Sunday Message (1st Service) - Jim Hockaday (February 8, 2026) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Let's lift our hands

for just a moment. Let's lift our hands for just

a moment. Father, we thank you. With uplifted

hands we give you praise. This whole service

already has been only about you. And so Father

from this very moment. Everything will magnify

your son Jesus. Now there's a presence in this

room already. And Lord you're moving among your

people. This isn't just a time to hear. It's

a time to feel. It's a time to experience. It's

a time to know. There's a confidence that's coming

into the hearts of the people right now. There's

a consciousness of God that is becoming supreme

and higher than the consciousness of sin. We

thank you, Lord. There's things changing. This

ministry, you might as well say is a ministry

of godly change. Father, things are just happening

here. Now we invite the angels, we invite the

presence, and we thank you, Lord, that we are

winners through and through. In Jesus' name.

Amen. You may be seated. Well, praise the Lord.

Tony and I, we coordinated our outfits, so that's

why we're working together this morning. Amen.

Praise the Lord. So I have the privilege of just

maybe kind of tying some things together from

the last couple of days. And so that Tony and

I can minister to you and get rid of all kinds

of stuff, you know? Amen. Jesus, when he came,

he was the last Adam. Many want to tell him he's

the second Adam, but God wasn't real pleased

with the Adam's family. Amen. You know what I'm

talking about. And so it got real weird. There

were its and things and God had to get rid of

that. So Jesus came as the last of the Adams

to take the Adams family into the grave and bring

a brand new family, which would be called new

creatures in Christ, which would be called sons

and daughters of God, born of God. So our DNA

is of God. Adam was a perfect being. But God

didn't live in Adam. So God said, I have a chance

to redo this. I'm gonna make this even better.

I'm gonna make them faster. I'm gonna, kind of

sounds like the $6 million man if you were in

my generation, okay? And God did. God made us

a divine nature being. So he literally ripped

out the nature of sin and in its place, he brought

Zoe, the very life, and substance of God and

lined us as a spiritual being in the very essence

of himself. In so much that he could step inside

of us and live through us. He made us so perfect

and so holy that the Holy Spirit could live within

us. It's not the dirty spirit. It's not Casper

the friend of the ghost. The Holy Ghost. And

the Holy Ghost living in you means you're holy.

Well, brother, I'm really trying to be holy.

Stop trying. Become what you are. That's a mind

shift. Jesus showed us as a prototype what it

looks like for God to live in flesh. But he did

it as a man. So Jesus had the task before he

died of fixing everything that Adam messed up.

So he had to go at the heart of all the dominion

that Adam turned over to the devil. Jesus took

that dominion and worked it in the earth. First

thing he did was turn water into wine. Wow, that's

awesome. I mean, changed the composition of water

until it turned into wine. And it was the best

wine. Amen. That's awesome. Praise the Lord.

So you think about what he did next. The next

thing he did concerning water is, well, he told

it to stop being a storm. And then the water

just calmed. Well, that's an elevation above

turning it into water and wine. But then he went

for one step above that. He walked on it. Turn

the composition from water to wine. Then you've

stilled the storm and now you walk on it. I think

you own it. Right? Right? I think you own it.

What are we saying? He developed a consciousness

of complete success and victory. Then you think

even with the animals, because really the first

thing that really, really happened before even

he turned the water into wine was he was out

in the wilderness. And one of the translations,

I believe it's Mark, that says there were wild

beasts out there. Why would it mention that?

Well, just to help you to realize it wasn't pussycats

and puppy dogs. So these were wild animals, but

they never touched him. In other words, he was

lunch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but they

never touched him because he has dominion over

the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the

beasts of the field. And he began to develop

that in so much that they wouldn't touch him.

And then he went ahead and paid taxes with a

fish getting coins in its mouth. I mean, that

little fish was on its way to school. And all

of a sudden it got a call and said, teacher,

little Finn, I have an assignment. And it went

down and found a shiny thing, grabbed it in its

mouth, and then looked for the perfect hook.

And voila. All at the word of, go fishing. When

you find a fish, you will pay my tax and your

tax. Dominion caused that fish to grab coins.

And then he went step by step by step, periodic,

I mean, just systematically through. all of the

areas of dominion through sickness, disease,

and then on over into miracles, and then on over

into death itself. First person raised from the

dead was a little girl. She'd only been dead

just a few moments. I love how Jesus went into

the room. He went in and they said, well, you

know, she's dead. Oh, no, she's just sleeping.

Now, he knew when he said that that he was going

to get flack. Amen? But he's not going to talk

like them. He's going to talk like God. She's

just sleeping. Amen? Which is really interesting.

It goes to our point. Jesus never really looked

at a problem as though it was a problem. He looked

at everything everybody thought was a problem,

and because he was an answer, he then gave it

the answer. So we tell a blind man to go home.

How does a blind man go home unless you heal

him first? How does a man with a withered hand

actually move it? But he said, Give me your hand

or move your hand or open your hand. Stretch

out your hand. So very interesting what he did.

Second degree, raising someone from the dead

was the son of an aunt. He'd been dead a couple

of days. Jesus interrupted the funeral procession

and touched the casket. The boy raised up and

gave him back to his mother. And then the third

was Lazarus. And we know Lazarus was dead how

many? Four days. And what do we know about four

days when you don't have preservatives like we

do in America in your body? You stink. Amen?

You know when you're eating a Twinkie that has

a 25 -year shelf life. There can't be really

any nutrition in that. Aren't you glad for RFK?

Amen? He's finding out that they're actually

poisoning us on purpose so that we can take drugs.

And then they give us drugs that actually need

more drugs. So instead of giving us one drug

to knock out what's needed, they give us a drug

that actually causes multiple problems, so I

need multiple drugs to handle the problems. And

it really never ends. And then you're always

going to be on this. And you can never actually

be healed. Sounds like the devil to me. Amen?

So anyhow, you think about this. Jesus, he had

said previous to this, Father, this is but for

your glory. Now, you know, the denominational

church took that and said, see, sickness and

disease is for the glory of God. Well, you got

to go a little further than that because he actually

raised him up. So it's like, don't end the story

with him in the grave saying this is glorious.

Finish the story and then you see the glory.

Amen. Amen. And so it's interesting because Jesus

knew of this situation and he was only a day

away. And he knew that he was sick unto death.

He could have gone. This is a really good friend.

But he didn't choose to go. And then when Jesus

knew he died, he said to the disciples, Lazarus

sleepeth. And they said, oh, well, that's good

because then he'll be raised back up. Because

when you're sleeping, you'll get healthy and

strong. And Jesus said, no, Lazarus is dead.

And then he still didn't go. Why did he wait

till the fourth day? I have to let you know,

Jesus was developing on our behalf a mind and

a consciousness of complete success and dominion.

Because when he gives us his mind, 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

chapter 2, we have the mind of Christ. That is

the consciousness of absolute success. When you

start to step into the mind of Christ, you will

literally see answers before you ever see problems.

You will see victories before you ever see defeat.

You will on purpose put yourself in a position

where you can't go back and you will defy everything.

Because that's exactly how Jesus thinks. He doesn't

think maybe this will happen. This might not

happen. Did I do something wrong? Oh no, I don't

know if the Lord likes me today. What do I have

to do to curry his favor? Come on everybody.

He's one with the Father and his last prayer,

John 17, was that we would know that we are one

in the same measure that he is one. I in you

and you in me and we are in the Father. A complete

union with God. And in that union, you think

like God. And that's scary. Because you'll actually

start saying stuff you won't normally say unless

you think like him. The reason why Jesus waited

four days is because if he knew he was going

to have to get himself out of the grave in three,

why not experiment on getting somebody out in

four? Well, that worked. Praise the Lord. I'm

coming out now. Tony used a verse of scripture

over in Deuteronomy chapter 30, verse 19. It

Deuteronomy 30:19

talks about, I said before you, life and death,

blessing and cursing, choose life. Now, isn't

that amazing that he gives us the choice? But

you know what else is amazing? Just as amazing?

What doesn't have a choice? Blessing, life and

blessing, death and cursing. They don't have

choices. The only one in that verse that has

a choice is you. In other words, you go to the

family buffet and you come back to your seat

and you've got four inches of food on your plate.

And someone says, whoa, I don't know how they

got on there. No, you do. Don't lie about that.

You put all that on there. You chose it. It didn't

jump on there. I mean, you went by and ham jumped

on. Whoa, ham jumped on. Wow, turkey jumped on.

Wow. No, you put that ham on. You put that turkey

on. So just as amazing as it is that we have

a choice, death doesn't have a choice. A curse

doesn't have a choice. But also, a blessing doesn't

have a choice, and life doesn't have a choice.

You choose them. They can't choose you. So where

you is, right here, right now, I'm sorry to say,

it's because of you. And if I'm pointing this,

I got a lot of fingers coming back at me. It's

because of me. It's where is our consciousness.

Do we actually believe in this stuff? Or do we

have dominion over it? I'm watching my time.

I'm in Idaho at a golf tournament. My wife's

family is in Idaho. And I'm playing with my brother

-in -law. He invited me two years in a row. And

then I haven't been invited back. But anyhow.

We did pretty well, but we didn't actually win

it. But we came real close. So. the first year,

and then the second year. And in the second year,

when I got there, immediately I saw someone that

in the first year, this guy was a real handsome

guy, more of a darker complexion, jet black hair.

I'd say about him, he's running for mayor. In

other words, he's always like, hey, everybody,

how you doing? How you doing? How you doing?

How you doing? I say, you know, that kind of

guy running for mayor. He knows everybody, you

know. And he's just all over the place, you know.

And I'm just wanting to sit back and watch a

guy like that. But, you know, he's just running

from air. And the second year when I saw him,

he was real thin. His skin was real pasty. His

hair was completely salt and peppered. And gaunt,

you know. I mean, he lost weight. And I thought,

wow, what happened to Alan? So I asked my brother

-in -law, I said, Kevin, what happened to Alan?

He said, you know, I think he's gotten sick or

something. I said, hey, do you mind if I go talk

with him? Because, you know, the family is sometimes

nervous. My daughter was doing gymnastics and

she's really, really good. And it was outside.

and they were putting on a display, and there's

a double mini. I don't know if you know what

a double mini is, but it's about a three -foot

-by -three -foot trampoline that's on a 45 -degree

angle attached to another three -foot -by -three

-foot trampoline that's flat. So you hit the

first one, and it throws you up, and she does

a layout, comes down, hits it, does a double

back, and then lands. Well, this one time that

she did it, At the time that she hurt herself,

she came down and it was so hot. Her feet were

all sweaty. And so when she went off, all her

footies went off and she's in the air like this,

hitting the trampoline and coming down on her

knee and wrecked her knee. And so I had to go

over there and I just went back into slow motion

instead of running. I just said, no, no, and

no, this won't happen. God doesn't make bad knees.

This isn't about to happen. But when I saw her,

the first thing I had to say is, first thing

I'm going to say, sweetie, because there's people

putting all ice, everything around her, and she's

just hurting and crying. I said, the first thing

I need to say is, I'm not going to embarrass

you. Because they've heard the stories, you know.

So then I said, we can go to the doctor if you

want. They do really well nowadays with tendons

and all that, ACL, all that kind of stuff. You

go to out surgery, and you'll probably have six

months for it to be better, and then we'll have

to get back in the gym. It'll take us some time

to get you back into shape. I said, we can do

it God's way. And she said, well, I want to do

it God's way. I said, okay, well, the first thing

I need to ask you is, does God make bad knees?

And through her tears, she looked at me, she

said, God doesn't make bad news. I said, very

good. I said, then there's nothing wrong with

yours. I said, so take that ice right now and

get rid of it. And the lady goes, and she takes

the ice like that. And there's a lady crunching

ice over my shoulder and I looked at her like,

she goes. Amen. And I guess I offended them,

but I told my wife Aaron, I said, I'll get better

the next time. So anyhow, back to Alan, you know.

So I asked Kevin, I said, no, go talk to him.

So I walked up and I said, hey, Alan, do you

remember me? And he goes, yeah, you're, I said,

Kevin's brother -in -law. I said, that's right.

I said, Jim. He goes, yeah, that's right. I said,

Alan, what happened to you? You don't look very

well. He said, I have four stage prostate cancer.

He said, I've been all over the world trying

alternative methods. I've gone through all my

radiation, all my chemo. In fact, this very week.

I'm done with it all. Nothing has changed. They're

turning me out to sea. I said, are you trying

to tell me that they can't help you? He said,

as far as medical science, alternative methods,

there's no help. I said, so you're dying. I said,

well, I'm going to help you. He said, you're

going to help me. I said, yes, I'm going to help

you. He said, what are you going to do? I said,

do you remember what I am? Do you remember what

I do? And now I'm getting sassy. Because now

I'm in charge. Consciousness. Consciousness.

The mind of Christ. He said, well, you're some

like preacher or something, aren't you? I said,

that's right. And I could see it in his eyes.

He thought I was going to go like this and bury

him. He said, okay, so what are you going to

do? I looked at him and said, I'm going to kill

your cancer. He said, you're going to do what?

I said, I'm going to kill your cancer. He said,

how are you going to do that? As I walked away,

I said, I guess you have to wait until tomorrow

to find out. He said, why did you walk away?

Because I introduced it to him. Now he has to

find me. So the next day I get there and I'm

in the cart and he's up on top of the cart looking

for me. So I then went down into the cart and

said, Kevin, drive away real fast. I don't want

him to find me. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. That

afternoon, they were all around the big tables

out there on concrete with aluminum chairs. If

you know what I mean, if you drag an aluminum

chair on concrete, it makes a lot of noise. So

they're all around the table, he and his friends,

and they're talking. So I went over here on purpose

so I could drag it a long ways, grabbed the chair

and started dragging. And everybody, turned around

to see who's the idiot who's making all the noise.

And I walked right up to him with my chair right

there. And I said, hey, Alan, now's the time

to talk about killing your cancer. And you could

see him. He's going, oh, my God. Right? So I

said, doesn't look like there's room here. So

I'm going to make some room. So I went down like

this. And I pushed him over like that. And a

guy I don't even know, I went, and I said, now

there's room. And I pulled the chair up. And

I started talking to him about Jesus. He defeated

death, hell, and the grave and took on his back

every sickness and every disease. Yours, he defeated.

And I'm talking loud. And you can see he's squirming

in his seat and I got him just where I want him.

And when I was done talking with him, he said,

when is this going to happen? I said, tomorrow.

When tomorrow? I said, it's going to happen after

the tournament at your house. He said, you're

coming to my house? I'm coming to your house.

And I pushed the chair back. I grabbed this guy.

I said, there you go. I grabbed Alan. I said,

there you go. I said, see you tomorrow. And I

dragged the chair. Says, you're making yourself

look like a horse's rear. That's exactly what

I'm doing. On purpose. On purpose. That next

day came. I went over to his house. We were all

dressed because, you know, you have all this

tournament and then you got to go, you know,

have the dinner and people win prizes and all

that. We were all dressed nice. He and his wife

are there. He lets me into the house. I walk

into the house, sit down and say, come on, let's

get this show on the road. They don't know anything.

I said, well, I said, here's what we're gonna

do. Let me tell you a story. I said, I was on

the road. I came back home. It was Wednesday

night. I get a call at five o 'clock from the

church that we were going to. And they said,

Jim, can you come in? Like ASAP, there's a girl

here, 16 years of age with fourth stage leukemia.

Doctors have given her up to die. She's with

her parents. And I'd really like if you would

come and minister to her. And I said, okay, I'll

get ready real quick. And I did, and I went.

And when I walked in, there were all these ministers

there. And I'm thinking, you know, I always have

more results when I'm a little ticked. Because

if I'm on edge, I'll do things that I wouldn't

do. You know what I mean? Nice is then out the

door. And you do stuff. Otherwise, when you're

too nice, Healings are messy. Like we make people

run when they don't want to. And you say, well,

it could hurt them. But it doesn't hurt me. Okay,

okay, stop right there. That's way too much information.

You're going to learn some of our secrets. So,

okay. So I walked in and it just kind of made

me think, why are these guys? Because some of

my friends, they work in healing. And so I felt

that pressure and I didn't like that. So I walked

in and I looked at this guy that brought me in

and I said, hey, get me some oil. You ever seen

someone's phone go off in a service and they

can't really get to it? And it's still going

off. And it's like, just slowly. But I mean,

so he's in his pocket forever. It's like, it's

not that deep. What do you got in there? And

finally, He comes out and it's a little oil.

He said, here it is. I said, what is that? He

said, it's from the Holy Land. I said, oh my

gosh. I said, go get me a pitcher. He said, I

said, go get me a pitcher. And I hear all these

cupboards, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

in the kitchen. And the guy comes out in seconds

with a whole pitcher of oil. I said, good, thank

you. And I walked over to the girl. I said, look

at this. She's got a mask on. We all know what

that's like. She's got a mask on and her hair's

kind of ratty. She's got sweat clothes on and

her parents are on either side. I said, look

at this. This represents the Holy Ghost. There's

going to be a lot of Holy Ghost coming on you.

I said, it's going to mess up your hair. It's

going to mess up your clothes, but you're dying

anyhow. So who cares? And I said, so here it

goes. And we pour this all over, smear it into

her. And then I said, in the name of Jesus, and

that's all I said. I said, there you go. He said,

that's it? That's it. Three days later, they

couldn't find an ounce of leukemia. So I looked

at Alan's wife, and I said, go get the oil. She

jumped up. Because you know, I'm building this

up so there's energy in the room. She jumps up

and runs into the, and I hear these covers. And

then she comes out with this smaller bottle.

She said, this is all we have. I said, well,

that's fine. I said, you know, we're not going

to put it all over them. I mean, we got something

to go to. She said, yeah, but we're Italian.

I said, that's okay. She said, no, it's garlic

oil. I said, really? She goes, yeah, it's garlic

oil. I said, I can't put garlic oil on him. He's

gonna stink. I said, okay, plan B. I said, I'm

in Ocala, Florida. I'm ministering to people

and there's a lady in a wheelchair. She's probably

80 years old. And I looked at her and I said,

mama, it's time for you to get out of that chair

and walk. She looked at me, she said, I can't

do that. I said, oh no, you can. I just told

you, you can. She said, no, I can't do that.

I said, I said you can. And she got up on her

elbows and said, but I said I can't. And I'm

thinking, this lady is going to ruin my healing

line. Something needs to happen here. So I said,

I said you can. She said, Sonny, I said I can't.

I said, where's Jesus in all this? She said,

that's a really good question. Oh, you don't

know him? I said, since you can't go anywhere.

I said, you're just going to have to get saved

right here. I said, give me your hand right now.

Do you believe in Jesus? Oh, of course I do.

You've never asked him to be the Lord of your

life. No, I don't know that I have. I said, well,

he's coming into your heart right now. Repeat

this after me. And I prayed and instantly God

came into that. Let me ask you a question. Have

you ever smelled a Reese's peanut butter cup

wrapper? Does it smell like an Almond Joy? It

doesn't. What does it smell like? A Reese's peanut

butter cup. You see, the candy bar affects the

wrapper. The moment Jesus came in, I said, now.

And she jumped out and started dancing with her

skirt like this all over the auditorium. And

we had a meeting. Why did that work? Because

when God came in, he touched her body. He's touching

someone's body right now. See, so many of you

are overdue. He's been there for a long time.

And he's been touching and touching and touching

and touching and touching and touching. But if

you consciously don't know he's touching, then

you're choosing something that's not life by

not choosing something that is. I looked at Alan

and said, it's time to ask Jesus into your heart.

We all grabbed hands. Power of God fell. He had

tears in his eyes, grabbed his heart, and he

said, I feel something right here. I said, you

feel more than that, brother. Four days later,

Salt Lake City, of eight that had the same diagnosis,

he's the only one that lived. The nurse said,

there's literally nothing on your, is it the

PSA? There's nothing there. He said, we added

a couple of little numbers because it's perfect.

A year later, Sorry for this extra part. A year

later, I called and said, Alan, how are you doing?

He goes, I'm doing wonderful. I said, what are

you doing to keep your healing? He said, what

do you mean? I said, well, like, what are the

things that you do? He goes, well, I read the

newspaper. And he said, I'm just so thankful

when I see people hurting that I'm actually well.

I said, well, you might want to go to the, and

I almost said, go to that church. And then I

thought, no, just keep reading the newspaper.

Because depending on where you go, people talk

you out of your healing. Jesus had to tell guys

not to go back into the town. Then he told the

one that went back in, just don't tell anybody.

God's in this room. And if I have the choice

and the devil doesn't, and death does it, then

you're not dying. I don't care what the report

is. You're living today. And when we touch you,

God's power will touch you. And we will kill

that disease with the life of God. And the anointing

will destroy the yoke, remove the burden, and

raise you up. Now, That's the only way you can

think. Think anything other and it muddies the

water. Become absolute in your thought and you

reach your destination. Have you ever heard your

GPS set recalculating, recalculating, recalculating?

Why? You got off course. This morning, when you

come up to get ministered to, you might hear

the word recalculating in your mind because God's

recalculating you back to something very simple

and very absolute. This ministry is now a ministry,

not that it hasn't been, but it now is a ministry

of such abundance of healings. It's in the air,

everybody. And if it's in the air and you're

breathing, you're in a really good place. There

will be people in the near future that will ask

to come and sit in this auditorium for an hour

as though they were in one of those med beds

just to breathe. Because this air is filled with

Jesus. Amen, amen. If you are in need of prayer,

send us a text message at 541 -625 -1365. We

would love to pray with you.