Life Conference 2026 (Saturday AM) - Jim Hockaday (February 7, 2025) | Life Bible Church

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enjoy this week's message. Praise the Lord. Hey,

thank you. You may be seated. Amen. Thank you,

Lord. Well, as Pastor said, you know there's

a sensitivity to God in this room. And you can

keep that switch on at the same time. Hear the

things from the Word of God that will actually

trigger the presence of the Lord to just heal

you right while you're in your seat. It's amazing

how that works. Don't overanalyze. Don't overthink.

I'm going to give you some things today that

possibly you've not thought of before. You say,

what's the benefit of that? Well, that you're

going to have to rethink something instead of

thinking, well, you already know what he's saying.

And while you're rethinking, your heart will

get excited. And you'll think, wow, that's really

good. In the moment, wow, that's really good.

There's an anointing. And there's a release.

We bypass so much of where our faith. triggers

the anointing. Now that's because we live in

a world that has nothing to do with what we're

doing in this church. And I know this is going

to be harsh that we would say, I love the Lord

with all my heart. Well, you love the Lord with

all your heart to the small degree that you give

him your heart. And I do too. Because we're learning

how to keep ourselves connected to him at all

times. Because the typical mentality of Christianity,

there's a lot of definitions there. I mean, there's

men that fought in a Christian war that had a

Christian flag, but probably didn't know Jesus

as Lord and Savior. Do you know the greatest

amount of churches that will call themselves

Christian don't even preach a gospel message

where people get saved? You do know that, right?

And those of us who are saved have for so long

been rewarded for coming. You don't get a reward

for coming. Do you know how many stars have been

handed out for perfect attendance? Do you know

how many people think they own a chair because

they've given tithes for 20 years? That has nothing

to do with you getting an answer to a prayer.

It's your divine connection to him and how alive

that is. So in a sense, when we hear 1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 5:17

5, verse 17, pray without ceasing, well, that

doesn't mean you're on your knees all day long.

Prayer is interaction. Prayer is fellowship.

Prayer is communion. I like the word interaction

because now we are interacting together. It's

not a monologue. It's a dialogue. Prayer is fellowship.

So you can do that without ceasing, and there's

ways you can do it. And we've actually, I'm not

just trying to sell a book. Listen, I wish somebody

else's name was on this because then I could

really promote it. But people that have taken

the simple things that we've shared here about

connecting with God and have become over excessive

with it have constant testimonies every single

week of God encounters. From the smallest of

things to the most amazing things. Now, a real

church, And I believe this is one. And I'm not,

you know, the inspector that God is using to

figure out which one is and which one isn't.

But my idea of a real church is the people are

experiencing God throughout the week with such

degree that when they come to the church and

the pastor says that anybody have a testimony,

every hand goes up and they go up in the manner

that remember when you didn't know 15 of the

questions. And you had your head down because

you didn't want the teacher to see your eyes

because you thought if I don't see her, she doesn't

see me. And then all of a sudden she asks ones

that you know and then you're on your tiptoes

to do what? To get her to respond to you because

you actually know that one? Real church to me

would be the pastor, who's got a testimony? And

everybody's got a hand up because they're constantly

experiencing him and he's become real to them.

Now, you will never, burn out with that kind

of Christianity. You will never get bored with

that kind of Christianity. It will be new every

day and every morning as though you had just

experienced him for the first time. Praise the

Lord. Amen. Think that might work for you? Okay.

Amen. Amen. I felt led that he needed that. Turn

your Bibles. I'm going fast this morning. Exodus

and chapter 15. Before I do, I want to wake you

up with a couple of thoughts. If I live in my

house with my wife, And my kids know that it's

our house. Now that they're grown, they come

to visit. If I pay a water bill at my house and

it has my name on it and my address. If I pay

taxes. If I pay insurance to my house. God knows.

If I ever questioned if it's my house, I just

ask Amazon. And they will tell me, we come here

every day, that's your house. Then how hard do

I have to work at knowing that it's my house?

If he died on the cross, if he arose the third

day, if he sent the Holy Spirit. If I've been

born of the Spirit, filled with the Spirit, hear

Him, listen to Him, walk with Him, and talk with

Him, then how hard do I have to work at getting

an answer to a prayer? See, it's amazing how

we enforce ourselves upon this world, but we

lay down like a welcome mat when it comes to

the things of the Spirit. I mean, if you've got

a little boy and you say, Sonny, I want you to

sit in that chair. He don't want to sit in that

chair. Oh, well, if he don't want to sit in that

chair, I guess he ain't going to sit in that

chair. Oh, yes, he is going to sit in that chair.

He's going to sit in that chair. Bless the Lord,

oh my soul. He will sit in that chair and he

will enjoy that chair and he will become a part

of that chair. And he will be a good boy. Because

at his age, I tell him what to do. So how come

you can't tell the devil what to do? You go out

to eat and you order a steak and somehow or another,

the order gets messed up and you get salmon.

Well, it's okay. I'm sure they're busy. You know,

salmon's good. I know I'm paying a lot more for

the steak, but the salmon's okay. This looks

good. I won't say, don't say anything. Don't

say anything. What? No, I'm a New Yorker. We

talk before we even think. And I can sure as

bet you that I can make someone do whatever I

need to do if I can use my horn. Because we learn

at an early age how to make that horn. In your

car, say a lot of things. I can tell you to go

back to bed and start all over because you ain't

doing a good job driving. I can tell you that.

Amen. And it's not a toot. There's a manipulation

of that horn. I can make it say something. Amen.

And I'm working on that. That's a weak spot in

my life. I'll go for that horn. And he's like,

no, don't you do it. I know I'm not supposed

to, but I'll do it anyhow. Just because she said

don't, you know. I'm working on all these things.

But no, I wouldn't have any problem. I'll say,

ma 'am, I don't know how things got messed up,

but did you remember that I actually ordered

a steak? You did. Well, would you mind going

ahead and getting it? No, we can't do that. Yes,

you can. In fact, if you can't do it, I'll go

back and talk to the manager because I'm not

paying for a steak and I got a salmon. But I

know you can do it. Wouldn't you at least get

your steak? How come we won't get our healing?

I want you to think for a moment. You have the

skill set to walk in divine health, to walk in

the purity of the spirit, to enjoy the voice

of God and live with him. You have the skill

set. You actually don't need to develop it. You

have the skill set. We just need to stir that

up in you. So I want to bring you to a couple

passages here because this is going to be very

interesting to see what your response is going

to be. Amen. Exodus chapter 15. Now you know

Exodus 15 · chapter mention

where we are, the children of Israel, gloriously

have been brought out of Egypt. Amen. And they've

been marching through the wilderness, you know,

complaining one day after the next, complaining,

complaining, complaining. But God's grace is

leading them out. The law didn't start until

they demanded that they were able to actually

make their own way and they didn't need Yahweh.

They didn't need the Lord. And then the law came.

But before they demanded that they do it their

own way. You know what I mean? This calf just

jumped out of the fire. You liar. You liar. I

watched you put that thing together. Amen. So

God's just blessing them even with all their

complaining. They come through the Red Sea and

now we pick up on their journey to get some water

because, you know, it's desert. And it says right

here, so Moses brought Israel, this is verse

22, from the Red Sea. Then they went out to the

wilderness of Shur and they went three days into

the wilderness and found no water. Now when they

came to Merah, Merah, Merah, they could not drink

the waters for they were bitter. Therefore the

name of the place was called Merah or bitterness.

And the people complained. Well, that's just

kind of normal. They complained again against

Moses saying, what shall we drink? So we cried

out to the Lord. The Lord showed him a tree.

Of course, this is symbolic. The tree is the

cross. The waters are humanity. When he cast

it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.

There he made a statue. Isn't this interesting?

There he made a statue and an ordinance for them.

And there he tested them, saying, If you diligently

heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what

is right in his sight, give ear to his commandments

and keep his statutes, I will put none of the

diseases. That's a little bit odd right there

because the word put means permit. God's not

in the putting of any disease on anybody because

God doesn't have disease to put on somebody.

Huh? Jesus was anointed of the Holy Ghost and

power who went about doing good and healing all

who were oppressed of the... There you go. Amen.

Oral Roberts years ago got in trouble because

he said God's a good God and the devil's a bad

devil. Can you think of that? That people actually

hated him for that because he made a distinction.

Today, erasers are being handed out to our kids

at the local schools so that they can erase every

line that seems to, in some way, impinge upon

their idea of what makes them feel good. And

that's why we're losing the generation, because

what is is what is, and what's not is what's

not. And we've got to have clear lines of definition.

Well, that makes me feel bad. You need to so

that you can make a better choice. I'm not going

to give you a pink ribbon. Pink ribbons don't

exist. We only have a blue one and a red one

and then maybe a white or yellow one. First,

second, and third. And if you don't get on the

team, then you can make a decision whether you

want to work harder. Because if you make a better

choice, then you'll have a better outcome. Well,

that doesn't make people feel good. That's the

idea. Find something that you can do where you

enjoy it and excel. I was just looking at some

of you and I'm thinking, wow. Praise the Lord.

So he cried out to the Lord. The Lord showed

him a tree. When he cast it into the waters,

the waters were made sweet. He makes this ordinance.

And he says, I will permit none of the diseases

upon you which I have brought upon the Egyptians,

for I am the Lord who heals you, Jehovah Rapha.

Now, just get this with me for a second. When

the word Jehovah is used to describe a part of

God's character and his desire to help humanity,

the word Jehovah is used because that word right

there shows you that he's going to put on a demonstration.

The self -existent one who now reveals himself,

reveal, manifest, shows you. God's showing up.

God doesn't play, listen closely, hide and go

seek. If he did, we'd never find him. Right?

No. God plays show and tell. Hey, hey, hey. And

we go, oh, oh my Lord. You're amazing. Did you

see that? We'll tell somebody else to see. Now

God's doing exactly what he wants. We're telling

other people about it. And the more we tell people

about it, the more it goes, the Lord will tap

you on the shoulder and go, hey, look at this.

And we go, oh my goodness. See, throughout all

the eons that we are in heaven, God's going to

put on another show, show, show, another show

of his loving kindness in Christ toward us in

Christ Jesus. And he's never going to run out.

We're always going to be so blessed that I'm

not even going to wear socks in heaven. Because

they just keep getting blown away. You know what

I mean? Blow my socks off. There they go again.

Why wear them? Right? God just is amazing. And

that he's amazing. He certainly can't outdo.

He did it. He outdid yesterday already. And it's

only seven o 'clock in the morning. What a day.

Now this is who God is. He's always wanting to

show you. Jehovah Rapha. So he's showing or demonstrating

that he is their healer. Let me ask you a question

here. What did he heal? Because he didn't heal

anybody. Huh? What did he heal? The water. He

demonstrated he's the healer and they'll never

have to have disease. And he healed the water

and didn't heal the people. Hmm. How come he

didn't heal the people? Because they weren't

sick. We sometimes forget Psalm 105, 37. He also

brought them out with silver and gold and there

were none feeble among his tribes. What came

before them being brought out and there were

none feeble among their tribes? The blood that

was required to go over the door and down the

sides. And the death angel passed through. And

when he saw the blood, he passed on by. Do you

know why he passed on by? It wasn't just because

he saw the blood. The blood and the glory work

together. Can't have one without the other. The

blood and the glory. See, the blood made the

way for the glory to come in. When that death

angel walked, he was looking at somebody else

looking at him and he walked right by because

who was looking at him was the glory, the Holy

Ghost. Now think about this. One night sleeping

with the Holy Ghost and they all came out perfectly

healed. One night. Come on, they've been working

in their minds. They're bent over, arthritis.

There's tumors. There's gross. There's blindness.

There's deafness. There's hands can't move. Legs

can't move. Maybe there's been amputations. One

night with the Holy Ghost being invited to sleep

with them. And then all of a sudden, you know,

Ned, he goes, well, honey, it's going to be really

good. And he goes, whoa. Whoa, did you see that?

And she said, yeah, I can actually see you. and

they all came out healed. And then the strangest

thing happened also is God was upon them to the

degree that they became money magnets. And Pharaoh

did the dumbest thing he's ever done. But when

the glory's in operation, the devil does really

dumb things. And Pharaoh said, give them all

your gold. What? Give them all your, are you

sure? Give them all your gold. And so everybody

that was Egyptian just came and gave them gold.

And they came out healthy enough to drag it through

the wilderness. And the reason why Pharaoh came

after him is because for a few days he was eating

on paper plates. And he said. Where's my gold

plates? And his chief, you know, said, well,

you told us to give it to. I would never. I didn't

tell. Yes, you did. You made a decree. Here it

is. And there's your ring right there. Give them

all your gold. Why would I do that? So Pharaoh

comes after him. If you listen to the theologians,

it wasn't really a big miracle going through

the Red Sea because they found a place where

they really crossed, which was only two feet

deep. And that's a greater miracle because Pharaoh's

whole army drowned in two feet of water. You

can't make this stuff up, folks. It's a whole

lot better to just say, Lord, that's actually

true, than to try to use your brain to figure

this out. Now, this is amazing what happened

here because the water and the condition that

it was in would have made them sick. Because

they weren't sick, which represents redemption,

the healing covenant is about keeping you in

divine health by making sure that there's nothing

that can come against you that would ever make

you sick. Now, this is important because I either

have the football or I'm trying to get the football.

And the church is always trying to get the football

that doesn't seem to be in the right. But if

you have the football, you can do whatever you

need to say, devil, look at you. You can't touch

me. Because you've got it. But we're always trying

to get it. And if you're always trying to get

what he released and gave you, then to the degree

you try harder, you actually tell him that he

didn't do what he did. I'm probably 42 or something.

Standing in the bedroom with my wife and all

of a sudden my bowels perforated, heard a snap

on the inside of my body. Pain like I've never

had before and I was pretty good with pain. Boom,

I hit the floor. She's looking at me on the floor.

Something serious has just happened. My lightning

brain went real fast and said, can't go to the

doctor because they don't have insurance and

they're going to take all our money. And then

I rethought that and thought, we don't have really

much to take, but they'll still take it. And

then my brain looked at her and she's always

been very, very beautiful and still is. And I

looked at her and said, well, if I die right

now, somebody for sure is going to marry her

and that's going to bring me back. So it's better

that I stay. And so I said to her, get me up

in the bed. I'm not dying. And then for two weeks,

I did everything. Because see, default, default.

I did everything I preached against. I'm trying

to figure out where did I miss it? How could

this have happened? Who did I offend? Did I not

walk in love? Called people up, would you forgive

me? They're like, forgive you for what? I'm doing

all these things because see, it has to be something

that I did. Because I accepted the problem, now

I'm trying to get out of it. Isn't that interesting?

Why would you open the door and let someone in

if you have the ability to keep it closed? I'm

over in Nigeria. I check in at this Hilton. I

walk up to my room, go into my room, and within

five minutes, a prostitute's at my door, knocking

on the door, say, hey, I want to come in. I want

to come in. And I said, get out of here. She

said, I want to come in. I said, go. Never opened

the door. And all of a sudden, she left. I marched

right downstairs, got the manager. I said, who

told her my room? owed her my room number. That

so ticked me off. One of you making money off

of her as she sleeps around with people. It's

better just not to open the door. need to see

what she looked like to tell her to leave. I'm

just saying in the world, we're smart. But the

moment we step into a building that's called

a church, we go, duh. And we lose all sense of

just being us. Sorry. I know I'm messing with

you. But we're not seeing things like he wants

us to see them. Come on, I got another one. I

can't stay here. I got another one. I gotta go

a little further. Come on over now to Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 28 · chapter mention

chapter 28. You're gonna love this one. Because

you know, Jesus became a curse for us. Curses

everyone that hangs upon the tree that the blessings

of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ.

And we preach about the blessings of Abraham.

Praise the Lord that I am healed because I've

got the blessings of Abraham. Amen. But I want

to show you something here too. I want to end

in your mindset right here this morning that

in any way, shape or form, you're the problem.

Because if you're not the problem and there's

nothing between you and God, you can come get

your healing and you can walk into the rest of

your life. You gotta figure, if this thing's

difficult in any way, shape, or form, the devil's

got his hand in this thing. Messing this up,

twisting our brains, making us think something

that it's not so that it becomes a difficult

scenario. Remember I talked to you about finding

God? Some people say, I never heard God's voice.

Yes, you have. Well, not that I know. I said,

the only reason why you talk like that is because

you got the volume of what you've been listening

to so high that you're not hearing that he's

actually been talking to you. Well, I'd like

to really feel the presence of God. Well, then

stop feeling the presence of what you feel that

makes you feel what you feel. See, it's pulling

back from this world that immediately catapults

you to Christ. What he did, he really did. If

we're not experiencing it, it's because we're

overshadowed. There's a verse of scripture in

the Passion Translation of Romans chapter 1,

Romans 1:18

verses 18, 19, and then through the rest of the

verses, it says, the wickedness of humanity deliberately

smothers the truth to keep you from acknowledging

the truth about God. Now, truth means reality.

Aletheia, reality. So the wickedness of humanity

deliberately smothers what's real So that you

don't acknowledge what's real. Because the moment

you acknowledge what's real. You empower it in

your life. To overcome and manifest itself. And

the devil does not want you manifesting the power

of truth. Because then that shows his lie. So

deliberately the world is set up to smother.

To hide what's real. So that you continue to

walk in an illusion. Which is a misrepresentation

of reality. So the question, you've heard Tony

use this question too. I use it a lot. What's

reality? Because maybe it's not what you think

it is. Amen. And to actually walk in it and experience

it, you're going to have to do that by faith.

In other words, when you take your first step,

it is not going to look good. It is not going

to look like it's going to work. You're going

to look like you're going under. You're going

to look like you die. But you know what? You

bet the farm on Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

That's just an exciting life to me. That gets

my juices going. Where can I go ahead and step

out where it looks like I'm going under? Dare

to live or die. Well, real quickly, in that testimony,

two weeks of doing all that religious stuff,

my body whittled down from where it is right

now to about 130 pounds. Couldn't look at myself

in the mirror. Didn't have any muscle left on

my body. Eyes sunk back into my head. Looked

a little jaundiced. It was pretty sad, pretty

pathetic. So I canceled all my meetings except

one. I didn't know that I didn't cancel it. And

here it is Thursday. Friday's coming. And then

Saturday, I'm going to Sacramento to preach Sunday

morning, twice in the morning, Sunday night,

Monday morning, Monday night, Tuesday morning,

Tuesday night, fly to Milwaukee, do a Wednesday

night service, then fly back home on Thursday.

And I'm like 130 pounds. So three o 'clock in

the morning, Friday morning, I went out into

a chair and I sat there and I said, Lord, I want

to apologize and ask you to forgive me for one

thing. I've been making it look like you didn't

do what you actually said you did. I said, so

from this moment, you and I don't have to talk

about healing when I'm already healed. Why would

I talk to you about it? Thank you very much.

And now I'm going to make myself a milkshake

because Erin was, you know, doing all she could,

you know, in this earthly realm with all this

kind of stuff she was feeding me. And there was

this kind of like greenish, you know, porridge

type stuff or whatever. At least that looked

that way to me. And it was disgusting. And even

at one moment I said, here, you take, I'm not

taking that. So at three o 'clock in the morning,

I made myself a chocolate milkshake and just

drank it. And I said, oh, this is so good. It's

so wonderful to be healthy. Woke up the next

morning, did not feel any better. Saturday comes,

I got myself ready. Aaron had to help me get

my luggage into the car and my golf clubs into

the car and get them out. And I left holding

them. I couldn't walk straight. And I walked

into the airport like this, like an old man at

about 40 years of age, 42 years of age. When

the pastor saw me, he looked at me and said,

oh, dear God, what happened? Because he knew

I was an athlete. And he said, I told him what

happened. He said, I'll be preaching for you.

You just take a rest here. This is a vacation.

I said, if you do the preaching, you'll send

me home in a six -foot pine box. Praise the Lord.

That's right. Amen. And so I did the preaching.

And the first service was a little rough. And

he came out and he said, you're a little edgy.

I said, yeah, if you felt like I felt, you'd

be a little edgy too. And some of you are saying

you were more edgy than you are right now. Well,

this edgy comes with years. When you get a certain

age, you start thinking, you know, I'm just going

to be me. Do you know what I mean? You start.

So this is a different edgy. So anyhow, I preached

the next service. I was a little nicer. That

afternoon, went home or went back to the hotel.

Aaron wasn't there at the time. Went back to

the hotel. And my body, as far as how it worked

in the bathroom, worked normal. Now, you probably

don't do something like this, glory, and run

around the room when you come out of the bathroom.

But I did. because my bowels had perforated.

And that night, I got so happy I ran around the

room. The only thing that discouraged me was

I was so slow that Grandma lapped me three times.

There she goes again. Am I going that slow? There

she goes again. Wow, I guess I am. And I went

back home 25 pounds heavier in just three days

as God began to build my body back up. But I

had to make what? The distinction between what

was real and what wasn't real. And that's when

things started working. Come on, stay with me.

All right, listen to this. This is amazing because

the first 14 verses are the blessings of Abraham.

And verse 15 through verse 61. Get this, listen

to this. Verse 15 through 61. You will be depressed

if you read those verses. Because starting in

verse 15 to 61 are the curses and the curses

are nothing but every single sickness and disease

you could ever get. And the writer goes on to

say at the very end, and if I missed anything,

well, you're going to get that too. Okay? So

I just wanted to read this for you. Start in

verse one. Now it's going to pass you diligently

obey. I'm going to read fast. The voice of the

Lord your God to observe carefully all his commands,

which I command you today, that the Lord your

God will set you on high above all nations of

the earth. And all these blessings shall come

upon you and overtake you because you obey the

voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you

be in the city. Blessed shall you be in the country.

Blessed shall you be the fruit of the body, the

produce of the ground, the increase of your herds,

the increase of your cattle, the offspring of

your flocks. Blessed shall you be in your basket,

in your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when

you come in and when you go out. The Lord shall

cause your enemy to rise against you to be defeated

before your face. They'll come against you one

way. They'll flee before you seven ways. The

Lord will command the blessing on you and your

storehouse and all to which you set your hand.

He will bless you in the land of which your Lord

has given you. The Lord will establish you as

a holy people to himself just as he swore to

you. If you keep the commandments of the Lord

your God and walk in his ways, then all the peoples

of the earth shall see that you are called by

the name of the Lord and they shall be afraid

of you. And the Lord will grant you plenty of

goods in the fruit of your body and the increase

of your livestock in the produce of the ground

and the land in which the Lord swore to your

fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you

as good treasure the heavens to give rain in

the land in the season to bless all the work

of your hand. You'll lend to many nations, but

you'll not borrow. The Lord will make you the

head, not the tail, above and only and not beneath.

And you'll heed the commandments of the Lord

your God, which I command you today in our...

careful to observe them. You shall not turn aside

from any of the words which I command you this

day to the right or to the left to go after other

gods before me. It does not mention you getting

healed. There's no blessing of healing in the

blessings. But you start verse 15 and it's nothing

but sickness. What did God heal? The water. Because

the people were already healed. Maybe God sees

something we're not seeing. Maybe these bodies

aren't as fragile as we think they are. Maybe

we've bought into a lie. Because, you know, you

think about it. Adam and Eve coming out of the

garden. There was a first pain. And if it happened

to be Eve, you know, catching her hip on a counter.

Because, you know, they hadn't cooked before.

That counter probably had edges on it. She's

trying to keep from burning the water that's

boiling, you know. I mean, they're figuring this

out. And she hits her hip. And all of a sudden

she says, ow. She limps a little bit and Adam

says, what? What'd you say? She said, I said,

ow. Why'd you say it? She said, because it hurts.

Now, Adam doesn't know what ow is and he does

not know what hurt is because he hadn't hit his

hip yet. But we know Adam's not the smartest

knife in the drawer. I mean, he is, but he isn't,

you know. So Adam is like, well, I want to know

what that feels like. So he goes over and just,

and you know, a guy ain't as good with pain as

a woman is. So he goes, ow, ow, ow, ow. She said,

I told you. She said, it hurts. And she said,

that's what I said. And all of a sudden he looks

at hers and hers is kind of purplish and kind

of bluish. Whoa. And he looks at his and his

is a little bit pinkish and a little bit yellowish.

And those are the first tattoos. There you go.

Now, I say that because that's a first. We have

so accepted the idea of pain. That now we carry

things in our pockets and purses and have them

in our medicine cabinets and stuff them in our

cars. In case we have a pain, we can take something

to mask the pain. And isn't it interesting how

much faith we have in it that we'll actually

head to a meeting while our head is pounding,

knowing that we've taken four or five of these

ibuprofen, that sooner or later before we get

to the meeting, we will feel better to be able

to function somewhat normally. But taking the

anointing and the presence of God, we seem to

have no skill set. And yet we actually do. Maybe

the reason why there's so much sickness is because

of Jacob's experiment with the sheep and the

goats. What do you mean? Well, you know, his

father -in -law was a real doozy. Can you imagine

working seven years and that beautiful bride

you're gonna look at and you take that veil off,

ah, that's his sister. That sister's a little

different. She got a mustache, you know what

I'm saying? I put my foot in my mouth so many

times. There's this, with a mustache right back

there. And they raised their hand and said, sir,

so what do you need? She said, I'm not a sir.

I'm a woman. And I thought, well, you shaved

that thing. That helped a little bit. I walked

up to this couple and I said, this is such a

wonderful couple. The guy looks at me and says,

it's my mother. I looked to the mother, you know,

because I'm working real fast to fix this. I

looked to the mother and said, wasn't that an

amazing compliment? She goes, that was very nice.

I said, thank you. You got to get yourself out

when you get yourself in. See what I'm saying?

You got to be good at both. There's no healing

in the blessing. Why? What are the conditions

to these covenants working? What are the conditions?

The sheep and the goats, thank you. Jacob, what

did he do? Well, you know, the prize animals

were the clear -coated. not the speckled and

spotted. So Jacob, without a word of the Lord

coming to him, figured something out. I can completely

change this flock. If I'll bring the spotted,

if I bring the clear -coated sheep that are the

strongest, when they're in mating, when they're

in the season to mate. Now, don't get weird with

me, okay? I'm not trying to get... weird with

you. But the idea that they're in a season of

mating, you know, like you don't mess or get

around deer when they're in the rut. Because

those bucks are not thinking straight. And if

they see you, even though you ain't going after,

you know, his honey, you see? But he looks at

you as a competitor when his mind ain't thinking

right. Because he ain't thinking with, he's not

thinking up here. I stopped. I stopped. Amen.

I just left it up here. You're not thinking here.

Now, I'm not trying to get weird here, but I'm

saying there is emotion and there is passion.

See, what you're passionate about, what you get

emotional about will move you. And if you're

being moved by Jesus, you're being moved by something

else. So you got to guard your affections. Why?

Because your affections affect all that you are.

That's the passion translation of Proverbs 4,

Proverbs 4:20

verse 20, 24. So he knew when to do his little

experiment, when there's a little heat, when

there's a little passion, when there's a little

bit of movement. And what did he do? He put poplar

branches in the trough so that when they're in

heat, And being mated, they're actually looking

at themselves through a reflection of being spotted

and speckled. And they gave birth to spotted

and speckled sheep. If it can work for them,

then 75 plus percent of the commercials that

you look at are about drugs reminding you that

you're sick. And this is a society that is literally

on drugs. 5 % of the world's population consuming

more than 75 % of the world's medicine. We have

already bought into the idea here in America,

I'm sick, just give me some pills. Instead of,

I refuse to accept that. There's no reason for

me to be sick. Do you know what really works

well with people? When sickness comes on and

they say something like, I don't have time for

this. Guess what? Those people don't end up being

sick. Just because they don't accept it. I don't

have time for this. I've got too much on my plate.

I can't be sick. I'm going to work anyhow. Boom,

it'll leave. But the moment you accept it, the

moment you buy into it. Jesus actually thinks

he did a good job. He actually took the infirmity,

bore the sickness, and with his stripes, you

actually are healed. But we're the ones that

believe in the sickness. Not meaning this wrong,

but you wear pink in October. Now, when I was

growing up, pink wasn't a color that a guy wore.

And if you wore it at the wrong time with the

wrong guys, boom! Now it's acceptable to wear.

How come people wear pink? How come football

players wear pink? Because we are honoring those

women who have had breast cancer. It's the wrong

way to honor them. Because the more you look

at the pink and you think of the breast cancer,

the more you now are creating more breast cancer.

If we could get everybody to wear in October

crimson red shirts and remind yourself of the

blood of Jesus that has cleansed us from all

sickness and disease, we could clear out hospitals

without even having to go to them. Listen, we've

been made in the image and likeness of God, and

it's a good thing, but it's a bad thing. Having

a shotgun ready to shoot at a deer when your

family doesn't have any food and it's 15 feet

away and you're going to kill it and you're going

to be able to eat and keep your family alive

is a good thing. But having that shotgun in the

hands of a four -year -old pointed at a two -year

-old is a bad thing. See, depending on what you

do with you being made an image that likes God,

if you point into the wrong direction, you'll

create the wrong thing. If you don't like where

you're at today, go back to checking up on what

you've been believing and what you've been speaking

because you created it yourself. We've got all

the ammo. We've got everything we need. Jesus

has already done the work, and we're still trying

to get something that he's already gotten us.

Now, I ask you again as we close this thought,

because you can tell I'm going a mile a minute

here, and I've got to close. What are the conditions

to be able to operate in this? Righteousness.

What? If you diligently obey every single thing

that's in there and don't vary at all, then this

will work for you. In both scenarios, righteousness

is the condition. In other words, when Abram

believed and God in the passion, it says he transferred

into Abraham's account. Faith transferred righteousness

into his account. And the promise wasn't fulfilled

by works, but it was fulfilled by the righteousness

which was transferred into the account. Now,

let me ask you a question. I'll explain this.

Does God seamlessly work with himself? It's not

a trick question. Yes. Why? There's nothing in

the Father, Son, or Holy Ghost that is contrary

to one another. There's no tainting of sin, unbelief,

skepticism, reason, or doubt that could make

a hang -up in God saying, this is what we're

going to create. Jesus comes out and speaks it

while the Holy Ghost has already been hovering

upon the face of the earth. Doing what? Preparing

the soil to manifest the moment Jesus speaks.

Come on, when Jesus spoke, the Father wasn't

saying for two or three eons, I believe, I receive,

I believe, I receive, I believe, I receive, I

believe, I receive. Because the Holy Ghost is

the agent who actually was given to us as the

first individual personality mentioned in the

scriptures. You would have thought it had been

the Father. You would have thought it had been

Jesus. Guess who it was? The Holy Ghost. And

he wasn't just mentioned, he was given a description.

He was hovering. Hovering is to brood. Brood

is to incubate. Incubate is to provide warmth

so as to bring a hatching or a manifestation.

The Holy Ghost is the manifester. And what does

he do? Well, one thing you know for sure is he's

never late. He's always early. The quarterback

doesn't throw a pass to a receiver who's standing

still. He throws a pass to someone who's already

going to the place where he's going to receive.

The touchdown. The Holy Ghost is always ahead

of you, working and manifesting. He's been in

this room when we sing, come down spirit, come

down. Yeah, he down, he down, he down, right

here. Amen. He's here. He's warming up your seat.

He's warming up the next seat. He's warming you

up in your mentality and in your thoughts. I

mean, take God out of the equation and we're

nothing. We need him in every area of life. And

the Holy Ghost is here manifesting right now

in this room. While I'm talking, I'm releasing

power. I am not preaching to you. I am ministering

to you. To minister means to dispense. My wife

grew up on a dairy farm. There's a lot of dispensing

going on on a dairy farm. Good things are dispensed.

And things you shouldn't step in are dispensed

to. And when you're in it, you know you're in

it. To dispense, we can preach a message and

just preach a message. Or we can release power

while we're saying what we're saying. What's

the difference? It's what you believe in. What

are the terms? Righteousness. He who knew no

sin, God made to be sin on your behalf that we

might become or that we might be made the righteousness

of God in Christ. Do you realize what this covenant

on this side did? It gave you every key to every

blessing without you doing a single thing. If

I'm righteous, I can't be sick. That's why there's

no need to put in the blessings, a healing. When

someone's righteous, they cease to be sick. You

say, this doesn't make sense to you. Yes, it

does. That's why Jesus said, which is easier,

to forgive the man's sin or to heal his body,

but that you may know that I am able to forgive

sin. Take up your bed and walk. In other words,

they're included in the same package. It's the

dual redemption. When I'm righteous, the Lord

goes before me to remove things so that I won't

ever have to be sick. It's the same work. Let

me ask you one more question. How did Jesus do

what Jesus did? You know, that withered hand

is probably one of the worst withered hands I've

ever seen in my life. Let's see if we can't get

that healed. No, what did he say? Stretch your

hand out. Wait a minute. He didn't say, give

me your withered hand. He said, stretch your

hand out. I got a friend. He went home to be

with the Lord. His name is Buzzy Sutherland.

Now, there's nobody in Oregon named Buzzy Sutherland.

There's no one in New York named Buzzy Sutherland.

That's got to be somewhere in the south. It's

El Dorado, Arkansas. You can't get to El Dorado,

Arkansas unless you're just lucky. He told me

one day, he said, in the ninth grade, they tried

to teach me the algebra. He said, all these X's

and Y's had numerical value. He said, I wasn't

real bright. He said, but my final exam said

X plus Y equals 49. Figure out what X and Y is.

He said, I got so happy. I took my paper, went

right up to the teacher, put it on her desk.

And I said, if I got the 49, what do I care what

X and Y is? Some of you get that a little bit

later, but anyhow, the idea is, is when you got

an answer, you can't have a problem. Figure out

the problem. I already got the answer. What are

you saying? A problem is not a problem when you

got an answer. Jesus didn't look at the people

like they had a problem. Because he'd be the

answer. So he told a blind man, go home. How

does a blind man go home? Well, the first thing

you know is, anyway, we'll do. And in the going.

His eyes opened up and he turned around and followed

Jesus. Jesus always treated people like they

were already well. Why? When you stand in the

presence of the answer, you can't act like there's

a problem. And guess what happened? That answer

jumped inside your skin. He's living inside your

body. One translation, Galatians 2 .20 says,

I've died and now I'm enjoying my second existence,

which is simply Jesus. using my body. If the

answer's inside my body, no wonder he doesn't

have to get you healed in a blessing. If you're

righteous, you ain't sick. No wonder he doesn't

have to try to get you healed in a covenant that

says, I am the Lord that heals you, when he's

the one, if you're righteous, that goes before

to make sure you never get sick, because you're

well. Maybe some of you right here are just a

whole lot more healed than you think. And maybe

with your connection to the Holy Spirit, your

body start changing instantly. Girl came to me,

last story I'll tell you. Girl came to me, she

was real buffed. I mean, I could tell you, she's

real strong looking, young. And I thought, this

girl must be an athlete. She says, I can't lift

my arms above my shoulders. I said, what happened?

She said, well, I'm a college softball player.

I got a scholarship. I'm ready to lose my scholarship.

I had an injury and both arms won't lift. Doctors

don't know why. I said, well, what if they could?

She said, that'd be great. I said, well, maybe

you can't. She said, no, I told you, I can't

lift them in here. I said, well, what if they

could? She said, well, that'd be great. I said,

maybe you can't. She goes, I told you I can't

lift them. I said, but what if you could? She

said, that would be great. I said, well, maybe

you can't. She said, I told you I can't. And

then she looked. She looked around and she said,

what did you do to me? And I said, really, I

didn't do much except hold you in a place long

enough for God to be able to do what he's already

done. Wow. There's healing in this air. From

now on, you can't come to Life Bible Church.

Without breathing in healing. It's in the air.

It's in the air. The very first night in prayer

before I got here, I knew that God was going

to, from that moment, impregnate the air of this

building with healing power. You say, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait. You really think that's what?

It's so possible. You know, they went and found

where John G. Lake lived in Portland, Oregon.

Two hours away. And in the house, the man had

lived there all the years since Lake sold him

that house. Only one owner. And he was still

in that house. He was an older man. And he asked

him, why are you come to this house? And they

told him it's because it was John Lake. He said,

that's right. I bought it from him. He said,

well, he was a healing minister. And they began

to tell him stories about Lake. And he then all

of a sudden woke up and he said, come to think

of it. Ever since I stepped into this home, Since

I've lived here, I've never even had a cold.

The glory got into the wood. It got into the

cloth. It got into the ceiling. It got into the

air. And that glory is inside of you. If the

children of Israel could sleep one night, one

night in the presence of God, than me, 60 years

saved. I'll slap myself. I've been sleeping with

Jesus for 60 years and I've had trouble. It's

like, wake up, one breaks out and you'd be instantly

healed. The devil's been pulling the wool over

our eyes, folks. I only got one minute left.

Lift up your hands right now. I command the blessing

of the Lord upon you this day. That as your hands

are lifted up like IVs that just drip, drip,

drip, drip through the IV into your veins, into

your body. I command the healing blessing of

God that is in Christ because you are the righteousness

of God in him. I command that blessing to flow

into your bodies right now. cancer cell and removes

every disease. There are infections in the bladders

that are being healed right now. There are hips

that are out of alignment that are being healed

right now and no, you don't need a new hip. God's

giving you that new hip right now. Father, I

thank you for the digestion in this room. intestines

that are being healed right now. You do not have

IBS. You do not have Crohn's disease. You do

not have trouble digesting. From this moment,

you are the righteousness of God in Christ and

God's power sets you free. What is reality? I

am sharing that with you right now. There are

multiple people right now. All the headaches

and those migraines, I curse them. I commend

them to come out of you and you'll not have another

one in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. There

is pain behind the eye and that disappears right

now in the name of Jesus. I see the spine from

the top of your head down to the very back of

your rear end. I see the power of God setting

your spine free. Every pain coming out of you

in the name of Jesus. There are multiple knees

right now that are being healed and touched by

the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a man with prostate

problems. I'm telling you, God. God sets you

free right now in the name of Jesus. Every tumor

and bump and lump and growth in this room, I

command you to dissolve and die right now. You

have no right to be on a righteous child of God.

Brain development. I release you from the brain

fog that causes you to doubt. I command that

spirit that wraps its hands around your mind,

hindering your ability to think. I command that

to stop. Lord, by your wonderful grace, this

room is experiencing the healer in great power

and great glory. Thank you, Lord. Thank you,

Lord. Thank you, Lord. And so give me your hands

turned up like this. In the name of the Lord,

you shall not only walk in the blessing of the

Lord and the healing virtue of Jesus Christ,

but from this moment, the healing power of God

settles in your hands. And that healing anointing

will walk with you. And you'll begin to know

because your hands will begin to burn like fire.

The presence of the Lord will come out of you

like fire. The Holy Ghost and fire, praise the

Lord, is now a part of your ministry. And you'll

minister this healing virtue and this place will

see miracles in Jesus' wonderful name. And that

is now being given to you by the word of the

Lord. Everybody lift your hands. One more moment.

Father, thank you for these people. Thank you

for the glory. Thank you for what you're sharing

to us. We are sharp. We are quick to receive.

We are open vessels. And we are the righteousness

of God in Christ. And we will not accept the

heinous work of Satan in this world when we have

been delivered and set free through the power

of that blood. In Jesus' name, somebody say amen

in this place. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen,

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