Power In The Name Of Jesus | Sam Stark

Oh,

hallelujah. Well,

well, if laughter is a medicine, I've

taken my medicine like a man, right?

Amen. Father, we're just so grateful

today for your presence. We thank you,

Jesus, that you said when we gather in

your name, Lord, you'll be here. We

reverence your presence. We thank you

that you are the same yesterday, today,

and forever.

You've said the works that you did,

Lord, we are to do. We said that you'd

watch over your word to perform it. What

we bind on earth is bound in heaven. And

we declare every spirit of infirmity,

every work of the devil bound in Jesus'

name. We loose every captive. Well,

Lord, we thank you that you open every

prison door. that today, Lord, your word

will have free access and be glorified.

You sent your word to heal, to deliver,

to save. And we thank you, Lord, for

your anointing upon us. You've anointed

us to preach the gospel to the poor.

Sent us to preach deliverance to the

captives, recovery of sight to the

blind, and to set at liberty those that

are bruised. Lord, to bring us into our

inheritance, Lord, the jubilee of

Christ. We thank you today that Lord

even as our fingerprints and faces

differ. Every need in this house you

understand and you know it for your eyes

are in every place to show yourself

strong on behalf of Lord your people and

those that fear your name. Lord we honor

you and Holy Spirit we simply want to

yield totally and absolutely to the

lordship of Jesus. Jesus you are Lord.

You rose from the dead and we thank you

Lord that we crucified with you, buried

with you, raised with you and now Lord

your resurrection power is at work in

every one of your people. We release

that power today in the name of Jesus

that Lord each person's body will be

quickened and touched by your power and

your anointings that destroy the yolks.

We declare every band broken, every

chain, every shackle broken in the name

of Jesus. That Lord, wherever this

gospel is heard and preached today,

Lord, we thank you that you're watching

over it to perform it. Lord, you want to

do exceedingly and will do exceedingly

abundantly above all that we could ever

ask or even think. Lord, we will not

limit you today. We will not put a

ceiling on that which you will do

because you are the omnisient,

omnipotent, and only wise God. Lord, you

are the same yesterday, today, and

forever. And Lord Jesus Christ, we thank

you for your mercy. We thank you for

your compassion. We thank you for your

blood. We thank you for everything you

did at Calvary. We thank you that you

declared, Lord, and broke every curse by

hanging on the tree. And we declare that

today, Lord, revelation, knowledge will

flow. Holy Spirit, we host your presence

and ask for you to speak and to

minister, Lord, to reveal that which

needs to be revealed that your people

might live in divine health in the name

of Jesus Christ. That your people will

live, Lord, the way you want them to

live. For you wish above all things that

we may prosper and be in health even as

our souls prosper. So Lord, let our

souls prosper today. Lord, help us to

think right, believe right, speak right,

behave right, that we might have good

success in terms of what heaven declares

to be successful in the name of Jesus

Christ. And everybody said, "Amen." I'm

so I'm so glad the devil and demons know

the power in the name of Jesus. Many

Christians don't understand that. They

think, "Well, it's not a charm." You

know, I remember one lady was dying of

cancer out in South Africa and a young

teenager that had just got saved came in

to see her in the hospital and she said

it means auntie in African says tunny.

She said tunny meaning auntie. Auntie

the trick the trick is in the name of

Jesus. And this lady very educated lady

lying in hospital with cancer is

thinking what is this youngster talking

about? The trick is in the name of

Jesus. And but through the night she was

meditating on what they couldn't shake

what this little girl had said. How many

of you know God watches over his word to

perform it? When you sew a seed of the

word, it's going to produce. And that

little girl, it's not about the vessel.

We are nothing. But I'm telling you, a

six-year-old holds an AK-47 in his hand.

You call him sir, right? We know that

from Africa. So when we come with the

word of God and the sword of the spirit,

it is the most powerful thing on the

face of the earth. The world is held

together by the word of his power. And

when we release the word of God,

beloved, and we plant the seed of God,

it is the incorruptible seed. It has to

and will perform that to to which God

wanted it to accomplish. He's watching

over his word to perform it. He stands

behind his word. And if you're a

Christian and a believing Christian and

God is for you, who can be against you?

No man shall be able to stand before you

all the days of your life. And God's

wanting us to rise to that occasion

because, you know, I thank God for this

church. I'm listening to Apostle Mark

week in and week out preaching the word.

And you can see the fruit of it as the

church is growing and we're expanding on

every side. I know the first time I came

here um I'll never forget I came from

South Africa all kinds of pressure and I

felt like shackles fall off me. I'd come

to America. Hallelujah. And won't go

into what was you know happening back in

South Africa. Those of you know what's

happening there. It's not a pretty sight

when you have water shedding. I phoned

some people and they haven't had water

for a whole weekend and then others have

not had electricity for a week. Let me

tell you the only people who want to

leave America are Americans. Anybody

that's lived in those countries, you do

not want to leave this place. And I

remember driving out to Myrtle Beach and

the Lord said, "The blessing is upon

America, the blessing of the Lord to

make rich. So I'm not going to focus on

what the devil's going to do. I'm not

focusing on what he's saying."

Hallelujah. I'm thinking what say things

are true, noble, pure, righteous,

lovely. I'm thinking of the things God

told me to think about. I want to think

about what is true because if I think

right, I'll believe right. And if I'll

believe right, I'll speak right. And if

I'll speak right, like God said to

Joshua, if the word of God is in your

heart and your mouth, that you may do

it, you'll have good success.

And so we are the total of our talking

yesterday. Isn't that right? And we are

affected by often our stinking thinking.

And we need to examine every thought

that comes into our mind. Bible says

take these thoughts and bring them

captive to Christ. You got to know is

this a thought coming from God? God is a

spirit. He'll always work via your

spirit. But when you talk about the

devil, the mind, the battlefield is in

the head. And what he does is he brings

thoughts. But he is the father of lies.

So when you get a thought that God won't

heal you, he'll only heal others. You've

got to test that. bring it to Jesus and

you've got to cast that thought down and

every imagination and high thing that

exalts itself against the knowledge of

God.

>> Dr. Wagner, some of you will know him

from his university, he's gone home to

heaven now. Dr. Cho was went to visit

him and here is an old professor. He's

not an evangelist. Doesn't have a white

suit. You understand what I'm saying? I

love Benny Hinn. We hosted these

meetings in South Africa. Powerful

ministry. But here's Dr. Wagner and he

is a professor you can read it in the

book living in the fourth dimension in a

three-dimensional world by Dr. David

Yongi Cho Dr. Paul Cho and uh so he

comes in and there's Dr. Wagner and Dr.

Wagner says to him Dr. to Cho. He says,

"I'm seeing some amazing miracles." He

says, "Oh, really?" He says, "Yes." He

says, "I'm praying for these people that

have come from Iraq and they've had legs

amputated."

And he says, "I'm praying for them and

their legs are growing on."

And Dr. Cho thought, well, that's, you

know, you you've got to understand the

culture if you go that side. I've been

that side. Was very privileged to be and

have lunch with Dr. Cho and go pray with

him at Prayer Mountain. these men

understand dignity and honoring one

another. So he doesn't want to say

anything. He's thinking, "Dear Lord,

this is a professor. What's he talking

about?" And the next thing, there's a

guy from Iraq with a leg that's been

amputated. And he says, "Yeah, well,

there's one now." And he starts praying.

And Dr. Cho standing there and here's

Dr. Wagner praying and and nothing's

happening. It's a stump.

But God has never stumped.

>> And so Dr. Chose, well, brother, maybe

another time. No, no, no. and he runs

into his office and he comes running out

and he grabs his leg and he says, "Grow

in the name of Jesus." And this leg

grows on and Dr. Cho stands there. He

says it like his jaw hit the deck like

what have I just seen?

And Dr. Wagner turned to him and said,

"Dr. Cho, you taught me that."

And he thought, "Me? What what have I

got to do with this?" He said, "You

wrote the book The Fourth Dimension One

and two." And he said, "You told me when

I pray,

I must see the solution.

Pray the promise, not the problem. Pray

the promise and see the promise

manifest." And he said, "So when I pray,

I see the whole leg on there." Oh, Shaka

Bundi.

So last week we were up in Michigan. My

wife knows how to keep me busy. I'm at

university. You know, all kinds of stuff

going on in my life. And my wife books

me at Michigan. night to preach Friday

night, Saturday night, Sunday morning,

Sunday night. But the word doesn't get

tired. God doesn't get tired. Amen. And

uh I was just so pleased. A lady came

and one of the ladies, one of the

miracles God did. And uh she had a cane

cuz walking we get her legs uh about 3

in shorter than the other. And I said,

"You have Yes. Yes. And here she comes

with a stick." And uh the same Jesus

that grows stumps

>> grew her leg out

>> and uh she got up and I was able to take

her cane away and there she was walking

perfectly and a lady from Taiwan saying,

"I know this lady. I know this lady."

And the miracle took place.

>> Beloved, I have seen I have seen the

milky white vanish off a blind eye. I've

seen deaf ears pop open, the dumb speak,

cripples walk out of wheelchairs through

the years because Jesus Christ is the

same yesterday, today, and forever.

I'm a Pentecostal Anglicarian. I went to

uh Presbyterian Sunday schools. My one

step stepsister is a Presbyterian

minister's wife. I think I'm now a

Presbyterian, but anyway, I'm a

Presbyterian, but you know what I'm

saying.

I now get born again a Baptist. The Lord

stands in front of me as a child and

then again then. And then I got over

amongst the Pentecostals and that's

where I first started seeing signs,

wonders and miracles and God confirming

his word. And then we used to take a

combi. I used to load the young people

go into the nightclubs of Durban and

different places, orphanages and old age

homes. And I did an altar call at a

particular school down in Addington,

Durban, South Africa. And uh we had an

altar called prayed for people. And when

I came out as a young Christian, the

Lord said to me clearly, why did you not

pray for the sick?

Now he never speaks in a condemning way.

It was in a loving way. But why did you

not pray for the sick?

And I've never forgotten that because

Paul said, "I've not shun to preach the

full counsel of God lest the I have the

blood of people on my hands." You cannot

preach a bloodless gospel.

>> This gospel has the blood in it. This

gospel has the stripes of Jesus in it.

And you cannot just talk about people

being saved. You understand? Born again.

Thank God for that. That's the greatest

of all miracles to see a man totally

changed into a new creature.

That's number one.

But understand this. If you don't preach

healing, God is not glorified with

Christians walking around sick,

>> you know. Come to

come to Jesus.

He loves you. By the way, excuse me. And

and while we're about it,

>> and you see, you see, beloved, we make a

big thing of healing, but God actually

wants divine health.

Hallelujah.

And the Bible tells us we don't have to

die of sickness.

The old patriarchs didn't die of

sickness.

He just leaned on his stick, prophesied

over all his sons, and he fell asleep.

And when we begin to understand what the

word actually teaches, we're not moved

by man's opinions. We're not moved by

those who say, "Well, miracles were only

until the Bible was written." The Bible

says, "The prayer of faith will save the

sick." If any sick among you, let him

call for the elders. Let them anoint you

with oil. And the prayer of faith will

save the sick. Faith has never ever

passed away. The just shall live by

faith. We're born again by faith. And

hallelujah, we healed by faith. And we

devo walk in divine health by faith. So

you some of you know my testimony. I

came in here. I've been healed through

the years. I cracked my sternum going

down the elps. And they say once a

cracked sternum, you can never be

healed. Well, I had a preacher in a

meeting say there's somebody here with a

cracked stern. And that was a word of

knowledge. God revealing my situation.

I'll tell you what, they didn't have to

wait for me to get up there. And I

listen, I felt nothing, but I was

healed.

You know, God is so wise. He's

invisible. I I don't always feel the air

around me, but thank God it's here and

I'm breathing.

>> Then I'm at the back there one day. I'd

crack my spine moving furniture uh when

we moved house here and my knee I'd

popped my knee and I could to get from

my car to my seat there was not that

easy. I can tell you it was very

painful. And Apostle Mark sitting up

here and he says, "There's somebody here

with a a miniscus." I turned to Pastor

Stafford. He was sitting next to me. I

said, "What's a meniscus?" I'm not a

doctor. You understand? I got Dr. Jesus.

He said, "That's a knee." I said, "Ne?

That's me." And I jumped and I ran from

the back there in this building here

down this floor right to the front. And

by the time I got to the front, I was

healed. Because faith,

faith pleases God. Faith is acting on

the word. Amen.

>> I tell you some people their prayer life

they like it's like they somebody goes

to the supermarket and and they're

pushing their trolley around and they

keep pushing their trolley around and

they push their trolley around and you

think when is this dude going to stop

and take something off the shelf.

That's how some people's prayer life is.

We got to learn to believe and receive.

Jesus said when you pray believe you

receive.

It's cooperation with God. You got to

take that which belongs to you. Reach

out with a hand of faith and take it.

And so this is a healing house. The Lord

told me when I came here, he told me

that there will be 5,000 people in this

church. This is 5 years ago. And he said

to me, if we flow in uh Luke 4:18, which

Luke 4:18

is the ministry of Jesus, I I prayed it

as we open today. I won't repeat it now.

The spirit of the Lord upon us. And he

said, you'll see 5,000 people. Why?

Because it's the continuation of the

ministry of Jesus. And when the Holy

Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, he

came to continue the ministry of Jesus.

And he's never stopped. And the

Wigglesworth Wigglesworth said God will

move over a million people to touch one

that believes God. So wherever you

sitting today, all you've got to do is

reach out with a hand of faith and say,

"I believe, I receive."

>> And if you'll reach out and believe and

receive, you'll have. When you pray,

believe you receive and you'll have. So

this is a house of healing. The Lord

showed me this would be a house of

healing. But you know, just like the

person with their trolley, you can go to

the hospital and uh you can walk around

the hospital. How many of you walked

around hospitals? I don't like them. I

deal with demons when I go into

hospital. These you understand? But uh

you can walk around the hospital all day

and come out and say, "I went to the

hospital and I'm still not healed."

You'd think, "Well, this is a nut job.

You're in the wrong place. There's

another kind of hospital for this kind

of thinking.

What you've got to do is go in and see

the doctor.

And then the doctor's going to give you

medicine.

And then that medicine, you've got to

take it because you can put it on the

shelf. You can stroke the bottle. You

can talk about it all day. But until you

digest it, beloved, nothing's going to

happen.

>> The written word is written so that the

living word can be experienced. And Paul

said, "I've not come just to preach to

you according to men's wisdom, but I've

come in demonstration of the power of

God."

>> That your faith shall stand in the power

of God. We need faith in the persons of

the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy

Ghost. They're all involved in healing.

We need faith in the promises of God,

which are yes and amen. Amen. And we

need faith in the power of God. And I

have faith in the power of God, beloved.

I don't care what your need is today.

God said it. That settles it. If you'll

believe it and receive it, it's yours.

It's as simple as that. Getting healed

is the same as getting saved. You came

to the front when you heard the altar

call and you gave your life to Jesus and

you said, "I believe, Jesus. You died on

the cross for me. You paid for my sin.

You were made sin with my sin so that I

could receive your righteousness and

right standing. I believe you're alive.

And with my mouth confession is made

unto. I release my faith in what you did

on the cross by way of your death,

burial, resurrection. And as I receive

you and declare you as my Lord,

instantly I'm saved. When I got to the

marriage and standing there next to my

darling lovely wife, looking so

beautiful, still is. And I'm standing

there the minister said, "Do you take

this wife to be woman to be your lawful

wedded wife?" If id stood there like a

dumb cluck,

I would still not be married.

I had to say I do.

There's something about the tongue. And

the Bible says we believe in the fact

that God's made us righteous. We believe

in our hearts unto righteousness with

the mouth. Confession is made unto

salvation.

Now I believe God wants his people the

fear of the Lord is to hate evil. And we

need to hate sickness.

>> God hates sickness.

>> There is no sickness in heaven.

>> Amen. There's no poverty in heaven.

>> You will not find the angels hawking the

pearly gates, going down to the porn

shop to see how much they can get for

them. You understand? The ivory and and

you get what I'm saying?

What we've got, beloved, is the word of

God is forever settled in heaven. God is

a healing God. He said, "I am the Lord

that health thee." He said, "By your sm

by stripes or by the stripes of Jesus,

you were and are healed." It was

prophesied by Isaiah in Isaiah 53. Jesus

preached it and manifested it. And Peter

wrote about it and said, "By the stripes

of Jesus, you're healed."

So, here I am and I'm one day I said to

my wife, "No, I'm believing God." Cuz I

had a pastor that said, "You believe God

first. Go to God first before you run to

the doctor." "No, no, you've got to go

and have a test." I've spoken to Apostle

Patricia and Dr. the other doctor. And

uh they said, "You need to at least have

a test for this CO thing." So, I go and

I just giving a testimony here. You

know, we overcome the devil by the word

of our testimony.

>> You got to tell it. You got to publish

what God's done. So they tricked me.

Wayne takes me there and they do this

test and they said, "But blood buddy,

you've got CO pneumonia and the next

thing I'm lying in an ambulance and

they're rushing me off to hospital."

Thank God for doctors, otherwise most of

us would be dead, right? Thank God for

dentists, too. But here I am strapped in

this thing and they rush me off to

hospital, put me in the intensive care,

mask on the face, and they pumping

oxygen for all they worth. And this

guy's coming down through the night and

uh he's cussing the machine because the

oxygen is up 10, 11, 12. And then the

machine's not working. And he's cussing

this thing. And I'm lying there. But I'm

not stopping there because I'm not moved

by what I see. I'm not moved by what I

feel. I'm only moved by the word of God.

And the Bible says with the stripes of

Jesus, I was healed.

>> Healing belongs to me.

So I'm saying I start confessing the

word because your inner ear can hear the

word. With the stripes of Jesus I'm

healed. With the stripes of Jesus I'm

healed. And my wife phones me. I said

with the stripes of Jesus I'm healed. My

wife phones me again. How's it going?

With the stripes of Jesus I'm healed.

And then it happened.

>> Faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word of God. Now there were doctors

all around. They told me that people had

just died in the somebody just died in

the warden ward next door and people

were dying. I said nobody dies when I'm

here.

>> Nobody dies in this word. This is not

presumption. Beloved, you will have what

you say and what you allow is allowed

and what you forbid is forbidden.

>> That's what Jesus did. Peace be still.

I said, "Nobody's dying while I'm here."

And I carried on speaking the word of

God into my ear. It was the confession

of hope. And then all of a sudden, glory

to Jesus. Faith comes by hearing and

hearing. Your your faith cannot go

beyond your knowledge and revelation of

God. And the next thing, faith dropped

in my heart. Oh shaka bundi

zone me. I said, I got it. I'm healed.

Listen, TL Osborne, study it out. You

can find it on YouTube. For five years,

he fought a heart condition while he

preached healing

and healings and miracles happened

everywhere. But he said, "I'm not

advertising what the devil's doing." He

had irregular heartbeats. At times he

thought he was going to drop dead, but

he was not speaking the devil's

or publishing or advertising for the

devil. And he listened to the story. I

put it on my Facebook this week, funnily

enough. And after 5 years, the healing

power of God hit him and he walked out

with a totally new heart because he

never let go. You got to hold fast to

the confession of faith. You got to keep

taking your medicine. And my wife popped

her neck. I'm telling you, I it was

terrible. It's, you know, I've dealt

with people. One boy, he's he broke his

neck paralyzed from the the neck down

lying there in hospital just ahead. You

understand? You're trying to encourage

this boy thinking, "God, what do you say

to somebody like this?" Then another one

dives into the water shallow like it and

snaps his neck. Then another kid at the

university falls down the stairs and

snaps his neck dead. And my wife says,

"I've just my neck's hurting and I can't

play the keyboard." I said, "Zelli, what

are you telling me?" They go and look at

it. She's popped three discs both sides.

Now, I know this can be paralysis for my

wife. It's one thing when it's you, but

when it's your wife or your child, this

is a different story. And I'm saying to

what are we doing? You go to the doctor

and want to keep this short, beloved.

The doctor says, "We're going to have to

cut." I said, "But she's a singer. She's

written songs." He says, "There's

nothing we can do." I said, "Can't you

cut from the back?" He says, "No, very

old people. We might, but we can't.

You've just got to go with it." So, we

go to the next one for an opinion. He

says the same thing. They said, "We have

to book you in Tuesday. You booked in."

So, I'm thinking, "Well, Lord, you know,

thank God according to our faith,

whatever your measure is, we don't judge

people for where their faith level's at.

If she can believe for a successful

operation, hallelujah, I'll believe for

a successful operation. And Zel says,

I'm not going.

I said, Zelie, you know, I don't know

about you, but I don't look forward to

living living with somebody who can't

move.

She says, the Lord gave me a word.

Listen to this.

My son, give attention. This is Proverbs

Proverbs 4:20

4:20. This is the medicine bottle.

My son, give attention to my words.

Whose report will you believe?

>> We will believe the report of the Lord.

>> Give attention to my words.

But the doctors said this. Thank God for

doctors.

I've had operations. So, you know, I

thank God. I've also had healing. I

couldn't I broke my arms. It couldn't

move further than that. God healed my

arms. You can see here. See, I I've had

healing my body, but I also had

operations. So, I thank God for doctors,

let me tell you. And I pray for doctors.

They're fighting the same devil we are.

But my wife says, "I'm not going. I'm

thinking this is my wife and she's not

going." And her neck is popped in three

different places and she ain't going to

hospital. She says, "No, I'm taking my

medicine. I'm your medicine." This is

what she was doing. My son, give

attention to my words and kind your ear

to my sayings. Faith comes by hearing.

Do not let them depart from your eyes.

What you see is what you get. Keep them

in the midst of your heart. For they are

life to those who find them and medicine

or healing to all their flesh. That word

is medicine. And 1 Peter 2:24, if you

1 Peter 2:24

look at it, actually that's the word

which we get doctor from. and the Lord

has made a covenant with us and said,

"I'm the Lord, your healer."

>> And she said, "I'm taking my medicine."

She missed playing in church one week

and God healed her neck.

>> Whose report will you believe?

According to your faith, be it unto you.

Now, we don't go around putting pressure

on people. But beloved, there has to

come a time when Christians begin to

say, "Where did sickness come from?

Where did disease come from? Where did

death come from? Where did darkness and

depression and every other diabolical de

of the devil come from? It came in the

garden when man broke contact with

heaven. No sickness in heaven, no death

in heaven, only life and peace and joy,

glory to Jesus and power. But man broke

and decided to go his own way. Ate of

the tree of the knowledge of good and

evil. Thank God for wisdom of men. But

the Bible tells us the snake is in the

tree

and it was the snake in the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil. And the

Bible says man's wisdom is sensual and

even demonic in James chapter 4. So we

James 4 · chapter mention

have got to get to a place where we got

to say where did the sickness come from?

This did not come from God. So the

source has to be somebody. And the

Bible's clear where it comes from. Satan

and sin and sickness are twin or

triplets.

And all sickness and disease comes from

the devil. And we've got to get a hold

of this because if you understand it's

the devil, then you'll understand that

the brother of Jesus, JAMES SAID,

"RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE from

you." I've had to learn the devil tries

to put stuff on me and I have as I feel

it, I just say, "No way. Not accepting

this package." rejected in Jesus' name.

And I'm not talking about once, many

times. I don't have time today to go

through all the testimonies, but I'll

tell you one night what happened. I was

healed in that hospital. Uh they took

videos cuz now they've got somebody that

didn't die in their ward and they're

filming it and all the rest. It was

here. Apostle Mark came and fetched me

from that ward. But now two two years or

more down the line, I wake up one

morning 3:00.

I'm thinking, "What is this?" 3:00 in

the morning. Listen, you got to keep

your healing.

>> It's like you got to keep your health.

>> You can be as healthy as you like, but

you start eating rubbish and garbage,

you're going to change the shape of your

body.

>> You got to look after yourself. You

understand? But I wasn't looking after

myself spiritually. Now, this is a

confession. I know, you know, we'd want

everybody to think we're okay, but

bottom line was I was getting into sin.

I was starting to get buckled and bent.

I was starting to get upset with certain

things that were done by certain people

and I was getting upset and I was

beginning to say I wasn't blessing them.

I can tell you. We'll just leave it

there, right?

And I now know my healing.

I know the scripture, but healing is not

a formula.

Healing is actually a person.

He's the son of righteousness risen with

healing in his wings.

Healing is actually a person. Health is

God himself. Righteousness is a person.

God has made Jesus to be unto us wisdom,

righteousness, sanctification, and

redemption from sickness, poverty, and

spiritual death. And so, I wake up 3:00

in the morning. I think, "Oh, God, Lord,

by your stripes, I'm healed." And the

Lord stops me right there at 3:00 in the

morning and says, "Look at the context."

And if you go to one Peter 2, have a

look at it in your own time there.

You'll see that the Bible says Jesus did

not return reviling for reviling, but he

committed himself to the father.

And he said, "If you're suffering, then

put it committed to God."

And as I did that, I I knew what God was

saying. I said, "Oh Lord, forgive me.

I've been murmuring." You know, if you

look at one Corinthians 10, they died

out there in the wilderness for

murmuring. We can get hung by our

tongue. Just shut up the mouth. You

understand? But I wasn't. And I was

being negative and moaning and groaning.

I was walking around like a bear with a

sore head getting into self-pity and

feeling all kinds of stuff. And right

then the Lord chose me. Look at the

context. And I saw I said, "God, forgive

me. I'm sorry." And instantly I was

healed.

>> Beloved, the Bible says, "If any man is

sick, let him call for the elders of the

church. Let them pray over him,

anointing him with oil. The prayer of

faith will save the sick. And if he has

committed any sin, it will be forgiven

him.

>> Hallelujah.

>> Sickness and forgiveness go together

because the Bible says he was made sin

without sin that we might become the

righteousness of God in Christ by whose

stripes were healed. By his

righteousness we are healed. If you look

at one Peter 2 24, I just love that

verse. It says he became sin for us that

we might become the righteousness of God

that through his righteousness we may be

healed. As I repented, beloved, listen

to me now. I was instantly healed. You

see, the devil can get in. When you get

into bitterness, a root of bitterness

will spring up and choke you. Many will

be defiled. Christians think you can

just say it, do what you like. But you

are governed by your confession.

And I'm governed by my confession. And

God's no respect of persons, but if

you're going to walk around talking

sickness, disease, rubbish, and

gossiping and slandering and all the

rest, you just open the devil up to kick

your butt. He will eat your lunch and

pop the packet. As Andrew WC says,

Beloved, we got to stay clean before

God. Now, I want to say this. When we

understand then that sickness is of

Satan and Jesus was anointed by the Holy

Spirit and came to destroy the works of

the devil. He was made sick with your

sicknesses, sin with your sin, poverty

with your poverty. He took the full

curse of these things so that you might

enjoy the fullness of the blessings of

the gospel of Christ. We're just going

to play the music today when I minister.

We've got to understand, beloved, that

Jesus came and he came down the Milky

Way of time, never sinned, though

tempted in all points like as we are,

yet without sin, he finally said, "Lord,

I'll take their place." And everywhere

where they have thought wrong, done

wrong, spoken wrong, believed wrong, and

said wrong. I will go to Calvar's cross

and he hangs as you know he goes to the

whipping post and there they lash his

back and break him until his very end

endrails were exposed his body broken

the Bible says for your healing and mine

and he took your sin and mine on that

cross he took the full punishment and

the full curse of the whole of creation

in fact

to break everything Satan had done to

break every chain to take back the keys

of hell and death and bring mankind into

a freedom. When I lay in that hospital

and I was believing, I said, "God, you

said Jesus that the father will be

glorified if I believe you." The most

glorifying thing for you and me is to

walk in divine health.

Not just divine healing, but divine

health. And so what Jesus did is he came

and took your place in mine. And now you

open your heart and he comes in and he

makes you a new creation. And this is

the amazing thing. Paul prays for this

re reason we bow our knees to the father

of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the

whole family in heaven and earth is

named that he will grant you according

to the riches of his glory to be

strengthened with his might and by his

spirit in the inner man that Christ may

dwell in your hearts by faith that you

being rooted and grounded in love may be

able to comprehend. Love is the key.

Faith works by love. forgiveness

rooted and grounded in love may be able

to comprehend the length, depth,

breadth, and height to know the love of

Christ that passes knowledge that you

might be filled with all the fullness of

God.

Now he is able, the Bible says, to do

exceedingly abundantly above all that

you could ever ask or think according to

the power that works in you. Paul prayed

that you would know the power of God

that's already at work in you. There is

no depression in your spirit. There is

no sickness in your spirit. There is no

disease in your spirit. There is no

darkness in your spirit. The only place

it can exist is we spirit, soul and body

is in the mind thinking wrong, believing

wrong, speaking wrong. It can only

operate there. But if you and I will

take with that which is already ours and

say, "Lord, you've put it in my heavenly

bank account. I'm one spirit with you.

There's no sickness in my spirit.

There's no sickness and disease between

you and me. Now, what I'm doing, Lord,

is you've given me the measure of faith.

The Bible says God gives the measure of

faith. When you got born again, you were

born again by faith and grace through

the gift of God. He gave you the measure

of faith. You have the faith to use. Now

you have it, but it's whether or not you

use it, whether you take this medicine,

whether you give attention to God's

word, whether you hear the word of God,

you understand to bring faith, whether

you keep the word of God before your

eyes, looking to the promise

and the power of the persons of the

Godhead.