Bro Doug Cornett 6-25-2023

What a God, What a wonderful, wonderful God. So could I say

that I'm so thankful that God has blessed this wonderful, fantastic church. Was

such a mighty man of God. The boy that I get to know,

brother, how the lore that I like him. But more than that,

the more that I respected and all I was so moved and blessed this morning

to hear he still has a vision for this church. Come on, now,

I can introduce you to at least a hundred young man that I know

of that would love the pastor and not ask anything more out of it.

Looks good around here. But I'm glad that God has blessed you with the

pastor that has a vision. Amen, hear what he would love to see

happen here? Amen? He God, Thank God. Well, as we

get ready to sing, let me okay, if I ask you, everybody

in the building, would you just point your hand toward the pastor and ask

the Lord to send him a fresh anointing, a fresh burden, and a

fresh love for this wonderful church. Ye Now, if you have trouble,

everything's gone wrong, don't give up your battle. They can't laugh very long.

Don't ever doubt, Jesus, just be the bringing ye Lord, answer

love and he will he will be when on your home is Sometimes what would

you made it so long? My yours? Just remember he chair hold she

answer right and he won't. Sometimes in the battle and the soul was pain

your gas a recess so long? So hold times, but weren't you way

so long? Serious? Just be hares souls? And other times stalk all

talk about it can't close to down your child it all Sometimes time would you

want so sometimes to about this tone much pay like reasons? Sometimes you wor

soho, Jesus, I'm so thankful to the Lord is always there in no

metter, wing through what the time on my phone, our path. We

can always depend on the Lord to be right there. And how I'm so

thankful for how God is moved this morning and so far tonight. I'm looking

forward to a great revival. And you know it's it's we mean healing too,

So we're kind of joining in with this to service. And I know

I know without a doubt that God is still on the throne and still still

is in business. There's an old sofa hold as to see God is still

in business. And I'm so thankful for that. And um, I you

know, brothers, that's testimony doesn't get um doesn't get old to me.

I We go to a lot of places and and they want them to tell

us testimony and preach those messages. And you know, sometimes I think people

might, you know, think, well, she must get tired of hearing

that. But what I want to say is that's what He done for me.

That's set's miracles, that prayers answered, that He done for me.

And I'm so thankful that I can look back and no, like God insert

my prayers, that he was there for me. It wasn't just something that

I've always heard about. There wasn't something that I mean I heard in my

whole life. My mom was given three weeks to live with cancer, and

that's been a lot of years ago, and she still went this God because

I've heard of those saints my entire life. But it came down to a

point I had to believe it and stand on it for myself. I couldn't

rely on my dad's testimony. I couldn't rely on this faith. I had

to have faith for my family myself. And I'm so thankful that God broke

himself again and it's continued to do it over and over and over again,

and I believe I can't remember. It was a pastor where the room kept

back home said something to me about the specific in our prayers, and uh,

it took my mind back whenever the Sunday before brother Doug had his car

wreck, it was a Sunday morning we had a baby dedication of a family

that they it wasn't supposed to have any more children. He had ended up

getting malaria. He was a missionary, and and then medication. The doctor's

total saw, you know, you're not gonna be able to have any more

children, and the Lord gave him a baby girl. And so we were

having that dedication, and I mean, the spirit of Lord was so sweet,

and whenever the service was going on in a baby dedication, the Lord

moved and the Holy Ghost spoke and tons of interpretation, and I remember what

the Holy Ghost said. He said, you need to praise me for what

I've done for you. And you know, I came up to the altar

and I had a sincere conversation with the Lord because I remember saying, Lord,

I'm so thankful for what I've seen you do for the this couple in

our church. I'm so thankful. I've heard my whole life how that you

healed my dad and my mom with cancer. And when I was a baby,

I was diagnosed with leukemia and the Lord healed me at that and I've

heard about that. I don't remember it. I was just a baby,

and I was telling the Lord all of these things that I had heard about,

and I got to the point where I said, and I said to

the Lord, but Lord, I would love to see a miracle for myself

that I know without a doubt it's gonna be heal. And it was the

next day. And I'm not saying that, you know, that was the

only reason that the Lord like that wreck happened. But what I'm saying is

that from then on, I have been very much more specific when I prayed.

You know, I prayed later with my kids were older, Lord,

I want them to see a miracle, so please heal some woman a revival

that's already said. I was very I'm very specific when I prayed. And

because God answers prayers, and it took a lot from me that it took

me that for me to understand that God does answer our prayers. And I

want to be very specific, Um, what I pray, And I'm so

thankful that I know that he's still answers prayers. He's still on the throne,

and I love him tonight praised out of hearing my wife say that,

Um, you want to turn with me to the Book of Second Corinthians,

tell that little bit years ago. I haven't heard her tell that all time.

I've heard it once or twice, and I forgot to blame her for

lash. You minded me the Book of Second Corinthians. The very first chapter

Paul is writing a letter to the Church of corinth and something that gets my

attentions and I In the very first chapter of Second Corinthians, first number seven,

Paul says, and our hope with you is steadfast, knowing that as

you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye also of the consolation.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorance of our trouble which came

to us in Asia. That we were pressed out of measure above strength,

and so much that we despaired even of life, that we despaired even of

life. Lord, I thank you so much, Lord, from pastor how

this wonderful congregation, thank you Lord for the opportunity to stand behind the holy

desk again and preach the truth. Oh, I plead Lord that you would

give me the words to say the Holy Gods and morning to say it with

not my will, but I will be tough. And the name of Jesus.

I thank you Lord, meet us in the altars tonight. God,

Oh Jesus, I thank you Lord, as you did this morning for the

lady. I pray Lord you would meet every individual here in the altar tonight.

Lord, Oh, with healing, with encouragement, with hope, Oh,

with the joy the Lord and the name of Jesus. I prayed,

hold and the church to eight men. Godluiah, you may be seated.

I told you this morning and the story of how that I was pronounced d

Oa, and how that they had already written up my death certificate. The

doctor had already signed it. The state police had already come to my wife's

where she was at, to the house, and so forth. But I'm

so glad that it wasn't over, because Jesus's will was that I would get

to come to somewhere in South Florida. Tell the folks in the mill that

Jesus is still in control. A man, I understand that whenever I was

alive, I was put in intensive care, and those days would turn two

weeks, and those weeks would turn two months. And while I was in

intensive care, my wife and my other old ones they went through something great

there. But oh they prayed so much, because time and time again they

would explain to my wife, it was just great, how that your husband

has come through this far, and and how that you know we thought he

was gone. Well, I mean we know, you know, the doctor

even confirmed it and signed the desertificate, and he's alive and he's really been

so tough for us. But they told her this several times, this is

the last night. He won't pull through until morning. Time and time and

time again, Oh my pride. Different ones in the family would spend the

night praying and crying, and time and time again, God moved. God

moved time and time. Hi again, Thank you, Jesus, Thank you

Jesus. I believe the Lord told us that wonderful story of the man that

came knocking and whenever his neighbor didn't answer him, you know what he did,

But that neighbor didn't answer him, so you know what he did?

Oh, my friend, don't quit praying about it. Don't quit praying about

it. You might have been anointed and prayed for for that before, but

I say, that's annoint you and pray for you again. You might have

knelt down and said those very words before and prayed for that person, prayed

for your issue, your situation before. That's all right, Let's keep all

knocking, let's keep wrong knocking. Let's go back until we know that God

has moved. Let's keep on coming. Man, hey man, and then

the only difference is we'll come back with praise and thanksgiving. Hollo yah,

We'll howeyah, how you will. The time came after being there in the

hospital for some time. That's the insurance company got involved and contacted the hospital

that because of the other gentleman hit me, you know, and it was

several days he was on the job, and so there was several different insurance

companies involved, and they were saying, if he's not going to get any

better, but he's not at the point of life and death now, then

he doesn't need to be in the hospital. And so the doctors met with

my wife and my dad and they explained to them that I had injuries that

would never be any better. You have a nerve that goes from each eye,

and then they joined together for one optical nerve that attaches to the brain.

Right where they joined together, mine was severed, held on by the

thickness of a harem. I was ninety something percent blind, and they explained

that I would be for the rest of my life. That because of where

that it was severed, there was no way for them to do any searching,

and there's no medicine or therapy for that I would have to I would

be blind for the rest of my life. They explained that because of my

head went into the steering wheel, that I had much brain damage on the

right side, and therefore, because of all the brain damage on the right

side, my left side was mostly paralyzed, completely useless. I would be

wheelchair bounds and there was nothing they could do about that. They would certainly

try therapy and try to give me to overcome as much as I could,

but that I would be crippled the rest of my life. They explained that

when my head went into the steering wheels, that my bottom jaw from this

joint all the way around to the other joint was crushed broken and crushed.

And I've seen the X rays and so forth them, and and I think

I would be safe easily to say it was in a hundred pieces. It

was just crushed. And the best that they could do is they had taken

the bones and done their best to get them all back in order as well

as they could. And then they took mental wiring up in my upper gum

round the teeth, and down in my lower gun around the teeth and up

in and sewed my mouth together shuts with metal wires and explain that it would

have to stay that way, with the hopes that with time those bones would

grow back together, but there was no guarantee that they would, and hopefully

they would find some other way to solve that problem. But my mouth was

wired shut at that time. But I understand that I wasn't at life and

death anymore. I'd been in intensive care and then what they called the step

down unit for some time now, and so they told my wife and my

dad that they felt that it would be best for me to be transported by

an ambulance to a local nursing home. And so I was put into a

nursing home, taken by an ambulance to the nursing home in Metropolis, Illinois,

for what they assumed would be for the rest of my life. WHOA,

my friends, they're in that nursing home. They had hours of visitation,

And I'm so thankful that, as far as I know, everybody at

the church that I pastored, everyone that could that was able, they came

to the nursing home to pray for me and see me and be kind to

my wife and my children and so forth. Our children were two and four

at the time. I understand that so many good preachers and friends and folks

from other places and churches came and visited me and prayed with me. What

I don't have real clear memory of every day being in the nursing home,

but the Lord has allowed me to remember a few things and a few feelings

that I would and to be cardinal. Sometimes I wish I couldn't I show

you, find something else to preach, y'all, but I feel like it's

God's able to share it with you. I understand that as I would sit

there and everybody would leave, my wife would stay with me. And one

particular night, I remember sitting in my wheelchair in that room, and my

wife had went out, and when it came time that the visitors had to

leave, she went to walk them out, you know, to the parking

lot or whatever, you know. And and so she was gone. So

I was there by myself, and I was just sitting there crying and thinking,

well, you know, thank God him alive. But so look at

me. I'm blind, I'm paralyzed, I can't talk, I can't walk,

I can't see, and a miserable Meanwhile, understanding the devil was out

in front of me, and he was digging a pit, a pit of

despair. Now, I don't know if whenever King James's men translated the Greek

into English, if depression was not a word at that point, or if

God hates the whole ideal of what man has made depression into that he chose

not to put it in the word. But at this time, the word

that the Holy Ghost chose for the Bible is despair. Today, you and

I are very much more familiar with the word of depression, my friend.

Depression has became a multide billion dollar industry. There's a whole lot of people

that have been told they are depressed that didn't depressed. It's just a way

for that doctor to tect them to come back, the way for that pharmacist

to fill another prescription, the way for that company to make another bottle of

medicine. It's just everybody makes money. Everybody profits all of that person with

depression, except for that person with depression. Come on, I'm gonna tell

you, my friends, every bottle that has been produced and every prescription that

has been filled, that bottle runs out, good, and you're right back

where you started, my friend. Even though the prescription calls for the spinning

pills and this many spoonfuls and whatever that the nerve medicine and the anti depressence

and all the different painkillers that people were taking because they have found themselves depressed.

That runs out, yea, And nothing is any nothing is any better.

Oh, my friends, I remember sitting there that particular nights. I

was definitely had fallen into that pit of despair. I was definitely battling great

depression. Ooh. And when I was there that night by myself, oh,

I got a visitor, a visitor that I had never seen before with

these eyes, a visitor that came all the way from heaven. Someone asked

me, did you believe that you got to see Jesus or wasn't an angel.

I don't know. I don't know. I just know I got a

pristen with that an. Now I understand that. I know it was in

the Bible long before I was ever born, but long before you was ever

born. And I know I had read it, but I certainly did not

know it. My heart did. But the last words and that tax collector

that found God day Matthew, the last words that he quoted Jesus as saying

was low, I am with you alway, even to the ends of the

world. Oh Jesus, my friends, they're in that dark room, sitting

in my wheelchair in pain. As I looked and thought about all of the

things that was wrong with me, and the devil was working so quickly and

so hard. Oh, as I just seemed to be going deeper and deeper

and deeper. The way that I felt was why in the world. There's

all my family, my friends, these preachers, they come in here,

and they say the prayers, they say nice things to me. Oh most

of them even breached down and hug my neck, and then they would leave

me and then leave me just in this chair, sitting in this hole.

Why they love me well, they help me understand. I understand they all

that that was much breaking damage. And I wasn't thinking logically. I know

that, but that's all right because I don't serve a god that works with

watching. And as I was crying and wishing so bad that somebody would just

care, the Holy Spirit king. Was it Jesus himself or was it an

angel? I don't know, but oh, I know that I heard the

words low, I am with you, oh easily, unto the ends of

the world. Oh, thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus. I have

come with good news tonight, my friend. I want you to know that

though you may feel like you have fallen the pit of despirit, though that

you may feel like you have fallen into depression. Because let me make sure

that I make something clear here. I knew absolutely nothing about depression. I

knew nothing about anything but smiling and laughing and enjoying the life. I remember

playing backyard football in the church's side of the next of the church there.

Sam Holland, that's who did it. If you want to write that down.

Sam Holland did it. He separated my shoulder and that was bad pain.

But I knew nothing about depression. Now I understand depression is real.

Come on here, but here is where the doctors and the pharmaceuticals. Here's

where everything is messed up. Whenever I had that separated shoulder, they done

this crazy thing. So it's gonna hurt, boy, did it? They

put my shoulder back into place. Ward happy mercy, have a little bit

of at ease with me. Here. They got my shoulder back in the

place, and they put my arm in a slaying you know. So I

went moving everything and I had to wait for the grow back again and reconnect

and all that and so helping. This is true on real windy days like

you have in South Florida, I can feel wind going through my shoulder.

That's the truth. So I guess somewhere in there is still separating but understanding.

I knew nothing about depression. I believe that was the Lord's decision.

Now, the devil had a plan. The devil has a plan for you.

Come on here here. It was a devil's plan that they're in the

nursing home. I would get so discouraged and so under so much despairer and

fall into something that is very real called depression. And I would give up,

and I would get bitter, and I would just quick praying. Oh

that's the devil's plan. Come on here, vote. Oh, I have

come with good news for you to night right on time. Every time the

Holy Ghost comes a man, the Lord knows how much that you can bear,

and he has promised you that he would give you a way to escape.

Oh, you don't have to fall, you don't have to just quit

and give up. Just keep on praying. Let's everybody pray about it again.

Or would you rich around and take somebody by the hand right now,

everybody finds somebody and take them by the hand. Right now, Go ahead,

find somebody taken by the hand. All right now, I want you

to pray for that person. You have their hand. Maybe you have to

pray right now, repute depression away from them. Pray that the Holy Ghost,

the sweet peace of God, all the presence of the Lord would come

to them and rescue them. And come to them right now. Come on

and pray, pray, pray, pray. Holleo yah, halleluya, halleluyah,

holle thank you Jesus than hollo hollo. The Book of Philippians, chapter

number four yea verse number seven Paul Rhodes, and the Peace of God,

which passive, oh understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds. And wait

a minute, through Christ Jesus, look and make sure I have a King

James version, which is a total disgusting lie is printed on our bibles.

This is not the version. This is a translation. By the definition of

version, it is a type of the original. This is the original.

Amen, this is not a version. Come on in I be and all

of the twenty s uth and other ones, they are versions. This is

not a version. The King James translation says, and the Peace of God,

which passeth all understandings, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jeeus,

my friend, when the Lord heals you, he always heals you.

Right hey, Then if the Lord tonight causes you to be able to walk

again as he did me, I don't believe. I'm one percent sure that

tomorrow I'm not gonna go WHOA paralyzed again? That isn't gonna happen. But

I understand. Depression is not a physical injury. The doctors are giving you

medicine for something that medicine can't sulve. Come on, if you have a

headache, take some titling a cheat and takes some tileent on pehim and fall

asleep. Don't tell youbody, I told you that. Here's my point.

Friends, but whenever you're fighting depression, fighting despair, you are in a

spiritual battle. Even though we may just throw our way of talking. We

may use the word healed, but understand, it's not a healing. It

is that the Lord is fighting that battle for you. It is that God

is coming through your rescue in a battle. Amen, Oh, my friend,

you are in a battle if you are fighting despair and you are fighting

depression, or can I tell you that I have no doubt about it.

The Lord won that battle for me. And all of a sudden, when

that angel came in that room, Oh, I felt the presence of God

so greatly. Amen. With time, the Lord gave my wife a gift

greater than I even have the words to describe to you, a gift of

faith. We have all been given a measure of faith. And how much

is that measure of faith? I don't have a measuring cup to measure it

for you and tell you exactly how much faith you have. But I can't

tell you that God has given you a measure of faith, a faith that

is so much don't fay way to give me much? Oh, yes,

he did. He gave you so much faith that you believe that the only

begotten Son of God left heaven and came down as a baby, grew up

on this earth and ended up doing all kinds of miracles, even walking on

water. All the great things that Jesus did while they walked on this earth.

And then he was crucified, shed his blood, was pierced in the

side, dropped his head and said in his face. And then three days

later, with the soldiers standing there, the angels rolled back the stones,

got rid of the soldiers, and Jesus Christ came walking out of the two

And even believe that do you believe that? Really have it? Your measure

of faith is quite a bit of faith. Amen, Come on here now

God has given you faith. My friend. Well, the Lord blessed my

wife with a measure of faith. And I believe that during this time it

has proved to me that the Lord will give you just what you need when

you need it. You know, um, I always loved playing ball,

and you look like somebody that has found me. And one of my great

crazy looking shots. You know they're not playing. I just deserbly throw it

up there. You know, you know you found me, did too.

Well. Now here's a thing, you see I can argue with him about.

You know that that I really believe you found me. And whether I

win or not, But understand, my friend, that whenever the Lord gives

you faith, when the Lord gives you something so deep and so wonderful that

you can believe it with everything you've got, come on now. And so

the Lord gave Missy so much faith that the brother and sister Webster. I

don't know if you all know Kevin Teresa Webster, the pastor's hron post Oklahoma,

and you all know them by any chance, But anyway, they they're

friends of ours, and they came to visit us, and they came to

the nursing home with my wife that day, and she went into where the

administs, you know, the administration of the nursing home was, and explained

to them, I've come today to sign Doug out of the nursing home.

Well, the doctors was one hundred percent against that. The nursing home administration

was a one hundred percent against that. So they called attorneys in telling her

you can't, you can't do that, And so they called attorneys in and

the attorneys explained that, well, yes she can, she can sign him

out of the nursing home. But to protect yourself, so they wrote up

an aff at David that Missy would have to sign that released the nursing home

and the doctors and everybody involved from any liability that whenever she signed me out

of the nursing home, making it very clear that she was told I would

not live without the proper medicines and care and constant watching over me and taking

care of everything, that I would not survive. Oh, my friend,

that took a lot of faith, right, that took a lot of faith.

Amen. I just talked to Brother Kevin last week about that day.

I just got it on my mind and I called him on, said a

Brother Kevin, tell me the story again. And he told me. He

said how that he said, you know, he's saying, as I was

pushing the wheelchair down the hallway there, he said, all kinds of other

patient, all the nursing home nurses and so forth, where he said,

they would just come out and they would just look at us and shake their

heads and they would just you know, he said, they wouldn't say anything

to us, They wouldn't try and stop us. They were just looking at

us, just shaking their heads. He said. As we got to the

end, he said, there was I don't remember. He said. It

was an old lady and an old man that that said, please, please

don't do this. Let him live, Let hiven live. He said.

You know, Doug, he said, I was really having some questions about

this. Was she, you know, getting all caught up and doing something

a little too quick? Was she told me to do it? And so

I kept pushing, and he said when I got to the door, he

said, and I I started to open up the door to go out.

So I turned around. I looked at him. He said, I said,

let's see. Are you sure? And he said, she said,

Jesus said if I take him to church, the Lord of healing, he

said. I took a deep breath and I turned around and pushed shealing owns.

Oh, thank you Jesus for faith. There's gonna be times in your

life. And now I remember why that I was thinking that that you found

Now I forgot why I said it now and I'm not gonna track because you

know, what I can forgive him that that that he fouled me and he

didn't call it. Y'all play bathroom. You know what I'm talking about.

When I say found me and he didn't call us, that makes sense to

y'all. I can forgive him for that, he man, but there's been

things done to some of us. It's a whole lot bigger than that.

I'm all. Now, he might have said as a buddy playing basketball.

I don't lie that I did not, but there has been some awful,

mean things said about some of us. There's a whole worm harder to forgive.

Come on, then, come on there, But I want you to

know to nights, the Lord gives you just what you need when you need

it. Come on, then, if you're having trouble forgiving someone, if

you can't get that off your mind, that you can't just put that behind

you, you need to spend some time in the altar, because the Lord

can give you the ability to forgive greater than you've ever had. A man,

there are some people that it's just hard to love them. I understand

that we have to love everybody. That's the Bible. A man, you

can't hate me, you have to love me. No, no, no

no, And there you have to. It's hard to love some people.

If you're having a hard time love with somebody, you need to pray.

The Lord would give you the gift to love that person. He gives you

what you need when you need it. A man, I'm so thankful that

she took me home and the church had brought in a hospital bed into the

living room there. And that's where I was spending my life, laying on

that hospital bed in the living room there, and laying there, I had

way too much time thinking. Paul whenever he wrote this scripture in Philippians,

he made it clear, not just your heart, but your mind, my

friend. Nobody in this church can control your mind. But you come on

now, come on now, the Lord can give you a piece that passive

understanding. I can't explain it, but even if I could, you couldn't

understand it. It's a peace so great that he will give you peace.

Not only in your hearts, Thank God you forgave them. Thank God even

give you peace in your hearts, the peace in your mind. Come on

here now, my friend. I feel the Holy Ghost right now. Pastor,

I know pastors know a whole lot more than the evangelist dots. But

I'm telling you, Pastor, we've got somebody, some folks here that you

need to pray through about what's on your mind. You need to let some

things go. Come on now, and I understand that you don't have the

ability on your own, but I promise you the Lord has already given you

the promise of peace. He will give you peace over this and let it

clear your mind. Hello, is some money, Raise your hands and thank

God for peace of the mind. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh, let's pray

the Lord. We'll give you peace in your mind. And so, laying

there in that hospital bed, I had too much time to think about how

bad I had it. If you spend a lot of time thinking about how

bad you've got it, you've got too much time to think about it.

Only you can regulate what you think about. Come on him, my friend,

the Bible tells us, Melissa, can you give me that scripture to

think on these things? Have you got a theory this microphone? Reach way

back here finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,

whatsoever things are just? Whatsoever things are pure? Whatsoever things are lovely,

whatserever things are of good report, If there be any virtue, and

if there be any praise, think on these things. Finally, Brethren,

whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just?

Whatsoever things are pure? Whatsoever things are lovely? Whatsoever things are of good

report? If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,

think on these things, my God. But all the things that you've been

thinking about, my friends, Hey, if it ain't true, if it

ain't honest, if it hasn't got the virtue. Oh, just as the

Bible said, these are the things you need to think of a man.

But I understand why I was laying there in that condition. I was thinking

about how bad it was. I was thinking about how that I wish I

wasn't even align what did Paul says? Fair even of life? My children

are not here, and my grandchildren, so I can share this with you.

And it's not something that I'd like to thought talk about or think about.

It's now something that talk a whole lot about. Well, listen,

laying there thinking about my situation, I wanted to die. You see,

that is true depression that the doctor said that you would depressed. You might

be, I don't know, but that don't mean you are come on him.

But depression is a real thing. It's a very real thing. And

I hope that you never know what it is. I hope and pray that

nobody here ever finds out what real depression is. But oh, my friend,

when you're truly depressed, you just wish we're dead. And what I

was sharing with you is this that I don't like to talk about. I

spent hours thinking about how that I could end my life and nobody ever know

that I ended my life, how that I could go about it and make

it look like an accident, how that I could go about it, and

just you know, I'm a sick guy. You just had, you know.

It went like he killed himself and I just do what. I'm just

blind so I could see light. But I really don't know what time it

was, but I know that all through the darkness all night, I'd laid

there in the hospital bed in the living room whom in pain and misery.

I cried all nights. I beg God, please. I couldn't speak plain,

my mouth was wire and shut, but I was doing my best to

say please, just let me die. Just let me die. Okay,

what if I what if like at night, you know, when everybody else

is asleep. If I if I roll over and get in my chair and

get myself to the over there in the kitchen where all that medicine is,

and I and I just take a bunch, They'll just think, well,

you know, I just got on pain. They won't know. Oh,

my friends, I really do. But I want to tell you. My

friend Jesus came to me right on time. The telephone ring, and my

wife answered it, and I'm gonna telephone. She came in and she said,

it's Brother Shawl pastors in Arkansas. I don't know if you all have

ever further know a brother Ben Shaw, a pastor. He's now very elderly

in a nursing home himself with age, and we just got to visit him

here a few months ago and Brother shaw called me. Now understand, God

chokes him because God knew there was nobody in the world I had any greater

confidence in. And if it had been my little brother, who was a

wonderful preacher doing great would have been like, yeah, well you know he

has my little brother. I beat him up before and I beat him up

again, and he's just, you know, I don't know that's Dwayne.

If it had been my pastor, who was all set my father in law,

I'm gonna said, well, you know, it's what he gets paid

to do. You know, of course that's what he said. But this

was somebody, and I didn't even know that knew. I guess I knew

it. He knew. I was sort of kind that I did nobody.

And she came and she put the phone to my ear and she said it's

brother Shaw. And Brother Shaw said, brother dead. I've been praying this

morning, and the Lord spoke to me and told me to call you and

tell you you don't have to be depressed. He wants to give you peace.

He wants to give you peace. Oh, thank you cheese, Thank

you cheese. Right then the Lord hear that out of my mind, I

was mind's battle was in my mind and won't am I Heart, It won't

am I back, It won't am I fund. It was in my mind.

My mind was saying, just is that by the way they end at

all? But I'm so glad that wouldn't look like to me. There was

no other way. Jesus gave me peace that is beyond understanding. He gave

me peace of the mind. Oh, thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus.

Is there anybody here to explain that you need peace in your mind?

Come on here now? Is there anybody off field? The Holy go so

strong yet? Is there anybody here that the Devil's been telling you things that

is not the truth. I'm not telling you anything that you don't know.

He's a liar father of a part of that year. If you know that,

ay that Jesus with love to give you peace tonight, Peace in your

minds amen. Oh, thank you, cheese, Thank you cheess. Oh.

No, it's the Lord's will. He's gonna do it for you tonight.

I believe he's gonna do it for you tonight. My friends. Hallelu

yeah, hallelu yeah, hallelu yah, hallelujah. Oh. I'm so thankful.

That brother name was Brother Gilbert. I never really got to know him

a whole lot. He was a pastor they're at the Metropolis Pentecostal Church,

and he was very, very wonderfully good to my family when they would come

to visit me. There in the nursing home. There was no hotels or

motels or anything. And he would open up his church had any evangelist quarters,

and open it up for them to stay in and help them. And

I'm so thankful that he was so good to me. Well, he came

to church whenever I was in that condition. And let me tell you,

the men from the church came over. They picked me up out of the

bed and put me in the wheelchair and pushed me over to the church that

service, and they put me about right here and now in my wheelchair.

And I was laid all the way back, you know, and I was

trying to stay awake and listening to the singing. And brother Gilbert got up

and let me tell you what he sunged. This is what he sumed.

He's sung. You've been to the doctor and he just shook his head.

Many nights you suffered just lying in bed, but you just can't sing to

make it. Your body is ill. Friend. God likes to work when

nothing else here. Right. God likes to work when you're back is to

the wall, when your faces in the balance and you're just about to fall.

So there'll be no mistaken when he blesses and heels. God likes to

work when nothing else wee. Halleluyah. Ah said God likes to work when

nothing else. Hallelujah. Sister Sue. Cold came and sun and the fear

gripped the crowd that day at Jesus's house. When the doctor shook his head

and said she's gone, you could feel that mother's heartbreak. You'd hear them

cry and mourn Their little girl was only twelve years old. Somewhere in the

distance, light against the sun, and man, here came a man with

the mission from the throne. They said, look, someone is coming.

But what they did not know it was their traumise coming down home that dusty

road. Woa. The wonder turned the mocking. When Jesus did speak,

he said, your daughter's not dead, She's just asleep. Then he turned

to the unbelievers and told them all to go home. They heard him saying,

leave me and death alone. Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah. Then he

laid his hand upon the child, and he looked death writing the eye.

He said, all power in heaven and earth belonged to me. And with

a voice that sounds like thunder, he healed. He hurled death asunder,

and then he said, little girl, rise and be healed. There's a

promise coming down your dusty road and from his holy heads, healing, virtue,

death flow. He's got the key to what you need. Death and

hell. He will defeat because there's a promise coming down your dusty gravellelujah,

my friend, the Lord has given me the privilege to tell you, remind

you. Satan is a lot I hurt you. You're gonna make it.

If you'll just trust him, you're gonna make it. You don't have to

do anything big, You don't have to do anything that I can't. All

you have to do is just keep on going, right, Just keep on

going, don't give up, and you're gonna make it. You're gonna make

it. Jesus is gonna heal your hearts. He's gonna heal your mind.

How lujah, how do you? Let's all staking all over the building,

let's staying how? I'm like, yeah, how are you? How?

Alias brother beign one to warn me? Okay, this is what I want

you to do tonight. The pastor and I would be pretty much another going

going to a loyal They lay hands of money. If you feel like the

devil you're battling your mind. I want you to come tonight, and I

want you to give us some privilege to pray for you, believing that God

is good for his word. And he said it shall not do it.

Oh, my friend, he is good for his work, and he is

brothers, your piece. He's in your hearts, your mind right now when

you comes, when you come and give us the privilege to lay hands upon

your all, Satan. That's why enough Satan, That's why you're enough.

Oh brother, I am believed. I am believed by his little life.

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come on, come on, come on, he says, all the phone.

I come on. Allis what to the doctor when he just shuts his

head and he died. Choose suffer by? You can't s your body is

my God lies to burn when nothing e swear eyes to work with your back

to the wall. Has it more just about all? When he bless him

many and God life to work when nothing else swear. Then with the baker,

he said, don't regret, try it, blay just to get ahead.

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else swell God linds to work when your backs to wa basing the balance and

you're just about to fall. There will be no mistaken when he blessings and

her friend godls to work when nothing else. Swear God mind to work when

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else, swear to you the doctor, he just his head and he to

suffer lying a man just can't seem to make it. Your body heal,

friend godls to work when nothing else swim gol to work with your backs to

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when he plasits and hes God minds to work when nothing else sweet m m

and your face sweet circumstances. Then you just can't get through. And right

now it's seem but there's no way out, and you're going underned. Oh

my God is permit time and time again that he'll take care of you,

and he'll do it again. He'll do it again if you'll just take a

look. And where you are now and where you been, hasn't he always

come through for you? He's the same now as then. Oh you may

not know how, you may not know, but he'll do it again.

God knows the things, and you're goaling through and he knows how you're hurting.

Yes he does, you see, he knows just how your heart has

been broken into. But he's the god of the stars, the sun and

the scenes. He is your father. If he can call the storm,

I know he's gonna find a way to fix it. Boy, you and

he'll do it again. Oh, yes, he's gonna do it again.

Yes he will, if you'll just take go. And where do you want

out? Where you be through? It's the same as what you're gonna do.

May be tell you feel like God has somehow or God's that you are

faced with circumstances that you just can't get through. And right now in bas

me there's no way out. You're gonna go under. Oh, oh my

god, he breathing, time and time and time again, say's gonna take y