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Life Conference 2019: Session 4 (Healing Service) - Dr. Yan Venter (February 2, 2019) | Life Bible Church)

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  1. Tonight's service has been announced and advertised,

  2. if I can use that word, as going to be a healing

  3. service. And I like that, you know, because when

  4. you announce it beforehand, people, the idea

  5. is for you to connect with the thought that tonight

  6. is your night. Because that's what you have to

  7. do. You know, you have to connect in your heart.

  8. And become persuaded. Please say that. I've got

  9. to become persuaded. You know, I don't have a

  10. long time to teach. And I'm not going to teach.

  11. But there's going to be a lot of people here

  12. tonight that needs to be prayed for. And here's

  13. what I'm going to do. I'm going to just do a

  14. short teaching. Give you a testimony. I've been

  15. asked to share my testimony again. And then what

  16. I'm going to do is we are going to pray for the

  17. sick. I'm going to invite Pastor Tony. And him

  18. and Pastor Brad will be on this side. Me and

  19. Greg and Renee will be on this side. We're going

  20. to pray for people. And here's what's going to

  21. happen. You are, there's going to be a number

  22. of people that are going to genuinely 100 % receive

  23. their healing. I mean, genuinely. Saw this morning.

  24. Now, here's the thing. For you to become persuaded,

  25. you've got to get it into your mind why. Very

  26. important. You know, it's like the woman with

  27. the issue of blood. You remember? Bible says,

  28. when you read in Mark 5, that she heard when

  29. she heard. You wonder, what did she hear? She

  30. heard how he healed. Would you agree? That's

  31. what she was interested in because she's been

  32. suffering for 12 years. 12 years, you know, suffering,

  33. hemorrhaging. And so obviously when the thing

  34. that brought her there, she heard how he heals.

  35. And you don't know what was going on in her mind.

  36. There's obviously stuff that was going on in

  37. her mind, in her background. You don't know what

  38. caused the problem that she had. But, you know,

  39. when Jesus stopped, said, who touched me? She

  40. came out with the whole truth. She told him everything,

  41. whatever that was. But you understand, when she

  42. came to that occasion, she came there persuaded,

  43. fully persuaded. There was no doubt in her mind

  44. because she said, when I touch him, I will be

  45. made whole. Understand, it's very important that

  46. you get that. You know, there's too many people

  47. that for some reason does not know how to connect

  48. to the fact that it is going to happen. You know,

  49. it's almost like the man that was sitting there

  50. at the pool of Siloam or wherever. I mean, he's

  51. been there for 12 years. Everybody say 12 years.

  52. Do you know what you can do in 12 years? I mean,

  53. you know, can you imagine what you can do in

  54. 12 months? He was there 12 years. And then when

  55. Jesus showed up, he asked him an obvious question.

  56. You know, do you want to be healed? He asked

  57. him that. Do you want to be healed? You know,

  58. I would have asked him the same thing. You want

  59. to be healed? What makes you sit here for 12

  60. years? The angel comes every now and again and

  61. stirs the water. And then when the water is stirred,

  62. whoever gets in there first, you know the story,

  63. gets healed. He missed it for 12 years. And then

  64. when Jesus said, you want to be healed? He said,

  65. I want you to hear how pitiful his response is.

  66. Lord, every time, and I'm not making fun of his

  67. condition, but I can just see how, you know.

  68. Incredibly, excuse me, stupid it was because

  69. he said, every time I come, maybe he was struggling

  70. to walk. He said, every time I come, somebody

  71. gets in there before me. 12 years? You would

  72. think that you would learn your lesson after

  73. one year. You wouldn't leave the side of that

  74. forever. Sit there and wait. Man, I'm not going

  75. to wait another year. I'm going to make sure

  76. that whenever this happens, it's going to happen

  77. the moment that water stirs, I'm in. Huh? It's

  78. like, that's the way it was with me. You know,

  79. when I wanted to receive the baptism in the Holy

  80. Spirit, I got saved when I was 12. I heard Pastor

  81. Tony speak about having an analytical mind. That's

  82. me. That's just the way my mind works. And from

  83. 12 to 21, I could not receive the baptism in

  84. the Holy Spirit. They have prayed for me in all

  85. different manners. They have shaken the life

  86. out of me at some places. You know, and it just

  87. didn't work until I made up my mind. See, you've

  88. got to make up your mind. I made up my mind.

  89. Never forget this. On a Saturday night, I said,

  90. Lord, tomorrow morning I'm going to go to church,

  91. and it doesn't matter what. invitation the pastor

  92. gives, what kind of words he used for anybody

  93. to come forward, but whatever it is, I'm going

  94. to run forward. And then I'm going to let him

  95. put his hands on me, and when he puts his hands

  96. on me, I said this, I am going to be filled with

  97. the Holy Spirit. I said it. I persuaded myself,

  98. convinced myself, it's going to happen tomorrow

  99. morning. So the next morning I went to church.

  100. It just so happened it was one of the deadest

  101. service you could ever be in. I mean, the psalm

  102. service was so, you know, so being dragged out

  103. was just, everything was dead. I mean, D -E -D.

  104. It was just totally dead. It lost the A in dead.

  105. And then the pastor, it just happened that it

  106. was a communion service and he walked up in front,

  107. dragged himself forward and said, will the ushers

  108. please come? That's gonna come and help me. Yeah,

  109. when he said, will the ushers come? Well, that

  110. was invitation. I ran forward. I literally ran

  111. forward and I went and stood in front of him

  112. and he goes, yes. And I go, yes. But I tell you

  113. what, he said, what do you want? I said, just

  114. put your hands on me. And when he laid his hands

  115. on me, that's the last I remember until I woke

  116. up with my head under that communion table and

  117. the entire church had been turned upside down

  118. by the power of God. A revival broke open. Come

  119. on, just praise him. You understand? Say it.

  120. Say God is ready. Say it again. God is ready.

  121. You understand? Whatever your need is, it's already

  122. been provided. I honestly think, and I want to

  123. just quickly show you this briefly. I honestly

  124. think that people... don't really know how God

  125. works oftentimes. You know, they still wait for

  126. God to do certain things. Hey, listen, the way

  127. I understand it, and I'll show you just briefly

  128. tonight, the way I understand it, it's already

  129. done. If you're going to show something on that

  130. screen, can you do it in the King James version?

  131. Do you have the King James? You know, just old

  132. King James. It's very important to use the right

  133. translation that fits in with my revelation,

  134. you know, because there's some of these translations,

  135. man, you don't know where they got that stuff

  136. from, you know, because my revelation is kind

  137. of different. Go to Genesis 2, Genesis 2. I want

  138. to just show you, once again, say principle.

  139. See, I want to show you how the principle of

  140. faith or of, no, let me say it this way. The

  141. principle of the completed works of God works.

  142. Just in a verse here in Genesis, show you how

  143. it works and then also the principle of faith.

  144. All right here. So in Genesis 2 and verse 4,

  145. we can go there. So it says here, it starts like

  146. this. This is the story or this is the genealogy.

  147. This is the story of the heavens and earth in

  148. the day that God created the heavens and the

  149. earth. Okay. And the day that the Lord God made

  150. the earth and the heavens. And I like the way

  151. it continues in verse 5 when it goes on with

  152. and. Everybody say and. And I want you to see

  153. he made the earth and he made the heavens. Look

  154. at this one. And every plant of the field before

  155. it was. Can you see that? He made every plant

  156. before it was. It was made before it was in the

  157. earth. So before it was seen, it was already

  158. done. And so he made every plant before it was

  159. in the earth, and then he made every herb of

  160. the field before it grew. I'm saying it's already

  161. done. Look at me, say it's done. And so the reason

  162. why it was not seen, okay, It's in that verse.

  163. Why is it not being seen? Because the Lord God

  164. had what? Not yet. Read the verse. Not yet what?

  165. Caused it to rain. Okay. He had not yet caused

  166. it to rain. That creation needed the next phase.

  167. It was done, but it needed rain. Why hasn't it

  168. not rained? Because it needed what? Needed man

  169. to show up. See, so he said the Lord God had

  170. not caused it to rain upon the earth because

  171. there was no man or and there was no man to till

  172. the ground. So as soon as man showed up, then

  173. the rain came. When the rain came, that which

  174. already was will now manifest. Come on, give

  175. God a praise offering. That's just how it is.

  176. And so, you know, just to confirm that to you

  177. in Ecclesiastes 3. You know, I think I used that

  178. verse here last time in a different context,

  179. but in Ecclesiastes 3, he's talking about man's

  180. life. We are segmented by time. There's a time

  181. and a purpose for everything, time to come, time

  182. to go, and so on. You know, just time, you know,

  183. short times. You meet your wife at a certain

  184. time, and you say hello, and then you say goodbye,

  185. and so on. That's man. But now when you look

  186. at verse 14, if you're there, Ecclesiastes 3

  187. and verse 14, he says, now with God, that's not

  188. like that. With God, everything is eternal. Come

  189. on, say that out loud. With God, everything is

  190. eternal. See, with us, it's temporal. With God,

  191. it's eternal. And so he says that with God, he

  192. says, I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall

  193. be forever. And he says nothing can be added

  194. to it. Nothing can be taken from it. God doeth

  195. it that men should fear before him. Now look

  196. at the next verse. And that connects with the

  197. Genesis connection that I gave you here shortly.

  198. And the next verse, he makes it clear that you

  199. guys need to get another computer. You know,

  200. there's something wrong with the speed of that

  201. thing. He says, now, here it is, verse 15. That

  202. which has been is now. And that which is to still

  203. be has already been. So he says, that which happened

  204. before is now happening. And that which has happened,

  205. which is still to happen, that which still to

  206. happen actually already happened. Talks about

  207. that manifestation thing. Just waits for that.

  208. It's already happened. God is just waiting for

  209. you to show up and to say, I am persuaded God

  210. already did it. So all I'm going to do now, step

  211. up, and it's going to happen tonight here in

  212. Harrisburg. This cancer, and please don't claim

  213. that cancer is yours. It's not your cancer. Go

  214. ahead, clap your hands for Jesus. It's not your

  215. cancer. And then just one more verse, and that's

  216. in Hebrews. We're connecting these together in

  217. Hebrews chapter 4. And he says, Paul writes it

    Hebrews 4 chapter mention

  218. like this. He says, you ought to fear. That means

  219. you ought to be very concerned. If you are the

  220. kind of believer who does not understand, God

  221. already did it. If you're still one of those

  222. that hopes and the enemy accuses you that you

  223. have this and that in your life and this wrong

  224. in your life and that wrong in your life. I had

  225. a man one time when I shared my testimony, when

  226. I was talking about they wanted to amputate my

  227. arm. And I told the doctors, you can't. You won't.

  228. No. You're not taking my arm. And so I called

  229. a friend. I said, I just want you to, you know,

  230. tell me a joke or something, you know, just get

  231. me out of this depression. And he said, I know

  232. why you are not being healed. I said, why? He

  233. said, I think you have sin in your life. I got

  234. so mad at him, I'm telling you. I told him, I

  235. said, you know. We obviously don't serve the

  236. same God. You obviously serve a God that has

  237. a band of mafia angels. That when there's something

  238. going on, he sends out these mafia angels to

  239. come and break arms and legs. You better watch

  240. out because your neck is going to be broken tomorrow.

  241. You know, because God may be upset with what

  242. you've just done for me. So, you know, God doesn't

  243. work like that. You're not sick because of sin

  244. that you've committed. Now, some sin can make

  245. you sick, like stress and that sort of thing.

  246. Now, are you there? I was just talking to have

  247. you catch up. Now, it's not there. Hebrews 4.

  248. Were you there? There it is. Thank you. Thank

  249. you. So he says, let us therefore fear. That

  250. means become concerned. Worry. Get sleepless

  251. nights. Don't sleep tonight. If you are one of

  252. those that don't understand how to enter into

  253. God's rest, what does it mean, the rest? It means

  254. he's completed the work. When did he complete

  255. the work? Okay, we'll see. He says that he completed

  256. the work when? Before the foundation of the earth.

  257. It's done before time was already done. Some

  258. things only manifested now. So let's therefore

  259. fear. Let's the promise left us of entering into

  260. that rest. Any of you should seem to come short

  261. of it. And then in verse three, for we who believe

  262. enter into that rest. Say it. We who believe.

  263. What kind of rest? You enter into the place where

  264. you know it's already done. You're sitting here

  265. tonight and your healing is already done. It's

  266. completed. All you have to do now tonight is

  267. just show up like the Genesis thing. And when

  268. you show up, the rain is going to come. Your

  269. healing is going to come. It's going to happen

  270. tonight. Come on, give him a praise offering.

  271. Glory to God. For we which have believed do enter

  272. into that rest. And as he said, I have sworn

  273. in my wrath that those people, he's talking about

  274. them in the wilderness, shall not enter into

  275. my rest. Although the works, the works, say the

  276. works were finished before the foundation of

  277. the earth. It's already done. Everything you

  278. need, it's already done. And God, all he wants

  279. you to do is just become persuaded now tonight.

  280. Even while you're sitting there, you're going

  281. to receive healing. People sitting there right

  282. now, there's got pain in your body. And while

  283. I'm speaking, that pain is going to go away and

  284. it's going to disappear. God is healing you as

  285. you sit there in the place. Come on, let me hear

  286. some amens, you know. Amen. Now, just... A quick

  287. reference to my testimony, and some of you have

  288. heard it, and so I apologize. You're going to

  289. just have to hear it again tonight. But in the

  290. late part of the previous millennium, boy, that

  291. sounds a long time ago, you know, in 1996, I

  292. fell off a four -story building. I was helping

  293. a church put a roof on a building. I was helping

  294. some deacons. And I'm telling you right now,

  295. I don't like deacons. You know, I don't trust

  296. deacons, man. They have all sorts of controls,

  297. you know. I mean, they were underneath. They

  298. were too scared to get up there. I was helping

  299. them get that insulation rolled out. And a guy

  300. down here was holding on to the scaffold. And

  301. then flopping the material that I was trying

  302. to get unhung from a screw. And I was going from

  303. purlin to purlin. And I told him, now don't pull.

  304. And he said it was by accident. I don't believe

  305. him. He pulled it the wrong time. And I'm just

  306. kidding. But he pulled me off balance. And I

  307. fell off that roof backwards. And I fell inside

  308. the building, the church, among a lot of rubble

  309. there. And they said that people that, you know,

  310. was there, they said that they saw me turn. I'm

  311. not acrobatic. When I fall, it goes straight

  312. down, you know. But obviously, an angel came

  313. to my assistance, and I did not hit it backwards.

  314. I hit it forward. My dad always said, Jan, you're

  315. a hard head. And I think that's what saved me.

  316. But the moment I hit the ground, I was dead instantly.

  317. I mean, the lights just went out. There was no

  318. struggle for air or something. I just went. I

  319. disconnected from planet Earth. And immediately,

  320. I mean, it was instantaneous. I so enjoyed to

  321. hear, and I want to hear much more about. Brother

  322. Tony's revelation about how he went to heaven.

  323. God raptured him. God took him in through a spiritual

  324. revelation and showed him great and marvelous

  325. things. Mine was not like that. When I came out

  326. of my body, I was in transition. I was on my

  327. way into my eternal home. And it was just phenomenal.

  328. I don't have time to talk about that part. You're

  329. going to have to just connect to the other night's

  330. message. I believe it's still on YouTube. And

  331. so what happened to me there was just phenomenal.

  332. But down on planet Earth, they had gone frantic

  333. because I was dead. The ambulance station was

  334. just three blocks away from there. So when they

  335. called for the ambulance, he was there within

  336. minutes. But it was already too late. and they

  337. declared me dead, pulled a sheet over my face,

  338. said, it's over. I mean, they tried to shock

  339. me, you know, go through all that stuff, but

  340. couldn't get me to be resuscitated. And so when

  341. they declared me dead, an old man, my old friend,

  342. he's deceased now, he went and stood there next

  343. to my body and asked the ambulance man, is he

  344. dead? And the man said, yes, he's dead. And the

  345. old man wanted to know, say, how dead is he?

  346. You know, and when he asked that, you know, I

  347. was like you. I laughed about it, but afterwards

  348. I realized it was a question asked in faith.

  349. Do you reckon he's too dead for God? You understand,

  350. if you've never prayed for the dead, I'm telling

  351. you, it's possibly your biggest challenge you'll

  352. ever pray for is to pray over a dead person.

  353. Am I right? You know, that person is dead. And

  354. so he asked the ambulance man, would you mind

  355. if I pray for him? And the ambulance man kind

  356. of jokingly apparently said, yeah, go ahead and

  357. pray for him. So he went and straddled my body

  358. and called upon God. Now, I was totally unaware

  359. of all of this. I'm on my way. In fact, I was

  360. just about ready to cross what I refer to as

  361. the Crystal River. It was just phenomenal. And

  362. I'm about to cross when he touches heaven on

  363. this side and ask God to, you know, have me continue

  364. on this side here. And all of a sudden, I go

  365. into reverse gear. I mean, that's all I felt.

  366. I felt a tug. And then the next minute, I'm back

  367. here on planet Earth under a sheet. And my arms

  368. are crushed, you know. I cannot move them. They're

  369. all broken. They're floppy. Bones sticking out

  370. here. And I'm in so much pain. God resurrects

  371. me and doesn't heal me. I mean, I couldn't believe

  372. it, you know. That's something wrong with the

  373. whole picture, you know. the only thing I could

  374. do is I cried out from underneath the sheet,

  375. hey! And they said the ambulance man almost went

  376. airborne, you know, because he was still standing

  377. next to me. And then they went to work. Suddenly

  378. they found out that my rib cage had collapsed

  379. and they pushed a big pipe in here in my lung

  380. cavity and put a machine in there, aired me up.

  381. It was a funny experience. And so then... They

  382. have to get me. I mean, they splint me up, and

  383. they put me in an ambulance. You know, what happened

  384. after that has got to be told. I got it in my

  385. book, too. You've got to read about it. It's

  386. in there. The whole story is in this book outside

  387. there by the table. But they put me in an ambulance,

  388. and they put me in there very quick, and somebody

  389. don't close the door like they're supposed to.

  390. When that ambulance pulls away, that stretcher

  391. next to me goes flying out of there. the ambulance,

  392. and I'm laying there, you know, with my arms

  393. stretched out like this, and all I can do is

  394. lift my head up, and I see the stretcher go out

  395. underneath the wheels of a truck, and I said,

  396. God, I'm going to die a second time here today,

  397. you know. So then they... He rushed me to the

  398. hospital. When I get to the hospital, the doctor

  399. takes one look at me and he says, no, this is

  400. too big for us. You've got to get him to Texarkana,

  401. to the big hospital. And so they take a little

  402. time to get me out there. And that little doctor,

  403. I mean, he made some noise. He said, you guys

  404. need to move now. I'm supposed to be airlifted

  405. by the helicopter and then they cannot get it

  406. started. You know, I mean, everything goes wrong.

  407. And then they pushed me out of the little room.

  408. And I don't know who didn't steer well. But you

  409. understand, this arm here was already badly broken.

  410. And when they pushed me out of that little room,

  411. they caught this arm in the door. And as they

  412. pushed out, they broke it the other way. I mean,

  413. it just, just, I just heard the bones break.

  414. And then I graciously passed out, you know. The

  415. next thing I wake up, I mean, it was so funny.

  416. I wake up, they'd been operating on me for more

  417. than 12 hours, trying to put Humpty Dumpty back

  418. together again, you know. 42 broken bones, you

  419. know. And so I remember, you know, that before

  420. all this happened, I'd asked, my wife said, Jan,

  421. you've got to pray and ask God for patience.

  422. You don't have patience. And I want to tell you

  423. right now, never pray that prayer. Boy, I mean,

  424. you know, when they did the operation, I came

  425. out of there and I cannot move. And then they

  426. bring food and I make the mistake to eat it.

  427. You know, I've never been in a hospital like

  428. that, you know. And so now. What goes in, you

  429. know, the stuff nature is going to kick in. And

  430. so I said to my wife, you're going to have to

  431. help me. And she did, you know, she did. But

  432. I also had blood that dried up in my nose and

  433. formed, you know, hard stuff. And so I asked

  434. her, honey, can you take your nail and just get

  435. that stuff out of my head? Can you just get out

  436. of my nose, you know? She said, listen, I'm helping

  437. you with the food that's coming out, but I am

  438. not putting my finger up your nose, and that's

  439. period, you know. Now, you talk about patience.

  440. They come and they come and clip my fingernails.

  441. When I get to that one, I'd say, you leave him

  442. alone, you know. That one has destiny, you know.

  443. The day will come when I'll be able to reach

  444. that nail. You know, a lot of stuff that you'll

  445. see in my book that I don't have time to talk

  446. about now, I do want to. share this one with

  447. you and that is one day you know I was flying

  448. from Houston to Chicago and I was flying Southwest

  449. Airlines and sometimes Southwest Airlines will

  450. turn the bulkhead seats into club seating and

  451. so you face the person opposite you when I got

  452. on the plane there's a man sitting next to me

  453. that's being Spoken to by a guy across the other

  454. side there. Who I learned afterwards he's an

  455. evangelist. His name is Randy Caldwell. I didn't

  456. know Randy Caldwell then. But Randy is talking

  457. to this guy. Arrogant. Arrogant man. Sitting

  458. here on this side. And he's got an answer to

  459. everything that Randy is talking to. I just want

  460. to have you see the picture as it was that day.

  461. This arm is in a huge cast. and my face was still

  462. badly, you know, out of shape. And this arm,

  463. because of the infection in this arm, they couldn't

  464. put this in a cast, and so they had external

  465. fixators. Those are external pins that's sticking

  466. out so they can lock the arm, and so you cannot

  467. move it. And so I must have looked a sight, you

  468. know, sitting next to this man. And so after

  469. about a half an hour up, you know, 35 ,000 feet

  470. in the air. I became irritated with this man

  471. and I thought I better join this fight. And I

  472. looked at him and I said, sir, if I was you,

  473. I would listen to what that man has to say. He

  474. said, why is that? I said, well, I don't know

  475. who he is, but I think you should know who I

  476. am. And with disgust and disdain, he said, who

  477. are you? I said, I'm just a nobody, but I'm also

  478. a Christian. I love God, and I can tell you,

  479. sir, the devil hates me. Something terrible.

  480. I said, he's tried to kill me so many times.

  481. You know, just. And I told him just a few things,

  482. and that really happened. I said, you know, I.

  483. I was confronted by a lion. I just barely made

  484. it through with a lion. Wanted to eat me. And

  485. I am here to tell you the story. I said I was

  486. in deep water spearfishing when a big 14, 12,

  487. 14 foot Zambezi shark came with the same intentions

  488. to eat me. But I'm here to tell you the story.

  489. I said, I was coming from California one day,

  490. and I said my bus went over, I mean, I was coming

  491. over a mountain pass in Paso Robles when I had

  492. a blowout on my tire. My bus went over the side,

  493. hundreds of feet. I bailed out at 55 miles an

  494. hour. I bailed out, you know, and I'm here to

  495. tell the story. And I said, just the other day,

  496. I said, I fell over a four -story building. Just

  497. look at me. And when I said, just look at me,

  498. he looked. I mean, you can just tell he looked.

  499. And he's really concerned. We're 35 ,000 feet

  500. up in the air. So I told him, I said, Sir, I

  501. just want you to know the chances are about 90%.

  502. This airplane is not going to land today. I tell

  503. you what, that guy changed colors. And it was

  504. no pretense. I mean, he really changed colors.

  505. And then when he finally reached white, you know.

  506. he looked back at Randy and he went like this,

  507. sir, run all that stuff by me again, you know.

  508. Yeah, go ahead and praise him, my God. Oh, come

  509. on, somebody just get happy. Just praise him.

  510. Now, you know, let me get to my testimony. You

  511. know, when... When they fixed up as much as they

  512. could, the doctors, thank God for doctors. Come

  513. on, everybody say, thank God for doctors. Doctors

  514. does phenomenal work and help a lot of people.

  515. I believe oftentimes doctors are an extension

  516. of the hand of God for people. But they can only

  517. do so much. And with this arm, they finally gave

  518. up because I broke out with MRSA. And so what

  519. they had to do is they had to eventually decide

  520. to cut this arm off. Now, give me that first.

  521. I want to just show you, and I just want to tell

  522. you that some of these slides is going to be

  523. actual slides of the way it is, and I hope you're

  524. not going to throw up, you know. I was demonstrating

  525. to a church in New Mexico or in Arizona a couple

  526. of months ago, and the pastor threw up. Do you

  527. have that first slide? Can you put that on there?

  528. Oh, there it is. Okay. So that's the way an arm,

  529. a normal arm has to look, you know. But what

  530. happened is when they wanted to amputate the

  531. arm and I said no, you know, I told them, I said,

  532. you cannot amputate my arm. They wanted to know

  533. why not. Because I said, well, it's mine to start

  534. off with. And then secondly, the reason you cannot

  535. amputate my arm is because it's going to stretch

  536. my faith. You cut my arm off, I'm going to have

  537. to believe God now for another arm and hand,

  538. fingers. And they've got to match these. And

  539. it's got to be a lot of faith to get that done.

  540. You know, so leave my arm alone. And so they

  541. said, we're going to go in there and we're going

  542. to do the operation and see. you know, what it

  543. looks like when we get in there and then we will

  544. decide. I said, no, we decide right now. My wife

  545. was there. I told her, I said, honey, you cannot

  546. let them make you sign stuff while I'm sleeping.

  547. If you do that, you will miss the rapture. You

  548. know, you're not going to make it, you know.

  549. So they, then what they did is they. cut this

  550. elbow out they'd already tried prosthesis and

  551. that stuff didn't work but so they put cut the

  552. elbow out cut it off here and cut it off there

  553. was you know quite quite a little more complicated

  554. than before than ordinary because of other complications

  555. but they did and when they did they put a anchor

  556. uh i mean a rod here and a rod there and then

  557. they put the two together and put an anchor bolt

  558. in there so that I could move the wrist, but

  559. I cannot move the arm. And so it sounds okay

  560. to some people, but man, I'm telling you, it

  561. just took me three days to find out it's not

  562. going to work, you know, because I cannot even

  563. tie my shoe, you know, it's just... I was doing

  564. work with Brother Schambach, R .W. Schambach,

  565. and I went to Brother Schambach and said, Brother

  566. Schambach, I need another elbow. And I mean,

  567. it was like I'm going into Walmart and asking

  568. them, you know, for a pint of milk. You know,

  569. for him, it's just nothing. I mean, nothing.

  570. He just said, okay, let's do it, you know. And

  571. so he grabbed my arm. Here on this wound. that's

  572. just been operated on, and he's needing it, you

  573. know, just while he's praying. And, I mean, if

  574. you know Schambach, he can pray forever. He's

  575. like Brad. I mean, the man never stops. You know,

  576. he just goes on and on and on. And so he prays

  577. and prays, and he is busy with this arm until

  578. eventually I say, end your prayer, you know.

  579. You're hurting me. I mean, just say in Jesus'

  580. name, you know. And so he releases me, and I

  581. get on the plane and go to India where I had

  582. some meetings. And the third day, something happened.

  583. I was trying to tie my shoe, and then suddenly

  584. this thing snapped. And when it snapped, it was

  585. like a bullet sound, you know. And when it snapped,

  586. my arm straightened. And when I straightened,

  587. I could bend and touch my back of my neck. Look

  588. at this, you know, just look at that. Come on,

  589. just praise him. And so I called my doctor and

  590. I said, doctor, my arm started working. He said,

  591. define working. I said, I told him, you know,

  592. and I can scratch my neck. He said, Jan. Something

  593. went horribly wrong. Don't move that arm. I said,

  594. doctor, something went wonderfully right. Telling

  595. you God gave it to me. This is what God did.

  596. Give me the next slide. Show you. That's what

  597. God did. You see, if you can see on that screen,

  598. God grew this one down and that one up and formed

  599. this kind of a joint. You can see it there. See

  600. there? Just. open up that arm big enough to where

  601. this bone could fit in there and then gave me

  602. this kind of a joint. Give me the next slide

  603. so you can see it a little better. You can see

  604. those two rods. You see the rods? There's the

  605. two rods. See how this is fitted in there? And

  606. when I went to go and have the doctor take x

  607. -rays, I said, what are you seeing? He said,

  608. I see so much. He said, but the thing that just

  609. blows my mind, I think your body digested that

  610. anchor bolt. It's gone. You see it there. It's

  611. gone. Go ahead and give him a hand clap. God

  612. gave me that joint. And I went around the world

  613. six, seven, eight years. maybe more, in every

  614. part of the world, shared my testimony how God

  615. gave me this arm, this elbow. And then two years

  616. ago in Texas, Waco, Texas. Don't never go there.

  617. I'm in Waco, Texas. And when I got up, I was

  618. on my knees. When I got up from my knees, that

  619. thing, I mean, all I can say is it like exploded.

  620. It just burst into. Dozens of fragments. And

  621. give me the next slide. That's what you see.

  622. Give me the next slide also. You can just see

  623. there. You can see there's nothing left of that.

  624. It's all gone. Give me the next slide. I think

  625. there's one more. You can just see there's no

  626. joint. When I saw that. And when the doctor saw

  627. that, he said, John, there's really nothing we

  628. can do for that arm. And I found myself saying

  629. to him, based upon what I taught you tonight,

  630. nothing you have to do. It's already done before

  631. the foundation of the earth. Go ahead and praise

  632. him. Wow. Because you understand, what you see

  633. there, that was taken while it's still in the

  634. cast. Those staples you see there, that's staples,

  635. you know, that they used. But there's no connection.

  636. In fact, you see there? See, that's the one.

  637. I mean, it's just like that's, you know, on its

  638. own. And this one is a different one. Isn't that

  639. crazy? You know, I mean, you see there? It's

  640. just, I mean, if I don't control it, it looks

  641. ugly, you know, and it just goes any direction

  642. it wants to. I watch people sit there, ha, you

  643. know. That's why when I did Arizona, I was giving

  644. my testimony and I just showed them this. And

  645. when I did this thing, that pastor just threw

  646. up right over me. People cannot, they cannot

  647. handle it. Listen, listen. God gave me the first

  648. Nike joint. I got a Nike joint. It's air. Works

  649. on air. Come on, give him a praise offering,

  650. will you? Air. There's nothing that I cannot

  651. do with this arm. The doctors, they're astounded.

  652. They don't know how the nerves go in there. Because

  653. at nighttime, I'm going to close with this. At

  654. nighttime, when this is under the covers, and

  655. if I don't see it, I don't know where it is.

  656. I'm serious. If I find it at night, I'm going

  657. to toss. Where are you? I don't know where it

  658. is. It's just crazy, man. I'm telling you. The

  659. other day I was trying to find my wife something

  660. in the truck, you know, at nighttime and I was

  661. scratching around there and something grabbed

  662. this arm. And when I pulled out, this hand came

  663. with it. It was this hand that was holding on

  664. to that. It's just crazy. There's nothing. Listen,

  665. let me tell you right now. We're going to pray.

  666. There's nothing that the enemy can do. That God

  667. cannot do better. Come on. Come on, just praise

  668. Him. And you know, I cannot tell you, I cannot

  669. even begin to tell you how many people with cancer

  670. have been totally healed. Blind eyes have been

  671. opened. Not because of me. Because it's already

  672. done. People just come to collect. And so I want

  673. you tonight, right now where you're sitting,

  674. right now where you are. I want you to make up

  675. your mind right now. It's for me too. If God

  676. can do it for Jan, he's already done it for me.

  677. See, before Calvary, before Calvary, Isaiah wrote

  678. by revelation, not prophetically. He wrote it

  679. by revelation. By his stripes we were healed.

  680. Before Calvin. Stand with me, will you please.

  681. Put your hand on your heart. And just give yourself

  682. to him right now again. When you do that, just

  683. give yourself to him. And just say it, Lord,

  684. I give you me. I give you my heart. And then

  685. I want you to do this. I want you to ask forgiveness

  686. from the Lord. I just believe in that. Why don't

  687. you just right now just ask God to forgive you

  688. of any sin. No matter what's being involved in

  689. your life, He's willing and able to forgive you.

  690. If we confess our sin, He's faithful and just

  691. to forgive us of all our sin and cleanse us.

  692. From all our unrighteousness. So right now in

  693. the name of Jesus. Say it. Say it out loud. Say

  694. Jesus. I now receive my forgiveness. And I give

  695. you me. Interested in hearing other podcasts

  696. or contacting Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch

  697. .org or call us at 541 -995 -8282.