The church today, tragically too often, lives by
sight and not by faith, by speculation, by
presumption, and not by faith, because we don't
hear God.
We don't hear the Word of God.
God is speaking.
God has spoken.
God continues to speak.
He does not contradict Himself.
He speaks consistent, but many of the things
that are consistent with this Word, in our
distorted view, we still don't understand or see.
Even when it's God, we may feel that
it's contrary to Scripture.
That was a tendency that the Pharisees had
oftentimes.
They said, we have the Word.
They waved the Scriptures in the face of
Jesus, who was and is the Word, and
they carried the Bible, the Word, the Scriptures,
and the scrolls, but it wasn't written in
their hearts.
And that's the distinct difference between the church
that lives by revelation and the one that
lives in the futility of their own understanding.
You don't carry the Bible simply in a
leather binder, but rather you hide it in
your heart, and you find the Word of
God actually carrying you along in the spirit.
And I'm longing for the Word of God
to begin to speak to you in the
spirit, in the spirit realm, into your spirit,
and right on your heart, and then begin
to live in and through your life.
I can't preach faith into you.
I can't preach belief into you.
I can't preach confidence into you.
I can preach the Word.
The Word will open your hearing, and as
your hearing is opened, and you in fact
hear the Word and receive the Word in
the spirit, Jesus says, if you can believe,
nothing shall be impossible.
Now, I didn't say that.
Jesus said it.
Do you believe that?
But you must hear Him, and I tell
you, that's the problem, is hearing the Lord.
That's one of the major problems.
The greatest war in the universe is the
war in the spirit realm against the Word
of God.
Are you aware of that?
All the forces of hell, the powers of
darkness, are in constant conflict, in confrontation against
the Word of God.
From the moment the Word goes forth, the
enemy seeks to snatch it away.
When you receive the Word, then the enemy
will try to drive you away from it,
and persecution will come, and a friction will
come because you did receive the Word, and
then some of you will seek the comfort
zone.
That's the constant tendency.
It's a constant invitation to you who've received
the Word to conform to society and to
the image of this world.
Conform.
Conform to religion.
Conform to the expectation of men.
Seek the approval of men.
Seek the acceptance of men.
That'll be one of the great battles you
pastors who are seeking now to live by
revelation.
I don't think there's a pastor involved in
this meeting, privately or publicly, who in his
heart doesn't want to hear God clearly and
move by revelation.
And when God begins to speak to you,
there's going to be the conflict within for
you to conform and seek the approval of
men before you even make a move.
And then it'll continue because you're going to
find acceptance even when you've been approved by
God.
And when you're blessed by God, you're going
to find acceptance and then the tendency is
going to be to settle in and get
comfortable.
And then you're going to find that that
communication is broken because you've allowed the tendency
to conform to take away and choke out
the Word.
The same thing happens when you let the
worries of the world or the deceitfulness of
riches or the cares for other things.
And those other things can even be good
things.
It can even be your family sometimes.
People make idols out of their children sometimes,
out of their mate sometimes.
And although we're to be good parents and
loving mates, we're not to idolize any person.
And so even good things can choke it
out.
Ministries often choke out the Word and you
don't hear God.
I want you to understand that the only
way that you're going to be able to
move in the kingdom of power over the
kingdom of darkness and to move in victory
and overcome this world, the only way is
for you to be able to hear God
in the Spirit and let this book get
off the page in your heart, in your
spirit.
I can say it to you.
I can quote it to you.
I can't receive it for you.
I can't believe for you.
I can't live it for you.
You've got to receive it.
It's a miracle.
It is really a miracle when it happens.
But that's what we're seeking tonight.
Psalm 107 verse 20.
Psalm 107 20.
He said his word.
He said his word and healed them.
Isn't that good?
He said his word and healed them and
delivered them from their destructions.
John chapter 1 says in the beginning was
the Word.
The Word was with God.
The Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him.
Without him was not anything made that was
made.
It goes on to say and the Word
became flesh and dwelt among us.
Who is the Word?
He said his word and healed them.
Jesus Christ is the living Word of God.
Does the Word live today?
Will the Word abide faithful?
Heaven and earth will pass away but my,
my Word endures forever.
When Jesus appears, his name is the Word
of God.
The words that I speak, Jesus said, they
are spirit and they are life.
As Moses said in his departing message, this
is not an idle word for you.
It is your life.
God not only keeps his word, he is
his word.
The Word is God.
God is the Word.
The Word ever lives.
He sent the Word.
Somebody says, do you think healing is in
the atonement?
Do you think healing's in the blood?
Healing's in Jesus, friend.
It's in Jesus.
Deliverance is in Jesus.
Salvation is in Jesus.
And the works of Jesus in his shed
blood is purchasing for us all of heaven
right now as ours and for all eternity
when we become not only new creations but
have a new body that can't get sick.
There's no sickness in heaven.
There are a lot of folks waiting to
get healed in heaven.
Forget it.
You won't get healed in heaven.
Friend, if you ever want to get healed,
get it now.
In heaven, you've got a new body, not
healing.
You can't get healed in heaven.
You can't get sick.
Somebody says, well, do you think it's the
will of God to heal?
And if you think it's the will of
God to heal, why do you think it
is?
Well, it's really pretty simple.
He built healing into your body.
That's the first testimony.
His creative purposes say he wants to heal
you.
Only a body that has been intruded, only
a body that's been disturbed and disrupted in
its normal processes, even by nature, you'll find
that nature testifies of the character of God.
God's a giver of life.
God is the giver of fruit.
And God gave us the capacity within this
body to fight diseases.
And what are doctors doing?
People wonder about doctors.
I want to tell you, I think it's
a sign of, of a willingness to grow.
And someone simply pauses and says, you know,
do you, do you think we as Christians,
if we could really hear the Lord, like
we should, do you think we'd need any
doctors?
And then they'll follow that and say, well,
do you think then it's, is it right
to have a doctor?
And that's, you know, that's a good, honest
question.
I'm going to tell you, when you come
clean before God, you're going to begin to
ask questions about everything you've been taught and
you're going to ask the Holy Spirit to
bring the truth and teach you now and
dismiss any error.
Well, that's a good question.
Do you know that when the Lord sent
healing to my body and then I saw
the healing power of God flow so freely
that every member of my family was healed
and I began to see miracles.
And as best I can remember, I went
through six months that I cannot recall ever
praying for anyone personally or even over the
telephone who was not healed instantly for a
period of six months.
And I want to tell you, I've asked
the Lord, I said, Lord, I want, that's
where I want to live.
That was really nice.
But do you know that I've never been
through a six month period of my life
when I've had so many people after me,
hating me as I did during that six
month period.
I mean, I got my brains beat out.
It was as though I was committing some
horrible act.
I just, I just believe God.
Do you want me to tell you how
far I've been caught up into the spirit
realm?
I mean, this is absolutely incredible.
It blows me away right now to even
think about it.
I was so consumed by the word of
God.
All I could hear was Jesus saying, rise
and be healed.
All I could hear was Jesus saying, I
am the Lord that healeth thee.
All I could hear him saying was, I
sent my word to heal you.
All I could hear him saying is that
when you pray the prayer of faith, the
sick are restored.
All I could hear was the word of
God.
Listen, I couldn't hear any other possibility.
I couldn't hear men.
I couldn't hear preachers.
I couldn't hear professors.
I couldn't hear scholars.
I couldn't hear theologians.
All I could hear was the word.
I'll tell you how far I was carried
along.
I couldn't, if asked to pray for you,
this was, it blows me away now to
think about it.
It never got to my mind.
I want to tell you the thought, the
impulse, the impulse, the thought never got to
my mind that there was a possibility you
might not get well.
That thought never got to my brain.
Never got to my brain.
I thought it was the easiest thing in
the world.
When I first started, I went with fear
and trembling.
I can remember going like a little child
to pray for a woman we would tell
was dying.
Took my wife by the hand, took our
Bibles.
We'd never done it before.
I'd had a man show me how.
He said, come, there was a woman dying
of cancer, had it all over her body.
She was a friend.
I said, man, I love this family.
Let's go pray for her.
He said, come on.
I said, will you show me how to
pray for a sick person?
I said, I'll show you.
Come on, let's go.
We walked in the hospital.
He took his Bible.
He didn't have on a tie, didn't have
on a suit, just had on a short
-sleeved shirt and the word of God, walked
in the room.
I mean, he didn't even look like a
prophet.
I mean, he didn't even look like a
priest, didn't look like a king, looked like
a carpet cleaner.
That's what he was.
And he just walked in the room.
When he got in there, he said, now
watch this.
Here's how we do it.
He looked at the lady and said, you
got a problem, don't you?
She had cancer all over her.
What do you mean, got a problem?
She had no problem agreeing with him.
I got a problem.
He said, God's bigger than all your problems.
She didn't doubt that.
She'd been taught that all her life.
But he said, now God's concerned about every
part of you.
And he just took a piece of paper
from the room and her husband was across
the bed.
Betty was in the room with us.
He took a sheet of paper, drew a
circle on it.
He drew a circle on it.
He said, see that circle?
Of course she did.
Said, that's you.
And in the circle, he drew another circle.
And in the smaller circle, he wrote cancer.
He said, cancer is in you.
Is that right?
She said, yes.
According to all the diagnosis and even the
examination, yes.
And it's serious.
He said, well, I want to show you
something else that concerns God, because he is
concerned about your cancer.
But he drew another circle.
And in that circle, he wrote bitterness.
And he drew another circle and he wrote
unforgiveness.
And he drew another circle and he wrote
pride.
And he drew another circle and wrote jealousy.
And he said, do you see all of
these other problems?
Some of these are in you too, aren't
they?
And she said, yes.
And he said, God's concerned about them just
as he's concerned about cancer, isn't he?
She said, yes.
And he said, wouldn't it be rather inconsistent?
Wouldn't it even be irreverent?
Wouldn't it even be hypocritical to say, God,
come and take away the cancer while I
keep the bitterness and the jealousy and the
pride?
And she said, yes.
He said, wouldn't it be better just to
say, come and take out of me everything
that is not like Jesus?
And she said, yes.
And she was under deep conviction, as was
her husband.
And he looked across the bed and said,
and you feel the same way, don't you,
sir?
This is serious with your wife.
He said, I do.
And then he said to me, go to
the door of the hospital room and put
your foot against the door.
Because when I began to pray, the devil's
going to try to come through that door.
Well, I thought that's pretty neat.
You know, that's going to be interesting how
this will be.
So I'm a pretty good-sized fella with
peace on my feet, and I put my
feet against the door.
And he begins to pray for this woman.
And I love to hear him pray because
he prayed the word.
And I mean, he began to pray.
And he prayed with authority.
He knew who was in charge.
He prayed for God to take out of
her life every unholy, unwholesome thing.
And about the time he'd been praying a
few moments, somebody that was as a raving
maniac hit that door screaming.
They not only hit the door, they began
to scratch and claw on the door like
an animal.
But they weren't getting in the door.
And they didn't get in the door.
Because peace on your feet will stop them
every time.
And I thought, boy, this is interesting.
The person went on down the hall, obviously
totally deluded mentally, but they knew the right
room to scratch on.
The power of God filled that room, and
God healed that woman.
Of one of the most severe cases of
cancer anybody's ever been diagnosed to have.
Until even this year, the doctor was so
astounded that he said, there's no way it
can all be gone.
It can't be.
I know you're doing fine.
She said, I told you it's healed.
Every time I talked to the couple, they
said, we know what happened.
You know, our friends down at our church,
they went to a Baptist church there in
Fort Worth, said they don't understand this.
They just think they can't understand it.
We try to tell them some of them
are unhappy about it.
Can you believe that?
He said, did you know that when you
all prayed for us and left the room,
do you remember looking back and telling us
that some of our best friends would come
through that door and try to put cancer
back on my wife?
He said, do you know you hadn't been
gone a half hour before they began to
march into the room getting ready to bury
my wife?
Telling her how terrible it is, but you
just hang in there till you die, or
whatever, just jumped.
But he said, we already knew God had
already spoken.
God came in that hotel room.
We knew God, I mean, in that hospital
room, we knew God was in that room.
We knew that.
This doctor this year said, I'm positive it's
still got to be there.
The man actually put her on the operating
table, cut her open and looked and couldn't
find it.
It was gone.
And she said, I told you, and it
was.
And I want to tell you any healing
that Jesus does when it is complete is
verifiably confirmable by any medical examination.
And you don't have to fear it.
But brother, I was being carried along after
that.
I went over to that house to pray
with that lady that was dying in bed.
And I sat on the foot of her
bed.
She hadn't been able to get out of
bed for a week.
They sent her home to say she's going
to have to come back indefinitely.
And I actually said, she'll die most likely
in the hospital.
We can't even treat her, go home, spend
a day or two there and then come
back.
And we're just going to take into trying
to find out what's wrong.
We don't know.
She was absolutely wiped out.
We sat on the foot of her bed,
bed, and I prayed for her.
She got out of bed and walked us
to the door and she hadn't been back
to bed.
Praise God.
And her whole family got healed and it's
glorious.
And she's given her testimony on our television
program and she's beautiful and God healed her
all over.
She had a terrible appetite.
She had such a horrible appetite.
She could not get victory over it.
And she actually had surgery on her stomach
where they had sewed her stomach together and
made it able to hold only four to
six ounces to try to take weight off
her.
And she actually kept eating so much with
a tiny stomach that she kept gaining weight.
But when God healed her in that bed,
the appetite problem was over.
It was over.
And now the weight has just come off.
And she says, I don't die.
I just sit down at the table and
eat with Jesus.
She said, I eat to please Jesus.
What a beautiful, beautiful testimony.
Well, I was flowing along like this.
I said, I don't intend to ever go
to a doctor again as long as I
live.
Why did I say that?
Because I didn't like doctors or believe that
they had a purpose.
No, I just didn't intend to get sick.
I got jumped on for that.
I mean, is it all right if you
don't go to a doctor cause you're well?
Well, some people interpreted that to mean I
didn't believe in doctors.
Listen, I believe it's possible for us to
live where we wouldn't have to go.
I think you can live where you wouldn't
have to take pills.
I really think it's possible not to get
sick.
Don't get down on yourself.
If you do let's learn, but let's get
up the valleys to learn in, not to
live in, get back up on the mountain,
learn in the valley, get back up on
the mountain.
Listen, you can glory.
You can glory in sickness.
You can glory in sickness, but don't glorify
sickness.
Deal with it.
We don't have to have it.
Jesus is not sick.
He doesn't even have a cold.
He's living in you.
That is a profound statement.
He's not sick.
Well, during this time, man, I'm telling you,
I said, it's a good, and I just
asked the Lord.
I just prayed, and I said, Lord, are
doctors wrong?
And the Lord said, they're sometimes unintentionally hurting
a lot of people.
They treat them improperly.
They give them a lot of drugs because
they want a quick fix.
And God said a lot of what they're
giving people has a more damaging end result
than if they hadn't gotten it.
He said there's a lot of things happening
at the hand of a doctor that's not
healthy.
I said, well, Lord, anybody admit that, the
doctors will admit that.
One of the doctor friends at Dudley Hall
told him recently, he said, now here's the
situation.
He said, you're going to have people come
to you.
This is when he got ready to graduate
from medical school.
You're going to have a situation, people are
going to come to you all your life.
And the situation is this.
Many of the people that come to you
would have been better off if they'd never
showed up in your office.
But some of the people you're going to
help.
So at the end of your medical career,
try to have more on the side that
you help than on the side that you
hurt.
Now, many of the doctors that have told
us that's just the case, because there's some
doctors that are really getting open and honest
about what drugs do to people.
I'm going to tell you something, folks, there's
lots of stuff we're putting in our body
that's killing us right now.
And as many wonderful things as God gives
us that help the body, there's some things
that we're putting in our body inappropriately at
the wrong time, in the wrong way, and
the wrong quantity that is devastating the temple
of God.
Now, don't leave me, don't you leave me
yet, let me finish.
But I said, Lord, and I didn't just
ask about what doctors might do wrong.
I want to know, are they right?
Is it right to have a doctor?
And the Lord said, certainly.
He said, I wouldn't have allowed my son
to be called the great physician if physicians
were sinful and wicked.
I would never let a wicked name be
attached to my son as a complementary name.
He said, Luke, the beloved physician understood the
body and understood what was going on and
was best able to record the miracles from
a medical perspective of any of the gospel
writers.
And the beloved physician traveled with Paul the
apostle and saw the wonderful signs and wonders
and they worked at his hand.
And it wasn't that he just had a
bag of pills, he had the power of
God, but he was also a beloved physician.
And then the Lord Jesus in his graciousness
said, now let me tell you the main
purpose.
And the Lord talks to you like this.
And he's talking consistent with scripture.
I want you to know he never contradicts
the word and he will talk to you.
He will communicate with you, but you must
know the word.
So you don't know you're being deceived.
You've got to know what the word says.
It's got to be consistent with the word.
And the Lord Jesus talked to him.
He said, all right, go to the good
Samaritan.
I went over and looked at the good
Samaritan.
Here was a man beaten.
Here's a man hurt.
Here's a man lying beside the road.
He's been terribly battered.
What happened?
What did the good Samaritan do?
Jesus said he did this.
He came and he saw his need.
He got in and he cleansed the wounds
and he put oil on the wounds and
he bound up the wounds.
He did what?
He took care of the wounds and he
took him to a place and paid the
money for them to take care of him
until he was well.
And what did Jesus Christ say?
He said, this is the true neighbor.
Go and do likewise.
This is good.
Jesus says it is right to care for
those in need, for those who are injured,
for those who are hurt.
And he showed me that a physician in
its purest work and purest definition is that
a physician is a trained mind and a
trained hand skilled in dealing with the hurts
and the needs of the temple, the body
of God's people.
And that they're there to help, not to
replace God, but to help.
Now, some think they're God and those can
be dangerous.
Some of them think there is no God
and that can be dangerous too.
But a physician, a doctor, has a place.
And he certainly, if everybody in the church
were living in perfect health, you still have
lots of lost people that wouldn't be in
perfect health.
And we ought to help them like the
good Samaritan helped that man when he was
hurt.
And doctors are able to do that.
And it's a wonderful means of missionary work
and taking the gospel not only in praying
for the sick, but caring for the needs
of others.
And no one should ever feel insulted or
put down or inadequate in faith when they
would consult a doctor, confer with a doctor,
or go to a doctor and say, I'm
in trouble.
I need some help.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all the doctors
could begin their diagnosis in prayer?
Wouldn't that be a wonderful day?
It may not be too far off.
Although you and I may be able to
live without them, although you and I may
be able to overcome, we should never feel
shame should we need one.
And we should always ask the Lord for
wisdom.
The doctor's not God.
Remember that.
Sometimes they best help us by telling us
specifically how to pray, specifically what to deal
with.
After all, Jesus named the diseases and rebuked
them.
It's nice to know sometimes what you're rebuking.
They have a wonderful place.
So thank God for, does that help a
little bit for you to understand?
I really want to see the church move
in such power that all you have to
do is roll the sick in the church
and the power of God will come on
them and they get healed.
But I'm going to tell you this, the
moment you get healed, you can lose it
before you get out the door.
Somebody says, well, I don't think when Jesus
healed people, they lost it.
Well, then you just haven't read your Bible.
Jesus told one man that he healed.
He said, no, don't go back into sin
unless something worse come on.
That's Jesus talking.
In other words, if we don't walk after
the word, we're still vulnerable.
Did you know that Pharaoh released the people
from Egyptian bondage and they headed toward the
Red Sea?
What did Pharaoh do after he let God's
people go a few days later?
What did he try to do?
He tried to do what?
Take them back into captivity.
You can be healed tonight.
Walk out of here.
Not keep your eyes on Jesus.
Start checking for symptoms, checking for pains, trying
to get a feeling, trying to get a
sensation and not receive the word.
And the enemy grabbed you before you get
home.
But I will tell you, when I deal
with a problem in my life, I don't
start checking it.
I just keep my eyes on Jesus.
God showed me how to rebuke a headache.
If a headache comes, I don't sit around
and say, is it leaving?
Is it leaving?
Let me see if it's leaving.
I'm going to sit here and see if
it's leaving.
Is it leaving?
I wonder if it's gone.
Oh, I hope it's leaving.
Friend, I just set my sails to catch
the wind of the spirit, put my eyes
on Jesus.
I say in the name of Jesus, headache,
go.
Now you try that.
The first thing the devil will tell you
is you're dumb for doing it.
Isn't that dumb, talking to a headache?
Can you imagine who that is telling you
that something Jesus did is dumb?
Did Jesus speak to fever?
Did Jesus rebuke the dumb spirits?
Did Jesus Christ speak to the sicknesses?
Did he say speak to the mountain?
Well, friend, if you've got a mountainous headache
or a little baby headache, tell the thing
to go.
Speak to it.
Talk to it.
That'll be a sign of growth, too, when
you can talk to it without feeling dumb
anymore.
I'm telling it's a sign of maturity.
I remember when I first started, I said,
headache.
I almost was embarrassed.
Headache.
The devil said, you dumb dingbat.
I hope nobody hears you talking that way.
Headache.
Oh, isn't that something?
Headache, go.
My sinuses would begin to flare up.
I'd say sinus problems, congestion, go.
And the devil would say, you dummy.
And he'd just try to pour more of
it on.
And man, the old sinuses would just begin
to puff up again.
And he would say, it's not working.
It's not working.
You know what the Lord would say?
He'd say, get with me and I'd get
in the Word.
And the Word would prevail.
And I found myself many times when it
looked like I was losing a battle, I'd
just turn and go to the Word.
And all of a sudden, I'd notice those
problems weren't there anymore.
The headache was gone.
The sinus was gone.
The Lord said, look, when you deal with
a problem, you speak to it.
You leave it alone.
You don't know the times or the seasons
that I put in my own power.
You just act on the Word.
You do what I'm saying.
You heed what I'm saying.
And you leave the results and the timing
to me.
Just keep your eyes on me and keep
going.
But I've been amazed as I would speak
to these problems coming against me.
I had something come against me this afternoon.
I came in and told my wife and
my daughter.
Here's how I told them.
I said, there's something all over me right
now.
All over my body right now like a
virus.
It's penetrating the pores of my skin.
It's sapping my strength.
It's draining me right now.
I told them that, but I said, it's
all right.
I didn't say that with cockiness.
I didn't say it with arrogance.
I said it with confidence.
I said, but it's all right.
And I said, the only reason I'm telling
you is I just want you to agree
with me and rejoice with me.
I'm all right.
I didn't say that presumptuously.
I know in my spirit, I know.
And I'm going to tell you if the
word's not first in my life, I can't
know like that.
And you can't talk that into me.
But the word will put that in you.
It's the most amazing thing in the world.
And I can't get the word for you
necessarily.
Sometimes I can help you.
But you need to receive the word.
And we need one another.
My friend, he sent his word to turn
over to Proverbs chapter two, and we're going
to go through some scriptures.
You're not in a hurry.
Are you tonight?
The hurry spirits not welcome here tonight.
Is it is the Holy spirit welcome?
The Holy spirit never is in a hurry
and he's never rude either.
I want to tell you something, folks, you
really need to be listening to the message
tonight and you need to be seeing it
in the word.
And this you can call it prediction or
whatever you want to, by the way, you
need to go to Proverbs three, I meant
three.
You're going to need what you're hearing tonight
because the greatest release of the work of
the enemy in diseases, even against Christians has
already begun right now.
And it is going to intensify in the
months and years ahead, like you won't be
able to imagine.
And you really need to hear tonight and
you need to so hear that fear will
not prevail against or over this word.
You'll just be able to hear the word,
no matter what the situation or the diagnosis,
this word must take prevalence over anything else.
You hear Proverbs chapter three, beginning at verse
one.
Now let's listen to the word of God.
My son, my children do not forget my
teaching, my words, let your heart keep my
words, my commandments for length of days and
years of life and peace.
They will add to you and do not
let kindness and truth.
That's the word leave.
You bind them around your neck and write
them on the tablet of your heart.
So you will find favor and good repute
in the sight of God and man trust
in the Lord with all your heart and
do not lean on your own understanding.
Rest assured, friend, look here for a moment,
rest assured that as long as we're in
this life, there will be in this life
that which we cannot understand unless God grant
that understanding there will be in this life.
I feel certain that which we will not
understand and God will not reveal to us
in this life.
How we are not yet known as we're
known.
We do still see through a glass dimly.
Someday we will be known as we're known
and we will know as he knows, but
in this life, they're going to be those
puzzling situations for which you will not in
this lifetime find the answer adequate to satisfy
your sensual desires or your understanding.
And that's why God says don't lean on
your own understanding.
It won't hold.
There'll always be the puzzling thing.
There'll always be that question.
Robert Duvall, who is the Academy Award winning
best actor, and I may have shared earlier
with you, spent the day with me in
my home Friday just over a week ago.
And Robert is making a movie on a
preacher and I'm concerned about the drift of
it.
And he's being open enough to let me
help.
And I want to see him love the
Lord.
And he's opening opportunities for me to witness
by the grace of God to Willie Nelson
and Waylon Jennings and these other fellows.
And I want to love him.
I want to really see a Willie get
saved.
And I mean, that's on my heart.
It's just on my heart.
I can't tell you how much.
I love him.
I want him saved.
And Robert was telling me about the movie
and he says, I've seen the power of
God.
He said, it's real, man.
And he began to tell me about these
different people where one of them was an
old lady in Tennessee.
He said, she's so real.
He said, she's so holy.
And he's been watching me for years and
listening to, he's memorized my messages.
If anything ever happens to me, and I
think he could do them about as well,
probably he's got them down a lot of
them down.
And, and he was telling me in the
movie, he said, I'm going to have a
man pray.
The preacher is going to pray for two
children that have a terminal disease.
And he said, the power of God is
going to come so heavy on him that
one of the children's just is going to
fall under the power of God.
And so is the preacher and the powers
all over.
And he said, and the kid is healed
miraculously.
Like he said, I know God does because
I've seen it.
And he said, but the other kid is
going to die.
And I said, why Robert?
He said, because they'll always be that, which
we don't understand.
And I said, well, that's right.
And that is right.
I mean, they'll just be that we don't
understand.
God said, don't lean on your understanding.
There's a lot I don't understand right now.
Some of you say, why do you think
you stopped that power flow where everybody was
getting well when you prayed for them?
Two reasons.
The first reason is tragic.
Much of the church couldn't wait to beat
that out of me.
They lined up to do it.
They got me in rooms behind closed doors
and splattered my brains all over the wall.
I left one of those meetings so weak
in my body that I could barely drive
home.
Within 48 hours, I was running fever and
sick.
And my wife came in and said, you
want me to get somebody to pray for
her?
I said, I really don't care.
It might not be the will of God
for me to get well.
That's what they had pumped into my body
and into my mind.
Let me tell you something.
Words lead to the ruin of the hearers.
I didn't go in that room to get
ruined.
I went in to pour my heart out.
And I'm telling you, it was like being
crucified.
I don't think they understood.
I don't think they could understand the spirit
that was in that room when those men
walked in there and looked at me.
It was as though I were before a
firing squad.
I started out by telling them how Jesus
healed me.
And one of them said, a brilliant professor
said, let me ask you something.
Suppose somebody came to get healed.
And they came and said, all right, let's
pray.
God, if it's your will, heal me.
Go ahead, God.
If it's your will, heal me.
Go right ahead.
I'll accept it.
Go ahead.
And what if they don't get healed?
What do you say to that?
And I said, well, now let me ask
you something.
I said, how many people do you think
would get saved who came to God like
that person you described?
All right, God, go ahead.
If you want to save me, go right
ahead.
Go ahead, God.
Save me.
Go right ahead.
I'm ready.
Go ahead.
Go ahead and save me, God.
I said, how many of them do you
think would get saved?
He said, not many.
I said, not any.
He that cometh to God must believe that
he is and that he is a rewarder
of them that diligently seek him.
And I said, let me ask you something
else.
Suppose they come to get saved and they
go out and live like the devil.
I said, does that nullify the word of
God and the gospel of Jesus Christ?
I said, suppose they come down the aisles
by the thousands and there's no transformation in
their lives.
Does that make Jesus any less mighty to
save?
And he said, no.
And I said, if I pray for every
sick person on this earth and they don't
get well, that doesn't nullify the gospel, the
truth or the healing ministry of Jesus.
It tells me we better seek the Lord.
I want it well understood tonight that I
do not base what I believe on physical
phenomena.
I do not base what I believe concerning
salvation on physical or emotional manifestations.
I was not born again by physical emotion.
I was not born again by a mere
decision.
I was born again by the living word
of God.
I know I'm saved by the word of
God.
And I do not base my convictions concerning
the healing power and ministry of Jesus on
anybody getting healed any more than I base
my confidence on the saving power of Jesus
on somebody getting saved.
I didn't come to your salvation.
I came to his salvation.
He is mighty to say, I came to
Jesus, not your experience.
I do not base my convictions on what
I see.
I base it on what he said, the
forever settled living word of God.
I do not base what I believe concerning
healing on your healing either.
If you base what you believe on what
you see, if you base what you believe
concerning salvation on other people being changed or
saved, you will walk away from God when
they fall away from God.
When the preacher falls, your faith will fail.
And I'm going to tell you something else.
The first time you pray for a sick
person and you don't see him get well,
your confidence in the healing power of God
will go too because you trust in what
you see rather than what he says.
But I want to tell you, when I
came to the Lord and I said this,
I said, God, if every member of my
family dies of a horrible disease, I want
it to be heard by every demon power
of hell and every deceiving spirit.
I want you to know that no matter
what happens, it does not alter the word
of God.
I believe this word.
And this is why it works.
It is by faith.
But one of the reasons I found the
flow broken, I went to one of the
big preacher's conventions.
There were thousands there.
Dudley was with me.
I can't describe to you the horror of
the moment where I had been on the
platform time and again, just like I was
on the platform in the myriad here to
speak to the largest crowd ever gathered in
Oklahoma Baptist history.
I can remember telling the humorous joke when
I came up, I said, what a wonderful
night.
Thousands that filled the myriad.
I said, they're having the Texas evangelism conference
tonight too.
And they only have about 10,000.
And I understand you have nearly 15,000.
But I said, of course, they only have
Billy Graham preaching in Texas.
And everybody laughed.
I can remember being here on that platform.
And I said that in humor, I love
Billy.
He's my friend.
But the point is, I was a hero
on those platforms.
I walked back to the same conference where
I was applauded.
And you should have seen them part.
They wouldn't even walk over and shake my
hand.
They would actually turn to look at another
person.
And then those who walked behind me could
hear them talking about me as I went
by.
But the moment we were seated up in
the arena to listen to a wonderful man
of God, Dr. Stephen Oldford, preach, a preacher
got up and came over to us and
knelt down in front of us.
Remember Dudley and said, pray for me, pray
for my boy.
Dudley Hall went to one of those big
conventions.
He said it was, it was almost embarrassing.
He said, I could hardly get to the
sessions for people stopping me on the elevator
and stopping me in the halls.
He said, we actually had to pray for
the sick in the elevators all over the
convention.
People come and said, would somebody please pray
for me?
But the mockery went on.
See, it's still going on right now.
Right now.
If I read you some of the letters
that I've gotten from famous preachers in your
state, your first impulse would be to throw
up.
Your second impulse would be to go into
a rage.
Then your next impulse would be to get
on the floor and weep your heart out
at the spiritual sickness that's prevailing in some
of these so-called spiritual giants right here
in Oklahoma City.
It's tragic.
You say, are you angry with them?
Not even a little bit.
I love them and I'm going to tell
you something.
When their needs are great, I'll be there
right at the side to pray and I'm
praying for them now.
And I want to tell you, I don't
want the judgment of God on them.
I want the mercy of God on them
because I too walked in those critical, corrupt,
if you please, shoes.
Blind, leaders of the blind, leading everybody into
the ditch of destruction.
You may say, well, what do you do
when you do pray for someone and they
don't get well?
I weep.
I ask God for a word.
I say, God, come.
Lord, I can't stop until I see it
the way it was with Jesus.
Let me tell you, if the church of
Jesus Christ won't beat me to death, I
might learn something that'll help the church if
you'll give me a little time.
Why don't you be patient with me, church?
Listen to me.
I don't know much about the healing ministry
of Jesus.
I'm a baby, but I know that it's
the nature and character of God that wants
you to walk.
Will there be anybody sick in heaven?
No.
Jesus said, pray, thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.
Would it be all right to pray that
way?
I'm going to, I'd like to see the
will of the father done now like it
is in heaven, whatever his will is.
It's his character to heal.
It's his creative manifestation to heal.
He did it.
It was the practice of Christ and his
ministry and the church to heal.
The other reason that I believe the unbroken
flow of healing was interrupted was not only
the pounding that came against me.
Listen, I can't tell you what that did
to me.
I can't even, I, you don't know how
that hurt me.
To want to pray for people, do you
understand the love it takes for people to
be praying for one another?
Do you understand that a sick church literally
stood back in open public skeptical mockery of
a man in Oklahoma who years ago said,
I'll sit down and pray for sick people.
And many times he personally put his hands
on and prayed for nine to 10,000
people a day for eight, 10 and 12
hours without even stopping to go to the
bathroom because when he would look out, it
would break his heart at the mangled masses.
And the church of Jesus Christ stood outside
and mocked him.
And so God almighty let him build a
skyscraper.
That's the biggest building in Oklahoma to shout
to the world.
He's healer still, healer still.
If he said nothing else in his ministry,
Oral Roberts has said he's healer still.
Your analysis of Oral Roberts doesn't interest God
one bit.
He may have missed God 10,000 times,
but so have we.
And we're not his judge.
And God wants this world to know Jesus
is healer.
I shudder to think sometimes had it not
been for the absolute overpowering image of a
man who said, I believe in healing, if
in fact even Jim Hilton, who helped me
to be healed, and James Robinson and others
of us, and many today who are praying
for the sick, might not have brought the
lie that it passed away with the apostles.
But there was just enough there to make
you wonder if the miracles might be real.
And then to find, in fact, they are.
Catherine Kuhlman, who saw so many miracles, who
astounded us all with her mysticism.
I didn't understand the mysticism of Catherine Kuhlman.
I've never understood the manner of Ernest Ainsley.
I used to watch him, to mock him,
to mock him.
He was one of the best laughs in
my repertoire preaching to imitate Ernest Ainsley.
And saying, baby.
And one night God Almighty rebuked this smart
aleck preacher and said, if you're so hot,
why don't you get a bunch of deaf
people up on the platform and tell them
to say baby right in front of everybody?
He said, why don't you tell the sick
to come up in front of everybody while
you pray for them, Mr. Bigshot?
And God said, you don't think too much
of Ernest Ainsley and the way he talks,
do you?
He said, what do you think about the
story in the Bible where my son spit
in that man's eyes?
He said, you don't understand the things that
are a little different about Ernest Ainsley and
Catherine Kuhlman.
But he said, I want to tell you,
I don't heal proud people.
And he said, there are not many proud
people going to hear Ernest Ainsley because they're
too sophisticated.
God says, I'll use what man calls foolish
to confound the wise.
I've heard some of the most glorious testimonies
of my life by people that were healed
in Ernest Ainsley meetings.
I don't know if Ernest does everything right.
It bothers me sometime when he bops them
on the head.
It does.
I mean, you know, I figure if God's
mighty enough to knock them down, you don't
have to bop them too.
Maybe I'll be able to share that with
brother Ainsley right before he bops me.
Let me tell you something.
Well, you've seen the power of God come
so mightily that all you have to do
is start to touch them and they go
pow.
Well, you've seen the spirit of God sweep
through a congregation and lay them out everywhere.
And in the process heal their sick bodies.
You know, God's powerful and he doesn't need
our pop or our shaking hands.
But maybe Ernest could learn a thing or
two.
Maybe he could even learn something from me
if I'd quit picking on him and go
love him.
I do love him.
You can't know how much I love him.
I watched him Sunday night take a little
blind girl.
She had a little misshaped head she couldn't
see.
And he put his fingers up on her
eyes.
And Ernest prayed to quite a few people.
There was no obvious healing there.
You just, you didn't see it.
I thought that was rather noble that he
showed all those people that didn't get healed.
And he loved every one of them.
And then the little baby was there and
grandmother had her.
You know what he did first?
First, he led grandmother to Jesus.
Grandmother got saved there.
Then she put the little blind girl up.
Ernest put his hands up on her little
eyes.
And he said, Jesus, heal her little eyes.
He said, come out blindness.
And the little girl went like there.
And she looked over and reached out and
got his flower off his lapel.
And she just sat there and prayed with
the little flower.
And Ernest said, isn't that wonderful?
This little girl sees a flower.
And her grandmother said she can't walk either.
And in a few minutes, Ernest just took
that little girl in his arms.
And he just began to hug her.
He said, he's so sweet.
Jesus, please heal her little legs.
Please, Jesus.
Please, please, Jesus.
And he held her.
He said, I believe Jesus is going to
make her walk too.
And it was the love that touched our
hearts.
She didn't walk, but she did see.
That's good.
That's progress.
Church, would you quit killing yourselves?
Would you be patient with me while I
learn?
I tell you, I don't know much.
Would you love me while I try to
hear the Lord to see the body here?
I want your babies well.
I want your children well.
I believe Jesus wants.
Look what he says.
You don't lean on your own understanding.
Verse six, Proverbs three.
Stay with me.
Don't get in a hurry.
Too much is happening here tonight.
You can't imagine the good that's already been
done tonight.
Lord, deliver us from the hurry.
God wants to help some people here tonight.
It won't be me.
Get your eyes off me.
I'm not it.
I'm not the word he sent.
I preach the word.
I lift up the word.
I lift up the Lord.
I don't preach healing.
I preach Jesus.
I want you to see Jesus.
You'll never be disappointed if you'll get to
him.
You can't be disappointed if you get to
Jesus.
Do not lean on your own understanding.
Verse six, in all your ways, acknowledge him
and he will make your path straight.
Do not be wise in your own eyes.
Fear the Lord and turn away from evil
and it will be what?
Health, healing to your body and refreshment to
your bones.
What will be health to you?
The word which you receive.
The living word.
Turn over to chapter four, verse 20 of
Proverbs.
See it in the word.
Receive it in your heart.
Am I saying this or is God saying
this?
Answer me.
Who is saying what I'm about to read?
I want to see what God says.
Proverbs 420.
My son, that's the believer.
That's his children.
My son, give attention to my words.
Incline your ear to my sayings.
That's his word.
Do not let them, the word, depart from
your sight.
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
Not on miracles or manifestations.
We don't seek miracles.
We seek Jesus.
We get so caught up in the glory
of Jesus that miracles follow his manifest presence.
Do not let them depart from your sight.
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Get the word down inside of you.
For they are life to those who find
them and health to all their whole body.
Who said that?
The word is what to your body?
Health to how much of your body?
All of your whole body.
Turn over to Matthew chapter four and let's
look what happened when the word became flesh.
Don't you love to turn through the Bible?
Aren't you glad you got a Bible where
the pages aren't all stuck together?
Some of your Bibles are getting broke in
this week.
You've been over in places you didn't even
know there were in your Bible.
Pulling the pages apart, not longer stuck together.
Isn't that wonderful?
That thing will just work so good when
you break it in.
Matthew 4, 23.
I'll tell you what, you wouldn't do bad
to read what Jesus said in verse 17
because Jesus talked about the light coming and
the word referred to him as the light.
In verse 17, Jesus began to preach, repent
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
and that's the kingdom of power.
He said it's at hand, but you must
repent to get it.
And that's the message to the church today,
folks.
That's the message to us today to repent,
get back into the kingdom power.
Verse 23, Jesus was going about in all
Galilee, what did it say?
Teaching in the synagogues.
And what else?
Preaching the gospel of what?
The kingdom, that's power.
And what else was he doing?
Healing.
Look at it again, pause again.
Jesus was going about in all Galilee, what?
What else?
Preaching.
What else?
Healing.
That's the ministry of Jesus, folks.
Healing every kind of disease and every kind
of sickness among the people in the news
about Jesus went out into all Syria and
they brought to Jesus all who were ill,
taken with various diseases, pains and demoniacs and
epileptics and paralytics.
And he did what?
Heal them.
And great multitudes followed him from Galilee and
Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the
Jordan.
If you want to make a marginal note,
you go over and read the ministry of
Jesus in Luke chapter 4 and you're going
to find Jesus Christ healing people.
As a matter of fact, although I'm coming
back to Matthew for the conclusion, I think
it'd be good if you just looked at
Luke 4 for a moment.
I'm not in a hurry.
I refuse to get in a hurry.
I'm having fun.
If you're tired, sleep.
We'll wake you up when we get to
the end.
All right?
I just have a wonderful time.
Brother, I want you to know that Jesus
Christ will not do miracles where he's not
received.
Brother, if you want to see miracles, you've
got to get in an atmosphere where you
expect miracles.
I don't mean an atmosphere where you work
up a bunch of emotion.
There may be zeal, there may be excitement,
there may be praise, but there's not stirred
up flesh.
There's a stirred up spirit of a living
God.
I watch people try to get people into
a frenzy of ecstasies and trying to get
them into an atmosphere to help them.
I think more people are hurting that atmosphere
than helped.
Sometimes God does his greatest works.
I've observed when it gets real quiet, I'm
watching the Lord heal this boy on the
front row.
It's kind of getting fun, partner.
Well, I watched the Lord straighten that crippled
body completely out in front of almost 1
,500 people watched it just straighten out all
those old muscles.
Then I watched it just come right back.
And now I'm watching him, just peace is
coming on you all the time, isn't it,
little buddy?
Boy, I love you so much.
You're so precious.
He's learning to rest.
This kid's a fighter.
He never was supposed to be able to
walk.
Boy, he's a fighter.
And now the Lord's having to show him
how to rest.
And those muscles are beginning to just relax.
See, I watched God straighten his jaw and
his hands where he could talk plain is
the neatest thing.
And I just getting so happy, I watched
his hands become like mine.
And then I just stepped back and I
just watched it come right back.
And the Lord said, now peace must come.
He said, it's not going to be something
you stir.
He said, this is one of these that's
going to be for my glory.
As my glory comes, you're going to see
he's just going to be restored as I'm
restored.
There's some people like that.
They're going to be restored as Jesus is.
It's a beautiful thing.
And we need peace.
You need to get in an atmosphere where
there's peace.
God's beginning to minister to some of you
now.
I want to tell you that sickness is
in your body tonight.
Jesus wants to just take it right off.
He really does.
Right where you're sitting, some of you may
never get to move and you've got to
know.
Jesus couldn't do miracles in his hometown.
They recognized him in the flesh.
They said, this is the carpenter.
This is Joseph's son, but they didn't receive
him as the son of the living God.
There are a lot of you that praise
Jesus, but you don't know that Jesus is
still the same.
You've got a weak Jesus that you lean
on.
He's weak.
He's not the mighty Jesus of scriptures.
He's not the mighty Jesus that not only
came out of the grave, but the mighty
Jesus who raised Lazarus.
And I love what my pastor, Jimmy Draper
said about that resurrection.
I love it.
I remember him just finished his term as
president of Southern Baptist.
He said, when Jesus Christ spoke to Lazarus
and said, Lazarus come forth.
And by the way, as Jim Hilton says,
when he preaches on Lazarus, he said, Jesus
wasn't timid.
He didn't go and say, I hope you
come out.
He said, Lazarus, where everybody can hear him.
He wanted him to say that the word
delivers.
My pastor said, when Jesus raised Lazarus, the
power that raised him was so great.
Think of it.
The power that raised Jesus is the same
power that raised Lazarus is the same power
that's in your mortal body right now.
Not your mortal body, mortal body.
Your mortal body can be swallowed up now
with the life of God right now.
And so mighty was that resurrection power.
Dr. Draper said that when Jesus said Lazarus
come forth, he was bound hand and foot
with grave clothes and the power that raised
him came all the way to the door
of the tomb.
Bound.
Power.
That's the kind of power that often went
out when Catherine Kuhlman was ministering.
Catherine Kuhlman died of an enlarged heart.
Many of the people who attended said, Catherine
get well.
She said, I don't understand.
I can help others believe, but I can't
seem to get it.
Oh God.
I can't help but wonder if maybe the
body of Christ had not spoken so many
curses on Catherine Kuhlman.
If maybe the body couldn't minister to her
sometime.
Oh, how many were healed in her knees.
Everywhere.
They rolled a three or four star general
like a sack of laundry into here in
a wheelchair with his uniform hanging on him.
He weighed less than 90 pounds.
His bone structure was turning to jelly.
And he sat there.
Catherine Kuhlman began her lecture and something went,
and she stopped, thought something was wrong in
the PA and she paused.
And then she began again like fireworks.
And she said, who's doing that?
Who is doing that?
Who is distracting now?
Who is distracting?
And it continued until that general stood up
over 180 pounds.
Perfect.
His bone structure reformed in his body by
the power of God.
Right in the seat.
One of the great miracles of her ministry.
Absolutely overwhelmed people.
They said that his muscles and his tissue
had again filled every part of his uniform
like a whole man.
He came to say, God.
They tell me the people that worked her
meetings said that the expectancy level was so
high in Catherine's meetings.
They said she used to get her helpers
to go to the hospitals and the nursing
homes and get the sick and put their
wheelchairs and load them on the buses.
She said, go get all of them.
Get the sickest people in this town.
They said it was such a sight when
they'd load that humanity on those buses.
And she'd have these little guys that believe
God working on the buses.
And they'd stand there and begin to tell
those people God's evil.
God can heal you.
Jesus Christ can do it.
And some of those sick people ran off
the bus and went into the meeting to
get a seat.
Well before they ever got off the bus.
Because they expected God to do so.
Oh how we need to pray for one
another.
You're not going to see many miracles, if
any at all, in an atmosphere of unbelief.
They didn't happen.
But I'll tell you, you continue reading that
fourth chapter of Luke and you'll not only
find that he healed Simon's mother-in-law
by rebuking fever in verse 38.
Look what he did in verse 39.
It says he rebuked the fever.
That means he said, fever go.
He didn't take her temperature.
He rebuked the fever.
He didn't monitor it.
He got it on go.
He said, go.
You can do it.
And Jesus, don't be frustrated if you ever
speak to a mountain it doesn't go the
first time.
Don't be frustrated if you begin to act
on the word.
John Wimber, who sees probably the greatest healing
miracles of anybody in the country, was ordered
by God to start praying for the sick.
He told his church that we're going to
go after him.
We're going to pray for the sick.
Do the ministry of Jesus.
And he told them.
And the whole church got sick and liked
to die.
And I'll guarantee you, if you live by
sight, the devil will put on such a
three-ring circus for you, you won't even
be able to get back to the word.
But if you'll just tell the devil, it
doesn't matter what you do.
I go with Jesus.
I don't look back.
I got my eyes on Jesus.
You can't distract me from Jesus.
And old John Wimber told them, it's dying.
And everybody sick that they went that was
really sick and prayed for it died.
John said, it beats all.
He got to where when he'd get a
call to go pray for somebody, they're like,
oh no, this is it.
Finally got a call to go and pray
for somebody that was dying.
And he said, when he got there, he
told God, he said, here, oh God.
He said on the way, he said, Lord,
why don't you come?
And he went in and saw the woman
there about, he said, if you've ever seen
death warmed over there, it was, he said,
it was pitiful.
He said, it just didn't help my faith
a bit.
And he said, I went in there and
here I went again, doing what God said.
And he said, the glory of God came
down that room, filled that room.
That woman got up out of that bed
and hit that floor well and went in
the kitchen and started fixing us a meal.
So help me God.
She was healed and still is.
And he said, when I got out in
my car and got on that California freeway,
I said, all right.
Who touched the supernatural?
And he never stopped.
All right.
Somebody says, how does it happen?
Brother, you just go with God and wait.
That's how you win the lost.
You just go with God and trust.
He's the only one that can do it.
It's in his hand.
Don't you be distracted.
Jesus rebuked that old fever and it left.
And then I just love this picture.
Look at verse 40.
And while the son was setting all who
had any sick with various diseases, brought them
to Jesus.
And he laid his hands on every one
of them and he was healing them.
And if you've got something against prayer lines,
you better cut that out of your Bible.
I don't want to hear any preacher ever
again, say any mocking word about a healing
line or a prayer line, because I want
every pastor on this earth to know if
you've ever had a counseling session in your
study with hurting people, you have a prayer
line and you take them by appointment.
The only reason you ever see long lines,
people getting prayed for is because the church
doesn't pray for them like they ought to.
And so they line up to get somebody
that loves them enough to pray for.
If we get right with God, we'll start
lining up to pray for them instead of
them lining up to get prayed for.
And if somebody gets sick, we'll be wanting
to go over there and pray for them.
Let's quit making fun of each other.
I'm sick of the merchandising.
I hate to see it.
I hate to see somebody trying to act
like you got miracles when you don't.
It bothers me to see showmanship and all
that stuff.
It breaks my heart.
My dear friend, Jesus Christ had them come
in the throngs and line up and he
prayed for him.
By the way, another one of the reasons
that I think the flow of the healing
power ebbed was that the Lord made it
very clear to me, please understand what I'm
saying, because I don't know of anything that
thrilled me anymore.
And just to spend my life sitting or
standing and reaching out to you and others
who are sick and watching Jesus just keep
healing.
But I'm telling you, the Lord showed me
that our society and even the church is
so perverted that people would absolutely come to
a person who's flowing in the power that's
about to flow.
And if they could pin that power on
that individual, they would literally take you apart
limb for limb thinking that you are the
special one.
That's how sick we are.
We're a hero worshiping idolatrous people.
Brother, I want to tell you, hero worship
is over, brother.
It's idolatry.
And there are no more big shots.
They're God called, God anointed, God appointed people
that are to be appreciated and held in
high esteem only for the work's sake, not
for their name's sake.
There are no more big shots, brother.
It's just the body.
And I want you to know the glory
of God's going to come and you won't
trace it to me and you won't trace
it to Oral Roberts and you won't trace
it to some pastor.
It's going to be a body ministry and
you're going to find people getting miraculously healed
in little home Bible study groups and prayer
meetings and mothers and daddies going home and
laying their hands on their children and their
loved ones and driving across this country and
praying for the sick and they're going to
be coming up from triple beds and they're
going to be getting well and they're going
to go to little churches in the country
and big churches downtown and Jesus is going
to be welcome and they're going to get
up and you can't pin it on anybody
but Jesus.
That's the day we're moving into now.
That's why you need to understand you may
be the one.
They came to Jesus.
Brother, in that ninth chapter of Matthew, that
woman touched Jesus in the crowd and he
turned around and said, your faith made you
whole and he called her daughter.
Your faith made you whole.
That woman was born again.
Not only was the hemorrhage dried up, but
she was born again.
That's what God wants to do for every
one of you here tonight.
The Lord wants to make you whole.
God wants to minister to you and our
Bible conference, when the glory of God began
to move as it did this year, nearly
15,000 people had registered.
On Friday night, the spirit of God just
began to sweep through this place.
I loved what one of your Oklahoma City
residents said, the black boy's name is James
Wright, isn't that it?
I think he still goes to First Southern
Dell City out here.
James Wright was at our Bible conference last
year and blessed us.
That boy sings from the bottom of his
feet to the top of his head.
I get just a thrill out of watching
his feet, man, when he's singing.
He's got God just oozing out of him.
And old James Wright sang last year, a
year ago at our Bible conference.
This year he came back to our Bible
conference to sing again.
I remember what James said before he sang.
He said, I thank God that one year
ago, right here, I came down and I
got on my face down there and I
left my chains right there and I don't
care my chains anymore.
I haven't picked them up.
I was free right there a year ago.
But I mean that Friday night after he
had sung, the thousands fell on their face
before God and the healing ministry of Jesus
began to sweep.
I'm telling you folks, you can't believe the
testimonies that came from the upper balcony.
I mean, we're preachers.
One of the preachers there, he was so
sick and he was so crippled up and
some little lady looked down at him and
said, sir, you're sick, aren't you?
He said, yes, I am.
How'd you know?
She said, I could just tell.
Said, I want to pray for you.
That pastor of the First Baptist Church said,
so help me God.
I was healed sitting right there.
That little lady that I would probably thought
was strange, prayed for me and God healed
me.
And he said, I went back to my
church and told him Jesus heals and people
got healed at my church.
And he said, I've never stopped telling him
and I won't stop.
For the all of that, a little Baptist
deacon in the back, we said, just reach
out and pray for somebody.
He looked out there and there's a lady
there had legs like concrete sitting in a
wheelchair.
Nobody moved to her.
Spirit of God said, go on, pray for
her.
Oh God.
And all of a sudden he said, I
just put my hands out.
And he said, that woman came out of
that chair, like a shot out of a
cannon.
Ran two times all the way around that
Coliseum.
Came back and said, can you believe this?
Said, my legs were like bricks.
Another layman from Alabama prayed for a sick
lady.
God healed her.
She came back down the next morning about
to hug his neck off.
She was happy how God healed her.
I love what John Wimber says.
He just gets so happy.
He prays for people, God heals them.
He said, isn't that something?
He said, God does all the work and
I get all the hugs.
Isn't that neat?
Boy, it's so much fun to see God
work.
You let these little laymen see people get
healed.
Whether you let a layman see the power
of God, like we saw a layman stand
up and put his hands on a tumor
in a man's back that was as big
as an orange.
And when he felt the tumor, he nearly
fainted.
Because by word of knowledge, God had shown
John that someone had that tumor.
He stood up out of the aisle.
He was a skeptic.
And then that little old deacon put his
hands on that thing.
And it just went like that under his
hands.
The people that stood around this man, and
he was almost electrocuted when he was about
10 or 12 years old.
He said, I had over 300 volts going
through my body for a number of minutes.
And he said, when that man put his
hand on my back and God's power came,
he said, it made that electrical shock seem
like a goose bump.
He said, the power of God came.
People standing close to him said they watched
him come up off the floor.
I know one thing, the power of God
was so heavy in that room, but there
was only one place for me to get.
And that was on the floor in the
presence of God.
We've watched God's glory come.
That same night, a blind person received sight.
A crippled person began to walk and made
beautiful progress.
We were in a meeting the other day
in Atlanta, coming down on the elevator with
one of those glass elevators.
I saw a woman being pushed in a
wheelchair into our meeting.
I told Betty, I said, God bless that
lady, Betty.
I said, maybe she'd like to be prayed
for.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if God would heal
her?
We had a reception.
I walked in and began to shake hands
with the people in the reception.
While I was shaking hands and just greeting
the people, some layman walked over to that
woman in the wheelchair.
The woman that had her pelvis crushed, her
spine crushed, the woman that doctors had said
could never under any circumstances walk, lived in
such intense pain, it was almost unbearable.
He said, lady, I believe God wants you
to get up.
He said, can I pray for you?
And he reached over.
This is before we ever start, man.
This is why we're in there eating cheese
and crackers.
This layman's hearing God, just reached down and
prayed for that lady.
I'm eating cheese.
And here she comes walking by with somebody
pushing her wheelchair down the wall.
That woman sat in a straight chair like
everybody else.
Before we went home that night, she walked
up and said, and she was so stately
and dignified.
She said, doctor said, this could not happen.
Would you look?
She said, I don't have any pain.
It's the first time I've been without pain
in several years.
She said, look at this.
Isn't this wonderful?
And she walked out of the place that
night.
It wasn't James Robertson.
It was Jesus.
That's what Jesus wants to do.
You think it didn't thrill me the other
night to invite a PhD from Evansville, Indiana,
who got right with God a year ago
as I preached.
He said he invited me to help his
image look good.
I got up on Saturday night and preached
three and a half hours.
Half the book of Jeremiah.
He said I never looked so bad in
my life.
He said I could have killed him if
I could have got to him.
But he said when James gave the invitation,
the first sinner on his face was me.
And Jesus changed my life, and he really
did.
To invite that PhD to sit and listen
to a layman, Ronnie Harris, come and tell
him how a girl with legs crippled like
a rag doll.
He watched God hit her like a boat
of lightning, spin her around in front of
2,000 people while they prayed, and a
boy back here prayed for her.
And she took off running and never stopped,
and she's still going, testifying, walking around, praying
for people.
Totally immobile, legs that looked like splinters, made
whole.
And he said that was so wonderful.
And he said just a few weeks ago,
the chairman of our board of directors, our
board, has been with me for 20 years,
puts the drapes in most of the high
-rise hotels and Hyatt Regencies and those places.
Ronnie Harris said when Bill James and I
looked at this 14-year-old girl with
old blind eyes, it looked like old white,
deaf, gray, and her deaf ears and her
tongue that had never spoken.
We just put our hands on her.
This is a man in the farm, real
estate business, a country boy.
He was one of the ones that got
set free, Brad, when you and Terry and
Susan and Betsy apologized for bringing your friends
to hear me preach, you remember, because I
had changed.
I'd gone crazy, you remember.
And boy, they nearly tore the chairs apart
getting down the front to get right with
God.
You know, it's been nearly two years ago
since y'all really got loose and free,
isn't it wonderful?
You're so pretty.
Good night.
You want to see four pretty disciples that
Jesus turned inside out.
Y'all stand up right here.
Just stand up, come on, and just turn
around and look up at these people.
I want to show you four disciples that
Jesus turned inside out.
Ronnie Harris and his twin brother got turned
inside out too, of all places, on an
airplane with me.
That's where Brad got started being really finished
off, was on the airplane flying across the
country, and I'm leaning out there reading the
Word to him non-stop.
And I was reading the Word on the
plane to old Ronnie Harris, and old Ronnie's
leaning out my eye like this, and I
was going.
And old Ronnie told his friends later, he
said, man, it was like trying to get
a drink out of a fire hydrant.
Boom, the Word of God, doctor, blew my
head off.
He said, I've never been so overwhelmed by
the Word of God in my life.
Boy, he said, when I got home, told
my mom and daddy what happened, they said,
son, you have gone crazy.
Man, they'd never stopped.
And old Ronnie Harris is telling his PhD,
he said, you think we put our hands
on those old gray eyes?
And we began to pray for Jesus to
let that girl see.
And all of a sudden, her eyes became
whole.
And she looked at us in big tears,
started rolling down her cheeks, and we reached
up and touched her ears, and we rebuked
the deafness, and we spoke to the dumbness,
and we told the dumb spirit to go.
And in a few moments, she could hear,
and she was beginning to try to talk,
and we began to find words and say,
praise, praise, praise.
And she began to say, praise, praise, said,
praise Jesus, Jesus.
And she left running, praise Jesus, praise Jesus.
And our mother and daddy, like the faded,
and the whole town was turned inside out.
Old Ronnie Harris said, I led 38 people
to Christ right there.
Oh, to hear Arthur Blessed tell about the
time the blind man with pussy sockets, pus
running out of his old dry sockets, came
up to touch the man dragging the cross
through the thousands of people.
And Arthur turned around, and he said, I
reached back, and it was so horrible, I
just touched his cheeks.
And I said, Jesus, heal him.
Of course, understand, Arthur's seen entire towns instantaneously
healed by the power of God.
Oh, thank God for Arthur.
Arthur said, I just prayed.
He said, James, I didn't get to see
it.
He said, I turned around, and he said,
I thought a riot had broken out behind
me.
I took a few steps with the cross,
and he said, I knew it was a
riot.
And he said, I turned around, and that
boy, that man, had the eyes of a
little child, and he was looking at me
perfect.
And he said, the people came on me
so that the Southern Baptist missionaries working with
me had to take me into their quarters
and barricade the door to keep the thousands
of people from thronging me and trampling me.
And then the missionaries went outside, and they
began to organize the village.
And Arthur said, I walked back outside and
led 10,000 people to Jesus Christ outside.
He is the same.
Jesus is the same.
This Jesus is healing.
This Jesus wants to make you whole tonight.
He sent his word and healed him, delivered
him.
He saved him.
You can come to Jesus.
Jesus will minister to you.
Jesus will minister through you to others.