Healing Hearts: A War Against Arthritis

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In this episode, Harry Greenwood shares a powerful testimony of prayer for arthritis sufferers, recounting miracles and teaching us how to approach healing with faith and the name of Jesus. He explains how prayer should be paired with a ready heart, offers practical steps for declaring freedom and encourages us to trust fully in God's ability to remove pain and bring restoration. Listeners will leave with a renewed sense of purpose, concrete ways to seek healing, and the confidence that faith can move mountains and arthritis can be conquered. Let's dive in and hear about some faith that's fresh, wisdom that lasts.

Uh, how many people are here tonight for prayer for arthritis? Do you just raise your hand? Some of you can't quite raise your hands. That's all. That's that's okay. Now, the moment I finish ministering, I'd like you to come up the front here. And some of the folks here that have got nothing wrong with them will they keep the seat. We believe. And then you just take a seat. Those of you who can't stand. And if you can't get out of your seat and you can't come up, just mention the fact we're going to come down and pray for you. We have a war on this week. The war tonight is against every person that is suffering from arthritis. And on Saturday night, we are praying for people with cancer. Now, as God has directed this, I'm going to pray for them and they're going to be set free. This gentleman was set free and he's rejoicing today. How many people in this congregation have been healed of arthritis? Would you just raise your hand, please? You've already been healed of arthritis. Would you wave your hand, please? Just hold it there so I Let's see. And other people can hear us as 1 2 3 4 5 6. I'm losing my respect for arthritis, aren't you? Praise God. Isn't that wonderful today? That's really wonderful. I do praise God for that. Now, we're going to have many more people healed. But remember this, you do not come to the front for prayer. You come for healing. I do the praying and you do the receiving. That's essential. You must know that you're coming to the Lord and what you're going to get. Now, I know when I pray what you're going to get, but do you know when you come what you're going to get. When people came to Jesus, they would determine what they were going to get. So, you determine in your heart what you're going to what you're going to get. And remember, you're coming to a person that wants to give it to you. I was asked to see a man once with arthritis and his shoulder was up like this. He'd hump here and he's he was like this, crippled. I've never seen a man so badly crippled. And I remember praying for him and I reckon you could hear the bones as they went back into place. And he should went right there. You could hear it next door. Turned my stomach over. I can never forget that. And um I told this man, I said, "Don't ever go again to another spiritous meeting or you'll be bound up worse." Anyway, I won't tell you the end of that man because I don't want to frighten anybody here. But the point is this that God wonderfully healed that man of arthritis. He wonderfully healed him of arthritis. And I've seen other people that are crippled. One man with his knee locked. He couldn't bend his knee for 16 years now. Listen, you can get in such a habit in such a habit of not being able to do a thing or doing things like I said I get the limp in the right foot. This one I he came into the leading he was the Methodist local preacher and he was prayed for and then said now bend your knee in the name of Jesus and he went and he couldn't believe it. His knee was completely free. 3 days later he came into the meeting like this you know and I thought to myself I wonder what's wrong with him and I said I thought you were healed. I thought you were healed. He said, "Yes, I am." Oh, he said, "I forgot about his knee." No, he'd been he'd been doing it for so long. He'd been doing it for so long that he he went back into the habit of doing it. Now, I prayed for another lady with osteoarthritis and she was in a terrible state. She had two sticks and she managed just to to get into her chair and I prayed for her and then I said, "Now God has healed you." Thank you. Now, I said, "I want I want you to stand up. So she made her grab for her sticks. I said, "No, no, no, no." I said, "Remember, you needed them before I prayed for you." Oh, yes. And so she she stood up, you know. She found she could stand. Now I said, "I want you to walk across the room and back again." Well, she said, "I'm not able to walk without my six stick sticks. Not since 1948." I said, "That's what you couldn't do before I prayed feel." Oh, yes. She walked ac Oh, truck. So she walked across the room and walked back. Now I said, "Uh, I want you to sit down. And she went huh. I said, "Remember you could before you couldn't sit, but now since I prayed for you, you can." Oh. She said, "Yes." And she sat down. I said, "I can go around unbending you or unwinding you from this arthritis that you've suffered from for so long." So remember this that when you are prayed for, you have to adjust your mind as well as your faith to the fact that you are healed. Otherwise, you go and do the same things over and over again. I'm telling you that and giving you that instructions so that I can pray for people quickly. And now remember this also. If you come up here and you can't walk or you can't run or you can't bend or you can't move your limbs, be prepared to run out of here to walk out of here to bend and to move your limbs. So that's what you got to be prepared for. Now you still want to be prayed for any amens.

Amen. I don't like arthritis. I have a war against any sickness. But I thank God today that my God has healed all those that came unto him. And I was reading in Matthew that is many as came. as many as came. Will you turn with me just for a moment and then we'll go on to something else. Tomorrow night is a glorious night because we're praying for people to be filled with the spirit. Amen. Oh, I love that night. Don't you? When everybody comes along and they're all filled with the Holy Spirit. How many people have been being filled with the Holy Spirit. Would you please raise your hands? Wow. Look at that. Wonderful. Some of you don't quite understand what it's all about. But like my brother said that after you've been healed, you can move forward and receive from God the fullness of the spirit and go out and pray for other people that are sick. Now, we read here verse 16 of Matthew chapter 8. When the evening was They brought unto him many that were possessed with devils. And he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick. Not some, all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "Himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses." Himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses. I think one of the biggest problems that Christians have Not just the will of God, but will God heal them? Will God heal them? And people come in the hope that God will heal them. Well, you've got to first of know by know by the word of God that God is willing to heal you and that God is willing to fulfill his word. The Lord Jesus Christ came to heal the sick and all those that were oppressed of the devil. He came to do something very deliberate. He came to do his father's will. And by healing the sick and by casting out devils, he showed that he had the power over evil spirits that quite often cause disease. And he had the power over sickness. But he himself bore our sicknesses on the cross. He took upon himself our sicknesses as well as our sins. And so then the church can be completely free from sickness in any form and sin. Not alone did he do that, but also he gave us power over the devil so that we also can pray for the sick. and minister to the sick and command the sickness to leave the body and it will do so. We've spoken already about the authority of the believer in the realm of sickness or in the realm of Satan where we can deal with Satan and put him in his place so that we are free to minister. Jesus did not argue with Satan at any point because he was there to do his father's will and he could see nothing to oppose his father's will. He could see nothing to stop his father's will. Now I praise the Lord for everything that he did when he went to the well. He did something very unorthodox. Do you remember? He reached out to a woman that was basically an outcast. She came to the well midday simply because, well, everybody knows you don't draw water in the east until the evening in the cool of the evening. Then you draw the water. You don't draw at midday. There was nobody else at the well. She was an outcast because of her the way she was living. And the Lord knew that. And he said, "If you knew who it was that was speaking unto you, you would have asked of him and he would have given you eternal life or living water. And I praise the Lord tonight. If you knew who it is that is speaking to you. Now, it's not just me that is speaking to you. I believe tonight that God can speak to you through people. Not alone God speak to people, but he can speak through people. And I'm here because I know God wants me to be here. And I am not frightened of sickness in any form. And I'm not frightened of the devil or demons or anything else. And I say that publicly because I don't like the devil. And I say one thing else. I know that the devil is defeated. And he knows that I know he's defeated. Now, I have seen what Calvary has accomplished. I have had a vision of the wonderful salvation of Jesus Christ. And when he defeated Satan on the cross, I have received a savior that is victorious over sickness, over sin, over Satan. And he has authority over that person. I do not rob him of that authority in me. But I acknowledge that authority. And when I come against sickness, I don't mess about. I tell it to get out in the name of Jesus. Another words. I believe that that sickness is committed to obeying the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the Lord Jesus left us something really wonderful that most Christians haven't realized is available to them. He left us his name. Now, the name of a person is very important. It means a lot of things. It represents the person and all that they can do and all that they are and all that they've got. You've got that? Write it down. That's lovely. Now, the name of Jesus represents all that he's done, all that he is. and all that he's given for you and for me and all he can do it represents all that he is he can do and he's got the name is just the same as the person there's no difference between the person and the person's name no difference whatsoever there's no difference between God and his word they are one and the name of Jesus is the same as the person so if we want the Lord Jesus Christ to be present we say where two or three in Matthew 18:20 are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst Where two or three are gathered together in my name, then I am in the midst. And remember, he's the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 tells us. So we know tonight that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the midst of his people in his name. You got that? Now that's most important because it's a name above every name. It's not just any name. It's a name above every name that at the name of Jesus. Now he's also told us this. Ask any anything in my name and I will do it. He's the only person that has risen from the dead. Therefore, has conquered death and is now in the position to act in his name. So when we meet in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he is present. When we command in the name of Jesus, he goes into action. When we pray in the name of Jesus, he answers our prayers. He my father will hear from heaven. So the name of Jesus is absolutely vital to every Christian. And these signs shall follow those that believe in my name. They shall cast out devils. And when you use the name of Jesus, you're clothed with his ability and his power. The power of God comes upon you and you act just like the person. It's incredible, but it's true. Peter said, "Such as I have in Acts chapter 3, Gibby unto you in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk." What did he have in the name of Jesus? He had healing because you've got healing in Jesus. The name is the same as the person. Is it coming through? And that's most important to you tonight. You must realize that we to everything in this meeting in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no other name given amongst men whereby we must be saved. That name is above every name. And in my name these signs shall follow those that believe. In my name they shall cast out devils. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover in my name. And when the disciples went out in in Luke chapter nine, Jesus sent them out and they went out knowing the person using the name and they came back with what? They came back with a 100% result in in Luke chapter 10 and they said even the devils were subject unto us in thy name. They found that even the devils were subject because they knew and they found out through bitter experience that the devils were not subject unto them but they were subject unto them in the name of Jesus. This pipe cometh not out but by fasting and praying. Devils are still subject to Jesus Christ. A spirit cannot touch a Christian if you breathe the name of Jesus. But you must know the person. And as much as you know the person, that's as much as you know the name. and the power of that name and the authority of that name. And the reason why things don't happen today because we say the name as if it's a magic word. We say the same thing. We refer to scripture as if it's magic. It's nothing on that line whatsoever. It's God's word and it's the name of Jesus and it's faith in that name. Peter uh begins to preach later on in Acts 3:16. He said, "It's faith in that name that had made this man whole that was stood in front of you. Can you be worse than crippled? Such as I have give I unto you in In the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. One day Jesus came across a person suffering from arthritis about 18 years. And he said, "Artu not this child of Abraham." A child of Abraham is a child of faith. ought not to be loosed from the spirit of infirmity. ought not to be loo whom Satan has bound. Now, first of all, note where your sickness has come from. It's come from Satan. Satan has bound you. Artight is generally speaking is a spirit. The spirit is not in you as a person. in your physical body and the ob the object of a spirit or objective of a spirit is to take the life of the body and destroy it is to cripple the body and twist it to its own end and purpose. So when we command a spirit to come out of the body we call it a spirit of infirmity. The spirit leaves the body but leaves behind the body to be healed. Now the body has to be healed. So we pray then that the Lord will heal the body and the physical body begins to recover then from the effects. So the person and has to believe that they are healed. If they don't believe they're healed, then they're not healed. They've got to believe that they are healed first before they see any physical evidence and then they come into the experience and the evidence. It's wonderful to see people healed. I've seen all sorts of people. One lady when I first went to Chicago, the the the elders on the platform kept saying to her, "Sister, sit down." She said, "No, I'm not going to sit down. I haven't walked for six years." She said, "And I'm not going to sit down." She's just been healed. a dear old lady and she was too old uh uh you know to insult and you're just too old to tell her to do anything. Bless the Lord. If you had been crippled, you know that poem was carried into the meeting and she was walking up and down, marching up and down and she wasn't going to stop mark marching because she was frightened of that sickness coming back. And so she marched right through into hell. I've seen one lady running up the steps in Finland who was crippled in a hip a hip out of joint and the whole thing and got and she ran up the step completely free. An old lady again and she waved her hands at the stop. at the top because all the stairs go all the way up to the top. The congregation go right back to the top of the building and to see a running up there to see people running today. And the man leaped and what did he do? He leaped and he be to praise God. What a way to go to the prayer meeting in Acts chapter 3 leaping and praising God. By goodness me, what happened? The church met him outside the church. Well, that's very interesting. A lot of things are taking place outside the church today. But the point is a lot of things are taking place in the church and the man went back in praising the Lord to show what what God had done the wonderful works of God. And so tonight you're coming to a person that is absolutely adequate to do it. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. Please do not look to me as you have already been told. And I I do not belittle myself in public for for any reason. I just put myself out of the way completely so that because Jesus is the way, the only way and there is no other way. One lady in a wheelchair for 14 years. She sat in the first meeting meeting. She sat in the second meeting and all of a sudden she was getting mad with the devil. She realized that Satan had bound her for 14 years. And here she was taking it all from God. When she realized she didn't have to take it because it wasn't from God and that all of a sudden she got so mad she believed. She got out of that wheelchair and she walked up the stairs. Not just along the along the the ground. She walked up the stairs and they were all having coffee coffee up top. It was a restaurant up top and at a conference and people just doesn't dropped the cup. Some started to scream and the rest started to cry and hug her and the poor woman didn't know what to do with herself. Folks, it's absolutely You got pimples running all over your body or goose pimples. I don't know what sort of pimples you have over here, but we generally have goose pimples in England. And it's just fantastic when somebody gets gloriously healed. I There are so many people that have been just healed because they simply believe that in the name of Jesus, there is authority in that name and the person is in that name. And if you call upon the name of the Lord, you I'll be delivered. It says in the Greek. Now, if you don't know anything else, you say, "Lord, help me." That's how I got saved, folks. No theology. I didn't understand about the blood, about anything else. I didn't understand all the theology about the cross. All I needed knew I was a sinner and I needed to be saved. And I thank God tonight that I was gloriously saved. I love the word saved cuz I'm a good Anglican. And we uh Who said I was a good Anglican? Did I say that? Come on in my mind. I'll never spend another day with you, Bonnie. That's it. Praise the Lord. And you know, it's incredible when I was saved. Oh, I'm not kidding you. It was glorious. It was real. And I know today that you can have a wonderful direct experience with God. And call your experience what it is. If you feel saved, say you are saved. You're delivered, say you're delivered. Just call it what it is. But remember, it's the Lord that delivers you. And the person that set you free can keep you free. Hallelujah. Oh, I do thank God that not alone did Jesus Christ die on the cross to save us, But he rose again to keep us. Woo! Glory. Amen. I haven't said that since I came into New Zealand. That's the first time I whoop up. That's the sec. Do you mind what I'll be doing next week in the meeting? I'll tell you something. I'll be dancing on this platform if my name isn't Harry Greenwood. And you can leave or join me. Hallelujah. But I'm taking steps to go to glory. And I'm going to leave this country, not by plains. Hallelujah. I'm going up. I've been trying to contain myself all day. Been having meetings all day. That's why I'm intoxicated with the Lord. He is just one Wonderful. Oh, I do praise God tonight. There are a lot of people that don't quite understand um what is going on. They say, "I keep bumping into people." You know, my next door is now a nextdoor neighbor now is speaking in tongues. Oh, well, I said that's all right. Yeah, it must be all right. She's actually come over the fence to help me. And before, you know, we talked to each other. She just took offense. But now you Oh, bless the I couldn't help it. I saw it coming and I just couldn't miss it. Praise God. But don't you see what's happening now? The Holy Spirit moving upon God, upon the whole church is causing us to to realize that the name of Jesus is alive and it's real. The word of God is alive. He cast the spirits out. We've just read it by his word. Can anybody tell me where the word of the Lord is today? That's all we need to deal with evil spirits. You know where it is? Amen. There's a dear lady down there that knows where the word of God is. Well, that's wonderful. Now, do you know where the name of Jesus is? Yes, you do. You know where the Holy Spirit is? Yes. You'll find Jesus where he name is, you'll find the word of God where God is. Yes, they're all one. Folks, do you know what we've been given today? We've been given such a fantastic inheritance. And do you know what we've been commissioned to do? Go out into all the world. But more What about the bamboo curtain? What about the iron curtain? What about all the other curtains? Do you know, as far as I'm concerned, the person that put them up, God is going to make him take it down. And as far as I'm concerned, it's curtains for the devil. He's the cause of it all. Now, we have no problem with Christians on any side of the curtain. It's only those that are left up to with the Holy Spirit that we have problems with. But don't you realize that God has sent us into the world not as just bound, sick, miserable, wretched Christians. Why don't you become a Christian? You can end up like me. God hasn't sent us into the world like that. This is not an endurance test. Oh, won't it be glad? Won't I be glad when Jesus comes or calls? My goodness me, there's so much to do. God has sent us into to the world as ambassadors for Christ. We represent a new country, a new land. We represent a living God, the King of Kings. We're ambassadors. You go and see your embassy in London. Not London or somewhere else. You go and see your embassy and see if they're all there in their old clothes or they've got woolen suits on or something like that and they're sheepkin suits on and they're looking raggedy with no shoes on like some of you walk around here and so forth. I'll tell you the spic and span and everything that you can buy good in New Zealand. Your signed up on the wall somewhere advertised and they're proud to be New Zealanders and represent New Zealand. They're absolutely proud to do so. Well, therefore, we should be proud to represent the King of Kings. What's the point if I have no authority and the King is not behind everything that I say? What's the point if I do not have the power of the Holy Spirit? How can I go into all the world? Why the world has overcome me before I even begin? So, Christians are defending themselves from the world and the devil and everything else when they should be out there attacking everything that is not of God and pulling it down. How do you pull things down? By building the kingdom of God. Hallelujah. You got to build on some site. Well, just move the site over. Praise the Lord. When you begin to build. You know, we've taken things from people and taken things from the devil. And it's time we found our place of authority. And this word you're going to find all the way through the meetings. I was in Chicago in um ministering in Faith Tabernacle a few years back. And right on the end of Faith Tabernacle, there is a pub or a tavern, whatever you like to call it. Now, there's no other building attached to Faith Tavern, a beautiful church standing up, the word of God plastered up all over the place. Lovely church. And right on the end of it, you've got this tavern and people just roll into it and roll out of it. And they come in to church and they don't roll out of it, but you know what I mean. They come out of church praising God. Now, that was been a nice sore. So, one one year I decided I had enough of it. So, I marched around it, cursed it, and that was the end of it. So, I felt that settles it. And then they called me from America. They sent me a letter and told told me actually that the place had burned down. It had gone on fire. I wasn't in England, so I wasn't responsible for it. I could have done it in the right spirit, too. And it it went on fire. It went on fire. And it was going to burn the whole tabernacle down. Going to burn. And the wind changed. Woohoo. Glory. And burnt down the the place only that burnt down that tavern and didn't burn down. In other words, the the faith tabernacle. And today, if you go there, you'll see a beautiful new lovely restaurant. And It serves beautiful food. So when you can stay in church all day and just go next door and have your meals. Glory be to God. Tell you boy, if you want it, you'll have it. But we determine what we have today with our faith. That's far as healing is concerned. We've got a very wonderful vegan wonderful God. But we must move out in faith to approach him. We must believe that God is and a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. Many times I've been forced into circumstances which you wouldn't believe there was a way out. And I said today to somebody, God doesn't want custard Christians. Hands up those who know know what a custard Christian is. Some of you do. A custard Christian. Hands up those who don't. Oh, I see. Hands up those who think they're custard Christians. You're taking no chance. Well, a custard Christian. A custard Christian is a Christian that gets upset over trifles. Just a platinum. I know you're a custard Christian, a young ass. Bless her heart. There's a custard Christian down there. So don't trifle with her. Now we think that when we come to know the Lord that he's going to deliver us from all our problems. He's going to deliver you in them, but not from them. He going to find the fiery furnace. All right, but you know what you're going to find in there? I do laugh. You know the devil is so stupid. I'm not kidding you. But only only and you bring God into it. Here he he gets these Hebrew children, gets them into real trouble, and so they're all thrown into the fiery furnace. Now, that's that's wonderful. And what happens? Well, it just happens that they're thrown in there in God's will. And you can't burn God's will. He should know that by now. It just doesn't burn. It's fireproof. Hallelujah. Now, what happened to them when they were thrown in? Only that which wasn't of the fire burnt the ropes that they were tied with. So, they were set free in the fire. Hallelujah. So when the fire comes, the Christians always set free because they have fellowship with the fourth man in the fire. Who's that? The Lord Jesus Christ. Some people never found Jesus except in the fire. Some people never came to Christ unless they were in real difficulty and trouble. So man's extremity is God's opportunity. We believe that is so. But God shouldn't and he as far as I'm concerned, he does not force a man right to the very point of death before he'll accept him. God does not do that. But the devil will destroy a man if he can do. But God will use the circumstances if man will turn in to God and God will reveal himself as a God of love. I thank God that those Hebrew children were safer in the fire than anywhere else. And I tell you something, the people that threw them in the fire wasn't made of the same material because the fire burned them up. Hallelujah. We have to face the fire in these days to come and trials and tribulations. I got news for you folks. You with persecutions, you're going to get lots of them and more and they're going to increase. And the more it comes against you, the more you're going to get from God, the deeper you're going to come into what you're in and you're going to get a little more of what you've got for Folks, you can't lose because God put the best in you and the best is going to come out. Now, I believe that with all my heart. So, there's a challenge to every person's faith today. What has God left out of his divine plan for salvation that you haven't got tonight? What has he left out? Tell me something that he's left something out. He hasn't left the thing out. Then where is everything? It's locked up by the spirit of God in the word of God. And faith unlocks the door and walks in and possesses your possession. People didn't to say to Jesus, "Excuse me, Lord. In a couple of minutes, I'm about to touch you." As many as touched him were made perfectly whole. When they touched him, he didn't get sick. They caught his health. I want you to know this that he hasn't changed today. A lot of people think, well, God can God. Well, God can. God can do anything. He said, "What is impossible with man is possible with God." So Jesus turned around to a man and he said to him, "If thou canst believe, all things are possible." And the man said, "Oh Lord, I believe, but help thou my unbelief. And Jesus didn't. He just took his believing. Don't ask him to help your unbelief. He won't help it one little bit. He'll ignore it completely, but he'll use your believing. If you say you'll believe, forget your unbelieving. Just use your believing. It'll take you right over the top of your unbelieving. Folks, forget about fear. Just get into love and love will get rid of fear. Forget the negative. Just use it to move into the positive. Forget the thing that is against you. Let it allow you to come to God in a real believing way, and you'll be set. free. Don't worry what's coming against you because what is for you. Jesus said, "Don't worry about the world." He said, "Don't worry about the world." I know he sent us out into all the world, but don't worry about the world. He said, "You're not of the world." He said, "But you're going to remain in it." He said, "But you're not Albert." And he said, "Don't worry about it because I have overcome the world." Now, do you know it's possible tonight for you to overcome the whole world individually. You know what the Bible says in 1 John 5:4? This is the victory that overcometh the whole world. Even our faith that's necessary for you. This is the victory that overcometh the whole world, even our faith. Oh, folks, tell me something. If God's given you faith and made everything available to that faith that's necessary for you to overcome, do you think then God can do anything more tonight? Do you think that if Jesus Christ is present in this meeting and the power of God is here, And God wants to heal you. He can do anything more. Do you think there's something that we've got to do today? Yes, there is. Jesus said, "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavyladen, and I will give you rest." Hallelujah. And he gave them rest. Come unto me all ye that are thirsty. And he'll quench. And nobody's ever come to Jesus has ever been disappointed. Nobody's wanted anything else but Jesus. I can tell you now when they've really found the Lord in a real way. So tonight, God put everything in Jesus Christ that you could desire, body, soul, and spirit. And when you receive Christ, you receive the whole Christ for a whole man, body, soul, and spirit. He sets you free in your soul and your spirit and your body. Oh, wouldn't it wonderful to be a Christian? I wouldn't be anything else, right? Let me say it again. Isn't it wonderful to be a Christian?

Matthew 8 · chapter mention Matthew 18:20 Hebrews 13:8 Acts 3 · chapter mention Luke 10 · chapter mention Acts 3:16 Acts 3 · chapter mention 1 John 5:4

Oh, that's really wonderful. Thank you. I was just wondering what happened to the rest of the Christians. Now, we live in a very wonderful day. The world has never been in a greater need. And the church has never been in a greater position to meet that need. And so tonight we represent the whole church. I believe that the whole church may not like to come to our meetings. Agreed. We couldn't get them all in to start with. But the point is this. There is a day coming when every person is going to be aware of the family of God. And the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be the person with the preeminence in every meeting. And the Lord is going to be glorified. Folks will be able to hug each other and tell each other that we love each other. Won't it be a wonderful day? Oh, I tell you, we were already doing it in several places in the world. We're completely free and we love the Lord and we love each other. And the people in New Zealand, I've come to love. And I praise the Lord that love will reach right through and cure everything that's ever wrong with you. But you know, the Lord is tying us down to loving each other. And many people can say to a brother and sister, God loves you. But can you love the brother sufficiently so that they know that God loves them? It's in the loving. And you know, homes are destroyed today. Husbands, when did you last tell your wife? that you loved her. Deadly silence for parents, when did you last tell your children? The hardest thing in the world is for a man sometimes to bend his heart to tell his family that he loves him. I know to find a place in God, folks. We've lost something terrible. We've lost everything when we can't love. This is the disease of the church. It's got a hardening of the heart. It needs to have a melting of the heart to love. Oh, I just thank God that love prepares the patient for the operation of the spirit. If we don't love the person that we're ministering to, then we haven't got a relationship with God whereby God is allowed to love that person through us. I challenge everybody tonight and myself including. I'm here tonight because I love the people of New Zealand. I am not finding it hard to do what God has given me a wonderful love. I know it's God-given. I had it myself to begin with, but God has increased it to the extent that I'm willing to sacrifice and go on in God for it. Folks, I would never stand up here and tell people there was hope for their bodies if there wasn't. I'd never tell anybody it's wonderful to be a Christian if it wasn't. But I praise God today. It'll take all the guts you've got, and I don't like using the word quite often, but it'll take all the gut you've got to be a Christian and to stand with God today. This is a day when Christians have to stand stand for the truth in their place of work and everywhere they live. They've got to stand for what they are. And I praise God today. He's given us enough to stand and enough to understand. Hallelujah. I'm going to pray in a few moments for people. And I tried to keep every message very short because people are new every night and I don't want to complicate things. But I have one little thought. I always have a little thought. Takes a little time. But a little thought is I would like you to turn please to um Mark chapter 11. You have Mark chapter 11. You're just going to read a few verses from verse 20. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance said un to him, "Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursest is withered away." And Jesus answered, said unto him, "Have faith in God, or as you read in your margins, have the faith of God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe those things which he say shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith." He shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore, I say, to you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. Therefore, I say unto you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. There are three points here I'd like to make. First of all, that Jesus did not was not looking at the fig tree that he cursed. Peter was. I want you just to try and see what I'm going to say. say now I've only got a couple of minutes to say it in this is for the benefit benefit of the people that are going to be healed tonight. Jesus did not look at the tree when he cursed it. The tree did not bear fruit. It had no purpose. Remember the creator was there. All things were made by him. The Bible says for him and everything that was made by him was made for him and it did not serve him because it was not bearing fruit. So he cursed it. But there was no evidence that anything happened. to the tree. And the disciples remembered what he said. You can read it from verse 12. The disciples remembered what he said. And Peter brought to his reme said, "Look, Lord, the fig tree that thou curses, it's withered away. Look Lord, it's actually come to pass." Now Peter believed it came to pass when he saw it. I have cursed in the name of Jesus disease. It has died from the moment it was cursed. That's cancer and other diseases. And it's taken maybe a day or two for the evidence to be be seen by the person or somebody else. Now, Jesus didn't say, "Well, that was a fantastic thing I did, wasn't it?" He pointed to the faith that did it. Now, listen, this is more important than you can ever realize. He pointed to the faith that did it and then told them that they were no longer in this faith to ask your heavenly father to do something. You would say to this mountain, "Be thou removed." And it would be removed, and you shall have whatsoever you say. Now this is mustard seed faith. This is a growing faith. A mustard seed is a growing faith. It's a growing it's a growing up into fruition to fullness. Mustard seed is such a small faith but it's a pure faith. And it's a pure seed. It can be crossed in any way. It's the one of the only pure seeds as as far as I know. Some of you may know a little more about it. But it grows up into fullness and it's pure. Mustard seed faith is growing faith. And that's the sort of faith that we've got. Growing faith. Hallelujah. You shall say to this fig tree or whatever it is that is not serving me that means a sickness the devil and everything else you shall say to it be thou removed for those of you who have never heard the definition have the faith of God I'm going to give it to you tonight I ask God have you ever asked God a question about scripture you say Lord I cannot understand how can I have the faith of God the faith of God how can I have the faith of God the faith of God who say Is it the faith of God? Well, what's the faith of God like? The faith of God is like this. It is seeing everything completed before you speak. It'll blow your mind, won't it? Seeing everything fulfilled before you speak. Like for instance, if my son was hanging off the chandelier, I say, "David, get down." I wouldn't say, "David, get down to see if he'd get down." I have already seen David down in my authority and in my faints. Now I am going to speak so that David may get down. I said David get down and David believe it or not will get down. Now my heavenly father is like this. He saw everything before he created it. He saw it already created and he spoke out the word from himself. So he's connected to his creation by the word that he has spoken. Listen to it carefully. Okay. So for everything then is kept in place. The Bible says by the word of his power. You got it. That's good. Now everything therefore operates and runs by the word of God. You got it. Now therefore when you come back as a son of God, you getting it? You also have a creative word. You have a creative word. Just like a friend of mine I told you last night prayed for a man with no eyeball and God recreated. on in a few seconds recreated. I've commanded a bone to go straight and it has gone straight. I've commanded a leg to grow and it has grown. So I commanded that which could not respond in the natural to me. But it responded to the word of the Lord. I have commanded in the name of Jesus just like I he cursed the fig tree. I have cursed also disease and it has withered away. And I can say that before God tonight. It has withered away. Ulcerated varicus veins. I mentioned some of the cases that are outstanding because I mentioned So often I remember me easily. Other cases I can't remember. There are so many of them. Believe you me. I cursed them veins in the name of Jesus and they withered up from that day. And I think it was something like 6 weeks. It was many weeks later. But I'll give a good long period of time to show you how long it took for the fig tree to wither away. And when that woman came back, she had her ulcerated varicus veins hanging up, dried out, withered up, useless. And she had new veins completely. She's over 16. She hasn't got a mark on her lip today. The show that she ever had ulcerated, ulcerated barricas vein. And I can give you her name and address and you can write to her. And that's over 8 years ago when I prayed for that woman. That's a long time ago. Now, I bless the Lord for that. For I realize that God has given us his own faith. Oh, can't you see it? It's a gift of God. What could God give you? Somebody else's faith. He could give you nobody else's faith but his own. So, you've got faith tonight because it's God-given. And God had given to every man the measure of faith. Not a measure, but the measure of faith in Romans 12:3. And it's the faith of God. Oh, I thank you, Lord. And the Lord Jesus Christ came to demonstrate as he walked the earth, for he was also a 100% man of faith. And I bless the Lord for that. You may not believe that, but it's perfectly true. He also walked by faith. And you know what that made him? It made him the author and the finisher of my faith. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. The author, not not just the author, but the finisher of my faith. And he has told me that we can live by faith, walk by faith, and that we have victory over the whole world in our And we can say to this fig tree, "Be thou to this mountain, be thou removed and it shall be removed." You have the power today and the authority in the spirit of God under the influence of the Holy Spirit to command sickness and everything that is contrary to the will of God to be removed and it shall be removed. Folks, have you done any commanding in your home? Hands up. Those since I've spoke about commanding about the devil, have done any commanding in their home, would you just wave your hands, please? That's wonderful. I tell you, people in these meetings are really going to work on what was said. said, "We don't say very much, but what we say really counts." You take authority as you're in subjection to Christ. The husband is the head of the house, not price. The husband is the head. Christ is the head of the husband. Get it the right way around, fees. Amen. And as a family order, not wife first. That's disorder. Husband first and then wife and then children. And children, you should be in subjection to your parents because you love them. Wife should be in subjection to husband because she loves him also. And I believe that That's why the the Lord has told told us to love our wives. It's a command, one of the few commands that are given to us. The reason that wives are not told to love their husbands is simply because husbands are so lovable. All the ladies said, "Oh, come on now. Come on." And all the ladies said only amens over here in this unsanctified lot. Praise the Lord. Folks, there is a divine order and we are here now as we're in God in the right place with God to bring the order about. There's a divine order in business. There's a divine order everywhere that Christ should have his way, not the devil. And we're going to give way to Christ. If we acknowledge the Lord in all our ways, he's going to direct our paths. I've seen some wonderful business transactions in these last days made by the Holy Ghost. Told a man to buy a property. And this man was in a meeting and or he gave everything that he had and was in thousands. And then the Lord said as he passed this property, he said, "I want to go and buy that property. And in America, you can do things like this. He went in and bought the property. He put down a down payment or something. That's all he had. Went in and bought the property and he had to make a decision about it, but he was signed now. You know, he's signed on the line and he had to make a decision about it. And it was a couple of days later this other building firm came to him and offered him nearly twice as much that he paid for it. He sold it to them without even paying for it. And so, so paid it off with the money that they gave him Lores and he went back with his profit from the Lord. I tell you, God can tell you when to buy, when to sell. And he can tell you also when when you want a good suit and all rest. He can take you to the right place and you can get it. And if you want a yellow jacket, he can take you all the way to Florida. And sorry about that yellow jacket. I won't wear it tomorrow night. But I want just wanted I would like to look less like a future as possible so people can see that I'm just normal. That mother that pinched that kid just to scream then I'll see her afterwards. That's But isn't it a wonderful day that we know we've got faith? Oh folks, I wouldn't tell you that you'd got you hadn't got faith if if you had faith that it I wouldn't have I wouldn't tell you that you got faith if it wasn't true. I bless the Lord tonight and now we're going to use it in a couple of minutes. Let's reach out to the Lord and I want you to love these people that have come forward. If anybody has suffered from arthritis and anything like this, they know the terrible pain and agony. But we're not here just to sympathize with people tonight. We are here to allow God through our faith to heal them. Now, I have promised because I don't want them to be in the meeting any longer to pray for people tonight who are suffering from arthritis. And these people, I want them to come out in a couple of moments. But first, I'm going to ask you to stand. face.

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