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summarize everything let me just say
that I’ve departed from my normal
teaching I do on you’ve already got it
and so if you want to get that material
out there I’ve got a book study guide
CDs DVDs it will be a little different
than what I’ve shared here you guys just
kind of draw things out on me I’ve
taught things here that I don’t normally
teaching them so if you got that
teaching it would complement the things
that we’ve been talking about but how
many of you this will be your first
service that you’ve been through during
this series could I see your hand yeah a
bunch of you where were you we had a
full house if everybody have been here
but anyway real quickly I’ve just been
talking about how that there’s most
people have this paradigm a way of
looking at things that they think God
can do anything but he has done nothing
and so we have to beseech God and beg
God and just stay after him until God
moves but the truth is God has already
done everything and I use creation as an
example Adam and Eve when he created
them he had anticipated every need that
they had ever had he had already created
their food he’d already created their
irritably breathe I believe it’s the
same for the whole human race and
especially for us in Christ when you get
born again everything you will ever need
was placed inside of you in the new
birth you literally have the fullness of
the Godhead dwelling in you bodily
Colossians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10 of
his fullness of all we received John
chapter 1 verse 16 and on and on and on
week ago as Jesus is so are we in this
world first John chapter four verse 17
and we could just go on and on and talk
about all of this so it’s already in
here it’s not a matter of getting God to
do something God’s done his part we have
to draw it out and you do this through
the renewing of your mind and learning
how the kingdom works last night I was
talking about that there are laws that
govern how God moves and people are
ignorant of this and so they pray and
then if they don’t see what they’ve been
I earned they get offended like God why
didn’t you heal this person why didn’t
you change this situation your God if
you wanted to you could do this but God
established spiritual laws the same way
that he’s established physical laws and
God doesn’t just violate these things
you have to learn how to operate within
them and in a sense we control the power
of God it’s not our power it’s God’s
power but it’s at our control Psalms 40
imeem isaiah 45:11 concerning the works
of my hands command G me that’s not
saying that we’re saying God I command
you to do this
no but God’s already put this power
within us and we have to take it and
command it you have to command the devil
to leave you alone you have to resist
the devil and get him to flee from you
and yet most people are just going to
God as a beggar ask you know God would
you please do this because I can do
nothing and you’re right there in
unbelief because the truth is you can do
all things through Christ so anyway
these are the things that we’ve talked
about I want to cover a number of things
tonight and I want to try and hurry
through this but let me start over here
in Ephesians chapter 2 and in verse 8
this is a familiar passage of scripture
to a lot of people but it says for by
grace are you saved through faith and
that not of yourselves it is a gift of
God not of works lest any man should
boast and there’s a couple of ways that
you can take that verse and interpret it
and I think both of them are accurate
according to scripture some most people
I think would say that that salvation is
not of yourselves you can’t save
yourself by grace are you saved through
faith and that salvation is not of
yourselves it’s a gift of God not of
works lest any man should boast and
that’s accurate but I believe that you
could also say that that faith that
you’re saved by is not of yourselves it
is a gift of God and the reason I’m
trying to make this point is to say that
you know all of the things I’ve been
teaching faith is the answer this is how
you release all of this is through faith
but then the devil will come in and say
oh you have faith is the
problem is you just don’t have any of it
and so the people are sitting there
basically letting the things that God
has promised us go because we say well I
know faith works but I just don’t have
any of it but Ephesians 2:8 says you
were saved by grace through faith and
that faith was not of yourselves it was
the gift of God you were given faith at
salvation and again you know I’m going
to say some things that I’m not going to
take time to explain so praise God
makkal straighten all this out when I’m
gone but I don’t believe that you get
baby faith and then your faith grows
your faith was given to you full you got
the full measure of faith again I’m
trying not to teach on this because this
is one of I teach on this sometimes for
up to two hours but Romans chapter 12
verse 3 says that we’re supposed to
think soberly according as God hath
dealt to every man and it’s obvious by
the context it’s not every person in the
world but every born-again person the
measure of faith not a measure of faith
but the measure of faith now if you have
the reverse standard version it may say
a measure of faith but the King James
the one that Paul used says you were
given the measure of faith and you know
if we had a soup line or something and
if you were coming by and if I had a big
old ladle that I used for some people
and dipped it out and then other people
I used a tea spoon and other people a
tablespoon and other people and I had
dropper or something those would be
different measures and everybody would
get different amounts but if I had just
one measure that means everybody gets
the same amount you are given the same
amount of faith as everybody else second
Peter chapter one verse one Peter said
Peter an apostle for them who have
obtained not could obtain should obtain
are in the process of the teaming but he
said you have obtained like precious
faith with us and that word like
precious faith is talking about
identical faith you got the identical
faith that Peter had and then Paul said
in Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with
Christ nevertheless I live yet not i but
Christ liveth in me and the life the
life that I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God he did
not say faith in the Son of God but the
faith of the Son of God and verse 16 in
that same chapter makes that same point
that we are saved by the faith of Jesus
so anyway without me going into a lot of
explanation when you got born again you
were given supernatural faith not in
just a small amount your faith is
perfect in your spirit your spirit isn’t
growing it’s your soul that is growing
and it’s understanding and in its
ability to appropriate and use what’s
already in your spirit but as first John
chapter 4 verse 17 says as Jesus is how
do you think Jesus is right now he’s
perfect he’s not growing he’s not a baby
he’s complete as Jesus is so are we in
this world not in the one to come but in
this world how do you understand the
verse like that people go looking a
mirror and they think this is like Jesus
no and then they search their mind this
is like Jesus no but in your spirit the
part of you that was
one again you are identical to Jesus and
you aren’t identical in the sense that
you’re a baby and you’re growing know
you as Jesus is that’s exactly the way
you are in your spirit right now so my
point in saying all of this is to say
that when you got born again you were
given supernatural faith you do not have
a faith problem you got a knowledge
problem you don’t know how to you first
of all we don’t know what we’ve got the
average Christian will sit there and say
oh yeah faith works but I just don’t
have any old God please give me more
faith and right there see you’ve already
defeated yourself because you aren’t
understanding and utilizing what you’ve
got Philemon chapter one verse six Paul
prayed a prayer for Philemon and he says
I pray that the communication of your
faith would become effectual by the
acknowledging of every good thing which
is in you in Christ Jesus he didn’t pray
that you’d get more faith that your God
to do something new he’s praying that
you’d get a revelation of what you’ve
already got your faith against the work
when you understand what you already
have and the body of Christ as a whole
has been ignorant of what they have they
believe it’s out there that they
couldn’t get it that God could do
something but they don’t see that we’ve
already got everything in our spirit and
you’ve even already got all of the faith
that you’ll ever need you got the same
faith that Paul had because there’s only
one measure and he had the faith of the
Son of God Peter said you had like
precious faith with him and his faith
was enough that he could walk by his
shadow touch people and they’d get
healed he saw Dorcas raised from the
dead every person in here if you’re born
again have raising from the dead power
you have enough power that your shadow
could heal people if you would believe
if you would just release and utilize
what you’ve got the problem isn’t faith
we’ve got faith the problem is our lack
of understanding faith is based on
knowledge second Peter chapter one right
I quoted verse one already and then
verse three says a core
as his divine power has given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and
godliness through the knowledge of him
everything that you need it says all
things that includes healing that
includes prosperity that includes joy
peace wisdom leadership anything that
you need all things are given unto us
through the knowledge of him that has
called us to glory and virtue and in
verse 4 says and through this knowledge
are given unto us exceeding great and
precious promises that’s talking about
the Bible
the word is the knowledge of God and so
we’ve got everything but you’ve got to
have the faith to draw it out and even
the faith that it needs is already in
there it just has to be your mind has to
be renewed so that you can draw all of
this out so all of that being said now
look over in Matthew chapter 17 and I
want to show you something here that
this God has really used this big time
in my life
major revelation Matthew chapter 17 is
where Jesus took James Peter James and
John and they went up to a mountain and
he actually radiated light God appeared
an audible voice came and all of these
things so they were up on the Mount of
Transfiguration and when they came down
from the mountain verse 14 Matthew 17 14
says and when they were come to the
multitude there came to him a certain
man kneeling down to him and saying lord
have mercy on my son for his lunatic and
the King James here is you know this is
a little strange but as you can go
through this and also read in mark
chapter 9 and in Luke chapter 9 this was
some type of a sickness that caused
seizures and stuff most people think
it’s something like epilepsy and he says
he is lunatic and sore vex for
oftentimes he falleth into the fire and
oft into the water and I brought him to
thy disciples and they could not cure
him did you know that this is typical
today today if a person with sickness
when
to the average church not this church
but if you go to the average Church and
if you were given a death sentence or if
you had seizures or if you had some kind
of a physical thing and you went to the
average pastor and says you know I’ve
got this problem would you please help
me
the average pastor and say well what do
you want me to do have you been to the
doctor have you tried this medication I
guarantee you most churches would be
offended that people looked to God for
healing we basically let that go praise
God this church believes in heal we’ve
seen people healed this week we’ve seen
good things happen but look at Jesus
response here in verse 17 when his
disciples couldn’t cast this demon out
in verse 17 then jesus answered and said
o faithless and perverse generation how
long shall I be with you how long shall
I suffer you bring him hither to me how
did Jesus respond to his disciples
inability he said you faithless and
perverse generation you didn’t please
him and based on this I don’t believe it
pleases God with the church as a general
rule has not been meeting the needs of
people and brothers and sisters this is
one reason that our society is going the
direction it’s going because people
don’t see the relevance of the church to
their everyday life the church has
basically retreated to the position that
all we’re for is to get people born
again so they don’t they won’t go to
hell and that’s that’s important and I’m
certainly not against that but that is
such a cheapening of the gospel because
the Lord provided for your healing of
your body for your emotional well-being
for your finances everything God deals
with everything better than any social
system that we’ve got but the average
person they go to the church in if they
said oh I’m sick they say we’ll go to
the doctor well I’m struggling with
depression go try this medication go to
the psychiatrist
we need money well have you tried this
program have you applied for food
have you done this the church has
basically advocated all of these areas
how did Jesus respond he said you’re a
firt faithless and perverse generation
he wasn’t pleased with him I don’t
believe he’s pleased with the church’s
inability today and because the
unbelievers can’t see that we have
anything to offer them in this this
physical life they basically don’t see
the importance of church they see Church
is something that you do for eternity
and again it is true that there is a
heaven that gain and a hell to lose and
if that’s all we had to preach it would
be worth it but there is so much more
and people aren’t you know they should
be thinking about eternity but they
aren’t they’re trying to just muddle
through this week this day they’re
trying to figure out how am I going to
keep this marriage together how am I
going to balance everything I’m doing
and all of this and they’re so focused
on their physical present temporal needs
and the churches basically said we don’t
meet those it’s only about spiritual
stuff that we are the ones that have
listened to our influence and man we
need to change that that’s the reason
when you find a church like this that is
preaching the full gospel and telling
people that may God want you well he
wants you prosperous and God has a plan
for you well we need to get in and
support that and be a part of it because
this is this is the way the Lord
intended it to be so he wasn’t pleased
with their inability to minister and let
me let me just turn out keep your finger
here Matthew 17 but let’s turn over to
mark chapter 9 because Mark chapter 9
also records this same instance and it
gives different details Matthew 17 gives
more of the details about this that I’m
wanting to use tonight but in mark
chapter 9 this same story is recorded
and let me just start with verse 19
jesus answered and said old faithless
generation how long shall I be with you
how long shall I suffer you bring him
hither to me and they brought him unto
Him
and when he saw him straightway the
spirit tear him and he fell on the
ground any wallet foaming well there are
a lot of really great things here I
haven’t got time to go into all of this
but you know what when things look like
they’re going bad that’s really good
the devil has been exposed and hits his
last stand and he’s just trying to
instill fear in you or something so
you’ll back down man when I pray for
people and the pain gets worse
I said that’s awesome we flushed the
devil out in the open he’s on his way
out and stuff and so any way that you
see this it looked like it got worse he
fell down and foamed and in verse 21 he
asked his father how long is it ago
since this came unto Him you know why
this was important it’s not that it’s
hard to get a person healed getting a
person healed is not hard but once
you’ve had something for a long time it
not only gets into your body it gets
into your mind and into your emotions
you think sick you plan sick there are
people that have had allergies their
whole life and you just plan on certain
times of the year when the pollen is up
when this happens and stuff you plan on
things happening when the weather
changes some people have had it just
ingrained in them that they’re going to
start having pains and once you get that
into your mind once you start dreaming
sick that’s tough it’s easy to get the
sickness out of your body but if this
sickness is in your mind and in your
emotions it’s a problem so I believe
that that’s why Jesus asked this
question and he said of a child and
oftentimes off times it hath cast him
into the fire and into the waters to
destroy him but if thou canst do
anything have compassion on us and help
us now this man when he first brought
his son to the disciples he was full of
faith that’s the reason he came you got
to remember that when people came to
Jesus they got kicked out of the
synagogue you can read that in John
chapter 9 you suffered for being
associated with Jesus in that Society so
this man had enough faith that he was
willing to suffer some ridicule possibly
being put out of the synagogue he had
faith but after the disciples weren’t
able to meet the need his faith had
begun to waver and he said here to Jesus
if you can do anything have mercy on us
he was beginning to falter in his faith
and I talked about this the other night
when I was talking about Elijah and how
Elijah would not accept the total
responsibility for meeting the needs of
this widow in 2nd Kings chapter 4 he
said what do you have and we talked
about that on Monday night well Jesus
here is doing the exact same thing he
turned around you know most people would
think well you know Jesus he’ll just do
everything for you he turned right
around to this man he said if you can
believe all things are possible to him
that believes Jesus did not take total
responsibility for this healing he put
it back on this man you have to believe
there’s a great message in that in verse
24 it says straightway the father of the
child cried out and said with tears lord
I believe help thou my unbelief did you
know he would be criticized by a lot of
people and this is the main thing that
I’m wanting to get to let’s turn back to
Matthew 17 that most people think that
you either believe or doubt but that you
can’t do both this man said I believe
that I’m struggling with unbelief Jesus
didn’t rebuke him Jesus didn’t say
that’s not right you either believe or
don’t believe if there’s any doubt in
you then you don’t have any faith that’s
not true you can turn to another example
in the fifth chapter of Mark we were
there last night talking about the woman
with the issue of the blood and right
after this woman was healed of the issue
of blood Jay Iris’s servant came to him
said don’t trouble the master anymore
the little girl is dead and when Jesus
heard it he turned in he says fear not
only believe why would he tell a person
to only believe if you either believe or
doubt it’s because you can believe and
doubt at the same time this is a new
wrinkle in most people’s brains they’ve
never thought of this but keep all of
this in mind and now let’s go back to
Matthew 17 and look at this in
verse 18 it says Jesus rebuked the devil
and he departed out of him and the child
was cured from that very hour and in
verse 19 then came the disciples to
Jesus apart and said why could not we
cast him out
did you know anytime you go to preaching
that God’s already done it that God’s
already blessed us by His stripes we
were healed that it’s the done deal and
you start preaching victory in every
area of your life
I can guarantee you somebody is going to
fail in appropriating this and when they
do the question will always come up why
isn’t everybody healed why doesn’t this
happen and it just stops most people
they can’t deal with that and rather
than deal with the fact that you know
there’s reasons and stuff they just
begin to back off
I was with Oral Roberts just a couple of
months before he died I was with a group
of about 20 preachers or so that we’re
in his home and we got to ask him
questions and one of the questions was
something about this about you know why
isn’t every single person healed every
time and boy Oral Roberts just gave some
awesome awesome answers on that but he
said that that was the biggest question
the biggest problem that he ever had
that it was so bad because he would see
people come and leave the same as they
came in that he started to just quit
praying for people but then the Lord
spoke to me at oral he says if you quit
praying for him says you may not see
everybody healed but then the people you
are seeing heal won’t be healed if you
quit praying says you just got to go on
and I specifically asked oral if he’d
lay hands on Jamie and me and pray that
we would see more healings manifest and
he says I can’t do it and I said why not
he said because you’re a pastor he says
it won’t work for you and I said I’m not
a pastor I have a television radio
ministry and stuff and I don’t pass he
says oh then I can pray for you and he
laid hands on me and prayed and you know
I really believe that we’ve we’ve seen
an increase of miracles and some of you
think of why wouldn’t that work for a
pastor you know what the reason is
because if you go to preach and his gods
will deal everybody somebody’s not going
to manifest it and you’re going to have
to deal with why wasn’t this person
healed and rather than just stand on
what the word says and even if it cuts
somebody and makes it look like it
wasn’t God’s fault it’s going to be most
ministers and again I’m not saying this
about Mac and linear an exception to the
rule but most ministers will back off
and say well maybe God doesn’t heal
every time maybe it’s God trying to
teach you something you will compromise
the word because you have to deal with
why isn’t everybody an evangelist like
me or a traveling teacher you go in and
preach the word and pray for people and
leave and you don’t have to deal with
the consequences and that’s why Torah
was talking about I don’t know if you
appreciate that but that’s a big deal
it’s a big deal when you have to sit
there and you’ve already prayed for
somebody and you prayed for multiple
times and you don’t see something come
to pass most people will be more moved
by their circumstances than they are by
the word most people will go by what
they see over what the Word of God says
most people do not let the Bible get in
the way of what they believe they
believe this and I don’t care what the
Bible says this is what I believe and
that’s just the way that most people are
and because of that there’s a problem
these disciples says why couldn’t we
cast him out and what was the answer to
that look at this in the next verse
Jesus sent unto them because of your
unbelief now if you’re reading the
nearly inspired version
it says it’s because of your little
faith but that is not right
matter of fact the nearly are not
inspired version leaves out the 21st
verse it’s not even in the Bible they
just took it out they didn’t like that
one I’m not against it if that’s what
you read read it but I’m saying that
this the very context of this makes it
clear that it’s not little faith and
that you needed more faith because look
at the context of it he says it’s
because of your unbelief for verily I
say unto you if you have faith as a
grain of mustard seed ye shall say unto
this mountain be thou removed and be
thou ow’st I was quoting mark 11 but
anyway remove hence to yonder place and
it shall remove and nothing shall be
impossible unto you so the very context
of it he says if your faith is just like
a grain of mustard seed I don’t know if
you’ve ever seen a grain of mustard seed
but it’s tiny it’s like those sesame
seeds that are on buns it’s about half
the size of one of those the point that
he’s making is he says you don’t need a
huge faith if your faith is only this
big
you could cast a mountain into the sea
so the context of it is saying that you
don’t need a lot of faith and so the NIV
the way it translates it because of your
little faith would be contrary to the
rest of this verse what Jesus was saying
is it’s not your faith that was the
problem
it’s your unbelief that’s the problem
and again most people think well what’s
the deal if I’ve got unbelief I have no
faith again Jesus told the father of
this child Mark chapter 9 he says if you
can’t believe he says I believe it
helped my unbelief Jesus didn’t rebuke
him you went ahead and ministered to him
he told Jay iris he says believe only
you can believe and disbelieve at the
same time you know I’ve used this
example before that if I had a big wade
here I could hook a horse up to that
weight and exert enough power to drag
that way but if I had
force of an equal size and strength up
pulling in the opposite direction you
could put a lot of pressure on that
weight and it wouldn’t move because they
negate each other they cancel each other
out and this is what happens with our
faith
you’ve got the faith of the Lord Jesus
Christ on the inside now most people
don’t even know that they aren’t using
it but there are some people who have
started using their faith and they know
they’ve got faith I’m struggling to keep
from preaching everything I know on this
man I got some great let me just give
one example that right after I saw my
first person raised from the dead man I
was fired up I was pumped like wow you
can see a person raised from the dead we
ought to be able to see anything happen
and I was preaching in Omaha Nebraska
and there was a man right down here on
my left that was in a wheelchair and I
could hardly wait for me to get through
preaching so I could go pray for this
guy I was going to see him come out of a
wheelchair so I went over and I prayed
over him and then I grabbed him by the
hand and I just yanked him out of that
wheelchair said walk in the name of
Jesus and this guy just came up like
this and went right over on his face and
he was a quadriplegic he couldn’t even
catch himself and he landed on his face
and just like you all are going oh
there’s all through the crowd there was
moans and groans
I was moaning and groaning and I got
down on my hands and knees and hugged
this guy and grabbed him and put him
back in his wheelchair and said depart
in peace be warmed and filled and didn’t
give him what he needed and I went to
the hotel room saying God what’s wrong
when I see some people say well you just
didn’t believe give me a break
how many of you grabbed somebody out of
a wheelchair and yanked them out and
seeing them fall on their face I was
believing I expected to see this man
healed and see this is confusing because
some people will say well you that Pat
answer is if you don’t see something
happen it’s just because you didn’t
believe I think that’s too simplistic
and people who have believed and have
seen miracles happen they say I know I
was believing they can compare with
other times when they did see the right
results and because of it it causes
confusion and if the only answer you
have as to why something doesn’t work is
just because you didn’t believe well
then you’re going to turn off a lot of
people who knew that they were believing
I knew I was believing when I pulled his
guy out of the wheelchair and yet I
didn’t see the right results and it was
probably four years later before I read
a Smith Wigglesworth book and Smith
Wigglesworth he used to see a lot of
miracles happen and he would at his
meetings he says the very first person
who comes up here on the stage you’ll be
healed of whatever you have and that was
his custom and so people knew it was
coming in anyway because he did that
these two ladies brought a friend who
was an elderly lady she had a cancer
that made it look like she was nine
months pregnant she had this huge
abdominal tumor and stuff and they
grabbed her and put her on the state she
was the first one up there and she was
so weak she couldn’t stand on her own
and so Smith he just looked at her and
he said let her go
and they said we can’t let her go she
can’t stand on her own and he held her I
said let her go
so they let her go and this woman fell
over on that tumor and everybody in the
crowd moaned and groaned just like they
did when
pulled this guy out of the wheelchair
but you know what the difference was
Smith he didn’t get down and oh I’m
sorry I apologized and start empathizing
and sympathizing he just said pick her
up so they picked her up and she was
standing in front of him again he said
let her go and they said we can’t let
her go in he yell let her go and they
let her go and she fell on the tumour
again so he said pick her up and so the
third time he said let her go
and they said we will not let her go and
he said I said let her go and they
wouldn’t do it and finally a man in the
crowd stood up and he said you Beast
leave that poor woman alone and he
yelled at the guy he says you mind your
business
I know my business and he said you let
her go and they let her go in that tumor
fell out on the stage and she walked out
here and did you know when I read that I
thought Smith Wigglesworth didn’t have
one ounce more faith than I had you know
what the difference was he had less
unbelief when something didn’t go right
I was thinking about water people
thinking about me I’ve embarrassed this
person I’ve hurt this person jesus said
in John chapter 5 verse 44 how can you
believe which receive honor one of
another and seek not the honour that
comes from God alone if you are worried
about people’s opinion if you are
worried what people think about you you
cannot operate in all of the faith that
God has given you that’s the fear of man
brings a snare proverbs chapter 29 verse
25 and I was moved by people’s opinion
and I was moved by a parent opposite
results you know what that was I had
faith but I had unbelief that negated it
and brothers and sisters this is where
the vast majority of Christians are
especially those of you that have been
sitting under the word and have learned
things you’ve got faith and you’ve seen
your faith work at times but you also
have unbelief
fearful about what people are going to
say I had a woman in eskalene Texas that
had three huge tumors on her one was on
the back of her neck shoulder right here
one was on her side and one was on the
inside of a leg and these tumors were
six or seven inches across
they were blood vessels were exposed she
was spurting blood and the doctors had
done everything they could and they sent
her home to die in anyway they sent me
over to talk to her I talked to this
woman I spent a couple hours trying to
encourage her and she says all right I’m
ready pray for me and I said no I’m not
going to pray for you I said if you
really believe do something faith
without works is dead I said come over
to a Bible study that I’m holding
tonight and they said we can’t even get
out of the house and I said if they told
you that there was a treatment in
Amarillo that would get you cured you’d
rent an ambulance if you had to I said
if you have any faith come to the Bible
study and you’ll get healed so anyway
this woman showed up at the Bible study
they borrowed a what do you call it a
station wagon and put a mattress in the
back and brought her over and I prayed
for and in two days time those huge
tumors had shrunk to the size of a
quarter she had no problem she was up
walking around she felt so good that she
decided she’d go ahead and take a
doctor’s appointment that she had to
cancel it was like a month out because
she wasn’t going to live that long so
she went to this doctor and by the time
she got there they were just little tiny
things and he says he looked at her
reports and says I don’t know who told
you you had cancer but these are just
little skin blemishes and stuff says
there’s nothing wrong and so he cut them
off in the doctor’s office and but he
says just to be sure you need to do
chemotherapy so they put her through
chemotherapy and she nearly died she had
a reaction to it and spent two weeks in
intensive care and when she got home I
went over to see her and she was
convalescing from all of these
treatments and I told her I said you
know that jesus healed you you know it
was a miraculous thing why are you
letting the doctors do this chemotherapy
will kill a well person and she says
well my family wouldn’t understand they
think that I just need to do all of this
and I said you know what you aren’t
standing I said you’ve got faith you
believed in received but you are letting
the fear of what people will say about
you and all of this affect you and I
said it’s negating your faith and she
says I just couldn’t offend people what
would people think and so she went back
for the second round of treatment and
died and she was healthy
she was totally healed she had faith but
she also had unbelief and Satan used
that to negate her faith and I’m telling
you brothers and sisters this is where a
lot of us are missing it because you’ve
sat under the words you have faith and
you will see your faith work in certain
situations but then you will have
something come against you and we don’t
deal with unbeli people just assume that
if I’m having a problem what I need is
more faith you may not need any more
faith all it takes is a tiny bit of
faith and I’m seeing a bunch of people
raised from the dead and I’m not a faith
giant at all the way that it had I mean
God just set it up I’ve been praying
with this one guy for months he was
paralyzed and a long story but anyway
over the months he had gotten where he
was walking and he had gout and he was
able to do and he he was doing good he
was blind couldn’t see pictures on the
wall and he got to where he could see
over a period of three or four months
and I was getting up ready to start a
service I had to my catarrh on I was
going to lead the song service and his
son came to the door motioned for me and
I went over to see him and he grabbed me
and the guitar and everything just threw
me in his car
this is in a town of a hundred and
forty-four people so it didn’t take long
to get over to this guy’s house
thirty seconds and he wouldn’t say
anything but I knew something had to be
up with his dad I didn’t know how bad it
was and I just walked in and there was
the sheriff he was panicking you know
this small-town sheriff he had a
defibrillator and some other stuff but
he didn’t know how to use it and he was
fumbling wondering what he was going to
do and I walked in and saw him and I saw
this guy laying in a recliner and then
his wife was kneeling beside him and she
was
right and she says old God bringing back
from the dead and when she said that’s
first time I knew that he had died I
didn’t know I just thought he had
another pain or something if they would
have told me a minute before that he had
died probably from the church over to
this guy’s house would have been enough
time for me to doubt but God just set it
up I just walked in didn’t know what was
happening I heard her say that he was
dead and I said Everett come back into
that body and he just sat up and
everything was fine it was him that’s
all there was to it
it didn’t take great faith it was just
little unbelief if I had time I could go
through Abraham did you know Abraham
didn’t he didn’t have any more faith in
any of us have if Abraham somehow was
here tonight if he could have been just
translated here without going through
heaven for 4000 years but if he had just
been translated to here and it heard me
talk about these things Abraham had
b-flat of his face he never understood
all of the things of the gospel he
didn’t have a huge amount of faith but
you know what Abraham had virtually no
unbelief and you can read about this in
Romans chapter 4 he considered not his
own body now dead when he was about a
hundred years old neither yet the
deadness of Sarah’s womb he staggered
not at the promise of God through
unbelief but was strong in faith see
most people are trying to build faith
and yet they allow huge levels of
unbelief in their life and they just try
and build faith a little bit 11 wil 11
the whole lump it’s like if you had a
scale here and here’s a thermometer one
of these thermometer scales and if your
faith is down here Jesus said all it
takes is a tiny bit of faith and most
people say well I need to build my faith
and they need to get this huge faith but
over here is your unbelief scale most
people just let their unbelief scale be
way up here they are riddled with
unbelief we listen to unbelief we talk
to unbelief we use it for entertainment
we listen to things contrary and if you
have your unbelief level up here well
then you’re going to have to call the
prayer chain and get a
thousand people to agree and pool your
unbelief to over I mean your faith to
overcome this level of unbelief a
simpler way is just pull the plug on
unbelief and get your unbelief down to
where nothing and a little tiny amount
of faith isn’t enough to see a mountain
remove faith is potent but it can be
negated it can be canceled it can be
voided by unbelief if God was to tell
you that you were going to have a child
when you were a hundred years old first
of all most people would say I rebuked
that man name of Jesus amen but let’s
suppose that you’d been believing for
this for your whole life and you wanted
it if God told you you were going to
have a child when you were a hundred
years old most people would get on the
internet and say let’s see what’s the
oldest that a person is ever given birth
and then you’d go check your wife out
has menopause ever been reversed have
people ever you know and you’d go search
it and then you’d go get a test and
you’d test to see and you you accumulate
a mountain of unbelief no it can’t
happen it doesn’t happen the doctors are
saying you’re it’s way past time and
after you accumulate all of the unbelief
then you’d go back and say God are you
sure you say yes and then you’ll say all
right and then you say why is it so hard
to believe God because you got all this
unbelief over here all the stuff that
you considered it says Abraham
considered not his own body now dead
when he was about a hundred years old
neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb
he staggered not at the promise of God
through unbelief
it didn’t say he didn’t stagger because
he had this great faith no it was
through unbelief that that’s what causes
people to stagger so my point is see
most others say well I need to build my
faith but we have no sense of
responsibility about the unbelief that
comes to us you will listen to the
sewage of this world on a daily basis
paid big bucks to have it packed into
your house sit down and watch these
pundits that are saying everything
contrary to the Word of God and most of
us don’t even know
unbelief we just accept it a man ro me
they’ll tell you it’s flu season they
don’t tell you for those havi that are
believers you know it’s not flu season
jesus heals you all the time
they never put anything in balance
they’ll just say it’s flu season and
they’ll make you feel like an absolute
idiot if you don’t go get a shot
that’s unbelief there is no season that
the Word of God doesn’t work they’ll go
to telling you you know are you over 40
you better start watching it and they’ll
just speak unbelief and speak unbelief
and speak unbelief and we’ll sit there
and let this unbelief flow through us
and then when you have something happen
you’ll believe God and you’ll say I know
I’m in faith why aren’t I seeing it
happen because you got this huge
mountain of unbelief that you’ve
listened to for 20 30 40 years and it
may gates your faith if you are going to
be a strong person of faith if you are
going to see the faith of God work you
are going to have to live a different
lifestyle than what the average
Christian lives you know what I’ve
missed out on 48 years of American
culture we were talking about this a
little bit tonight I’m so naive on
certain things it’s embarrassing to me
sometimes but I’ve just been focused on
God and you know what I if you want to
play Trivial Pursuit I am NOT your men
we used to play Trivial Pursuit with my
in-laws and my sister-in-law
brother-in-law when they’d come over and
the boys would be against the girls and
we’d sit there and play two or three
hours and I just sit there and if it was
history or geography I know those things
but if it’s like you know this sports
team this music I just have missed 48
years of American culture
I was with creflo dollar last week and
he was singing some song talking about
Lou Rawls I think it was why me I don’t
know who Lou Rawls I don’t know anything
if it’s not in the Bible I don’t know it
and they were making fun on me and it’s
it’s somewhat embarrassing
we were playing Trivial Pursuit one time
and I just I just been sitting there
just like an odd on a log and I said I’m
gonna answer this next one I said father
I’m believing for a word of knowledge I
started talking on the Holy Ghost and so
I said I’ve got this next one and the
question came up what magazine debuted
April the 1st 1953 and God gave me a
word to college and I said playboy it’s
the only it’s the only question I
answered all that long
I knew when playboy debut
you know I’m not very good on these
stats about sports teams and stuff like
that I just don’t know that stuff but
you know I I don’t win many Trivial
Pursuit games and I’m not very good at
taking conversation my staff sent me on
a tour I mean on what do you call these
boats proves they send us on a cruise
and you have to you have to sit with
other people it was embarrassing
they gave little games and stuff to play
in one I’m is what’s your favorite drink
alcoholic drink they all went around
they got to me and I said well I’ve
never tasted alcohol in my life I’ve
never drank a beer oh yeah you’ve done
something I said I’ve never tasted a
beer in my life and it just ended it and
we all sat there in total silence and
then another night what’s the best thing
that ever happened to you and I’m
talking about my son being raised from
the dead and they all didn’t believe
that
after a while I’d sit down and everybody
in pickup but I just
I don’t know how to talk to anybody
about anything but the Lord and I’m not
saying this his way it has to be I’m
just saying that’s the way it is but you
know what I missed out on a lot I’ve
missed out on a lot of unbelief I don’t
even know how to disbelieve now I’m not
saying that perfectly but I’m saying I
don’t even know how to display there’s a
lot of things that you deal with that I
don’t even do because I don’t go there I
don’t listen to that stuff anytime I
hear something’s contrary to the Word of
God I’ll reject it Isaiah chapter 54
verse 17 says no weapon formed against
you will prosper and every tongue that
rises against you in judgment you shall
condemn this is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord and their
righteousness is of me thus saith the
Lord notice it says no weapon formed
against you’ll prosper and then the next
phrase and every tongue that rises
against you in judgment did you know
words are weapons death and life are in
the power of the tongue words have power
in them and I’ve learned it says every
tongue that rises against you in
judgment you shall condemn I’ve learned
that words are like seeds and if
somebody speaks unbelief over me or if I
hear something if I will condemn it
right then when I hear it that thing
never germinates it never releases
anything but if I don’t want to offend
somebody I would cause a scene and so I
don’t say anything and I wait until I
get home it’ll take me an hour or two
hours to reject that because it just
starts germinating immediately every
time you hear people talk about man
you’re over 50 you better be careful
this is going to happen this is genetic
you’re going to see this your great-aunt
died of this your uncle died of that and
they start speaking that and every time
you listen to this stuff it starts
sprouting and you got unbelief growing
in you and then you go to using your
faith and you say what’s the problem I
know I’m believing God what’s wrong it’s
because you got 20 30 years of unbelief
that you’ve entertained you got a crop
coming up and that unbelief is negated
your faith we don’t need to be
great huge people of faith Abraham was a
great man of little unbelief Abraham
didn’t sit home and watch as the stomach
turns on television he didn’t read all
of the magazines in the junk that we do
he didn’t listen to that I could be a
great man of faith if I didn’t have any
unbelief that was countering me you know
this isn’t popular most people don’t
like this but the land you’re taking
away my sport you’re taking away all of
this you know there’s nothing wrong with
any of that stuff you can do anything in
moderation but according to mark chapter
4 the cares of this life and other
things are choking the word we are
getting huge amounts of unbelief and
most of us are very very very
well-versed in all of the things of the
world you know all of the trash that’s
going on you can argue and gripe about
every political thing but you don’t know
what the word says and it’s a detriment
anyway I’ve got a whole teaching in
title hardness a heart that this is one
of the main teachings and at that
teaching on hardness art changed my
heart I’d encourage you to get it but
let me go on and read the next verse
which isn’t even listed in the NIV if
the problem isn’t the fact that we don’t
have faith these disciples had faith
they wouldn’t have even asked this
question why couldn’t we cast him out if
they’d have just said well we don’t
believe that you can cast out Devils the
very fact that they asked the question
showed that they did believe and that
they did speak and if you turn over to
Matthew chapter 10 he had already given
them power over all sickness over all
diseases over all demons they went out
and used it and they didn’t have this
question that we have wasn’t recorded so
they had even seen success in this area
but you know what I believe the problem
was in this instance it says over there
in mark chapter 9 that when they brought
the boy to Jesus he had a seizure fell
on the ground wallet and phone and I
believe that the disciples saw something
with their eyes that caused them to
doubt that this had happened and they
apparently may not have seen some of
these things but in this instance there
was a physical manifestation I don’t
know if you’ve ever been around the
person having a seizure
I remember when I was in high school we
had a choir and we were on risers
singing in an assembly and a girl right
in front of me on these risers we went
to church together she turned around and
looked at me and she started having a
seizure and did her tongue and passed
out in my arms and I guarantee it scared
the fire out of me if you’ve ever been
around a person that has a seizure and
stuff like this it’s a fearful thing and
when you see that it’ll make unbelief
rise up on the inside of you so how do
you get rid of this look at this in
verse 21 he says how big this kind goeth
not out but by prayer and fasting this
has been interpreted by most people is
talking about this kind of demon but if
you look at it in context the subject
was unbelief this isn’t saying that
there are certain demons that won’t
respond to faith in the name of Jesus
and you got to add to it fasting in
prayer if you ever meet a demon that
faith in Jesus isn’t enough and you got
a fast and pray to get rid of it you
might as well give it up if faith in
Jesus isn’t enough your fasting prayers
not going to change it fasting and
prayer does not affect demons and casts
certain demons out the problem was
unbelief and this kind of unbelief only
goes out through fasting and prayer so
obviously there are different kinds of
unbelief
and this is just Andy ology I haven’t
got a verse that’ll show you this this
is just what I’ve encountered and the
way I’ve understood I’ve categorized
unbelief into three areas the first one
is what I call just ignorance or for
those of you that are more sensitive
it’s lack of knowledge
but God just tells me sometimes you’re
ignorant I understand that I’d rather
just somebody tell me what’s going on so
it was ignorance if you are ignorant
you’re going to have unbelief because
you don’t know you haven’t heard the
word on it and there’s just going to be
unbelief how do you overcome unbelief
that comes through ignorance you tell a
person the truth and once they learn the
truth faith comes by hearing hearing by
the Word of God and that kind of
unbelief can be overcome by just telling
a person the truth the second type of
unbelief is what I call disbelief it is
belief but it’s belief in the wrong
thing for instance I was raised in a
Baptist Church and taught that miracles
didn’t happen today that all miracle
things passed away with the Apostles
there weren’t apostles today I was
taught things but I was taught wrong
it’s like if I had a whiteboard up here
if there is nothing written on it well
then it would be fairly easy to write on
it and make my point but if the whole
thing was already written on I have to
erase it before I can write on if you
just have unbelief that comes through
ignorance well then just tell person the
truth and they can overcome that but if
they’ve been taught the wrong thing you
got to go in and erase this unbelief
this wrong teaching before you can teach
them the truth but the answer is still
the same the answer is just tell a
person the truth but there is a process
of renewing of the mind so those first
two types of unbelief are basically you
just get hold of the truth and the truth
will set you free from those but the
third type of unbelief that I’ve
classified is what I call natural
unbelief that when you pray for a person
and they fall down and it looks like
they died instead of God well you’re
going to just naturally think it didn’t
work there’s just natural unbelief you
pray for you know you got a pain and you
rebuke it and speak and if it doesn’t
leave you are naturally going to just
think nothing happened because you feel
you see something to the contrary it’s
just it’s not demonic it’s not wrong
teaching it’s just that our five senses
are telling us something
what we believe and you know what there
are times that you will have that happen
Jesus had this boy fall down and it
looked like things got worse so anyway
what do you do when you have just this
natural unbelief it’s not sinful it’s
not because you’ve been taught wrong
it’s just your eyes your ears your sense
knowledge is telling you that nothing
happened nothing is working according to
what God says how do you deal with that
fasting and prayer and here’s why
fasting in a prayer will affect this
natural form of unbelief because when
you fast your your desire for food is
probably one of your strongest senses
that you have people have killed for
food people have eaten other people for
food I mean and it you know it doesn’t
take very long to aggravate your sense
of hunger there’s a lot of people that
men I met you there’s people right in
here that have never fasted a day in
your life if you go until noon you start
getting headaches and weak and I’ve seen
people just they just can’t handle it
that’s one of the reasons fasting is so
important because when you deny your
flesh and you say man doesn’t live by
bread alone but by every word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God and so
you say I’m going to put all of my
attention all of my focus on God even to
the point that I’m not going to eat I
guarantee you your flesh if there is
carnality in you if you have been
listening to unbelief if you are waving
your flesh will rebel at that big time
and it doesn’t take long a few hours and
I guarantee you you can flush your flesh
to the surface
a lot of people when they fast they
think oh it’s going to be a glorious
experience you could read Isaiah chapter
58 a fast is not intended to be a
glorious experience it’s a day to
humiliate yourself and it actually makes
you worse when you fast and you get
irritable and you get short-tempered and
things but that’s it’s working it got
all of this junk that you’ve been
suppressing and hiding down there and
not dealing with it will flush your
carnality to the surface and I guarantee
you if you get weak and upset and you
just don’t know if you can make it until
sundown it’s just showing you how you
are being dominated and controlled by
your flesh did you know you do not die
after one day of fasting the medical
profession will actually say it’s better
for you to fast one day a week it
actually cleanses your body of toxins
and things you’re better off you don’t
physically begin to die from a fast
until 40 days that’s the reason it was
so significant that Jesus on the 40th
day Satan came to him because by that
time it was beyond hunger until the 40th
day now there’s some balance to this
because you can it depends how you’re
acting and what you’re doing and stuff
like that but as a general rule until
the 40th day you aren’t dying
it’s your appetite it’s your flesh and
when you sit there and say man the
problem is I know I’ve got faith but my
flesh my senses are exercising too much
control on me
and so senses I’m going too fast I’m
going to deny you I’m going to reject
this hunger and I’m going to put God
first and I’m renouncing all of this and
I’m putting God first when you do that
your flesh will rebel and say I’m dying
and you’ll say all right we’re going to
go an extra day and your flesh will say
an extra day I’ll be dead for sure and
say all right two extra days and you
know what your flesh will eventually say
I better shut up if I’m going to survive
this I’ll submit and it depends again
how often you fast but you know if you
fast on a regular basis you can get to
where in a days
you have just shut your flesh down and
it’s not rebelling at you if you haven’t
done it before it could take two or
three days but usually within two or
three days you can get to a place where
you aren’t hungry anymore and it doesn’t
bother you I know some of you thinking
this is weird that’s because you had
never fasted but if you will fast you
can actually get your flesh to where it
isn’t controlling you and then when you
say body in the name of Jesus you’re
healed and your body says well I still
hurt all you got to do is say you know
your body if you fasted and if you’ve
denied it your body will say oh this
must be one of those things like a fast
you know and it doesn’t matter what I
feel and stuff but if you haven’t ever
done that your body you’ll sit there and
say body in the name of Jesus paying you
leave and your body will say who are you
to tell me anything I tell you what to
eat when to eat how much to eat you
hadn’t given me any commands in years
and they’ll just rebel I don’t care what
you say
here’s what I feel and you will your
feelings will negate your faith and see
prayer is the same thing because when
you’re praying you’re talking to a
person that you can’t see you’re hearing
things that you can’t hear and then
you’re acting on things that you didn’t
see and your flesh your sense knowledge
this is just crazy your carnal self will
say what good is any of this but you
know if you pray and if you do a lot of
praying God will speak things to you and
then as you act on it you can see it
like you know I could just give you a
million examples but I’ve seen God come
through I’ve seen God’s supply I’ve seen
my son raised from the dead my wife
raised from the dead I’ve seen multiple
people raised from the dead I’ve seen
blind eyes open deaf ears open I’ve seen
God’s supply needs and I’ve done all of
these things and over a while it says in
Hebrews chapter five verse 14 that
strongly belongs to those who by reason
of use have their senses
that’s the mat your physical senses X
sighs to discern both good and evil your
feelings aren’t necessarily evil they’re
just feelings and they’ve got to be
trained if you don’t train them they’ll
be spoiled they’ll dominate you and
control you but if you were praying fast
you will your senses will say oh well I
didn’t feel a thing but he said God
spoke to him and look at this it worked
man we saw a person raised from the dead
we saw this money coming we saw this
happen over a period of time you can
train your senses to where you have a
sixth sense
I believe God created man with six
senses not five and the sixth sense was
faith they used to walk by faith faith
was more real to them than what they
could see taste hear smell or feel but
when they sinned their spiritual eyes
closed their physical eyes became
dominant never since then people have
been controlled by their senses but now
it says in second Corinthians 5:7 we
walk by faith and not by sight we should
go back to the way God intended us to be
to where spiritual things are more real
to us than physical things and so when
God tells you that you’re healed man you
read it in here and even though you
can’t see it or feel it this has more
influence on you than what you feel but
it’s not going to happen if you don’t
fast and pray if you don’t deny your
flesh and focus on God and operate in
the supernatural realm so this is how
you break the dominion of that flesh
it’s how you get to where what you
believe is more real than what people
tell you I was telling Mack and Lind
this so it’s fresh on my memory but we
were talking about this in the green
room but we were talking about going to
the doctor and the only time I’ve gone
to the doctor in the last 48 years is
when my board made me go get a physical
so I could take out a insurance policy
they wanted to take out an insurance
policy on me so anyway I went to this
doctor and long story but I witnessed to
this doctor and told him about my son
being raised from the dead it just
happened and man I was witnessing to
them it was awesome and then they wanted
me to do this EKG test on a treadmill
and they
wanted to shave my chest and put these
things on I said this is virgin hair
it’s never been touched I said you can’t
shave my chest so anyway they put those
things on me without shaving my chest
and when I got to the 12-minute mark I
was running and I was beginning to sweat
and those things started falling off so
the nurse was holding – the doctor was
holding – and I was holding – and still
running in anyway the tests got over
with and you know I was fine as far as I
could tell and then the doctor started
looking through the thing and around the
12 minute part which I believe that it
was because I was sweating and these
things were falling off but anyway he
started grunting and looking at this and
saying oh and shaking his head you know
and doing all of this stuff and then he
wrote something down on this piece of
paper he says this is a friend of mine I
won’t you don’t you go back to the
office he goes straight over there we’re
going to do tests we’re going to put you
in the hospital and we may do open-heart
surgery on you before the day is over
and you know why I just looked at that
for a second and I thought said I just
looked at him I said that’s a lie
he said I don’t believe this and he just
looked shocked I guess he wasn’t used to
people telling him he was lying and I
say that’s a lie said there’s nothing
wrong with me and he just you know he
took offense at it and I said you look
at that and tell me that that says that
I have something wrong and he says well
he showed me this thing and he says you
were one hundredth of one percent raw in
one place and he says everybody’s hearts
a little bit different you might be
perfectly all right I just think we
ought to go get more tests I say that’s
not what you told me you told me that I
had a serious problem that you might do
open-heart surgery I said you lied to me
and I got on this guy’s case and I said
man it made me angry
and this doctor just tore up this piece
of paper and throw it in trash and said
leaves
and he kicked me out of his office and
he flunked me on the test so anyway I’ve
got a doctor that’s a leading surgeon in
Shreveport and I went down there and he
did a nuclear stress test where they put
this dye in and do it and anyway they
said I have the heart of a 17 year old
it was okay there wasn’t a problem but
my point is and they told me they said
don’t ever take one of those stress
tests they’re wrong as often as they’re
right
never let a person tell you based
something on little stress death my
daddy in law had a stress test and they
told him that he was going to die and
they said because he was in his 70s just
go home and die there’s no point in even
doing anything and his wife just cried
and men for about a week they went
through things and we said go get a
second opinion they went got a second
opinion there was nothing wrong with it
I bet yours people in here that man you
just take the word of a doctor and
immediately unbelief comes because
you’ve heard this but you know what I
just and I’m not saying I’m doing
everything right but I’m saying I spent
enough time in the word that you know
what when somebody tells me something
contrary to what I believe I just don’t
believe it I believe what the word says
and I know some of you think well you’re
weird well I think you’re weird to just
let to have God speak these awesome
things over you and all you got to do is
have somebody with a PhD behind their
name and boy you honor them more than
you honor the Word of God you know if
this is a typical group in here I bet
you that 80 to 90% of the people in a
spirit-filled tongue talk and Word of
Faith Church taking medicine on a
regular basis I’m not against medicine
if it wasn’t for medicine all the
Christians would be dead because they
haven’t been believing God but I’m
saying that you don’t you just you had
bought into this world system and it’s I
don’t think that’s good
and we listened to all of this and we
there are many people right now that I
can guarantee you think boy you are this
is not wise what you’re saying and yet a
generation ago did you know a generation
ago people didn’t go to the hospital for
a headache or a cold or the flu they
would get over it but nowadays man
there’s people they even ask you says
who’s your doctor and I think who has a
doctor
why would somebody have a doctor you
aren’t even sick and you got a doctor
what’s wrong a generation ago people
didn’t do that stuff and yet boy we just
bought into this stuff and anyway I know
I’ve probably really messed up some
people’s theology but I’m just saying
that we consider so many things against
the Word of God and then wonder why’s my
faith struggling because you got this
mountain of unbelief over here that
you’ve listened to and they tell you if
you have this if you have this it could
be this and people self-diagnose and we
just constantly are looking and
listening to the wrong things I’m
telling you you need to get to a place
where man God’s Word is absolute
authority you fast you pray you get to a
place that if your body doesn’t feel
like what God says it should tell your
body it’s wrong tell it to get in line
amen
and I know somehow everything and man I
just don’t agree with that well you know
I’ve been in the last 44 45 years I’ve
been sick twice because of my own
stupidity just worked myself nearly to
death and I had to lay in bed for a day
or two but outside of 40 some years I’ve
never taken an aspirin I don’t take any
medicine I don’t do anything I’ve walked
in health and until you get better
results than I do maybe you ought to
consider that there’s a better way amen
and this applies to everything I’ve been
using healing because it’s obvious but
it applies to finances we’ve been taught
that we’re supposed to use this world
system we’re supposed to be going in
debt we just do all of this stuff
contrary to what God’s Word says and we
operate in fear and any way I could just
make applications to every single area
of our life and I’m telling you brothers
and sisters most of you in this place to
be out here on a Wednesday night you do
not have a faith problem you’ve got the
supernatural faith to God you’ve got
enough faith to see the dead raised if
you didn’t doubt doubt is the problem
unbelief is the problem and faith comes
by hearing hearing by the Word of God
unbelief comes by hearing anything
contrary to the Word of God and if you
would cut off the sources of unbelief
that Satan is using in your life you’d
find out that your faith would just
naturally work you would see so much
more happen when you really consider
what the Word of God says you look at
people like Abraham and others who
really saw the supernatural power God
and you compare their lifestyle against
our lifestyle
I’m surprised if we see as many miracles
as we do this generation of believers is
probably more in tune with the carnal
natural world around them than any group
of believers that have ever walked on
this planet we hear more doubt and
unbelief we hear more things that
counter our faith and your parents
grandparents ever thought about they
lived in a very small world but now we
get the problems of the entire world
delivered to our doorstep live instantly
we can we can obsess back you know a
generation or two ago it took two or
three weeks for bad news to get around
the world and by that time all of the
stuff that was trivial was over with and
people who are able to dismiss it but
now we’re able to worry about everything
in real time
you remember when the bird flu or the
avian flu came around I forget what did
we call it here avian flu in England was
called a bird flu and anyway I was over
there when they piled birds up poultry
as tall as this ceiling and Birnam and I
was over there when the mad cow disease
happen and stuff and people just
panicked and did all of this stuff and I
was in Scotland when the leading expert
in Britain was asked a question can this
mutate into a strain that could affect
people and he says oh there’s no
question about it it’s not a matter of
if it happens it’s just a matter of when
it happens and one third of the world
population will die through avian flu
that was the leading British expert and
I took it down when the date was and
listened and two years later I was back
in Scotland and I read an article that
in the two years since that he said they
said that there had been a total of I
think two or three people worldwide that
had died from avian flu it was a lie it
wasn’t true none of that was right and
yet the leading expert in all of the UK
said that and I can guarantee you
thousand probably millions of people
thousands of Christians immediately came
into fear and started having unbelief
because some person with a degree behind
his name said something and they started
dealing with it shouldn’t have ever even
been a question and yet I’m guarantee
there’s a lot of people that had fear
over that and then the mad cow disease
they did the same thing there was a guy
in Boulder Colorado that predicts all of
the Hurricanes and he has been
predicting since Hurricane Katrina I
think it will I forget all the names of
these he’s been predicting up to 20
major hurricanes per year and it has
been one of the quietest seasons that
we’ve had in the last few years there’s
been some that were I think there was
one year that there was only two named
storms and they didn’t even hit the US
and yet he’s been predicting over 20 May
your hurricanes devastation and there’s
a lot of people in here even they would
say well they’re just being cautious
they’re presenting worst-case scenarios
so that people be prepared that’s wrong
they’re prophesying in their false
prophecies and people say well it
doesn’t do any damage oh yes it does
your insurance rates go through the roof
they’re based on all of these prophecies
it’s caused people millions of dollars
it’s caused people a lot of fear there’s
people that will get up and move and do
all kinds of things because we just take
for granted all of this stuff I remember
back when the Berlin Wall was still up I
was in Hungary and I was talking to some
people that I was ministering in their
church and they had come to the u.s. and
I was asking them their opinion of the
US and they liked a lot of things about
it but I said so did you have any
problems with the US and he’s and they
said Americans are the most gullible
people that they had ever seen in their
life they said we don’t trust anything
our government or television says we
question everything and you go over
there and it fits on television or if
it’s on the internet they said man
everybody just believes it that is
absolutely true
man we are listening they don’t just
report the news they make the news we
had to scare at our business where that
somebody that was on a terrorist list
sent us a letter that had powder in it
when they opened it of course we
reported it the police came and shut all
of our employees down and had to go
through and check everything in anyway
the news media came out and all of our
people were shut up inside of our office
there wasn’t a single person that they
had talked to nothing but they were out
there and they were trying to make a
story and they came out with it’s a
disgruntled employee that we fired that
sent in this powder and did this and it
was a terrorist attack that already a
couple of people had died Oh No and none
of it was true it was all it was baking
powder there was nothing to it it was no
big deal but they reported it and they
never retracted so much of what you are
hearing is out and out lie and most of
us aren’t even smart enough to discern
it and even if you do why in the world
even listen to it why even have this
trash deposited on the inside of you in
the first place did you know if we go to
war somebody will tell you about it if
there’s a major earthquake you’ll hear
about it and then you can go check it
out and stuff we do not have to sit
there and every minute of every day just
be checking what’s happening what’s
happening it’s part of what happened to
Adam and Eve they wanted the knowledge
of good and evil they just wanted to
know more they were better off without
all that knowledge a good need Bible
says in Romans chapter 16 I’d have you
to be wise concerning that which is good
and simple concerning that which is evil
the words simple there’s a word we get
simpleton from I wish you were
when it comes to evil we are
just we are so well versed and evil we
know the potential man you will sit
there and explore if God doesn’t come
through what could happen and you will
explore every possible failure every
possible problem that could possibly
happen and then wonder why is my faith
not working because you got all of this
unbelief against it
hey man ro me
if what I’m saying is true which it is
then you know why there needs to be a
lifestyle change we need to get to where
we’re focused on the things of God and
if you do it your little mustard seed
amount of faith that you’ve got would be
more than enough to see the blind eyes
open deaf ears open I’ve seen great
miracles happen and I’m not a huge man
of faith I’m not anything special and I
can guarantee you any person in here
could do those things any person in here
you had the faith of the Son of God on
the inside of you you do not have a lack
of equipment you did not miss out on
anything you got everything that you
need matter of fact you got more than
you need more doubt and unbelief more
junk than what any of us need amen so I
encourage it praise God to pull the plug
on unbelief get away from it stick your
nose in the Bible start learning these
things and you’ll find out that you’ve
already got everything and that your
faith would go to working amen
praise God