Waypoint Conference 2021 (Saturday PM) - Pastor Dale Everett (September 18, 2021) | Life Bible Church

I know you thought Jan was speaking, but thank

you for coming anyhow. It's a wonderful Lord

that we serve, isn't it? And every service, he

has done great things. He has. Jan this morning

was fabulous. I got right on the phone when I

got. back and told Debbie about it. I said, Jan

told such amazing stories. She said, I've heard

Jan's stories. I said, yeah, but these were really

good. No, Debbie loves you too. And excuse me,

that's my wife in case you weren't sure. Some

of you thought I was talking about my angel,

but that's not. I believe in angels, do you?

And they're here tonight. Because they are assigned.

Did you hear what I said? I'm a little uncomfortable

sometimes around people that only see devils.

And I understand about the activity of the demonic.

But we've got a bunch of boys on our sides. Come

on. That outshine all of the works of the enemy.

Every bit of it. Wow. Well, do you need a miracle

tonight? Do you really need a miracle tonight?

Have you ever had God say something to you but

more than once? Have you? There's something the

Lord has said to me periodically throughout many

years. Not every day, not every week, thank God.

Not even every year. But it happens periodically.

And it will usually happen like this. It will

happen when I'm walking into a church service.

And it makes no difference whether I'm actually

speaking or whether I'm attending. It can happen

either way. And I'll come walking on in, and

it will happen as I'm going to my seat. Not even

thinking about this. I'm just coming in to sit

down. Where am I going to sit tonight? That's

what it's about. I'm just looking to find a seat.

When his voice will come to me, and he'll say

these words to me, he'll say, Dale, you can have

as much as you want. Now you would think he's

saying this is going to be a bingo night for

you. But that's not what he's saying. He will

say to me, Dale, you can have as much as you

want. But do you want anything? Or have you just

come here on autopilot? Have you just simply

come out of routine? Or is there a burn in your

heart? A passion? for something great because,

and he will say it again, you can have as much

as you want. He doesn't say it to me often because

I don't think I come in brain dead most of the

time. I come in with a passion. But I got to

tell you, I think every one of us, every one

of us find ourselves at times just doing routine.

I'm going to say to you, do not let this night

be routine unto you. Come on, grab a passion

right now and say, Jesus, I want this tonight.

Come on, it just may be a greater revelation

of him, but you got to get something tonight.

Don't just come here and just listen to the speaker

and enjoy the music. Come on, let's meet with

the most high God and let us be transformed by

him. In that great, powerful way. So I'm going

to say it again. If you need a miracle, pick

out something specific tonight. I talked at length

about it last night. I'm not going to talk at

length about it tonight because many of you know.

Most of the miracles that happen in our ministry,

not all of them, but the great majority of them

happen as I'm preaching. As I preach the word

of the Lord. Look, this is no new thing. The

Bible says that they preached everywhere. I'm

quoting the end of Mark 16. They preached everywhere.

The Lord working with them and confirming his

word. With signs following. I'm only going to

be speaking the things that he is doing. And

what I'm declaring will be the unfolding and

revelation of what he is doing among us. So don't

wait for the end of the service to get a miracle.

You may get one then, but why wait to then when

he's already here now? And you can receive now.

And many, most of us will have a miracle shortly

into this. If not, it's already begun. Because

I already saw three clear healing streams again

in this room tonight. What I know, Jesus is moving

up and down these aisles. He's walking in between

these pews, if I may say it that way. He's touching

people right now. And miracles, come on, miracles

will take place. They will take place here. Not

somewhere else and not another time. Here. Right

now. He's that glory. And you want to keep your

heart open all the way through because it will

happen. In some cases, when you least expect

it, he is that glorious God. You know, I was

ministering in Florida not long ago, and it was

a church seating capacity very much like this.

The healing had happened throughout the message.

I'd called the folks up like I did last night

to show us what God had done. And they had stretched

literally like this across the building. And

we heard from one after another. But when I got

to the end, I saw a family coming down the aisle

with a little 10 -year -old girl. And they joined

the end of the testimony. Everybody knew them.

They were a long time. attenders and members

there. And the lady spoke up and said our daughter

went totally blind in one eye. She could not

see at all and lost a big portion of the sight

with the other. And the doctors were concerned

she would lose her whole sight. But they'd fitted

her with glasses and she was managing. And they

were sitting on the very, very back row of the

church. We're now near the end of the testimony

time when mom looks over and she sees her daughter

just playing there at the pew. You know, it's

a young girl in service. We've had the worship.

We've had the offering. We've been all preaching.

We've had all these testimonies. You know, she's

out to lunch. She's just playing. She's just

playing. But she had her glasses off. And so

it bothered her mother, and she spoke in a very

stern southern woman way and said, why do you

have your glasses off? And her daughter just

looked up at her and matter of fact and said,

oh, because I can see again. Just like that.

Oh, because I can see again. I got to tell you,

when I heard that, and then she demonstrated,

she had perfect sight in that eye that was completely

blind. I turned around to say to the folks, well,

we need to praise God. But when I did, the whole

place was already on their feet. And for the

next, oh, Lord, it was a long time. It was just

a constant outbreak of praise. By the way, this

is America. I love to see what he does overseas,

but let me tell you, Jesus is great right here.

And then as I was about to leave, a family came

down. They had one of those baby, what do you

call them, those little carriers that you put

an infant in, you know, that you can also have

for a car seat. They snap in and out. And they

walked up, and they said, I want to show you

what happened to the baby tonight. This wasn't

their child. They were foster parents. And they

said, this child is a little over a month old.

And she was brought into our services after the

orthopedic surgeon had fixed the broken hip from

the abuse. And this child had one leg this much

shorter than the other. We don't know when it

happened, they said, but we looked down a few

moments ago. And those legs are a perfect length.

And they checked the child, and the child had

no deformity left at all. And I thought about

that. I thought about this Jesus. And now, this

is the testimony, so I'm going to just give it

to you. That's what we know. The rest I'm going

to tell you is speculation. This is what I think.

But I think... that one who always knows and

who always cares, observed the abuse that happened

to that little baby. And I think that maybe he

had a hand in working through this bureaucracy

system to put her into that home because he knew.

that family that did not attend that church but

always came when that church had special events,

would be there on that first week of January

because he was going to walk into that room and

cure her that day. That's the one who's present

right now in awesomeness. Great power. Great

power. You expect your miracle. Pick one out.

Pick one out right now. And while I'm speaking

tonight, you look for something to happen between

you and him. We talked last night about the many

ways that could by witnessing your heart, by

a touch on your body that's supernatural, or

just like those folks that just a change. Why

don't you have your glasses on anymore? Oh, she

said, she did not say I felt a big touch. She

did not say I saw a ray of light. She just said,

oh, simply because I can see now. Maybe during

this message, you will see differently. You will

hear more clearly, or your pain will just go.

But one way or the other, look for something

more than just lights and speaker. Would you

do that? Look for the moment of the Almighty

with you. You know, I will confess to you, Pastor

Brad, that... It was a bit of a challenge to

consider what I would speak on in this house.

And part of that is for this reason. A lot of

times when I come to a place, my wife will say

to me, you preach the same thing all the time.

And she doesn't mean the same sermon. But my

sermons are simplistic. So she tells me, this

is what a great compliment. She tells me that

she says, I like your preaching better as a pastor.

Doesn't that encourage your soul? But as a pastor,

see, I had people that were maturing, and I could

build, and that's what she was talking about.

I would teach in series and would teach in depth

where when I come into a crusade, the message

is always a simple type of thing because I only

have about an hour in front of you, and I've

got to get you to a place from who is the guy

on the stage to getting a miracle from God. And

so I found that it is the simplicity of the gospel

that reaches the masses. That's what I've discovered.

But I know, I recognized immediately in this

house that this is a different kind of group.

This is a group that has a, you got some meat

on you. No, really, you do. You're a different

kind of group. I can tell it by the way you carry

yourself. I can tell it by the way you pray.

I can absolutely tell it by the way you serve

and also by the way that you worship. There's

a maturity level in this house that is different.

From many other places. Now that's a shame to

say. Did you hear that? That is. Come on we should

all be like this. And beyond. But obviously,

the gift that God has put in your house as your

pastor and his wife and others have created what

is supposed to happen, and that is the development

of the house of God. That is what the five -fold

ministry is all about. It's not about shining

just themselves, but lifting others up in that

way. And so for that reason, I tell you, I look

at it and I say, well, I'd like to preach some

of that other stuff that I'd love to get into.

But I want you to, you see, I think that there's

more than faith in this house to be healed. I

think there's faith in this house for impartation.

I think a lot of you, I think you'll get miracles

tonight. That's not the whole point of it. But

I do believe that some of you are going to walk

out of this place and it's going to be more than

just my ear here is better now or I don't have

pain in my back anymore. But you're catching

something. You're picking up something that's

going to bring that to your children in the middle

of the night. Did you hear this? And may I declare

that to you? It's going to bring it to the people

in the coffee house. And at work and in places

just like that. And so I thank God for what I've

seen and what I see in this room. It's just absolutely

amazing. Now, Brother Jan's got great material

also in the back. He helps people mature in Christ

Jesus. You've got books back there, is that right?

You didn't bring any 8 -tracks or tapes, right?

No, okay. Just wanted to be sure. I've written

one book. It's on healing. And I think you'd

enjoy it. Brother Schambach himself actually

read and did the forwarding on that book for

me. But I don't have it in print. I don't have

it here. And that way, so if you go back, you'll

get all of Jan's material back there. But if

you want to get mine, you're going to have to

go to, let's see, do they have it up? No, they

don't. Well, see, they don't care either. You

go to, whoa, there, well, you know. Yeah, well,

you can get it at, have you heard of Amazon before?

You can get it at. at amazon .com. Just put Dale

Everett and healing in there. It'll pop right

to the top. If you like it on a Kindle format,

if you like it. Just go to my website, DaleEverett

.org. You can get it there. And you'll find some

great things in there that will help you understand

how to not just get healed but how to walk in

healing. The concept of the book is healing God's

power flowing through you. And I talk much about

the ways that God has spoken to me in my lifetime,

how I hear the voice of God, how I know how to

respond. I also talk about how to deal with the

demonic and how to deal with fear and other areas

that will bring you forth in strength of healing.

All right? Are you ready for God's word tonight?

Beautiful. I have scriptures before me, and they're

found in the book of 1 Corinthians, the second

chapter. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. And in verses

1 Corinthians 2 · chapter mention

9 through 12 is what I'm going to read. 1 Corinthians

2 and verse 9. I invite you to open your Bible.

If you don't have a Bible with you, then open

your tablet or your phone or whatever. If you're

waiting for it to go on the screen, I didn't

give it to them. Oh, Lord, that means you've

got to find it yourself. God, help us all. Here

we go. Do you remember, Pastor, the days in which

we knew when we could start reading because we

heard the Bible pages stop? Huh? That's when

we all brought the Bible with us, didn't we?

Well, hey, you know, seriousness, you need to

love the Word. You need to read the Word. And

hear me on this. You need to be familiar with

the Word. I think some of the technology we have,

and I love it all and I use it all, but I think

some of it has created a certain level of laziness

in us where we are unfamiliar with Scripture.

We don't even know where to turn because we don't

hardly experience it unless we're at a moment

where they project it on the wall. But you say,

well, preacher, you don't have a Bible with you

either. The pastor asked me, he said, do you

have a Bible? Bible I was talking about needing

something up here and I don't but you know I

mean I looked at it and I thought you know Moses

read from a tablet so can I alright yeah yeah

he did yeah alright would you stand with me in

respect to the reading of scripture would you

be so kind Oh, I feel his presence here. Let

me tell you where I'm going as far as the word

is concerned. I'm going to talk to you about

grasping your answer today. May I say that again?

Grasping your answer, now say it with me, today.

Today, yeah. Lay hold of that which is right

now. We procrastinate our faith way too much.

God's always going to do it. By the end of the

week. Here's the day he's going to do it. Someday.

I know that today's educators are different than

the ones that educated me and Jan. School, I

know, is different. But I think there are certain

things that are still the same. And one of the

things they taught me in school was this, that

there were seven days in a week. There was a

Sunday and a Monday and a Tuesday and a Wednesday

and a Thursday and a Friday and a Saturday. But

there was no someday. Someday does not exist.

If you're ever going to get something from God,

you need to get it in the now. Really hear what

I just said to you. If you're ever going to get

it at all, you've got to bring it into the now

moment. All right, you found it by now. I've

given you time. I was doing that on purpose.

It was 1 Corinthians. If you haven't found it

by now, bless your darling heart, you never will.

I'm just going to read. I'm just going to read,

beginning at verse 9, all right? But as it is

written, now he's going to quote an Old Testament

verse. As it is written, eye has not seen, nor

ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of

man the things which God has prepared. I'm going

to read more, but are you listening? Eyes haven't

seen, ears haven't heard, hasn't entered the

heart of man. This is an Old Testament prophet

speaking. The things which God has prepared for

those who love him. But God has revealed them

to us. Oh, come on, that's a shouting moment

right there. The things that men never could

see. They couldn't figure it out. They never

heard it. The things that had never entered their

heart. The things that were already there that

God had prepared for those who love him. He's

now revealed them to us. Come on, our eyes are

open. Are you hearing? Jesus would say, he that

has ears to hear, let him hear. This is true.

God has revealed them to us through his spirit.

For the spirit searches all things. Yes, the

deep things of God. For what man knows the things

of a man except the spirit of man which is in

him. Even so no one knows the things of God except

the spirit of God. Now we have received. Not

the spirit of the world. But the spirit who is

from God. Now look at these words. That we might

know. That we might know. Come on. You're supposed

to know. You're supposed to know. I don't know

why it is in the church that sometimes we glorify

ignorance. Our people testify like this. You

know, oh, I had such a great idea. And you know,

and I can't even tell you how, but the Lord came

through and we're all, hallelujah. I'm thinking,

wait, wait, you should be able to tell us how.

It's not enough to be saved. You need to know

how to bring this gift to God to someone else.

Did you catch that? I'm not saying you figured

out the Almighty, but when God moves within your

life, he wants to show you the way, not just

shock you. The things that we might know, the

things that have been freely given to us by God.

You've got more than you know. You've got more

than you let yourself believe. You're greatly

supplied. And we are waiting for things to come

that have already arrived. You may be seated.

Thank you. I was asking God, praying a prayer

that I'll bet everybody in the room has prayed.

And it's an appropriate prayer. But I was asking

God for his blessing. Would you bless me? And

the Lord came to me and he said, let me help

you in that prayer. He said, the truth is, Dale,

that blessings are going by you like this. I

mean, they're all around you. They're coming

in at warp speed. They're whizzing, right? You're

asking me to bless you. And it reminded me of

the passage that we are blessed with all spiritual

blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

He says, they're coming by you like this. Here,

let me help you pray. He said, this is how I

want you to pray. You need to pray for faith

to see them and boldness to grasp them. Did you

hear that? Faith to see it. It's right there.

But then you need boldness to lay hold on them.

Do you know, if you read especially the first

three chapters of Acts, the New Testament church,

they did not pray for faith. They prayed for

boldness. They had walked with Jesus. They had

seen and heard of him, and they knew exactly

how this thing would operate. It wasn't a matter

of getting God to perform. It was getting men

to stand up and cooperate. Boldness. It's the

key to the kingdom, you understand. It's one

of the great keys in the kingdom. Your faith

will never operate above your boldness. If there

is a lid at all, that's it. So raise the lid.

Become bold. Bold. Why don't you try being bold?

Be bold in Jesus' name. Become boldly into the

throne of grace. I didn't say cocky. There's

a difference between arrogance and boldness.

They might look the same to a casual onlooker,

but they are different. Arrogance and cockiness

comes from an incorrect assessment of oneself.

Boldness is born of relationship, not of cockiness.

If I was sitting at the table today with my son,

now, the pastor's mother and dad had us into

the home, and they fed us a meal that you had

to repent of gluttony afterwards. Now, if my

son was nearby, here's what could happen. Like

when we prayed, I would have to have one eye

open. I would have to protect my plate. If he

saw something on there he wanted, he'd grab that

baby right on off. When he comes to our home,

he just comes right to the refrigerator, and

he pops the door open, no questions asked. He

does that. Now, he would not do that in your

house. I would never have to say to him, now

we're going somewhere, don't do that in their

house. He would not do that in your house. And

you might have table fare as nice as what we

had or something in your refrigerator as delightful

as he would want, but he would not do that in

your house because he doesn't have that kind

of relationship. But with me, it's a whole other

matter. Did you get what I'm talking about? It's

not a matter of arrogance. When he walks in,

he knows he fits in. Did you catch that? You're

not just at the table of the Lord. You belong

there. Believe me, that takes the help of God

to bring us to that understanding. Because you

see, when we sit down at the marriage supper

of the Lamb, you might be seated between Barnabas

and Paul. Hello. And without the help of God,

I might be sitting there thinking, am I in the

right spot? You know, there was an old time hymn

we used to sing. It said, I'd be happy with just

a cabin in the corner of glory land. Here's the

problem with that. There are no cabins there.

And there's nobody that's supposed to live in

such a thing. Not in this household. Boldness.

It's not arrogance. It's born of relationship.

The closer you draw to him and the more you understand

who you are in him and how he sees you, the more

you will be bold in the name of the Lord Jesus

Christ. Talk about grasping your answer today.

There are things that guys have never seen, never

figured out, never heard. Right today, God's

revealing them to us by his spirit. It's happening

right now in this room. And these are things

that he has prepared. It's not a matter, these

are things he can do. These are things he has

done. It's right out there, dude. You just need

to lay hold on it. You need to see it, and you

need to have boldness to reach out and grasp

it. Am I helping you tonight? Let me tell you

something else that has helped me grab a hold

of a miracle in the now. in the now moment. And

that is when I finally understood that I didn't

have to make it happen. And I can't tell you.

Yeah, go ahead. I can't tell you how many people

I've helped with that when I prayed with them

and I've said, look, look me right in the eye.

You don't have to make this happen. But sometimes

we think we've got to do it. You know, that we

have to have whatever, that we have to have enough

faith or enough time in prayer or enough spiritual

insight for God to be able to do that. I think

I mentioned last night how I was preaching that

kind of a concept one time, and I was telling

people this, that I've heard a lot of preachers

say, that if you believe, God can do it. And

the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me. He said,

I can do it whether you believe or not. He said,

what made you think I need you to be me? And

then I understood something, that we had a mis...

misunderstanding of the things of the spirit

and specifically about faith that I think sometimes

we think that our faith how can I say this that

our faith is God's energy that we come before

him and we give him faith and then he can do

what we have faith for well that's absurd to

think that God needs us to be him I want to challenge

your way of thinking right now. Sometimes we

even think of faith as, you know, I don't know,

it's kind of like, you know, the old Incredible

Hulk. Remember the old TV program, Incredible

Hulk? You know, Bill Bixby, that when they hit

him with the gamma rays, he swolled up real big,

you know? And so when you hit him with the gamma

ray of faith, he just gets right out there. But

when you have some unbelief, he just shrivels

right down to being old Bill Bixby. I just lost

everybody under 50 right there, didn't I? It's

all right. All right. We'll just skip to a bro

cream commercial and bring you up to date. It's

all right. I see people that are 18 right now

going on YouTube and finding that. There's nothing

I do that makes him who he is. Actually, my faith

has nothing for God at all. He has no need. Faith

opens me. Not him. Did you get that? That's why

he is the author and finisher of my faith. I

don't bring to him faith. He imparts to me faith.

And then I, in faith, cooperate with him who

is whole and complete within himself. Are you

catching what I'm talking about? My... life was

transformed and I entered into a place of being

able to grasp in the now that which is when I

understood I didn't have to make it happen I

told people I got delivered I did I got delivered

I didn't have to get delivered from drugs or

alcohol or things like that I thank God for those

who have that's not my testimony I just got delivered

from thinking God needed me to be God And that

could be looked at as an arrogance statement,

but that wasn't arrogance. It was what I was

just describing to you. I thought I had to come

prepared and all together prayed up on top of

the game for him to be able to do his stuff.

I just finished a television shoot in Buffalo,

New York with Brother Tommy Reed. I don't know

if you all know who Tommy Reed is, but a great

man of God and one who served our brother Yungi

Cho for many, many years. He's now in his 80s

and he's still knocking it out of the ballpark.

I got a text from him just this week. He's 89

years old and this guy's impacting the world

with the gospel. We had just finished a shoot

and now we were driving to lunch together and

Brother Reed was driving. I was in the back seat.

Doc Kellner was in the other seat in the front.

And Brother Reed... Just look back for a moment.

He said, Dale, when you go into a crusade, what

exactly are you looking for? What are you looking

for when you go to a crusade? Now, he didn't

say that because he didn't know who I was. I've

been preaching in this church since I was a teenager.

So it wasn't that. I remember Kellner said, that's

a tough question. I said, no, it's actually very

easy. I said, whenever I go into a crusade, this

is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for more

than me. Did you hear that? Now, I wasn't trying

to be humble. What I was saying was this. When

I come into a crusade like this, now, I know

the call that's within my life. I'm not unsure

of it. And I know the giftings that God has brought

to me. There are certain gifts of healing that

flow consistently in my life, and I know them.

I'm familiar. I know when I'm operating them.

I can tell when they open up. Men of faith know

exactly what I'm saying. This is not an arrogant

statement. It's just like you know how to speak

with tongues. I know when these certain operation

gifts happen within me, and I know how to touch

God and move in them. Just like you know how

to speak in tongues, I can do these other things.

So I want you to understand what I'm saying.

When I come into a crusade, you say, well, I

guess that's what you're going right there. You

know right where your faith is at. I know where

my faith is at, but when I come into a crusade,

that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking

for more than me. I'm looking for something that

is bigger than my faith. I'm looking for something

that's greater than my anointing. Are you hearing

me? I'm looking for something that exceeds the

giftings of God within my life. Because he who

has given me this, these are precious and wonderful,

but he is more. Oh, come on, church. He is more.

He's more than what you've seen. He's more than

what you believe. He's more than what you understand.

He is, come on, he's more. And because you have

not yet seen it does not mean it doesn't exist.

And because you have not yet walked in it does

not mean it's outside of the scope of what's

available for you. I'm telling you, there's way

more available to us than what we understand.

And so wherever I go, here or elsewhere across

the world, and I step into a moment, I'm not

looking for that which I know and I believe.

I'm looking for that which is more than me. Way

more. Way more. That's who he is. And he wants

to bring you into that. He's revealing that by

his spirit. And one of the things that really

helped me get there is when I finally recognized

I didn't have to make it happen. It wasn't up

to me. Now, a little couple of things for you.

If you'll buy into what I'm telling you, I'll

do a couple of things for you. It'll take the

shackles off of you. from stepping into the power

of God. Because if you don't believe this, you're

always going to wait until you're ready. That

means you're going to be waiting forever. You

can get out of the boat, but you've got to step

over the side. The other thing it'll do for you,

and you'll have to hear this properly to understand

it, it will deliver you from the fear of failure.

When you understand it's more than me and I don't

have to make it happen. It's not that we don't

pray. It's not that we don't prepare our heart.

But I understand this thing is way beyond me.

My mentor, the old voice of healing preacher

that so impacted my life and trained me, he told

me this. He said, Dale, he said, and he had great

healing gifts, amazing gifts of God. But he said,

when people get healed, Dale, he says, I don't

take the glory. I don't take the glory when people

get healed. I got that. And he looked me right

in the eye and he says, and I don't take the

blame when they don't. Did you understand? Now

he didn't say I put the blame on them. He wasn't

saying that at all. He was saying I will not

walk in a sense of intimidation and fear and

condemnation. Did you get that? Am I helping

you right now? One of the things that will help

you step into a now miracle. Is when you understand,

you don't have to make it happen. You don't have

to make it happen. It doesn't hinge on you. Come

on. Get that pressure off of you. Get that pressure

off of you. And walk in that kind of light and

revelation. Hallelujah. So when that devil stands

up against you and says, you think you've got

enough faith to beat me? My answer would basically

be. Well, of course. But you've got to understand

the beating you're going to get is going to be

way beyond my faith. Amen. Another thing that

has helped me grasp a miracle in the now today

is when I really understood that God has provided.

Everything I need, he has provided. Quit asking

him to do the stuff he's already done. Come on,

he has provided. Or let me say it to you like

this. Our God is, he's proactive, not reactive.

He's ahead of the devil. He's ahead of our needs.

And he's beyond our troubles. I think sometimes

we see God as a God who comes through in the

nick of time. You know, in the end, you'll see.

God will come through. So the devil starts a

fire over here. And we think, oh, see that fire?

That's not, I can, look at me. You can stamp

that baby right out. Oh, look, there's another

one over there. No problem. No problem. I can

get that one over here just like that. You see

that one? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm coming. That's

not it at all. That's not it at all. Let me tell

you about my God. Before the devil starts to

fire, he's already there. The answers come before

the trouble is known. You know, when I see problems

arise, people say, what do you think? You see

that problem? What do you think about that? I

say, well, now I can finally figure out what

God's going to do. Because this thing shows me.

Isaiah 65, 24, it says, it shall come to pass

that before they call, I will answer. And while

they are still speaking, I will hear. Well, isn't

that nice of him? Before they call, I will answer.

And he says, then while you're telling about

it, I'll listen to you. But I've already got

it done. Isn't that sweet? Come on. Isn't that

great? We say the Lamb of God was slain 2 ,000

years ago for our sin. But Revelation 13, 8 says

the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the

world. Before there was sin, there was a Savior.

I told you when I see those streams of healing,

they come in very narrow, but somewhere in the

message they go wide, and they're wide right

now. Whatever miracle you need, would you take

it from God? It's here. I feel the pull. I felt

it twice already. There's an anointing that's

delivering and healing. Come on, grab your miracle

right now. This is a strong moment. Before you

call, before you've ever thought about it, before

you knew there was a problem, before the devil

could get enough together to give you the problem,

he was already your answer. 1 Peter 2 .24 says,

Whomself bore our sins and his own. body on the

tree, that we, having died to sins, might live

for righteousness. You know that last line, don't

you? By whose stripes you were healed. He's talking

about divine healing. Isaiah saw it very clearly,

and he said, when he looked at the sacrifice

of Jesus, he said, by his stripes we are healed.

I mean, he looked at it and said, oh, look at

that, we are healed. He didn't say we can get

healed. When he saw it, he saw it as a done deal.

Do you understand that? So I used to read that

passage for years and I thought, that's it, that's

my promise. That's how I can get healed. But

Isaiah did not say, I see that healing can happen.

He said, he looked at it and he said, well, look

at that, will you? We're healed. Peter looked

at it and he said, by whose stripes you were

healed. So excuse my grammar again. But before

I get sick, I were healed. Did you all hear that?

Yeah, before I get sick, I were healed. he's

already provided. The thing that's helped me

grasp a miracle in the now, right now, today,

not someday, not he will do, what's helped me

step into a moment and grab a miracle, there's

many of them. One of them is a sense of boldness,

just drawing near to him and understanding who

he is and how he feels toward me, and then recognizing

I don't have to make it happen anyhow. So I don't

have to like get it all together before. No,

it's right there. Come on. And then when I realized

that, well, he's already provided this thing.

And when I step into the room, the provision's

already there. It's not an issue that he's going

to take the request into consideration. And then

think about it. And if it's his will and his

divine purpose for the longevity of your life,

that he might come up with the answer. And when

you meet with him, you two can hash it out. You

know, he's actually already done it. Well, he's

already provided. Another great thing that has

helped me and many others receive him, am I helping

you tonight? All right, is this. Here's another

idea, that you enter a miracle through rest,

not through struggle. You enter a miracle through

rest, not through struggle. Now, in Hebrews chapter

Hebrews 3 · chapter mention

3 and also chapter 4, The writer of Hebrews is

addressing the differences between the two generations

of Israel that came out of Egypt. You had the

first generation, the adults, that came out,

and you have the second generation, the children,

that came out with them. Now, the goal and the

purpose of God was not to get them out, but to

get them in. Do you understand that? That was

the purpose of God. The purpose of God was not

to get them out of Egypt. He had to get them

out of Egypt, but that wasn't the goal. The goal

was not to get out. The goal was to get in the

land of promise. The first generation never received

the goal. They died in the wilderness. And in

those two chapters of Hebrews, he tells us exactly

why. It does not need interpretation. You don't

need a concordance or anything else to determine

it. He just flat out says it. They did not enter

in because of unbelief. That's what he said.

That first generation, they did not enter in

because of unbelief. Now, the second generation

got in. And you would think that he would have

said, That they got in because of faith. But

he did not say that. It was involved, but that's

not what he called it. He said this. They entered

into my rest. Oh, wow. In fact, it became thematic

throughout those verses. The entering into his

rest. And then I understood something. That in

the mind of God, rest. And faith are synonymous.

That if you were to step into God's office and

pick up the thesaurus on his desk, and you were

to open it up to the word faith, you would see

the word rest there. And if you went over and

opened up to the word rest, you'd see the word

faith there. Because in God's mind, when faith

comes, the struggle ends. Are you hearing this?

I know when I'm operating in faith because I'm

through the breaking point. And when I step through

that and into that place of his presence and

of his imparted faith, there is no struggle.

You all know what I'm talking about. I can tell

it. The song arises. The shout is there. The

dance begins. The burden is lifted. You enter

a miracle not through struggle, but through rest.

So when I find myself really trying hard to believe,

I realize I'm not there. I'm not even in the

right direction. I'm not going to get there that

way. We were talking about people receiving the

Holy Ghost today, and we've seen as many as 2

,500 in a single service receiving the baptism.

But you all that have ministered to folks that

are at the point of receiving the gift of the

Holy Ghost, you can tell sometimes just by the

look on their face. I'm in many countries where

all the languages are unknown tongues to me,

and someone says, well, how are we going to tell

if they're speaking in tongues or not? I said,

it'll be very easy. Just look at their face.

You won't have to understand what their native

language is versus whether they're speaking or

not. Just look at it. There is something there

that's very readable. Does anyone know what I'm

talking about? And I can tell when a person's

not going to get it. You can look on their face

and it just looks kind of like this. You say,

well, that's not happening here, buddy. Because

it doesn't work that way. All you get out of

that is a spiritual hernia. You don't step into

a miracle. When I find myself knotted up, I realize

I'm not going to enter into that miracle right

now. I need to stop. And I need to work. And

I want to say that here's what I do. You take

it within the theological diction of our island

brethren from the Caribbean. They would tell

us this. They would say, you just need to mellow

out, dude. No, you need to find that place of

rest in him. I look for the moments in which

he will carry me along. I look for, when you

say, well, how do you pray for a miracle? Sometimes

I just sit before him. I just wait upon him.

I worship him, but I wait upon him. And there

comes a moment in which, oh, that we would have.

Oh, that we would have more confidence in him

than we do in our theological understandings

and in all of our teachings, our systems. And

I'm not just talking about dogma of mainline

churches. You can't believe that. junk that we've

got in our present day charismatic full gospel

whatever you want to call them churches we got

we've got you know brother Oral Roberts used

to say everybody knows who Oral Roberts was right

brother Oral Roberts when he had those big tent

crusades he would say once I can get past the

Pentecostal people we can start having miracles

Because, you see, what we are, people like us,

what we've been doing is we've been trained the

right stuff. We've been told that, you know,

you need to have faith. You need to believe God.

You need to get your heart right with God. You

need to draw near to him. And we've got all these,

and they're not bad. There is truth in all this,

but it's just not all the truth. And what happens

to us is we've got a lot of rules about what

it takes to get a miracle. And, therefore, when

one of us get a miracle, it's really a miracle.

Because we put all these steps and things we've

got to do. To get one, you know, it's very easy

to believe God. Here are the 47 steps you need

to do to get your miracle. We have figured it

out, you know, and then we teach all these things.

It's wonderful teaching, you know, and then we

choke to death on them. Come on, guys. Are you

catching what I'm really trying to say to you?

You're going to enter your miracle through rest,

not through faith. I mean, through struggle,

not through struggle. When that faith of God

arises within you. It's a wonderful, freeing,

refreshing moment. Now, I know you're thinking,

well, but the Bible says to fight the good fight

of faith. I understand that. There's more than

one aspect of faith. But even on that, you understand

he, and you all know he called it a good fight,

didn't he? He's fighting the good fight. So you

say, well, I've heard people say, so what's the

good fight? And someone says, it's the one we

win. Well, that's nice, but. No, that's really

not it. Let me tell you what a good fight is.

A good fight is a fixed fight. Did you all hear

that? It's a fixed fight. That's a good fight

right there. That's the fight that when you step

in, before you step in the ring, you already

know what the outcome is. Did you hear what I

just said? Oh, yeah. There's going to be some

punches thrown. I get it. And there's going to

be some hitting going on. But you already know

who's going down. And come on. And who's got

the victory? And that is your fight right there.

There may be some punches thrown. And there may

be some rounds that you go through. But before

you get in the ring, you already know. Come on.

This is a good one. Before you even start, do

you think this is going to turn out? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be cruel

here or anything. Whatever the word would be.

But I never really, I don't jump real high when

I hear people say stuff like, you know, I read

the end of the book and we win. I'm thinking

I read the front of the book and we won. Hello?

When Adam sinned, God came and he didn't say,

read the end of the book, it'll work out. He

said, Adam, come here. This thing's really bad

right now, but let me explain how it's going

to work out. Am I right? Come on, am I right?

He told us up front from the very beginning.

Wow. Your answer's already there. Your battle's

already won. You've already been healed by his

stripes. That's why so many people get healed

just when I'm preaching the word. And I know

there's a place of laying on of hands and taking

authority of the enemy, but I'm going to tell

you, a lot of people just when they finally hear

it, they go, oh, that's what it's all about.

Boom, and they're healed. In fact, you'll notice

last night when there were so many people that

testified here, did you notice that there wasn't

one moment or testimony of a struggle? Am I right?

There's nobody that had to push their way through.

It just, whoa. It just came. You can fight if

you want. And some believers, you know, they

pray for a fight. There was a guy that was speaking

at my home church. received the full gospel of

the Lord Jesus Christ. Part of that point, he

was saved, but he was part of one of those denominations

that don't believe in the fullness of the Spirit

and resisted such things as that. And so when

our pastor was telling us who he was, they told

us of that particular Christian background that

he was from, and they said, and then also, he

used to be a prize fighter. And I looked at the

person sitting next to me, and I said, that was

a very redundant statement. because most of the

people that don't believe these things, all they

do is carry hats to drop so they can fight. They're

always looking for a fight about this stuff,

but those of us that have entered into his rest,

we don't have to battle with it at all. Jan said

it this way the other night, I didn't come here

to defend God. He doesn't need a defense. While

you're all bristled up, just enter into his rest,

and you'll move right into your miracle. You'll

move right into your miracle. Praise God. All

right, let me conclude with this. I didn't say

it was through preaching. I said I would conclude

with this. God only knows how long this will

take. But I will conclude with this thought.

I'm giving you hope anyhow. If you want to enter

into a miracle now, then you need to own it,

not simply believe it's possible. You got to

own it. In other words, the gospel has to be

personalized to be activated in you. He cannot

just be the Lord. He needs to be your Lord. It

needs to get beyond this, that he's the savior

of the world. You need to come to the point that

you can say, he's my savior. Do you understand

what I mean by owning it now? Personalizing it.

This is my moment. This is the gift he has given

me. This is what he's brought me unto. You know,

when the Lord opened this gift to me, and you

must understand, I give you a tiny bit of my

history. I got born again when I was seven, and

the call of God I recognized when I was eight

to ministry. All I knew was ministry. He didn't

give me any specifics. I was baptized in the

Holy Ghost. When I was 12, I was sitting in a

camp meeting, just listening to a guy preach

at an afternoon service, and the voice of the

Lord came to me and said, Dale, I want you to

be an evangelist to North America. That's how

I first heard it. That was the first phase of

this ministry. I wasn't praying, God, what is

your will? What do you want me to do? I'm just

listening to a guy preach. I don't actually even

remember what he was preaching about, and it

had nothing in reference to that. Just all of

a sudden, bang, just like that, the voice of

the Lord came. You don't have to make it happen.

He just came to me and said, this is what I want

you to do. And then after that, he started defining

it more when he talked to me about healing the

sick and casting out devils. But I couldn't see

myself doing that, so I didn't think I was hearing

God. I blew it off. I know I heard the Lord when

I was praying. When I walked out the door, I

talked myself out of it. Is anybody in the room

understanding what I just said there? Have you

ever done that? Don't answer. And that went on

for almost three years. And finally, I was again

in another camp meeting type experience on my

back under the power of God for two hours, and

he showed me the length and the breadth of this

ministry. Those crowds you saw on the screen

yesterday in Africa, I saw those crowds when

I was right at the end of my 14th year, about

to hit 15, and he showed me the work and the

walk of this ministry. And then when that took

place, I remember I got up from that point of

prayer, and I said to the Lord this. I said that

this is it. there's not going to be the struggle

anymore that maybe this is not really God and

I'm just got some. I told myself over and over

again, my problem was that I was reading too

many Smith Wigglesworth books. I needed to get

serious and find out what I was supposed to do.

But now that day I said, I get it, Lord. This

is what you've called me to do. But then I said

to him, but I just want you to know. I did. I

said it just like that. I said, I just want you

to know you really got your work cut out for

you. You see, because I looked at me and I looked

at that, which I saw in the vision. I looked

at me and I looked at that. I looked at me and

I looked at that. I said, that's not me. I didn't

understand who he was and what he was like. I

didn't understand that he was one, that when

he shows us who we are, he doesn't show us from

our point of view. He shows us from his point

of view. And he sees things from the end to the

beginning. Did you hear that? That's changing

someone right now. He saw the completion. I wasn't

even sure the first step. And he didn't talk

to me from my point of view. He talked to me

from his point of view. And he saw it done. And

he said, this is it. And I said, that's not me.

And if that's going to be me, you got a big job.

And then I was sitting under the guy that would

be my mentor. And he started a crusade in Buffalo,

New York on December 1. Do you understand the

weather patterns in Buffalo? Lake effect snow

that can drop down three and four feet in hours?

In hours? You don't start a revival in Buffalo,

New York on December 1 unless you've really heard

from God or unless you've been smoking something

that you shouldn't be smoking. And that meeting

went 17 weeks. It concluded two weeks before

Easter of the next year. During that time, I

got my Bible education. I was shaped in that

time. There's some things that are caught in

partation that takes place. And I remember that

he was doing a 10 -night series on who we are

in Christ. Somewhere in that series, I was sitting

in the second row. It hit me like a ton of bricks.

I mean, I remember. I don't remember the actual

message. I remember the theme that he was preaching

on, and I remember the moment. Because it hit

me just like this. And I thought, oh God, oh

God, you know that great big thing that I told

you you were going to have to do? You've already

done it. And I did not appraise it correctly.

I had no idea of the depth of his workmanship

in us through new birth in Christ Jesus. I was

always thinking that someday... Remember someday?

When is that? Is that the second or third day?

No, fourth. One day of the week is that someday

it would come. The moment I saw it, the gifts

of God showed. The healing miracles began to

happen right there. They didn't wait until I

started preaching. Healing ministry did not begin

with me from the pulpit. It began with me from

the streets. It was because of the miracles that

were happening in the streets that people invited

me to the pulpit. It's true. It's true. Someone

said, well, did you start holding revivals and

God started healing the sick? No. I just started

ministering healing in the hospitals. I was 15

years old. I did a weekly move into the hospital.

At 15. I went to the hospital every week and

ministered healing to the sick. People say, well,

if you've got a healing ministry, why don't you

go to the hospitals? That's how I got going.

That's what I did. And we saw people get out

of those beds and completely well. I was raised

in Niagara Falls, New York, so I'd go to the

waterfalls because people came from all over

the world there. There were 20 ,000 Asians that

would come in and see the falls just in July

and August. You know, I was smarter then. Now

I spend thousands of dollars to go overseas to

them. Then they just came to me. I don't know

why I didn't sit still in Niagara Falls. But

anyhow, and it would minister the word with signs

following. That's how I would approach it. Did

it then? Do it now. The same way. Finally, people

saw enough of that, and so a couple of pastors

saw it, and they said, wow, if you can do that

on the streets, could you come and do it at our

church? And I thought, I don't know. I don't

know if it'll work in a church, but we can give

it a try. But I remember when that gift was locked

in for me, and it wasn't in that revival crusade.

In the revival crusade, I worked with him, and

he had me lay hands on the sick, and we had miracles.

We witnessed them. But I remember when the steel

backbone came, and it was in the hospital, in

a Catholic hospital in Niagara Falls. When I

walked in to minister to a man from my home church,

and God would instantly heal him. And there was

another man in the next bed that saw it happen,

who did not know Christ. And when he saw this

man get, instantly healed. He sat right up in

his bed. He had an ongoing problem. He'd been

in a hospital for quite a while and they were

not able to correct it. He had a constant bleeding

that was not being stopped. He sat right up in

his bed and he said, can you do that for me?

And I remember, I don't even know why I did it.

I prayed with the man from my church here. This

man's in the hospital bed there. And I don't

know why I didn't say, sure, I'll just pray with

you. Instead, I... turned completely around the

other way. I have no idea what I did that, and

when I did, the bed was empty. He was gone. I

thought, well, where in the world did you go?

And he was right over in the chair next to the

other guy. He said, I'm ready now. And I looked

at him, and I said to him, I said, sir, you did

not know Christ. I said, let me tell you, Jesus

is a mighty healer, and he's given me an anointing

and a grace that when I lay my hands upon you,

you will be instantly healed. And when I said

that, something big in me just like this that

never left. It was when I finally stood up and

owned it. Did you hear that? I value the covering

of my mentor and the assistance he gave me, but

it's when I stepped out when there was no organ

playing, no believers saying amen. And no one's

standing alongside. And I said, this is the way

it is. And when I said it, I remember. But when

I say steal, that's what it felt like. Something

literally went, just straightened me right out.

Right up my backbone, just like that. And it's

still there. You want to enter into a miracle?

You need to quit procrastinating your faith.

And you need to own that baby. When that word

of the Lord and that touch of God comes, don't

you sit on that baby. We talked about it last

night. Don't you say, well, we'll give it a week

and see how it really is. You will walk right

out of the moment of your miracle. But if you

will own it, this is not a mental thing. It's

not, all right, let me figure out how I do it.

That's not how it works. It's a matter of sensing

the presence of the Almighty, catching the word

of the Lord, and then stepping into it and saying,

that's it, that's mine. Are you on page with

me right now? That's what it is. And you need

to pick up, and you need to get past the idea

that God has to plow you down. You know, I see

people, like Brother Jan has a great anointing

where people fall under the power. They do that

sometimes when I pray with them. They do it a

lot when he prays with them. I believe in that.

I've received God's blessing many times in my

life like that. But I meet people all the time

that say, it's not that I'm unwilling to fall

down, but I don't do courtesy drops. And so when

someone comes down that line, they say, no, we're

ready for God to touch us and God to move. But

all right, I'm ready. Come on. Come on. Hit me

right there. Hit me right there. And if it's

God to bully me over, I'll be okay with it. And

they think, you know, that they're doing the

right thing. They're not going to be anybody's

fool. And I look at that and say to myself, I

don't want to have to have God come and hit me

with a two -by -four. I would like to be able

to respond to his lightest touch. I welcome the

voice that shouts out. But would you make me

so sensitive that I could hear your slightest

whisper? That all he has to do is brush me. can

feel that. I recognize you. Would you own it?

Just enter into it and say, that's the way it

is. Draw near to him. You may have to get me

in the lobby, stop, really take some minutes

with me to get thought across, but my wife doesn't.

I can walk in the room and know whether it's

good or bad. Oh, don't look at me like that.

Huh? Sometimes just the slightest touch, you

know. Am I right? Why don't you get to know him

like that? Get to know him that you can just

walk right into his presence and know, oh, this

is good. I don't know what all this other nonsense

was. This is right. This is right. Why would

I live like that when the moment I come before

him, and sometimes he doesn't even need to say

a word, the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and his ears are open to their prayers. Sometimes

I walk in, and I can just feel him looking at

me. Would you stand with me all over the room?

Jesus is here. Oh my God, Jesus is here. Wow.

Own it. You all know it. Let the redeemed of

the Lord. Not think about it. Not pray about

it. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. This

is the way it is. The promise, the reality. The

greatness of his name. Do you know that his name

is healing? You know names, the names of God

in scripture, we mentioned it the other night,

they're not titles, they're revelations of an

aspect of God. That's why you find so many names,

because he's too big to figure out at one point.

It's literally going to take you all of eternity.

And then. Yeah. But he would come and speak a

name. And when he spoke that name, it wasn't

informational. It was transforming. And when

he told Israel that his name was healing, Jehovah

Rapha, the Lord who heals. Then I understood

two things. Number one, it's not that he could

heal. He is healing. Do you understand that?

He can heal me. When you get in his presence,

you just stepped into the presence of healing.

He doesn't know how not to heal. He never behaves

differently to his character. He is healing.

I said it like this just a few weeks ago when

I was in Dar es Salaam. I was up around the beginning

of July. And I said to the crowd of those Africans,

I said, you must understand, I'm a Mzungu, which

means white guy. I said, I don't have to pray

to become a Mzungu. I just am. I don't get up

in the morning and say, I'm just going to believe

God to be a Mzungu. I said, I can't help myself.

I'm a white guy. I'm stuck with it. That's what

I am. And I said, I'm not just a mizungu to nice

people. I'm a mizungu to bad people. I'm a mizungu

to religious people. I'm a mizungu to people

that have no faith at all. I just am what I am.

I said, you need to understand something about

him. He is a savior. He's not a savior of good

people. He's a savior. He's a savior of good

people and bad people. You understand this? He's

a savior to those that are holy and those that

are perverts. You didn't like that, but it's

the truth. He can't help himself. He's just a

savior. When he walks in the room, he's a savior.

And then the writer of New Testament said this,

if you believe not, yet he remains faithful,

he cannot deny himself. Think of that. Think

of that. He's a healer. He's not a healer if

you believe. He's a healer. I know I've seen

it. I'm sure you've seen it. I've seen God heal

people that were shocked. When they got healed.

We had a lady come from one of those churches

to a crusade of ours in Dallas. You know, it

was one of those churches that they're the only

ones that saved. They knew we were all going

to hell. But her son had talked her into coming

because he'd seen so many miracles. And she came.

She was completely deaf in one ear. And the reason

why she was an adult woman, the reason why she

was completely deaf is because they had to do

surgery to take a tumor out. And in order to

get to it, they had to go through her ear canal.

a mastoid operation, so they removed the anvil,

disturbed the cochlea, the eardrum. She had nothing

but a hole there. And she's sitting over to the

side, halfway through my message, her ear popped

just like that, and she could hear perfectly.

And she came to the altar half -mad. Truly. She

said to the pastor with tears, she says, I don't

understand what's going on. She says, I was eight

years old when they took that out. I've been

deaf all my life, and I could not hear, and now

I can hear perfectly. And that guy's not even

saved. How can this happen? And his wife is wearing

pants. You know that's wrong. I got to tell you,

he is who he is. Do you know where you are right

now? You're in the place where nothing is impossible.

Where the glory of the Lord is. Where the healer

is present. Every one of you that have wanted

a miracle of the Lord, would you look up at him

and tell him, I'm taking mine right now, Lord.

Come on. Worship him for it right now. Give him

praise for it. Enter in. Enter in with me right

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