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Waypoint Conference 2021 (Friday PM) - Pastor Dale Everett (September 17, 2021) | Life Bible Church
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Pastor Dale will come in just a moment, but before
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we do that, I want to introduce you to him a
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little bit, and then we're going to just turn
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our attention to the screen and see some of the
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work that is being done in the name of the Lord
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Jesus Christ in Africa. Dale's a great man, has
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been in ministry. We talked about it today as
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we had some time together for almost 50 years.
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A great man of God, pastored three churches,
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and now is on the road full -time as an evangelist,
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and God really does. do a marvelous work through
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him. It's an honor to have a fellow hunter, fisherman,
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and a good all -around guy here. We love him
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and we're grateful to have him. Would you just
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turn your attention to the screen and see what
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God is doing in the nations through his ministry?
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And what he has done there, he will do here.
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As Pastor mentioned, June marked the 50th year
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of this ministry. The bulk of it has been here
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in the United States and then about... 12, 15
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years ago, God spoke to me about going to the
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nations of the world. The healing ministry has
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been a part of the gift of God within my life
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before the preaching ministry actually began.
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And sometimes when people now know about what's
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happening overseas and our African crusades,
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they'll say things to me like, well, I guess
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you really get to see great miracles there. Let
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me tell you something. We see great miracles
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here. And I'm not just trying to be positive.
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I'm telling you, we see the same things happen.
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here, the blind, the deaf, the crippled, to imply
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that Jesus is great somewhere else, but not here,
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is an insult to the most high God. He is a God
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without boundaries. He has no lid. Come on. And
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there is literally nothing impossible with him
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in this room tonight. Tonight. Praise God. Well,
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it's nice to be back. I share the same sentiments
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as Brother Jan, as he mentioned yesterday. Your
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pastor and wife are the cream of the crop. They
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really are. They're the real deal. They're the
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real deal. It shows in the way they minister.
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It shows when they're in the parking lot. It
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shows everywhere. They got it in their prayer
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life, their attitude toward Christ. I like, I
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like. I work with a lot of people, obviously,
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in all this time. I like working with people
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that aren't duds. And thank you, Pastor, for
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the honor of coming once again into this area
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and ministering this good news of Christ. And,
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of course, you, my friend, have blessed me, have
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blessed my family, have blessed the churches
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that I pastored where you have come and ministered.
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Jan was the first one to take me into the continent
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of Africa. I see him in the sense of an opener
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of a door in my life and ministry, and I honor
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you in that way. I love you more than I can describe,
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and it's such a joy to meet Henley. I'm so happy
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to meet you, dear, and to get to know you better
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during this week that we're sharing together.
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Amen. You ministered very well, Brother Jan,
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last night. I'm glad Jesus is helping me tonight.
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I mean, I look at the schedule and you're following,
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following Jan Venter. That's just wrong. That's
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just wrong. Let me talk to you for a minute about
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what God's going to be doing tonight in this
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room. I was called to the Lord early on in life.
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Actually, the call comes before we know it, doesn't
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it? But I woke up to it. when I was eight years
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old. I got born of the Spirit when I was seven.
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When I hit 12, I heard the voice of the Lord
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speak very plainly to me about the first phase
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of this ministry, which would be evangelism.
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And then between that age of 12 and 15 is when
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he started talking to me about this dimension
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of the ministry, which houses divine healing
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and deliverance and things of that nature. I
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actually tell people that was doing pretty good
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until he talked to me about healing. You know,
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when he wanted me to preach and... being ministry
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and being evangelist, I thought that's just great.
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When he said heal the sick and cast out devils,
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I backed up pretty bad. Not because I didn't
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believe in it, because I grew up in a full gospel
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church that told me Jesus saved, heals, delivers,
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fills. That's all I actually knew. I thought
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everybody believed that. But my problem was I
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couldn't see myself doing it. See, he's going
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to have to change you in order for you to accomplish
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what he has for you, already set for you to do.
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So anyhow, that happened in my life. I won't
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go into the depth of that, but he established
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that. And then he told me, when the healing gift
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first began to show, he said to me, Dale, anytime
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that you minister on healing, because we have
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other things we do, the baptism of the Holy Spirit
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and other things like this. But he said, when
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you minister on healing, there will always be
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people healed, and there will be people notably
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healed, visibly healed. Can I tell you, I've
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never seen him fail to do that. So here's what's
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going to happen in the room tonight. People are
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going to get healed. Yeah. Not just prayed for.
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Or anointed with oil. And I believe all that.
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And I do that. We did it last night. And people
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got healed. But some people just come to get
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prayed for. Oh, don't look at me in that tone
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of voice. I haven't even gotten to the text yet.
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You know that. They just come. They don't ever
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really come to be changed. They just like the
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whatever. I don't know. the sympathetic feel
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of someone praying for them. I'm telling you,
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Jesus isn't here just to listen to a prayer.
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He's here to cure you tonight, to make a change
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in you tonight. Now, if you have that same kind
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of heart, that's what he asked the man at the
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pool of Bethesda. He walked up to that guy. He
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didn't ask him what was wrong with him. He didn't
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ask him about the history of it. Nothing like
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that. He had only one question. Are you willing
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to be whole? Come on, that's all he wanted to
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know. Because if you got that going for you,
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he didn't ask about his faith. He didn't ask
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about his understanding of the miraculous. He
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just said, I need to know only one thing. Are
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you willing to be whole? Once we established
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that, guess what happened? Someone got up and
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left there that had been bound there for decades.
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I'm telling you. Come on, are you willing to
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be whole tonight? Are you tired of the junk that's
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been holding on to you? Then tonight is your
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night. Really, receive that. Why would it be
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another night? It's not like he's going to be
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better by Saturday. You know, he's as great as
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he ever was. And listen, he's as great as he'll
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ever be. He's always been great. He's not getting
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smarter. Stronger, better, more capable. He's
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always been the zenith, the peak, paramount.
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That's who he is. Wow. Isn't that neat? Isn't
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that neat? Thanks be unto God, who always causes
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us to triumph in Christ Jesus. Praise God for
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that. So this is a night for triumph in your
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life and for healing in your life. You can have
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it now. You really can. You know, when he spoke
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to me about the way he wanted me to move with
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him in the area of healing, and God brings healing
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in all kinds of ways. And we need to value every
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way in which he does it. You know, Pastor indicated
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that I worked for a while with Brother R .W.
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Shambaugh. I did that the very last few years
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of his life. And when the Lord spoke to me about
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healing, he told me, this is what I want you
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to do, Dale. He says, when you... When you minister
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healing to people, when it's possible, put your
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hands where the problem shows up. You can't always
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put your hand where the problem shows up. But
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he said, when it's possible. It's Friday, isn't
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it? Is it Friday? You're allowed three smiles
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tonight, so you're good to go. You're good to
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go. When it's possible, put your hand where the
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problem shows up. And he says, and be very gentle
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and minister my healing. Now. I guess he felt
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like he had enough folks shaking the healing
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into them. So he said, I want you to be very
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gentle. And actually he used the word calm. And
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I could preach with all the energy I wanted to,
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but when I laid hands on you, if I got too active,
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I would detach from the anointing flow in my
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life. All right, that's how it worked. But it's
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not like that's the way it works. That's how
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I connected. Now, if you knew Brother R .W. Schambach,
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and I don't know if you did, not. Go to YouTube
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because YouTube's got everything. And what you'll
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find about Brother Schambach is this. Let's just
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put it all into this summary. He's wild and woolly.
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My mother used to say, you need to put a neck
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brace on before you let that man lay hands on
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you. I mean, he could slap the devil out of folks.
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And so people that knew me and knew him would
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say, wow, how do you two guys work together?
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I'll tell you how we did it. It's because we
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value the anointing and the gift of God in each
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other's lives. I'm generally uncomfortable around
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people that believe that the way that God works
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with them is the way, or at least the better
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way. And all the rest of you are just peons.
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What is that all about? I love every way that
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God moves. And when I don't, I repent. Yeah.
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Some of you are looking at me like, can I get
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my offering back? No. I'm going to preach in
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just a moment. It'll get better. Please have
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mercy on me. But anyhow, that's how the anointing
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flow was prominent in my life for about 35 years.
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And then I got up to preach one night, and it
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happened to actually be one of Brother Schambach's
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camp meetings. And I would take the opening night.
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It was what he called the Signs and Wonders camp
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meeting. He'd have three different camp meetings
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each year on the property in Texas. And one would
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be on Signs and Wonders, and then later in the
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year he'd do one on Harvest, and then he would
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do one on Leadership. This one was the Signs
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and Wonders. I'd been, my primary job was the
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planting pastor of the church there. And then
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I did the platform work for the crusades. I didn't
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always preach the evening services. I would teach
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in the daytime, but I would not always preach
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at night. But he said, Dale, take the opening
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night of this one because you always have visible
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miracles when you minister. And so he said, I
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want visible miracles on night one of the signs
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and wonders. Thank you. So then the rest of the
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night, we have other speakers that will take
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care of it. And he himself being in his 80s by
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that point would take the last night because
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he didn't do multiple nights. But you know what?
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you do is you save your best hitter, you know,
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once you got the bases loaded and then you bring
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them out. But so he said, take that first night.
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And I remember that night so very, very well
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when they finally turned the pulpit to me to
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preach, which was nine o 'clock at night, because
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they were having fun. They were singing, they
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were dancing, they were shouting, they were spinning,
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they were waving anything that wasn't nailed
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down. And then they introduce you to speak. Now,
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let me tell you, when you're in a high -energy
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environment like that, you can't come to the
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pulpit like you already have rigor mortis. You've
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got to step it up. And so I was right in step,
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and I came up, I remember, and I put my notes
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on the podium, and I touched that podium, and
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the moment I did, the moment I did, the Spirit
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of the Lord spoke to me. Not before, no indication
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before. I don't know how it works with you, but
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I never get invited to the committee meetings.
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It just gets thrown at me when I arrive. And
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so I got up, I touched the pulpit, and the Spirit
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said to me, Dale, don't preach now. And I've
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got to tell you, I was literally blown away.
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Because that's all I do. That's all I do. I mean,
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if you ever met my wife, Debbie, she's a wonderful
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worship leader, am I right? Plays the keys, sings
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nicely, has done multiple albums, and my daughter
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has sung around the world. My son also has led
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worship around the world. Just great, great.
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All I do is preach. I don't play anything. I
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was in a church one time, I walked in, and they
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didn't know me. They knew I... from promotion,
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but I'd never been there before. And someone
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said to me in the foyer as I walked in, I remember
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it well, it was in Illinois. They said, oh, it's
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nice to have you here this week. Are you going
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to sing for us? And I said, oh, no, I've already
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decided I like you. But I thought, oh, Lord,
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what am I going to do? He said, don't preach.
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And that's it. That's all I do. I don't sing,
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I don't play, and I'm white, so I can't dance.
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So I thought, what will I do? And so I had a
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steering contest with the crowd. I just looked
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at them. They looked at me. I looked at them.
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They looked at me. Oh, wow, that was really awkward.
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But you see, when he says don't do something,
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that doesn't mean dream up something to do. So
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I'm waiting for the next, you know, directive,
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and I'm not picking up anything. And so it got
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really odd. And finally, I stepped to the side
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of the podium and was actually afraid to talk.
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I didn't know if I should open my mouth at all.
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But I felt like I got to say something. You know,
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us preachers just got to say something. But he
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stepped it aside, and I said it just exactly
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like I'm going to say it right now, very softly.
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I just said, you know, I feel like God wants
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to do something really great tonight. And that's
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about the same volume I used, just like that.
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And when I did, the whole place jumped to their
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feet. I mean, they jumped up. They're waving
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hankies. They're shouting. wow, they are going
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at it. I'm like, woo, look at that. And then
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40 seconds later, which is quite a long time
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for a spontaneous praise, I mean, it went on
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and on. 40 seconds later, they all sat down,
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and I thought, well, there you go. That must
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have been it. God wanted one more big blast of
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praise. Isn't he worthy of it? I think so. I
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went right to the pulpit, and again, the Spirit
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of God said, I said, don't preach now. And he
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said it just like that. And I, oh, right, well.
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I thought, well, we're not going to preach, and
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that's for sure. And I'm not getting anything
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else. So I'm just, again, here goes the staring
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contest again. And then finally someone over
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to my left, second row, I can still see him.
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Second row, almost to the, it was the last chair
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before he came to the wall. I stood up and he
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didn't shout it out, just calmly said, you know,
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I've been deaf in this year all my life. It just
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opened up. And I was like, wow, how about that?
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Didn't see that one coming. And then someone
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cleaned across the room, diagonally, all the
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way to the back. You've been in that room. The
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chairs were all the way to the back that night.
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Stood up and said, you know what? I just got
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healed too. And another, and another, and another,
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and another, and another, and another. In fact,
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for the next 30 minutes, God's power went like
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waves through that room. And people were getting
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healed all over. So the whole front of it was
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filled. And that building was about 50 feet wide.
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The whole front was filled when they were in
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the aisles of people that had been touched by
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the power of God. But about every two minutes,
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we were seeing what the scriptures would call
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a notable miracle. And then I got to preach.
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And we sent everybody home because it was done.
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What I didn't understand. was a transition had
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just taken place. I thought, well, that was a
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different night because every now and then you
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get a different night. It's not like everything
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changed, but it was just like, you know, once
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in a while he just puts a cherry on it. And I
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thought that was a nice cherry. So the next time
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I ministered, I called people forward to, like
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I normally would do in a prayer line. And I went
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to the first guy and I said, all right. following
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the directive of the Lord, I would ask them what
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they wanted to receive, and then I'd put my hand
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where the problem was, and I just, I don't remember
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what it was, but let's say, the guy said, I got
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an injury in my neck, and I said, that's not
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a problem, let me just put my hand back there.
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No, no, I just wanted to tell you I'm already
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healed. Oh, okay. And I went to the next guy,
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you know, and same thing, and the next one, and,
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but it didn't happen every night. It happened
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about 30 % of the time over the next 90 days.
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Sometimes I actually got to lay hands on them,
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but other times I would call the prayer line
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and they'd just say, oh, no worries. And then
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the whole line was just, no, I'm already healed,
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I'm already healed, I'm already healed. I said,
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well, that's nice. Praise God for that. And then
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over the next six months, that thing jumped up
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to being like 70 to 80 or more percent of the
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time. And so at this point, I had to have a little
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discussion with the Lord. And I said, Lord, I
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need a little help here. Look, and you must understand.
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I don't really care how he heals people, just
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so he heals people. You understand? I wasn't
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complaining. But I said, here's the deal. I don't
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even know what I'm doing anymore. I used to know
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what I was doing. I have no clue now. No clue.
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Debbie and I, we were driving to a citywide meeting
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down in Houston. A number of churches were coming
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together for a healing service. And we were driving
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down together. We live in the Dallas -Fort Worth
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area. And that's, I don't know if you know where
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that is. That's another country real close to.
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Texas, you know. And anyhow, we were driving
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down there and she said, now what kind of service
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is this? Because she's going to do the music
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and sometimes it's a Holy Spirit baptism service
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or an anointing service. And she said, is this
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a healing service? I said, yeah, this one's a
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healing service. She says, well, how are you
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going to do it? And that's exactly what I did.
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I just looked at her like that. She says, you
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don't know, do you? I says, I don't have a clue.
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I don't have a clue anymore. I mean, 30 some
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years, I have no clue anymore. And so I said,
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Lord, could you help me out? If you're going
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to heal in the room, I'm really glad for that
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or whatever. I'm going to lay hands on people,
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but could you give me a heads up? And this is
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what he told me. He said, Dale, from now on,
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when you come into the service, make sure you
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position yourself in the sanctuary where you
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can see the crowd. Because if I'm going to heal
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in the room, and that's what I call it instead
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of the prayer line. He said, you'll know because
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you're going to see, and they're indicators.
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I call them streams of healing that come in.
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And look at me. I'm not going to get weird on
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you. All right? Are some of you saying, oh, you
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can't get that weird here. I know. That's wrong,
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isn't it? That's just wrong. Can I still come
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back tomorrow? Okay. But he said, I want you
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to look across the room. There'll be indicators
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that'll come to you. And I call them healing
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streams. And I'll describe what it's like. And
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I'm not going to go weird, but I will. It's hard
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sometimes to take spiritual things and put them
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into natural examples. But let's say, and this
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is not what's happening, but let's say like the
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guy that's right here on the second row, about
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third in right there. I'll just look across the
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room and all of a sudden he'll just stand right
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out. He'll just stand right out. And I'll see
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a flow of God and I'll look over there and it's
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just like a, I don't know, almost like a shaft.
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And I look at that and I'll see, and it'll say
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cataracts. And the Holy Ghost will say to me,
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do you see that? And I say, yes, sir, I see a
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healing flow for cataracts. And that guy may
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not even actually need it. It's actually just
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an entrance point. And I said, do you see that?
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And I'll say, yes, sir, I see cataracts. And
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then he'll say, now let me help you with that.
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Because whenever I see it, it's very narrow.
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And he'll say, let me help you with that. There's
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going to be a lot of testimonies about cataracts
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being healed at night. But what you're actually
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seeing is healing for eyes. It's way more than
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cataracts. He says, so there'll be blindness.
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There'll be color vision problems. There'll be
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astigmatisms. You're going to see all kinds.
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There'll be great healings and strong manifestation
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in the way of eyes. You're seeing the cataracts,
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but it's more than that, right? And then I'll
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look over there and it'll be something else.
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It'll be just that way. It'll be just really,
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really specific, you know, very narrow like that,
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like stenosis of the spine. That's what I see.
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Oh, Lord, look at that. And then he'll say, yeah,
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but it's actually bones, Dale. It's all kinds
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of skeletal problems is what you're actually
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witnessing. And he'll show me about two or three
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of these because these aren't really words of
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knowledge for individuals. It's a directive to
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me. I know now that we're not gonna have to lay
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hands on people. So I look for that. And then
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he told me, if you don't see that, he said, then
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do the prayer line like I told you to do in the
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beginning. And I get to do that about four times
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a year, maybe six. I don't really know if it
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is six because usually it just sweeps the audience.
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So that's what I just look for. Can I tell you
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tonight while we were worshiping, I saw a...
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Three clear healing streams come into this world.
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So that's, let me tell you what that says to
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me. I think you already get this, but I'm going
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to say what it says to me. Jesus is here and
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Jesus is healing. He's not going to wait to the
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end. He's doing it now. Did you hear what I said?
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Now, because he's doing it now, here's what I
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want you to do. I want you to open your heart
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to it. I want you to listen to me. You'll walk
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out of here with what you open your heart unto.
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People don't get what they need, and they don't
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even get what they believe. They get what they
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open themselves unto. There's a lot of us that
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believe stuff that we're still shut up on. We're
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still asking the question why it doesn't work
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instead of opening our heart and experiencing
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it. Tonight, can I ask you, open your heart to
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the healer that's already here. When I see these
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things, he's not saying to me, this is what I'm
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going to do. He's saying to me, do you see what's
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happening? Do you see what's going on? I already
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know. And it's not, when I say healing, it's
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not three things that God is doing. When I see
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those, those are just indicators for direction.
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I'm telling you, every kind of miracle is right
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here, right now. Did you hear this? Every sign,
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every wonder, every touch, everything you need.
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It's right here, right now. It is. So I'm gonna
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tell you, just if you wanna, you see, they'll
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open my heart. How do I do that? I'm a how -to
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guy. I don't like people that tell me all the
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stuff I can have, should have, and how my life
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will be better, and then never tell me how to
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get it. Come on, I wanna know how to get it.
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Don't tease me, man. Show me how to get this
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thing, all right? And so there's, again, it's
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not like there's a way, but. Here's one of the
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ways that I find that works marvelously well
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for people. And that is, you got to start somewhere.
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So pick one out. Pick one out. You say, but Dale,
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I need six. I got it. But pick one out. You know,
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Pastor and I was talking about pheasant hunting.
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And this is what, anybody in here hunt? Okay.
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Here's what I know about wing shooting. When
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the birds take off or the birds are coming in,
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you can't shoot all of them. I don't mean legally.
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I mean, we won't even talk about that part. You
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can't shoot at all of them. You got to pick one
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out. If you shoot, if five birds go up and you
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try to shoot at all of them, you're going to
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get no one. It's not going to happen. You got
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to pick one out. When you get that, now you're
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in the swing where you're going to get the rest.
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Did you understand what I just said? I'm being
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very practical for you right now. If you want
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a miracle, here's what I'm going to say. Tonight,
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you need to pick a baby out right there. And
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you say, this is what tonight, this is what I
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want. Tonight, my cataracts will go. This is
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the last night that I'm going to wake up with
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plantar fasciitis in my feet in the morning.
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No more panic attacks right here tonight. This
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ends that. Pick one out. And I know you have
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many needs, but here's the thing. If you'll pick
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one out, what will happen is when you step into
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that moment, Because he will meet with you. When
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you step into that moment, you won't be in the
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moment where one thing can happen. Once you get
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there, you're in the place where nothing's impossible.
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That's why Jesus, if you pay attention to scripture,
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there's several things he did that helped people
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walk through a miracle. Several things. And one
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of them was what I'm talking about right now.
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The guy that was blind that was calling out for
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mercy. And Jesus kept going down the road, and
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he kept crying out. They told the guy, be quiet.
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This is very rude. Don't do this thing. Church
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people are still that way today. But they tried
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to quiet him down. And then the Lord calls him
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to him, and he asks him a question. You remember
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the question? What do you want me to do for you?
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And I'm thinking, hey, he's blind. Do we need
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a doctor here to know this? Really, do we need
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a prophetic anointing? I think not. But my mentor,
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one of the old Voice of Healing guys taught me
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this. He said, when you read the word of God,
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never read the word just to see what he said.
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Always stay there till you know why he said it.
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Because if you don't understand his heart, you'll
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never understand his hand. That's what he told
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me. And he drilled that into me. I worked with
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him when I was a teen. He drilled that into me.
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And so every time I read that book and I see
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him say or do something. I stop there and I say,
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now, why did you do that? And I'm not being critical.
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I'm not saying you shouldn't do that. I just,
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can I, would you please let me get into your
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heart on this thing? And I'm looking, I see him
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doing that. I see him saying, you know, what
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do you want me to do? And I'm thinking, Lord,
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anybody can figure this one out. But that wasn't
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it because people don't get what they need. They
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get what they open their heart to. Now, I'm asking
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you to open your heart to what you need. And
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by the way, he got his sight, didn't he? Because
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that's what he expressed to the Lord. So there's
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certain things I found that opens people's hearts.
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And that's the one I've already told you. The
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other one, and then it's extremely important,
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is it hinges on your response. We're all concerned
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about the move of God. But the truth is, he's
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always moving. He's always moving. I walked into
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a, I was actually praying in the leaders. before
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I would be ministering in his church. And he
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walked in and he says, oh, Dale, are you praying
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that God will move? And I said, in all respect,
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I said, yes, sir, but I'm praying that I'll move
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some too. Because I found out that he's always
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going. Our response to him determines what we
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leave with. That was good enough, I'm gonna say
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it again. Our response to the Lord of glory will
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determine what really takes place in our life.
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The hearer may be present, and you'll see someone
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not get a thing. Why? Response. You want to come
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into harmony with him. So as I'm speaking tonight,
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these things will be taking place. I don't want
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you just to listen to the sermon or just take
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notes. I want you to listen for the word. Did
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you hear the difference in what I just said?
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Don't just listen to the sermon. Listen for the
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voice, the word. because he will speak to you.
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Now, I don't know how that will happen, but he's
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an interactive God. Would you stand with me,
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please? When you hear, you will experience. That's
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how it happens. So we take this moment to open
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our heart unto you, which we've been doing. It's
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been expressed in our worship and our giving.
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In the way we've loved one another. But we are
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inclining our ear to what you're saying. Because
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you will speak peace. You will speak hope. You
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are speaking faith and healing in this room tonight.
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You're the almighty God. And the key thing that
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I ask now is that you would come manifest yourself.
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When you're manifest, the light of who you are
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shines upon us. The image of the almighty God
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impacts us. And we are transformed. And we see
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Jesus. Amen. Can't add to that. Sit on down.
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Praise God. All right. So you may see from the
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title, if they got it up, we're going to talk
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about the God who bears witness. That almost
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sounds King James, doesn't it? What does that
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mean? All right. The God who clues you in. How
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about that? Let me talk to you about the nature
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of our God. God is amongst many things a communicator.
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The God that we have is an interactive God. Please
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understand this about God. He's not someone who
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hides himself. He's one who reveals himself.
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That's the nature of God, all right? The nature
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of Satan is to conceal. That's why his kingdom
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is described as darkness. That's why he's the
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author of confusion. Satan is always out to conceal
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himself. He is a deceiver. Our God on the other
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side is always out to reveal himself. That's
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why the son of God was manifested, the scripture
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says. God is an inner, you must understand, he's
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a talking God. He's an interactive God. And it's
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always been that way. You read the scriptures
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in the book of Genesis and you'll find from chapter
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one and in the opening two verses, two things
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about, this is, and by the way, this is before
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there were men. This is before the earth was
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formed as we know it now. This is before there
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was any dry land. Here's two things that the
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scripture says God was doing. The first glimpse
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we get of him, he's doing this. Number one, he's
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moving. Number two, he's talking. Did you notice
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that? And the spirit of God, the Bible talks
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about the earth in chaotic form. It says, and
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the spirit of God was moving upon the face of
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the earth. I'm telling you, we have an act of
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God. We do not have a dormant God. We do not
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have to get him to move. He is moving. Buddy,
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try to catch up, please. He's active. Step it
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up. Really. And number two, he's talking. I mean,
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there you go. The very first thing you hear,
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it'll have to be light. And guess what? There's
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light. So he's never changed. When he created
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man, guess what he did? Every day he came. To
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interact with Adam. Walk and talk with him. That's
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what he was. And when sin came and brought the
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barrier, he couldn't stand for that. He even
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came after we sinned. Isn't that great? Come
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on. And it wasn't like after he sinned, he sent
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an angel down to tell us what a mess we made.
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He came himself. I could go on and on with this,
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but I dare not. When the earth is in men are
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in a state that they cannot stand before a righteous
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God. Then he says, you know, I guess I just want
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to be with you so much that. So he found himself
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a tent and got in a little place right there
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where his manifest glory could be just with us.
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And then finally, the word became flesh and dwelt
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among us. And we beheld his glory. The word.
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His name. You know, in scripture, you got many
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names for God. Am I right? You got all those
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great Hebrew names, Jehovah Jireh, El Shaddai,
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Jehovah Rapha, and all these wonderful, beautiful
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names. And every one of those names, by the way,
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aren't titles. They're insights into an aspect
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of the character of God. That's what they are.
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I'm sure you know that because you've got a great
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teacher here. But that's what they are. They're
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not just titles so we know what to call them.
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What are you going to call him? Fred? I don't
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know. Oh, no, no, he's this. He's El Shaddai.
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No, names were given to tell us something about
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him. And so, you know, I know we don't all know
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all of those Hebrew names and most of us can't
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really pronounce them right anyhow. But here's
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a name that we all know. Everybody knows this
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name and can pronounce it. And that is that he's
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called the Word of God. Now, can I suggest to
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you something? That anybody whose name is the
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Word is not a mute. Right? If his name is the
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Word, then here's what you got to know about
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him. He's a talker. That's what he is. You say,
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well, he doesn't talk to me. Yeah, he does. Well,
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not very often. No, all the time. No, all the
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time. Let me tell you something about this word
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of the Lord. Something that's, again, it's nature
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characteristic of the word. Number one, the word
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of the Lord is eternal. His word is not something
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that speaks and then fades out. Once he's declared
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it, it's always out there. Has no limit. Has
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no fall off. He said, let there be light. And
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do you know what present science will tell you
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today? I'm not talking about believing scientists.
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Do you know what present science will tell you
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today? They will tell you that the universe is
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expanding in every direction. at the speed of
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light. That's what they'll tell you. It's still
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happening. He said, let there be light and it
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can't quit. It's still going on. Now the scripture
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says he sent his word and healed them. Oh, I
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got news for you. It's already out there. The
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nature of the word is that it is eternal. Don't
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tell me he doesn't talk to you. He's always speaking.
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He's always speaking. It's a matter of tuning
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in and hearing that voice of God. Every promise
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is being spoken to you. Come on, every word of
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hope is being spoken to you. All encouragement
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is being spoken to you. His healing is being
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spoken to you. There's words that empower you.
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He's not mute. We don't have to beg him to talk.
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We don't have to prod him to speak. He's a talking
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God. Come on. It's the nature of him. He is the
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word. He's a communicator. Wow. And so the text
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I think they've had on the screen tells us something
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about God. It says the spirit himself bears witness.
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With our spirit. That we are. That we are. It
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says the children of God. Yes, but do you understand?
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You're hearing something about the way he is,
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the way he moves. The spirit himself bears witness
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with our spirit. And here it says that we are
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the children of God. But let me explain something
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to you. He bears witness with everything that
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you are in him. You getting that? Does that make
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sense to you? Come on. He bears witness with
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the fact that you are the head and not the tail.
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He bears witness with the fact of the truth.
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He does not bear witness with a lie. He does
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not bear witness with your fears. He does not
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bear witness with your confusion. But I'm telling
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you what he does. He is constantly, continually
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bearing witness to what we are in him. And when
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he bears witness with that, there is a supernatural
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resonance that goes on. There is a moment of
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divine harmony. when that which is so in the
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heavens has been heard in the earth. And there
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comes a synergy of walk in this where we are
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transformed in that very way. I'm telling you,
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he's the talking God and he bears witness with
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our spirit to what we are. Quit being down. Quit
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listening to the garbage. Stop believing the
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lie. Stop giving your ear to that which is untrue.
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Listen to the voice of God. He will bear witness
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in you. In the day and in the night, in the good
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day and in the tough day, his word is the same.
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And he bears witness with us. We're the child
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of God. Now that's how you know you're saved.
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Everybody. I know people pick up on it or experience
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it in different ways. Some people at church.
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You know, I grew up in an old -fashioned church.
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We had altars. We called people to the altar
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of repentance. They prayed through. They got
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saved. That's not how I got saved. I actually,
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I grew up in church at a time where we used to
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have Sunday night services and after the word
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of God was preached, we'd come as families around
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the altars and just pray. Not be prayed for.
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We just came to wait upon the Lord. And that's
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what I did. I mean, I came, I was seven years
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old. I just came up because that's what we all
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did. Everybody in the church did it. I mean,
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even the unsaved did it. We just did it. And
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I was kneeling down. No one prayed with me. There
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was no choir singing just as I am. I was just
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kneeling there. And he came to me. I could see
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it like it happened yesterday. And the light
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of who he was shined upon my heart. I got up
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that night. I left that place of prayer. I said
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to a young friend of mine that now pastors a
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Pentecostal church in New England. I said, Jeff,
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I got saved tonight. Because when you get saved,
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you'll know it. No one will have to tell you.
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Am I right? You won't be guessing at it. It's
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not like, well, I hope I am. Well, no, you know
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that you know. You really do. You know that there
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is a moment of witness. No one prayed with me.
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I didn't answer an altar call. That's how it
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happened for me. You know, my daughter, she got
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saved. We were living in St. Louis. And my wife
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was driving the car. Ashley was in the passenger
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seat. And really, a lot of times when people
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are in the car and Debbie is driving, they get
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saved. They get saved. Oh, no. We're not videoing
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this, are we? Are we? No? That's just wrong,
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isn't it? Anyhow, but that's really, you know,
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she got talking about eternal life with Ash,
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and next thing you know, Ash said, I'm ready
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for this, and she got saved right there on Highway
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98, driving down the road, and the Spirit bore
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witness. And now they passed her in Las Vegas.
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How about that? Wow. Huh. He bears witness. That's
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how you know you got it. And it's not like a
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one -time shot either. I knew it the moment it
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happened. It didn't take me a week to figure
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it out. I didn't have to try it out. No one came
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to me and said, you know, what happened tonight?
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I said, well, I asked Jesus into my heart. Yeah,
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yeah. And what do you believe? Oh, I want you
-
to know, I believe with all my heart, by tomorrow
-
morning, my sins will be gone. Anybody that says
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that to you, you know they didn't get it. Am
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I right? It doesn't make any difference whether
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they fell down, whether they cried, or whether
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they shouted, or whether it was just a solemn
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moment. All that stuff is a wonderful, different
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experience from one to another, but everybody
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gets the witness, and that's how they know. And
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it doesn't take them a week to get it. Now, sometimes,
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some of us, when we got saved, you know, and
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we were born of the Spirit and came back, and
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someone said, what happened? I got saved tonight.
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They looked us up and down, and they said, well,
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we'll see. But you don't have to wait. a week
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to see you know right now because of what he
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did within you. I remember when I lived in Niagara,
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I was raised in Niagara Falls and I was just
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starting traveling and here one afternoon a knock
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came at the door and I opened the door and there
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were two guys there and they said, we'd like
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to talk to you about the Bible. And I thought,
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hot dog, look at this. I mean, I'm traveling
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all over to talk to people about the scripture
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and now they're coming right to my house. I said,
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come on in. You can leave your bikes right outside.
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And so I sat there for a moment with him, and
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we were quick into the conversation, and I mentioned
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the fact that I knew I was saved. Now, I wish
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I had video of this, because I don't think those
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guys would have been more surprised if I had
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taken up a glass of cold water and threw it right
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in their face. I said, I know that I'm saved.
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And when I said that, wow, the one guy looked
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at the other guy. The other guy looked at the
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other guy. And then they looked back at me and
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said, you know you're saved? I said, oh yeah,
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I know I'm saved. And they looked at each other
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again and back at me. And they said, we were
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told that you can't know whether you're saved
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until you die. And I says, well, you'll sure
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find out then, but that's a lousy time to figure
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it out. I said, Paul said, I know whom I have
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believed and I'm persuaded he's able to keep
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that which I've committed until that day. I said,
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Paul knows and I know too. And they said, we
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didn't even know that was in the Bible. Here's
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the deal. When you really get it, you know it
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because the spirit bears witness. Now I'm going
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to throw something out at you and I want you
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to understand. And that is this. If you know
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how to get saved. You say, well, I don't know
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about all this other stuff. I've been trying
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to get healed and the Holy Ghost thing always
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seems to evade me, but I know I'm saved. Okay,
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good. Look, if you know how to get saved, then
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you know how to get everything that God does.
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You say, no, no, I know how to get saved. No,
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listen to me. Listen carefully. If you know how
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you entered the kingdom, now you know how to
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receive everything God does. See, here's our
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problem. we do this kind of thing. We say, well,
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all right, I get this salvation thing right here.
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This, not a problem, all right. But now this
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here Holy Ghost thing over here, I gotta tell
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you, that one, I don't know, it just seems to
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go right by me. And then this one over here,
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this healing thing, okay, now this happens sometimes,
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but not all the time, you know, and that's your
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problem. Your problem is, is you think that there
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are multiple doors. To the kingdom. There are
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not. There's only one way. There's only one door.
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And the same way that you entered into eternal
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life is the way you enter into the fullness of
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the spirit and the divine healing. There are
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not multiple Jesus. There's not multiple ways.
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There is one way. And if you will open your,
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oh, come on, church. If you will open your heart
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to him when he stirs, nudges, and impresses you,
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when he starts bearing witness, if you'll stop
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backing off and saying, oh, I don't know if that's
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for me. I don't know if I like that. I don't
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know if I'm comfortable with that. I don't think
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that's really me. If you'll stop doing that and
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just open your heart and say, yes, come on. I
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resonate with the witness of the spirit. That
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you're bringing within my heart. When I see those
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healing streams, they come real narrow. They're
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a little stream like this. But somewhere in this
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message, that stream goes to a river. And by
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the time I'm done here, it's going to be a tsunami.
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And I'm telling you, honey, we're at river stage
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right now. I saw streams, but I feel the pull
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of the almighty God right now, right in the core
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of my spirit. Whatever you were desiring of the
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Lord to come up with, you say, I'm taking mine
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right now, Jesus. Right now, you need to do that.
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I asked you to pick out something. I hope you
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did. Say, I'm going to take it right now, Lord.
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Right now. I'm telling you, there comes a hope
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and a witness, an interaction between you and
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God. You need to look for that. It's right there.
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So he bears witness. He did it when he saved
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you. But that was just an indicator of how he
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works is he doesn't work one way here and another
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way there. He's the same yesterday, today, and
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forever. Let me tell you, he often does this
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when he heals people. I'm going to read a passage
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that I'll bet you're all familiar with. It's
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stories told by multiple gospel writers, but
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I'll read it from Mark chapter 5 and verses 25
Mark 5 chapter mention
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through 34. It's a case where it was of the lady
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that had the hemorrhage, remember, for years.
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and she's going to get healed. Listen to this
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neat story, because you all understand, he bears
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witness. He interacts. There's a moment where
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heaven and earth touch. Now, a certain woman
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had a flow of blood for 12 years. She'd suffered
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many things from many physicians. She spent all
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that she had and was no better, but rather grew
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worse. Well, that's not a pretty picture, is
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it? Let's keep going. When she heard about Jesus,
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She came, oh, no, wait, look at that. I like
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that. When she heard about Jesus, thank God somebody
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was talking about Jesus. You all hear what I
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just said? See, we need Jesus talk out of this
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room. People need to hear us in the restaurant
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talking about Jesus. They need to hear us at
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the gas station. Oh, what's that? What's he doing?
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Oh, he's talking about Jesus. When she heard
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about Jesus, she came behind him in the crowd
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and touched his garment. For she said, if only
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I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well.
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Immediately, the fountain of her blood was dried
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up. And now look at these words. And she felt
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in her body. Someone say, and she felt in her
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body. She felt in her body. She was healed of
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the affliction. And Jesus, look at this, immediately
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knowing in himself that power had gone out of
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him, turned around in the crowd and said, who
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touched my clothes? Jesus immediately knowing.
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Now, that's how Mark records it. One of the other
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gospel writers tells us how he knew. It wasn't
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like I had an epiphany moment. Or I had a vision.
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I believe that in that stuff, but that's not
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what happened. He said, who touched my clothes?
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And what one of the other gospel writers tell
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us, because they were saying, there are people
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touching you all over. How can you ask who touched
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my clothes? He said, no, someone touched me because
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I felt power go out of me. Actually, King James
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says, I felt virtue go out of me. I quoted the
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King James just so you'd believe I've been in
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ministry 50 years. But he said, see, she felt
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something and he felt it too. Sometimes people
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think that the guys that feel stuff don't have
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all the fries in their Happy Meal. You know,
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they're the kind of the weird spiritual, you
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know, but that's not me. No, wait. She felt it.
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He did too. And he stops and he asks the question,
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who touched my clothes? His disciples say to
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him. You see the multitude thronging you and
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you say, who touched me? But he looked around
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to see her who had done this thing. The woman
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fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened
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to her. My God, it's here right now. I'm going
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to tell you something. There's some of you that
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know this is it right now. It's yours right now.
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That depression has just ended in Jesus' name.
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That fear has been broken right now in Jesus'
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name. That lingering pain and illness, it's no
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more. Do you hear this? A woman fearing and trembling.
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Fearing and trembling. He knows how to bear witness
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with us when we're not at the top of our game.
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When we haven't fasted 40 days and 40 nights.
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When we're struggling. With the promise. And
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we wish we could be like her or him. Because
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we know if we could be that person, God could
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do it. But this girl snuck up from behind. She
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hasn't come front and center. She hasn't said
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boldly, I need your time. She just snuck up and
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did this. And boom, it hits her just like that.
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And him too. And he stops right there and said,
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okay, okay, who did that? And she's like, whoo.
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And she backs into that crowd. See, we think
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God can do what he can do if we believe he can
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do what he can do. As if our belief enables him.
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I remember preaching one night and saying to
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the people this very thing, if you believe it,
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God can do it. And the Spirit of God said to
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me, right during the message, have God mess your
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message up? And he said to me, if you believe
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it, God can do it. And God said to me, I can
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do it whether they believe or not. And then he
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said to me, and what made you think I needed
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you to be me? Oh boy. I didn't even want to flip
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the page to see what was the next stupid thing
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I was going to say. What made you think I needed
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you to be me? And he talked to me about his completeness
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and his wholeness, that he has no need of anything.
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And so here you have a woman not of great faith
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that sometimes he commented on, but one who is
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fearing and trembling. And finally, she comes
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forth. Falls down before him and told him the
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whole truth. That's a strong statement. Oh, I'd
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love to teach on that tonight, but I can't. She
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didn't tell him all about the problem. She told
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him about the truth. She told him the whole truth.
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There was a resonance that bore witness with
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truth. So she did not focus on what was. She
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focused on what had come. And she spoke of that
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before him. The very thing he had witnessed,
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she had witnessed. They bore witness of it together.
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And then he says to her daughter, your faith
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has made you well, go in peace. And this is an
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interesting statement. He says, and be healed
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of your affliction. And I looked at that and
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I thought, what do you mean be healed of your
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affliction? She's already healed. I mean, am
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I right? The flow of blood stopped. She felt
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in her body. She got it. He knew too. But now
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he says, and be healed. What's he talking about?
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He's already healed. But you see, it's hard to
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understand that in just the English language.
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The original has a phrase, has a type of verb
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that we don't have in English. It's a continuing
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verb. It's kind of like that statement that Paul
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will use when he says, be not filled with wine,
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but be filled with the spirit. But we all, our
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students of scripture know that. the rendering
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of that is kind of weak in every english translation
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he's actually talking about a perpetual thing
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this is how it could be rendered but it would
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be redundant and not in keeping with our grammar
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structure but what he was saying was be being
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filled with the spirit we don't ever say be being
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that's not a word that we use but that's what
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he was saying in other words don't be filled
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with wine but instead have a life filled in the
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spirit and when jesus said to her and be healed
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of your affliction What he was saying to her
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is what you got is not a temporary thing. This
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is locked in. You're going to walk in hell. He's
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not giving you a good day. He's not, you with
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the migraine, he's not taking away the pain.
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You see, you can take a chemical and get rid
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of the pain for four hours. Well, it's going
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to come back because nothing actually changed.
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Jesus doesn't give painkillers. He gives cures.
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You understand what I'm driving at? And be healed.
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You hear that voice? Be healed of your affliction.
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You don't have any pain now. Your blood flow
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has stopped. But this is not the whole story.
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Look ahead. You've got a whole life of health.
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He bears witness. Sometimes it's a word within
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your spirit. You hear that still small voice.
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Sometimes it's like this lady gets a touch on
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your body. You see, sometimes when he bears witness,
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it's not always verbal. Sometimes it's a touch.
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You can feel it. I have people tell me, I was
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just, I got to stop because we're here already.
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I was in Kenya just a few weeks ago. And when
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I minister overseas today, not all the time,
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but the majority of the time, I'm not in Christian
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areas. That is, the areas that I usually go into
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will be highly Islam. Highly Islam. And many
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times, it's between 70 to 98 % Muslim. And we
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had many Muslims in the service the opening day.
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And one of them was the regional imam's wife.
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Not the local imam. The regional imam's wife.
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She listened to the word. She embraced the Savior.
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We gave her the new convert material along with
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many others. You go to my Facebook, you'll look
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at it. You see, just scroll down a little bit,
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you'll see that moment. And as we're passing
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it out, I touched her hand. She went home that
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night. She was pretty well together during the
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daytime, but in the night hours, she just freaked
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out. Every night for three years. Ladies from
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the Quran would come, three of them, I mean from
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the mosque, three of them, and they would come
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and read the Quran to her all night long and
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try to soothe her. She went home that night and
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she said to the ladies that were at the house
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waiting for her, you can go home, I don't need
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you tonight. Her husband said, what? She says,
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no, look what I got. And he looked and he saw
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the new comfort material and he saw the name
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on it and the phone number, which was my crusade
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director for the last 12 years in Kenya, and
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he knew who he was. So he calls him right away
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on the phone. And he says, my wife has gotten
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this material. It's got your name on it and your
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cell. Does it have anything to do with your church?
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He said, yeah. He said, but I'm confused. He
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says, because my wife said that she came there
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tonight and a mzungu touched her, which is Swahili
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for white guy. And he said, you're not mzungu.
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No, no. He said, we got a mzungu here speaking.
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He said, oh, okay. He said he touched her and
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something lifted up off her head. which shows
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up, by the way, on an MRI, a brain anomaly. And
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she said, I'm in complete peace. You can go home.
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And he said, no, she slept all night long. He
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said, she hasn't done this in three years. What's
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going on? That continued night after night. She
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got healed on Thursday. Monday, he calls up my
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crusade director. Well, our team is standing
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right there. And he says, this transformation
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is so absolutely phenomenal. He said, I'm going
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to tell you, Mike, I'm. I'm done with Islam.
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And today I want this Jesus as my God. What do
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I need to do? And he prayed him through to eternal
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life. And then handed him off, him, his wife,
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and his 12 children to a local imam that got
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born of the spirit about eight years ago in our
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ministry there. We've now taken him out of the
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country to get a new passport, a new name, everything.
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And now he's the one that goes ahead and he disciples.
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The Muslims that come. But I say all that to
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say this. Let me tell you something. Sometimes
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it's just a witness within. And sometimes it's
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a feel. Oh my God, she said something just lifted
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off me. And by the way, they went ahead and got
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an MRI before I left town. And the doctor said,
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well, I can't find the anomaly in your brain
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anymore. What's that all about? It's about the
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God who bears witness. He bears witness and he's
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here right now. Would you stand with me all over
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the room? Your response to him, and this church
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has a great responder. You could be called first
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responders in the area. I've watched you worship.
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But your response to him is key. And sometimes,
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like the lady with the issue of blood, we've
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got to push through some of our fears first.
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You know, we talk about the lady pushing through
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the crowd. And I believe that. I got that, you
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know. But she pushed through a lot of other stuff.
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The crowd, I think, was minuscule. I don't mean
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it wasn't a big crowd. I mean, pushing through
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the crowd wasn't the big deal. Let me tell you
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what was the big deal. The big deal was pushing
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through 12 years of disappointments. The big
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deal was pushing through all the past failures.
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She went here, there. This guy said, I got the
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cure. This one said, no, I can do it. And she's
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tried them all. And nothing's worked. Most of
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us throw in the towel by then. They say, that's
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not going to happen. That's not my lot in life.
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She pushed through all of the fields. She pushed
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through the religion of her day that said, you're
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a woman and you got no business touching some
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rabbi. Let me tell you that. You take the back
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seat right over here and the health regulations
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of her day. Talk about social distancing. Do
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you know how far that woman had to be from the
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next human being with that open drainage that
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she had? It was no six foot, I can tell you that,
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buddy. She breached the health regulations of
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her day. She pushed through a lot. But then the
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key thing she pushed through was at the end after
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she got her miracle. This was incredibly important
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because he stopped and he said, who touched me?
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And remember what I told you my mentor taught
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me. You know, just look at what he did. You've
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got to know why he did it. And I'm looking at
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this deal and I'm thinking, now wait just a minute.
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I didn't tell the whole story, but I think you
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may know it. He's on his way to a little girl's
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home that's about to die. It's urgent. She's
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not going to die in a day or a week. She's going
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to die in minutes. You need to get there now.
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But he stops. He stops because somebody touched
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me. That's how the disciples felt about it. That's
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why they said there's people touching you everywhere.
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How can you say who touched me? Focus, focus.
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Remember where we're going? Little girl, hello.
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That's how they felt about it. That's what they're
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irritated at. They're irritated at him. But he
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stops and he won't go. He won't move. Who touched
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me? And she's not stepping up. He waits long
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enough that the little girl does die. They sent
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people right there and said, don't bother. Too
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late. Drug your feet too long. She's dead. That's
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because they knew he was a healer. They didn't
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know he was also the resurrection and the life.
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There's nothing impossible with him. But he kept
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nailing it, looking around. Who was it? Till
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she pushed through her fear and stepped up and
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said, it was me. Because when the bearing witness
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thing happens, it's a reciprocal. Did you hear
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that? When he bears witness, you can't shut down.
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If he moves upon you, but you pull back, you're
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liable to walk right out of the moment of your
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miracle. If you know how to get saved, you know
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how to get everything God does. You all know
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that when he called upon you, when he convicted
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you of sin, he pulled on your heart to come before
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him. If you were to turn to someone and said,
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you see the thing the preacher's talking about?
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That's happening to me right now. Right now I
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feel the pull of God, but I don't have time for
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this tonight. I don't think I'm ready. I'm not
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sure I can go that route right now. Guess what?
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Even though he was moving on you, you just walked
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out of your miracle. At some point when he bears
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witness and appeals to you, you need to step
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into that moment and say that what you are saying
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is that which I'm embracing. That what you are
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doing is what's happened to me. And that's why
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he stayed there until she came forth. And when
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she told him all the truth, then and not before.
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You speak of faith, peace, and a perpetual walk
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of health. Did I help you tonight? Do you understand
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how this thing, that's how you respond, that
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whatever he's saying, you go there. You don't
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sit on it. You don't give it a week. You enter
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it and you embrace it. You say, it's mine. Now
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let's do it. Because there's healing all over
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this room and it's more than healing. Some of
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you are getting despair removed. Others are going
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to find marriages healed. Some of you are going
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to be free from financial terror. Why don't you
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do this? The next few moments, the next few moments,
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I want you to lift your hands, if you will, and
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I want you to worship him. You know how to do
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that. We can just have some keys in the background.
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That would be fine. No singing. But I don't want
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you to worship him generically. I want you to
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worship him specifically. You say, what do you
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mean? I want you to worship him for who he is
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in connection with the request that you had of
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him. So if your request was for, you say, Dale,
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I'm pretty healthy, but I don't know if I'm going
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to eat tomorrow because I can't pay any bills.
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Well, then here's what I want you to do. No generic
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praise. I want you to worship him for who he
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is. Tell him who he is. You're Jehovah Jireh.
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You're El Shaddai. That's who you are. You are
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the one that provides. Come on, you're more than
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enough. You're the Lord, my shepherd, I shall
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not want. You're the God of great supply. You
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never give enough. Never, never. You never do
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enough. You only do more than enough. That's
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what you're like. You multiplied the loaves and
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fishes until there were baskets full left over.
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Wow, that's who you are. You are the God. You're
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not a God of waste. You're the God of abundance.
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Come on, someone needs to declare that to him.
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Tell him. Tell him who he is. Now, for you that
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need healing, will you enter into it? Because
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as you praise him, you know what happens. That
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power of God interacts with you. That's how it
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takes place. There comes the resonance right
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there. Come on, you that need healing, tell him
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right now that he's your healer. Don't tell him
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about your problem. You've already done that.
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Tell him who he is. Come on, tell him who he
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is. You're the one. You're the one. I witnessed
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it. You bore all of our sicknesses. You carried
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away all our diseases. At that sacrifice. At
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the cross of Calvary. By your stripes. Don't
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just listen to me. Do it. Tell them. By your
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stripes. I am. Not I can be. I. Oh Isaiah looked
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at it. He said look at that. We are healed. When
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I look at you I see healing. I see wholeness.
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I see my pain. My suffering. My illness. My disease.
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Dying. And put to death. At the cross. And I
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exalt you. I will do it. I will say as the psalmist
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said, bless the Lord, oh my soul. And forget
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not. I won't forget. I won't forget. And forget
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not all his benefits. Who forgives all my iniquities.
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I needed that, Lord. I needed that. You've forgiven
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all my iniquities. Oh, Jesus. And you healed
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all my diseases. That's who you are. Come on.
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He's bearing witness right now. I worship you,
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O Lord. I bless your name. We say you are Jehovah
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Rapha, you are the Lord my healer. You are the
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Lord my healer. That's who you are. The Lord
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my healer. You bring health and wholeness, completeness
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and full function. Come on, I'm speaking these
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things. Are you catching them right now? He's
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speaking them. Full function and release. It's
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right here. It's happening in you. There's a
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lot of miracles happening, but if you'll allow
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me, you know what I'm going to do? I want to
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pray out the healing streams I saw. There's way,
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way more than this, but way more than this. Three
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that came real clear to me. May I pray them out
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across this room? All right. The first one I
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saw, and I saw it coming right here. Then I saw
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it coming right at the altar again. Boom, boom,
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just like that. I saw it, and it was healing
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for digestive issues. And I saw it right here.
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And I realized the digestive tract was all the
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way through, but it was very narrow. I saw it,
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and when I saw it, it looked like hiatal hernias
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and acid reflex issues that people deal with.
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I saw it very plainly. And I know enough now,
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because it's been happening to me for a long
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time, that I always ask him, so what am I looking
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at? I mean, what I see, I see like a hiatal hernia
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condition and I see acid reflux and what am I
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looking at? And he said to me, Dale, people are
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being healed tonight of every kind of digestive
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disorder. Everything. So it's those very things
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that I saw. But it's more than that. You may
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say, well, mine is ulcers, or I'm dealing with
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hemorrhoids, or I can't digest certain type of
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foods. I would go into shock if I ate certain.
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It's digestive orders. That's what I saw. That's
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what I saw. Come on. Now, here's what I'm going
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to suggest to you. There's a way you enter into
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the miracle. One of the ways is you just look
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for it. Not to have to swing in front of your
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face. You know, it's just right there. And when
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Elijah, Prayed for rain. You know what he did?
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He didn't say, well, I sure hope it rains. He
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said, go look right over there. Look for it right
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over there. It's coming from right there. Sometimes
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you just got to look for it. He didn't say, well,
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look around. You see anything? No, he said, look
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right. He pointed toward the sea. I don't know
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if you've ever been up on Mount Carmel, but I've
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been up there twice. You can't see the sea from
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every direction. There's mountains, there's valleys,
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and then if you look, there's a certain corridor.
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If you look in that direction. There you go.
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As long as it's not cloudy, you can see that
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sea, and it sure wasn't cloudy that day. But
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he said, right there. You need to look. Right
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there, right there, right there. Whatever it
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was, just look for your miracle. Come on. Some
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of you, if you look at it right now, you'll say,
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you're right, I don't hurt, I don't have the
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pressure in my chest. Would you receive this
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right now? If you don't have it yet, this is
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where it's coming to you. And I speak it in the
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name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I command
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healing to take place right now across this room.
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Especially in the digestive tract. Oh, come on.
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No more hiatal hernias. Close them up right now.
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No more acid reflux. Cured in the name of the
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Lord Jesus Christ. No more ulcers. Come on. Hey,
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people that know how to pray, you need to be
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joining me right now. I release this healing
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in you. In the mighty name of Jesus, be able
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to assimilate and digest food healthily and normally.
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Be completely cured. No scarring in there. Be
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well. Be well. Be well in Jesus' name. The second
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flow of healing that he saw, and by the way,
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all of this is still taking place, the second
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one that was in the chest. And when I saw it,
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I saw like a heaviness, like heart or a type
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of a respiratory pressure in the chest. But I
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saw healing real clear was coming right in here
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unto people. And again, I just simply asked the
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Lord, what am I looking at? And he said, Dale,
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there's every kind of heart and also respiratory
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issues that are being healed tonight, even into
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the sinus areas. All of that is being washed
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through right now and being healed. No more asthma
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attacks. In the name of Lord Jesus, no more emphysema.
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Be healed in Jesus' name. No more respiratory
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illness. Put your hands right on your chest if
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that's you. Come on, receive the gift of God.
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No more respiratory problems whatsoever. Breathe
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freely. Listen, I heard him again when he said
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to me, it's even tension that's caused from fear
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and nerves or issues of pressure. Be released
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right now from that heaviness on your chest.
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I set you free. The demonic oppression that comes
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against you in that way, I run it out. Out in
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Jesus' name. Be completely healed. Your circulation
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be healthy now. No more blockages. Be well. Be
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well. In the mighty name, the holy name, the
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glorious name, Jesus. Someone needs to own that.
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Come on. You need to come out of the crowd and
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press through and say, that's me. That's me right
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there. And you won't ever be oppressed with this
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again. There was another one that came right
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afterwards. By the time I see two, I'm pretty
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much done. I know where we're going. But here
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I'm looking across the crowd and I saw bang,
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bang right there. And it happened first here
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and then it happened again over here. And it
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was shoulders. It was actually, I saw the left
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shoulder being healed. I had to look at it twice.
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Look at that, it's the left shoulder. Okay, so
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what am I looking at? And he said to me, well,
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there'll be shoulders healed tonight. But what
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you're really seeing is all kinds of skeletal.
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It has to do with problems in the bones and the
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joints, which is one of the gifts of God in our
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ministry. It was the first gift that came, and
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I've never been in a service where people have
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not gotten healed in their bones. I was in Vegas
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just last Sunday, and we had a high -level military
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personnel person that got healed of a double
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curvature of the spine in the service. My back
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just started cracking, and everything straightened
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right up. And then one of the school teachers,
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He had a frozen shoulder. He could lift his arm
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up this high. So he started walking up the aisle
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to show me he could get it up this high. When
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he got to the front, he got it up that far because
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he was stepping right into his miracle. Did you
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hear that? And he told us two, three times. He
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said, I could only get it up like this, but I
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was so happy I could get it up like this. But
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he said, when you asked me what did he do, I
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thought, well, let's just, oh, well, and then
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here he was touching the ear on the other side.
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He said, I couldn't do that when I was walking
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up the aisle. He's walking right in to his miracle.
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Come on, bone disorders are going to go right
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now. Right now, all over this room. There'll
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be no more curvatures of the spine, no more spinal
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stenosis, no more arthritic. arthritis in the
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mighty name of Jesus. I cause a creative miracle
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to come into your bones and make them whole from
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your marrow all the way out in the wonderful
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name of the Lord. I give back to you now cartilage.
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Restore that which was deteriorated in the great
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name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I loose every
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joint. No more TMJ. Be healed in Jesus' name.
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No more frozen shoulder or rotor cuff problem
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or any such thing. Be completely, come on, be
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completely healed. Be completely healed. No more
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results of injury. Did you hear that word? No
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more results of injuries. Be healed. In the mighty
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name, the wonderful name, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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There's great healing. Oh, God, there's great
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healing happening right now. It's not just the
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three things. It's, oh, Lord, he's the God of
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everything. He is not the God of three things.
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This was just the directive he gave me. And wherever
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else you have a need, put your hand on it. Say,
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Dale, my bones are good, my heart, whatever is
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good, but I can't see in this eye. Good, put
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your hand on your eye. Touch your ear if you
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don't hear in your ear. You got a kidney problem,
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put your hand back there. You get what I'm talking
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about? I'm going to go from head to foot, right?
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Now I'm going to go quick. And all I'm wanting
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you to do is look for the witness. Don't sit
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there and say, I wish he would call out my thing.
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Well, I may, but I'm really not calling out words
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of knowledge. I'm just speaking out words of
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power. If I get a word of knowledge, I'll say
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it. When I get one, I'll say, oh, well, that
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was more than just me speaking. But I'm going
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to speak to you from head to foot. And I don't
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have to speak your thing. I'm going to speak
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the name that covers every one of these things.
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And in Jesus' name, I say be healed in your head.
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Let's start right there. Come on. Put your hand
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there if you need a miracle in your head. Be
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healed in your scalp. Have a healthy scalp from
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this day forward. I'm going to say something
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right now. Ladies that are losing your hair,
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don't lose it anymore. Be restored in Jesus'
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name. I'm going to speak now to the brain because
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that's in the head. Be healed in your brain right
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now. No more dementia. No Parkinson's. No stroke.
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I'm speaking it out right now. I'm not calling
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out words of knowledge. I'm speaking words of
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power. No more migraines. Be healed. Be healed
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right now in your head. Your eyes be healed.
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Your nose be healed. Your ears. Here, now, right
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in Jesus' name. No more deafness. I rebuke deaf
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spirits right now and put them out in Jesus'
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name. Here, every frequency normal. Every sense
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of smell and taste perfect. Even have oral health
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now. Get new teeth. No decay. Be well. All the
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way through your neck and your throat. Be healed
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in Jesus' name. Be healed in your shoulders and
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in your chest. Be made well. It's the gift of
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God to you. It's the gift of God to you. No breast
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tumors either. You hear that? Be healed in Jesus'
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name. Going from head to foot. Be cured right
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now in the core of your body. No more stomach
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problems. No more liver problems. No more problems
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in your pancreas. No diabetes. No diabetes. In
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Jesus' name. Come on, your kidneys. Be healthy
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and well. In the name of the Lord. Now, I got
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a real bump on that one. I think someone's getting
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a kidney miracle right here. I do. I believe
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someone's getting a kidney miracle right here.
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Wow, I'm going to hang there for a minute. In
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Jesus' name. Now, that's not me just speaking
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something out. I got a real clear witness on
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that one. You'll be healed in your kidneys in
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the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. You'll
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not be on dialysis. You'll not lose the kidney.
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In the name of the Lord, I bring resurrection
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life to you now. In Christ Jesus' name. And you'll
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not have the reoccurring infections that go on
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in this. Be healed in your kidneys right now.
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In Jesus' name. All the way through. Come on.
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Your whole digestive tract. And your hips be
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healed. Your knees be healed. Your legs be healed.
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No more circulation issues. Be cured all the
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way to your feet. In the name of the Lord, my
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God. Oh, I feel the power of God. I'm going to
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tell you now. In Jesus' name. No cancer. No disease
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of any kind. No STDs either. Be healed in Jesus'
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name. Takes away the shame and he makes you whole.
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Be completely whole. No fear, no bondage, no
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depression in Jesus' name. He's doing that and
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more. Here's what I'm going to do. Wow. Do we
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have a microphone? Can you help me with that?
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All right. We're not going to belabor this or
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go long, but I think what we need to do is we
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need to do a little bit of what Jesus did there.
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He said, who touched me? Here's what I want to
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know. Who got a witness of the Spirit tonight?
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And listen to me, I'm not asking who believes
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the Bible, who believes in Jesus' name. I'm all
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for that too, but that's not what I'm asking
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for right now. I'm asking who got one? Who got
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one? Because I know there are people here tonight.
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You got that shoulder thing. You got that back
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thing. You got that knee thing. There's something
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got pressure on your chest. It's gone, whatever.
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Here's what I want you to do. I want you to press
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through and come right here. And we're going
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to say, we're going to say amen to this thing.
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No prayer line. We're not going to have a prayer
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line. This is really an establishing line. Would
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you come from all over the room? All over. I'm
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only asking for people who have, listen to the
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language I'm going to use. Evidence of healing.
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You either have the evidence in your spirit that
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you know that you know, or you got it in your
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body. Because by now, there should be significant
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difference in people's breathing and their bones.
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And if you were upset here, it should already
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be cleared. Come on. From all over the room.
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There's more than this. There's way more than
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this. You know he said yes. Now, you may be out
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there saying, Dale, it wasn't healing for me,
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but my fear left. Or my concern of finances left.
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Or I got the witness of God that my children
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will be saved. Or my marriage is going to do
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right. Come on. Just come before his presence
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and say, you know what? We connected. God are
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done. God are done. And he's going to say, peace.
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