can hear you. This is as true as I can tell it. I said, what song? What do you want me to sing? And he said, sing me a song. So I start singing. Boy, was I afraid. I was ashamed. But I pressed past that shame and I sang. And the more I sang, the more I sang. And people weren't coming to hear me sing. They were coming. What's that noise? Noise Coming out of that guy. Coming out of that guy over there. But I did it. And when I was done, people clapping. I knew they were clapping just because somebody. I did. And I know I finished my assignment. More people in the Gospels. Now pay attention to this. This doesn't go well with the school, but it works every time. More people were healed because they listened to an instruction, not because he touched. He hardly touched anybody. He either spoke to them or he gave them an instruction to obey. Go wash in the pool. Go show yourself to the priest. I mean, on and on and on. Sin no more, lest a worse thing. He gave people instruction. I just obeyed an instruction. Drop on this side of the boat. An instruction. The people that listened to him saw rewards that they were eternally grateful for. I came back. I said to my wife, call the doctor. Because I was ordered by the Holy Ghost to not wait for an appointment. But after I did the communion for a week and sang at the park that I was to call and get my own appointment, she called the doctor, said, tell Billy he's got to start treatment. Tell him we understand who he is, we know what he does, but he's got to start treatment. Just blew right past her little words. So they gave me an appointment. I went in. He said, sitting on the gurney, sitting on the gurney, he said, we got to draw blood. I said, draw the blood you want. I said, I just had communion for a week. You might get grape juice in that blood. That's what I told him. He said, well, you do look a little purple. He said, do you understand how serious this is. He said, people die with this. And you're. You're late stage. This has been in you while working. I said, I don't know. I don't know about all that. I know, but I just did this past week. I just know what I did. He said, you're not nine no more. This isn't the Catherine I know. This is now. I know I'm an adult. I'm telling you what I did, Billy. Okay. They drew the blood. He said, I'll call you. I said, I'm going to rush this. He called in two days. All he said on the phone was, get in here. That's all he said. So I went in, sat on the gurney again. He came out. He took this stethoscope like this over his neck. He said, what the hell did you do? What the hell did you do? I said, I knew. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Say hallelujah. And I just. Sometimes you just want to hear him say it. And that's where I was. I said, what? What's the problem? He said, you don't have. And he swore again, you don't have a blink announce of cancer in you. No, no, I only say that. I don't say that a lot, but this is the school. And you need tools for others and for yourself. And there's one right there that I consider to be one of the most intimate, powerful, high percentage ways for you to get healed if you do it right. I mean, if you really hold that cup up and say, this is your blood, you know, and it's juice, it's his blood, whatever you're using, apple juice, whatever you're using, and you believe it's going to go through you. And then I would say, go through my lungs, go through my spleen, go through my lymph nodes, every place I'm infected. And because you're. You're what? You're. You're. You're. You're identifying with his suffering. Most people don't get it. They don't take time. Our president don't. He don't know how to have apathy or empathy with people. He's so rich, you don't understand poor. When you lose touch with where people are and, and when you take that communion, you were. This is your blood. This was your body that was broken. His body wasn't broken anywhere except the cat and nine tails. By the time they wanted to break his legs, he was already dead. By the time they stuck a spear in him, he was already dead. That was to prove he was dead. The only pain in his body that he experienced. Yeah, any breaking in that body was those cat o'9 tails that ripped his back open like hamburger where the verses by his stripes were healed. So when you identify with that, the more you can identify with that. You may know it in your sleep, but do you believe it? You're going to practice believing what you need to practice believing. I believe that. I still believe that some things are getting outdated with AI and the way people talk today. And you and I are going to become antiquated people as just modern technology goes on. And. And so I have a personal amen on communion. I don't think people do it enough. I think it ought to be done in your home all the time. But you got to say you're sorry all the time. You know, you got to never get tired of it. That doesn't mean you're a bad person because you're still doing stuff. It just means that you're acknowledging I need help. Touch me again. Touch me again. Touch me again. There's no limit. There's no limit. But I have a preacher that says if you do it more than once, well, tell the preacher to go hit the highway. It's not the truth. Jesus said, though, you bother me day and night. That's what he said. Luke 18. He said it. Luke 18. It's right there in red letters. Learn to check it out with the scripture. Come on, say, it's not what I do. It's what I do and what I do and what I keep on doing. Come on. Steady pressure breaks the yoke. That's what breaks. Some yokes are hard to break. It's hard getting over abandonment, rejection, replaced by a younger woman or being replaced by another man. It's hard to get over stuff. You get over it. You get through it, but you don't get over it. God's blood gets you through it and over it. Come on, say through it and over it. Through it and over it. Come on, say, I'm through it and I'm over it. Come on, give him a big, big shout. Come on. A big shout. A couple more. Did that help you there, young man? Yes, ma'. Am. One more. Go ahead, ma'. Am. Juice is, like, really sour to me. What's that, ma'? Am? Juice is really sour to me. Okay. Can I water it down, or is that bad? No mixing stuff, ma'. Am. Don't mess with the mixture. Don't mess with the components. It's got to be Sour, ma'. Am. Are you kidding me? Come on. Oh, God, help me here tonight. I had to do that. I had to take advantage of that. He don't care if you drink motor oil. I'm going to say that. He don't care what it is. It's just. It's what you believe that it stands for, whether it's juice or whether it's soda, whether it's. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. Water. You're right. It's the symbolism of it that matters to you, that you're identifying with him. What he did for you. That's what matters. Yes, ma'. Am. When I'm at Mount Hope, Gilead, or when I'm regular. What? What do you want to know there? Oh, wow. I don't have a regular. I. I'm not regular in too many shapes, fashions and forms, but I'm. I fit in that I'm pray without ceasing. I'm either praying on purpose or there's an attitude, you know, I'm either in English or tongues. I'm either in worship. I'm in worship a lot. Without. Without any. Without listening to anything. I don't want a CD to replace me. I don't want a CD to replace my words. I don't want to buy a Hallmark card, then tell somebody the card says it all. That's so shallow. Well, honey, here's your 35th wedding anniversary, and you get a card from Hallmark, from your wife or your husband, and all she says is love me, and the card says it all. That is so poor to me. You know what means something to me? That handwriting. The day that I met you. The first time your lips touched my lips. And the first time you squeezed me. The first time we ate off of the same fork. Come on. Somebody help me here. Man, that makes Hallmark look like big deal. Who cares what Hallmark says? Come on. Say, I want the personal touch. And that's what God wants from you. So he wants from you. One more question and we're out of here, because I know you got to go here. One more. Who's the last one? Right here, ma'. Am. How did you get through that? Do we need, like, a mantle or an anointing to do that to people as well? The reason it's called a prayer of faith is because a lot of times when there's no anointing present, the anointing is not a guarantee in any place. When that anointing comes. Last night, it was here at the end of the meeting. It was moving. I was just flowing with the anointing. When the anointing's not there, it means then you just go pray the prayer of faith. He doesn't come into every meeting like he did last night. Not more in my time, in my season. Now, I'm grateful because he's showing up in great ways in most every meeting. But there. There's been times in my past where I thought, boy, where are you? That wasn't there. And he wanted me to see. He wanted me to show him. I trust you. With or without that anointing, we're constantly proving ourselves. Because some of the times where you're going to be used by God, you're not going to feel like that. Especially at the Thanksgiving table. The turkey may grow feathers, become it. The turkey may grow feathers and fly right off the table. But that's not going to convince your stepdad or your stepmom. Some ground is very difficult. So you. You can't go by. There's an anointing here. We got to get into the word glory more. Anointing is power. Glory is presence. Come on, say presence and power. They're the dynamic twins. You want to really be releasing in your life glory and power. Come on, say the glory is here. That means the tangible presence you can feel. We talked about that, I think, last night. A little bit tangible presence. If you can feel some of these crooners singing, and you can feel I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas or a good old. What's Nat King singing? Chestnuts roasting on an open fire and with the trees lit. And there's Nat King Cole. You just feel it. A little bit of cinnamon in the atmosphere, and it's just, oh, thank God the kids are coming home. And you feel it. Why would you not feel anything with the anointing? That's cheap compared to the anointing. When that presence comes in, you begin to practice it. There's your answer right there. Practice it. Come on, say practice. Practice it, and it'll show up for you. Put your hands up all over the place. Come on. I know last night, and I don't know what they're going to do this morning. I don't know if there's an offering involved in this or not, but listen to me. These, this, these doctors, these conferences, they go out on the table for this. There's an overhead for this. I'm not talking about me or my offering. I mean, if we talked about that, I had a lot to say, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about, you know, Doing your best while you're here to. So drop a check to support Gilead, to support the cause here. It's an amazing place. This year it's open to all faiths, all denominations. People of other churches. But they come here to get help. Medical help, natural help. The natural harm, the prayer. You know what I shared with you is 47 years of learning. I gave it to you in half an hour. Hour, maybe an hour and a half. I don't know. Put a value on that. Let God see that you value what you're hearing. He sees what else you value. You value your nails getting done and your toes. And I get all that. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. He value value the car you have and how you keep it on the road. And you value all the presents you buy for Christmas. He likes that. But you can't sell him cheap. Put a value in what you're learning. He'll show you more. Come on, say he's worth the investment. Come on, say when my seed is given in these offerings, long before they hit the bank, they hit kingdom soil. The day that I sow it, actions becomes back to me. Come on. A harvest has started that will show up. And someday soon I want nobody, anything. Come on, say I will be the lender and not the borrower in my lifetime. And so will my children. Come on, give God a big, big shout. We'll see you tonight at seven o', clock, right? Amen. Can we just say praise Jesus one more time? Praise Jesus one more time. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. I'm going to get my Bible right here.
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That was amazing.