1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,180 Welcome to From the Pulpit. 2 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,080 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,420 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:05,420 --> 00:00:08,340 Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:08,580 too. 6 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:10,860 This week we have Kenneth Hagin with his 7 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:12,900 message, The Will of God in Prayer. 8 00:00:13,540 --> 00:00:15,600 I would like to direct your attention today 9 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,840 to the first epistle of John chapter 5 10 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,020 and we shall read verse 14 and 15. 11 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,600 The first epistle of John chapter 5 verses 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,700 14 and 15 and this is the confidence 13 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:36,300 that we have in him that if we 14 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:39,660 ask anything according to his will he heareth 15 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:45,220 us and if we know that he hear 16 00:00:45,220 --> 00:00:48,740 us whatsoever we ask we know that we 17 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:51,840 have the petitions that we desired of him 18 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,100 now we want to talk about the will 19 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:57,620 of God in prayer another translation of this 20 00:00:57,620 --> 00:00:59,820 verse says and this is the confidence instead 21 00:00:59,820 --> 00:01:02,200 of saying confidence it uses the word boldness 22 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,220 this is the boldness we have toward him 23 00:01:05,220 --> 00:01:07,400 that if we ask anything according to his 24 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,560 will he heareth us immediately our minds want 25 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,140 to fashion upon this portion according to thy 26 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:17,160 will and therefore when we pray we say 27 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,160 lord do this or that if it be 28 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,260 thy will other times we pray about things 29 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:24,280 on which we already have God's word so 30 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,600 we know his will concerning them to insert 31 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,360 that expression into our prayer when God's word 32 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,320 states that it is his will is confessing 33 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,080 that we doubt his word and don't believe 34 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,880 it that kind of praying will not work 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,520 some have supposed that you find the will 36 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,940 of God this way I remember a lady 37 00:01:44,940 --> 00:01:47,980 member of my congregation years ago when I 38 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:49,960 pastored was ill she was one of my 39 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,740 Sunday school teachers and her husband called for 40 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:54,620 me in the night to come and pray 41 00:01:54,620 --> 00:01:56,960 for her to anoint her with oil to 42 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:00,080 lay hands upon her now the Bible said 43 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,760 you know in James 5 14 is any 44 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,340 sick among you let him call for the 45 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:09,800 elders of the church and let them pray 46 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,960 over him anointing him with oil in the 47 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,980 name of the Lord and the prayer of 48 00:02:13,980 --> 00:02:16,260 faith shall save the sick and the Lord 49 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:19,040 shall raise him up and if you have 50 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,500 committed sins they shall be forgiven him now 51 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,620 acting on James 5 14 we went to 52 00:02:25,620 --> 00:02:29,060 this home knowing that you find out about 53 00:02:29,060 --> 00:02:32,060 people but what they say and knowing that 54 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:35,700 faith must be expressed in confession you know 55 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:39,320 the Bible says with the mouth confession is 56 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,160 made unto I wanted to get a confession 57 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,140 from this woman and find what she believed 58 00:02:45,140 --> 00:02:46,480 even though she was a member of my 59 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,140 congregation a Sunday school teacher and her husband 60 00:02:49,140 --> 00:02:50,720 a deacon in my church I said to 61 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,780 her as I stood by the bedside about 62 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:55,900 to anoint her with oil and lay hands 63 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,720 upon her to pray sister will you be 64 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,220 healed now as I anoint you with oil 65 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:03,060 and lay hands upon you in Jesus name 66 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:06,360 she said well I will if it's his 67 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,920 will I said how are you going to 68 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,720 find out or know whether it is his 69 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,700 will to heal you or not well I 70 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:15,260 thought you would pray and if it's his 71 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:17,520 will he'd heal me now it's amazing to 72 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,340 me how people Sunday school teachers especially who 73 00:03:22,340 --> 00:03:24,780 should be a little more Bible conscious than 74 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:27,720 others can sit in services week after week 75 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,860 and hear faith taught and not grasp it 76 00:03:30,860 --> 00:03:33,880 I taught as a pastor something else besides 77 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,460 faith but I taught a great deal on 78 00:03:36,460 --> 00:03:39,040 it still some didn't comprehend what the word 79 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,800 says the Bible much of the time just 80 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:43,660 runs off people like water off of a 81 00:03:43,660 --> 00:03:45,960 duck's back they sit there and say oh 82 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,820 I enjoy good preaching and Bible teaching no 83 00:03:49,820 --> 00:03:51,620 one enjoys it any more than I do 84 00:03:51,620 --> 00:03:54,560 I sure love to go to church if 85 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,580 you should ask what did the teacher or 86 00:03:56,580 --> 00:03:59,240 the preacher preach on that blank expression will 87 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,760 come on their faces and they say I 88 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,440 don't know but it certainly was good now 89 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,420 that makes as much sense as to say 90 00:04:05,420 --> 00:04:07,500 I'll tell you I had the best meal 91 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:09,740 yesterday at such and such a restaurant they 92 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:12,700 had the best pie or have the best 93 00:04:12,700 --> 00:04:15,220 pie of any place in town well what 94 00:04:15,220 --> 00:04:17,459 did you have to eat I don't know 95 00:04:17,459 --> 00:04:19,660 what kind of pie was it I don't 96 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:21,900 know now we would have reason to doubt 97 00:04:21,900 --> 00:04:24,080 very seriously whether you'd ever eaten there or 98 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,860 not we get confused sometimes because we do 99 00:04:26,860 --> 00:04:30,960 not give heed to the word of God 100 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:35,340 so let's give heed to God's word and 101 00:04:35,340 --> 00:04:41,400 let's know that God's word is true and 102 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,380 know that God's word brings a blessing well 103 00:04:46,380 --> 00:04:49,780 this Sunday school teacher in my church never 104 00:04:49,780 --> 00:04:52,720 missed any of the services she enjoyed coming 105 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,560 she would testify testimony time how much good 106 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,080 she'd gotten out of it what a blessing 107 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,920 it was and yet if the word had 108 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,000 really meant much to her I don't know 109 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,180 it she surely would have known better than 110 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:07,800 that I said how are you going to 111 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,240 find out if it's the will of God 112 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,440 to hear you or not or to heal 113 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,240 you or not well I thought you'd anoint 114 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,020 me with oil and pray and if it's 115 00:05:17,020 --> 00:05:19,260 God's will he'll heal me and if it's 116 00:05:19,260 --> 00:05:23,220 not his will then he won't of course 117 00:05:23,220 --> 00:05:25,620 I knew under those circumstances a woman was 118 00:05:25,620 --> 00:05:28,700 not going to get healed I knew it 119 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,220 would actually do no good to anoint her 120 00:05:30,220 --> 00:05:31,600 with oil or lay hands on her either 121 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,660 I don't mean to be sacrilegious about it 122 00:05:33,660 --> 00:05:35,820 but it would do just as much good 123 00:05:35,820 --> 00:05:37,760 to twiddle your thumbs over her and say 124 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,800 twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what 125 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,900 you are that would do just as much 126 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,640 good because her unbelief is going to stop 127 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,020 the flow of God's healing power though she 128 00:05:48,020 --> 00:05:49,960 is in pain and misery one can't just 129 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,660 stop and preach her a quick sermon I 130 00:05:52,660 --> 00:05:54,160 intended to talk to her a little longer 131 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,880 and bring her attention to the word of 132 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:57,480 God but she said go ahead I'm in 133 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,000 so much pain and misery go ahead and 134 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,640 anoint me so I anointed her and prayed 135 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,520 knowing that she wouldn't receive anything because she 136 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,500 wasn't believing in line with the word I 137 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,520 stumbled through a prayer and had hardly gotten 138 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,780 out my amen until she said to her 139 00:06:10,780 --> 00:06:13,800 husband call the doctor well now here's what 140 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,580 I couldn't understand she'd just gotten through saying 141 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:19,420 that if it was God's will that she 142 00:06:19,420 --> 00:06:22,620 be well he would heal her and if 143 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:25,040 it wasn't he wouldn't she didn't get healed 144 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,480 therefore by her own admission it wasn't God's 145 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,620 will for her to be healed yet she's 146 00:06:29,620 --> 00:06:32,460 calling the doctor and paying him to get 147 00:06:32,460 --> 00:06:34,020 her out of the will of God now 148 00:06:34,020 --> 00:06:36,300 can you see that it doesn't make sense 149 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:39,460 if I believe like that if it's God's 150 00:06:39,460 --> 00:06:41,220 will you heal me and if it's not 151 00:06:41,220 --> 00:06:43,440 God's will he won't heal me then I 152 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,440 would have to believe that it isn't God's 153 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,620 will that I be well then I would 154 00:06:47,620 --> 00:06:49,680 be wrong and even wanting to get well 155 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,820 if it's not God's will for me to 156 00:06:51,820 --> 00:06:53,760 be well I'd be wrong in trying to 157 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,480 get out of the will of God it 158 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:56,780 would be wrong then to go to the 159 00:06:56,780 --> 00:06:58,460 doctor it would be wrong to take medicine 160 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:01,740 people would be spending money enlisting help to 161 00:07:01,740 --> 00:07:04,860 get out of the will of God well 162 00:07:04,860 --> 00:07:06,300 now you know just as well as I 163 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:08,920 know that sickness and disease not God's will 164 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,140 that's the reason we do everything we can 165 00:07:11,140 --> 00:07:13,380 certainly we believe in doctors and believe in 166 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:16,300 medicine and believe in hospitals and thank God 167 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:18,740 for all that they're doing they're not getting 168 00:07:18,740 --> 00:07:20,420 people out of the will of God it's 169 00:07:20,420 --> 00:07:22,900 Satan that's bound people they're working against the 170 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:24,840 same devil I'm working against they're just using 171 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,540 different methods and means you see many times 172 00:07:27,540 --> 00:07:30,020 we've taken a superficial view of some of 173 00:07:30,020 --> 00:07:32,180 these verses and I'm not dug into them 174 00:07:32,180 --> 00:07:35,380 to see what he's saying now then I'm 175 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:37,600 only using this as an illustration about the 176 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,960 will of God in prayer many times in 177 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,140 similar situations this is the conclusion to which 178 00:07:43,140 --> 00:07:45,780 people come they try to find the will 179 00:07:45,780 --> 00:07:48,500 of God by saying if it's his will 180 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:50,600 he'll do it and if it's not his 181 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,000 will he he won't we hear that all 182 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,280 the time now for instance when it comes 183 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,020 to the baptism of the Holy Ghost I 184 00:07:57,020 --> 00:07:58,880 run into the same thing I say to 185 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:00,460 people before I pray with them to be 186 00:08:00,460 --> 00:08:02,660 filled with the Holy Ghost because I want 187 00:08:02,660 --> 00:08:04,720 to learn how they think will you be 188 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,200 filled with the Holy Ghost now as I 189 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,920 lay hands on you and pray I've had 190 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,000 people say well I will if it's his 191 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,260 will again I've said well how are you 192 00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:16,060 going to find out how are you going 193 00:08:16,060 --> 00:08:17,460 to know whether it's the will of God 194 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:20,960 or not I'm thinking of one lady right 195 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:22,220 now who just looked at me right in 196 00:08:22,220 --> 00:08:24,640 the startle she said why I thought that 197 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,920 you would pray and if it was his 198 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,360 will he would fill me and if it 199 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,760 wasn't his will he wouldn't I said no 200 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,460 I can't pray under those circumstances because you 201 00:08:34,460 --> 00:08:36,820 wouldn't be filled with the spirit then you 202 00:08:36,820 --> 00:08:38,580 would leave and say well it's not God's 203 00:08:38,580 --> 00:08:40,380 will because brother Hagen laid hands on me 204 00:08:40,380 --> 00:08:42,140 and prayed for me and God didn't fill 205 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:45,280 me friends if the word of God says 206 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,380 that this promise of the Holy Ghost belongs 207 00:08:47,380 --> 00:08:51,860 to you doesn't it belong to you and 208 00:08:51,860 --> 00:08:53,500 I asked that woman that question she said 209 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:55,660 yes I said then let's read the Bible 210 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:59,000 let's read the will of God you know 211 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,900 some time ago a friend of mine's father 212 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:05,640 passed away and sometime after he had passed 213 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,020 away the family all gathered together because he 214 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:10,340 was a man of some means and they 215 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:13,780 gathered together to read his will they all 216 00:09:13,780 --> 00:09:15,540 wanted to find out what belonged to them 217 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:17,700 and they found out well now if you 218 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:19,740 want to find out what belongs to you 219 00:09:19,740 --> 00:09:23,640 read God's the word of God is his 220 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,480 will let's find out what his word says 221 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,200 I reached for my Bible and opened it 222 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,020 to Acts 2 39 handed it to her 223 00:09:30,020 --> 00:09:32,400 and said you read that out loud she 224 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,040 read for the promises unto you and to 225 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,000 your children and all that are far off 226 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,380 even as many as the Lord our God 227 00:09:37,380 --> 00:09:39,500 shall call I said what promise is that 228 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,000 she hesitated a moment and I said read 229 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,600 the last part of the 38th verse and 230 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,020 it will tell you what the promise is 231 00:09:47,020 --> 00:09:49,100 and she read and he shall receive the 232 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:51,340 gift of the Holy Ghost she just simply 233 00:09:51,340 --> 00:09:53,080 closed my Bible handed it back to him 234 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,640 and said yes it's for me yes I'll 235 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,840 be filled now just lay your hands on 236 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,620 me and pray now you see just a 237 00:09:59,620 --> 00:10:02,460 few moments before she was questioning the will 238 00:10:02,460 --> 00:10:05,760 of God and she thought now you pray 239 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,700 and if what we're asking here is his 240 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,380 will for me then he'll do it but 241 00:10:10,380 --> 00:10:12,860 just as soon you see as she found 242 00:10:12,860 --> 00:10:16,380 out what God's word said as she found 243 00:10:16,380 --> 00:10:18,220 out the provision that was made in God's 244 00:10:18,220 --> 00:10:21,500 word she began to believe because she knew 245 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:24,260 the will of God and I laid hands 246 00:10:24,260 --> 00:10:26,720 upon her in fact I barely laid my 247 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,220 hands upon her head to pray until she 248 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:33,180 began speaking with other tongues and instantly received 249 00:10:33,180 --> 00:10:36,140 the Holy Ghost now the thing that convinced 250 00:10:36,140 --> 00:10:38,820 her was the word you see there shouldn't 251 00:10:38,820 --> 00:10:40,680 be any problem about praying in line with 252 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,900 the will of God because it is his 253 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:45,860 will for us to have and to possess 254 00:10:45,860 --> 00:10:48,860 and to enjoy all that he has made 255 00:10:48,860 --> 00:10:54,640 provision for in his word I find the 256 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,500 answer for anything I might pray for in 257 00:10:56,500 --> 00:10:59,000 the word and if I don't know then 258 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:00,700 I go to the word first I don't 259 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:02,540 just pray because I would waste my time 260 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:04,640 very often I couldn't pray in faith I 261 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,480 would be praying in unbelief and doubt and 262 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,640 it wouldn't work it would just be words 263 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,340 and you know that's the reason so many 264 00:11:10,340 --> 00:11:14,520 people's prayers doesn't work it's just words they're 265 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,640 not walking really in fellowship with the word 266 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:20,440 of God but you know the believer walking 267 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,200 in fellowship with the word will never ask 268 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:24,940 for anything outside of the will of God 269 00:11:24,940 --> 00:11:27,220 and if he's not walking in fellowship with 270 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:28,400 the word he's not going to have a 271 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:31,080 successful prayer life and get answers anyhow do 272 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,100 you remember what Jesus said in John's gospel 273 00:11:33,740 --> 00:11:35,580 turn with me to the 15th chapter of 274 00:11:35,580 --> 00:11:37,580 John's gospel in the seventh verse Jesus said 275 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:40,560 if ye abide in me and my words 276 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,360 abide in you ye shall ask what ye 277 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,380 will and it shall be done now you 278 00:11:46,380 --> 00:11:47,960 know the same person is writing both of 279 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:49,880 these books this first epistle of John the 280 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:51,580 gospel of John are written by the apostle 281 00:11:51,580 --> 00:11:54,540 John here he says here in this first 282 00:11:54,540 --> 00:11:56,400 epistle of John our text for the series 283 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,920 of lessons here he said and this is 284 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,040 the confidence the boldness that we have in 285 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,880 him that if we ask anything according to 286 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,200 his will he heareth us now in John 287 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,540 the gospel John's gospel the 15th chapter 7 288 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:11,480 verse quoting Jesus said if he abided me 289 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,340 and my words abide in you ye shall 290 00:12:13,340 --> 00:12:16,040 ask what ye will now we don't say 291 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,740 ye and thee and thou today we say 292 00:12:17,740 --> 00:12:20,320 you and so he said you shall ask 293 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,620 what you will and it shall be done 294 00:12:22,620 --> 00:12:25,080 unto you now one time John says something 295 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:27,620 about his will and here he says something 296 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:30,680 about your will or ask what you will 297 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:32,900 and it will be done you will have 298 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:37,280 what you will but under what circumstances if 299 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,320 you abide in him and his words abide 300 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,300 in you because when his words abide in 301 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:45,780 you then you will know his will his 302 00:12:45,780 --> 00:12:48,820 word is his will and you are asking 303 00:12:48,820 --> 00:12:52,120 according to his will then you don't have 304 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,280 to pray if it be thy will because 305 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:58,100 you know what his will is now for 306 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,760 instance we know that saving the lost is 307 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,380 his will don't we know that how do 308 00:13:04,380 --> 00:13:06,720 we know that we know that because the 309 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,880 word of God tells us is true we 310 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,980 know that because the golden text of the 311 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:14,040 bible john 3 16 says for God so 312 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,120 loved the world that he gave his only 313 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,040 begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should 314 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:25,320 not perish but have everlasting life we know 315 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,200 that because the word of God says the 316 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,420 Lord is not willing that any should perish 317 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:36,600 but that all should come to repentance now 318 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,580 there are a host of other scriptures i'm 319 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:41,740 just citing these two here you do not 320 00:13:41,740 --> 00:13:43,960 have to pray lord if it's your will 321 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,820 save my son or you don't have to 322 00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:49,260 pray lord if it's your will save my 323 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:51,480 daughter or my husband or my wife or 324 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,820 this person or that person you know his 325 00:13:54,820 --> 00:13:57,940 will for that ahead of time don't you 326 00:13:57,940 --> 00:14:01,940 now hold that in your mind and let's 327 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:06,460 read this again this is the confidence the 328 00:14:06,460 --> 00:14:09,760 bonus that we have in him that if 329 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,760 we ask anything according to his will he 330 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:13,960 heareth us now did you let that soak 331 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,560 in and this is the confidence that we 332 00:14:16,560 --> 00:14:18,540 have in him that if we ask anything 333 00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:21,260 according to his will he heareth us did 334 00:14:21,260 --> 00:14:22,980 he hear you when you prayed for that 335 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:25,220 unsaved loved one is that his will that 336 00:14:25,220 --> 00:14:28,940 they be saved well if it is did 337 00:14:28,940 --> 00:14:31,600 you ask according to his will surely well 338 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,580 we have this confidence then that if we 339 00:14:33,580 --> 00:14:35,140 ask anything according to his will he heareth 340 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:37,880 us then he heard you didn't he all 341 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,020 right now listen and we know if we 342 00:14:41,020 --> 00:14:43,260 know that he hear us well we know 343 00:14:43,260 --> 00:14:44,980 he heard us because it's according to his 344 00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:48,580 will whatsoever we asked then we know that 345 00:14:48,580 --> 00:14:50,600 we have the petitions that we desired of 346 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,520 him did he hear you then well yes 347 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,580 but they're not saved yet brother haggard well 348 00:14:56,580 --> 00:14:59,060 you see what you're doing you're reciting in 349 00:14:59,060 --> 00:15:01,120 against the word and saying it's a lie 350 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:03,360 so it won't work for you you see 351 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:08,320 unconsciously we give the lie to god's word 352 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,800 i don't know i know we don't mean 353 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,300 to but unconsciously we're taking sides against the 354 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:16,280 word and saying it isn't true by our 355 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,780 actions by a lot of things that we 356 00:15:18,780 --> 00:15:21,200 say we're really saying no it doesn't work 357 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,140 no it isn't so now i want to 358 00:15:23,140 --> 00:15:25,120 ask you a question what if you were 359 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,060 in need of a little extra money and 360 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:29,200 you do business with a certain bank you 361 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,200 have borrowed money there before like many of 362 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,500 us have so you say to your banker 363 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:35,320 i want to borrow 100 for 90 days 364 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,440 he says all right you say well i 365 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:38,660 don't want it today i just wanted to 366 00:15:38,660 --> 00:15:40,660 get it arranged because there's something coming up 367 00:15:40,660 --> 00:15:42,620 and if the money doesn't come in by 368 00:15:42,620 --> 00:15:44,340 a certain time then i'll need this all 369 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:45,760 right when you need it just come and 370 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,660 get it you can have it the banker 371 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:50,300 says now you have your banker's word for 372 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:52,280 it but then you say to your wife 373 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,280 i'm afraid he won't do that well you're 374 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,320 going to have to act on what he 375 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,900 said believe what he said to get the 376 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:01,620 money you can't take sides against what he 377 00:16:01,620 --> 00:16:04,100 said and not go down there go through 378 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:05,760 the transaction of signing the note to get 379 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,700 the money by the same token if you're 380 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:10,180 going to take sides against the word of 381 00:16:10,180 --> 00:16:11,760 god and say no that's not going to 382 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,540 work that doesn't work it didn't work i 383 00:16:14,540 --> 00:16:17,580 prayed but it didn't work then you're saying 384 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:20,960 that what god said isn't so you are 385 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,900 taking sides against the word and you're giving 386 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,380 the lie to his word and it certainly 387 00:16:27,380 --> 00:16:29,220 isn't going to work for you and you're 388 00:16:29,220 --> 00:16:32,440 taking sides against it side in with god's 389 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,800 word all right this is the confidence this 390 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,560 is the boldness thank god we can be 391 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,720 bold about it we can have confidence that 392 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:48,540 if we ask anything according to his will 393 00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:52,280 he heareth us now i don't know about 394 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,900 you but i just believe that this word 395 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:59,820 is true i believe that i know he 396 00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:02,960 hears me i know he has heard me 397 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,020 how do i know it because it's according 398 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:08,380 to his will then if it's according to 399 00:17:08,380 --> 00:17:11,060 his will i know he heard me and 400 00:17:11,060 --> 00:17:12,980 if he heard me then the text said 401 00:17:12,980 --> 00:17:16,839 we have this confidence that if he we 402 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,300 know that he hear us whatever we ask 403 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:23,319 we know we have the petitions we have 404 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:28,760 them praise god that we desired off him 405 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:31,500 i know i have them how do i 406 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:33,100 know i have them because i know he 407 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:34,720 heard me how do i know he heard 408 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,960 me because it's his will how do i 409 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,100 know it's his will because his word says 410 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:41,660 so if he doesn't keep his word then 411 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:44,380 he is a liar if his words no 412 00:17:44,380 --> 00:17:47,120 good then he is no good you know 413 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,060 that you and your word are one and 414 00:17:50,060 --> 00:17:52,320 if your word is no good then you 415 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,240 are no good we are known by our 416 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,700 word now this is truth in the natural 417 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,240 if a person's word is of no value 418 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,700 when you quote that person people just laugh 419 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:07,240 at you accordingly if god's word is no 420 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,820 good when we quote his word we should 421 00:18:09,820 --> 00:18:13,200 just laugh at god because there's nothing to 422 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,300 him but thank god his word is good 423 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:22,740 he keeps his word we know that healing 424 00:18:22,740 --> 00:18:24,900 the sick is his will now don't we 425 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:27,300 know that how do we know that we 426 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:30,720 know that because the scripture tells us that 427 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:36,860 christ bore our infirmities and carried our disease 428 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:41,000 we know that because the word of god 429 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,660 said by whose stripes he were healed now 430 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:45,540 we need to get the word settled in 431 00:18:45,540 --> 00:18:50,300 our hearts we particularly in full gospel circles 432 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:52,580 have divine healing as one of our fundamental 433 00:18:52,580 --> 00:18:56,140 beliefs i've read most of the statements of 434 00:18:56,140 --> 00:18:59,480 fundamental truths that full gospel churches believe and 435 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,460 supposedly preach whether they do or not and 436 00:19:02,460 --> 00:19:04,500 they make the statement of healing and give 437 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:06,700 scripture to back it up such scriptures as 438 00:19:06,700 --> 00:19:09,700 isaiah 53 4 and 5 which states surely 439 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:12,100 hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows 440 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:14,600 yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of 441 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,160 god and afflicted but he was wounded for 442 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,580 our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities 443 00:19:19,580 --> 00:19:21,940 the chastisement of our peace was upon him 444 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:24,200 and with his stripes were healed and then 445 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,960 again matthew 8 17 himself took our infirmities 446 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,180 and by our sicknesses and first peter 2 447 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:31,380 24 who his own self by our sins 448 00:19:31,380 --> 00:19:33,560 in his own body on the tree that 449 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,920 we being dead to sins should live unto 450 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:40,460 righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed then 451 00:19:40,460 --> 00:19:42,580 i found this out and really it's quite 452 00:19:42,580 --> 00:19:44,900 strange to me coming from a denominational background 453 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,980 that people would state that they believe one 454 00:19:47,980 --> 00:19:50,500 thing and practice something else now i received 455 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,140 light on divine healing on the bed of 456 00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:54,860 affliction just uh i tell folks all time 457 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,200 an old baptist boy reading grandma's methodist bible 458 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,760 and i received my healing i fellowship with 459 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,740 full gospel people because they believe in divine 460 00:20:02,740 --> 00:20:05,380 healing and when i found out that they 461 00:20:05,380 --> 00:20:07,000 taught the baptism the holy ghost i was 462 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,680 filled with the holy ghost and spoke with 463 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,400 other tongues then in preaching in full gospel 464 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,780 circles someone would come for healing after the 465 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:15,940 service very often now i have in mind 466 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:17,980 a young lady who came with a baby 467 00:20:17,980 --> 00:20:20,380 in her arms the baby was sick and 468 00:20:20,380 --> 00:20:21,920 she wanted the pastor me to pray for 469 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,920 the healing of this child now really she 470 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,680 came to the pastor and he said brother 471 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,460 hagen pray with me here for this child 472 00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:30,000 well we laid hands on the baby i 473 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,160 began to pray in faith believing the word 474 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,440 that himself took that child's infirmities and bear 475 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,260 that child's diseases so that that baby would 476 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:40,820 not have to bear them i was appropriating 477 00:20:40,820 --> 00:20:42,920 that promise but i heard the pastor say 478 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,740 lord heal this child if it is your 479 00:20:45,740 --> 00:20:48,560 will well i'll tell you i wish for 480 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,220 the boldness of smith wigglesworth but you know 481 00:20:51,220 --> 00:20:53,380 i'm just not of that nature you have 482 00:20:53,380 --> 00:20:55,220 to be who you are you know but 483 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:58,140 wigglesworth was quite bold and he would just 484 00:20:58,140 --> 00:21:00,100 yell right out loud stop him stop him 485 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:01,900 oh god stop him right now he's charging 486 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:04,460 the atmosphere with unbelief and you know that 487 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:07,020 needs to be done sometimes but i'm just 488 00:21:07,020 --> 00:21:10,540 simply not that nature anyway a pastor uh 489 00:21:10,540 --> 00:21:13,100 who knew wigglesworth personally for whom when he 490 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:14,840 was a young minister wigglesworth at priest a 491 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,640 meeting said they went out to eat together 492 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,620 and that wigglesworth asked him the pastor to 493 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:21,400 pray so he bowed his head in public 494 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,940 you know in a cafe and softly prayed 495 00:21:23,940 --> 00:21:26,160 and he said wigglesworth just shouted right out 496 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,120 loud so that everyone all over the restaurant 497 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:30,340 could hear him my god young man if 498 00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:32,100 you're going to pray pray don't just sit 499 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:34,400 there and mumble over your food he jumped 500 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,100 to his feet lifted both of his hands 501 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:37,740 and started praying atop of his voice right 502 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:39,660 there in the restaurant he was of the 503 00:21:39,660 --> 00:21:41,680 nature that he believed if you were going 504 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,880 to do something do it and if you're 505 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,080 not then just shut up about it well 506 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,760 i don't know but what he's just about 507 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,340 right about it you know what i mean 508 00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:51,860 he tells about one such incident in his 509 00:21:51,860 --> 00:21:54,340 book ever increasing faith now if you don't 510 00:21:54,340 --> 00:21:56,720 have one get it i've worn out four 511 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,120 or five of them i just keep reading 512 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:00,460 it over and over again because it feeds 513 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:02,700 me after all i keep going to the 514 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:05,360 table and eating i've had eggs for breakfast 515 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:08,340 the past uh number of years i'm not 516 00:22:08,340 --> 00:22:09,860 going to quit eating them just because i've 517 00:22:09,860 --> 00:22:11,740 had them last year are you going to 518 00:22:11,740 --> 00:22:13,580 quit eating bacon because you had bacon last 519 00:22:13,580 --> 00:22:15,640 year no i ate bacon for breakfast 20 520 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,740 years ago and i still eat it because 521 00:22:17,740 --> 00:22:19,100 it's good do you see what i'm talking 522 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:21,360 about don't just read these books and lay 523 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,960 them down and forget them don't just read 524 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,020 these bible lessons and lay them down and 525 00:22:26,020 --> 00:22:27,760 forget them it won't do you much good 526 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,760 you would starve to death if you just 527 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,180 had breaking the eggs 20 years ago and 528 00:22:32,180 --> 00:22:34,280 never ate any more in since then or 529 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,160 or if you just had a meal last 530 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:37,580 week and said well i ate last week 531 00:22:37,580 --> 00:22:38,900 and there's no use in my eating anymore 532 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:40,620 i'm going to wait until next year before 533 00:22:40,620 --> 00:22:42,780 i eat again well you'd be dead before 534 00:22:42,780 --> 00:22:46,140 next year got here keep feeding along these 535 00:22:46,140 --> 00:22:48,520 lines that build your faith and build you 536 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,180 up well i was talking about wigglesworth smith 537 00:22:52,180 --> 00:22:54,420 wigglesworth was talking in his book ever increasing 538 00:22:54,420 --> 00:22:56,020 faith about going to pray for a sick 539 00:22:56,020 --> 00:22:58,960 person there were two other ministers present beside 540 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,660 himself he said he had just received a 541 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:04,240 little light at the time on healing and 542 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,020 that really he he didn't know too much 543 00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:08,820 about himself and he knew these other ministers 544 00:23:08,820 --> 00:23:10,980 didn't even believe in it but anyway they 545 00:23:10,980 --> 00:23:13,300 all went along to pray for this sick 546 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:15,340 lady he asked one of them to pray 547 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:16,920 and when he started praying he prayed all 548 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,720 around the world that's the way wigglesworth put 549 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,240 it he prayed for all of the missionaries 550 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,900 he prayed for all the offerings he prayed 551 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:25,360 for all the widows well they were in 552 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:26,720 that room for it they were there to 553 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,560 pray for the woman on the bed that's 554 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,540 why we're not effective in our praying a 555 00:23:31,540 --> 00:23:33,080 lot of times because we pray all around 556 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,540 the world and never get to the thing 557 00:23:34,540 --> 00:23:36,580 about which we should be praying and it's 558 00:23:36,580 --> 00:23:37,860 all right to pray for the missionary and 559 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:39,100 it's all right to pray for the orphans 560 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:40,660 it's all right to pray for the widows 561 00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:43,400 but there's a time for that well this 562 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,800 lady who was sick was one of these 563 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,320 preachers the wife of one of the preachers 564 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,920 that was there that day the doctor said 565 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,760 she would never regain consciousness she was unconscious 566 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,160 and that she would die so finally this 567 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,060 fellow said now lord here's our fellow minister 568 00:23:58,060 --> 00:24:00,280 his wife's gonna die you see he just 569 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,900 accepted his final what the doctor said now 570 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,740 pray that you would comfort him in this 571 00:24:04,740 --> 00:24:07,180 hour of bereavement give him grace for this 572 00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:09,740 dark hour ahead of him and he closed 573 00:24:09,740 --> 00:24:12,380 his prayer then wigglesworth said he asked the 574 00:24:12,380 --> 00:24:14,260 woman's husband who was a minister too to 575 00:24:14,260 --> 00:24:16,860 pray and he started praying oh yes lord 576 00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:18,940 answer our brother's prayer help me my wife's 577 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:21,400 gonna die help me in this hour and 578 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,520 wigglesworth said i just shouted right out loud 579 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,700 stop him stop him lord stop him he's 580 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:28,700 charging the atmosphere with unbelief well you know 581 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:30,560 that's what he was doing they had her 582 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,720 dead if you listen to some preachers and 583 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,540 some people they will never get anything from 584 00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:36,860 god you'll never get anything from god they 585 00:24:36,860 --> 00:24:39,000 will have you dead before you are they 586 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,760 will have everything just piled in on you 587 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,400 and bury you alive wigglesworth said that he 588 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,940 had never anointed anyone with oil for healing 589 00:24:45,940 --> 00:24:47,160 in his life but they knew the bible 590 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,160 said do it so in his hip pocket 591 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,100 he had a whole pint bottle of oil 592 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:52,860 he didn't know how to anoint her so 593 00:24:52,860 --> 00:24:54,640 he just took the cork out poured the 594 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,240 whole thing on her the bedclothes and all 595 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,200 it wasn't that which healed her but it 596 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200 was his faith and belief in god and 597 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,660 so he said oh lord heal her now 598 00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:04,440 just a short prayer that's all he said 599 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,620 when i said that he said jesus appeared 600 00:25:06,620 --> 00:25:07,800 at the foot of the bed i saw 601 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,000 him the other two preachers didn't see anything 602 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:11,940 no wonder they didn't see him they were 603 00:25:11,940 --> 00:25:13,740 too far down the well of unbelief to 604 00:25:13,740 --> 00:25:15,220 see anything they couldn't even look up and 605 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:16,540 see the light all they could see was 606 00:25:16,540 --> 00:25:19,340 the darkness this woman who was unconscious came 607 00:25:19,340 --> 00:25:21,320 to and she saw jesus she said there's 608 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,360 jesus there's jesus then the lord disappeared she 609 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,280 rose up well now that was the denomination 610 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,860 of minister's wife who rose up well it 611 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:32,280 wasn't her husband's faith because he was he 612 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,020 was saying dear lord help me she's going 613 00:25:34,020 --> 00:25:36,000 to die help me in this hour it 614 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,700 wasn't the other preacher's faith because he said 615 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,380 now this pastor's wife's going to die help 616 00:25:39,380 --> 00:25:42,040 him in this hour no it was wigglesworth's 617 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,980 faith as he believed god god manifest himself 618 00:25:45,980 --> 00:25:48,520 he didn't pray if it's your will he 619 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,800 just said oh lord heal her now and 620 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,140 it happened now i made mention about a 621 00:25:53,140 --> 00:25:55,700 lady young lady a young mother who came 622 00:25:55,700 --> 00:25:57,160 with a baby in her arms the baby 623 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,300 was sick and she wanted the pastor and 624 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:00,460 me to pray for the healing of this 625 00:26:00,460 --> 00:26:04,160 child now then we laid hands on that 626 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,560 child the baby and we began to pray 627 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,680 and i began to pray in faith believing 628 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,880 the word that himself took that child's infirmities 629 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,440 and bear that child's diseases so that that 630 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,780 baby would not have to bear them i 631 00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:19,540 was appropriating that promise but i heard the 632 00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:22,660 pastor say lord heal this child if it's 633 00:26:22,660 --> 00:26:29,240 your will now then notice this we said 634 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,880 to you that we know it's his will 635 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,560 to heal the sick because his word says 636 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,800 so and so when this young woman came 637 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,240 with her baby for prayer i thought to 638 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,300 myself when the pastor said lord heal this 639 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:41,440 baby if it's your will i said to 640 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,060 myself i hope she didn't listen to that 641 00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:45,760 pastor's prayer i didn't have the boldness to 642 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,220 call him down and correct him and yet 643 00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:49,220 i suppose he should have i should have 644 00:26:49,220 --> 00:26:51,800 done that that however would have to be 645 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,400 done in love because if it weren't it 646 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,080 would do more harm than good so i 647 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,640 said to myself i trust that she didn't 648 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,780 listen to his prayer because if she did 649 00:26:58,780 --> 00:27:02,100 he injected doubt into her mind he told 650 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:04,960 her through that prayer that this healing of 651 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,020 her child might not be god's will because 652 00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:09,660 he said lord heal the child if it 653 00:27:09,660 --> 00:27:13,120 be your will again we may want to 654 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,820 relieve herself of all responsibility we want to 655 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:17,700 put all of the responsibility on god then 656 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:19,260 we can say well that must not have 657 00:27:19,260 --> 00:27:21,000 been his will because i prayed if it 658 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,020 be thy will you do this and he 659 00:27:23,020 --> 00:27:25,080 didn't do it therefore it must not be 660 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,160 as well in other words we're putting all 661 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,800 the responsibility on god we don't get out 662 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,320 that easy even if we want to most 663 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,580 of us do not want to accept any 664 00:27:36,580 --> 00:27:38,880 responsibility we'd rather put it up to god 665 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,740 that's the truth but friends god has given 666 00:27:41,740 --> 00:27:44,820 us his word and so you see if 667 00:27:44,820 --> 00:27:47,380 that pastor had really known god's word as 668 00:27:47,380 --> 00:27:48,860 he should he would have joined right in 669 00:27:48,860 --> 00:27:51,880 with me in faith and the prayer of 670 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,460 faith would have saved the sick the lord 671 00:27:53,460 --> 00:27:55,180 raised the child up and would have been 672 00:27:55,180 --> 00:27:57,280 healed but instead of that he acted in 673 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,400 unbelief so we weren't in agreement and there's 674 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,980 no doubt that the young mother followed her 675 00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:05,260 pastor and so you see they thought they 676 00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:08,060 were being humble by saying lord heal this 677 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:10,440 child if it's your will and really didn't 678 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,200 know that they were being stupid people often 679 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:14,660 come to me and say brother hagan why 680 00:28:14,660 --> 00:28:17,920 won't the lord heal me then they will 681 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,520 give me all of their qualifications sometimes for 682 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,980 being healed but you know friends people don't 683 00:28:22,980 --> 00:28:26,040 get healed on their qualifications i know i 684 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,320 had one lady come to a meeting number 685 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,020 of years ago a denominational lady who had 686 00:28:31,020 --> 00:28:32,820 come into the services for the very first 687 00:28:32,820 --> 00:28:35,080 time never been into a full gospel service 688 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,180 before or a meeting before where they were 689 00:28:37,180 --> 00:28:40,180 praying for the sick never in her life 690 00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:41,920 she and her husband heard me teaching on 691 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,540 the radio on the subject of divine healing 692 00:28:43,540 --> 00:28:46,540 so he brought her given up to die 693 00:28:46,540 --> 00:28:48,300 by the doctors with only a few months 694 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:50,540 to live at the best and she was 695 00:28:50,540 --> 00:28:54,780 gloriously healed then the following sunday night these 696 00:28:54,780 --> 00:28:57,720 folks came back and brought the husband's mother 697 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,680 she had had a couple of strokes of 698 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,000 paralysis and was confined to a wheelchair now 699 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,800 this son and daughter had come a night 700 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,320 or two before two nights before this was 701 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,540 only second time for them and the first 702 00:29:14,540 --> 00:29:15,960 time that the mother had ever been in 703 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,540 the full gospel church when we laid hands 704 00:29:17,540 --> 00:29:18,900 on her and prayed she got up out 705 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:22,320 the wheelchair healed walked was all right they 706 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,240 folded the wheelchair up carried it out she 707 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,040 walked out to the car now as soon 708 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,840 as the service was over a lady who 709 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,080 was a member of the church where we 710 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,580 were holding the meeting made a beeline at 711 00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:34,720 me with tears in her eyes now i'm 712 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,140 not making fun of her god knows that 713 00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:38,380 i feel sorry for her with tears in 714 00:29:38,380 --> 00:29:40,060 her eyes and falling off of her face 715 00:29:40,060 --> 00:29:41,780 she said i wish you'd tell me something 716 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:44,000 if you can well i said i will 717 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,320 if i can but i don't know whether 718 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,920 i can or not but if i can 719 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,900 i'll tell you now she said how come 720 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:52,620 god heal those denominational women and i'm full 721 00:29:52,620 --> 00:29:55,500 of gospel well now you see people can 722 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:57,420 be wrong in their thinking to begin with 723 00:29:57,420 --> 00:29:59,720 god loves one of them just as much 724 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,500 as he loves the other this is the 725 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:03,200 reason some don't get an answer from god 726 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,320 they're too self-centered and too selfish and 727 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:08,120 too ignorant i mean bible ignorant in thinking 728 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,500 that god is obligated to them because they're 729 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:12,960 full gospel but he's not obligated to you 730 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,880 just because you're anything but he will meet 731 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,920 you if you will come on the right 732 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,280 grounds and because of jesus he'll meet you 733 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,420 this lady said why they don't even have 734 00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:26,360 the baptism of the holy ghost well friends 735 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,620 the baptism of the holy ghost is right 736 00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:31,060 and fine and wonderful but the baptism of 737 00:30:31,060 --> 00:30:33,200 the holy ghost is not a prerequisite for 738 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,900 healing you can be healed before you're baptized 739 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:37,820 with the holy ghost and you can be 740 00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:40,240 healed afterwards i know that because i was 741 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,200 healed four years before i was baptized with 742 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,960 the holy ghost i was raised up from 743 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,880 the deathbed and healed of almost total paralysis 744 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,120 and two serious organic heart troubles bed fast 745 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,020 16 months i had never spoken with tongues 746 00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:56,520 not only that but i got other people 747 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,780 healed when i began preaching that jesus heals 748 00:30:58,780 --> 00:31:01,520 i laid hands on people as a denominational 749 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,180 minister and saw some of my sunday school 750 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:06,660 teachers who were slated for major surgery just 751 00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:09,960 jump out of bed instantly healed the baptism 752 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,440 of the holy ghost isn't the prerequisite for 753 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,980 healing it's believing god's word and faith that's 754 00:31:15,980 --> 00:31:18,480 the thing that counts and this woman said 755 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,880 why they don't talking about these two ladies 756 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,800 who had been healed they don't even have 757 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,420 the baptism the holy ghost and i have 758 00:31:24,420 --> 00:31:25,980 the holy ghost i'm a member of this 759 00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:28,580 full gospel church but i didn't tell her 760 00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:30,520 but i thought my own mind sometimes that 761 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,200 is a detriment instead of an asset i 762 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,500 don't mean to be disrespectful but tell you 763 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:37,340 the truth about it some of these places 764 00:31:37,340 --> 00:31:39,960 talk doubt and unbelief i held a meeting 765 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,300 in this church and the pastor himself would 766 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:44,060 talk doubt and unbelief to me all day 767 00:31:44,060 --> 00:31:46,020 long well i know he was bound to 768 00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:48,080 preach it to his congregation so her membership 769 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,300 could have been a a deficit instead of 770 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:53,960 an asset to her anyway five years later 771 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,400 i preached a meeting of several weeks in 772 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,420 that same church with the same pastor and 773 00:31:59,420 --> 00:32:00,640 he said to me brother hagen i don't 774 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,320 know whether you're improving or whether i'm growing 775 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,940 but i'm beginning to grasp what you're saying 776 00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:07,000 in other words i didn't get it five 777 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,540 years ago though i heard you for several 778 00:32:08,540 --> 00:32:10,660 weeks every single day i said well i 779 00:32:10,660 --> 00:32:13,300 think it's both brother i'm growing myself and 780 00:32:13,300 --> 00:32:15,180 i'm able to take the same subject and 781 00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:17,340 handle it a little more adequately but then 782 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:19,520 you're growing enough spiritually that you can get 783 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,320 a hold of what i'm saying well i'm 784 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,120 beginning to see that he said all of 785 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,380 us friends preachers and all are at various 786 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:31,340 stages of spiritual growth just because someone's a 787 00:32:31,340 --> 00:32:33,220 minister doesn't make him a full-grown christian 788 00:32:33,220 --> 00:32:36,360 he can still be a baby spiritually the 789 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,440 calling of god on a man's life doesn't 790 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,500 mature him spiritually and make him a full 791 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:44,660 -grown christian instantly we need more patience with 792 00:32:44,660 --> 00:32:47,080 one another don't we anyway this woman said 793 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,960 how come god healed these women and he 794 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,260 won't heal me now she's confessing he won't 795 00:32:53,260 --> 00:32:55,460 heal me i don't know why he won't 796 00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:57,980 but he won't i'm full gospel and i've 797 00:32:57,980 --> 00:33:00,200 got the baptism and they don't even have 798 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,440 the baptism how come she could get healed 799 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,160 without the baptism and i with the baptism 800 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,760 can't get healed well one can't just stop 801 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,320 and answer all those questions but sometimes we 802 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,200 have to bring people to the spiritual senses 803 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,120 so to speak just as we do physically 804 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,740 if an emergency arose and the house was 805 00:33:17,740 --> 00:33:19,760 on fire you would have to get them 806 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,220 awake any way you could if you had 807 00:33:21,220 --> 00:33:22,620 to snap their face or grab them or 808 00:33:22,620 --> 00:33:24,820 pull them out of bed so sometimes spiritually 809 00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:27,060 we have to shake people awake i did 810 00:33:27,060 --> 00:33:28,860 shake this woman some anyway when i said 811 00:33:28,860 --> 00:33:31,780 their sister god has done all he's ever 812 00:33:31,780 --> 00:33:34,260 going to do about healing you now she 813 00:33:34,260 --> 00:33:35,860 was saying why won't he do something about 814 00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:37,300 it why won't god heal me i said 815 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:38,800 god's done all he's ever going to do 816 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,020 about healing you she looked at me startled 817 00:33:41,020 --> 00:33:42,460 and said you mean that he isn't going 818 00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:43,620 to heal me i said i didn't say 819 00:33:43,620 --> 00:33:47,080 that i said he's done all he's gonna 820 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,440 do about healing you do you mean he 821 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,460 won't heal me i said no i didn't 822 00:33:52,460 --> 00:33:54,660 say that you said it you said why 823 00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:56,600 won't he heal me you see sister he's 824 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,100 already done something about your healing all that 825 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,460 is necessary to do about it he's already 826 00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:03,800 done it he laid your sicknesses and diseases 827 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,320 on jesus for it is written in matthew 828 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,420 8 17 himself jesus took our infirmities and 829 00:34:10,420 --> 00:34:13,219 bear our sicknesses and so he's done already 830 00:34:13,219 --> 00:34:15,239 done something about it that means himself jesus 831 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,600 took your infirmities i said to her and 832 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,179 bear your sicknesses he's already done something about 833 00:34:20,179 --> 00:34:22,440 your healing and it says the scripture said 834 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,500 and by whose stripes you were healed but 835 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:26,920 you see friends the word didn't mean a 836 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,820 thing in the world to this woman she 837 00:34:28,820 --> 00:34:30,340 said well i'm going to keep on praying 838 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:32,159 i'll tell you what i believe about it 839 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:33,739 but you know that's the thing that has 840 00:34:33,739 --> 00:34:36,100 her defeated she's going by what she believes 841 00:34:36,100 --> 00:34:37,659 instead of what the bible says i'm going 842 00:34:37,659 --> 00:34:39,699 to keep on praying seeking god and sometime 843 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:42,020 somewhere in his own way if it's his 844 00:34:42,020 --> 00:34:44,460 will he'll heal me but you see friends 845 00:34:44,460 --> 00:34:46,380 it is his will because the word says 846 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:48,199 it is well she should have come with 847 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,820 confidence and boldness because the text said and 848 00:34:50,820 --> 00:34:53,300 this is the confidence this is the boldness 849 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:55,340 that we have in him that if we 850 00:34:55,340 --> 00:34:56,740 ask anything according to his will he heareth 851 00:34:56,740 --> 00:34:58,340 us and this is according to his will 852 00:34:58,340 --> 00:35:00,520 because he's heard us well i don't have 853 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,160 to tell you that when i went back 854 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,560 five years later to that same church this 855 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,500 woman was still sick now why because she's 856 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,800 not believing the bible she's not trying to 857 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,680 find god's will in line with his word 858 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,620 i said he has made provision for us 859 00:35:14,620 --> 00:35:19,100 in conclusion i want to read let's turn 860 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:20,920 right now to ephesians the first chapter in 861 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,600 the third verse and read this verse it 862 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,020 will help us in knowing the will of 863 00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:29,240 god in prayer ephesians chapter one verse three 864 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:33,100 blessed be the god and father of our 865 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:37,680 lord jesus christ who hath blessed us with 866 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,880 all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in christ 867 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,900 now who has blessed us with what well 868 00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:49,120 blessed be god and the father god the 869 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,320 father of our lord jesus christ blessed us 870 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:58,980 with what all all all another translation says 871 00:35:58,980 --> 00:36:03,500 every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in christ 872 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,160 now who is going to bless us no 873 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:11,000 not who's going to who hath blessed us 874 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,180 who hath he's already done it we would 875 00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:17,460 say in modern usage who has blessed us 876 00:36:17,460 --> 00:36:21,280 with all our every spiritual blessing that means 877 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,640 everyone there is in heavenly places in christ 878 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,840 now that means this that in this great 879 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,820 plan of salvation that god planned and sent 880 00:36:30,820 --> 00:36:35,300 christ to consummate in him all that we'll 881 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:38,640 ever need has already been provided for ever 882 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,220 need that you'll ever have from the time 883 00:36:41,220 --> 00:36:44,320 you are born again until you step off 884 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,220 into eternity has already been provided for him 885 00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:51,580 when we know that we can appropriate his 886 00:36:51,580 --> 00:36:54,920 promises we can come with boldness and confidence 887 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,060 we know then that he is his will 888 00:36:59,060 --> 00:37:02,340 that ever need be met because it says 889 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:06,900 with all he hath blessed us with all 890 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:09,720 that that means that they're not anymore all 891 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,040 our every spiritual blessing so we can come 892 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,440 with confidence notice the text again first john 893 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,200 5 14 this is the confidence or another 894 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,520 translation said this is the boldness that we 895 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,960 have in him that if we ask anything 896 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,200 according to his will he heareth us now 897 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,800 it must be his will that we be 898 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,980 blessed with all the blessings that there are 899 00:37:29,980 --> 00:37:32,740 now why because he's made provision for us 900 00:37:32,740 --> 00:37:35,140 in christ ephesians 1 3 said it has 901 00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:37,200 to be his will for us to have 902 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,680 what he's provided for us and i made 903 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,260 the statement he hath made provision for us 904 00:37:44,260 --> 00:37:48,780 his word is his will we read the 905 00:37:48,780 --> 00:37:50,840 will of god which is the word of 906 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,580 god and find out what has been provided 907 00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:57,260 for us and find out what belongs to 908 00:37:57,260 --> 00:38:00,740 us and then you see we're not in 909 00:38:00,740 --> 00:38:03,620 the darkness but we're in the light you 910 00:38:03,620 --> 00:38:05,460 know too many times when we come to 911 00:38:05,460 --> 00:38:07,560 pray we pray in darkness now you know 912 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:08,860 what i mean when i say that don't 913 00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:11,580 you i'm not talking about praying literally in 914 00:38:11,580 --> 00:38:14,080 the night time in the literal darkness but 915 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,800 i mean in the darkness of the subject 916 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,880 or about the situation too many times we 917 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,820 don't know what god's will is the reason 918 00:38:21,820 --> 00:38:23,380 we don't because we don't know what god's 919 00:38:23,380 --> 00:38:26,280 word says we're praying in the dark we 920 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:29,580 don't come with confidence we we don't come 921 00:38:29,580 --> 00:38:32,620 with boldness we come trembling and somewhat fearful 922 00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:35,260 yet hoping but that won't work but friends 923 00:38:35,260 --> 00:38:37,640 we can go to the word and we 924 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,540 can find out that practically everything and anything 925 00:38:40,540 --> 00:38:42,380 that we may need or about which we 926 00:38:42,380 --> 00:38:45,100 need to pray is already covered in his 927 00:38:45,100 --> 00:38:48,360 word praise god for the word of god 928 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,760 you know the psalmist of old says the 929 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,880 entrance of thy words giveth light again the 930 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,400 psalmist said you know thy word is a 931 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,900 lamp under my feet and a light under 932 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:03,240 my path when we walk in the light 933 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:05,080 of the word we are not walking in 934 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,080 darkness we are not praying in darkness we 935 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,500 know the will of god because his word 936 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:15,260 is his will and what he has provided 937 00:39:15,260 --> 00:39:20,380 in his word belongs to us there there 938 00:39:20,380 --> 00:39:23,060 is no question about it we don't have 939 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:25,620 to question it we don't have to ask 940 00:39:25,620 --> 00:39:29,000 why we just simply ask what that is 941 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,060 what's provided for us what does his word 942 00:39:31,060 --> 00:39:33,840 say and if his word says it's ours 943 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,540 then it belongs to us and we can 944 00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:41,920 receive according to his word remember this his 945 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,640 word is his will it is god's will 946 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,700 that i have what his word has promised 947 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,580 me it is god's will that i have 948 00:39:52,580 --> 00:39:55,600 what his word says he has provided for 949 00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:00,520 me so then with what boldness this is 950 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,920 the boldness the confidence that we have in 951 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,160 him praise the lord you've been listening to 952 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,340 from the pulpit this week you heard kenneth 953 00:40:08,340 --> 00:40:10,540 hagan with his message the will of god 954 00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:12,600 in prayer tune in next week for another 955 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,320 powerful message from god's word on from the 956 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:15,740 pulpit