Well, this is the voice of your old
shepherd, and it's a thrill of my life
to be able to come into the auditorium
this morning by this way of bringing what
God has laid on my heart for you
this morning.
I have looked forward to it, and it
has been something that has really moved my
own soul.
I have gone through a lot of suffering,
and not only myself when I say that,
I mean my precious wife.
Many times through the night, two to three
times, we might have to...
I'll have such sweats that I'll get raining
wet and have to get up and change.
And in the wee hours of night, two
and three o'clock in the morning, it
makes it very hard on her.
And I would appreciate if you would really
hold her up in prayer.
I've laid here now, it's two weeks with
the virus, and we had a little relapse.
Then I got up and started back at
about two weeks, and I felt stronger.
And I was getting ready to go back
into full swing as soon as I could,
you know, snap out of it right then.
And then this other thing happened, which was
three weeks ago.
My collarbone was fractured.
And not only that, but all the ligaments
and the muscles pulled in that shoulder while
I was here laying at night at sleep.
And it set a kind of a reaction
of that pain took away...
I filled my stomach with such pain that
it was almost impossible to eat and enjoy
it.
And so naturally I began to fall off
weight, and at the present time it's 21
pounds that I have lost.
And as I have laid here, I suppose
I have suffered more than I've been healthy
and been strong.
You can't keep a good man down.
He's going to come out some way.
And I know there's going to be a
sunrise right away.
I have that uttermost confidence in my church
and my...
not only my church, but friends all over
this city.
And since I didn't understand the whole thing,
I had to have an understanding with God.
And so laying here night after night and
many nights getting up and having to sit
from one chair to the other and back
to the same place, the pain become very
severe.
And the weakness really was very strong.
I mean, weakness was effective in my body.
But one thing, I kept looking to God,
and several nights I just felt that I
couldn't stand, I couldn't lay down, and I
couldn't sit up no more.
And I'd look to him, and I'd say,
Lord, now just for a little answer, let
me go over and go to sleep.
And he'd let me go sound asleep, and
I'd get me some rest.
God's been very close to me, but I
wondered what was going on.
I wondered what was happening.
We were all praying, and I had, I
don't have to call preachers' names, but the
greatest in this whole country has come in,
anointed me with oil and prayed the prayer
of faith.
For 50 years I have spent my life
laying my hand on sick people and God
performing all kinds of miracles.
And I know God answers prayer, and I
know his promises are true, and I know
you can rely upon them, and I know
if there's one truth in the Bible, it's
divine healing.
It's as true as when Christ walked this
earth.
And God wants to perform miracles, but sometimes
strange things happen.
When I heard that they were praying for
me in Oregon, in Washington, in California, they
were praying for me in Kentucky, they were
praying for me in Houston, they were praying
for me all over this country, Louisiana down
there, they're praying for me.
And all the churches in the city have
been calling and telling that they have been
praying for me, but seemingly I received no
benefit of any.
It is only the little times when I'd
say, God, I must go to sleep.
As far as healing my body, it was
not healed.
It put a question mark in my mind,
and I said, God, I don't know what
this is all about.
This one I'm telling you now happened about
two weeks ago.
I said, I don't know what it's all
about, but I do know and I'm very
conscious that something is happening here.
You've got a purpose in mind, and I
want you to have your way no matter
what it costs me or what pain it
may cost.
I want you to have your way.
And the Lord never answered me back.
But after one week, God began to talk
to me, and God began to speak to
my heart.
He said, Son, all the churches in the
city and all the churches all over the
nation are praying for you, and they're asking
me to heal you.
But this is for a purpose, Son, and
that's why I haven't healed you.
Isn't God good?
Anyway, I laid here and the Lord began
to talk to me, and he said, Son,
all these people praying, they not only need
to pray for God to heal Brother Hibbard,
they need to pray for God to move
the objects out of the way that stand
in the way of your healing.
There's a job that has to be done,
Son, and I have no source to turn
to but my church.
I can look no other place but my
church to do it.
And my church must be in the position
it should be in to do what I
want done.
And there is a thing I want done
in the church.
It's not only for the church itself.
It's for the whole country.
But this thing that I have in mind
cannot be done.
The church is not in the position to
do it.
The church has grown much closer to me
since your affliction, and many have come in
and made greater dedications.
Others who had slacked in carrying the load
that must be carried or it's not carried
have moved up, and they begin to carry
that load.
There are others on the outside edge that
were drifting away that have turned and come
forward, and they've come back.
But at the present time, Son, the need
has not been met.
There is no preacher that I know of
in the country that could stand in your
pulpit and preach a message and cause the
people to do what I want them to
do.
And if you yourself was healed instantly by
my power, which I intend to do when
my people do what I want them to
do, he said, when instantly I could let
you stand in the pulpit strong as six
months ago, and I could let you have
the anointing that you've always had when you
have preached lately, especially with a heavy anointing
upon you.
But your preaching would not get this job
done.
It's not a hard job for anyone, but
it's one that hasn't been done yet.
They love you.
They want you to get well.
But many of them, they have not seen
the condition of their own soul.
And I want to tell you what I
want them to do.
As I said, many of them are wanting
to be drawn.
Many of them have wanted your healing and
all.
But he said, if you stood in the
pulpit today and you'd preach your heart out
after this healing, yet, knowing my people, there's
many of them that never make a move,
and the thing, object that stands in the
way would not be moved out.
I'm depending on you, son, to bring the
message that I give you from the bed,
and I want you to tell them what
I want them to do.
I want them to make a dedication, and
I want this dedication.
It's not that they're not Christians, and it's
not that they're not coming to church, but
these are the things that I find that
makes the church disqualified for me to operate
and do the work that I must do
for the great need.
It must be done.
And this is the only source.
I want every one of my people that
are here this morning, when you bring this
message, I want every one of my people
to take time to forget the time and
forget everything and put one thing paramount in
their mind to do, and that is to
obey you when you tell them to come
to the front and you tell them what
you want them to do.
I want them to make a dedication.
Many have made dedications, but it's not to
the extent that I require.
I want them to put me in the
place that I require.
There's no way that I can really use
their life and they can get the fullness
of my blessing unless they're operating in that
one place.
It's me operating in the place in their
life.
There are many things that takes their time
and attention, many things they look to to
get their entertainment.
This will not be done when I find
my right place in their heart, in their
dedication.
Automatically they will do just what I want
them to do.
They will pray.
Prayer will find its place in their life,
which must be there.
Many of them have let prayer come secondary.
It has not had priority over other things.
Prayer must be considered.
If I do the job, and this job
must be done, and it must be done
by my church that I have loved and
showed favor, not favor, but showed mercy to
and extended my great arm of mercy.
I believe that when this message is given,
it cannot be given strongly from the pulpit,
nor by other men.
It must be given by you from your
bed while still afflicted.
I want them to know that when they
make this dedication, it's not going to be
anything hard to do.
It will not take hours to do, but
it will take a consecration and a dedication
and putting everything out of their thought, but
the one thing.
And when you reach that place this morning
and you cry out to me with your
hands raised before God and ask me to
come into the place in your life that
will put the Bible reading in its right
place, prayer in its right place, and attendance
to my services, I have admonished my people
to forsake not the assembling of the self
together.
Many have their way of worship, but it's
not my way.
It does not satisfy me.
When my doors are opened, I expect my
people to come, and with my position in
their heart and me taking the place in
their life that I should take, it will
be easy to attend the services.
One thing I have been greatly grieved over,
I have seen my church, when she would
come together in service, but instead of going
in and sitting down, they would not do
that.
They would go in the prayer room, and
in a short time, I could see faces
turn heavenward.
I could see my men with their arms
raised praying under the anointing.
I could see young people.
I could see my teenagers.
I could see the youth in the prayer
room, from one end of the prayer room
to the other, praying before the service and
asking me to be a blessing.
They'd come out of that prayer room into
the services, and we would see wonderful things
happen.
My people have entered into a state of
lethargy, and it's easy to come and sit
down and go into the service without first
touching me, and then I find that when
they neglect this prayer, it has effect on
the services, where if I have found my
right place in their heart, they're going to
long and look forward, and they will be
pleased to come and kneel in the altar
and seek my face, and they'll put the
revival back in the prayer room, and every
opportunity that they can, they'll find themselves in
there waiting on me.
Now, the thing that I have in mind
is not just for the Gospel Lighthouse Church.
It must be done.
The dedication must be done by my people
at the Gospel Lighthouse.
The consecrations today must be done, but the
result is the thing I have in mind
that I must do, and it must be
done, but it can only be done by
prayer and by dedication.
Now, the dedication I've asked you to make
is not hard.
It's very easy, and it'll bring such joy
and such peace, such contentment, and as you
look right and left in our nation, is
it coming apart?
It's receiving my judgments now because of its
turning from me.
As the world has turned from me, so
my church have turned from me from the
full dedication I require.
So I want you to know that when
you're praying, it's not just to get yourself
closer to God so you'll be sure to
make heaven.
It is to bring yourself into the position
that I can do what I must do,
and if you do not, and if you
throw it off on someone else and say,
well, I'll let all the rest of them
pray.
I am an all-seeing God.
I see every heart.
You must respond to God yourself.
You must say, I cannot fail.
If everyone else fails, I must be true
to God.
This sacrifice is not something that is out
of ordinary.
It is something that will bring a new
hope in life to your home, and while
we see things coming apart around about you,
it will put a strength.
It will put a confidence, and I will
be with you in your trials and in
your troubles, and we will see God.
You will see God again move as you
have seen Him in times past.
This thing has been purposed in my heart,
and my servant, when this is accomplished, my
servant will be healed.
The prayers I have not wanted for prayers
of faith, they've gone up, but there's something
that only can be brought about by this
suffering, and you obeying His voice.
Now let me say this.
Our brother Ledbetter was in the room three
days ago, and I said to Brother Ledbetter,
Brother Ledbetter, God has been talking to me
for two nights.
I've got to do something, and I told
him how that we had already engaged our
brother Morrison Sunday morning.
He had something else to do Sunday night.
Brother Pulley was coming Sunday night.
God spoke to me and told me, He
said, I want Brother Morrison to preach Sunday
night, and I want you to tell him
that you're going to take the program and
you'll preach Sunday morning and bring my message
to my people.
There's something got to be done, and they
are the only ones that can do it,
and I'm depending on them.
And now you call Brother Morrison and tell
him that I want him to preach Sunday
night.
Well, before he had been engaged, but I
called him, and when I told him, I
said, Brother Morrison, as a pastor to pastor
and a spiritual leader to one, and knowing
the Holy Ghost, I know you'll understand me.
I must bring a message Sunday morning, which
I'm doing now.
And I said, Brother Morrison, I hope you
understand.
God has laid on my heart that some
things have got to be done, and it
can only be done while I'm suffering and
God's people, and we tell them what God
wants them to do.
He began to rejoice.
He said, Brother Hibbard, that's God.
And he said about Sunday night, yes, I
can be there, and I am so happy.
Let me tell you what happened on my
end of the line.
He said, God gave me a message that
burned in my heart, for I didn't know
when.
I knew I wasn't supposed to be there
Sunday night, but this message was burning on
my heart for Sunday, but I could not
bring it.
Something else had to be done before I
brought it.
There was a need, and I believe that
somehow this need must be brought before the
people before I could bring my message.
He said, You've hit it on the head.
That's exactly what God wants.
Now I have my message burning.
I can follow it up Sunday night, and
it'll be exactly what God wants.
And while I was sitting talking to Brother
Ledbetter, he said, Brother Hibbard, let me tell
you what happened to me.
About six or eight months ago, about six
months ago, he said I was taken down
with a terrible affliction.
I had prostate trouble, and I had blood
flowing from my body, and this blood couldn't
be checked, and we prayed day and night.
I got weaker and weaker, but this flow
of blood kept coming, and it seemed the
doctors that had checked me had exhausted all
they could do, and they said, Brother Ledbetter,
we're just having to wait and hope, and
he said I went down to where I
knew that I couldn't live.
I was so weak, but I had a
church that had really had a revival.
They had really prayed, and they was praying
for me, and they was seeking God, and
they was really getting closer to God, but
yet the thing wasn't accomplished, Brother Hibbard, that
should have been accomplished.
Just exactly like you were talking about, and
he said my wife left me on that
Sunday night.
I'd sunk so low until she said, Honey,
when I went out the door, I never
expected to see you alive again.
I had to go to the church, but
you was so weak, the blood hemorrhaging could
not be stopped, yet I had God fearing
people praying, falling all over the country, and
God could have healed me in a second,
but he didn't.
There was something had to be done, but
he said she came to church, and she
said I left your pastor in almost a
dying condition, so weak, and I doubted that
I'll ever see him alive, but she said
let's make a dedication that we've never made,
and who can tell, but this is what
God has wanted, to bring the church to
a place that it's never been, and he
said they got a hold of God, and
for 30 minutes or 45, they each one
made their little dedication, sincere from their heart,
no hypocrisy.
It wasn't something to be done tonight, and
going back in the same old rut Wednesday
or Thursday, but it's making a complete sweep,
settling everything, and after about 45 minutes, she
left, and she said I'll go back to
the hospital where my husband is just hanging
on for life, and she went.
He not only had God touched him and
healed him, but he was setting up with
his pants on, looked at her in life,
said honey, how you getting along?
She said honey, you don't look like the
same man when I left you.
He said I do.
He said something happened a while ago.
He said all I want to know is
what happened at the church.
She told him.
Brother Ledbetter said to me, brother, that's been
several months ago.
My church is a brand new church.
It's never done the same.
There were major things that had to be
done that could not have been done.
They wouldn't stand for it.
They were uncooperative.
They were ones willing to put my son
in his position to take charge, and I
could be there as pastor, but let him
take charge.
They were willing to do anything, but they
made the consecration, dedicated it, but got God
right in the right place, and when they
did that, he said I've been well ever
since.
It's almost a duplicate of what God, and
he hadn't mentioned that until I told him
what God had moved on my heart, and
now you've been so sweet.
You're the greatest people in all the world.
You've been so kind, but not just for
my sake.
I told Jesus with tears, Lord, I'm willing.
Whatever it takes.
However long I have to suffer, I'm willing,
but for this thing that is going to
mean so much to so many people, make
my people be willing to do what you
want them to do, and now I want
everyone to stand to your feet, and I
want you to start moving to the front,
and I want to have you come to
the front, and I'm going to pause just
for a moment.
If God should want to speak, he can
speak, but I want you to start moving
to the front, and then I'll pick up
again.
I, the Lord, search the hearts and know
the reins.
I know the thoughts.
I know the intent of every heart.
I see the inmost, inmost, inmost being of
thy very soul.
I know thy good points, and I know
thy shortcomings.
Some have left your first love.
No longer are you thrilled with my blessings
in my house and spiritual things, but you're
taken up with cares of this life and
deceitfulness of riches and lusts of other things,
right things in wrong places.
Some, the seed, the Word of God, has
fallen on thine heart, but you have such
shallow roots until when tribulation comes or test
comes or trials come or misgivings come, then
you're offended and you just absolutely lose out
in your soul with God, your Maker.
Then evaluate these things and search thine own
heart and say from the depths of thy
soul, Lord, here am I.
Search my heart and know my thoughts and
see if there be any wicked way in
me and let me make you Lord of
my life and put you first, first in
my thinking, first in my waking, first in
my going to bed at night, first on
my job.
You come first, Lord, and let me put
proper things in the proper perspectives and oh,
God, here am I, use me.
I am right with you, believe me.
If ever Brother Hibbert was right there in
that church, I am right there now.
I want my first words to be spoken
to all of our young people, young married
couples and young teenagers.
God spoke to me and he's very concerned
about the youth of this church.
You love God and you love Jesus, but
you have not entered into the place where
God wants you to be.
You have not put the Lord in that
place that he requires to be put.
He wants this young people to make the
dedication this morning and as soon as I
get through speaking, I want just the young
people, the teenagers, to go in the prayer
room and the young married couples and I
want the boys on one side and the
girls on the other and I want them
to kneel in the big circle and I
want them to join hands and the Lord
has made me to know that when you
do and you begin to pray for each
one you're holding hands for, that as once
never before in your life, you're making a
wholesale dedication.
You're laying every problem and everything on the
altar.
You're putting Jesus right in the right place
and you're putting your daily prayer right in
its right place and when you do that,
God made me to know the Holy Ghost
is going to come upon you and you're
going to feel the power of God and
our church is going to have a revival
and the youth has a great part in
bringing about this thing that God has in
mind and now I turn to the sweetest
people in all the world, the people that
love God and that I love you and
Jesus let me know how much He loves
you and what He's asking you to do.
Children is not a big thing.
It's just merely selling out and saying, God,
now once and for all and I don't
want anyone to be standing.
I want you to find your comfortable place
and I want you to get on your
knees and say, Lord, if I don't eat
until the later part of the evening, Lord,
I don't care how long it takes me.
I just want to dedicate and I just
want to let you know that I see
the need and it's not one or two
and it's not a few of them but
God's depending on every one of you that
are listening to my voice and He's depending
on you when you get up on your
knees you know you have touched God and
God has moved into the place in your
heart that He wants to occupy and I
believe the thing that God wants brought about
will be brought about by your love for
God and your pastor and that in so
doing God is going to heal my body.
I want you to kneel now and as
you begin to pray I want Brother Pete
Pulley that sang two weeks ago that wonderful
song Under the Spirit of God and as
he sings under the anointing I want you
to open your heart and your pastor's with
you and right this minute I'm praying with
you and the Holy Ghost is ministering and
confirming what I have said Oh God bless
you start praying