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Sunday Evening Message - Randy Demain (October 01, 2017) | Life Bible Church

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  1. and out with Jesus. Just wave your hand if you

  2. did. Have you got some more healing? Yeah? You

  3. good? Alright. So, let's move into this next

  4. wave of healing. You got healed, didn't you?

  5. This lady right here? Yo, come here real quick.

  6. I can tell something happened to you. I can see

  7. you got this like Jesus glow on you. Oh, earlier

  8. this morning. Yeah, so what was it? A headache

  9. that I'd had for a week and I thought, oh, it's

  10. just a headache and then God healed me and He

  11. cares about everything. He cares about everything.

  12. Let me see your hand for a second. I think I

  13. have a word of the Lord for you. Well, I feel

  14. like the Lord would say that you have been in

  15. a very innocent and wonderful, like a childlike

  16. relationship with him. And that's wonderful.

  17. But you know what he's saying? He's saying he's

  18. going to take you now to like grow you up some.

  19. And what you've been receiving now, he's going

  20. to cause you to release to others. So he's bringing

  21. you to a place of. Of responsibility in place

  22. of a new time in your life. Where others are

  23. going to want what they see in you. Because you've

  24. invested and Jesus has released in you his presence

  25. and his glory. But now others are going to see

  26. that in you and they're going to want to release

  27. it. Amen. So I'm just releasing that word upon

  28. you. Because it's your time and it's your season.

  29. It's going to be a good thing. So Father, I pray

  30. for a feeling and anointing of the Holy Spirit.

  31. I pray, Jesus, for a fresh, that armor, that

  32. calling, that anointing for this season. Holy

  33. Spirit, I just press her into that place, God,

  34. of fellowship. Press her into that place, God,

  35. of drinking deeply from the river of life and

  36. from the purpose of life, Jesus. Wow. You guys

  37. are heavy drinkers around here, the Holy Ghost.

  38. Hallelujah. Bless them, Jesus. Bless her, Lord,

  39. with the Holy Spirit. Jesus is in love with you.

  40. Shukubasata. Hey. Hallelujah. He said he's going

  41. to untwist the twist. He's going to release you

  42. from the chains that bind and from the ropes,

  43. the ropes, the cords. You found the length of

  44. them and you're ready to go more, but they have

  45. been holding you back. So the Lord has come tonight

  46. to release you from the ropes, the boundaries.

  47. He's come to release you, the binding of your

  48. soul. We call the soul to be unbound and free

  49. in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Confusion is being

  50. removed from you right now in Jesus' name. Hallelujah.

  51. Clarity of the Holy Spirit. And of the future

  52. and purposes coming to you. Hallelujah. The Lord

  53. says you have a prophetic authority. And that's

  54. where the battle has been. Because the Lord has

  55. said that there has been a revelation for the

  56. generation you're in to come. But the enemy saw

  57. it and he bound and wound you up. But the Lord

  58. says I'm here to free you. Loose the bonds. Open

  59. the prison doors. Set the captives free. And

  60. God says you're going to notice this fingerprint

  61. of the enemy upon others. and you will not tolerate

  62. it nor will you stand for it, but you're going

  63. to break it and lose it and shatter it from this

  64. point on in the life of others in Jesus' name.

  65. Hallelujah. You're free, right, sweetie? Bless

  66. you. Hallelujah. Bless her, Jesus. Bless her.

  67. You're a good person. I felt that on you. Bless

  68. you, Jesus. Bless you, Jesus. Hallelujah. I'm

  69. just kind of just checking stuff out. Sometimes

  70. I'll boosh you about. Get some fire. More fire.

  71. You're the fire lady. Fire lady, fire lady, fire

  72. lady. Jesus get her. Oh man, you remind me of

  73. somebody, but I can't think of who. Jill Austin.

  74. Do you know who Jill Austin is? Come here. You

  75. get this woman up. She's got some stuff on her.

  76. She don't even know she got on her. Do you know

  77. who Jill Austin is? You need to Google up Jill

  78. Austin. She's not living. And that's probably

  79. why she's like, hey, get her. I'm going to get

  80. my anointing like Elijah gave to Elisha coming

  81. on you. You have no idea what's about to happen

  82. to you. Your complete life is about to change.

  83. And I'm telling you, it's going to change so

  84. quick and so rapidly. You're not even going to

  85. have time to look back and say what happened.

  86. All you're going to see is what's ahead of you.

  87. I'm telling you, you're the fire lady. You're

  88. like the fire engine lady. And you're not there

  89. to... put out fires you're there to set fires

  90. I'm telling you you got a fire anointing for

  91. deliverance and a fire anointing to set people

  92. free from drugs and alcohol and all kinds of

  93. bondages I'm telling you when you touch them

  94. and you lay your hands on them wham I feel that

  95. breakthrough anointing on you fire fire fire

  96. God let it I just breathe it up Jesus man get

  97. out of her way how you doing man God bless you.

  98. I'm good. Hallelujah. Hello, how are you doing?

  99. Oh, boy, you know freedom, don't you? You know

  100. grace. Hallelujah. You just wear it so beautifully.

  101. You know that you are so intimidating to the

  102. enemy because he can't have you anymore. That's

  103. true. He can't have you anymore. You said that.

  104. You actually said that. And it's true, and he

  105. knows it. And you're one of many that are going

  106. to come through this time. And they're simply

  107. going to say, this devil, you can't have me anymore.

  108. The grace of God is greater than anything that

  109. you ever have had or can give. And so you're

  110. wearing grace. And you should actually have a

  111. necklace that says grace on it. Because that's

  112. a lot of who you are. You're about grace. Because

  113. you're living right now because of grace and

  114. love of Jesus. Yeah, yeah. You're in a good place

  115. too. You're in a really good place and you are

  116. ticking the enemy off because he lost one of

  117. his soldiers. Hallelujah. How you doing, man?

  118. Hi there. Hi. I'm not supposed to be prophesying.

  119. I'm supposed to be healing. So I got to move

  120. along. That's the thing of having a prophetic

  121. anointing. You switch gears a lot. Amen. All

  122. right. Let me just speak to you about healing

  123. a little bit more because the Lord showed me

  124. something this afternoon that he really wants

  125. to do. Don't you like to know what the Lord really

  126. likes to do? Amen. Hallelujah. Wow. You know,

  127. you have an anointing and God's going to bring

  128. you. Here I am prophesying. Jesus, help me. I

  129. got too many things going on in the Holy Ghost

  130. right now, but it's all right. You have a building

  131. construction anointing that's going to open up

  132. for you, opportunity that's going to release

  133. you into an incredible time. And you're going

  134. to be a kingdom builder, building things and

  135. making things for the kingdom. And God's going

  136. to give you inroads into infrastructures, into

  137. offices, into resources. Like you're going to

  138. be like, you've got like a Nehemiah anointing

  139. to go to the king and say, release the resources.

  140. That's what's on you. And the king's going to

  141. release resources and you're going to know exactly

  142. where to take them and what to do with them.

  143. Hallelujah. For the Lord is showing me that you

  144. know how to put your hand to the resource and

  145. make it fruitful. And that's in your spirit.

  146. He made you, I want to call you Holy Ghost Builder

  147. Bob. That's what I want to call you. That's what

  148. I see on you, man. Yeah. Yeah. And your future

  149. is like incredibly bright and flourishing and

  150. fruitful. And, you know, deep, deep, deep in

  151. your heart, you've always wanted to help other

  152. people and you want to make a difference and

  153. you've never known how, but this is how you're

  154. going to do it. This is how you're going to,

  155. every time you move in this anointing, people

  156. are going to be so blessed and so relieved that

  157. you came because you're going to be. you're going

  158. to be sent of God as an answer to prayer after

  159. prayer after prayer. So every time you show up,

  160. you're sent as an answer to prayer. That's quite

  161. a ministry, my friend. That's on you. Hallelujah.

  162. Amen. All right, you can do whatever you want

  163. to do. You have permission to loiter in the presence

  164. of the Holy Spirit. But I want to share this

  165. word particularly because the Lord began to reveal

  166. this to me this afternoon. And I'm always amazed

  167. at the... Thank you, you did so awesome. Pastor

  168. Beck, can I take her on the road for a while?

  169. I mean, I think we could... Oh, finish school.

  170. Hurry up, hurry up, Jack. There's something that

  171. is very dear to the Lord's heart, and I'm always

  172. amazed, quite honestly, when I get to praying

  173. into healing for miracle meetings like this,

  174. because not very far into praying, you know what

  175. you run into? The compassion of Jesus. It just

  176. hits you. His compassion and His desire for you

  177. to be healed is just more than we could possibly

  178. understand. He wants everybody healed. You know,

  179. he's no respecter of persons. I mean, I've heard

  180. a lot of preaching and teaching, and I'm sure

  181. you've all had a lot too. But can I just tell

  182. you, just hear this. If you're sick, Jesus wants

  183. you healed. If you're oppressed in any way, he

  184. does not want you to be oppressed of the devil.

  185. Now, he might deal with you. You've got to discern

  186. the difference. But he healed all who were oppressed

  187. of the devil. Is that what the Bible says? Yeah.

  188. If he's working on you, that's to make you better.

  189. If the devil's working on you, that's to make

  190. you bitter and worse. Right? So are you getting

  191. bitter or are you getting better? That's a little

  192. discernment. Right? And there's a difference

  193. between conviction and condemnation. Conviction

  194. draws you to God. Condemnation makes you run

  195. away from God. So discern the dealings. But I

  196. just ran into this compassion. I run into it

  197. all the time. I run into it and it makes me just

  198. want to... Do nothing but go into healing ministry

  199. and heal people. And I'm okay with that. I would

  200. actually do that. But can I tell you it's one

  201. of the most exhausting ministries that there

  202. is. A healing ministry. Because I've done it

  203. a lot. And the needs can overwhelm more than

  204. one individual in a human body over a course

  205. of time can sustain. That's true, man. I mean,

  206. Pastor Tony and I were talking today about healing

  207. lines. And you have five, and then you have 10,

  208. and then you look over here, and then there's

  209. 50 in that line. And then you get it down to

  210. about 10 again, and then there's 50 next time

  211. you look up. How does that work? The church is

  212. fruitful in multiplying. It never ends. I was

  213. telling you about this. I was doing these revival

  214. meetings in Madras, Oregon. You all know where

  215. that's at? It's a real place. That's where they

  216. just had all those people go in and watch the

  217. sun. Get blacked out. Anyway, good for the town,

  218. I guess. Amen. But I was actually in there and

  219. I was growing out legs that day. And I mean,

  220. there was a whole bunch of people had one leg

  221. shorter than the other. I mean, like a lot. So

  222. I grew out legs all one day. And that evening,

  223. I start doing a miracle meeting again like this

  224. one. And this line never shuts off and never

  225. stops. And I see this guy. I just happened to

  226. look up. He walks in the back door, cowboy hat,

  227. cowboy boots. I think he even had spurs on, pretty

  228. fresh, you know, right off the horse or the barnyard

  229. or wherever. He comes in, and he bypasses everybody.

  230. And he walks up there. He says, I just got off

  231. work. I just got a minute. I heard you're growing

  232. out legs. I need mine done. Can you do it right

  233. now? I said, of course. Excuse me just a moment.

  234. You go, how could you tell him you'll grow out

  235. your leg? Well, don't you remember when the centurion

  236. came and said, would you heal my servant? He

  237. said, I will. I'll come and heal him. He didn't

  238. say, well, I don't know. I've got to pray and

  239. fast and think about it. No, he said, I'll come

  240. and heal him. Well, this guy came in. I said,

  241. I'll heal you. Not me, but Jesus through me.

  242. You know, he knew what was going on. And in like

  243. three seconds, the Lord grew out his leg. He

  244. checked it all out, put his boot back on, said,

  245. thank you, sir. Put his hat on and walked out

  246. the door. Madness Oregon. Go figure. But you

  247. know what? The word got out. And everybody started

  248. taking off 15 minutes off of work, run over to

  249. get their miracle and go back to work. It was

  250. really fun. I think that's going to happen again

  251. somewhere. Make room for people to come. But

  252. the Lord taught me something a while back. And

  253. it's always really impressed me, and it's stayed

  254. with me. And I believe it's been the reason that

  255. the Lord has allowed me to maintain health and

  256. healing. I have not been sick or anything. I

  257. am not going to be sick or anything. The Lord

  258. just sustains me. And that's a miracle with my

  259. travel schedule and how many time zones and places

  260. and things I'm in all the time and, you know,

  261. different diets and those sort of things. But

  262. here I am just as full of energy and ready to,

  263. you know. Go for it. That's the goodness of the

  264. Lord. That's good. That's the goodness of the

  265. Lord. But tonight, the Lord wanted to deal specifically

  266. with my segment, even though Pastor Tony's going

  267. to come up here, whether he knows it or not,

  268. here pretty quick and do his thing. We've done

  269. this before. We've been hanging out before, me

  270. and him. I love you. If I could say this without

  271. offending anybody, he's my big chocolate teddy

  272. bear. Yeah, and his wife is no sleeper either,

  273. so you watch out. Deborah, she'll get you. But

  274. the Lord is after ministry people tonight. This

  275. little part I've got here, I probably took up

  276. way too much time, Brother Tony, I'm sorry. I

  277. was just rolling. You know how it is, man. You

  278. get in it, and you're in it, man. And you're

  279. just going, and it's going, and God's good. Hallelujah.

  280. I got one more prophetic word, and then I'm going

  281. to get into this healing thing. Can I just get

  282. out of the way? If I don't do it, I just can't

  283. pay attention. Thank you. You guys are awesome.

  284. Sorry, Pastor Red. You go, this guy is crazy.

  285. It's just the dancing hand of the Holy Spirit,

  286. right? I'm not afraid to go where he goes and

  287. do it. You know, healing will happen, right?

  288. Yeah. I got to find this person. There's my dear

  289. friend, Pastor Kenny. Bless you, bro. From years

  290. and years and years. And here's the fine, Mrs.

  291. Kenny. Bless you. And this is? Hope. And great.

  292. Hope and grace. Where's love? All you? Okay.

  293. I have a word for you. I saw you walk across

  294. the parking lot this afternoon. The Lord gave

  295. me a word for you when you were just walking

  296. across the parking lot. Isn't that crazy? We

  297. were like a long ways apart. And I looked up

  298. and I saw you walking across the parking lot.

  299. And you're walking across the parking lot. And

  300. I'm like, yeah, that's a person walking across

  301. the parking lot. And I'm trying to talk to this

  302. person. And the Lord says, is that person walking

  303. across the parking lot? And I said, yes. And

  304. I go back and he goes, no, see that person walking

  305. across the parking lot. I said, yes, I see that

  306. person. Well, he said to tell you something very,

  307. very important. So after you're finished with

  308. school, you with me? God has a country in mind

  309. for you. Yeah, I know. You're like, wait a minute.

  310. Wait, wait, wait, what? You have a call, believe

  311. it or not, for missions. And it's going to be

  312. a completely different way into missions than

  313. most people think. Because you're going to go

  314. into missions through talent and through skill

  315. and through your persona of who you are. It's

  316. not going to go the traditional way. You're not

  317. going to ever raise money. You're going to be

  318. a woman apostolic mission person. You're going

  319. to have your own business, your own base, and

  320. you're going to reach out to a particular country.

  321. And let me tell you where it is. You're going

  322. to like it. I was just there. I did a ministry

  323. cruise there. Do you know where Australia is?

  324. That's going to be part of it. Do you know the

  325. islands on the other side of Australia? You don't?

  326. Well, you will. Because that's where you're heading.

  327. You're going to be the island girl missionary.

  328. Amen. Okay. That's really good. And by the way,

  329. I just went and forerun the whole island for

  330. you. I spent 14 days over there preaching and

  331. prophesying all the way from Australia all the

  332. way out to the islands. And they're the Solomon

  333. Islands. And they're filled with gold and jewels

  334. and silver and really cool people. I was on an

  335. island over there that no man lives on. There's

  336. not a house on it. And we went on that island

  337. and people showed up and we preached the gospel

  338. to them and they got saved on an island with

  339. no people and no houses. Just a few months ago.

  340. How's that work? I think God was up to something.

  341. The Lord told me this secret. And he told it

  342. to me in a manner that's like the Lord. But it

  343. was more like, if I could put it this way, it

  344. was more like a father -son conversation or more

  345. like a brother -brother conversation that you

  346. have with a father or a brother just before you're

  347. going to go out and do something very significant,

  348. right? And it's like that what you need to know

  349. before you go, right? And so when the Lord brought

  350. this revelation to me, I've kept it close, and

  351. I've walked with it, and it's been faithful to

  352. me all my days. But as I began to pray tonight,

  353. and I felt the compassion of the Lord, and I

  354. said, Lord, what is your compassion for tonight?

  355. What are you doing? Because it says the Lord

  356. was moved by compassion, and he healed. So I

  357. try to always say, Lord, what's your compassion?

  358. What's moving you tonight here in this building

  359. among these people? And this is what he said.

  360. It's the ministers or those that are called into

  361. some kind of ministry. Now, don't stereotype

  362. that on me, will you? Just don't get your business

  363. card or your credentials or your plaques, even

  364. though you may have one. I'm talking about people

  365. like that, but also people who have a ministry,

  366. if you will. Are you with me? to some other people,

  367. place, or time beyond your own right here circle.

  368. You with me? All right. Because the Lord has

  369. really begun to show me tonight that there's

  370. many that have had that ministry ability interrupted

  371. by sickness or by disease or by hurts or by rejection

  372. or by lack of affirmation. By lack of understanding.

  373. There's many good people that just don't understand

  374. your call. And so they just reject you. Or they're

  375. afraid of your call. So they reject you. Especially

  376. prophets. Most people are scared of you. They

  377. are. And you prophesy what God gives you to prophesy.

  378. And guess what? It's called they reject it. Do

  379. you know the biggest thing that prophets carry

  380. is rejection? Because they're constantly rejected.

  381. Do you know, if you're not careful, if you have

  382. that prophetic kind of revelatory thing, that

  383. that can become a point of wounding and a point

  384. of bitterness. And pretty soon you shut up and

  385. your prophecy, instead of bringing love, brings

  386. sarcasm. So if you're a very sarcastic person,

  387. you could be a bitter prophet. Because you've

  388. been rejected. I'm telling you the truth. But

  389. a lot of people are simply dealing with sickness

  390. and infirmity because of the emotional stuff

  391. that's happened to you in ministry. That's true.

  392. I could tell some of you get this. And the Lord

  393. spoke to me very clearly tonight, very, very

  394. clearly just a few hours before I got here. And

  395. he said, this is my compassion. I want ministers

  396. mobilized. I want them restored, and I want them

  397. moving. And so that's going to be my part for

  398. just a minute. I want to deal with that. But

  399. I want to show you how the Lord brought me this

  400. revelation because if you get this, somebody

  401. right over there, I'm sorry, I'm just like a

  402. Holy Ghost jackrabbit. Somebody right there just

  403. got a healing. In your shoulders and down your

  404. back. Right in here somewhere. I just saw the

  405. gift come. The healing package. Anybody right

  406. there have any issues? Back, spine, neck. I saw

  407. it. Oh, that's you. You're still getting your

  408. download. Lord, give her more. I just saw it

  409. come right on you. Out of the corner of my eye.

  410. Jesus, fix her all up. You're going to get totally

  411. good before the night's over. Matthew chapter

    Matthew 4 chapter mention

  412. 4, let me share this with you. I'll minister

  413. to it and then my chocolate teddy bear buddy

  414. is going to come. I actually told that to my

  415. wife this afternoon on the phone. She goes, who

  416. are you with? I said, my chocolate teddy bear

  417. buddy. She goes, Tony? I said, yeah. I said,

  418. you got to hook up with his wife. She was telling

  419. me some stuff about what you can do when we travel

  420. together. But I'm not going to let you get around

  421. her right away because that girl's got some game

  422. and I'm not sure how much I want you to get.

  423. No, I'm kidding. Matthew chapter 4. Jesus, after

    Matthew 4 chapter mention

  424. his temptation in the wilderness, the Bible says

  425. that he came out of the desert in power of the

  426. Holy Spirit. He come out with power. Power. He

  427. came out with power. And he began to preach.

  428. And the first thing that he said was this, repent

  429. for the kingdom of God is at hand. Or some translations

  430. say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

  431. Now, what is this kingdom of heaven that's at

  432. hand? What is it? What is it for me and you right

  433. now? What was it for them right then? What is

  434. this kingdom of heaven that's within reach, within

  435. grasp, able to be laid hold of, able to be brought

  436. unto yourself, able to be partaken of? What is

  437. this kingdom of heaven? So I read on in Matthew

    Matthew 4 chapter mention

  438. chapter 4. And this is what I discover about

  439. the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. It

  440. says this in verse 23, chapter 4, verse 23 of

  441. Matthew. It says, and Jesus went about all Galilee.

  442. Now, this is the same context reading right down

  443. through here. Teaching in their synagogues, preaching

  444. the gospel of the kingdom. I need to do a whole

  445. series of messages on the gospel of the kingdom.

  446. Because there's so many gospels out there that

  447. people are so confused. Jesus said he preached

  448. the gospel of the kingdom. Of what? The kingdom

  449. of God. Heaven, the kingdom of God, not the gospel

  450. of some professor nutty cakes in some place that

  451. wrote a commentary in some book. Help me, Jesus,

  452. before I get in sin. Anyway, if you spend more

  453. time reading your commentary than you do your

  454. Bible, you're in trouble. And then I found out

  455. that, well, anyway, I'm just going to keep going

  456. over here. I better be quiet. I found out something

  457. that was interesting. Oh, the joy of the Lord

  458. is my strength. Anyway, here we go. Jesus went

  459. all about Galilee, teaching in their synagogues

  460. and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. And

  461. healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of

  462. disease among the people. So I am seeing that

  463. the gospel of the kingdom is directly connected

  464. to and manifested by healing, deliverance, freedom,

  465. salvation, blessing, prosperity, restoration.

  466. You getting it? The gospel of the kingdom speaks

  467. about and accomplishes those things, releases

  468. the power of faith to lay hold of the kingdom

  469. of heaven, put it in your hand and bring it to

  470. yourself. Right? So I'm seeing this. Verse 24,

  471. that his fame went throughout all Syria. Boy,

  472. there's a message that would blow a lot of Christians'

  473. minds that are still hung up on Jerusalem. It

  474. started in Syria, my friends. In Damascus, you

  475. didn't know that, did you? Well, Mount Hermon,

  476. have you ever heard of that? Anyway, yeah, that's

  477. why it went back to where it started and then

  478. it came to Jerusalem. But anyway, interesting.

  479. Then he went throughout all Syria and they brought

  480. to him all the sick people who were afflicted

  481. with various diseases and torments and all those

  482. who were demon -possessed. Epileptics, paralytics,

  483. and he healed them. You know what I like about

  484. the Bible is it just says what it needs to say.

  485. How many churches today have the guts to read

  486. that people are demon -possessed and that they

  487. need devils kicked out of them? They need to

  488. be delivered from demonic possession. I'm telling

  489. you, that message better be finding its way back

  490. to the body of Christ because you're going to

  491. be toe -to -toe with Mr. D pretty soon. And if

  492. you don't know how to deal with them, you're

  493. going to be not the better for it. You're going

  494. to be wishing you knew how to cast out devils.

  495. I tell people all the time, they go, man, I'm

  496. just not sure Jesus is real. I said, come here.

  497. I'll go find me somebody with a demon. It takes

  498. about three minutes. Start speaking of that thing.

  499. Get it to manifest. Say, come here, you believe,

  500. you don't, not sure you believe in Jesus? What

  501. we got going on here? Is that manifest? Is that

  502. real? Is that a spirit? Is that talking? Is that

  503. throwing that, is they gagging? Now watch this.

  504. They'll go, what? In the name of Jesus Christ,

  505. come out. They come out and go, do you believe

  506. in Jesus? Yes, I do. He has power. Works every

  507. time. When I got saved in my first ministry,

  508. two weeks after being born again, for five years

  509. after the first two weeks of being born again,

  510. I got put in the deliverance department. I did

  511. nothing but deliverance for five years straight.

  512. Amen. What a way to believe in Jesus. Great multitudes

  513. followed him from Galilee, from Decapolis, Jerusalem,

  514. Judea, and beyond the Jordan. Now, this whole

  515. story here in Matthew chapter 4 about Jesus declaring

    Matthew 4 chapter mention

  516. the kingdom of heaven as a hand and revealing

  517. the kingdom of heaven and letting people lay

  518. hold of the kingdom, being healed, set free,

  519. delivered, so forth and so on, all flows into

  520. this context where then Jesus calls his disciples

  521. to himself, and this is the beginning of the

  522. Sermon on the Mount, right? Now, this is my take

  523. on it, and you don't have to agree with my take

  524. on whether it was a mountain or a mound or whatever.

  525. That's not the issue, but this is the way I read

  526. this. It looks to me like Jesus called the twelve

  527. to himself up on this mountain. Why, all the

  528. people that were just healed, set free, and delivered

  529. were down there rejoicing. Jumping around, celebrating.

  530. Could you imagine the sound down there of the

  531. multitude of everybody healed? It says all, all.

  532. Nobody was like, hey, Jesus, I didn't get healed.

  533. No, everybody of everything. Paralytics, people

  534. who couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Come on. The

  535. deaf, the blind, the oppressed. Nobody got left.

  536. Everybody down there got healed. And so Jesus

  537. comes aside from that, brings the 12 upon the

  538. mountain or on the mound. and all these people

  539. are down there, and I, do you know that was a

  540. party? Who would not be having a party that couldn't

  541. see, hear, walk, talk, or whatever for who knows

  542. how long, and all of a sudden, everybody's got

  543. a voice back, legs back, come on. They are not,

  544. you know, like, okay, well, let's, you know,

  545. take a nap. They are making a commotion. So Jesus

  546. pulls the 12 aside. This is the way the Lord

  547. explained it to me, so I'm just going to go with

  548. it. Brought him up on the mountain, and he begins

  549. to reveal an incredible secret. A secret so powerful

  550. that, can I just tell you and suggest to you,

  551. have you ever noticed that not one single apostle

  552. or disciple quit the ministry because they were

  553. sick or diseased? Had to quit? Did you ever notice

  554. that not one single apostle or disciple quit

  555. the ministry because of a rejection or hurt or

  556. an emotional issue? None of them. Why is that?

  557. I'm going to show you, because this is what the

  558. Lord showed me. He says, if you'll understand

  559. this, he said, no one can ever take you down

  560. or take you out. You'll keep going. You'll continually

  561. walk in health and prosperity all the days that

  562. I've called you to what I've called you to do,

  563. as long as I've called you to do it. If you get

  564. a hold of this tonight, You're going to get healed,

  565. first of all. You're going to get restored, first

  566. of all. And then second, you're going to never

  567. be subject to infirmities or sickness or disease

  568. or emotional issues in regards to keeping you

  569. out of ministry ever again. Right? Why would

  570. the Lord call you into ministry just to watch

  571. you flame out? No, the callings... Romans 11,

  572. 29, the gifts and callings of God, they're irrevocable.

  573. They don't change. They don't shut off. I mean,

  574. I've had people tell me, hey, why don't you go

  575. get a lawnmower and be a landscaper? Why don't

  576. you drive a truck? What's wrong with you? I said,

  577. I'm not called to do that. I didn't ask you if

  578. you're a calling. Go get a job. I go, I got a

  579. job. It's a calling. You do not shut it off.

  580. You don't retire from it. It doesn't quit. It

  581. gets you up in the morning, keeps you up late

  582. at night in Eugene, Oregon or wherever, Harrisburg.

  583. And you love it. You don't hate it, you love

  584. it. So Jesus brings the 12 up there. And the

  585. way Jesus told me, shared this with me is that

  586. he said, hey boys, he's talking to the 12. He

  587. said, do you hear that down there? Do you hear

  588. that celebrating? Guys, do you see that down

  589. there? Do you see all those people that followed

  590. me and then by faith they received healing, wholeness,

  591. freedom, deliverance, all of it. Do you hear

  592. that down there? They're going, yeah, Jesus,

  593. we hear it. He said, that's the kingdom of heaven

  594. right there. That's what it sounds like and that's

  595. what it looks like. Before I created those people

  596. for my glory. I created them my image and likeness.

  597. I created them for my glory. I created them to

  598. give them my glory, to shine up my glory. I created

  599. them to lavish upon them mercy and grace and

  600. strength in my kingdom. That's what I created

  601. them for, to give them everything that I have

  602. and to withhold nothing. Doesn't the Bible say,

  603. if he gave us his son, will he not also freely

  604. give us all things? If he gave us Jesus, he's

  605. not going to hold anything else from you. Come

  606. on. And Jesus is telling me, that's the kingdom.

  607. That's the kingdom. And he's like, boys, do you

  608. like that? And the disciples are like, yeah,

  609. Jesus, that's totally awesome. And he says, I'm

  610. going to tell you now how to be that way every

  611. day. Okay, what is it, King? What is it? About

  612. the kingdom, Jesus. You want to show me. So he

  613. begins with the Beatitudes. So I read them. And

  614. I thought they were awesome. But the Lord says,

  615. read them again. So I read them again. I said,

  616. Lord, they're awesome. He said, you're missing

  617. what I'm trying to show you. I said, okay. So

  618. I read them again. And I said, God, these are

  619. incredible. I love your word. He's like, yeah,

  620. and? And how do these Beatitudes keep you healthy

  621. and wealthy and prosperous and in my presence

  622. and in my word and in ministry? I'm like, yeah,

  623. they're awesome, God. He said, I want you to

  624. see that my kingdom is present. Right now. It

  625. always will be present. Right now. It's always

  626. available right now. There is no delay and no

  627. restriction to accessing what you need from my

  628. kingdom the moment you need it. There is no delay.

  629. There is to be no time lapse. There is to be

  630. no delay in what you need. It's immediate. I

  631. said, Lord, you've got to show me this. He said,

  632. okay, I'm going to show it to you. So I began

  633. to read this over again. It says this, verse

  634. 2. Well, I'll just read it. And seeing the multitudes,

  635. he went up on a mountain, and when he was seated

  636. with his disciples, came to him. He began to

  637. teach them this. And I just told you, watch this.

  638. It said, blessed are the poor in spirit, for

  639. theirs is the kingdom of heaven. He goes on to

  640. say, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall

  641. be comforted. And the Lord says, stop right there.

  642. I said, okay. He said, read that verse again.

  643. Blessed are the poor in spirit. In other words,

  644. meaning not those who don't have any money. Those

  645. who are utterly and completely dependent upon

  646. me to live and move and have their being. That's

  647. what that means, poor in spirit. Right? Blessed

  648. are the poor in spirit. Watch that. Theirs, here

  649. it is, is the kingdom of heaven. Is, right now,

  650. ever present, no delay, no restrictions. Right

  651. now, theirs is the kingdom. If you read these

  652. other verses, it says, there shall be. Did you

  653. catch that? Blessed are the poor in spirit, for

  654. theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Verses 4, 5,

  655. 6, and 7 and 8 would say, blessed be, for they

  656. shall. In other words, something in the future.

  657. When it says there is the kingdom, that means

  658. it's ever -present, right now, completely accessible.

  659. What? And he healed them all of sickness and

  660. disease and cast out their demons. Those are

  661. paralyzed. I mean, he healed them all. So how

  662. close is the kingdom of heaven that's at hand?

  663. Right now. There is no restriction. There's no

  664. delay. There's no qualifying. It says, if you're

  665. poor in spirit, what's that mean? I'm utterly

  666. and totally dependent upon you, God, unless you

  667. heal me, I will not be healed. I'm totally and

  668. utterly dependent upon you to forgive me of my

  669. sins, God. If you don't forgive me, I'm not forgiven.

  670. I'm totally and utterly dependent upon you, God,

  671. to protect me through this day, because if you

  672. don't protect me, the devil's going to take me

  673. out. That's poor in spirit. What's the qualifications

  674. for the kingdom right now? Being totally dependent

  675. upon it. No options, no plan B. See, Americans,

  676. we got this plan B. I'm telling you, we got plan

  677. B. We got plan C, credit card. We got plan D,

  678. debt. You know what I'm saying? We got skills

  679. to keep us from having Jesus first. That's why

  680. when you go to foreign countries, when I go,

  681. people get healed, miracles. I mean, just like

  682. right now. Why? Because they have no options.

  683. They come to get what they come to get. You hear

  684. what I'm saying? It's not plan B. You don't walk

  685. 10 miles without food on a hot, sunny day without

  686. shoes to come up and say, well, I thought I'd

  687. come check this out, see if Jesus might be looking

  688. good on me today. No, they come to get what they

  689. came to get, and they're not leaving without

  690. it. They're poor in spirit. In other words, they're

  691. totally and utterly dependent upon the kingdom

  692. of God to live and move and have their being.

  693. And what's the Bible says? Blessed are the poor

  694. in spirit for theirs is. Is, is the kingdom of

  695. heaven. When is is? It's right now. It never

  696. stops. It never ceases. It never closes. There's

  697. no operating hours. There's no qualifications.

  698. Come on, you there. You don't have to hold your

  699. mouth just right. You don't have to read the

  700. Bible five times a day. You don't have to fast

  701. and pray for 65 days. You don't have to, you

  702. know, not kick your dog for the week. You know

  703. what I'm saying? You know all the stuff that

  704. we have to justify ourselves with to be worthy

  705. for God to do something? Or some religious leader

  706. puts something on you that condemns you and holds

  707. you back because you're not worthy? You know

  708. the religious thing? Well, you probably don't

  709. hear, but you know what I'm saying? It's out

  710. there. That's not what the Bible says. It says

  711. if you're totally and absolutely 100 % dependent

  712. upon God with that faith and you come to him

  713. with your need, the kingdom of heaven is right

  714. there that you can access whatever you need,

  715. bring it to yourself, and have it manifest and

  716. fulfill. Yours is the kingdom. Now, here's the

  717. other part of it. What about ministers that get

  718. backstabbed, character assassination, nobody

  719. likes them, use them up, abuse them. I've been

  720. a pastor a long time. I found out that sheep

  721. bite. That's why the shepherd has the rod and

  722. the staff, I promise you. And I'm a shepherd

  723. that knows how to use them. Just kidding you,

  724. that sounded wrong, didn't it? But anyway. If

  725. you go on down here to verse 10, it talks about

  726. ministries and ministers that... Have the very,

  727. very real paralyzing emotional issues that come

  728. with ministry. Rejection, character assassination,

  729. stabbing you in the back. Come on, all those

  730. things. And I'm not talking just about people

  731. like me standing up behind a pulpit. I'm talking

  732. about you. You with me? I'm talking about all

  733. of you. When you try to do something for the

  734. Lord, that thing that buffets you, that thing

  735. that comes against you, right? That thing that

  736. stops you. If sickness won't slow you down, then

  737. we'll just wipe out your soul. We'll get a hold

  738. of your emotions and wind you up like a ball

  739. of yarn and you're not going to get out. And

  740. so look at what it says. The second place in

  741. the Beatitudes where the word is appears. In

  742. other words, ever -present, right now, available

  743. kingdom, no delay, no qualifications, right?

  744. Just get it. This is what it says. Verse 10.

  745. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness'

  746. sake, for theirs is the kingdom. No delay, no

  747. waiting, no qualification. Come on. Get it. The

  748. Lord said to me, he said, if you remember this,

  749. All your days, if ever sickness tries to come

  750. upon you, remember yours is the kingdom. Don't

  751. try to fast and pray your way out of it. Don't

  752. try to qualify. Don't try to jump through hoops.

  753. He said, yours is the kingdom. Just get it right

  754. now. Get it right now and be healed. I've done

  755. that all my life and here I am today, sickness

  756. free. Come on. I'm a testimony of Jesus' word.

  757. I believe in it. I'll boast, make my boast in

  758. the Lord. I'm not afraid to boast to the Lord.

  759. He's awesome. He's got my back. I boast in him.

  760. So I've been in ministry a long time, too. Do

  761. you know that? I pastored for a long time. A

  762. few different places, a lot of different congregations.

  763. Met a lot of people. Met a lot of really wonderful,

  764. nice people, which most are. Met a few of them.

  765. I met a few of them, other ones. Then I've been

  766. in all kinds of ministry. Can I just tell you

  767. that in ministry there is, when I pastored I

  768. thought there was like pressure to do certain

  769. things a certain way and have this and have that

  770. and all the qualifications and all the checklist

  771. of, you know, if you're a good, prosperous, wonderful

  772. church and pastor. You know, you labor under

  773. all that man -made garbage until you get free

  774. from it. And so then I go on the road for 15

  775. years and guess what I found out? There's more

  776. competition on the road than there is being a

  777. pastor of a church. You cannot believe the jealousy,

  778. the greed, the throw you under the bus, the backbiting,

  779. this character assassination. I'm like, God,

  780. what is all this for my loving brothers and sisters

  781. in the Lord? So he said, listen, remember this.

  782. Number one, they're not rejecting you. They're

  783. rejecting me in you. Don't take it personal.

  784. I'm like, I like that. Sing and say whatever

  785. you want to me. You're not rejecting me. You're

  786. rejecting Christ in me. You're rejecting what

  787. Jesus put in me to minister to you. You're not

  788. rejecting me. You're rejecting him. So I don't,

  789. I'm neutral in a sense. Now women, God bless

  790. them. Deborah will tell you something a little

  791. bit different. Women take things a little more

  792. personally than us guys do. Uh -huh. Yeah. They'll

  793. still run over you ten years later if they see

  794. you in the crosswalk and nobody's around. That's

  795. why the Bible says there's grace, and then after

  796. the women got involved heavily in the church,

  797. there was great grace. But anyway, I'll just

  798. leave that to you. But the Lord told me that

  799. if you let these emotional things not be personal,

  800. because they're not rejecting you, they're not

  801. measuring or judging your ministry, they're judging

  802. his. And just be free. Just be my minister. And

  803. if anything does come upon you, remember, you

  804. can come to me because yours is the kingdom.

  805. If you're quick to forgive, you'll be quick to

  806. be made whole. If you don't carry no grudges,

  807. no bitterness, no judgments, listen, why have

  808. them? They work against you. The Lord says, come

  809. to me. He said, just tell me what's on your heart.

  810. He said, I already know it. Why don't you just

  811. tell me? And when you tell me, it's coming off

  812. your heart. Then off comes judgment, bitterness,

  813. sin, blah, blah, blah. It just comes right off

  814. your heart. Guess what happens? Your heart's

  815. clean, pure. Guess what? You keep going, and

  816. you're good. Right? It's called forgiveness.

  817. The hardest thing about forgiveness is that you

  818. think, well, Lord, if I forgive them, that means

  819. that they're right and I'm wrong. That's not

  820. correct. That doesn't mean anything. It just

  821. means that you're willing to forgive them because

  822. the Lord told you to, right? Yeah. So the Lord

  823. says, if you'll always remember just to forgive

  824. those, come on, who offend you, who hurt you,

  825. who use you. Remember the Lord's prayer? Lord,

  826. forgive me of my sins as I forgive others of.

  827. Boy, if you keep adding the second part of that

  828. prayer, you'll be good to go. Right? Keep your

  829. heart clean. Keep you from judgment and bitterness.

  830. You can walk down the same side of the street

  831. as somebody who's just offended you an hour earlier,

  832. and they'll be the one that'll run to the other

  833. side of the sidewalk. Not you. Why? Because you're

  834. free. I've looked at people that have done me

  835. so wrong, and I can look at them and go, hey,

  836. how are you doing today? They're like, fine.

  837. What's wrong with you? Nothing. Just having a

  838. good day. Well, you've got a short memory, buddy,

  839. because I just, you know, kind of, yeah. I'm

  840. like, well, that's between you and the Lord.

  841. I'm doing good. So, you know, he's after you

  842. now. You're off my hook. You deal with him. Come

  843. on, I'm telling you the truth. Are you with me?

  844. It always amazes me when I'm doing pastoral counseling

  845. and people would come in to talk to me, and they

  846. would have all these issues, and they're real.

  847. I'm not trying to make them small. They're real.

  848. People heard them, said stuff about them, and

  849. they're like, I've got to quit ministry. I've

  850. got to quit life. I've got to divorce. I've got

  851. to eat my kids, whatever. And I said, you know,

  852. I said, How is it that I can be in ministry for

  853. 10, 15, 20, 30 years and here I am whole and

  854. you've been in ministry, you know, two years

  855. or two weeks and you're like a wreck? Okay, let's

  856. learn this together. They're not rejecting you.

  857. They're rejecting Christ in you. Be free and

  858. forgive them and move on. Otherwise, you're going

  859. to flame out and burn out real quick. And when

  860. you get unforgiveness or you get bitterness or

  861. you get like multiple emotional wounds, you know

  862. what happens to your body? It begins to give

  863. itself over to sickness. Right? All right. So

  864. you get it? All right. So I'm going to do my

  865. ministry now that I've used up my brother's time.

  866. And we're going to pray. Okay? We're just going

  867. to get healed tonight. Right away. All right?

  868. So. I'm going to ask everybody in this room that

  869. is in any kind of ministry that stalled out because

  870. of sickness or disease or stalled out because

  871. you've been blown up and burnt out by emotional

  872. issues or because you lack provision to go forward.

  873. We're going to bring a restoration to all those

  874. areas tonight and healing. Okay? So just stand

  875. up. Be brave. Thank you. We're all just family

  876. here. Yeah. This is really tenderly on the heart

  877. of the Lord tonight. There's the heart of the

  878. Lord of the Northwest, or the Pacific Northwest,

  879. but the heart of the Lord for you, His ministers.

  880. Because you've stepped out and you're giving

  881. it all. So, if you just play for me a little

  882. bit there, Jackie, I'm just going to do this.

  883. Just for a moment. Lord Jesus, I just pray over

  884. these precious servants and ministers of yours

  885. tonight. In whatever capacity they're serving,

  886. whatever capacity they're operating in. Lord,

  887. the main thing is they said yes to you when you

  888. asked them to do something. Whether it's preach

  889. behind a pulpit or whether it's minister to the

  890. lady down the street. Whether it's... A kind

  891. hand, whether it's teaching, ministry, prisons,

  892. ministry, whatever. All the many facets. But

  893. they said yes, God. And along the way, they were

  894. buffeted. Hard, and it's real, and it's tangible.

  895. And now some of them have sickness and disease

  896. in their body. Others have emotional issues that

  897. are just tremendous. They're very real. So Father,

  898. first of all tonight, we just choose, Lord, as

  899. ministers to forgive all of those other ministers

  900. or people. Lord, we just forgive them as you've

  901. forgiven us. As you've forgiven us, we forgive

  902. them. Completely release them. And Lord, we pray

  903. right now you'd take off of our heart and out

  904. of our heart all the charged emotional issues

  905. and thoughts and binds. things that hold us captive

  906. to that. Anything that's released sickness or

  907. disease in our body, Lord, let that be removed

  908. now in Jesus' name. Let your healing flow already

  909. begin to come into body, soul, and spirit. Body,

  910. soul, and spirit, healing and anointing of Jesus

  911. to restore ministers and ministers. Because you

  912. said ours is the kingdom. So Lord, I pray also

  913. right now for those who have just an infirmity.

  914. Lord, maybe not emotionally, just the infirmities

  915. in their body. They're not able to continue going

  916. because of the infirmity. And in the name of

  917. Jesus, I rebuke the devourer. I rebuke the spirit

  918. of infirmity. I loose you from your sickness.

  919. I loose you from your disease. I loose you from

  920. your affliction. I loose you from the torment.

  921. I loose you from the delay of healing. And I

  922. say, yours is the kingdom right now. And let

  923. the kingdom be released in healing and restoration.

  924. I call you healed in Jesus' name. And I declare

  925. healing released in this room over ministers

  926. and ministries right now in Jesus' name. Restored

  927. fully. And Lord, for those who have tried to

  928. go and they lack resources or ability, in Jesus'

  929. name, I unshackle, I loosen, I release lost,

  930. stolen, delayed, denied provision in Jesus' name

  931. to all ministries ready to go. I call doors open

  932. in Jesus' name. Thank you for healing them tonight

  933. in Jesus' name. Thank you that they're being

  934. restored this very moment. Hallelujah. Sickness

  935. is gone. Disease is gone. Poverty, destruction,

  936. emotional issues healed. Righteousness, peace,

  937. and joy of the Holy Spirit is coming back upon

  938. them. The anointing is filling them back up.

  939. Energy, strength, and vision is back in them

  940. in Jesus' name. Thank you, Father. Thank you,

  941. Father. Thank you, Father. Just let that soak

  942. in for a minute in Jesus name. If you are interested

  943. in hearing other podcasts or contacting Life

  944. Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch .org

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