Tear A Hole In The Roof

Hallelujah. Thank you, Pastor Jacob Rodriguez. What an awesome atmosphere.

In atmospheres like these, God sends signs, wonders, and miracles. They're

conducive for that. If you will continue the way you worship, these benches are

going to get full. People are going to come from the neighborhoods and feel

this power in their bodies, in their souls, and in their spirits. A worshiping

church is a signs and wonders church. And that brother that was I'm seeing, where is

he? Have you ever thought of going to Phoenix, brother? I'll put a good word

in for you. No, you do a magnificent job. You don't hold back. And you know what?

Never hold back. Never let anybody tell you to calm down. Come on, brother. Settle

down. Don't buy into that. You worship. You lead the congregation to worship and

praise. Because this stuff is contagious, man. And it's necessary. If out there, well

I'm gonna bring it down to where you guys live. If people will shout their lungs

out for the San Francisco Giants. I don't know about the Oakland A's. I

understand they're moving, right? Or they need to be moved? Or was that? And the

Golden State Warriors, well you know the Phoenix Suns are not in good shape either.

But if people can shout in a venue like that, for a home run, for a touchdown, for

a slam dunk. I'm so glad that we're not Swifties. Whatever Taylor Swift does,

that's her business, man. We're not here to exalt her. I don't care. She's rich.

But so what? So are we. We're rich in the Holy Ghost. The Rodriguez, Pastor Jacob

Rodriguez, his wonderful wife and family, and the rest of his family, they're

friends of ours. I have great admiration for the Rodriguez family, for Bishop. And

we were just with Brother Steve a while ago. We had a tremendous time there. Now

we're here. And I believe I have a word that will move your faith. Does anybody

here need a healing in their body? In their soul, in their spirit? You know

infirmities are not just physical. We're hearing a lot about mental health now,

right? A lot of people need a checkup from the neck up, man. I think I'll have a

t-shirt made on that. And they tell us about mental health and emotional health.

I'm not downgrading and downplaying that. But you know we have the solution. And

his name is Jesus. I said his name is Jesus. So let's get into the word. The

Gospel according to Mark chapter 2, Hallelujah. I just want to say that I

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enjoyed myself immensely at the forward conference. Thank you, Pastor Jacob

Rodriguez for inviting me. Man, what a time. And you all have a tremendous

district choir. It's been a while since I heard a choir. Everybody's into praise

teams. I got nothing. We have praise teams back home too. But man, I was yearning

to hear a choir and we heard it. How many of you are part of that choir here?

Anybody? Back there? Okay. You sang a solo, right?

Beautiful. Mark chapter 2 starting with verse 1. And again he entered

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Capernaum after some days. And it was heard that he was in the

house. Immediately many gathered together so that there was no longer room to

receive them. Not even near the door. And he preached the word to them. Then they

came to him bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could

not come near him because of the crowd, maybe if it would have been you and I,

we would have just said, oh well, hey, hey buddy, we tried. You know what? Some

other day. This obviously and apparently wasn't your day. We can come back. They

did something unusual, different, unconventional. And when they could not

come near him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. So when

they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the

paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, that's crucial. And I'm gonna

say something in a little bit about that. About you bringing somebody to Jesus.

When he saw their faith, he said to the paralytic son, your sins are forgiven you.

Don't you know that Jesus has the authority to say whatever he wants? To

whomever he wants? Whenever he wants? But there's always gonna be religious

folks. I'm so glad they're not part of this crowd here. And some of the scribes

were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts. You know Jesus then and now, he

doesn't have to hear words coming out of your mouth. He'll go right into the heart

say, this is what you're thinking. No, I'm not. Yes you are. Why does this man

speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone? You know the

biggest one of the biggest hindrances to the move of God is religiosity and

churchianity. Right? We don't need that pastor Jacob. We need genuine people man.

Simple genuine people that are in love with Jesus and let Him have His way.

But immediately verse 8, but immediately when Jesus perceived in His spirit that

they reasoned thus with them themselves, he said to them, why do you reason about

these things in your hearts? Which is easier to say to the paralytic? Your

sins are forgiven you or to say arise take up your bed and walk. But that you

may know that the Son of Man, oh God, has power on earth for forgive sins. He said

to the paralytic, I say to you arise take up your bed and go to your house.

Immediately not ten minutes after, not an hour left, not a day later, not a week

after, not a month after. Well you know I don't think God is in the healing mood

today. So you know what? Just wait your turn. Come back some other day. No.

Immediately everybody say immediately. That's the kind of God we see. We serve

an immediate God and on time God. He's never early, He's never late, He's always

on time. That is to say His time. Immediately He arose, took up the bed and

went out in the presence of them all so that all were amazed and glorified God

saying we never saw anything like this. I want to just simply entitle this

message. Tear a hole in the roof. Tear a hole in the roof. You may be seated. This

is a fact that I'm going to share with you right now. Whenever you decide to get

close to Jesus for a miracle, for a healing, obstacles are gonna come.

Your way. Satan is one of the tricksters, deceivers that will try to block your

blessing. Religious folks will try to do it too. Come on cuz, cuz no one's ever

been healed of that disease. You know genetics. You know it runs in the family.

So you know just accept it. Go to the doctor, get the prescribed medication and

just live with it. Ever heard that from family members, co-workers, neighbors and

even people in the church pastor? You know? But there are obstacles that can

present themselves. And we read where they were carrying this friend. Now the

Lord doesn't mention any names and you know what? That's not important. The

important thing was these friends saw their friend in that condition and they

said we're gonna take them to Jesus. And so they did. The obstacle was the house

was full. Nobody could get in. So the natural reaction of man is we tried.

Maybe some other day. Today wasn't your day. But hang in there. We'll come back

next week if Jesus is around. But how many of you know that Jesus is an on-time

God? That He doesn't work from agendas. He doesn't say wow April the 28th? God.

Gabriel? Michael? Time flies huh? When you're having fun. He doesn't talk like

that. He doesn't live in those kind of human dimensions. He can heal on the

spur of a moment. He can heal people in crowds or He can heal a person all by

themselves. He's Jesus. He's omnipotent which means He has all the power. He's

omniscient which means He knows all things. And He's omnipresent. He's

everywhere. He's just not relegated to a certain area. You know what? I can only

work in certain cities. That's how I see in the Lord working farming communities.

In ghettos. I was preaching in Mexico and some lady came in who had a punctured

eardrum. And she walked into the service and God healed her. You know what she did?

She grabbed my pant leg because I was preaching about the woman with an

issue of blood. Boom! She was immediately healed. God can do those things.

Nothing, absolutely nothing can hinder the power of God. And in 2024 He's still a

healing God. He is still a miracle working God. Just the other day we were

having a district activity at our church. It was a pre-camp service for youth camp

and junior camp. And a couple came up to me at the end of the service. He goes,

Brother Romo, can we talk to you? I go, sure. I said, do I know you? She goes, yeah.

We're from such and such a church. Okay. She goes, last year, two years ago, you

prophesied that I would have a child. Well, I did. You see, I'm not the kind of

person that writes everything down. He goes, you know, on such and such a day,

look at, we did this, this happened. I'm not that kind of a guy. People remind me,

okay, all right, wonderful. Do God be the glory? And we move on. Because it's never

about us. One day the Lord rebuked me, Pastor Jacob. In my office I had plaques,

you know, camper of the year and this and that. And all kind of other trophies. I'd

look at that, he goes, man, look at that. And the Holy Ghost spoke to me, he goes,

you're impressed by that, huh? Take him down and throw him in the trash. I go, I

thought, is that God or Satan? No, God says, it's me. And I took him down and I

threw him in the trash. The Lord says, I don't want you to ever get the glory for

anything. If I'm gonna use you, there's times when nobody's gonna know. And the

Father that sees you in secret shall reward you openly. I don't like to go

around saying, you know what, in such and such a service, 300 people got the Holy

Ghost, you know, 20 miracles. Because if we're not careful, we'll start attributing

things to ourselves. It's because I was there. The anointed one showed up. And the

Lord says, really, Frank Romo, you would be nothing if it wasn't for me. As a

matter of fact, you are nothing beside me. And so these men can't get through the

door. There's a crowd. But then they got an idea. And said, you know what, let's

climb this building and go and tear a hole in the roof. So you could see dust. I

don't know what kind of roofs they had there. In those days, they weren't like

ours. Obviously, they made a hole in the roof. Because the

circumstances said, you can't get in there. There won't be a healing for your

friend because you can't get through the door. So they tore, made a hole in the

roof. They tore it. And they lowered their friend. And he received his miracle

that day. I want to say this. Maybe your friend is not gonna get to Jesus until

you bring him or bring her. What do you say we forget about ourselves? Who we are,

what our name is, what our last name is. And let's just bring people to Jesus.

There's a reason why these guys were anonymous. Because all they wanted was a

miracle for their friend. In this hour, let's win the lost and give Jesus the

credit. Let's bring them to church and say, Lord, here they are. You do the rest.

Because it's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about Jesus. Their friend

is bedridden. He can't walk. And they said, you know what? Let's tear a hole in

the roof. And let's bring them into the presence of Jesus. Jesus was moved and

stirred by that. Act of faith. Because the Bible says, he saw their faith. That's

how that's important. That the Lord sees our faith to work miracles, signs, and

wonders. Hallelujah. I was sharing with the church previously how the Lord

healed me from a blood clot in my leg. A PE, the doctors call it, a pulmonary

embolism that traveled from my leg, right, leg to my lungs and subsequently

produced cardiac arrest. I flatlined three times in the hospital. I hear,

because I was unconscious, one of the doctors wanted to declare me dead. That

happened in the span of half an hour. But God.

And after the Lord brought me back, one of the doctors comes. You know, Mr. Romo,

that it was us that lifted you from death. I go, doc, with all due respect to your

profession and your years of schooling and study and the doctor in front of your

name. It really wasn't you. Then who was it? Oh, here's a moment. I'm laying in

bed. I'm weak, but I mustered up enough strength to tell him it was Jesus that

brought me back from the dead. It wasn't you. And then he goes, well, okay, if you

want to believe that I do. And here's the proof. I'm alive. Because they told my

wife when I was in that state, they told my wife, your husband may not ever walk

again. He may never be able to think straight. He'll never be the same man,

Mrs. Romo. This thing has taken the toll on him. Oh, here's another one. He may not

be able to talk. You should hear me, man. I talk more than ever. Because I've got a

story to tell. You think I'm gonna hold back? I'll tell anybody. I'll go to Starbucks

and I'll tell. You want to hear a story? She goes, sure. And I tell him, what?

You're alive? What do you think? You look alive to me. There you go. I've shared

that story at Starbucks at Circle K. You have Circle K's over here? I have a few.

I've shared them in restaurants because it's real. Jesus did it. So to speak, we

made a hole in the roof. What was impossible for men was made possible by

God. I don't know what condition you came in today. I don't know about the

diagnosis that the doctor has given you. But I'm here to tell you he's a healer.

And if you will, so to speak, tear a hole in your roof and get to Jesus, you will

receive your miracle. Does anybody believe that? Yeah, I believe it. But

genetics says a different story. Because it runs in the family. So you tear a hole

in the roof and say, you know what? I don't care about my family history. I'm

going to Jesus and he's gonna heal me. I won't need medication. I will not need

therapy. He's gonna make me whole.

Because that's what he did to me. I walked out of that hospital. Yeah, I was

weak with a walker. But then they, the nurses gave me a hand clap and the doctors.

There's Mr. Romo, the walking miracle.

I go, thanks. I don't plan to come back here.

Who wants to be in the hospital, bro? Well, the food is good. That's what you think.

The treatment is good. Yeah, they're poking you at three in the morning and

getting your vitals. Who wants to go through that? I walked out of there and

my beautiful wife took care of me for three months. I became a member of the

online congregation. The good thing about that pastor, I didn't have to dress up.

I sat in front of my computer with my pajamas and my cup of coffee. I said,

this isn't bad. I'm getting used to this. I like this. Three months of that and God

was preparing Anthony to be the next pastor without him even realizing it

knowing it. But the day came when I went back to church, oh man, the brothers were

going crazy when they saw me because I was supposed to die. But we tore a hole

in the roof. I have a kidney doctor, Dr. Musa. He's an Arab, probably a Muslim.

I had to go after I got out of the hospital. I had to go like two weeks

later to see him. When I walk in with my walker, he tells the staff, stop what

you're doing. All of you stop. Let me present to you, Mr. Frank Romo, the

walking miracle. But then watch this. He comes up to me, hugs me, kisses me on the

cheek. And this is coming from an Arab. He says, God's not done with you yet.

I felt like the Holy Ghost had just spoken to me through him. You see, don't

worry about the circumstances. He wasn't apostolic. In moments like that, who

cares? If he was a Baptist or a Presbyterian, I wouldn't mind just as long as

he, those words hit my spirit. Ooh, am I gonna get in trouble for saying that?

Well, whoever's watching YouTube and I'm not taking anything back. Now I'm alive.

What do I care about somebody's criticism? And he's still my doctor. I love him. We're

friends. When he looks at me, he goes, Oh God, he goes, Mr. Romo, you're my hero, he

says. I talk about you to my family and to everybody because you're a walking

miracle. Tear a hole in the roof. Get your healing today. Get your miracle

today. What you need from Jesus, get it today. Well, we got to invite somebody,

Pastor Jacob Rodriguez, that has the gift of healing. Really? Jesus is the healer.

It's not the man. Jesus can heal on any day of the week.

It doesn't even have to be a service. You can walk out there in the lobby. He can

heal you in your car, on your way home. But you got to tear a hole in the roof.

Because obstacles will come. They present themselves. And you got to go beyond

those obstacles like these four friends did. They lowered him and Jesus healed

him. Well, the religious skeptics and scribes were their Satan to criticize. You

know, don't listen to those people. Are there still scribes? I think so. I think

they, some of them even congregate in our churches. Just saying. They're very

analytical. You know, in my time, you had to annoying people with oil and you

lead me to lay hands. I'm not against that. I'm for that. I remember Netamana, who

got sick at home and she didn't have oil from Israel shipped in. She didn't have

olive oil. She got some oil that she cooking oil. And she anointed herself with

it and she was healed. I don't believe that. I don't care. I saw it with my own

eyes. But we're stuck with detail sometimes. There was a time when we would

have miracle Sunday and we would anoint prayer

clause and disperse them in the congregation. When Netamana, her husband

wanted nothing to do with us. He goes, I'm a Jehovah's Witness. I'm not an

apostolic. She comes crying to me. What do I do pastor? And then I got this idea.

Why don't you put one of those anointed prayer clause underneath his pillow and

watch what happens. She did. You know what happened to that gentleman? He had a

nightmare that he was going straight to the pit of hell and he could hear the

screams of people in hell. So he gets it because you have Pastor Romans and phone

number. I need to call him and he calls me. He says, I've been criticizing you for

a long time. I haven't believed in your ministry and what you stand for. But I

got a dream man and that dreams haunting me. I go, what are you gonna do

about it? Because I want you to baptize me in the name of Jesus.

However God's gonna heal is not so much the importance is that he does it. My

sister Alice who passed away last year, she had had three strokes but prior to

that when my sister, before she was baptized, the men of God anointed a

prayer cloth because the doctor said to my parents, we can't find what's causing

her sickness. She's probably gonna die. So my parents talked to some men of God,

apostolic. They anointed a prayer cloth. Just lay it on your daughter. They came

home. They laid that anointed prayer cloth on my sister Alice and she was

instantaneously healed. The following week she was baptized in the name of Jesus.

Now I'm not saying with that, let's get on this prayer cloth journey. But God can

use anything and He can use anybody. Praise God. There's another Hermana who

was burning up with fever and her little boy came in, laid his hand on her and

she was instantly healed. A little boy. You never know. You can never predict how

God's gonna do it but He can choose whatever vessel He wants to perform the

miracle. Hallelujah. I have prayed for women that cannot have children and I've

seen them bear children. They send me the pictures. I was preaching in Tijuana. I

think I shared this at Forward Conference. I was preaching in Tijuana for

Richard Velos. How many of you know him, don't you? Pastor Richard Velos. And I took

the pulpit and I looked at his wife and it said, sister, you've had two miscarriages.

I didn't even know. But these children that you're gonna have, they're not gonna

die. And then I thought to myself, children, plural? Okay, we'll go with that and see

what happens. So I leave Tijuana and I head back. About a month later, Pastor

Richard Velos calls me. My wife's pregnant. Oh really? And Bishop, he goes, you're not

gonna believe it. I know you're gonna believe it. She's pregnant with twins. Then

it hit me. No wonder I said children, plural. When those boys were born, I went

back to Tijuana to dedicate them. Today they are about approximately 13 to 14

years old. We serve a miracle worker. I've seen a lot of people healed, Pastor, of

acid reflux disease. Is there anybody here that has acid reflux? I prayed for a

man that had acid reflux. God healed him and then he goes to the comedor and

orders a red chili burro. I said, brother, slow down, man. Slow down. Why you

said? Okay. Acid reflux disease. You just can't eat certain foods. It provokes the

acids and all of that. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know. But I've seen people

healed of that. Sists. I prayed for a woman in Yuma, in the Yuma church, that had

12 sists in her breasts. When I laid my hand on her, she felt a burning sensation

and what it was that the Lord was burning those sists right out of her. She

was healed. The Lord spoke to me years ago and told me, whenever

you're praying for diabetes, don't pray for the diabetes. Speak to the pancreas.

That it would produce insulin. I've done that and I go to check up on these people

again and they're healed. The pancreas began to produce insulin again.

Hallelujah. I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel like somebody's gonna tear a hole in

the roof. I was preaching one time for Bishop Hoyer and Fresno and I don't want

to really sound graphic, but I got to share this. A brother came in with

kidney stones, real bad ones. And he could barely walk into the sanctuary and

he comes up to me and goes, Bishop, I might have to leave. I go, why? I have kidney

stones. You know what the Lord told me to tell him? Go and urinate those stones

out. On his way to the restroom, those stones turned into sand and he just

passed them. He comes running and not walking. He came running and dancing.

I'm healed. I'm healed. Anybody here dealing with kidney stones? God can heal them.

Oh God. Anybody here with cysts? I pray for women that have cysts and they're

uterus and they've disappeared. Tumors. I prayed for a lady one time that said

she had the beginning stages of leukemia. So I went up to her, laid my hand

close my eyes and the Lord gave me a vision of her bloodstream as he was

cleansing it. I saw white blood vessels and I saw red blood vessels brand new.

She was healed that day. I was preaching in Stockton and the Lord healed a man

that was going deaf and it was affecting his speech too. God healed him. In that

same service, a brother comes up. He could barely walk. He had this special

girdle. When I prayed for him, the thing went boom and flew off of him. I grabbed

them by the hand and we started running aisles in that sanctuary. I was in Texas

a couple of years ago in a small church. They're brightening a brother in a

wheelchair. I'm preaching. I go, brother, how long have you been in that wheelchair?

He goes, eight years. Do you want to walk? You ask somebody like that's the obvious.

But sometimes it's the only way to inject faith. He goes, yes, well then get up, he

gets up and he starts walking. That little church went wild, man. I didn't have to

preach after that. It's here. It's here. Healing is here. We just got to tear a

hole in the roof. You have obstacles that you're up against. Your flesh is

telling you it's not going to happen. Satan is telling you it's never going to

happen. But I hear the voice of the Lord that says tear a hole in the roof and I'll

make it happen. Can you imagine the woman with the issue of blood who touched

the hem? Now was the hem up here? No. Was it at the waist? No. It was almost towards

the feet of Jesus. This woman had to grovel. She had to crawl. She was probably

kicked around by the curious folks. But she says, you know what? I just got to get

to Jesus. It doesn't matter what you have to go through. Just get to Jesus. Well,

you know, your tia might say, no, I mean, huh? You know, I went through the same thing

and nothing happened. Well, tia, I love you and respect you, but I'm going to tear

a hole in the roof. I'm going to get to Jesus because I need a miracle. This woman

touches the hem of his garment, right? You've read that story over and over and

she stops Jesus in his tracks. He's walking and goes, hey, who touched me? And

the disciples go, little master, come on. It's got to be a joke, right? All these

people around you and you're asking, it goes, somebody touch me because I felt

virtue. Oh, Rabakaya Maschanda. I felt virtue come out of my body. And what

about Lazarus? Jesus deliberately waited for Lazarus to die. And then he says to

his disciples, let's go wake up our buddy. Well, if he's sleeping, Lord, let him

sleep. No, no, no, no, guys, you don't understand. He's dead. Oh, and I'm happy

that I wasn't there because of the rest of y'all. So he shows up. And when Jesus

shows up, he shows out and he shows off.

And where is he? Master, he's been dead for four days. He's already decomposing.

He stinks. And the Lord went to his tomb. And you know the story. He resurrected

him. I love the additional stuff you shared. I was powerful at Forward

Conference. I'm going to close, but we're going to pray. I've also prayed for

people that are standing proxy for others in another country, in another state, in

another city. And God has done a miracle over there. I prayed for a sister in the

first church that I pastored who had her mother in a coma in Ciudad Juarez

Chihuahua. She had been in a coma for several days. And I prayed for her. Then

afterwards, the Lord told me to tell her, have her call her mother. So she called.

And they were all excited. You're not gonna believe this, miha. Your mom got up.

She came out of her coma asking for tortillas, joles, and chile. You can ask

whatever you want, man. But she came out of a coma.

Hallelujah. How many of you need to tear a hole in the roof? And there's obstacles

that have kept you from your miracle and your healing. Would you stand with me? I

didn't mean to take this much time, but that's when I get my point across. And I've

shared these miracles just to build your faith, not to show off. That I'm not that

kind of a person. I want God to heal you. I want God to do that miracle that's

yours. But you've got to tear a hole in the roof. Come on. It's not gonna be that

easy. It's gonna cost you. It's gonna cost you dealing with your flesh, with your

mindset, people's opinions, and with all due respect, even doctors diagnosis. If

you need a healing miracle, I want you to make your way up here. Or if you want to

stand proxy for somebody, you can do that too.