Bro Doug Cornett 6-28-2023

Praise the Lord. It's good to be in God's house tonight and feel the

presence the Lord. Want to give honor to the pastor and his wife and

and all of all of the people in the pews, and had just had

a had a great revival so far, looking forward to the rest of tonight,

and I have been encouraged and uplifted in my own spirit. And when

I came into the church tonight, I felt like the Lord put something on

my heart. So I'm just gonna share. It won't be long, but

of several years ago, my daughter before she was married, when she was

probably about fifteen, she got a burden for some children that she never met

before in the island of Tonga. And Tonga is in that South Pacific.

It's a little dot on the map if you even find it on a map.

And um so we do. We have done ministry in Hawaii for a

lot of years. And that's how she and us became familiar with the island

of Tonga. And so she met some of the people from the church or

from Tonga. Their transplants kind of like you know, people from north come

down here, but they transplanted to Hawaii because it was the United States,

and so when they got there, though they stought family, they send money

back to So anyway, we kind of met the people from there and heard

some of the ways of life and Tonga. And our daughter that was about

fifteen, got a very a strong burden for the children. So she started

doing just on her own. She would bring boxes and set them out when

we was in revival and just you know, asked the pastor said, okay,

if people, if they want to, they can bring shares or tula

trees or school supplies and I'll send them over there. So she's done that

for quite a while and then she started getting notes back from the kids that

we're receiving the things. So she decided, I'm going to Tonga. And

so by this time she was nineteen and she said, I'm I want to

go to Tonga. So her dad said, okay, you know, we'll

go if you you know, this is your burden. If you raise the

money, then we'll go. So it costs about ten thousand dollars to work

two people to go. So within a few months she had raised all the

money. She went. She got a little job and then she done some

itinerating at some churches that would let her come and just tell about what she

wanted to do, and so they you know, she came up with the

money. So he was getting ready to buy tickets and Brother Doug kind of

threw a wrench at in and said, I really don't feel like that I

should go. I feel kind of a pullback, so, you know,

and mine and his thinking is it's a pullback. You shouldn't. You know,

to Chelsea, you can't go because you're a young girl and you're not

going by yourself. And so she, you know, said I'm nineteen,

I want to go and raise some money. I'm going, and well,

you know, her dad very nicely said no, you're not. And so

she said, well, can someone else go with me? And then I

can go? And he said sure. And I spoke up and I said,

well I'll go, and he said I can't let you to go by

yourself, and I said why God? And I am like an adventurous kind

of person. The more you know me, the more you'll find out.

And so he said, why don't we do this. I'll call your dad

and which is also our pastor. I'll call brother Miller and if he says

that you can go, then okay. That was his way of saying,

I have nothing to worry about because my dad, you know, doesn't think

I should go to Walmart by myself. And so, you know, he

thought, I have nothing to worry about. Nobody's going. And so I

called dad. We explained the situation, and the dug got on the phone,

and you know, I was telling them what was going on, and

he said, just give me a few days, you know, let me

pray about it. So we called back in a few days and he said,

I feel like you're right. I don't feel like you should go.

I feel like a pullback, but I do feel like that Melissa can go.

And so then he was like what, So he came. He stayed

to his word, and he led his wife and his daughter travel halfway around

the world to a place we never been. People we didn't know we were

going to see. We was going to go see a family of some people

we know very well in Hawaii that we're still living in Tonga. So we

we got on this trip. It took us about two and a half days

to get to Tonga, and we got there in the middle of the night

and we went to bed and got up at the you know first light,

and took off walking to find the bus station because the people that we knew

are in Hawaii are Charmaine two week, Folly Opha and U two week.

And Charmaine said, all you got to do is get to a bus station,

go to kolonga, get off a kolonga and tell him you need to

find the falling Opus. And and you know my family will be there and

tell them about Jesus, because he really wanted somebody to tell him about Jesus.

And so we thought, well, that can't be too hard. You

know, get on a bus, go to town and get off and tell

them about Jesus. And you know that's it's pretty easy. So we walk

about a mile and a half to the bus stop. I've never written I

was raised up the head of a holler, if anybody knows what that is.

So um, I had never read any public transportation before except a school

bus that came up our hollow. And I thought, well, I wrote

a bus all kinds of times. That's not hard to just get on and

you know they take you where you need to go. Well not so,

And so we get there, and when we got there, there was buses

there that looked like I'm telling you, like they were held together by bunch

of cords and duck teeth. They were the scariest looking things I've ever seen.

And so, you know, we finally found one because this is how

they told us to do. When you get to the bus up, look

for the piece of paper that's in them dashboard that says the name of the

village, past of the village you want to go to. That was hard

for me, but our daughter is blonde through and through, and it was

so confusing to her. But we finally found the bus and we get on

it. We're on that bus over an hour. People get on, people

get all, they get on, they get oh if they're smoking these little

things and laughing and making jokes. And we knew they were talking about us

because the only word we know and an tongue is polongey, which means white

people. So we knew that they were talking about us. They were making

jokes and every now and they need hear polongey thrown in there. So we're

just sitting on this bus waiting for a bus driver. No bus driver ever

came on. Finally, after an hour, bus driver we get on.

He takes off there's about ten or fifteen of us on this bus. By

the time we get out of Nuka Alofa, which is the capital of Tonga,

there is probably fifty or more people on this bus. It was,

and it's a small bus. It was so crowded that people were they left

the door open, They were hanging out of the door to get on the

bus. They were highways were full. There were animals just like we in

between our LANs, underneath the seats, and I mean it was the wildest

thing I'd ever spent on in my leg. But then people would get on.

It was so packed they started sitting on people's laps. I don't even

know if they knew the person they were sitting on, but just in case,

they just found random people to sit on. We took our backpacks and

put them on our lap, you know, to say, you know,

no body's sitting here. And so this was what we was on for about

an hour and a half, close to hour and forty five minutes out of

the city, dirt roads, out of nowhere. And you know, I

keep asking and pointing to a map that I've got kalonga kalonga, anybody kalonga

And nobody you know, they're doing us. Nobody wanted to talk to us.

And after a while, you know, I looked over at Chelsea and

I was like, we have got to be the craziest people in the world.

We are on a bus going to somewhere. We don't even know when

we're gonna get there because we don't know where we're going, and we've never

met the people that we're gonna go see. They don't even know we're coming.

We can't speak tonging, and apparently no one on this bus speaks English.

This is crazy. And she, you know, she was kind of

laughing. Me and her both we laughing to get nervous, and so we

were both laughing. And finally she takes out tutsie rolls and starts passing them

out to everybody. And she took that some tutsie rolls to hand out to

kids. So she's passing them out all around the bus to everybody, old,

young, it doesn't matter. She's given them tutchie rolls. And finally

somebody tapped us on his shoulder and said, kalonga next. So I was

thankful for tutsie rolls. I mean, stuck anywhere you go that you don't

think they speak your language. Take tutsie rolls. And so finally we get

off and I'm thinking, there's gonna be a seven eleven a circle k something

off of this bus to tell, you know, to go one and say

where's the faliopas there was nothing and just a little shock. And when I

say shock passed her, I'm sure you've seen them. It was just like

a three sided shock. And there was no front. The only piece of

furniture that they had was a matt and that was their bedroom, they're living

room, their kitchen, everything, and that was the only thing we've seen

on one side of the road, and on the other side was nothing but

bushes. And when we um when we got to the off of it,

you know, we're there goes to bus, you know, dust and dirt

flying up, and we hadn't seen a car, and since we left Nuka

Olopha almost two hours ago, we hadn't seen a car. And we're getting

we got off and our daughter looks at me and she says, how are

we gonna get back? I have no idea, And so we're just standing

there. Nobody to ask where the foliofa's lift, Nobody toa and if I

could call Doug or my dad, they wouldn't been If my phone would have

worked, they wouldn't have been able to help me because they didn't know where

I was at. They didn't know where where was that, what was going

through And I show wasn't gonna if my phone was working, I was not

gonna call and tell them what was going on. And so we just started

praying, and it wasn't too long. Out of the bushes. The only

thing that we see come out of those bushes was some wild hawks, and

we were scared to death that they were gonna eat us. And you know,

usually it's the other way around, but not then. I was scared

to death. I've you know, like we looked like bacon, not them,

and I was so scared. And finally, out of the bushes comes

this older gentleman dressed in the traditional tongue and you know, like dress up

church wear. He was so distinguished looking this such shiny, pure white hair,

and he comes down and it looks like he's just glowing, and he

comes out of the bushes and he walks right up to us, and in

perfect English, he says, can I help you find something? And we

time what we're looking for who we're looking for, And I'm telling you it

wasn't no time. Here comes the car. We had seen the car in

a long time. So he stops the car. He talks to the person

and asks them, do you know the Follyophas. I'm assuming that's what he

asked, And so he turned around to us and says it, says to

us, they know the folly Ophas. Get in. So we just get

into the stranger's car and head off to the Follyophas. And we found they

took us there. We spent the day with them, and we got to

witness to them, to their children, to the kids, some of the

kids because she had been sending step to when they've been riding her. We

got to spend the day with those kids, and we got to pray with

the mom and talk to the kids about Jesus. But when we got in

that car and I turned around, I was going to turn around the way,

you know, thank you, he was gone. Now, I don't

know what anybody else thinks her about angels, but I'm telling you I had

an angel on my dusty road, on my dirt road where no one else

knew where I was at what I needed. They couldn't help me. God

sent an angel, and I thought about the story of sarah Win and Hagar,

when Sarah Um you know, made Hagar leave, and and Hagar left

and she was in a wilderness, and not even of her own doing,

she was she was put out of her home, put out of her the

lord of the mansion, his wife, the you know, she made her

leave. And she gets here and she's scared because no one knows where she's

at, nobody, you know. She can't she can't help herself. She

doesn't know anything. And God send an angel to her to talk to her.

And she called the place, and it says in Genesis sixteen and thirteen

she called the name of the Lord. Then spake unto her. Now God

seest me, and that's what I had on my heart. All service is

to tell somebody you might be somewhere that you think nobody else knows where you're

at. Then even if even if they did, they come help you.

But God knows where you're at, and God sees you, and he wants

you to know tonight that he wan does. The Bible say that his eyes

are on the righteous. But I'm so glad that not only that he sees

so those of UM that are of a tender heart toward him, even if

even if we're not, you know, a child of his, yet he

wants us in his family, just like Carl Downs, he wants us in

his family. God wants somebody to know tonight that he sees you, and

he knows where you're at. You know what, I'm duck at his wreck.

And I really don't talk about it too much a lot of places,

just because it's it's it's a little hard. But there was a time when

I Doug was still in intensive care, and I was twenty three years old

with two little kids, and about seven hours away from my family in our

home and had a church that we were trying to pass her and and my

husband seemed like none of that even mattered because my husband was lating here dying,

and and one one particular night, I remember that UM, it was

such a bad night, and the nurses and doctors had told me that was

in ICU, that we have this UM area, you know, like a

shower place and in a rest place that is for the doctors and nurses,

and you're more than welcome to use it. Because I didn't leave the hospital,

and so some people you know, had been bringing me in stuff,

um to freshen up and get ready as much good as I could. And

finally they let me go back into this room and and um, So after

this was a while, I don't know, a few weeks or so,

and still there, and I find myself just in the little shower area they

had, and I just went in because I had to get away. I

had to just get away from the noise of those machines and what the doctors

and nurses were saying. And I needed to just find some time to be

by myself and tried to just kind of get some kind of a thought process

going. And I remember I just curled up in a ball on the floor

of that shower and locked the door. And I'm that cold, cold shower

and I didn't turn on the light. It was dark, and I'm just

laying in there, thinking, God, I don't understand this, because you

know, I did what I what I was supposed to do. I followed

my husband to where you led him to. And and here we are pastoring

church and trying to take care of my kids, trying to be a good

wife, and and I'm so you know, left my family, and here

we are. They're saying, I haven't even seen my kids in a few

weeks, and you know, they're saying that my husband might not even make

it. And here I am, and what now? What am I supposed

to do now? And I remember laying on that floor that God seen me.

He knew, he knew where I was at, and he knew what

I needed, and he spoke these words to me and let me know that

he seen me. And I say a forty three and one three three,

and says, but now that saith the Lord that created thee, Old Jacob,

and he that formed me, Old Israel. Fear not. I have

redeemed THEE, and I have called THEE by name, Thou art mine.

And when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. And

through the rivers they shall not overflow THEE. And when they walks through the

fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame ain't kindle upon

me. I'm so thankful that even in our darkest moments, when you might

think that God doesn't even know where you're at, and if he did,

he's not sending any help right away. But if we can just trust and

believe and hold on to him and his promises. He will let us know

and confirm to us that He does see us, He knows where you're at.

You know, Satan is a liar in Hawaii the way they say it

is the devil Aliah. And so you know that it doesn't matter if you

stepped your toe, if they're out of kidcats, the devil Aliah. But

I'm telling you, no matter what problem that you're facing right now, the

devil is a lie you're talking to. He would tell you that God sayesn't

care, and God doesn't see that. God doesn't know, He sees,

He cares, and he knows. And it's been said over and over in

this service trying to get stuff up and understand. Then God sees you,

He sees you, and he's wanting to move for you. If you won't

just rely on hell. Hallywahraz Lord. He turned looking Saint Matthew. You

yeah, mh book at Saint Matthew. You understand that, and thank you

so much. Pastor. I'll tell you we've had a wonderful day fellowshipping and

eating seafood. H It's just been a wonderful day with your pastor God.

Obviously he loves you. Uh, the pastor has already told you that you're

special in the eyes of God. A man the Lord has moved upon my

help meet tonight to let you know that he loves and cares about you so

much, even if it takes sending an angel your way. Obey God,

he won't let you down. He won't let you down. Now this man

named Matthew, a tax collector. We have any tax collectors here to any

employees of the rus here tonight and just feel like preses something else who was

So let's just love happy. You and I are both glad than un here

yet degree and uh, those are very unpopular people in the world that we

live here. And Matthew was not somebody that everybody couldn't wait to see because

he was a tax collector all but things had changed in his life. He

had met one greater than an angel sent his way. He had met the

very only begotten some God, Jesus, the Christ Amen. And Matthew has

spent a lot of time traveling with Jesus. He turned with I didn't tell

you what Chapter Chapter twenty eight, very last chapter of Matthew and Matthew has

spent a lot of time with Jesus, and he was keeping a journal,

that is day to day things that Jesus would do. And compare it,

if you'd like, with the other four, the other three gospels, and

notice all of the red. Will you just take your fingers and go back

to page or two or three or four, And if you haven't read a

letter edition, notice all of the red that Matthew wrote. He loved to

quote Jesus, a man he loved with a spirit to deal with him and

help him write these journals and everything that took place and enduring. So he

would write down exactly what Jesus said. And so now the time has came

that Matthew would end up being a martyr, he would end up losing his

life for the gospel's sake. But God has moved upon him at a time

to put all of this together, all of these journals, all of this

right. And he did, and in doing so I can imagine that it

was so important to him as it is with you. If you were in

his position, then he wanted to end it just right. He wanted to

end it was something good. A man he's been a lot of time doing

this. He's been a lot of time keeping all of these exact words and

all of us writing. He's been a lot of time trying to get it

all compiled and chronological order and everything just right. And now he wants to

end it just right. Let's read it the Book of Saint Matthew and scheffer

number twenty eight, and let us all stand the reverence the reading first number

sixteen. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where

Jesus had appointed them, and when they saw him, they worshiped him.

Let's some doubt it. And Jesus came and speak unto them, saying,

all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore

and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of

the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever

I have commanded you. And load I am with you all the way,

even unto the ends of the world. Amen. Let's pray, Lord,

I thank you so much, Lord for what you have already done in these

services. God, I am so thankful Lord for this holiness. Church in

La Al, Florida, I'm so thankful Lord for the pastor and his pride.

Hallelujah, Lord for what you have done here. God, I pray

that you would use bless and annoying pastor and sister Howe greater than ever.

And I prayed God that you would bless everyone here wonderfully Lord in every way.

But, Oh God, could I ask you tonight, Please, Lord,

move with the remainder of the service. God, give us the greatest

altar prayer time, Lord that this church has ever experienced. I'm praying Lord,

not comparison, but Lord, you would just pour out your spirits to

man in the name of Jesus, not my will, but thine, in

the name of Jesus. And the church said, yeah, he may be

seated in the House of God. Notice that last line low and with you

always, No, no, no, no no. It doesn't say always.

You see if there is an S on the end of that that tells

you of segments of time these problems. He will be with you. I

will be with you when you're there and there and there always at each place.

That is a different word than all the way, for always means I'll

be with you there and then I'll be with you there and there, and

if you go away back there, I'll be with you there. That's always

each time I'll be with you. But all away means all the time.

I'll never not be with you. It may take you a half a second

to go from there to there, a whole lot can happen and a half

a second a man, I'll be with you alway, even if you're on

a dirt road in Touch where they're a nobody there and all of these wild

hogs keep coming out and scaring you, and you don't know which way to

go, and there augustly is no seventy eleven, and you don't know who

to ask him, and you'd get a ride or ask somebody, but there's

nobody to ask, there's no car, you don't know what to do.

I'll be with you all way. Oh hallelujah, hallebah. Well, apparently

the Lord sent an angel that appeared out of the bushes to Missy and Chelsea.

Send an angel. Maybe that's exactly how the Lord will do it for

you. Maybe he'll just send you an angel. I don't know, but

I'm so glad to tell you Jesus will be there with your Hey, man,

I've told you about my healing and how that after the accident took place.

The greatest miracle that I felt like the Lord did for me was that

he delivered me and fought the battle for me in that pit of despair.

The Lord fought that battle for me that I just could not fight. Hey

man, And understand, blind people, they can live. Thank God that

we live in a wonderful nation that has so many things set up um there.

We have a pink at home that we use, and they have a

wonderful drive through ATM. You ever been in one of those. I don't

know about your drive through ATM, but our drive through ATM at fifth third

paint truth. When you drive through, there's prayer. I have not figured

that one out. How did the blind guy get there? But I'm not

making fun of being blind by any chance, because I've been there, and

so I'm thinking that that's the one ATM that doesn't be prayal. It's one

that you drive through, you know. But anyhow, I anation is so

wonderful to help you if you are crippled. Thank God. Even the hole

in this church at LaBelle has handicapped biking. Hey man, that's not because

it's raining, and you're in a hurry when there's other people here. Because

there are some elderly people that don't need to be walking in the rain,

Amen, Pastor. There are some people that have physical problems that have a

little trouble getting out of the car and getting to the church house, and

so even the holiest church has done something to help them. Amen. No

matter what your sickness or what your disability is, the Lord and the way

that our nation is set up has moved upon your pastor, has moved upon

the government people around us, our culture that we try to help people.

Aymen. Of course, if you're depressed, that's not helpable because there's no

counselor, there's no judge, there's no home, there's no hospital. Our

country has even shut down the asylums. What in the world. I haven't

figured that one out. Chance. Why did we not have orphanages anymore?

Why do we not have asylums anymore? I haven't figured that out. But

for whatever reason, thank God, our nation does take time to help to

a certain degree. But people that are depressed, only Jesus can solve your

profit. Hey man, I'm so glad that he fought that battle. And

delivered me from the pusson. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? If

you know what I'm talking about, oh, would you just give the Lord

praise and thank him for fighting that battle for you, or if you understand

what I'm talking about, give the Lord praise and he won that battle for

you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, Thank you Jesus.

I'm so thankful that the Lord rebuilt gave me. I shouldn't even say

rebuilt, I should say the Lord gave me a brand new chaw. That's

not my opinion, and that's the professional opinion of the E and T that

had wired it shut, that had dealt with it for those months. That

said, in my professional opinion, someone has given you a brand ni jaw.

I've been talking and have never had another pit of pain in my jaws

since down all because she says is my healing. Hey man, my friend,

I'm so thankful for all that God did for me. But understand,

I've led you up to the point now that I had no longer been in

the wheelchair. By the physical therapy that I was spending at least forty hours

a week in physical therapy, and it was just horrible. I hated every

minute of it. But now that I look back at it, I'm so

glad that those people were trying to me, and they taught me a lot

of things in life that I just didn't realize about that. You know that

all of us could could Joan, if you want to spend forty hours a

week there, go ahead. I'm not gonna be with you though. But

I hated it, but I'm so glad for everything that they did teach me,

and they tried to help me so much. Well, so I was

no longer using the wheelchair. I was using a walker. Well, I

was kind of part in part. We had decided to go home. Our

friends, the Websters was in revival at our home church in Cincinnati. We

was back, you know, living. I was now out of the nursing

home. Thank God for the gift of faith. Thank God for the gift

of faith that he gave Missy that she signed me out of the nursing home.

And thank God. Now we had left Illinois and to come and just

visit Cincinnati and all the family and everything. And understand that I never in

this church. If I could get anybody to help me get there. They

would pick me up and put me in a wheelchair. And I couldn't even

sit in a wheelchair unless you know, I was strapped in and everything.

So they would kind of lay me back, you know, and take me

to church. And they said that I would sleep most of the time during

service. I don't know just how much I was a sleeping how much I

was awake, but I know that all the service long, and I would

lay there in the wheelchair, I'd be thinking, it's not what i'd have

done, not what i'd have said, you know what I'm talking about,

And you know you're thinking it right now. But you know, I'm so

glad that they always did their best to take me the church. Not only

to the church there, we were blessed to be in an area where there

was several more hole in his churches, and I would get to go to

church time and time again. And so now we're going back to our home

church some seven hours away, and I came in the wheelchair. Our home

church has something that is really wonderful. If you're sitting on the back seat,

it's really terrible if you're in a walker on a walker trying to get

there. That is the platform, which is three feet up in the air,

and then the church is ninety feet and it is on the same level.

The platform is as the back seat because the floor of the congregation is

at an angle going downward, there's those steps. It's just at a slight

angle all the way going downward. Well, that's really good for you if

you're sitting on the back seat, because you know that person with a good

kind of costal hair ado that always sits right in your way, you know

what I'm talking about. She's here, and so you're always trying to see

pastor hell, and she's she's always moving right when you get it. And

well you don't have that problem because you're looking it over the crowd. Well,

when you're on a walker, understand, it's a terrible experience. And

so I came in and I started down the middle aisle, and though we

just got one main aisland down the middle. And I came down that middle

aisle and I was doing my best, but my left side was still paralyzed,

and so I did it all with my right hand, you know,

and I would pick up the walker, and you know, I take my

left hand and set it there and close my hand on it, and I

do work with my right hand, kind of dragged myself with the walker,

and uh, I felt when right down the middle aisle, I fell,

you know, And it was early for church, not everybody was there yet,

and and so I was, of course embarrassed and a little angry,

and and I got up and got still it again and just made a few

more steps, and I felt, well, I fell three times, and

my wife's uncle evarts. He jumped up, and he he came to where

I was. And of course I'm ninety percent blind, my left side is

paralyzed, my mind is still not not nowhere near where it should be,

and I'm in pain all over my body, and falling is just making everything

worse. And everart you know, he was a you know, a wonderful

man and very strong, and he just helped me up that third time,

and he said, here, let me help you. And he just kind

of, you know, held me up and helped me and got me all

the way down there and half carried me, I guess, got me to

the front seat and I was sitting on this side about where you are,

brother Jordan, and set me down there. Oh my, I don't know

every song that they were singing. And I don't know exactly what my brother

Webster preached that night, but I know I just felt the power of God

all service long. But I was in so much pain. I knew that

I was in the presence of the Lord. Oh but maybe you know what

I'm talking about, even at church, when you're in the presence of the

Lord, yet there's pain, yet, there's troubles yet, there's so much

on your mind. Yet there's so much going on in your body, and

you really want to just bruship the Lord, and you're trying to get you

keep your mind on the Lord. And that's what I was doing my best

to do. Sometimes it's very hard. Sometimes it's so hard. Oh,

my friend and so and my brother got up, My brother Dwayne got up

and he sonned the song. Maybe you've heard it, a song that they

sing at home that says there's a miracle in the making for you. I

don't have all the words with me tonight, but oh, every word in

that song when he sung it, I just I was just sitting there listening

to it. I was so miserable, but oh my goodness, I just

felt such a presence of God. I could just feel the Lord right there

with me at Oh Brother Road cap It just felt so close. Did you

ever just feel like it was so close to you, so close to you,

You've just touching you know what I'm talking about. I mean, I

prayed sometimes when I felt like that my prayer wasn't getting above the roof,

you know that it was just coming back and hit me back in the head,

and I just felt so far. Oh but not that night. That

night, I was just feeling the presence of the Lord. There's so wonderful

you. And so without thinking about what I was doing, it was the

thing that I thought about and decided to do. It just happened. I

raised my paralyzed army and I was just sitting there and I had my left

arm up in the air praising the Lord. Oh, thank you Jesus,

because I feel you so many ready. And it was so odd that when

I raised my hand, pain was just leaving me. That would hurt the

best. PROP was just feeling better. I felt like the Roid was right

there her. The pain was just leaving, and so I just wanted to

praise you and I had that left hand up. Somebody raised your left hand

right now, oh it just praise the Lord. Oh, just telling you

I love your cheese. Thank you Jesus, because I feel your tail.

Why I feel like where is your miss? Lord? You're an air miss

lord. Glory, glory, glory. And what I did while I was

sitting there giving the Lord so good and had that hand up in the air,

praising the Lord, not even thinking about my left hand up in the

air, I opened my eyes and looked up the platform. Now I don't

know that my eyes was ever actually closed. I don't know, but I

know that I only had less than five percent vision. I could see lights,

and I could see somewhat of shapes, but I couldn't tell who anybody

was. But while I was sitting there with my hand up in the air

praising the Lord, I looked up on the platform and there stood brother Webster

and my brother in law. Anybody here have a brother law? Raise your

hand. If you have a brother, you know who I'm talking about it.

You know how brother laws are? I no, none of you are

a brother fall of but Joel, how brother laws are? And there stood

brother Kevin and my brother in law and they're right out right in front of

me, and they're point Keavy and then they're talking and they're laughing because I's

up in the air and I'm sitting there, thank you. Oh my goodness,

I'm getting a blessing my pains maybe right and left. I'm feeling the

best I've felt. And so blaw and Brian Miller and Kevin Webster's laughter.

I just wanted just you know, assaulted me. And Brian, being a

brother in law, he knew that I wasn't happy about one. And he's

got my pisa and I looked and it hit me and this was next.

So I like going to the Henner. That's all that farm. That the

one's the air? Wow? Right, then the Lord heal my parents?

Maybe the air? Oh Lord, I know else. I was so excited

that I could get my left arm in the air. Then I started looking

around for my brother and my sister and my cousin. You know how churches

are for people that I loved, and people hadn't waved down me in years,

you know, I wanted to wave down and just love to see what

I torn and everybody that I would wave that, some of them ran,

some of them got up and danced. Oh but it was pandemonium. People

was just absolutely getting so blessed to see that my paralyze and I thought it

was all just because my paralyzed arm was now working, I you know,

listen. And then my good close friend I used to work for him,

brother Day, was sitting on the platform and I for Daddy. I waved,

smiled, and he jumped up. He went, oh my God,

I can see. I'm oh, thank you. She the Lord opened up

my blind that I that night, for I'd only had that band up in

the air, but I was staying every little b Did I tell you that

big lossers have already told me there was nothing they could ever do about my

vision because the optacle nerve the sufferance had happened where there was no way they

could ever do searching. And there's no medicine for that. There's no castling

that can help them. All. They had already down and rode my small

children into special classes to deal with having a blind daddy. Oh but I'm

so glad that night. I smiled, waiter and I'm Jesus, is my

healer, I said, Jesus, it is by healer. He I felt

like it. No body, nobody could understand what I was going Nobody but

I'm so glad that it no time did Jesus think me, even when I

couldn't get down the little while of the church without falling. Jesus never rated

me, even when I done my first coind thewnver trying to praise the Lord

that I just raised that hard. Thank you Jesus that you want to and

thank God, here's with you right now. I want you wait for Come

on the love, Hordy, come on the worship. Let you know how

word he is to be hollellujah. Haven't the worst lodd loading Lord non't want

to tell you. I don't know how long the shouting went on that night,

how long that everybody just worshiped the Lord. I know that um.

I was told later that we didn't leave there at about one o'clock in the

morning. That's a mighty good servant man, now. But finally the time

came the brother in mill said, let's all stand to be dismissed. Oh,

could I tell you there was so many times I want you to hear

me tell this toy. There was many times that I had made up my

mind at that hospital bed at home. You know, we had the two

small children, just me and Missy and so different people in the family would

come and stay a few days with Missy to help her out, to take

care of me, and that, you know, and so so many times

would I make up my mind, especially in the middle of the night.

I know I can go to the restroom by myself. I don't need to

grunt and holler and carry on and ring a bell to get somebody to wake

up to take me. I'm going to myself. Come on there now.

I can preach you well on the importance haven't been made up mind? Amen,

But if you're depending on yourself, you've got to have a made up

mind in life. Preaching nothing about church, about the Bible, about the

Lord. I'm just telling it is a fact of life that if you don't

have a made up mind, you ain't gonna ever accomplish anything in your life.

Amen. But there is a whole lot of troubles in your life,

in your family, on your workplace that you need dunk. Yeah, come

on now, it's gonna take more than a made up mind. Damn.

Time and time again, I wouldn't make up my mind in the middle of

nights. I would get over on the end of the bed and you get

where my feet could if I remember, I just my toes could barely touch

the ground, you know, until I would try to stand up, and

I would think, Okay, look, I'm a grown man. I don't

need my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, and my

cousin whoever is here at that time to take me to the bathroom. I'm

going by myself. I'm tired of being treated like a baby. I'm going.

I would make up my mind, and when I would stand up,

I would never stop. I would just keep going. And I remember one

particular night my dad being there. And he's been my dad all my life,

you know, and I've never seen my dad that mad at me before,

since he'd come out of there and blas it sorry. He was in

his boxer shorts. And the end of the night he came running in there

by the way I was going outside because when I hit before, you know,

I made a big flumping sound and whatever flumping that's a word, I've

been crashing sound and hollered and Dad come running in there, and he was

so mad at me and hollered at me and helped get me up off the

ground and to the bathroom and back to bed. And I'm telling you he

told me, and no short of words, that I better never do that

again. Oh but I'm so glad that night I stood up at what I

did. I came to a time of the greatest battle within myself that I

have ever fought. Because I was standing there and something as loud as rushing

waters in my head. I was saying, Okay, look right, there's

your water. The Lord has touched your arm. You have now stood up

on your own. Praise God. You can see. I come see real

well at that time. But I was able to see, and something was

telling me, don't blow this. This has been a great service. You

know. It's one o'clock in the morning for crying out loud. Don't let

the service end with you being laying in the floor work because you're trying to

walk and everybody trying to see if you're okay and calling the amals and whatever

else. Grab your walker. Don't do anything stupid at a time like this.

There is promises written to us. The Lord knew that this time was

gonna come in my life and in your life. Amen, the Bible says

in First Corinthia's fourteen and four. Let all things be done decently and in

order. Hey, man, now there is nothing in deceense. We're out

of order for a man that has not taken a step a long time to

be standing there and standing up for the first time, holding out to nothing,

trying to take a step, because I felt like something in my heart

was so quietly, lovingly saying this is it, take a step, This

is it, take a step now. But brother Doug, now listen to

me. How do you know when it's John and not yourself. I've been

there when I felt like the people was in themselves, and one of the

things let me know that they was in themselves because it wasn't decent right,

and it wasn't in order. Oh, but your step of faith that God

is dealing with you about, come on here now, the Bible says in

first printhis fourteen thirty three, God is not the author of confusion, but

of peace. As in all churches of the Sex, there is nothing confusing

about you taking a step of faith with what God has done for you in

this meeting. Your convention is fixing that come up here in a few days.

I hope that this is the greatest conviction, the greatest meeting that la

Belle has ever seen anywhere in each other. And part of it is because

there's folks at the LaBelle hole in his church that are believing that God has

healed him, that God has touched him, that God has blessed them and

help and oh, it is not out of order, It is not indecent,

and it is not the author of confusion. For you to live by

faith. I care not today what tomorrow may bring shadow or sun will shine

a rain. I know my Lord ruling or everything. All of my worried

is faith. And I'm living by faith in Jesus. I'm trusting confid his

great love from all I'm saved. It is sheltering. I'm living by faith

and I feel now. The Bible says in Psalms chapter number one hundred and

nineteen, that's the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalms, Chapter one hundred

nineteen. I'll give you a dollar if you can quote the whole chapter two

mey verse eighty nine forever, Oh Lord, thy word is settled. And

come on, yes, did you remember that I preached the other day?

And all I'll tell you what I love preaching at this church. I love

you're a pastor and his bride so much. You guys know how to help

a preach out. And I preached on and they shall, they hands on

the sick, and they shall. Oh, my friends, his word is

forever settled back. I'm very aware that there are some that was real nit

of God, that the Lord really used them to spread faith, and people

really didn't get healed, that the money got bigger than their faith. And

there are some that never had it never will because they're nothing but funnies.

Come on now, and no matter how many television stations they start and how

many numbers that they show you, it's a bunch of foolishness that changes day

by day. Who's the big guy now, and who's the big one on

the television, all of that stuff. But I got news for you before

any of them ever started that stuff. Jesus was all. And even though

that they're trying to make it into an industry, and I've been quite successful.

Fool a bunch of folks that don't want to live sacrificial and live at

an according to the sacrifices of brains and give their bodies a living sacrifice to

the Lord. Even though there's a lot of folks that don't live rights.

Jesus is still healing people that are living rights that aren't trusting him a man,

his word is forever something that no matter how much foolishness is going on

in this world. Oh, let me, let me be playing with you.

I am here tonight, and I would be very careful because I do

not have one elnce of pride, of foolish pride in my life, I

promise you. But I do want you to know, as the last night

of this meeting, that I hope that you forget my name. You vot

round of this parking lot, and I hope that when you talk about what

God has done for him and what God has done in this meeting, that

my name was never mentioned because I didn't do it for him. Come on

here, man, Oh but could I tell you, my friend, gee,

it's all about Jeeves a man. But anyhow, I had the privilege

to receive a phone call from the pastor of TBM, which is a worldwide

large Christian television and one time I mentioned Christian television and brother Don Rich was

there sitting on the front seats and being a not too kind guy that he

can be. Sometimes he's a little pushed the television. I didn't know there

was such a thing. So trit to get all that subject. It's quitter

like good. But TV in the pastor called me. He said, I

have heard and his grandmother I actually pastored when this happens in Illinois, And

he said, I want to invite you to come and be interviewed on my

program. I want to have an interview with you and let you tell what

the Lord has done for you. Wouldn't pray about it? And Tordyman said,

I'm sorry, I don't feel like that. Scott's willing. I don't

feel like that that's what the Lord has done this for. And so he

called me back again. I want to call you again to let you know

that instead of an interview, I have a better ideal. How about if

I just give you time for you to preach and you to tell what God

has done for you and a preaching formats and let the whole world see it

here what God has done for you. Prayed about it like it was God's

willing. He called the third time to say, listen, it won't be

just an interview, it won't be just a message. I will give you

a week long live revival at our studios that will be full of people for

you to preach a revival about what God has done for you. And I

said, sir, I want you to know. And I prayed about this

and this is what I feel like that God has spoken to my heart abouts

God has let me know that what He did for me, he did not

do so that TBN would have a lot of money and checks sent to TV

him. That's not why God did this. God has trusted me that I

would go to every holiness church that would allow me to come and share with

him what God has done in my life. That's why God has done.

And he said, I that you understand the great how did he say it?

Was that monetary lucrative opportunity? That was it? Not monetary lucrative?

And I had to found out that that word means but my money. He

said. I hope this way, he said, He said, I hope

you understand the great lucrative opportunity that we're passing missing out on this revival,

my friend, as I stand here of Pastor and Sister happy as I have

the opportunity to be in South Blorida at an absolute, wonderful, terrific Holiness

church I am so thankful that I am sharing with you that Jesus is my

healing, that his word forever, and that I am not bringing in a

lucrative opportunity to Christian table a man, and the Bible says in Hebrews thirteen

seventeen, obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves. God

has made the choice. You felt the leading of the Lord to this to

be your home church for lots of reasons. I'm sure the Lord has gotten

more than one reason. The proximity of where you live. I don't know.

It's a beautiful building. You've made friends, there's good people here,

and in doing so, He has placed under shepherd. He has given you

a shepherd. You are the sheep, and it is God's will that he

has said, obeyed your pastor Amen. What I want you to know is

when I'm talking about obeying God in faith, when the Lord speaks to you,

it will not be indecent. And now before, if you feel like

the Lord is dealing with you to do something in your your ministry, in

your life in the church, whatever it is, it will always be decent

and it will be in order, and it will not be confusing come on

there. It will not be confusing, hey man, And it will never

the word of God has already been settled in heaven. It will never contradict

the word about I said. It will never contradict the word of God.

And my friends, God has given you a shepherd. And if you ever

feel like doing something and your shepherd says not, Now, that's not the

way we're gonna do this. Let's find another way. Now. Whatever it

is, whatever that God deals with you about, God has place one to

be over you. And if we're going to do it God's way, it

has to be according to the pastor's leadership. Does that make sense to you?

Well? And now the Holy Ghost has moved upon me, and I'm

standing there and I'm facing the biggest spiritual battle decision now I've ever had in

my entire life. I feel the Lord speaking to my heart. Take a

step, but it's so loud, I can still just it was so loud.

Don't be stupid, don't ruin this great night by laying on the floor,

and everybody's scared and worried. Grab your walker, stalls a small still

voice. Take a step, my friends, I said, all those things

of reading those verses to you to let you know just because you say,

God said, it has to line up. Amen, There's been better people

than you. Listen to me now, There's been better people than me that

really thought God was dealing with them. And it wasn't God. Amen.

Not everybody that does something crazy and regretful in the house of God was devil

possessed. A lot of it was good people that just got themselves. Amen.

But those scriptures, and I read to you tonight, it has to

line up with all of those days. And when it does, and God

tells you to quit taking that prescription, take and whatever it does line up

with all those things. And I've read to you times and God says,

leave the walker behind, leave it behind. When it does line up with

all of those things. And I've said to you, and you feel that

something inside of you was saying, this is God, this is what you

need to do. You need to do what God has telling you to do

it. Hey, man, come on now. It took me a long

time long in my mind fighting this battle. I wanted to so bad,

but I ain't gonna like you, folks. I was so scared. I

have never been any more scared in my life. Because I knew that people

was looking. I had my eyes closed. But I'm not stupid. I

can't say that. I looked around so everybody was looking, even though I

could now see if they was looking at me or not, I had my

eyes closed. I was so scared I was gonna end up on the floor.

I said, m h, Jesus, almost Phil, I did.

I almost went down? What I did? Come on here down? Oh,

come on here, Jesus said, do you see? Yeah, but

I see when the trees warn you just need another touch. Yeah, come

on, come on. Oh, I'm telling you that when you're heel to

next game, you feel than you ever hit the LA. But I aren't

telling you. Don't quit leaving. Don't quick give me my fake. I

can't go today with the Lord. Raby shot out the same shine, who

know my Lord forever? All of the worries faking, I'm fake. I'm

living my sad Jesus trip another step? Yeah, yeah it was a little

better. Yeah, what good? It was a little better that night,

my dad, I'm at my third step. My dad, bless his heart,

he comes. He grabbed my walker and he got to his quicks.

He could He said, here's son. Here's son Grabbit's grand quick quick,

quickquick grabbing. So Dad, you can have it. I'm never gonna use

it again. Shot. Everybody might think you're crazy when you take a step

of it lines up to the word, my friend, go ahead and take

your step. Everybody said, how the hockey's gone and the lines up to

the word, and you're still feeling it deep in your hearts. Hey,

God can speak with an audible voice. I know that. I know God

can speak with an audible voice. But I didn't hear no audible voice said

you're heeled. Never heard it. It was a step off of faith because

Jesus told me in my hearts. Oh, come on, dear, now,

God deals with your heart, my friend. We are his sheep,

and we know his voice. I don't know yet. Oh, and God

is speaking to you. Listen to me and obey him and take that step

faith. Do what God wants you to do. Is that all right?

It has to line up to the word, friends, It has to line

up to the word. The words already been settled in heaven. It will

not be confusion, it will not be indecent, it will not be out

of order. And your pastor will agree and will be forte he on now

if the line's up according to the word obecoon obecome. Oh, my friend,

it was not for weeks, not for months, years. Everywhere I

went, I remember walking. We got this big mall which is like three

miles I think from our home church called Northgate Mall, just a huge,

big mall, and uh, I was there one time, and I remember

why I was there. I was there to buy my wife a gift.

You know, I'm not a shuffle and it's putting a Walmart and pirate kilt

and I hate those gigantic stores. You know, go to the mall and

you know exactly what you want, you know which store to go and get

it, you know what I'm talking about. And so I'm walking in the

mall and my limp was so pitiful, you know, I couldn't much bend

my knee and just a really bad limp. And there was some joan men.

They saw me walking toward them, you know, they kind of had

a pretty cool walk, and they thought that would like somebody will be fun

of you. They thought I was making fun of them. They felt that

I was trying to be like fill or something that wasn't me trying to look

cool. I was living for crying out and I got so ticked off these

guys. They stopped on this. Oh you think you're all that I look

yet you good? Yet you can't. You can't shut you can't, you

can't, I said. They started making fun walking away, like where I

mercy? So I really look cool? It doesn't feel cool, but um,

And every time I went to church, I could not get on the

platform unless you know, a couple of men usually and sometimes just one would

help me to get up on the platform because I couldn't get my leg to

right. And then finally I got to where I could get on the platform.

But and I would I was evangelizing U. When I left the church.

I would always go to the platform and hold on to the bobele this

grather to hold on and get myself up. But I want you to see,

souse, this has only been maybe a year and a half or so.

Right now, most of the time on the platform that's got more than

one step, I take both of you on one step, and then I

do that just because I want to fall. You know, I'm too stupid.

You know they're faith and that's kind of bad. I'm sorry. I

personality good idea, but I do it that way for safety. All right,

let me concentrate. That's not because I'm so good. That's not because

I'm so talented. That's because for me, what I could do. And

now let me explain this real quick. The Lord knew what did we say

today is Jeune twenty eighth. The Lord knew Jeune twenty eight, twenty twenty

three was gonna come, that you was going to be facing what you're facing.

The Lord knew about the problems that you're happy, and the Lord knew

that I would He would trust me. I shouldn't say, I should say

the Lord trusted me that I would come here and share my story with you,

not with TBN because I'm trying to get rich in faints. That's not

what this is about. This is about Chi. It is not by accident.

It was confirmation from heaven. Whenever the pastor begins the service telling you

you're special to God. It was confirmation. When my wife winged over to

me and said, I feel like I need to tell them about you know,

the time the angels. I said, obey God. She said,

what do you think it will fit? You think of you your eyes.

I said, yeah, it's all It's about it. You obey God,

listen false God knew tonight was coming. This whole service has been about you,

because this is an important decision in your life. This is an important

moment in your life. Every head bound and every eye closed all over the

building. Oh Geeesus, Jesus, Jesus, right now, Lord, We're

not asking for an audible voice, though we would love to hear it tonight.

We're not asking for an audible voice, though we know Lord that all

of it could be just shaking by how loud and powerful your voice would be.

But Lord, I'm asking for you right now to speak to the hearts

of people all over this church house. What would you have them to do?

God, What would you have in their life? Lord, Oh God,

I pray Lord, give them the courage to live by faith, Give

them the direction right now, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Oh Lord.

The Bible says, the footsteps of a righteous man, or ordered words of

the good man, are ordered by the Lord. In the name of Jesus.

Show us, We're gonna put our foot down nest in the name of

Jesus, in the name of Jesus. All right, this is what I

want you to do tonight. I want to give you the choice. These

altars are open, and there are some people here that you need to spend

some serious time. We're not in a hurry. You need to spend some

serious time talking it over with Jesus. You need to spend some serious time

making some promises to Jesus seeking his face. God has been dealing with you,

and it's time that you make your vows to the Lord. What are

you going to do? What are you going to do? There's some of

you that you need more. You need another touch. You're saying, oh,

but seeing minas trees walking. The Lord would love to give you another

touch tonight. I believe one hundred percent with all of my hearts, God

is going to move in this place. If you need to come to the

altar placed, if you would love to give me and pastor Howe the opportunity

to pray with you and for you, just line up between the all to

run the platform here tonight. Just line up here, the gentleman on this

side, the ladies on this side, line up and give us the opportunity

to pray for you tonight. Or whether you're in the altar or whether you're

coming to be anointed and pray for it. God has got a very special,

a very special peasure for you tonight. Yeah yeah, thank you,

Jesus, thank you.