Basics of Healing - Part 6 - Healing School - Pastor Philip Steele - August 25th, 2026

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Hallelujah.

Let's uh turn over Amalachi chapter four.

And um we're continuing uh looking at this subject, the basics of healing.

And uh so far we've dealt with five different basics.

Um look at the sixth one today.

And uh uh so far we've looked at uh the first one that we looked at is God's completely faithful to his word.

God is completely faithful to his word.

Secondly, his healing is now and uh thirdly, anything that Christ shed blood to redeem us from is always God's will.

And fourthly, healing and feelings.

Uh fifth last week was expect God to restore.

Expect God to restore.

And then today the sixth point is make the promises of God concerning healing your own.

Make the promises of God concerning healing your own.

Hallelujah.

And uh you know, something that's real big in my spirit, and we'll we'll look at it some today in some areas, but is this this idea of impossibility and just this whole concept of not allowing anything, anybody, any circumstance to dictate to you what you have to expect.

It's it's and again, it's uh where healing is concerned, uh you know, there are elements of it where people just people in general, uh if if you talk to somebody that if you're 40 years old and you talk to somebody that's 70, it won't be long before they k they start saying things like this to you.

Well, wait till you're my age.

Just wait till you're my age, and then you'll find out.

Right?

Well, I'm not expecting that.

That's not what I'm expecting.

Right?

I'm expecting my youth to be renewed, I'm expecting my strength to stay, I'm expecting my might to increase, right?

Because that that's what the scripture says.

That that see, that's part, that's making the promises of God concerning healing your own.

And so if I start allowing circumstances, uh diagnoses, uh, reports to start telling me what to expect, right?

Pastor Caldwell told the story of going and he felt led to go pray for a certain individual that was in the hospital.

And he said, I uh I got up there and uh I went in, the family was there, and he said, you know, the doctors had given her a certain amount of time to live.

They said she had this certain disease, and he said the family was already up there planning her funeral, planning who her pallbearers were gonna be, planning who was gonna uh uh care for her young children.

And he said, just right here in my spirit, he said, I knew that she didn't have to die.

I knew it.

And he said, so I asked all the family to leave.

Well, they didn't like that, but I asked them to leave.

And he said, and I told her, look, you don't have to die.

I know this by the Spirit of God.

Well, here's the point.

They were already allowing somebody else to dictate their expectations.

Right?

Amen.

I remember back in the pandemic, and and they they uh, you know, the reports came out and they were saying, you know, probably everybody's gonna get it.

I made the declaration.

I don't care what anybody says, I'll never have it.

That's that's I do not have to expect to have things.

Amen.

And and if I am making the promises of God concerning healing my own, right?

I have them.

F.F.

Bosworth made the statement.

He said, do not doubt God's willingness to heal you.

His promises are a revelation of his will.

Do not doubt God's willingness to heal you.

His promises are a revelation of his will.

He said further about the word of God.

The word of God is the seed which, if sown and kept in the heart, will produce the harvest of healing.

It'll produce the harvest of healing.

Now, especially if you've been around charismatic circles and these different things for a number of years, you've heard that over and over again.

The word of God is a seed, and you put it in your heart, and you'll produce a harvest.

But here's the thing: you've got to take ownership of it.

That's mine, that belongs to me.

Right?

That's not just a promise that I can claim.

Right?

I know God is ever, I know Jesus is everybody's savior, but what made salvation right for me was what?

I believed he was my savior.

Right?

I it didn't matter that my mom and dad were saved.

It didn't matter that people I knew were saved, it mattered that I believed he was my savior.

If you don't believe he's your savior, you're not saved.

You can believe he is a savior or that he does save, but is he your savior?

So people can say, well, I know that's in the word, but is it yours?

Right?

Is that your Bible?

Is that God speaking to you?

Right?

It's not just a book, it's not just the Bible.

This is my Bible, this is God speaking to me, this is God's eternal promise, God's eternal love letter to me.

And so I take that and I make it my own.

So when I read a healing scripture, it's not God talking about you, it's God talking about me.

It is God talking about you, but to me, it's me.

Hallelujah.

Do you see that?

He went on further and said, faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence, but believing God because of the evidence of his word.

So you're not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence.

I'm believing God because of the evidence of his word.

And so that's where a lot of people get hung up, is they're trying to believe God regardless of the evidence.

So they're trying to hang in there when there seems to be no evidence of healing, but there is evidence of healing because I have the word.

Hallelujah.

So healing must be taken.

It has to be taken.

And it is taken through owning the promises of God as your own.

They are promises God made to me personally.

I've known of people saying and heard people say over the years, well, the Bible has too much to say about healing for it not to be true.

They don't believe it's their own.

They believe the Bible says it, but they don't believe it's their own.

My life changed when I took personally every promise.

I've told the story of reading John 17, 17 and telling the Father, from this day forward, I choose to believe that every word in this book's absolute truth.

I took it as my own.

This is my own.

In every Bible that I possess, you'll read on the first page of that Bible, dear Philip, and then you'll read at the end of Revelation, love Jesus.

That's his letter to me.

In every Bible I own, you'll read on the front flap of my Bible, this is my Bible.

This is God speaking to me.

And I've been believing God and seeing God work and operate through the word for over 30 years.

But every Bible that I start, I write that.

Why?

I don't want to forget.

This is personal to me.

Right?

If I'm going to receive my healing, see, it's my healing.

Just the fact that I'm saying my healing means there's healing that God has provided for me.

And I want to receive my healing.

You know, we personalize things.

Around, you know, April, we file our taxes.

Right?

Hopefully before then.

Right, Teresa?

Hopefully.

Right?

And and and you're filing your taxes, and what are you expecting?

Your what?

My return?

Your return.

That's right.

My return.

You're not thinking about, am I getting a return?

You're thinking about your return.

Right?

When you're talking healing, you're not thinking about, is Joe, Brother Joe, gonna get his healing?

This is my healing.

I want Brother Joe to get his, but this is my healing.

Amen.

Why?

Because it's you that may be suffering with the pain.

It's you that may be suffering with the discomfort or the diagnosis, right?

And people are very quick to call that theirs.

My this, my disease, my this, my problem, right?

I gotta flip that.

That's not mine.

There's no promise of sickness in the Bible for me.

There's only a promise of healing.

And so when I take and I take ownership of the issue and I start calling it mine, I'm actually going contrary to the word of God because God says this is what is yours, but I'm saying this is what is mine.

I gotta flip that.

Nope, what God said is mine.

Hallelujah.

Say it out loud.

What God said is mine.

So they are promises God made to me personally.

And understand that every promise that God has ever made, it's not, I dwell on this sometimes, but it's it's for a reason.

People think promise and they think something that will happen.

Well they promised, meaning they haven't, but they promise, so they will.

That's not, that's not, the Bible says all.

You know this verse.

All the promises of God are in Him, in Christ.

Yes, and amen.

Or yes, and so be it.

In other words, they're already done.

Every promise God has ever made is already ratified.

In God's mind, it's already fact.

It's not something he has to do.

And so when somebody says God healed me, I understand what they mean, and I and I appreciate that.

But here's what really happened: they walked in what to what was already done.

God didn't have to produce healing.

Healing was already bought and paid for.

By faith, they walked into it.

Does that make sense?

They took it as theirs.

That's what's so important when you start calling yourself the healed of the Lord.

I am the healed of the Lord.

Right?

I am.

Not I shall be, I will be, I could be, I might be, I am.

That's why Bosworth made that statement.

It's not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence.

So I'm not trying to believe something regardless of what I see.

I am believing God because of the evidence of his word.

Oh, hallelujah.

Malachi 4 and 2.

Notice what it says, but unto you that fear my name will the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and you, that's you, that's me, that's us, will grow up as calves of the stall.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

One translation says, and it will bring healing power like the sun's rays.

You will be free and happy like calves freed from their stalls.

Oh, hallelujah.

Amen.

You know, I I grew up ranching.

I grew up with agronomy, and listen, I've watched them old hard ranchers that just, I mean, they didn't laugh about anything.

They just giggle like schoolgirls about a little calf running and bucking around the pasture.

It just brings joy to you, right?

Well, why are they doing that?

They're young, they're full of vitality, they're full of energy.

He says the healing power of God will come into your life, and you'll be like a calf freed from a stall.

Woo! That'll make you kick right now.

Glory to God.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Another translation says, Unto you that fear my name, the Son of righteousness will be born, and in his wings shall he bring saving health, and you'll go forth and jump like calves from the herd.

Hallelujah.

Why you're going to be so healed and so well.

Glory to God.

Amen.

Say this confession with me.

I fear the Lord.

He has brought me saving health.

I'm free like a calf released from a stall.

Oh, hallelujah.

See, that's personalizing that.

I do fear the Lord.

He's brought me saving health.

Not going to.

Jesus is the Son of righteousness.

He has risen with healing in his wings.

Hallelujah.

If I fear the Lord, if he's risen with healing in his wing, then I'm like a calf freed from the stall.

Hallelujah.

Right?

And so I may be facing tiredness.

I may be facing fatigue, but that's not what I'm calling mine.

What's mine is I'm like a calf released from the stall.

I got lots of energy.

Amen.

Think a two-year-old with four lollipops in them.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Wow.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

People say, where'd they get all that energy?

Same place you get all your energy.

Hallelujah.

Look at Psalm 107.

We got a lot of verses today.

We're going to say a lot today.

Is that all right?

In Psalm 107 and verse 20.

This is a familiar verse, but I want us to personalize this.

It says, He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions.

One translation says, by the power of his own word, he healed you and saved you from destruction.

Hallelujah.

Another says, He sent his word and healed them and rescued them from destruction.

The EXB Bible says God gave the command, sent forth his word and healed them.

So they were saved, rescued from dying, destruction, or the pit.

Moffat says, He sent his word to heal them and preserve their life.

Hallelujah.

Say this with me: the word has been sent, and I have been healed.

I'm redeemed from sickness and rescued from destruction.

See, when I read these verses, I ask myself, did he send the word?

Then if he sent the word, I'm healed.

I'm rescued from destruction.

Right?

The mind is where the fight is.

Because the mind, again, the mind wants to go back and say, but if I was healed, I wouldn't be dealing with X.

But I'm, remember, I'm not fighting this fight.

I'm not trying to maintain faith despite the evidence.

I'm taking what's mine based on what the Word of God says.

Hallelujah.

And so if the word has been sent, I've been healed.

And I've been rescued from destruction.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

Do you see that?

Now, while again, while again, that seems sort of elementary, the word has been sent.

The Lord told me years ago, and I ministered on this one night when we had a healing meeting in Stuttgart, and I was ministering.

I just ministered from those three verses, Isaiah 53 and 5, Matthew 8, 18, and 1 Peter 2.24.

And the Lord kept emphasizing over and over again, it's in the tenses.

It's in the tenses.

With his stripes, you are healed.

You are healed.

So when he took stripes, I became healed.

Right?

If he's going to heal me, that's how it's going to happen.

See, we use these phrases.

Jesus, according to the Apostle Paul, is not coming down from heaven and touching anybody.

Not doing that.

His work's finished.

Jesus is not coming to the earth to lay hands on anyone.

Hallelujah.

That's why he said, You as believers in my name, you will go lay hands on the sick, and the Lord will work with you.

Right?

The power of God will work with you.

What's laying on of hands?

That's the act of faith.

And what does the act of faith release?

The power of God in that situation.

So Jesus finished the work.

He's not coming down to lay hands on anybody.

It's already finished.

He said, Here's what I need you to believe: that I took stripes on my back for your healing.

And when I took stripes on my back, you were healed.

Right?

He sent his word and healed them.

He sent his word and healed them.

So the word has been sent, so I've been healed.

Now I take that personally.

Nope, the word's been sent.

So I've been healed.

Hallelujah.

See, it's not just something I quote, it's something I internalize, it's something I personalize.

This is mine.

I have it.

It belongs to me.

Hallelujah.

You know, there's nothing like we got to go.

I have to go to a lot of things, you know, with Liliana, and she's in the cheer this year, and there's nothing like being around a bunch of giggly elementary school cheerleaders, right?

And it's just it's like overload.

And you'll hear people saying, which one's yours?

Right?

And you know, sometimes you don't want to admit.

But which one's yours?

What are they asking you to do?

Take ownership.

Right?

Which one is yours?

When you look at that, how there it's there's hundreds of promises of healing in the Bible.

Which one's yours?

All of them.

One of them or two of them or three of them may speak more profoundly to you than others, but they're all yours.

They're all yours.

They're all yours.

They're not just all in the Bible, they're all yours.

They all belong to you.

Amen.

So Psalm 107, verse 20, is personally mine.

Psalms 107:20

He sent his word and healed Philip.

And delivered Philip from all his destruction.

Right?

So you can't call Philip sick because Philip has already been healed, because the word has already been sent.

I've already been redeemed from my destruction.

Oh, hallelujah.

So a lot of people read that and they'll say, Well, he sent his word, so he'll heal me.

No, it says he sent his word and healed.

And so I can a person can lay in bed or sit in their house and say, Well, he sent his.

Word, so he's going to heal me and never get healed.

Because they don't internalize it, they don't personalize it.

Right?

Anything that you put off into the future is not faith.

Well, I know the Lord will heal me because the word says.

No, wait a minute.

The word says you're already healed.

Right?

So I'm not waiting on what he said is already done to be done.

It's done.

Hallelujah.

I don't know if you've been watching Pastor Caldwell, but he said something yesterday on Arkansas Live.

He said, anything to do with faith is an act.

He said, if there's no action with it, it's not faith.

And I've taught for years that sometimes the main act of your faith, especially in the beginning, is you declaring what God said as personally yours right now.

That may be all you can do.

You know, there are people they can't they can't take any other act.

They're bedfast, they're they're paralyzed, they can't, whatever, they can't get out of the out of the room, out of the chair, out of the house.

But they can say, This is mine now, I have it, I receive it.

Hallelujah.

I call this one of the basics because this is one of the things I've seen over the years.

That when people begin to internalize and personalize the promises of God, right?

And they take the promise of God not as something.

Why can God promise you healing?

Because it's already done.

It's not a promise of something he'll do, it's a promise of the manifestation of something he's already done.

Hallelujah.

You know, people talk about the promise of salvation.

That's fulfilled, that's done.

Salvation is done.

Every person that will believe Jesus died on the cross will be born again.

Actually died or rose from the dead.

So, so, in essence, we, and again, I gotta be careful with this, but in essence, we say, well, you know, God saved that person.

Well, he did, but more than anything, they walked into what was already there.

Salvation was already there.

Hallelujah.

Healing's already there.

So it's not a promise of what he'll do, it's a promise of what he has done.

Hallelujah.

Look at Jeremiah 33.

Actually, go to Psalm 103 before we go there.

There's so much.

So she knows she's got to write it.

Not really, but she's got to help me.

Psalm 103, verse 2.

Psalms 103:2

Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

Now, over the years, we're gonna read another verse here, but over the years this has been called the believer's benefit package and the comprehensive health plan of the believer and all these different things.

And that's that's absolutely the truth.

That's absolutely right.

All right?

But notice it says, who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.

Now notice it doesn't say who will heal, does heal.

Right?

Why is it that it places it that way?

That he's the one that heals all of our diseases.

Because he's the one that said, I'm the Lord your healer.

Amen.

The Young's literal translation I really like about this says, Who is healing all your diseases?

Who is healing?

Presently, currently.

What's going on in your body right now?

He's healing all your diseases.

Hallelujah.

Another translation says, more than any doctor, he heals your diseases.

Say this with me.

God is currently, presently, my healer.

Sickness cannot stay, weakness cannot stay.

For the healing power of God drives it out of my body.

Hallelujah.

Whatever's wrong cannot stay.

Why?

Because healing's working.

When's it working?

Now.

Right now.

It's working, it's working.

The healing power is working.

Amen.

Right now, it's working right now, working in my body.

Driving sickness away, driving disease away.

Hallelujah.

Look at Jeremiah 33.

Hallelujah.

Jeremiah 33 and 6.

He said, Behold, I will bring it health and cure.

And I will cure them and reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

That first word cure means healing.

I will bring it health and healing.

The second word cure means to heal, and I will heal them.

I will bring them healing, and I will heal them and reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

One translation says, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well.

Another translation, the literal Old Testament prophet translation says, Behold, I will make it perfectly sound and whole and will heal them.

Hallelujah.

So say this with me: God has brought me health and healing.

I am whole.

I am well.

I am healed and cured.

Woo! Hallelujah.

I'm healed and cured.

So whatever it is, I'm cured.

How are you doing, brother?

Cured.

How are you, sister?

Cured.

How about what you've been dealing with?

Oh, I'm cured.

Hallelujah.

One of the things that Brother Copeland taught me, oh my goodness, 32 years ago.

I'm the establishing witness.

Right?

And I'm not, but if I'm the only person in this room believing that I'm well, that's what counts.

I'm the establishing witness.

Hallelujah.

So when somebody says, How are you doing?

And I say, cured?

They might think, well, I know good and well they're not.

No, they know what they know, but they don't know what I know.

See, what you know doesn't matter.

It's what I know.

And I've had people come to me and say that.

Well, you know, they're saying they're healed, but I know good and well.

Now wait a minute, I'm gonna say with what they're saying.

Right?

You're the establishing witness.

What do you say about it?

People will call me and say, Well, Pastor the doctor said, and I always answer this way.

Well, what do you say?

What do you say?

You're the establishing witness.

Right?

Remember Charles Caps used to say all the time?

He would say, God said that his word is forever settled in heaven or established in heaven.

He said, now you got to put it in your mouth and establish it in the earth.

I have to do that.

So it's an established fact in heaven that I'm healed.

That I'm cured.

It's an established fact.

Hallelujah.

You know, Jesus never looks at the Father and says, Father, I'm sure believing that they'll be healed.

He's got the evidence on his back that we're healed.

Just, amen.

Just like he's got the evidence in his flesh and bone body in heaven.

He's got the evidence that we're saved.

Amen.

So why should I bear the scars of sickness and disease when my Lord and Savior already has the scars of sickness and disease in his body?

Hallelujah.

Say it one more time.

God is currently, presently, my healer.

God has brought me health.

I'm whole.

I'm healed.

I'm cured.

Oh, hallelujah.

Amen.

See, you keep the word of cure in your mouth.

You keep the word of cure in your mouth.

Hallelujah.

I've told you the story about, you know, I had this uh place on my actual face, and uh, I don't know, I I I it was it hung around for you know a couple years and I didn't really think too much of it.

And I told you about how funny my doctor thinks he is, and he's not really funny, but but you know, he tries to tell you those doctor jokes.

And anyway, he I I went in for a physical one year and I said, Well, I'm I've been looking at this right here.

I said, you know, I'm just wondering if if uh if if you can look at it and tell me what you think.

Ah, you know, he said, that's just too many birthdays.

Okay, all right.

And so I went back the next year and it was a little different, and he said, Yeah, I think you better go have that looked at.

So he sent me to dermatologist.

Dermatologists uh uh, you know, took a, they did a biopsy on it and sent it away.

And about a week later, she or her nurse actually called me and said, Well, yeah, it's malignant.

And I said, Okay, all right.

And she said, So you need to need to come in, we're gonna do this.

And they told me the treatment, this, that, and the other.

Well, here's the thing.

For decades, I've said over myself, I'm a cancer-free zone.

When that came back malignant, I didn't say, Well, I thought I was a cancer-free zone.

I said out of my mouth, I'm a cancer-free zone.

I'm not bragging, I'm telling you, this is how you got it, this is how you live your life.

When the report comes back, you may get a report that is contrary to the report that we see there.

I'm cured.

Right?

But if the word says Jesus has scars on his back for my healing, he paid for my healing, then I'm healed regardless of the report I get.

Right?

That's the moment, that's the transaction point.

That's where faith is won or lost.

Because if people say, Well, I don't understand, and I just don't understand how this could happen.

Faith stops right there.

Right?

Because faith needs your agreement, faith needs your voice, faith needs your belief.

Right?

Amen.

Well, you know, it came to nothing.

I mean, it came to nothing.

Went went through the the the treatment they gave, and I mean, that's fine.

But here's here's the point.

It started with me saying, no, no, I'm a cancer-free zone.

That was what came out of my mouth.

My wife said, What'd they say?

And I told her, and she said, Okay, I said, but I'm you know, I'm a cancer-free zone.

That's the reality of it.

Amen.

I'm I'm whole, I'm cured.

Oh, hallelujah.

Look at Jeremiah 38.

So when someone says, How are you doing?

cured.

I'm well.

Jeremiah 38, 20.

But Jeremiah said, They will not deliver you.

Obey, I beseech you, the voice of the Lord that I speak unto you, and it will be well unto you, and your soul shall live.

One translation says, It will be well with you, and you will live.

Huh?

How are you doing?

Doing well.

I'm gonna live.

Another translation says, Your life will be saved.

Say this with me, all will be well with me.

My life will be saved, and I will live.

Hallelujah.

Ah, glory to God.

All will be well with me, and I'll live.

Amen.

Look at Psalm 118.

And uh verse 17.

This is, I realize a familiar scripture, but verse 118, verse 17, chapter 118, verse 17.

The King James says it this way: I will not die but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

The holy translation says, and now I know I will not die, but live.

Oh, hallelujah! And do what?

Declare the works of the Lord.

But notice where it starts.

I won't die, I will live.

Amen.

I will not die, but live.

You know, because so much of what we do and so much of what we deal with medically, you know, they they they they I have personal knowledge, family members and whatnot, with with cancer and and and heart disease, heart trouble.

You know, it's like uh they they use phrases like end stage heart failure.

Right?

Somebody say the doctors say you have cancer, and the first question people say, what stage?

Right?

And somebody's not on the word if they just say, well, you know, it's it's it's it's the first stage, you know, stage one, or oh, they breathe a sigh of relief.

But if the doctor says, stage four, oh Lord.

Right?

Well, think about this.

Take stage four whatever and line it up with Psalm 118, verse 17.

Psalms 118:17

I know they said I have stage four whatever, but I shall not die but live.

I know that's what they said, but I will not die.

I will live.

Right?

So what are you saying?

I shall not die.

No stronger affirmation of truth in the entire world than the word shall.

Or will in our English language.

I will not die.

Yeah, but you have this.

I I will not die.

I realize I have that, but I will not die.

The end result of this will not be my death, it will be my living.

And I will declare that God did it.

Do you remember Jesus?

And you know this, but do you remember Jesus?

Maybe you do.

Maybe online you don't.

Uh I need to quit saying that probably.

But remember when Jesus, he, they sent word Lazarus was sick, and Jesus stayed three days in the town where he was?

Well, he couldn't leave the meeting.

There was a good meeting going on.

He couldn't leave.

Right?

And uh then they sent word and said he died.

And so Jesus said, we got to go uh to Bethany to see our friend Lazarus because he's sleeping.

And they said, Well, Lord, if he's sleeping, he's doing good.

Right?

And Jesus looked at him and said, No, he died, guys.

But what did he say?

This sickness will not result in death, but in the glory of God.

Well, the sickness wasn't given for the glory of God.

Sickness never glorifies God.

Right?

He's saying the end result is Lazarus is gonna live, and the glory is gonna be God's.

Right?

Jesus never agreed with the circumstance, he never denied it.

He looked plainly at them and said he died.

But he's not gonna stay dead.

Why?

I will not die but live.

Amen.

I will not die but live.

Amen.

But you know, people die from what I got, but not you.

Well, I expect you'd be a little louder about that.

Amen.

Not you.

See, that's where that's what that's where you answer those kind of things.

Well, you know, the mortality rate is this, but that's not my mortality rate.

I live a long life.

I will not die, but live.

See, there's things you can't, there's things that you there's things that you just ignore, and then there's things you cannot just let stay said.

Right?

If if they look at a person and say, you've got six months to live, you can't let that stay said.

You can't let that stay said.

Because they're trying to personalize that.

You have, and you could insert your name, you, Joe Smith, only have six months to live.

And then that person generally will go out of the hospital or out of the doctor's appointment, and people will say, What'd they say?

I only got six months to live.

What'd they tell you that I got six months to live?

What'd they say, I got six months to live?

What starts happening?

Your body starts preparing for six months in six months to die.

Right?

But that's that that that same person, if they internalize, personalize the promises of God.

Well, you got six months to live.

Oh, I will not die, but I will live.

Amen.

I'm gonna live a long life on this earth.

I'm gonna live long and strong.

I'm gonna live out the full number of my days.

Hallelujah.

Amen.

I always say it this way.

And if those unbelieving Israelites could live 70, and if by strength 80 years, I should, as a new covenant believer, bought by the blood of Jesus, healing paid for, I should live at least that long.

Amen.

I plan to live longer, but I should at least reach that threshold.

Oh, hallelujah! Amen.

And now I know I will not die.

Maybe watch it online, maybe even here in the room, maybe you didn't know it, but now you know that you will not die.

But live.

Amen.

Amen.

Isn't the Lord good?

Hallelujah.

So you're what?

You're expecting to live.

You're expecting to survive, you're expecting to thrive.

Amen.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

I've told you this story, but it just it just blesses me so much.

I remember when Jalen Yochum was diagnosed, he was diagnosed with what they call pulmonary antresia, atresia with an intact ventricular septum.

All right?

And what through my study and my uh exploration of this, that's a a rare congenital heart defect.

And what it is, is it's where the pulmonary valve is blocked.

All right?

It doesn't exist.

And the reason why that's so problematic is it prevents blood flow from the right ventricle to the lungs.

So blood flows through your heart through the right ventricle into your lungs.

It has to be oxygenated.

Non-oxygenated blood does you no good.

There's no oxygen in it, it can't produce life.

All right?

And so there was no way for his blood to be oxygenated.

There was, you you cannot fashion a septum.

It's there or it's not.

And so that's why they said to his parents, half of his heart is missing.

Zero percent chance of living.

Zero percent.

Yet that's the only case I've ever had where somebody said there's zero percent chance of living.

I've had 5%, 10%, 1%, never zero.

Right?

Until that case.

Hallelujah.

So basically, there's no way to oxygenate the blood.

He had no pulmonary artery, 0% chance of living.

The first battle they had was not allowing people to tell them what to expect or believe.

Right?

You know, I'm not one of those preachers that demonize doctors.

Doctors are only going by what they're trained to do and what they know.

I thank God, right?

They tell us the facts.

Right?

And there are good Christian doctors that will pray with you, and there are doctors that don't know how to pray, but God confounds them anyway.

But here's the point.

Here's the point.

So we're not demonizing doctors.

But the doctors, being sympathetic and being compassionate, didn't want them to suffer with this because they're in their medical training and knowledge, there was no way for him to live.

Zero percent chance.

Right?

And I've told you the story.

They said, let's just, you know, let's take him off the machines.

He'll only live maybe 10 minutes.

And you can hold him and say your goodbyes.

And their words were, don't put yourself through this.

I understand.

In the natural, that makes sense.

Right?

But that's when the Lord said to them, they can't tell you what to believe.

So their first battle was not allowing people to tell them what to expect or believe.

The second battle was making the promise of God for healing of their son their own.

Right?

And so, thankfully, they followed the faith of those that went before them, and they just took the process that we used with our grandson and just took it and laid it over what they were dealing with.

You know, there's nothing wrong with that.

And so they started calling him mighty Jalen.

He's strong in the Lord.

His heart is fixed, trusted in the Lord.

Amen.

You know, you might not keep, you can't go through the Bible and find tons of promises about the healing of a heart, but you can go through the Bible and find promises about soundness of heart and completeness of heart.

Just take them and apply them.

Hallelujah.

The third battle was standing on what they believed that belonged to them.

This is what belongs to me.

Amen.

You know, this started with them coming.

We sent a handkerchief up, prayed over a handkerchief, and sent it up to the NICU in uh Children's Mercy.

At that time we couldn't we couldn't get up there uh simply because of limitations that they had in that area that he was in.

They family members only at that time.

And uh uh this was uh a little bit before the pandemic, well, a couple years, two or three years.

But the the the point is eventually we went up there and prayed for him, but he was already on the mend by the time I I went up there.

Amen.

So they had to fight that battle of not allowing people to tell them what to expect.

The second battle was making the promise of God for healing of their son their own, and the third battle was standing on what they believed.

Zero percent chance of living.

Zero percent chance of living.

Hallelujah.

Well, I got this the other day.

There he is.

Praising God, that's a picture of him in the NICU.

There's the cloth we sent up to him.

Nine years old, going on, ten years old.

Zero percent chance of living.

But there he is.

They refused zero percent chance.

Whatever may be, and and I say it this way, whatever may be wrong, messed up, not right in your body, and they might say this will never work.

Zero percent chance of living.

I use this in my faith fight.

Every time the devil says it can't happen, zero percent chance.

You don't get any lower than zero.

Amen.

I got I got another picture on my phone of him and his little brother out with his dad, celebrating his dad's uh uh sobriety.

He came to our church and was an addict when he came to the church, and the Lord delivered him, set him free.

I've known his father since he was three.

His family got saved in the meeting that I was preaching and ministering.

Zero percent chance of living.

But there he is.

Amen.

Say this with me.

I know that I will not die, but I will live and bring glory to the Lord my healer.

I know that I know that I know I will not die, but live in Jesus' name.

Oh, hallelujah.

Let's look at a final verse here, Exodus 23.

That's the first battle.

And you know, I'm I'm I'm I'm not uh arrogant about what I believe.

I I understand that people are are dealing with things and they're dealing with issues in their body, and and so this is not an arrogant thing with me.

But the the the point is is that my heart, remember what uh Psalm 112 says?

It talks about uh the righteous man, and it says, his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.

He shall not fear evil tidings.

He shall not fear evil tidings.

We know evil is not necessarily sinful.

It is sinful, but not necessarily everything that's evil is sinful.

Right?

Uh but uh for instance, a diagnosis that you're gonna die in whatever time, that's an evil diagnosis.

Because it's not the will of God for you.

Amen.

You know, it's not the we we look at people that are younger, and you know, how do you define young?

I don't know anymore.

I don't know how you define young or old.

I I don't know how how people define it.

It it it it boggles my mind because they'll look at a person and say, Well, they're only 20 years old.

I mean, look, they're so young, but then they'll talk about a pair of boots they have and how old they are.

They're 20 years old.

Well, how is it that 20 is old for boots but not for people?

And then somebody that's 60 will try to convince you that they don't feel 60.

Well, what does 60 feel like?

How is this supposed to feel?

Who who who who decides?

Who can tell me?

Right?

Well, let me tell you how I felt when I was 60.

Well, let me hear what you have to say, and then I'll determine if I want to listen to you.

Right?

But but but here's here's here's the point that I'm making.

So I'm not arrogant about these things, but you've got to decide.

Right?

When they say something, the first thing that tries to come is fear.

There's certain words, right?

They they just they try to they try to transport fear.

Right?

Cancer.

And I've talked about this before.

You know, people talk about cancer in hushed tones.

Right?

I mean, they'll be laughing and talking.

Well, what you know, hey, what what the doctor say about brother so-and-so?

Oh, he has cancer.

Hushed tones.

Because there's a fear there.

Right?

Nobody wants cancer.

Nobody wants to be diagnosed with that.

But but understand, not wanting it is not enough.

I've got to understand that I live in an earth with the curse in it, and at some point, in some fashion, that curse is gonna try to infiltrate my life.

Right?

It's not because I didn't have faith, it's not because I wasn't believing God, it's because that's the situation.

It's how you respond.

Did you respond in faith?

Did you respond correctly?

Because what happens to most people, well, how'd I get cancer?

I mean, I believe God.

I know God's a healer.

It's not enough.

That's the wrong response.

If you know God's a healer, how do you respond?

Like God's your healer.

Amen.

If if if you know that, that's how you respond.

So Exodus 23, verse 25, it says, and you'll serve the Lord your God, and he'll bless your bread and your water, and take sickness from the midst of you, and there shall nothing cast their young or be barren in your land.

Exodus 23:25

The number of your days I will fulfill.

Notice that your healer takes responsibility for the fulfillment of your days.

So he personally here says, I'll make sure you live out your days on the earth.

One translation says, I've turned aside sickness from your heart.

Young's Little says, I've turned aside sickness from your heart.

Another says, I'll give you long, full lives.

Another says, I will give you a full measure of life.

A full measure of life.

Hallelujah.

We're gonna say confession in a moment, but right now say this.

Say, I will only love life and see good days.

Say it one more time.

I will only love life and see good days.

What are you expecting?

Good days.

I'm gonna see good days.

I'm gonna love life.

I'm can folks, I'm convinced about that.

I'm I'm convinced by the word of God, number one, but number two, by walking it out, by living it out.

For over 25 years, people ask me, you know, how are you doing?

I love life.

I love my life.

If I say that once a day, I say it 50 times a day.

I love my life.

Amen.

Well, yeah, I'd love my life if everything was going right.

I didn't tell you everything was going right.

You know, the Bible doesn't say everything will always go right.

It says all things that are trying to go wrong will turn for your good.

It'll all work out for your good.

Is that right?

This is so important.

So I love life and I see good days all over our house.

I have it everywhere, all over our house.

Philip, Michelle, and Liliana Steele will only love life and see good days.

We'll only love life and see good days.

Things are not gonna fall apart, things are not gonna go south.

We love life and we see good days.

Hallelujah.

So, how how long are you gonna live the full number of your days?

And he and he says a shortened life is not his will.

So again, Psalm 91 says, you live till you're satisfied.

I don't believe that God put a cap on your days.

You know, people read Psalm 92 and they say, Well, he said 70 years and if by strength 80.

It's not what he said.

Moses wrote Psalm 92 and he was asking the Lord, why are we dying at 70 and if by strength, 80?

We're dying before we're dying at that age.

Why is that?

And God was explaining to him.

That was not a cap.

That was not God saying, you have 70 years, and if by strength, 80.

That couldn't be right.

Because people he had a covenant with beforehand lived a lot longer.

Now, I personally don't want to live to be 100.

Have no desire for that.

I hear Brother Copeland say he's believing for 120.

I'm like, go, man, go.

Right?

I are not.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

And I think I have a pretty good idea when I'm going to decide to go home.

Just have a pretty good inclination about it.

I'm not quite there getting a work in agreement with the Lord, but I'm almost there.

Amen.

This is important.

Because he said, I will fulfill the number of your days.

Do you see that?

And so, who then has the right to tell you how brief your life is going to be when God said, I will fulfill the number of your days?

So they can't look at me and say, you've got six months.

I mean, they can, but they shouldn't be able to tell me to expect that.

Amen.

Glory to God.

Because he said, I'll give you a full measure of life.

And in the last three minutes, I have.

That's why, that's why you got to stay away from experience.

You got to stay away from what the experience that others experienced or had or whatever the case may be.

It's it's it's again, it's not for any other reason than in the there's no answer in the question.

I've told you the story about the man that came that had cancer throughout his body.

I mean, he had cancer in his lungs, he had cancer in his liver, he had cancer throughout his body.

And I'll never forget the the Tuesday that he came to the church in DeSoto, came up the right-hand aisle.

We have two aisles in that church.

He came up the right-hand aisle.

I'd never seen him before.

I knew his sister-in-law because she went to our Bible college, and I knew her and her husband, and they brought him to healing school.

He came up, I had to ask if he was saved.

I didn't even know if he was saved.

I didn't know him.

And he was born again.

Folks, I laid hands on him, and if ever the lightning of God came into a service, it did.

It it literally, if you can talk to Pastor Jim Molson, it sounded in the atmosphere.

It sounded like this.

It sounded like something popped in the atmosphere.

It wasn't something I perceived.

You could audibly hear it.

It cracked the atmosphere.

And and he went down.

He went down the with the color of my glasses case.

He was gray as he could be.

He looked so sick coming in that room.

The moment he got up off the ground, his color was back.

He had energy.

He was full of the life of God.

He went back to the doctor, and the doctor was dumbfounded and said, I don't understand it.

The tumors in your lung have shrunk, and the tumors in the other part of your body are gone.

They're gone.

He never sat under the word.

He was, it was just that moment, right?

Well, of course, they started coming to the church.

I'm trying to tell you about experience.

And so, you know, he's, I'm talking to him because I understand we're in a we're in a walk here.

You know, God started something, but we got to walk it out.

And he was trying to assure me, you know, that he was walking, you know, under the word and all these things, and I had no reason not to doubt him.

He he got so much better that they let him go back to work.

He started driving his classic cars again.

I mean, it was powerful, right?

Powerful.

He came to me one time and he said to me, He said, I'm having trouble.

And I said, Well, what is it?

And he said, now please hear me when I say this.

He said, My wife and my daughter are concerned.

And I said, Well, what are they concerned about?

And he said, Well, you know, this hasn't completely left yet.

And I said, Yeah, but the word's working.

Right?

And I never told him to circumvent medical treatment or not go.

I'm I'm y'all's pastor.

You know, I'm most of you anyway, and you know I have no problem with that.

I never tell people not to go to the doctor, right?

But here's the point.

Here's the point.

I said, yeah, but the word's working, right?

They said it's gone in these areas and it's shrinking.

He said, yeah.

But he said, I got a letter from M.D.

Anderson Cancer Center in Austin.

And you know, that's that's if not the premier cancer place in America and maybe the world, it's one of them.

And he said, they're offering me a free treatment.

Right?

A free treatment for what I'm dealing with.

I said, okay.

And he said, they want to fly me down.

They want to get me on an angel flight and fly me down.

I said, okay.

And he said, my wife and daughter are pressuring me to do it.

And I said to him, I called his name and I said, but what do you think you should do?

See, I can't tell you what to do.

I told him, I can't tell you what to do.

I won't.

If somebody comes to me and says, I have a disease and they want me to take the treatment, and what do you think I should do?

I'm not going to tell you what to do.

That's your body, that's your stand of faith.

I'm not going to tell you not to do it.

I'm not going to tell you to do it.

Unless I send something in my spirit.

I ask him, I send something in my spirit.

What do you think you should do?

He said, I think that I should just keep my stand of faith going and I shouldn't take the treatment.

I said, if that's what you know is in your spirit, I said, then you're going to be violating your spirit to do something else.

Right?

Well, he came to me.

Now, I'm going to tell you this story for a reason.

He came to me the next Wednesday.

And he said to me, Well, he said, they really want me to take this treatment.

And he said, So, you know, they're just pressuring me, so I'm going to do it.

And I tried to tell him, I said, brother, you can't act on pressure from other people.

I said, I'm not telling you not to do it.

But if you're just acting because they're putting the pressure on you, you can miss it.

He said, Well, I'm just going to do it.

And he turned around and walked out, and he was about halfway down the sanctuary, and the Lord said to me, And in six months he'll be dead.

Well, why didn't you stop him and tell him?

Because, number one, I wasn't supposed to.

He was letting me see something.

In six months, I was in the hospital room when he died.

Now people say, See, if you start going by experience, that man was healed.

Absolutely healed.

No question.

The report was there.

Well, what happened?

Number one, they quit taking the promises of God as their own.

It just began to be something they were quoting.

Secondly, he allowed the pressure of what somebody else, somebody else's expectations to be superimposed on him.

Now, thank God he went to heaven.

He was saved.

He he learned a lot about God.

Right?

I mean, that's not God's best, but it sure does beat going to hell.

Right?

Here's the thing.

What you're believing is personal to you.

It is more personal to you than it is to your spouse.

It is more personal to you than it is to your children.

They love you, they care about you, but this is something that you're standing with.

This is personal between you and God.

This is personal between you and God.

And you want their agreement and you want their belief, but I never want to let their misplaced compassion cause me to move away from what God wants me to do and what God wants me to believe.

That's why I've spent this whole message talking about this is personal to you.

You make the promises of God personal to you.

Hallelujah.

Because I am a cancer-free zone.

Michelle has to believe that she's a cancer-free zone.

I can believe with her, but not for her.

She's got to believe it.

Amen.

Hallelujah.

Say it out loud.

I believe God.

I believe what he said.

I believe what the word says.

Because of that, I declare I am healed.

I am well.

I am disease free.

I have the healing power of God flowing through my body now.

And I expect a full report of just how healed I am in the name of Jesus.

Oh, hallelujah.

Oh, hallelujah.

Glory to God.

Amen.

And now that's what you're expecting.

That's what you're expecting.

And you know, for every story that I could tell like that, I don't have a lot of stories like that, man.

That's one of the only ones that I have.

Most of the people that I've seen God healed stayed healed.

Because they stayed under the word of God.

So for every person that lost it or didn't get it, there's 50 that did.

And 50 that kept it.

Amen.

Why?

Because the healing power of God is stronger than the ability of sickness to stay in your body.

That's why every day I say it's running it out of my body in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

The spirit life of 1 Peter 2.24 is alive in my body in Jesus' name.

Oh, hallelujah.

Can I say one more thing before I get you out of here?

I don't want to keep you.

But you gotta be careful about wondering.

A pain will come.

I wonder what that is.

I wonder what that is.

Well, I mean, and again, I'm not telling you to, depending on what it is, to not go and have it looked at.

But but Lord help me here.

There's things that can be produced in a person's body because they wandered it in there.

Well, I wonder.

I wonder, is that heart trouble?

And then they go to Dr.

Google.

Where does pain from heart trouble show up in your body?

And and Dr.

Google will tell them.

And they'll start wondering.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was yeah.

Yeah, it was about there.

What does heart pain feel like in your left arm?

This this is the sensation of the yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And they go to their spouse.

You know, I've I just Googled this, and you know, I think I might have heart trouble.

I've been wondering about see what I've been wondering, I've been wondering, I've been wondering.

Right?

I have found that instead of sitting around and wondering, go to the doctor.

If that's what you think, go to the doctor, find out.

Oh, hallelujah.

Let me finish with this.

Rick Renner told a story one time.

He said that he uh he was getting dressed for church one night, and he said he was getting dressed for church, and he noticed a s like a small lump on his uh his chest area right around here.

And he said, Watch, I begin to wonder what that was.

And he said, So I went ahead and went to church, and he said, and and I found myself, I was always touching it and feeling it, and I would tell my wife, I wonder what that is, and I wonder what that is.

And he said, and all these thoughts started coming.

And he said, I started seeing the statistics about breast cancer for men, and and you know, that it was a thing.

I didn't know it was a thing, and and that it was a reality.

And he said, So, you know, I I kept wondering about that.

Oh, and you know how brother Rick he can get dramatic.

Oh, and I, oh, I wonder, and right, and so he said, I kept, I kept, he said, that area of my body got sore because I messed with that that lump so much.

He said, So finally I went to the doctor.

And the doctor said, Well, there's there's uh there's not a lot we can do.

We can do a biopsy, he said, because we don't know what's in there until we do a biopsy on it.

So he said, okay.

And he said, so they did the biopsy.

And he said, they did the biopsy, and I'm waiting on the results, and I'm I'm waiting on the results.

And and he said, you know, they had they had taken it, taken it out and and and and a couple of in uh sutures there, and he said, we're waiting on the results.

And he said, they called me and said, we have the results of of your biopsy.

And he said, okay, and he said, I'm prepared.

I'm I'm prepared to stand, I'm prepared to stand.

And he said, and this is how Brother Rick said it.

He said, and the doctor told me the biopsy revealed that that's a ball of fat.

He said, out of his own words, he said, I was about to wander myself into breast cancer.

Amen.

Scott Webb, a friend of mine, said he was on a dive boat in the Bahamas and he was doing some diving.

And he said, uh, on the dive boat, this guy came up to him and said, I don't mean to be an intrusion.

He said, but I'm a Canadian dermatologist.

And he said, now what's the chances of being on a dive boat in the Caribbean with a Canadian dermatologist?

And he said, he said, he came up and he said, but you've got a mole on your back.

He said, if I was you, I'd have that checked out.

And so he's like, you know, and and if if if you've ever been around, Scott, he does, he has, you know, different, you know, marks and moles on his body, so it's something that is there.

But anyway, here's the here's the point.

He went back to the doctor, and the doctor, of course, sent him to the dermatologist, and uh they said, uh, well, yeah, we we we they did the biopsy, and they said, Yeah, that's definitely that's definitely cancer.

And he said, Okay, and he's working the word, and they said, we need to remove that.

And he said, Well, give me, give me a couple weeks.

And so he said, I took a couple weeks and I'm I'm working the word.

And he said, uh, finally his wife said, Well, you know, I think it'd be a good idea if you just got it removed.

And he said, Okay, you know, if that's what if that's what you want me to do, that's what we'll do.

And so he went in and and it was an inpatient deal, and they uh, you know, deadened the spot and and took it out.

And they they looked at it, and the doctor uh a few days later talked to him, and he said, uh, well, we got you know the results back.

Of course it was what we knew it was, it was malignant.

He said, but the funny thing is this, he said, what's that?

He said the underside of that was white, it was white halfway through.

And he said, Well, you'll have to explain to me.

I don't know what that means.

He said, Medically, what's that mean?

He said, that means that that cancer was dying from the roots.

Well, see, he'd been working the word.

He had been telling cancer to be uprooted out of his body.

He was speaking to it with Mark 11, 23 and 24.

Jesus said, if I speak to you, you'll be plucked up by the root and be removed.

Right?

Amen.

Now he's cancer free today.

I saw him not too long ago.

But here's the point that I'm making.

So the word was killing that cancer from the root.

Because that's what we expect.

When you say that that's not planted by God in my body is pulled up and removed, that's what's happening.

Don't let anybody tell you to expect something else.

Amen.

Well, let me get you out of here, but don't forget we'll be here ministering the word.