I Have Decided

[SPEAKER_04]: I love that old song.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have decided to follow Jesus' simplistic in the words, but meaningful in its testimony.

[SPEAKER_04]: We make a decision, don't we?

[SPEAKER_04]: We make a decision, a mental scent, to do certain things.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, when we make a decision to follow Jesus, sometimes people follow Him, but they follow from afar, and they do not follow in faith believing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Because what is most prevalent and important in the heart of God, as that we have faith and we believe in Him and know Him in the power of His resurrection.

[SPEAKER_04]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thank God that, you know, I grew up in a home where it goes back decades upon decades because I was born in the nineteen thirties and so, you know,

[SPEAKER_04]: When I was a boy, we did not have health care centers on each corner of the street when you go down, you know, surgical centers where you can go if you get sick in the night, you know, have to go to the emergency room.

[SPEAKER_04]: When you have that, what do you need to have emergency rooms that I remember in the hospital?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, the hospital was the hospital.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if you got sick, you either got well, you'd die.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if you had money, you had a doctor.

[SPEAKER_04]: If you had a doctor, he would come see you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe.

[SPEAKER_04]: He felt like it.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, old Dr. Barker was an old doctor.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he wasn't a horse doctor, very brilliant man.

[SPEAKER_04]: But we'd call him out.

[SPEAKER_04]: He'd put me on the kitchen table and I'd have had a lot of earache and he'd lance my ears because I had pus pockets on my ear drums.

[SPEAKER_04]: So he would land which is a very dangerous thing today because it impairs your hearing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And mother would say, is that all you can do, doctor?

[SPEAKER_04]: And he'd say, what's all I need to do?

[SPEAKER_04]: And so my dad said one time, well, then that's all God needs to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: Mom and my dad turned out to be men and women of God who believed God for anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I had a little sister who was cerebral palsy and lots of problems sick, very sick, problems upon problems.

[SPEAKER_04]: And there were no doctors that specialized in any kind of medicine in those days.

[SPEAKER_04]: Doctors were just doctors.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I can remember

[SPEAKER_04]: My mom and my dad coming into our secret.

[SPEAKER_04]: And this is where ladies and gentlemen, I came to know about the wondrous power of God.

[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to have a name to reach God.

[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have to have prominence to know God and to be allowed into his presence, amen?

[SPEAKER_04]: And there they would take us kids on a fevered bed and would take a bottle of olive oil and dab it on their finger and place it on our head for his and pray in the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: And guess what, we got well.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember Dr. Barker said one time, well, Valma, Ed, I hadn't seen y'all in a while.

[SPEAKER_04]: She said, no, we learned how to pray, Dr. We learned how to believe God and we learned how to trust God.

[SPEAKER_04]: When there's no weather alternative, when there are no other doors, no other options, and it's just between you and God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you stand, you know, and somebody said, does God still speak to people today?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, he does.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I can prove it because it's worth it.

[SPEAKER_04]: So he said, behold, I stand at the door knock if any man here might want voice.

[SPEAKER_04]: He said, I will come in.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will enter into your life.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, there's some very simplistic things that God has blessed us with.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's just a simple knowledge of things to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: Mom's, you know how to take care of kids when they fall and they scratch their knee or whatever.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, you have your own little home holistic way of doctrine and meeting their needs.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, as we grow in the Lord, ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you this, we need to grow in the expectation that God is doing all that we need of Him.

[SPEAKER_04]: That we can ask our think of Him.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can't imagine having a kind of experience or I started to say religion where God is this some far distant thing and God is not prevalent.

[SPEAKER_04]: in your heart and in your life.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how people equate to spirituality in that regard because I was raised up to believe that God can do anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was raised to believe that the prayer faith shall do what saves the sick and what the Lord will raise them up.

[SPEAKER_04]: That has been my whole life worth of training.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then as a young boy, I started taking piano when I was three and four years of age.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I excelled quickly.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have deacelerated now to that point today as you heard.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I transferred from the piano to Oregon, even though I kept taking piano for nearly thirteen years.

[SPEAKER_04]: And my dream was to be a concert pianist, and then to someday graduate and be a maestro.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I didn't make it that far because at twelve years of age, I got called to play for churches in my city that were huge churches in that day.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have bigger churches today, but a thousand, two thousand people in these churches and I played the organ for their church.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, by the time I was in my early teens, I was playing more crusade evangelist.

[SPEAKER_04]: And at sixteen, then I started traveling and playing for very well-known evangelist and who were under tents and in auditoriums and returning cities upside down for God.

[SPEAKER_04]: I tell you that that, but also remember watching in these healing crusades, how God would show up.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I would think to myself sitting there on that organ bench, oh good Lord, I so God do this in our home.

[SPEAKER_04]: I so God do this in our family.

[SPEAKER_04]: I saw God, my little sister could not walk because she was clubbed foot at her feet turned in and she could walk.

[SPEAKER_04]: So she crawled and she was like nearly ten, eleven years old when the preacher called her down front, my mother down front.

[SPEAKER_04]: and anointed her with oil, and prayed for her, and I saw her feet.

[SPEAKER_04]: I was just a little boy, eight years old or so, five or eight years old, but sitting there, I saw my sister's feet straight and out, just like that.

[SPEAKER_04]: And she began to walk, immediately, and I met a fact she took two steps up upon the platform and him back down.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I thought, as a boy, then, when I was watching great miracles take place, this is what we are all supposed to experience.

[SPEAKER_04]: Amen?

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, the things going on in the world today

[SPEAKER_04]: I think have become ever increasing concern to all of us.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if we're not careful, we begin to place our hope in the world, not in the government and in programs and things that people can do for us.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think in every arena of life today, we're experiencing crises of biblical proportions.

[SPEAKER_04]: No matter where you turn, there seems to be a crisis of some sort.

[SPEAKER_04]: Poor getting poor and the rich are getting more frustrated.

[SPEAKER_04]: Politicians are vile and contemptuous.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nature is pouring out her wrath across this nation around the world with floods that surpass any floods in history, arranging this morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: Fires destroying millions of acres and thousands of homes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Gail force wins that are bringing these fires into arranging in front of them.

[SPEAKER_04]: Both marriage and home

[SPEAKER_04]: are under severe attack by the goddess characters of this world.

[SPEAKER_04]: A major universe is now no longer have decided that gender will be determined by our chromosomes, but by what we feel we want to be.

[SPEAKER_04]: You can hand out condoms in junior high school and high school, but you cannot mention the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: You can't debate the weakness and the stupidity surrounding the theory of evolution, much less speak up divine origin and creation in America.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, here's the good news.

[SPEAKER_04]: When you hear all these things coming to pass, lift up your heads, for your redemption.

[SPEAKER_04]: How can we survive then in this generation, this catastrophic age of events that are harrowing to us?

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, Paul says in second Corinthians, two, four, three.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, be unto God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks beyond the God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ.

[SPEAKER_04]: Hallelujah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Paul reminds us in second Corinthians four, eight through ten.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're troubled on every side, yet not distressed.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're perplexed, but not in despair.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're persecuted, but not for seconds.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're cast down yet not destroy.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, my friend, how can we expect us to survive if we don't know

[SPEAKER_04]: of God and the things that He has prepared for us that lifts us above the turmoil of the age that we're living in.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sometimes our needs are so great that we get caught up in our grief and our needs become great clouds of despondency.

[SPEAKER_04]: And sometimes it's difficult to hear the voice of God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sometimes it's difficult to just believe.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just to just simply believe.

[SPEAKER_04]: We know all things are possible to them that believe.

[SPEAKER_04]: But sometimes Christ is just impalous.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we become so ravaged by this.

[SPEAKER_04]: But we need to listen.

[SPEAKER_04]: because to God.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we need to know God's word because God's word is a seed.

[SPEAKER_04]: And here's the proof of that.

[SPEAKER_04]: God spoke and worlds came in to existence.

[SPEAKER_04]: God's in his word and his word healed them.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have come to believe that we can be what God's words says, we can be and we can do what God's words says, we can do.

[SPEAKER_04]: So if the word says that you are healed, then you're healed.

[SPEAKER_04]: The Word says he will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory through Christ Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: Then he has the means to supply all of your needs.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remind you that God neither slumber nor sleeps, but may also remind you that Lucifer does not slumber nor sleep.

[SPEAKER_04]: Somebody said today has been hell.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yesterday was great, but today is terrible.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, may I take you back and remind you of a young man by the name of Joseph who felt that way.

[SPEAKER_04]: He woke up one morning as daddy's little spoil boy.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he went to bed that night and went to sleep in the clutches of a bunch of desert slaves trading him all in far off lands.

[SPEAKER_04]: Finally, go to a house of potter for him to help work for him and his wife accuses him of an old man.

[SPEAKER_04]: He sent to prison for seventeen years

[SPEAKER_04]: His dream seemingly destroyed because Joseph was a dreamer.

[SPEAKER_04]: You must remember this.

[SPEAKER_04]: The dream never dies just the dreamer.

[SPEAKER_04]: But he was still alive and he still had a dream.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it finally came true when Joseph rose to the rank of Pharaoh.

[SPEAKER_04]: You have to look back and say, accept for a few pit stops.

[SPEAKER_04]: It had it hard going.

[SPEAKER_04]: But thank God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Satan will do everything in his power to sow so snares, tears in your life.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you have to remember, Jesus, I just just regard the tears, let them grow with a weight because I'm going to harvest you, but the tears will die.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, what a spiritual blessing.

[SPEAKER_04]: One way so sings of righteousness and repentance.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we watch the blessings flow until our life.

[SPEAKER_04]: Ladies and gentlemen, I know there's to be a truth.

[SPEAKER_04]: that when the enemy forms a plan of destruction for your life, we're reminded that the weapon that is formed against you shall prosper.

[SPEAKER_04]: The tears are just a destruction.

[SPEAKER_04]: At harvest time they'll be cut down and they won't ever come to fruition.

[SPEAKER_04]: Only God can come and fix the things that are broke in your eye.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I get your hands off of the situation and get your eyes upon Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: Josh was said, I've got to get into Jericho.

[SPEAKER_04]: God said, no, you've got to walk around the walls for a few days.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then you can walk into Jericho.

[SPEAKER_04]: So we never know when these issues in our life come to become happen to become something that will be a remarkable assistance to us when we do step into the light and the glory of God.

[SPEAKER_04]: Does God heal everybody?

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: Does God prosper everybody?

[SPEAKER_02]: No.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just know that there comes a time when you have to know that God is real, regardless of what you're going through.

[SPEAKER_04]: Regardless of what you're facing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I say this to this church, this morning, this beautiful faces that are before me today.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm numerous race colors and green.

[SPEAKER_04]: That God is this real to you as he is to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to encourage you to learn how to let your faith go so that you don't pay attention to the tears.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you don't pay attention to the devices and the works of the enemy that come against you.

[SPEAKER_04]: But pastor, I'm sick.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I've been sick before too.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I've been healed before as well.

[SPEAKER_04]: I know what it's like to be told by the doctor, we will give you another gear to live, and we will fix you so you can live another year.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'll bless, guess one, I'll live that year, and the year after, and the year after, and the year after.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they had to do a lot of patching, but you don't when you get this age, it's just patch, patch, patch.

[SPEAKER_04]: And sometimes that's where it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: A lot of patching in our eye.

[SPEAKER_04]: God is still real.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I will walk into my grave believing that God is the giver of life.

[SPEAKER_04]: But God is the healer of the sick that regulatory store strength through the week.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will believe that to my dying day.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think if I pass you to church today, I would take that Mark's sixteen, seventeen, I believe it is.

[SPEAKER_04]: I remember it gets foggy.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I would print it in on canvas across.

[SPEAKER_04]: These signs shall follow them that what?

[SPEAKER_04]: These signs shall follow them.

[SPEAKER_04]: That belief.

[UNKNOWN]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: And unfortunately, when you have children, they get sick.

[SPEAKER_04]: You don't have a cathartic whom to pray for.

[SPEAKER_04]: You're a biny hymn.

[SPEAKER_04]: Or Austin O'Neill.

[SPEAKER_04]: You got left on in the middle of hour with a raging fever of that precious baby.

[SPEAKER_04]: What did you do?

[SPEAKER_02]: You trust God.

[SPEAKER_04]: He is your help, ever present help in our times of need.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you pray, you pray faith be leaving prayer.

[SPEAKER_04]: God's word is a seed.

[SPEAKER_04]: He said, let there be water, and there are oceans.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let there be land, and there were fields.

[SPEAKER_04]: Let there be animals, then there are animals.

[SPEAKER_04]: Whatever God says, it's a sea, then it planted in your heart, and water it with your face, the light is shining.

[SPEAKER_04]: There's no way Satan can defeat that kind of faith.

[SPEAKER_04]: Never, never turning aside, but believe in God.

[SPEAKER_04]: How many of you are here this morning?

[SPEAKER_04]: And you say, pastor, I have needs.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can I see your hands?

[SPEAKER_04]: Would you be so bold?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my goodness, we have needs.

[SPEAKER_04]: Why, because we're needy people?

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know from the time I was born until I left home at the seventeen, I was a needy kid.

[SPEAKER_04]: I could not drive until my father taught me how to drive.

[SPEAKER_04]: I could not learn the piano, the organ unless I had a teacher.

[SPEAKER_04]: But they taught me.

[SPEAKER_04]: My mother taught me.

[SPEAKER_04]: My gracious mother taught me.

[SPEAKER_04]: My dignified father taught me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I never will forget we had a forty-nine forward and Betty said one Saturday, get behind the wheel, Son, you're going to drive going home.

[SPEAKER_04]: I never driven before in my life, I post fifteen years old.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it was, you know, on the tree, you know, you know, low per second, third.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then reverse was as in and somewhere.

[SPEAKER_04]: You could find it.

[SPEAKER_04]: And he said, get behind the whale.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did.

[SPEAKER_04]: Back to we jumped to.

[SPEAKER_04]: I killed the car, because I popped the clutch to quick.

[SPEAKER_04]: But he explains, son, he never got excited.

[SPEAKER_04]: He says, son, slowly let your foot off for the clutch and just barely accelerate.

[SPEAKER_04]: I did that and it was a smoothest takeoff you've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I've had another one that's smoothed to this thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And by his words became seeds that I planted and I learned from them.

[SPEAKER_04]: God wants to change the direction of some of your lives.

[SPEAKER_04]: God wants to change some of the thinking in your minds every day.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have to get up every day.

[SPEAKER_04]: I get up and I think God, let me never miss that unknowing thing that you have for my life.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know,

[SPEAKER_04]: You can always know when you're anointed to do something by God because it will just be such an impression upon you and it will be an impactful thing in your life.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you never know when the anointing leads.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, Samson knew when the anointing came upon him because the gates of Gaza are off of its hinges.

[SPEAKER_04]: He tied the tails of tigers, lions together.

[SPEAKER_04]: Kill six hundred men with a jawbone of a dance.

[SPEAKER_04]: But then the Bible said he knew not, but the spirit of the Lord had departed from him.

[SPEAKER_04]: But he found out quickly when he raised up in the shaved his head to fight those that would kill him and they imprisoned him.

[SPEAKER_04]: So sometimes we need to be aware when we're not so anointed and pray, oh God, let that anointing come.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, I pray times God, I have what you're anointing in my life today.

[SPEAKER_04]: I will speak to someone today.

[SPEAKER_04]: To encourage them, I was speaking to my grandson here, who's mentalist, to be an evangelist, and he would be at South Washington, SAGA University this fall, and I was at Walmart yesterday.

[SPEAKER_04]: We all go to Walmart, don't we?

[SPEAKER_04]: And here comes this lady, beautiful lady, probably in her fifties, sixties.

[SPEAKER_04]: And she said, Jesus is truth across her teacher.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I stopped her and I said, isn't it wonderful that the words of Jesus are so true?

[SPEAKER_04]: She just fell apart.

[SPEAKER_04]: Somebody would understand what this meant.

[SPEAKER_04]: I said they don't, honey, because they don't know the word to Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you know, you pray, Lord, let me touch some life today.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not out to change the course of their life.

[SPEAKER_04]: I just want to add a little spice.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no.

[SPEAKER_04]: I put a little pepper in it.

[SPEAKER_04]: We had a little spice to somebody's life.

[SPEAKER_04]: And a little girl will walk up.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you say, you're the most beautiful little darling.

[SPEAKER_04]: Had she looked like somebody never told her that before.

[SPEAKER_04]: We'll call her, I'll sit in on a fence post.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it's beautiful, little darling, make somebody's day change somebody's life by the end of the night in your own life.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, to walk in that end of the night to walk in the assurance of that end of the nighting is so wonderful.

[SPEAKER_04]: But all this after all is said and done is brought about because of the ever

[SPEAKER_04]: ever present working of the Holy Spirit in our life.

[SPEAKER_04]: You cannot operate in the things of God unless you have an operation of the Spirit within you.

[SPEAKER_04]: The fulfillment of the Holy Spirit within you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Some of the last words in Jesus

[SPEAKER_04]: Prior to his ascension, a simply said, go, told them to go, standing on the mount of ascension, go, and preach the gospel into all the world to every creature.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then you went on to say, He'll mistake

[SPEAKER_04]: Cast out devils.

[SPEAKER_04]: All that it puts the scare in some of you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, there's a few devils that need to be cast out.

[SPEAKER_04]: Cast out devils.

[SPEAKER_03]: Calls the lane to walk.

[SPEAKER_03]: Raise the dead.

[SPEAKER_04]: Does that sound far fetched to you?

[SPEAKER_04]: It does to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know, so, and then I hear some crank say, why don't you go into human home and then just raise all the dead?

[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you go into hospital and just heal all the sick?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I know if I'm cold there as a chaplain or as a pastor that I can pray the prayer faith.

[SPEAKER_04]: Now, get this.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm called my friend Gordon Brown, a buddy.

[SPEAKER_04]: He had married and his mother-in-law was in the hospital dying with cancer.

[SPEAKER_04]: Practice with pain.

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't know God, wealthy people.

[SPEAKER_04]: They don't know God.

[SPEAKER_04]: If it matters, our Fox.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they just blind people walking around.

[SPEAKER_04]: crying and moaning and so Gordon's wife had a sister and that sister was there and of course all the family was there so they called me and said would you come pray for mother

[SPEAKER_04]: Because I knew this much.

[SPEAKER_04]: I knew my friend going wonderful, wonderful friend.

[SPEAKER_04]: And saw such sure.

[SPEAKER_04]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I have to tell you, you understand this, we preachers do not walk in some special light and power and throbbing spirit.

[SPEAKER_04]: We're just like you.

[SPEAKER_04]: We just do what we're called to do.

[SPEAKER_04]: I got that tail up to the hospital, up to the hospital, up to the hospital room, and there she lay, arriving in pain.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I said, God, I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what to tell these people.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_04]: She's dying.

[SPEAKER_04]: And God spoke to my spirit, and my spirit said, just trust me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Try me.

[SPEAKER_04]: Just try me.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I went up there.

[SPEAKER_04]: I took me a little bottle of oil.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, Melissa.

[SPEAKER_04]: A little bottle of oil like this.

[SPEAKER_04]: pulled it out when they're looking at me.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I've avoided her head.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I said, Father, we curse this pain and it must go on Jesus name.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is not the work of God.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I curse this pain and Jesus name.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I just, I stay bent over her.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm hard, I'm saying, please call the police.

[SPEAKER_04]: Don't let me fall this time, please.

[SPEAKER_04]: And when I raised up, she said, oh my goodness, all the pain is gone.

[SPEAKER_04]: And her husband said, oh, I don't believe it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't say anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: She just kept saying, I can't believe the pain is gone.

[SPEAKER_04]: Guess what?

[SPEAKER_04]: She died about three hours later.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I didn't pray for her to live.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think they better pray.

[SPEAKER_04]: Got to think about that later, you know, but God answered my prayer.

[SPEAKER_04]: He answered my prayer.

[SPEAKER_04]: I asked him to take the pain.

[SPEAKER_04]: He took the pain, but he still took her life.

[SPEAKER_04]: But it's upon you to demand to die.

[SPEAKER_04]: But here's what you have to know.

[SPEAKER_04]: That when that hundred and twenty people walked out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost, none of them realized the enormity, the enormity of the task that awaited them

[SPEAKER_04]: and the price that they would have to pay for their confidence in the Prince of Glory.

[SPEAKER_04]: But I want to tell you this and this is simple.

[SPEAKER_04]: He, that knows all.

[SPEAKER_04]: He that knows all.

[SPEAKER_04]: New.

[SPEAKER_04]: And you and I must know also that God will never send us forth.

[SPEAKER_04]: without sending us in the spirit of his power.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's saying power which he promised is there to sustain with uncommon strength, that faces the challenges of our life.

[SPEAKER_04]: Day after day after day.

[SPEAKER_04]: We have the answers to everything.

[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely not.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm in Central America.

[SPEAKER_04]: The healing line is probably two hundred and fifty-three hundred people down the side of the Tabernacle.

[SPEAKER_04]: Up on the platform they come and the Tabernacle was about eight feet higher than the floor of the auditorium.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the ometic was my interpreter.

[SPEAKER_04]: I can't speak Spanish.

[SPEAKER_04]: Neither can you.

[SPEAKER_04]: Shame on you.

[SPEAKER_04]: And so I said, do you notice that she came up and she's holding a little baby?

[SPEAKER_04]: It looks like a baby is about maybe three or four months old, five months old.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's belly looks like it scratch like it had a basket ball in its stomach.

[SPEAKER_04]: Huge, I mean veins showing and almost transparent.

[SPEAKER_04]: I said, deal me, deal me.

[SPEAKER_04]: I asked her what she wants us to tonight.

[SPEAKER_04]: He asked her to, he said.

[SPEAKER_04]: She said, her baby is dying.

[SPEAKER_04]: And we will not live, but a few more days.

[SPEAKER_04]: She wants her baby heal that she can live.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a father of girls.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a father of children.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I broke.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll light my hand over on this baby's tummy, bloated tummy.

[SPEAKER_04]: And I begin to pray, God, and your infinite oil.

[SPEAKER_04]: And in your power, bring healing to this infant in the name of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then I realized, I'm miles across that can't feel anything.

[SPEAKER_04]: I thought, what she moved.

[SPEAKER_04]: I looked, and it's gone.

[SPEAKER_03]: The baby's normal, a little tummy's just normal.

[SPEAKER_04]: So the mother's crying, and I said to him, do you want me to tell Mama to look, tell Mama to look?

[SPEAKER_04]: And when she looked, oh, she got lost in the spirit, and she's clutching the baby, and she's, you know, kind of struggling around and stumbling, and she got close to the edge of the

[SPEAKER_04]: of the platform, and so the guys rushed over and said, leave her alone.

[SPEAKER_04]: God did not heal her baby to kill her.

[SPEAKER_04]: And the baby.

[SPEAKER_04]: And sure enough, she shouted back over toward us, which was a relief to me.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then I prayed for twenty-five or thirty more people.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nothing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Same God, same power, same anointing, nothing.

[SPEAKER_04]: And then this little lady shows up.

[SPEAKER_04]: And she tells the ometic her problem.

[SPEAKER_04]: She's imaging to death.

[SPEAKER_04]: The blood will not stop flowing, like the lady in the scripture, to touch the hemabiscarmit.

[SPEAKER_04]: She wants to be healed.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I said, God let her touch the hem of your garment right now.

[SPEAKER_04]: I reached out and touched her.

[SPEAKER_03]: And she instantly was healed.

[SPEAKER_04]: The reason we know that she came back up on the platform an hour later.

[SPEAKER_04]: And she said, I am not hemorrhaging anymore.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why?

[SPEAKER_02]: How?

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know with a mind of God.

[SPEAKER_03]: I just know that prayer works.

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you believe that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you believe that, sir?

[SPEAKER_03]: Do you believe that?

[SPEAKER_03]: Prayer works.

[SPEAKER_04]: And if we can believe God, all things are possible.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's his word.

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