Hello, friends, and
welcome to Thompsonville
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Seventh-day
Adventist Church here
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in Thompsonville, Illinois,
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the largest
little city in the world
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where the Lord is blessing
as it were the entire world
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from this axle in
Southern Illinois.
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We thank you for joining us
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for "Where Are All His Miracles"
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and we like you to
join us in our theme song
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"It Took A Miracle."
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The words will
appear on your screen.
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My Father is omnipotent
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And that you can't deny
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A God of might and miracles
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'Tis written in the sky
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace!
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Second stanza, Pastor C.
A., join me on this chorus.
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Though here His
glory has been seen
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We still can't fully see
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The wonders of His might
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His throne 'twill take eternity
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Read that chorus.
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace!
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The Bible tells us.
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The Bible tells us of His power
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And wisdom all way through
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And every little bird and flower
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Are testimonies too
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It took a miracle
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To put the stars in place
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It took a miracle
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To hang the world in space
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But when He saved my soul
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Cleansed and made me whole
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It took a miracle
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Of love and grace!
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Amen.
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Pastor C. A., lead us
to the Lord in prayer.
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Shall we pray.
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Our Father and our God,
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we do praise you this
wonderful Sabbath day.
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We praise You and thank You
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for Your power
and Your presence.
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We thank You for
this temple in time
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that You have set aside for us
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to turn off the
cares of this world
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and to worship You
in spirit and in truth.
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We thank You for the promise
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that when we come to this place,
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You're sure and
certain to meet us
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and so we ask dear Lord that
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You accept that You
would accept our prayer
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and our praise and
in exchange for these,
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give us Your presence,
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Your power and Your blessing.
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Anoint the speaker if You will.
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Be pleased dear Lord to
speak to us through him.
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May he be an instrument of
Your divine calling this day
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and may our hearts be
filled to overflowing.
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We love You, we praise You
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and we thank You in Jesus' name.
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Amen and Amen.
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Please be seated.
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Once again
welcome to Thompsonville.
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We had been
blessed all week long.
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Can you say amen? Amen.
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We started out last
Sabbath as yours truly.
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We began our nine parts series
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on "Where Are All His Miracles,"
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and we've had one anointed
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blessed speaker after the other.
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And today Pastor Jim
Gilley is going to be the one
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who puts the capstone
closing out our week of revival
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as we look to the Lord
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for the transforming
miracle of His grace
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and we would
like to encourage you
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to continue praying for the Lord
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to transform your life,
not just miracles outside
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but the greater
miracle inside transforming us
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to be more like
His son Christ Jesus.
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Today our scripture
reading will be brought to us
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by one of our
elders, Steve Nelson.
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After that
Brother Danny Shelton,
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the founder of 3ABN,
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will bless us
with a wonderful song
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entitled "Undeserving."
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And the next voice you'll hear
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after that is Pastor Jim Gilley,
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the president and
the one God has chosen
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to bring the message
this morning entitled,
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"I believe In Miracles.''
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He is the president of Three
Angels Broadcasting Network.
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Steve, come and bless us
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as you share with
us the word of God.
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Good morning.
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Turn with me in your
Bibles to Mark Chapter 11.
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We're going be
looking at verses 22 to 24.
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Mark 11:22 to 24.
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"So Jesus
answered and said to them,
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"Have faith in God.
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For assuredly, I say to you,
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whosoever says to this mountain,
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'Be removed and be
cast into the sea,'
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and does not doubt in his heart,
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but believes that those
things he says will be done,
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will have whatever he says.
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Therefore I say to you,
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whatever things
you ask when you pray,
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believe that you receive
them, and you will have them.
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May He who is the word
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add His blessing to the reading,
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the hearing, the singing
and the speaking of His Word."
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I don't deserve
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To come to You, Lord
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With my troubles
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And selfish pleas
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But I know I have failed You
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In so many ways
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But never have You failed
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To meet all my needs
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I am the least
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In Your kingdom, I know
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But Lord don't forsake me now
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Pour all of Your mercies
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I could never afford
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I'm undeserving of Your love
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But love me Lord
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For nobody else really knows me
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And no one else
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Understands my fears
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And when I'm in trouble
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And I'm all alone
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Lord, only You can dry my tears
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And if You should leave me
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Where would I go
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To find rest for my weary soul
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And because I'm so unworthy
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I love You even more
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I'm undeserving of Your love
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But love me Lord
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I don't deserve
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The blood that You shed
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When You died on the crossing--
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And to think that
each drop of blood
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That fell from Your brow
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Would reach
down the gulf of time
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To cleanse my soul now
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I don't deserve
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The place that You prepared
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For my soul
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When this life is over
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So take my love forever
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Your presence I adore
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I'm undeserving of Your love
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But love me Lord
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For nobody else really knows me
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And no one else
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Understands my fears
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And when I'm in trouble
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And I'm all alone
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Lord only You can dry my tears
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And if You should leave me
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Where would I go
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To find rest for my weary soul
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And because I'm so unworthy
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I'd love You even more
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I'm undeserving of Your love
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But love me Lord
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For nobody else really knows me
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And no one else
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Understands my fears
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And when I'm in trouble
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And I'm all alone
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Lord, only You can dry my tears
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And if You should leave me
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Where would I go
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To find rest for my weary soul
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And because I'm so unworthy
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I'd love You even more
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I'm undeserving of Your love
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But love me Lord
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Love me Lord
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Amen.
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Thank you, Danny.
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You know that's where
it all begins with miracles
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is realizing you
don't deserve it.
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If you feel like
you deserve a miracle,
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you'll never have
one I guarantee you.
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Because God
understands and knows our hearts
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better than anybody else
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and He is the one
that really and truly
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can help us in every single way
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in our lives, only Jesus.
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Love that theme
song, It Took A Miracle.
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It's been a favorite
of mine for a long time.
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David Peterson, who
was my singing evangelist
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when we were holding
evangelistic meetings
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all over the
northeast used to sing that song
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in the meetings
that we conducted
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and how I loved to hear it.
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David Peterson, he is
living down in Florida now.
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He sings down
there and leads the choir
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and directs the
choir to church in Florida,
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one of our
churches in Orlando area.
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He sounds as much
like George Beverly Shea
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as anybody that
I have ever known.
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I suppose that's what it really
attracted me to him so much
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because Beverly Shea
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was just one of
my favorite singers.
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When I heard David sing
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and somebody
introduced me to him.
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I knew that this
had to be my singer.
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And so I called him to
come and to be with me.
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By the way Joe, your grandfather
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paid that first year's salary
that he was our evangelist,
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Brother Werdy
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and I have never forgotten that.
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Really he is
such a dedicated man.
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But I am-- and
that's the first time
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I have ever told
anybody that too.
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So keep that to
yourself, would you?
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That's kind of a
confidential thing,
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it's-- this is so confidential,
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I am only telling
one audience at a time
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and but David could really sing
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and I remember one night
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we were in a big
auditorium pitched.
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Now that
auditorium was hard to put up.
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We had a fellow with
the name of Judd Jamieson,
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who was worked
for the conference,
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Judd's a good friend of mine
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and Judd would
put that auditorium up
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and every time I would tell him
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because it was so exasperating
to get it just right
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and it would bother him so much,
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I'd say, you know, Judd,
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we're guaranteed of
at least one rebaptism
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in each meeting and it's yours
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because you lose your
religion putting this up.
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But I remember one
night, David, was singing,
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we had a pastor and his wife
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who had recently
come from Denmark
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and they were adjusting
to America and they were,
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I remember she was in the back
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and I could tell
that she was so upset
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and I thought,
what is bothering her?
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So I slipped out around
and I went to her and I said,
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what's wrong?
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And she said, that's too far,
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that's too much,
that's going too far.
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I said what?
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David would sing in a
way "It Took A Miracle."
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She said to sing it took America
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to put the stars in space.
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I told David,
you got to pronounce
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that L a little better you know,
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it took a miracle to
put the stars in space.
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And I will never forget that
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when I finally
showed her the words that,
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she said he is
singing it took America
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and when I finally
showed her the words of the song
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she was quite relieved that
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we didn't actually believe that.
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The Bible is so clear
that God is a God of miracles.
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Last night Danny
shared some fantastic stories
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and we all really
enjoyed listening to those
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and he talked about
all of these miracles
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and he mentioned the fact that
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if you just
dismiss it as a coincidence
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or happenstance or whatever,
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then you will never
have a miracle in your life.
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You see these things
don't just happen accidentally.
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They are things that
God is very much a part of.
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A man with the
name of Glenn Coon,
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had a ministry a
number of years ago
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and some of you are
nodding, you remember him.
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And he would talk
about the ABC's of prayer.
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I've never known a man,
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never met a man with
greater faith than Glenn Coon.
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And I was privileged to
be able to sit at his feet
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a number of times and
appreciate his ministry.
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Ask, believe, claim,
the ABC's of Bible prayer
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and if you expect a
miracle in your life
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and it may be a
financial miracle,
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it may be a physical miracle,
it may be a spiritual miracle,
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it may be a family
miracle, you must first ask.
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You know, the problem with us
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is so many times we don't ask,
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we have not the Bible says,
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because we ask not.
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We just worry about it.
00:19:50.61\00:19:52.03
We think worrying is
asking. No, it isn't.
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We think mulling
over it is asking.
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No, it isn't.
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We need to be
specific in asking our Lord.
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It tells us in Matthew 7:7,
00:20:05.64\00:20:09.50
it says, "Ask, and
it shall be given you,
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seek and you shall find, knock,
00:20:12.97\00:20:15.95
and it shall be
opened unto you."
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For everyone in verse
8 that asketh receiveth.
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Everyone it says.
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That hat asketh receiveth.
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Now you say, we say that well,
00:20:29.08\00:20:30.39
wait a minute I have
asked and I didn't receive.
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Let me say something to you.
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You are trying to
call God's timing.
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God has a timing.
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We ask for something,
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He may know that right
then is not the right time
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for that particular thing.
00:20:53.23\00:20:56.64
He may even know that
never is the right time
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for that particular thing.
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So you have to
leave it into His wisdom.
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My son, Jim, called me,
00:21:06.88\00:21:08.60
actually he text
messaged me this morning.
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Have a sermon
titled for you he said,
00:21:10.95\00:21:13.61
He always does the right thing,
00:21:13.64\00:21:16.45
talking about God.
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He always does the right thing.
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I said, well, I work on
the sermon on that later
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but right now that
fits into this message.
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You see when we ask,
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God answers it right then
if that's the right thing,
00:21:27.54\00:21:32.18
in time if
that's the right thing.
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In eternity if
that is the right thing.
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God is not going
to perform a miracle
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that's going to hurt you.
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He is not going to
give you something you ask
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for that's going
to hurt or destroy
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or cause you to be lost.
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And you see we get
the idea sometimes that
00:21:57.11\00:22:00.57
just whatever we
ask for is just exactly
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what God would have us to have.
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But that may not
be exactly the case.
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The second thing is to believe.
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Believe Mark Chapter
11, part of our text today.
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And it says in verse 24.
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"Therefore I say unto you,
00:22:20.52\00:22:22.34
what things so ever
you desire when you pray,
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believe that you receive them,
00:22:24.94\00:22:27.55
and ye shall have them."
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Believe.
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So you ask and you believe
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and then the third is to claim.
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And the Bible says that
Jesus said in Mark Chapter 11,
00:22:42.32\00:22:45.99
pardon me John 11: 41,
00:22:46.02\00:22:49.70
"Then they took away
the stone from the place
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where the dead was laid."
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This is at the
raising of Lazarus.
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"And Jesus lifted
up His eyes and said,
00:22:56.26\00:22:59.57
father I thank Thee
that Thou hast heard me.
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I thank Thee that
Thou hast heard me."
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You know, we have to right then,
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after we ask, after we believe,
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we need to thank the
Lord for giving us the answer.
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Sometimes we are
not willing to do that.
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Thank Him.
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Receive it and then don't
keep begging Him for things.
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You ask Him, you believe,
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you claim, you leave it to Him.
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You don't have to keep
reminding Him, He knows.
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Last night Danny
told about the lady.
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Simple little prayer walked off.
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I'm going to tell you something.
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If God is going to answer it,
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it's going to be
from a simple old prayer.
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He is going to answer it.
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But if you are
going to see the result,
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it's not the amount of pray,
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it's not the way
you lower your voice
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and sound spiritual,
it's not all of that.
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You don't have
to act like you have
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as Fordyce Detamore used to say,
00:24:04.05\00:24:05.94
some of these
fellows get so spiritual,
00:24:05.97\00:24:08.07
they sound like they
have spiritual TB he said.
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Where they get--
00:24:11.93\00:24:14.08
you know, God can hear
you just in your voice.
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You don't have to yell,
you don't have to whisper.
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You don't have to try to
sound like a woman to pray.
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You are not going to fool
Him, He knows who you are.
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That's right.
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Talk to Him in your voice.
00:24:27.38\00:24:31.53
Worked for the
preacher one time,
00:24:31.56\00:24:32.94
loved him, I was
a young preacher,
00:24:32.97\00:24:34.95
and he said Jim, your
prayers are too simple.
00:24:34.98\00:24:38.77
I said what do you mean?
00:24:38.80\00:24:40.66
I just talk to the Lord.
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No, he said
when you are upfront,
00:24:42.55\00:24:44.76
this is a good man by
the way, very good man.
00:24:44.79\00:24:47.59
I was privileged
to work with this man
00:24:47.62\00:24:50.69
but we had difference of
opinion on this one subject.
00:24:50.72\00:24:54.25
And, boy, he
prayed, I will tell you
00:24:54.28\00:24:56.71
when he prayed
you looked around,
00:24:56.74\00:24:58.32
you thought you know, this
is-- he had a warrior's voice,
00:24:58.35\00:25:01.81
he had a great
voice to start with,
00:25:01.84\00:25:04.18
and he would sound
so good when he prayed.
00:25:04.21\00:25:08.19
He said you need to
get out of the Psalms,
00:25:08.22\00:25:10.46
you need to take those phrases,
00:25:10.49\00:25:12.24
you need to
write out your prayers,
00:25:12.27\00:25:14.61
get them just
right and then pray them.
00:25:14.64\00:25:18.74
You know, I pray
and I talk to God
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as if I talk to a friend.
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Even in public I am sorry,
00:25:26.83\00:25:29.52
I just say what is
laid upon my heart.
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Say it, drop it, if it
didn't sound spiritual.
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I am very sorry,
00:25:35.77\00:25:37.10
if it doesn't sound like
Charlton Heston, I apologize.
00:25:37.13\00:25:43.35
I just simply open up my heart
to the Lord and talk to Him.
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And let me tell you, I
believe that's the way.
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Sometimes I
love to hear a prayer
00:25:52.85\00:25:54.37
like he is talking about.
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Sometimes I do,
for a little while.
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Then after little
bit they get kind of,
00:25:58.80\00:26:00.78
you know, they
kind of weary you out
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a little bit after while.
00:26:01.96\00:26:04.42
I just want to hear
what comes out of here.
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Just receiving and
asking believing and claiming.
00:26:07.42\00:26:14.04
Now there are some of
you who do not believe
00:26:14.07\00:26:17.84
that this could be according
to the Spirit of Prophecy.
00:26:17.87\00:26:22.13
Could not be further wrong.
00:26:22.16\00:26:24.74
Write these down, education
and if you don't get them,
00:26:24.77\00:26:28.17
you can get it from me later.
00:26:28.20\00:26:30.18
Pages 253 and 258, now
this is where you will,
00:26:30.21\00:26:36.22
in no other place but
there are some other places
00:26:36.25\00:26:38.97
but here it talks
about how to pray,
00:26:39.00\00:26:42.75
how to receive an
answer from your prayer.
00:26:42.78\00:26:47.68
And when you return thanks
00:26:47.71\00:26:49.47
for that prayer
you've planted a seed.
00:26:49.50\00:26:53.25
You know that the
promise is in the seed.
00:26:53.28\00:26:56.85
You take an apple seed
and you break that thing open
00:26:56.88\00:27:00.04
and there is a
little bitty apple tree
00:27:00.07\00:27:01.57
in that seed, it's there.
00:27:01.60\00:27:04.50
So when you plant that
seed, the tree is already there.
00:27:04.53\00:27:08.31
God says the promise is
there when you ask for it,
00:27:08.34\00:27:14.25
when you
believe, when you claim,
00:27:14.28\00:27:16.78
when you
receive it, it is there.
00:27:16.81\00:27:20.80
Let me tell you
another statement,
00:27:20.83\00:27:22.03
page 253, Ellen White says,
00:27:22.06\00:27:25.90
"The oak is in the acorn."
00:27:25.93\00:27:29.02
And Rutherford Platt,
00:27:29.05\00:27:30.33
who was a prize
winner in science states
00:27:30.36\00:27:32.46
in his book This Green World,
00:27:32.49\00:27:34.49
"That a trunk,
two leafs and roots
00:27:34.52\00:27:37.18
are already contained
in the embryo of the seed
00:27:37.21\00:27:40.01
that you can see with
the magnifying glass."
00:27:40.04\00:27:43.92
It's already
there. The tree is there.
00:27:43.95\00:27:48.30
Book Education page 253,
00:27:48.33\00:27:50.62
"If we receive the
promise we have the gift."
00:27:50.65\00:27:54.91
Receive it and you have it.
00:27:54.94\00:27:59.21
Again 258, "The
gift is in the promise."
00:27:59.24\00:28:03.61
Volume 7, Testimonies page 71,
00:28:03.64\00:28:07.82
"One sentence of scripture
00:28:07.85\00:28:09.35
is of more value than 10,000
of man's ideas or arguments."
00:28:09.38\00:28:15.83
Already made that too long,
00:28:15.86\00:28:17.10
I got to preach
this morning you know,
00:28:17.13\00:28:20.63
and then Christ
Object Lessons page 146,
00:28:20.66\00:28:24.64
"I have done as Thou have
said I present Thy promise."
00:28:24.67\00:28:29.25
You see do this with your--
00:28:29.28\00:28:30.32
she says with a
Bible in your hands.
00:28:30.35\00:28:32.76
Claim the promise and
then you say to the Lord
00:28:32.79\00:28:36.24
I have done what
You have asked me to do
00:28:36.27\00:28:41.58
and He will hear
and He will answer.
00:28:41.61\00:28:44.38
Then she talks
about Augustine's mother
00:28:44.41\00:28:47.65
and she tells
about this in volume 5,
00:28:47.68\00:28:50.31
pages 322 and 323,
00:28:50.34\00:28:53.13
Augustine's mother
was praying for her son
00:28:53.16\00:28:57.19
who was a
reprobate, he was totally out.
00:28:57.22\00:29:01.48
And the Bible says
that if we pray for that,
00:29:01.51\00:29:05.93
the God will hear
and God will answer.
00:29:05.96\00:29:08.42
We pray for our children,
He is going to hear us,
00:29:08.45\00:29:10.23
He will answer I believe.
00:29:10.26\00:29:11.62
He does not make
them go against their will
00:29:11.65\00:29:13.56
but the Holy Spirit
will work upon them.
00:29:13.59\00:29:16.99
And then she says in
volume 3 pages 322 and 323,
00:29:17.02\00:29:21.48
says she quoting here
what Augustine's mother did.
00:29:21.51\00:29:26.31
She laid her
fingers upon the text
00:29:26.34\00:29:28.74
presenting before
God His own words,
00:29:28.77\00:29:30.94
God's words, and
pleaded as only a mother can
00:29:30.97\00:29:35.38
and the Lord gave her
the desire of her heart.
00:29:35.41\00:29:40.80
Greatest miracle of all.
00:29:40.83\00:29:43.51
The miracle of healing.
00:29:43.54\00:29:47.34
Spiritual
healing, physical healing.
00:29:47.37\00:29:50.75
Wonderful. Lasts
but a short time.
00:29:50.78\00:29:55.30
Spiritual healing
lasts throughout eternity
00:29:55.33\00:30:00.96
and then there are
so many other texts
00:30:00.99\00:30:04.75
that we could talk about.
00:30:04.78\00:30:06.04
You know, somebody
said to me the other night,
00:30:06.07\00:30:09.72
I hope you people talk
more about miracles than we are,
00:30:09.75\00:30:13.02
we are talking about miracles,
00:30:13.05\00:30:14.17
we are talking about
what God has done in our lives
00:30:14.20\00:30:18.11
and what God has
done and what we have seen
00:30:18.14\00:30:20.61
and I am going to
share with you some miracles
00:30:20.64\00:30:22.99
that I have
seen with my own eyes
00:30:23.02\00:30:26.18
and I believe them,
00:30:26.21\00:30:27.35
I am not going to
talk to you about theory.
00:30:27.38\00:30:29.77
Just gonna tell you
about some of these things
00:30:29.80\00:30:33.16
because you see God has promised
00:30:33.19\00:30:35.55
that He will hear,
ask, believe and claim,
00:30:35.58\00:30:39.15
He says I will hear
you and I will answer.
00:30:39.18\00:30:43.43
James 5 says, "Is
there any sick among you?
00:30:43.46\00:30:47.93
Let him call for the
elders of the church,
00:30:47.96\00:30:49.93
let them pray over him,
00:30:49.96\00:30:51.51
anointing him with oil
in the name of the Lord
00:30:51.54\00:30:54.49
and the prayer of
faith shall save the sick."
00:30:54.52\00:30:58.93
Doesn't say, you
know, it might work.
00:30:58.96\00:31:03.28
No, God says
shall save the sick,
00:31:03.31\00:31:09.28
it's going to save the sick.
00:31:09.31\00:31:12.42
"And the Lord
shall raise him up,
00:31:12.45\00:31:15.06
and if he have committed sins
they shall be forgiven him."
00:31:15.09\00:31:18.53
Again it's God's timing.
00:31:18.56\00:31:21.06
It can be immediate and
I have seen it immediate.
00:31:21.09\00:31:26.51
I picked up a man on the
side of a highway one time,
00:31:26.54\00:31:29.14
I was going to preach
and I prayed for that man.
00:31:29.17\00:31:32.63
When I got there
some of the people
00:31:32.66\00:31:35.48
that had stopped
there said this man is dead.
00:31:35.51\00:31:39.71
There were body parts everywhere
00:31:39.74\00:31:42.64
but I found out
they weren't his.
00:31:42.67\00:31:45.38
They belong to the pig
that he had in the car with him
00:31:45.41\00:31:50.09
and he was on his
way to deliver that
00:31:50.12\00:31:55.23
but he had already
cooked the pig by the way
00:31:55.26\00:31:57.79
but he was a caterer
00:31:57.82\00:32:01.08
and he was taking it to
have some kind of a feast
00:32:01.11\00:32:06.75
somewhere with this
thing and he went to sleep.
00:32:06.78\00:32:10.45
Hit a bridge
and went off to side
00:32:10.48\00:32:12.30
was down in river bottom.
00:32:12.33\00:32:14.86
I was on my way to
preach in Jefferson, Texas.
00:32:14.89\00:32:17.53
In my dress
clothes, I told my wife,
00:32:17.56\00:32:20.45
I just feel like I
have to go down then
00:32:20.48\00:32:22.26
I went down there
00:32:22.29\00:32:23.40
and there was a take
charge guy down there
00:32:23.43\00:32:26.23
and he said get
back, get back, get back,
00:32:26.26\00:32:27.94
I said, let me take a look.
00:32:27.97\00:32:29.87
No, no he is dead.
00:32:29.90\00:32:32.33
And I looked and I saw
blood spurting out of an arm,
00:32:32.36\00:32:36.30
I said dead man's
hearts don't beat,
00:32:36.33\00:32:38.81
that heart is still beating.
00:32:38.84\00:32:41.06
I turned to another fellow
00:32:41.09\00:32:42.17
that had a really ragged T-shirt
00:32:42.20\00:32:44.64
on probably his favorite T-shirt
00:32:44.67\00:32:47.52
but I said would you donate that
00:32:47.55\00:32:49.01
and I took it and I
put a tourniquet on him
00:32:49.04\00:32:52.81
I prayed for him.
00:32:52.84\00:32:55.10
Highway patrol men came,
00:32:55.13\00:32:57.15
three days later I
called the hospital
00:32:57.18\00:32:59.73
to check on the
man and they said
00:32:59.76\00:33:02.80
he is walking out of here.
00:33:02.83\00:33:04.86
He is going home.
00:33:04.89\00:33:06.45
I saw a miracle
take place right there.
00:33:06.48\00:33:12.15
By the way the
highway patrol men said,
00:33:12.18\00:33:13.59
who put this
tourniquet on and I thought,
00:33:13.62\00:33:15.92
I was looking around to
blame it on somebody else.
00:33:15.95\00:33:18.55
Somebody said I did
it, I said yeah I did it.
00:33:18.58\00:33:20.93
He said, well,
you saved his life.
00:33:20.96\00:33:23.28
He softened up a
little bit there.
00:33:23.31\00:33:25.74
He said don't
ever, ever not do it.
00:33:25.77\00:33:30.31
There was another time.
00:33:30.34\00:33:32.18
We were sitting at
home, a friend had dropped by,
00:33:32.21\00:33:34.48
Max Trevino and his wife Betty.
00:33:34.51\00:33:36.37
Dropped by to see us,
00:33:36.40\00:33:38.00
we hear ambulances
out in front of our house.
00:33:38.03\00:33:40.63
Now we lived quite a
ways back of the road
00:33:40.66\00:33:44.08
and our driveway was
long enough that our son, Jim,
00:33:44.11\00:33:50.35
who is watching right now
00:33:50.38\00:33:52.73
totaled our van
in that driveway,
00:33:52.76\00:33:54.82
that's how long
that driveway was,
00:33:54.85\00:33:56.50
so yeah you could
get the things started,
00:33:56.53\00:33:59.55
he lost control in the gravel
00:33:59.58\00:34:01.68
and I think he had been
watching the Rockford file
00:34:01.71\00:34:05.35
or something like that
00:34:05.38\00:34:06.46
and he was little inspired
to drive a little too rapidly
00:34:06.49\00:34:10.57
and as he went
out he had a wreck,
00:34:10.60\00:34:12.57
so all of our kids except
the youngest were teenagers.
00:34:12.60\00:34:17.68
And we were
always concerned about
00:34:17.71\00:34:19.75
when you heard an ambulance.
00:34:19.78\00:34:22.21
And so Camille said,
00:34:22.24\00:34:23.27
go find out who
that is and I said,
00:34:23.30\00:34:25.81
that is not any
of our kids it's,
00:34:25.84\00:34:27.60
you know, it's right out
here in front of the house,
00:34:27.63\00:34:29.20
it's just down the road
little bit from our house.
00:34:29.23\00:34:31.65
She said, go
find out what it is.
00:34:31.68\00:34:35.88
Now I have found out
that it takes less time
00:34:35.91\00:34:39.45
to go do it then it
does to resist, all right.
00:34:39.48\00:34:43.59
I said let's go Max
and we got in the car,
00:34:43.62\00:34:45.86
we drove out there
got out to the road,
00:34:45.89\00:34:47.65
drove down they little ways
00:34:47.68\00:34:49.68
and there was
an ambulance there,
00:34:49.71\00:34:52.38
I knew the ambulance
driver Jerry Holdrege,
00:34:52.41\00:34:54.77
and I said,
Jerry, what's happened?
00:34:54.80\00:34:57.33
He said, it's Denny
Modreo, he's had an accident.
00:34:57.36\00:35:03.01
Denny he was on his motorcycle,
00:35:03.04\00:35:05.70
he was upset about a few things.
00:35:05.73\00:35:08.87
The last time he
saw the speedometer
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.42
it said 130 miles an hour.
00:35:11.45\00:35:14.17
Somebody
stopped in front of him.
00:35:14.20\00:35:17.46
He ran right into
the back of that car.
00:35:17.49\00:35:20.00
They were making a left turn.
00:35:20.03\00:35:22.05
He went over the
car, hit on his head,
00:35:22.08\00:35:25.97
slid turning back and
forth all down the road
00:35:26.00\00:35:30.56
over 100 yards down the road
00:35:30.59\00:35:33.51
before his body stopped.
00:35:33.54\00:35:37.22
And Jerry said he's
gone, Jim, he is dead.
00:35:37.25\00:35:42.90
He said you need
to go get his parents.
00:35:42.93\00:35:47.67
I said they are going to
take him to the hospital.
00:35:47.70\00:35:48.86
Yeah, will take him,
00:35:48.89\00:35:49.99
they're going to
take him on airway,
00:35:50.02\00:35:51.05
care flight's on its way.
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.62
We are going to take him
to Fort Worth but he said,
00:35:52.65\00:35:56.03
don't think he
is going to make it,
00:35:56.06\00:35:57.49
it looks pretty bad.
00:35:57.52\00:36:00.34
We got his parents.
00:36:00.37\00:36:03.96
Denny, the only, only child
00:36:03.99\00:36:08.05
of Muriel and Arlene Modreo.
00:36:08.08\00:36:13.04
We got them,
got them in the car,
00:36:13.07\00:36:14.94
headed for the hospital,
00:36:14.97\00:36:17.08
driving somewhere
between law and grace,
00:36:17.11\00:36:19.26
but hurrying pretty rapidly.
00:36:19.29\00:36:23.17
Got to the hospital.
00:36:23.20\00:36:25.06
Just as we got there,
00:36:25.09\00:36:26.97
they were coming out
of emergency with Denny,
00:36:27.00\00:36:32.22
heading to the surgical suite
00:36:32.25\00:36:36.93
to do emergency surgery on him.
00:36:36.96\00:36:39.67
He had all kinds of injuries.
00:36:39.70\00:36:43.36
I mean he, you know, he
called me the other night.
00:36:43.39\00:36:46.92
He called me on
January the 17th,
00:36:46.95\00:36:49.82
I was sitting at home
about 8 o'clock at night.
00:36:49.85\00:36:52.33
He said, you remember
00:36:52.36\00:36:53.41
where you were
exactly 20 years ago tonight
00:36:53.44\00:36:57.34
and I said no.
00:36:57.37\00:36:59.24
I don't remember
where I was 2 hours ago
00:36:59.27\00:37:02.34
and he said then he told me
00:37:02.37\00:37:07.11
he revived my
memory about the accident.
00:37:07.14\00:37:10.71
Now, of course I had
never forgotten that.
00:37:10.74\00:37:13.14
Here is what
they said about him.
00:37:13.17\00:37:15.90
They have revived
me in the helicopter
00:37:15.93\00:37:18.26
but I was completely
dependent on life support
00:37:18.29\00:37:21.03
and has sustained
a severe head injury
00:37:21.06\00:37:25.30
which broke my right eye socket
00:37:25.33\00:37:28.14
and severed the optic nerve.
00:37:28.17\00:37:30.92
I also had broken
both collar bones,
00:37:30.95\00:37:33.60
many ribs,
fractured several vertebrae,
00:37:33.63\00:37:37.39
broken several
bones in my right hand,
00:37:37.42\00:37:40.52
my right foot and
was bleeding internally
00:37:40.55\00:37:43.70
and the doctor
said they did not think
00:37:43.73\00:37:46.00
I would live through the night.
00:37:46.03\00:37:47.30
Yes, that's what they told us.
00:37:47.33\00:37:49.97
So we are just holding
him alive with life support.
00:37:50.00\00:37:54.83
I always have this
bottle not too far from me,
00:37:54.86\00:37:59.38
same bottle and it's
getting kind of low now,
00:37:59.41\00:38:03.92
it started out
full but you can see.
00:38:03.95\00:38:06.69
You don't use but just a drop,
00:38:06.72\00:38:08.33
but you do it why,
because God said to do it.
00:38:08.36\00:38:12.20
No power in the
oil none whatsoever.
00:38:12.23\00:38:15.35
Certainly no
power in the preacher.
00:38:15.38\00:38:18.32
But power in the God.
00:38:18.35\00:38:21.32
He says if you will
do when I tell you to do,
00:38:21.35\00:38:23.68
I will hear your
prayer and I will answer,
00:38:23.71\00:38:27.47
and let me tell you
my, friend, he does.
00:38:27.50\00:38:31.46
We came into that place
with his father and mother
00:38:31.49\00:38:34.29
thinking that we were actually
00:38:34.32\00:38:35.86
coming in a way
to claim his body.
00:38:35.89\00:38:38.13
We saw them come
out of emergency room,
00:38:38.16\00:38:40.21
they were wheeling in,
00:38:40.24\00:38:41.34
and they were
pumping this hand thing
00:38:41.37\00:38:43.44
to keep him breathing
00:38:43.47\00:38:44.70
until they can
get him to a machine
00:38:44.73\00:38:46.21
because now they were just,
00:38:46.24\00:38:47.40
you know, moving
him on a stretcher.
00:38:47.43\00:38:49.31
In the hall we stopped him.
00:38:49.34\00:38:51.40
They said you can't stop us.
00:38:51.43\00:38:52.60
I said only a second and
then I took a little bit of oil,
00:38:52.63\00:38:56.71
put it on his forehead
00:38:56.74\00:38:58.20
and prayed father you promised,
00:38:58.23\00:39:00.82
please give us
Denny, please heal him.
00:39:00.85\00:39:05.63
In Denny's own
words one week later,
00:39:05.66\00:39:09.61
they released him
from the hospital.
00:39:09.64\00:39:11.68
Amen.
00:39:11.71\00:39:13.53
One week later.
00:39:13.56\00:39:15.10
Highway patrol came to
finish out his death report.
00:39:15.13\00:39:18.91
This is a truth.
00:39:18.94\00:39:21.01
He said, we had a fatality,
00:39:21.04\00:39:22.52
they brought him here
to the hospital to verify.
00:39:22.55\00:39:25.15
They said, oh,
he is still alive.
00:39:25.18\00:39:27.30
He said, there is no
way he is still alive.
00:39:27.33\00:39:31.34
He said, I was one of
the first at the scene
00:39:31.37\00:39:33.54
and that man if he is
alive, it won't be long.
00:39:33.57\00:39:38.19
I want to tell you
Denny still rides motorcycle,
00:39:38.22\00:39:42.06
whole lot less speed.
00:39:42.09\00:39:43.73
Denny would want
me to tell you that
00:39:43.76\00:39:45.97
that everything hasn't
been all that wonderful
00:39:46.00\00:39:48.22
since then as far as
his personal spiritual life.
00:39:48.25\00:39:52.51
He's had his ups and his downs
00:39:52.54\00:39:54.19
but he is still
holding on to Jesus.
00:39:54.22\00:39:57.22
Still claiming
the power of Jesus.
00:39:57.25\00:40:00.37
Still battling with
some things in his life
00:40:00.40\00:40:04.61
as unfortunately all of us are.
00:40:04.64\00:40:08.49
But my, friend,
there is no question
00:40:08.52\00:40:11.59
that God healed him.
00:40:11.62\00:40:12.71
God did not heal him
00:40:12.74\00:40:13.91
because he deserved
to be healed, he did not.
00:40:13.94\00:40:16.51
God did not heal him
00:40:16.54\00:40:18.06
because the preacher deserved
to have his prayer answered
00:40:18.09\00:40:22.94
because he didn't.
00:40:22.97\00:40:25.47
God healed him
because He made that decision.
00:40:25.50\00:40:30.70
You see, we leave
those decisions to Him, when?
00:40:30.73\00:40:34.90
Now in time or
at the resurrection.
00:40:34.93\00:40:38.53
Somebody says,
oh, that is a cop-out.
00:40:38.56\00:40:40.73
No, it isn't.
00:40:40.76\00:40:41.91
The woman with the issue
of blood is dead and gone.
00:40:41.94\00:40:46.39
I have been over
there, she is not out there.
00:40:46.42\00:40:49.91
Lazarus resurrected
from the dead to die again.
00:40:49.94\00:40:56.83
And then you look
at all the others,
00:40:56.86\00:40:59.90
but the ones that
last forever are those
00:40:59.93\00:41:06.47
that happened at
the resurrection.
00:41:06.50\00:41:09.51
That healing, and
Lazarus would be in that
00:41:09.54\00:41:12.59
and Jairus'
daughter would be in that
00:41:12.62\00:41:14.84
and the woman
with the issue of blood
00:41:14.87\00:41:16.63
would be in that resurrection,
but that is the final healing.
00:41:16.66\00:41:19.96
We make it
temporary healing now,
00:41:19.99\00:41:22.24
but the final
healing comes then,
00:41:22.27\00:41:25.19
and the most important healing.
00:41:25.22\00:41:27.27
The most important miracle
00:41:27.30\00:41:30.48
is what takes
place in this heart.
00:41:30.51\00:41:34.69
When we trust God, then
God starts change in us.
00:41:34.72\00:41:39.11
Because it is just so amazing
00:41:39.14\00:41:41.68
how He can take
somebody and change them
00:41:41.71\00:41:44.74
and I can tell you conversion
story after conversion story,
00:41:44.77\00:41:49.57
and the most fantastic miracles
00:41:49.60\00:41:51.39
I have ever seen
happened to people
00:41:51.42\00:41:54.65
spiritually changed lives.
00:41:54.68\00:41:59.27
I don't mean
taking us and getting us
00:41:59.30\00:42:01.96
to where we don't
do things anymore,
00:42:01.99\00:42:03.93
but we are just as
hard and cold and legalistic
00:42:03.96\00:42:06.77
as we ever were.
00:42:06.80\00:42:07.88
I'm not talking about that,
00:42:07.91\00:42:09.21
talking about conversion
that changes our hearts,
00:42:09.24\00:42:13.13
writes the law of
God on our hearts,
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.23
not out here but in here.
00:42:16.26\00:42:19.79
Oh, man, what a difference.
00:42:19.82\00:42:22.63
I was preaching
in Arlington, Texas,
00:42:22.66\00:42:25.58
was there for 7 years,
Lord bless that ministry there,
00:42:25.61\00:42:28.24
we loved it, we enjoyed it.
00:42:28.27\00:42:29.90
Came in from a trip,
00:42:29.93\00:42:31.06
Camille picked
me up at the airport
00:42:31.09\00:42:33.19
and she said Jacky
Carver has had an accident.
00:42:33.22\00:42:38.80
She was hit by a
swing set at the school.
00:42:38.83\00:42:43.03
The swing set had been
taken down a new one put up.
00:42:43.06\00:42:46.62
Some of the kids,
00:42:46.65\00:42:49.03
big kids had raised
up the old swing set,
00:42:49.06\00:42:52.52
put it back
together not realizing
00:42:52.55\00:42:55.36
it had to be tied in the ground.
00:42:55.39\00:42:57.78
They had it part
way up and dropped it
00:42:57.81\00:43:02.02
and little Jacky
happened to be running by.
00:43:02.05\00:43:05.28
Hit right at the side
in base back here for skull
00:43:05.31\00:43:09.84
and they said she is in
Cooks children hospital,
00:43:09.87\00:43:13.77
they were taken
there by helicopter.
00:43:13.80\00:43:17.27
Not a chance.
00:43:17.30\00:43:19.36
I got to that place there
were 40 or 50 of our members
00:43:19.39\00:43:23.76
in that lobby on their knees,
00:43:23.79\00:43:28.09
they weren't standing,
they were ringing their hands,
00:43:28.12\00:43:30.59
they weren't
standing around talking,
00:43:30.62\00:43:33.13
they weren't telling jokes,
00:43:33.16\00:43:34.54
they were on their
knees praying for Jacky.
00:43:34.57\00:43:39.74
And they said,
right, you can go right in,
00:43:39.77\00:43:41.67
and they took me
right into that place
00:43:41.70\00:43:44.34
where they had her
barely, barely alive.
00:43:44.37\00:43:48.92
I did not have
this bottle of oil.
00:43:48.95\00:43:51.98
I just said to the
nurse, please bring me oil,
00:43:52.01\00:43:55.64
any kind of oil
and they brought me
00:43:55.67\00:43:59.83
what appeared to be
Mazola or something,
00:43:59.86\00:44:03.94
a cooking oil,
it's oil, it's oil.
00:44:03.97\00:44:08.01
God says oil, He didn't said
00:44:08.04\00:44:09.89
had to come from the olive tree.
00:44:09.92\00:44:11.75
This happened to have
come from an olive tree
00:44:11.78\00:44:16.13
that was near the
garden of Gethsemane,
00:44:16.16\00:44:19.04
doesn't make any difference.
00:44:19.07\00:44:21.27
That oil, this oil
makes no difference at all.
00:44:21.30\00:44:26.91
I just happened to
picked up a bottle of oil
00:44:26.94\00:44:31.20
and continued to use it,
00:44:31.23\00:44:33.79
but this is not
magical oil my friend,
00:44:33.82\00:44:37.08
not at all, there is no
such thing as magical oil.
00:44:37.11\00:44:41.83
Took that oil,
put it on her head.
00:44:41.86\00:44:44.42
Father please save Jacky,
00:44:44.45\00:44:49.10
if it's in Your divine
will, save her please Lord,
00:44:49.13\00:44:56.30
and while I was
praying that nurse
00:44:56.33\00:45:00.09
let out a gasp
that sent me into alarm.
00:45:00.12\00:45:04.25
Oh, she said. I
said, what's wrong?
00:45:04.28\00:45:09.24
She said, look at that.
00:45:09.27\00:45:11.52
And she was
watching the monitor.
00:45:11.55\00:45:13.73
She said, that monitor
has been right near death.
00:45:13.76\00:45:16.71
She said, watch
it. It began to spike.
00:45:16.74\00:45:20.37
She said, God
has done something,
00:45:20.40\00:45:22.93
He has done something.
00:45:22.96\00:45:26.03
Jackie had a long little road,
00:45:26.06\00:45:29.15
it didn't-- she didn't walk
right out of there that minute
00:45:29.18\00:45:32.78
but that's where God
started it right then.
00:45:32.81\00:45:37.18
In about a month
00:45:37.21\00:45:41.29
"God giving us
all things equal,"
00:45:41.32\00:45:45.66
I'll be performing her wedding.
00:45:45.69\00:45:48.57
Isn't that something?
00:45:48.60\00:45:50.50
I tell you, I know God
heals, I've seen Him do it.
00:45:50.53\00:45:54.86
And if you think
it's just an accident,
00:45:54.89\00:45:57.48
if you think it's a great
victory of medical science.
00:45:57.51\00:46:00.91
Medical science helps,
no question about that.
00:46:00.94\00:46:04.14
But I remember
when I was so sick,
00:46:04.17\00:46:06.94
so very sick that Don Jacobson
00:46:06.97\00:46:09.20
and a group of people
came and they anointed me.
00:46:09.23\00:46:13.33
Later I told the doctor,
00:46:13.36\00:46:16.52
thanks to you and the
good Lord I am still alive.
00:46:16.55\00:46:19.55
He said, you
better reverse that,
00:46:19.58\00:46:22.57
you better reverse that.
00:46:22.60\00:46:23.85
Because he said, I
had given up on you.
00:46:23.88\00:46:26.89
He said, thanks
to the good Lord,
00:46:26.92\00:46:29.41
you are still alive.
00:46:29.44\00:46:30.48
Catholic doctor,
but he said He did it.
00:46:30.51\00:46:34.58
He said, we do the
treating, He does the healing.
00:46:34.61\00:46:37.98
Amen.
00:46:38.01\00:46:39.32
He's right.
00:46:39.35\00:46:40.70
They can treat us
but they can't heal us,
00:46:40.73\00:46:43.45
only God can do it.
00:46:43.48\00:46:46.78
I remember one time I
got a call that Cyril Miller,
00:46:46.81\00:46:49.63
our union president,
had a terrible accident
00:46:49.66\00:46:54.10
and he was lying in a coma.
00:46:54.13\00:46:57.63
He was in that coma for 30 days.
00:46:57.66\00:47:01.28
Some of us wanted to
anoint him by the way,
00:47:01.31\00:47:04.12
remember this, anointing
is not the last rights,
00:47:04.15\00:47:07.60
it should be the first rights.
00:47:07.63\00:47:09.72
Now, I am not
talking about for hangnail,
00:47:09.75\00:47:12.25
I am not talking
about for a cold.
00:47:12.28\00:47:14.63
I am really not
talking about for that,
00:47:14.66\00:47:15.82
I really I don't think
that's what God intended.
00:47:15.85\00:47:18.31
You have a serious illness.
00:47:18.34\00:47:20.80
Either a illness
that can be debilitating
00:47:20.83\00:47:24.01
or life threatening.
00:47:24.04\00:47:25.40
And if you don't
seek anointing first,
00:47:25.43\00:47:31.21
then I don't think
you've done the right thing.
00:47:31.24\00:47:34.10
I want it first,
I want it right out,
00:47:34.13\00:47:37.36
immediate if I have an illness
that is confirmed illness,
00:47:37.39\00:47:44.00
I am concerned, I want healing.
00:47:44.03\00:47:47.48
Yeah, we get the idea
that's' the last rights.
00:47:47.51\00:47:49.74
I've had people call me and say,
00:47:49.77\00:47:51.69
mom was 93 and it looks
likes she's just about gone.
00:47:51.72\00:47:56.19
Just wonder if you
come over and anoint her.
00:47:56.22\00:47:59.78
I said, I'll come over
there and hold your hand
00:47:59.81\00:48:01.74
and I'll pray with you for her,
00:48:01.77\00:48:04.86
but I am sorry,
00:48:04.89\00:48:07.36
anointing is
not the last rights.
00:48:07.39\00:48:11.01
It is not.
00:48:11.04\00:48:12.20
And, folks, sometimes
we get the idea that it is.
00:48:12.23\00:48:15.60
In fact, Cyril Miller
00:48:15.63\00:48:17.46
had a well-
meaning brother-in-law
00:48:17.49\00:48:19.23
who I love him like a brother,
00:48:19.26\00:48:21.14
but he would not let
us anoint Cyril Miller
00:48:21.17\00:48:25.61
because he
said, if he wakes up--
00:48:25.64\00:48:28.74
and he was in coma 30 days.
00:48:28.77\00:48:30.45
He says, a lot of times in comas
00:48:30.48\00:48:31.77
they know what's
going on around them.
00:48:31.80\00:48:33.63
Well, now that's true.
00:48:33.66\00:48:35.25
But he said, if he wakes up
and he sees you anointing him,
00:48:35.28\00:48:38.37
he'll think he's going to die.
00:48:38.40\00:48:40.82
He said, that will just
send him on over the edge.
00:48:40.85\00:48:43.76
He was on a respirator,
00:48:43.79\00:48:47.09
complete life
support and unconscious.
00:48:47.12\00:48:52.82
His temperature kept rising,
00:48:52.85\00:48:54.24
they call me and
they say it's 106 degrees.
00:48:54.27\00:48:58.08
Things are
starting to shut down.
00:48:58.11\00:49:01.11
He's been on this
respirator so long,
00:49:01.14\00:49:03.52
they say that
even if he recovers
00:49:03.55\00:49:05.32
he'll probably
never be the same.
00:49:05.35\00:49:07.32
His daughter Jennet
called me and she said,
00:49:07.35\00:49:09.32
please, come and anoint him.
00:49:09.35\00:49:13.21
She didn't say no
matter what, but she just said,
00:49:13.24\00:49:16.62
please, come and anoint him.
00:49:16.65\00:49:18.65
And I got Ray Hubert
00:49:18.68\00:49:23.51
and I got Sam Green,
00:49:23.54\00:49:26.34
these men both
at the union office
00:49:26.37\00:49:29.83
and we went there.
00:49:29.86\00:49:32.08
Now Sam and I
are pretty big guys.
00:49:32.11\00:49:34.84
We don't throw
our weight around,
00:49:34.87\00:49:37.35
but when we got
there, the door was blocked.
00:49:37.38\00:49:41.65
Somebody didn't
want us to go in.
00:49:41.68\00:49:43.73
And I said, I'll
tell you what I'll do,
00:49:43.76\00:49:45.73
I don't want to--
00:49:45.76\00:49:47.10
One thing you don't want
in anointing is the battle.
00:49:47.13\00:49:50.54
I mean, you know,
you don't want that.
00:49:50.57\00:49:53.50
And by the way, you know,
sometimes we overemphasize
00:49:53.53\00:49:56.46
that we have to go often fast
00:49:56.49\00:49:58.64
and we have to get
ourselves in shape to anoint.
00:49:58.67\00:50:00.86
Listen, it's not us, folks,
00:50:00.89\00:50:03.27
you ought to be ready to
anoint at a drop of a bucket,
00:50:03.30\00:50:06.87
the drop of a
hat, drop of anything,
00:50:06.90\00:50:09.91
you should be ready to anoint.
00:50:09.94\00:50:12.48
Because you should not--
it's not dependent upon you,
00:50:12.51\00:50:15.70
how good you are,
who you think you are.
00:50:15.73\00:50:18.49
I do want
somebody that believes,
00:50:18.52\00:50:20.22
I don't want somebody
that does not believe.
00:50:20.25\00:50:23.67
But that's the number
only prerequisite that I know
00:50:23.70\00:50:26.77
of for a Christian
is that you believe.
00:50:26.80\00:50:29.15
Now the Bible says the prayer
00:50:29.18\00:50:31.82
of a righteous
person availeth much.
00:50:31.85\00:50:34.49
And I want to
tell you something,
00:50:34.52\00:50:35.56
if I am sick I'll
just take the prayer.
00:50:35.59\00:50:39.44
I'm not going to
look at the pedigree,
00:50:39.47\00:50:41.77
make sure did you
ever make a mistake?
00:50:41.80\00:50:44.35
You know, I'm not
going to be asking that.
00:50:44.38\00:50:46.90
I want the person to pray
for me and trust and believe.
00:50:46.93\00:50:52.90
And so I said to this
brother, I said, look,
00:50:52.93\00:50:55.72
I'll put the oil on
my figure before I go in.
00:50:55.75\00:51:00.61
I'll put this in my pocket
00:51:00.64\00:51:03.50
and then he
will not see anything
00:51:03.53\00:51:08.26
and I'll anoint
him with this finger
00:51:08.29\00:51:10.65
already has the oil on it.
00:51:10.68\00:51:11.94
Okay. All right.
00:51:11.97\00:51:13.14
Go ahead.
00:51:13.17\00:51:14.91
And we went in.
00:51:14.94\00:51:16.61
We did not have a long prayer.
00:51:16.64\00:51:18.85
I don't remember
what Sam and Ray said
00:51:18.88\00:51:22.13
but they had short prayers.
00:51:22.16\00:51:23.39
So we only had--
00:51:23.42\00:51:24.45
they only let us in
that room for seconds.
00:51:24.48\00:51:26.16
I am talking about
the medical people.
00:51:26.19\00:51:28.21
For seconds. And we anointed.
00:51:28.24\00:51:34.53
My prayer was,
"Lord, we need our leader."
00:51:34.56\00:51:38.19
He was our union president.
00:51:38.22\00:51:40.67
"Please don't
take him from us now.
00:51:40.70\00:51:43.31
We need him.
00:51:43.34\00:51:44.48
This is a difficult
time in history of our union,
00:51:44.51\00:51:48.40
lots of things going on,
00:51:48.43\00:51:50.06
great challenges
and great evangelism.
00:51:50.09\00:51:52.20
We need him.
Please restore him."
00:51:52.23\00:51:57.81
Within a few hours his
temperature started to go down,
00:51:57.84\00:52:02.31
he awakened a day or so later.
00:52:02.34\00:52:06.76
Came out of the coma.
00:52:06.79\00:52:09.18
The doctor came to him,
00:52:09.21\00:52:10.54
his pulmonary
specialist came to him and said,
00:52:10.57\00:52:14.82
I am worried
because you've been on this
00:52:14.85\00:52:17.90
breathing machine so long
00:52:17.93\00:52:19.42
that your lungs are
not going to be able
00:52:19.45\00:52:21.23
to take back over
when we take you off.
00:52:21.26\00:52:25.02
And even if you heal
and he had infections
00:52:25.05\00:52:27.68
that even his doctor
who had dealt with infection
00:52:27.71\00:52:30.71
for injuries that
he had said later,
00:52:30.74\00:52:33.72
you have divine help in
overcoming those infections.
00:52:33.75\00:52:38.24
Even the doctor said that.
00:52:38.27\00:52:41.46
But his pulmonary
specialist told him,
00:52:41.49\00:52:43.39
I don't think you ever
going to have full capacity
00:52:43.42\00:52:46.59
even if you recover.
00:52:46.62\00:52:49.64
You're going to
have difficulty breathing
00:52:49.67\00:52:51.01
the rest of your life.
00:52:51.04\00:52:54.08
He said that depressed him.
00:52:54.11\00:52:55.41
He felt so depressed
because this is an active man.
00:52:55.44\00:53:00.13
And he wanted to be healthy
00:53:00.16\00:53:02.15
and he wanted
to be going forward
00:53:02.18\00:53:05.23
and he did not want to
have something like this.
00:53:05.26\00:53:12.74
And he said that
one night shortly
00:53:12.77\00:53:15.17
after that a young
doctor came in, stethoscope,
00:53:15.20\00:53:19.58
he said, he
didn't identify himself,
00:53:19.61\00:53:22.67
he just came in and said,
very nice looking young man.
00:53:22.70\00:53:27.14
And he took his stethoscope
00:53:27.17\00:53:28.53
and he listened to
my lungs and he said,
00:53:28.56\00:53:34.11
I can hear things that
other people cannot hear.
00:53:34.14\00:53:39.99
And he said, I hear the air
00:53:40.02\00:53:44.35
going to all
parts of your lungs,
00:53:44.38\00:53:48.32
every part of your lung.
00:53:48.35\00:53:52.51
Now when he had come in Joyce
00:53:52.54\00:53:57.40
who is now
Cyril's wife at the time,
00:53:57.43\00:53:59.85
Cyril's first wife had died
00:53:59.88\00:54:01.50
and he and Joyce
were not yet married.
00:54:01.53\00:54:04.43
When she heard
about the accident,
00:54:04.46\00:54:05.69
she came and
she'd been by his side.
00:54:05.72\00:54:08.38
They had been
friends through the years.
00:54:08.41\00:54:10.69
They were friends years ago
00:54:10.72\00:54:11.76
and then had
renewed their friendship
00:54:11.79\00:54:13.78
after this wife had died.
00:54:13.81\00:54:15.84
But then they had not
quite made it in a friendship
00:54:15.87\00:54:20.17
till she heard
that he needed her
00:54:20.20\00:54:22.02
and then Joyce was there.
00:54:22.05\00:54:24.35
A nurse, by his
side all the time.
00:54:24.38\00:54:28.41
But she had left the room
00:54:28.44\00:54:29.47
when the doctor
came in as a courtesy.
00:54:29.50\00:54:32.62
But she can see through the door
00:54:32.65\00:54:34.75
and Cyril motioned her back
in and he said to the doctor,
00:54:34.78\00:54:41.87
tell her what you
just said, and he repeated.
00:54:41.90\00:54:45.49
I can hear things that
other people cannot hear.
00:54:45.52\00:54:50.03
And I hear a healthy lung,
00:54:50.06\00:54:53.56
I hear things taking place there
00:54:53.59\00:54:57.54
that are going to ensure that
you're going to be all right,
00:54:57.57\00:55:00.73
you're going to
have full strength.
00:55:00.76\00:55:02.86
You know
something, it was amazing.
00:55:02.89\00:55:07.64
When he left, they
called the nurse standing
00:55:07.67\00:55:13.60
and said who was this doctor?
00:55:13.63\00:55:15.03
She said, there's
no doctor been here.
00:55:15.06\00:55:18.96
His pulmonary
doctor came in and he said,
00:55:18.99\00:55:20.70
who did you send?
00:55:20.73\00:55:21.76
He said, I haven't send anybody,
00:55:21.79\00:55:24.42
I didn't sent anybody.
00:55:24.45\00:55:27.04
And then Janet said,
the way you described him
00:55:27.07\00:55:30.73
is exactly the way
Ellen White describe the angel
00:55:30.76\00:55:33.46
that came to encourage her,
as a fine looking young man.
00:55:33.49\00:55:40.49
And then he said, do you think
it might have been an angel?
00:55:40.52\00:55:46.52
His friend Ray
Hubert said this, said,
00:55:46.55\00:55:50.53
do you think it
was a doctor Cyril
00:55:50.56\00:55:52.18
or do you think it was an angel?
00:55:52.21\00:55:55.27
Cyril said, I don't know.
00:55:55.30\00:55:57.93
He said, well, did
he send you a bill?
00:55:57.96\00:56:01.63
Because doctors
don't just drop by.
00:56:08.33\00:56:13.01
If you didn't get a
bill it was an angel.
00:56:13.04\00:56:18.96
Cyril will be 80 on
Sunday. Happy birth day, Cyril.
00:56:18.99\00:56:25.72
And you know something?
00:56:25.75\00:56:27.01
He's still going for the Lord
00:56:27.04\00:56:29.40
and he's never gotten
a bill from that doctor.
00:56:29.43\00:56:34.82
Today, Jesus
Christ wants to heal you.
00:56:34.85\00:56:40.47
It's not going to last forever
00:56:40.50\00:56:43.32
except the healing
of spiritual healing,
00:56:43.35\00:56:45.26
that one's going
to last for eternity.
00:56:45.29\00:56:47.21
If you only get a
choice of one by one,
00:56:47.24\00:56:49.58
by the way take that one
00:56:49.61\00:56:50.68
that's going to
last for eternity,
00:56:50.71\00:56:53.00
not the one that's going
to last for few years here.
00:56:53.03\00:56:56.06
But He has promised
life eternal to everyone
00:56:56.09\00:57:03.30
who will receive,
accept and believe.
00:57:03.33\00:57:07.34
And that miracle
He has promised to all
00:57:07.37\00:57:12.22
who will say, come, I
want to be a part of Jesus.
00:57:12.25\00:57:16.00
Won't you do that?
00:57:16.03\00:57:17.56