I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and
welcome to Family Worship.
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We're so excited here at 3ABN
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to get to spend
this time with you.
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As we welcome in the
Sabbath, and it's just a joy,
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isn't it a joy from
Friday night to Friday night
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to go through
really busy hectic week,
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then Friday night rolls in
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and it's just kind of
like a breath of fresh air
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as we get to celebrate
the Sabbath with our Lord
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and one of my
favorite scriptures
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I say this frequently,
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but the reason the
Sabbath is so special to me,
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Exodus 31:13, it
says, "The Sabbath is a sign
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that God is the
one who sanctifies us."
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Amen.
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So it helps me to remember,
I'm totally dependent upon Him.
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Well, I'm Shelley
Quinn. I'm JD Quinn.
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And then let me introduce
the rests of our guests,
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the rests of our guests.
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Next to me is my dear
friend Mollie Steenson
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and to Mollie's
right we have Luis Capote,
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and then bringing up the
rear, shall we say it that way?
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No, we have C.A.
Murray on to the left.
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Good to be here.
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It's so good to have you all
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and just thank you so
much for your willingness
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to come to the table
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so that we can share
with the rest of our family
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that's you're
our viewing audience.
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And I would be remise,
if I didn't take a moment
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to tell you thank you
so much for your prayers
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and your
financial support of 3ABN.
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We really appreciate
you, this ministry is your,
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it's God ministry,
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but it's in not just our
hands but it's in your hands.
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Amen.
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And we have one
more person with us,
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I don't want to
forget to introduce her
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and that's our
precious Sister Jill Morikone
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who's going to be on the piano,
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and play for us
in just a moment.
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But why don't we
before we sing our song,
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why don't we have
an opening prayer,
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well, just a prayer of praise,
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something you want
to praise the Lord for
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we'll just take turn.
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Luis, you want to start? Amen.
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Our loving Father,
we want to praise You
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for how wonderful and
mighty You're in our lives.
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We thank You, Father,
because you have shown us
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through Your Holy Scripture
that when we are faithful,
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Lord, all things
are added on to us,
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and we thank You
for the opportunity
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that You give us.
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On this Friday evening, Lord,
to be able to sit and relax
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and to be able
to learn from You,
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and we give You all the
honor and all the glory.
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And Father, we praise You
and thank you for Your grace
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and mercy and
Your goodness to us.
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Thank you, Father,
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that those mercies are
renewed for us every morning.
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Amen.
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Father, we praise You
and thank You for Your love
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and for sending our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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for sending Your Holy Spirit
and for giving us Your Word.
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And Father, of
course, we thank You
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for the Sabbath day
for this time of rest
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but yet Lord, the eagerness
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that we have to be
able to share Your word
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with each other
and with all those
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that are gathered with us,
Lord, we just love You so much.
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Father God, we thank You
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that You allowed just
enough trial in our lives
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to let us know that
this earth is not our home.
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And so that we don't get
too comfortable down here,
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but then You balance it
with just enough triumph
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in our lives
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so that we know
that we're not alone
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and that Christ is with us.
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And that one day
soon we shall see Him face
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to blessed face.
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And so bless us,
Father, as we step now
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into Your courts
on this Sabbath day.
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We praise You and
thank You in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen and amen.
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You know, I forgot to introduce
our topic so before we sing,
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let me introduce the topic
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and especially what
you just prayed goes
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and it's a perfect platform
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or segue talking
about trials and triumphs.
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Tonight, we're
going to be talking
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or discussing God given health
and we'll look at the fact,
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God doesn't promise us
perfect physical health
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but that He
indeed has many promises
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that to lead us to that health,
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to give us that hope for health.
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And we'll talk about various,
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you know, to me when
you're in poor health,
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the stages are almost like
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going through
the grieving process.
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There is just so
many different stages
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that we all go through,
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but we know that everyone
at this table was hand selected
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because they have gone
through some major issues,
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God has helped them
overcome some major issues.
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Three of us sitting here
have been miraculously healed.
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There is an occasions
and there's other occasions
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where God has taken
us, stepped us, walked us
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through a healing process.
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But everybody here
has got a story to tell.
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Amen.
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And because so many
of our viewers at home,
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either you're going
through something yourself
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or maybe because a
loved one is going through it,
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we thought we'll
just spend this time
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discussing from God's word
the hope that we find in Him.
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And our song, I'm
not gonna be singing
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because all I can
do is squeak if I sing,
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but our song is
going to be pretty similar
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to our topic,
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"Our hope is
built on nothing less".
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Amen.
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My hope is built on nothing less
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Than Jesus'
blood and righteousness
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I dare not trust
the sweetest frame
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But wholly lean on Jesus' name
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On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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When darkness
veils His lovely face
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I rest on His unchanging grace
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In every high and stormy gale
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My anchor holds within the veil
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On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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His oath, His
covenant, and His blood
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Support me in the whelming flood
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When all around
my soul gives way
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He then is all my hope and stay
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On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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When He shall
come with trumpet sound
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O, may I then in Him be found
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Clad in His righteousness alone
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Faultless to
stand before the throne
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On Christ, the
solid rock, I stand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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All other ground is sinking sand
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Oh, amen and amen.
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You have no idea
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how sad it is not to be able
to sing along with you on that
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because this is one
of my favorite songs,
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and how true that
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it is only the
righteousness of Christ Jesus
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that we stand on.
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Amen. Amen.
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Let me start off
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by just reading a
little scripture here
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from 3 John and it's verse 2.
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There is only one chapter
so it's verse 2 of 3 John.
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He says, "Beloved, I pray that
you may prosper in all things
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and be in health just
as your soul prospers."
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You know that is
our prayer for you,
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that's a prayer
for everybody here.
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But we know that
it just seems to me
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that there's just
been a whole lot of,
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I don't know if
it's a spiritual attack,
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but there's a whole lot of
things going on in this world.
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We've had five
people or have five people
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at 3ABN with cancer.
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I've been sick for
the last five months
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with various overlapping things
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and just not
quite out of it yet.
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But God does, He is
interested in our health,
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He wants our health to prosper.
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Yes.
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So we're gonna take a
look at some scriptures.
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First, let me read
you a little affirmation
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that when I was
suffering from vertigo for 24x7,
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for a whole year,
God had impressed me
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to get into His word
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and speak His word over my life
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and pray His word back to Him.
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And this is the
affirmation that God gave me
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just stringing some
scriptures together,
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let me read this to you.
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And here's how it goes.
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"It is the name of Jesus Christ,
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the name
representing all that He is,
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and the faith
that comes through Him
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that gives me complete healing.
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I follow God's instructions
for health and healing.
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The Lord Jehovah Rapha
is my counselor and healer.
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By His grace I am walking
in God given health spiritual,
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mental, emotional,
and physical health.
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I trust God to
give me the healing
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that He knows I need.
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He has my
eternal benefit in mind.
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He took up my infirmities
and carried all my diseases.
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He sent His
living word Jesus Christ
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who was bruised
from my iniquities,
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by His stripes I was healed."
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So what we want to do tonight.
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Let's just before we get into,
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we want to kind of
tell our little testimonies,
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I guess as we go along,
but I just invite you to share
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as you're
sharing this scripture.
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Let's talk about how God's Word,
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how God's
promises have given us hope
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in the midst of a dark time
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because one thing
that I've found is that
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over a period of time
when healing doesn't come,
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we can go into an
emotional tailspin,
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can we not?
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And it's something that
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we need to think about
ways to change our focus
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to look to God,
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and that's kind of
what we want to do tonight.
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Mollie, I think you've
got the beginning scripture.
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I do, I've got
Acts 3:16 in the NIV.
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But before I
share the scripture,
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I wanted to
candlelight the foundation
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for this scripture.
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Peter and John
were on their way up
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to the temple at
about the ninth hour,
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and as they passed the gate
there was a man laying there,
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that had been laying,
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the scripture says
from his mother's womb
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and he was begging alms.
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And this is that scripture
that we all can quote so well.
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Peter looked down at him
and he said, "Silver and gold,
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I don't have, but
such as I have give you
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on to the in the name of
Jesus, rise up and walk."
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I may not have
quoted that just right.
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Verse 7 says, "And he
took him by the right hand
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and lifted him up,
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and immediately his feet
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and ankle bones
received strength.
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So he leaping
up, stood, and walked
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and he entered
into that temple."
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And did he enter
in all dignified.
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What was he doing?
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He was leaping and
walking and praising God.
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Now this says
that when they took him
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by the right hand
and lifted him up,
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what happened?
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Immediately his
arm, ankle bones,
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and his feet were healed.
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Now that's a miracle,
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miracles happen
instantly, healings...
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And he was miraculously healed.
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So it was a miracle
and it was a healing.
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See, I haven't received
an instantaneous healing
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but I've received
healing, healing like,
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if we go to the doctor
and the doctor tells us,
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"Here, take this medicine
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and in five days
you're gonna be okay."
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We walk out of the
doctor's office knowing
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in five days
we're going to be okay.
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Well, when we pray,
we receive our healing,
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we believe in
faith, and we receive,
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but just because it
doesn't happen instantaneously
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that just means you
didn't receive a miracle,
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it doesn't mean that
the word is any less true,
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and as you go why
you do as you say,
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you start quoting the scripture.
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"He was wounded
for my transgressions,
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he was bruised for my iniquity,
the chastisement of our peace,
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my peace was upon Him,
by His stripes I'm healed."
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You don't back off
or negate those prayers.
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Now see, I haven't received
an instantaneous healing,
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and for you that I don't know.
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Back in 2013 in
March and April of 2013,
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I was given a diagnosis.
00:15:18.98\00:15:21.05
The diagnosis was
that I had breast cancer
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that had metastasized
to my lungs and my bones.
00:15:24.52\00:15:28.26
That mean that in my
lungs there are nodules
00:15:28.29\00:15:31.16
and in my bones
there are lesions.
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And that's what the PET scans
and the CAT scans and the MRIs,
00:15:34.20\00:15:38.83
and you name it,
honey, I've had them.
00:15:38.87\00:15:41.50
And they still
say that to this day,
00:15:41.54\00:15:43.51
but recently a couple
of two or three months ago,
00:15:43.54\00:15:48.51
they did a bone scan and
I had a lesion on my skull.
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And, you know,
what the doctor told me
00:15:53.45\00:15:55.02
after this PET scan that
lesion has been resolved.
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Amen.
00:15:58.75\00:16:00.09
Well, now that lesion
wasn't resolved just like that,
00:16:00.12\00:16:03.93
it has become resolved
00:16:03.96\00:16:06.19
over the last
three or four years,
00:16:06.23\00:16:08.46
we don't know when it resolved.
00:16:08.50\00:16:10.07
But the doctor also
told me an interesting thing.
00:16:10.10\00:16:12.90
He said some of those
lesions in your skeletal system,
00:16:12.93\00:16:16.30
we would have to do a
PET scan to determine this
00:16:16.34\00:16:19.97
but you don't do PET
scans unless you just have to,
00:16:20.01\00:16:23.14
so he's not gonna
order a PET scan for me,
00:16:23.18\00:16:25.58
that's just a whole
lot of radiation and things
00:16:25.61\00:16:28.32
in your body you don't want.
00:16:28.35\00:16:30.02
But he said,
take that to prove it
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and so he's not
saying he can prove this
00:16:32.65\00:16:35.29
but his educated determination
is that some of these lesions
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in my body are
probably just scars
00:16:41.70\00:16:44.23
from where cancer had been,
00:16:44.27\00:16:45.67
he think there is
more resolving going on
00:16:45.70\00:16:47.94
in my body.
00:16:47.97\00:16:49.30
So now to me that's a healing
that wasn't instantaneous,
00:16:49.34\00:16:53.27
but, hey, I feel good.
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The diagnosis haven't changed,
00:16:56.18\00:16:58.65
but now let's go
on where I left you,
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he was walking and
leaping and praising God,
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and all the people saw it.
00:17:07.09\00:17:08.82
The people saw
what was going on.
00:17:08.86\00:17:10.93
Now it go on down to verse,
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what was the
scripture I have was 3:16.
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Now what the
people wanted to do,
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and what they
were looking at John,
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and they were looking at Peter,
00:17:21.10\00:17:22.60
and Peter says, "By
faith in the name of Jesus,
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this man whom you see
and know was made strong."
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Not us he's saying,
00:17:30.78\00:17:32.21
but by faith in
the name of Jesus.
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So why don't you and
I going to be healed?
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"By faith in the name of
Jesus, this man whom you see
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and know was made strong.
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It is Jesus' name and the
faith that comes through him
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that has given this
complete healing to him
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as you can all see.
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Amen.
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Now with me,
00:17:51.90\00:17:54.17
Oh, I wish and the
elders I had an anointing
00:17:54.20\00:17:58.94
before, I went to the hospital
after I had my diagnosis.
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And I wanted to be
healed instantaneously,
00:18:02.68\00:18:05.08
I wanted to get
down to Loma Linda,
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and when they did looked at me,
00:18:07.72\00:18:09.72
when they did those x-rays
and CAT scans and all of that.
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I want them to say,
00:18:12.29\00:18:13.62
"Honey, there's
nothing wrong with you."
00:18:13.66\00:18:14.99
Just send me home.
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I wanted a miracle, but
what I've got is a healing.
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So I just thought
I would differentiate
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between the two,
00:18:22.36\00:18:23.70
and there may be
another time to share this,
00:18:23.73\00:18:25.07
but I guess I'll share it now.
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My three prompt
approach to healing
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was first and foremost,
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trust God with all my
heart, mind, and soul.
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Trust God with all my
heart, have confidence in Him,
00:18:33.58\00:18:36.81
and speak the
scriptures over me.
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Number two, was do what
the doctor tells you to do.
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And number three, use good sense
00:18:42.98\00:18:44.99
and do things
that you know to do.
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I do things that I
know to be healthy,
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things that will
bring health to my body.
00:18:49.72\00:18:51.46
You blend the best
of the medical world,
00:18:51.49\00:18:54.36
professional medical world
00:18:54.40\00:18:55.73
with the best of
natural remedies,
00:18:55.76\00:18:57.70
and it's been
very effective for you.
00:18:57.73\00:18:59.57
Yeah, and it has been
and I've had some people
00:18:59.60\00:19:02.84
that would come
to argue the fact
00:19:02.87\00:19:04.47
that I am doing what
the doctors tell me to do.
00:19:04.51\00:19:07.28
And I do take shots
00:19:07.31\00:19:09.48
and do what they
are telling me to do,
00:19:09.51\00:19:12.58
but I have found the scripture,
it's in the Amplified Bible.
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Actually this verse so
reads in the Septuagint
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which is the great translation
of the Old Testament.
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And here is what it
says, this is Proverbs 18:9
00:19:23.36\00:19:27.96
and this is the
B portion of that.
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It says, "He who
does not use his endeavors
00:19:30.17\00:19:34.10
to heal himself is brother
to him who commits suicide."
00:19:34.14\00:19:38.01
Now what that is saying
to me is that I need to do,
00:19:38.04\00:19:42.74
what I know to do,
00:19:42.78\00:19:44.85
to bring health
and healing to my body,
00:19:44.88\00:19:47.15
to bring healing to my
body or else if I just sit back
00:19:47.18\00:19:51.12
and do nothing and
say, "Oh, well, it was me."
00:19:51.15\00:19:53.62
Then that would
make me brother to him
00:19:53.66\00:19:57.33
who commits suicide.
00:19:57.36\00:19:58.69
So I do what I know to do.
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I hope you don't
mind me sharing this
00:20:01.03\00:20:03.37
'cause it is very personal.
00:20:03.40\00:20:05.13
But I was there at
Loma Linda with her,
00:20:05.17\00:20:09.24
and when we got the
news that it was in the spine
00:20:09.27\00:20:12.41
and in the lungs,
00:20:12.44\00:20:15.38
I watched Mollie
go from being this,
00:20:15.41\00:20:18.01
very upright person to
being kind of a little,
00:20:18.05\00:20:20.98
I mean, it was overwhelming.
00:20:21.02\00:20:22.35
It was overwhelming.
00:20:22.38\00:20:23.72
It was overwhelming,
00:20:23.75\00:20:25.09
and one thing
that I shared with you
00:20:25.12\00:20:28.66
that I'd like to share
with all of you at home
00:20:28.69\00:20:31.16
is a dear friend of
mine whose husband had cancer
00:20:31.19\00:20:33.96
that would come and just,
00:20:34.00\00:20:38.37
he would be at
the point of death
00:20:38.40\00:20:39.73
and he'd go into remission,
point of death, remission,
00:20:39.77\00:20:41.97
point of death, remission.
00:20:42.00\00:20:43.61
And that was over a
period of about 15 years,
00:20:43.64\00:20:47.38
so they really had an
emotional iroller coaster,
00:20:47.41\00:20:50.88
but what she said
to me is, "Shelley,
00:20:50.91\00:20:53.11
we have learned not
how to die with cancer,
00:20:53.15\00:20:57.69
but how to live with cancer."
00:20:57.72\00:20:59.05
Amen.
00:20:59.09\00:21:00.42
And that's what I
shared with Mollie,
00:21:00.46\00:21:01.79
yes, you're gonna
learn to live with cancer,
00:21:01.82\00:21:03.49
but the other thing
is when I was praying,
00:21:03.53\00:21:05.89
the Lord really
impressed me to tell you,
00:21:05.93\00:21:08.13
you're not gonna die
of cancer but of old age.
00:21:08.16\00:21:11.20
And so that's
something you've held on to,
00:21:11.23\00:21:14.77
but we need when...
00:21:14.80\00:21:19.51
I didn't tell
her that right away,
00:21:19.54\00:21:21.01
she needed some
time to process this.
00:21:21.04\00:21:23.24
I just want to encourage you
00:21:23.28\00:21:24.81
that when somebody
is really, really ill
00:21:24.85\00:21:27.52
and they get this
overwhelming report,
00:21:27.55\00:21:31.35
don't just pop in and
try to be a Pollyanna,
00:21:31.39\00:21:34.92
I mean, you need to let them
have some time to soak it in,
00:21:34.96\00:21:38.49
don't you believe?
00:21:38.53\00:21:40.10
And just be there for them,
it's like being with somebody
00:21:40.13\00:21:45.53
who's going
through a grieving process
00:21:45.57\00:21:47.37
because you are in
fact grieving, right?
00:21:47.40\00:21:49.54
Amen. Thank you,
Mollie, that was beautiful.
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Luis, you want to
read Exodus 15:26.
00:21:52.97\00:21:59.31
Exodus 15:26,
00:21:59.35\00:22:02.05
"If you diligently heed
the voice of the Lord your God,
00:22:02.08\00:22:06.35
and do what is
right in His sight,
00:22:06.39\00:22:09.29
give ear to His commandments
and keep all His statutes,
00:22:09.32\00:22:13.70
I will put none of
the diseases on you,
00:22:13.73\00:22:17.07
for I am the
Lord, who heals you."
00:22:17.10\00:22:21.07
As I look around this room
and as Mollie read that verse,
00:22:21.10\00:22:28.28
I see that all of you have
been touched with some ailment
00:22:28.31\00:22:34.75
or have had to
go through sickness.
00:22:34.78\00:22:39.35
I've been blessed with that,
00:22:39.39\00:22:40.79
but unfortunately I need
to talk about the sick man
00:22:40.82\00:22:42.62
that I put upon myself.
00:22:42.66\00:22:45.23
And this verse it just hit me,
00:22:45.26\00:22:48.33
you know, it hit me to the point
00:22:48.36\00:22:50.77
where God has
blessed me with health,
00:22:50.80\00:22:55.47
I don't have any allergies,
00:22:55.50\00:23:00.24
I have very seldom
been in the hospital.
00:23:00.28\00:23:04.31
But when she read that,
it hit me that I'm myself,
00:23:04.35\00:23:09.42
I'm medicating
myself through food
00:23:09.45\00:23:12.95
to get me to a point
00:23:12.99\00:23:14.56
in which I'm not as
healthy as I need to be...
00:23:14.59\00:23:20.80
Facing health crisis.
00:23:20.83\00:23:22.60
Because of the
way that I'm acting,
00:23:22.63\00:23:29.50
and when you read this, a
lot of the times you look at,
00:23:29.54\00:23:32.87
this is talking about
spiritually filling yourself
00:23:32.91\00:23:36.75
and trying to work with God
and following His commandments.
00:23:36.78\00:23:41.12
It got to a point
00:23:41.15\00:23:42.52
where I was asked
by my wife actually,
00:23:42.55\00:23:45.82
she called Weimar
00:23:45.85\00:23:47.19
and asked the doctor
there, please, call my husband.
00:23:47.22\00:23:50.16
And I got the
opportunity to go to Weimar.
00:23:50.19\00:23:53.73
And when I first got
there, I couldn't walk,
00:23:53.76\00:23:55.96
I couldn't even
do the first lap.
00:23:56.00\00:23:58.97
And I started learning
what new start was all about.
00:23:59.00\00:24:03.54
And I knew it, I've
read it on the Bible,
00:24:03.57\00:24:06.27
I've done, I've learned,
00:24:06.31\00:24:07.64
you need to have
relationship with God,
00:24:07.68\00:24:10.85
you need to rest,
you need the water,
00:24:10.88\00:24:12.61
you need all of
these things in your life,
00:24:12.65\00:24:15.68
but for some reason
I kept on that pattern,
00:24:15.72\00:24:20.22
I kept on
self-medicating myself with food
00:24:20.26\00:24:24.39
and there's a lot of individuals
00:24:24.43\00:24:25.86
that are going
through the same struggles
00:24:25.89\00:24:27.46
as I'm going through.
00:24:27.50\00:24:29.10
This is not
something that the enemy
00:24:29.13\00:24:32.23
just does to you like
what is done to, you guys,
00:24:32.27\00:24:35.24
cancer and heart issues
00:24:35.27\00:24:36.94
and all of these things
you've had to go through.
00:24:36.97\00:24:39.57
There are individuals
that are doing it to themselves
00:24:39.61\00:24:41.84
that God has
given them the health
00:24:41.88\00:24:44.31
and this is what
Weimar was teaching you.
00:24:44.35\00:24:47.58
There was
individuals, the doctors,
00:24:47.62\00:24:49.58
there are some of
them are in their 80s,
00:24:49.62\00:24:51.55
and they're running
up and down like nothing.
00:24:51.59\00:24:54.06
They were, you know,
and you're like exhausted
00:24:54.09\00:24:57.33
and they're like
teenagers playing basketball
00:24:57.36\00:25:00.33
and playing games
and encouraging you.
00:25:00.36\00:25:02.36
And they're telling you,
00:25:02.40\00:25:03.73
"If you follow
what we're teaching you,
00:25:03.77\00:25:06.63
you will be able
to live to your...
00:25:06.67\00:25:10.24
alive to a high age,
and still have the energy."
00:25:10.27\00:25:13.91
You're just
gonna die of exhaustion
00:25:13.94\00:25:15.98
because of all the things
that you're gonna be doing.
00:25:16.01\00:25:17.95
It's not, it has,
00:25:17.98\00:25:19.31
doesn't sickness
does not need to kill you
00:25:19.35\00:25:22.18
that you can
continue if you follow,
00:25:22.22\00:25:25.62
like look at what it says again,
00:25:25.65\00:25:27.46
"If you diligently
heed," you need to do your part,
00:25:27.49\00:25:31.49
you need to
understand that everything
00:25:31.53\00:25:33.40
that you
require in order for you
00:25:33.43\00:25:35.80
to have a healthy
life has been given to you,
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.00
the instructions
are in the Bible,
00:25:39.03\00:25:41.70
and what you
need to do diligently,
00:25:41.74\00:25:43.57
and you need to constantly
keep the commandments of God
00:25:43.61\00:25:48.68
and stay in connection with Him.
00:25:48.71\00:25:50.75
Amen.
00:25:50.78\00:25:52.28
I encourage you,
00:25:52.31\00:25:55.68
if you're in the
same situation as I am.
00:25:55.72\00:25:58.75
If God has blessed you
00:25:58.79\00:26:00.46
with a great
healthy atmosphere life,
00:26:00.49\00:26:06.36
I encourage you that
00:26:06.39\00:26:07.73
you will look at an opportunity,
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.60
you'll look to connect
to God and He will help you,
00:26:09.63\00:26:12.40
He will guide you to be
able to return to the foods
00:26:12.43\00:26:18.07
that He has asked you to eat,
00:26:18.11\00:26:19.91
and to be able to
return to the health
00:26:19.94\00:26:22.14
that He has asked you.
00:26:22.18\00:26:23.51
And this is
what's so encouraging
00:26:23.55\00:26:24.88
because as I see
here in the room,
00:26:24.91\00:26:27.48
there are individuals
00:26:27.52\00:26:28.85
that had to go
through so much difficulties
00:26:28.88\00:26:31.52
and God has
brought them in victory
00:26:31.55\00:26:35.62
that I too can say to myself,
00:26:35.66\00:26:38.59
"Luis, you need to understand
00:26:38.63\00:26:40.13
that if you don't
heed the instructions,
00:26:40.16\00:26:44.83
you are indeed
slowly committing suicide."
00:26:44.87\00:26:49.37
And that is one of the part,
one of the Ten Commandments.
00:26:49.40\00:26:52.04
So you think you're
following the Decalogues,
00:26:52.07\00:26:54.98
but by doing
something as simple as eating,
00:26:55.01\00:27:00.62
you are then
fulfilling in your life
00:27:00.65\00:27:05.85
something that may
actually get you to
00:27:05.89\00:27:09.62
losing that
relationship with God.
00:27:09.66\00:27:11.39
So temperance is very important
and He is Jehovah Rapha,
00:27:11.43\00:27:15.63
the Lord who heals us,
00:27:15.66\00:27:17.70
but it is so
important as you said.
00:27:17.73\00:27:20.10
I have to just
share a quick story.
00:27:20.14\00:27:22.10
I was preaching
in Abilene, Texas.
00:27:22.14\00:27:25.81
They brought a
woman to me who said
00:27:25.84\00:27:28.54
and this was
before I was an Adventist,
00:27:28.58\00:27:30.45
but it was after
God had healed me.
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.51
They brought a woman
to me who had lung cancer,
00:27:32.55\00:27:35.68
and I had prayed for someone
just a couple of months earlier
00:27:35.72\00:27:39.55
who was miraculously healed.
00:27:39.59\00:27:41.72
So I'm really, boy,
the Lord's working, right?
00:27:41.76\00:27:46.13
They bring this woman to me
00:27:46.16\00:27:47.60
and I start praying the
promises of God over her,
00:27:47.63\00:27:51.23
healing promises.
00:27:51.27\00:27:52.63
I'm praying for all its worth,
and all of a sudden I hear,
00:27:52.67\00:27:56.94
"Who is this who
darkens my council
00:27:56.97\00:28:00.08
with words without knowledge?"
00:28:00.11\00:28:03.35
And I thought, "What Lord?"
00:28:03.38\00:28:06.15
And He said, "Ask
her if she's smoking."
00:28:06.18\00:28:10.05
Man I stopped and I said...
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.75
I stopped praying
and I said, "Ma'am,"
00:28:12.79\00:28:15.42
she didn't smell like smoke
but I said, "Are you a smoker?"
00:28:15.46\00:28:19.63
She looked down,
00:28:19.66\00:28:21.00
she said, "Yes, the
doctors want me to stop."
00:28:21.03\00:28:24.23
But she said, "I
smoke two packs a day,
00:28:24.27\00:28:26.53
I just can't quit."
00:28:26.57\00:28:28.24
And I told her, I said,
"I can't pray and ask God
00:28:28.27\00:28:31.91
to heal you
00:28:31.94\00:28:34.01
when you're basically
trying to kill yourself."
00:28:34.04\00:28:37.11
I mean, there, don't you
agree with that principle?
00:28:37.15\00:28:40.25
So that's kind of
what this is all about.
00:28:40.28\00:28:44.42
Mollie, why don't you,
00:28:44.45\00:28:45.79
I'm gonna skip
over mine for right now,
00:28:45.82\00:28:47.49
why don't you
go to Matthew 8:16?
00:28:47.52\00:28:51.36
Okay.
00:28:51.39\00:28:52.73
This is quoting
from the Amplified,
00:28:52.76\00:28:55.56
"When evening came
they brought to Him many
00:28:55.60\00:28:58.23
who were under
the power of demons.
00:28:58.27\00:29:00.54
And he drove out
the spirit with the word
00:29:00.57\00:29:02.87
and restored to
help all who were sick.
00:29:02.90\00:29:07.34
And thus He
fulfilled what was spoken
00:29:07.38\00:29:09.38
by the prophet Isaiah.
00:29:09.41\00:29:11.61
He himself took in order
to carry away our weaknesses,
00:29:11.65\00:29:16.38
and infirmities, and
bore away our diseases."
00:29:16.42\00:29:21.26
Amen.
00:29:21.29\00:29:22.62
Now I'm familiar with
the healing scriptures,
00:29:22.66\00:29:24.69
I've taught on
healing, I've learned to quote
00:29:24.73\00:29:28.33
meaning of the
healing scriptures,
00:29:28.36\00:29:29.90
he send his word
and He healed us,
00:29:29.93\00:29:31.63
He would above all
things that we prosper.
00:29:31.67\00:29:34.07
And be unhealthy
even as our soul prospers,
00:29:34.10\00:29:37.21
and I have been a very
healthy person, I mean,
00:29:37.24\00:29:42.08
I'm the one that was never sick.
00:29:42.11\00:29:43.85
You still are an
incredibly healthy person
00:29:43.88\00:29:46.78
other than having cancer.
00:29:46.82\00:29:48.45
If I didn't have cancer,
I'd be the healthiest person.
00:29:48.48\00:29:50.59
Yes.
00:29:50.62\00:29:51.95
You know what my
oncologist tells me
00:29:51.99\00:29:53.59
that I am the
healthiest patient he's got.
00:29:53.62\00:29:56.69
Yeah. And I appreciate that.
00:29:56.73\00:29:58.46
I really do.
00:29:58.49\00:29:59.86
So I had trusted
God with my help and...
00:29:59.89\00:30:05.20
But let me tell you,
you were talking about
00:30:05.23\00:30:07.50
how does it affect you
00:30:07.54\00:30:08.87
when you get a
diagnosis like this?
00:30:08.90\00:30:10.41
Yes.
00:30:10.44\00:30:11.77
See, I had cancer many years ago
00:30:11.81\00:30:14.41
and had been, and all my
test and everything came out
00:30:14.44\00:30:17.81
totally good for like 12,
15 years something like that,
00:30:17.85\00:30:21.85
then all of a sudden
here it is in a massive way,
00:30:21.88\00:30:26.49
and I had been
eating healthfully,
00:30:26.52\00:30:28.92
and I didn't eat
this, and I didn't eat that,
00:30:28.96\00:30:31.13
I did eat this, and I
did drank lots of water.
00:30:31.16\00:30:33.66
And I thought I was doing
00:30:33.70\00:30:35.03
all of these
things I knew to do,
00:30:35.06\00:30:37.10
trusting God and could
quote those scriptures,
00:30:37.13\00:30:39.80
and yet I got this.
00:30:39.83\00:30:41.17
I mean, that's a
major, it's stage four,
00:30:41.20\00:30:43.71
it's still at stage four.
00:30:43.74\00:30:45.64
I don't know
what stage five bears,
00:30:45.67\00:30:47.38
but I don't think
it's getting much worse,
00:30:47.41\00:30:49.18
but I don't think
there's six, I don't know.
00:30:49.21\00:30:51.25
But anyway, stage four.
00:30:51.28\00:30:53.28
And so here was my reaction
00:30:53.31\00:30:55.78
and I think I was
stunned for a year
00:30:55.82\00:30:58.02
and I don't think
that's much of an exaggeration.
00:30:58.05\00:31:00.66
But I thought, well,
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.09
I quitting this
and I quitting that
00:31:02.12\00:31:04.36
and didn't eat this and you know
00:31:04.39\00:31:06.29
what I thought I'll do?
00:31:06.33\00:31:07.66
I'm just new start,
the only thing I won't do
00:31:07.70\00:31:09.73
'cause, "Honey, it
didn't work anyway."
00:31:09.76\00:31:11.87
And then here is what
the Lord impressed upon me
00:31:11.90\00:31:15.00
was that you're
alive, you're healthy,
00:31:15.04\00:31:19.44
and you're gonna live,
you know, I'm living with it.
00:31:19.47\00:31:23.11
I'm not dying with it.
00:31:23.14\00:31:24.68
What if I hadn't practiced
those health principles?
00:31:24.71\00:31:27.52
Amen.
00:31:27.55\00:31:28.88
What if I hadn't been
doing all that I knew to do?
00:31:28.92\00:31:31.55
I may not be here today.
00:31:31.59\00:31:33.25
So I did have this
kind of whiplashy thing
00:31:33.29\00:31:36.76
where I was thinking,
I'll just do anything,
00:31:36.79\00:31:38.99
but that wasn't God,
00:31:39.03\00:31:40.50
so I'm not
encouraging you to do that,
00:31:40.53\00:31:41.86
but I'm just telling
you what I went through.
00:31:41.90\00:31:43.23
I think that's
natural though. Yeah.
00:31:43.26\00:31:44.60
I think that's
kind of a natural thing
00:31:44.63\00:31:45.97
'cause like you said
00:31:46.00\00:31:47.34
there is this
emotional whiplash,
00:31:47.37\00:31:49.27
there is a tailspin.
00:31:49.30\00:31:50.67
Yeah.
00:31:50.71\00:31:52.04
And particularly, it's one thing
00:31:52.07\00:31:54.94
to go through
pain for a few weeks,
00:31:54.98\00:31:58.25
you go through pain
for month upon month,
00:31:58.28\00:32:01.42
or year upon year.
00:32:01.45\00:32:03.62
You know, it has its...
00:32:03.65\00:32:05.82
I mean, you through
all these different stages
00:32:05.85\00:32:08.72
of learning something,
but what I have found,
00:32:08.76\00:32:12.53
I want to read my
scripture right now
00:32:12.56\00:32:14.53
and then we're gonna throw it
00:32:14.56\00:32:15.90
over to this end of the table
00:32:15.93\00:32:17.57
'cause you guys are
being awfully quiet over here.
00:32:17.60\00:32:19.80
Yes, we are.
00:32:19.83\00:32:21.17
I don't think I'm
giving them much chance.
00:32:21.20\00:32:24.27
I've got Psalms 103:2-3.
00:32:24.31\00:32:30.55
It says, "Bless
the Lord, O my soul,
00:32:30.58\00:32:33.55
and forget not all His benefits.
00:32:33.58\00:32:35.92
Who forgives
all your iniquities,
00:32:35.95\00:32:38.75
who heals all your diseases."
00:32:38.79\00:32:41.99
You know, and let's go
one down to verse 17 and 18
00:32:42.02\00:32:46.29
because I think
that's important here.
00:32:46.33\00:32:48.76
It says, "But
the mercy of the Lord
00:32:48.80\00:32:51.33
is from
everlasting to everlasting
00:32:51.37\00:32:53.67
on those who fear Him,
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.77
and His righteousness
to children's children
00:32:56.81\00:33:01.14
to such as keep
His covenant into those
00:33:01.18\00:33:05.18
who remember His
commandments to do them."
00:33:05.21\00:33:07.92
So I think, the two
things I want to bring out
00:33:07.95\00:33:11.42
from this scripture, number one,
00:33:11.45\00:33:14.16
it is by grace as
we keep God's covenant,
00:33:14.19\00:33:18.89
it is by grace
that all of His mercy
00:33:18.93\00:33:21.26
is poured upon us for healing
or for dealing with an illness.
00:33:21.30\00:33:27.47
Because like we said,
00:33:27.50\00:33:29.20
there's the
healing He knows we need.
00:33:29.24\00:33:30.94
Sometimes, I think we go
through physical problems
00:33:30.97\00:33:36.11
so that we can get
a spiritual healing.
00:33:36.14\00:33:37.75
Amen.
00:33:37.78\00:33:39.11
I mean, I've talked
with people who said,
00:33:39.15\00:33:41.22
I was lukewarm in
my walk with the Lord,
00:33:41.25\00:33:44.99
until I was diagnosed
with stage four cancer,
00:33:45.02\00:33:48.56
and it brought
me back to the Lord.
00:33:48.59\00:33:51.93
So, you know, there
was a spiritual healing.
00:33:51.96\00:33:55.33
But, you know, here when David
was in an emotional tailspin,
00:33:55.36\00:34:02.47
what did he do?
00:34:02.50\00:34:03.84
And this is
something that I found
00:34:03.87\00:34:05.54
over the past five
months and I'll just be honest,
00:34:05.57\00:34:08.54
there's been a deterioration
in the amount of time
00:34:08.58\00:34:12.58
as I've been repeatedly
sick one thing after another.
00:34:12.61\00:34:16.22
A deterioration
in the amount of time
00:34:16.25\00:34:18.15
I spend in the
word or in prayer.
00:34:18.19\00:34:20.46
And I cannot pray,
00:34:20.49\00:34:21.82
I have a hard time
praying for myself,
00:34:21.86\00:34:23.19
don't ask me why, but I do.
00:34:23.22\00:34:25.16
So what I do if I start feeling,
00:34:25.19\00:34:29.00
do you ever feel
sorry for yourself?
00:34:29.03\00:34:31.73
Every now and then
I'll tell JD, he comes home
00:34:31.77\00:34:34.04
and I don't have
anybody else I can tell,
00:34:34.07\00:34:35.64
so I'll tell him and I
say, "Oh, honey, I'm whining."
00:34:35.67\00:34:38.91
And he says, "No,
you're not whining."
00:34:38.94\00:34:40.94
But this verse
reminds me what David did,
00:34:40.98\00:34:47.82
was he looked to
the problem solver.
00:34:47.85\00:34:51.15
He is in a tailspin
emotionally and he just says,
00:34:51.19\00:34:54.32
"Oh, bless the Lord O my soul."
00:34:54.36\00:34:56.32
It's almost like a force thing.
00:34:56.36\00:34:58.29
"Let me bless him and not forget
00:34:58.33\00:35:00.20
all of his benefits,
help me to remember who he is,
00:35:00.23\00:35:05.00
the one who
forgives all my inequities,
00:35:05.03\00:35:07.14
the one who heals my diseases.
00:35:07.17\00:35:10.11
And, you know, I'm
thinking how God heals
00:35:10.14\00:35:13.68
the deadly plague of sin here.
00:35:13.71\00:35:16.34
But what happens
when I get to that point
00:35:16.38\00:35:19.71
where I'm
feeling that wishy-washy,
00:35:19.75\00:35:23.65
I start praying for others
and then I start thanking God
00:35:23.69\00:35:28.02
and JD, you
know, heard me do this
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.09
night after night
that I can be in pain,
00:35:31.13\00:35:34.33
I can be majorly
sick even in the hospital,
00:35:34.36\00:35:36.80
I'm thanking God for
my general good health.
00:35:36.83\00:35:38.73
Amen.
00:35:38.77\00:35:40.10
I don't have cancer, I mean,
she is the healthiest person
00:35:40.14\00:35:42.67
I know other than her cancer.
00:35:42.70\00:35:45.47
Right now I'm going
through a lot of illness,
00:35:45.51\00:35:47.94
but I don't have cancer.
00:35:47.98\00:35:49.54
So there's always these things,
you know, when we look to God,
00:35:49.58\00:35:53.01
I think that, for me anyway,
it helps me to pray for others
00:35:53.05\00:35:58.95
and it certainly makes you
more empathetic in your prayer.
00:35:58.99\00:36:03.66
But it helps us to
focus on God's great benefits,
00:36:03.69\00:36:08.83
don't you think?
00:36:08.86\00:36:10.20
Amen. Amen.
00:36:10.23\00:36:11.57
Okay, JD.
00:36:11.60\00:36:13.60
Oh, my goodness, you know,
00:36:13.64\00:36:15.50
this is something that
I don't ever talk about
00:36:15.54\00:36:17.54
because I'm one of these
type of people that probably,
00:36:17.57\00:36:21.51
I'm very good at
burying my head in the sand
00:36:21.54\00:36:24.08
when it comes to
some of the issues
00:36:24.11\00:36:25.55
that I've had health wise.
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.45
I've got a unique situation
in my body called septicemia.
00:36:27.48\00:36:31.22
And according to the
infectious disease specialist,
00:36:31.25\00:36:35.52
they say that I've
got a bug someplace
00:36:35.56\00:36:38.06
that harbors itself,
00:36:38.09\00:36:39.76
and when it feels like
it wants to get excited,
00:36:39.79\00:36:42.53
well, then it find some place
00:36:42.56\00:36:44.03
and my life
changes dramatically.
00:36:44.07\00:36:46.74
And I've gone through
this five or six times
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.20
but I remember, it
started off in 1989,
00:36:49.24\00:36:51.61
we've been married
for a couple of years
00:36:51.64\00:36:53.17
and very active
and just that fast
00:36:53.21\00:36:58.55
I found myself in the
hospital, and my left knee
00:36:58.58\00:37:02.72
it got probably on exaggerating.
00:37:02.75\00:37:04.99
Not much.
00:37:05.02\00:37:06.35
But, you know, just looks like
00:37:06.39\00:37:07.72
a big old watermelon down there.
00:37:07.76\00:37:10.49
And I had no idea, I mean,
as it turns out with septicemia
00:37:10.53\00:37:15.53
it shuts your organs down.
00:37:15.56\00:37:18.33
And so my organs
started shutting down.
00:37:18.37\00:37:20.20
Poor little
Shelley, bless her heart,
00:37:20.24\00:37:22.57
she has the ability to
face reality more than I do.
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.97
I mean, I just like a
goose every morning, you know,
00:37:26.01\00:37:29.24
on water, you know, I
mean, I'm just happy to be here.
00:37:29.28\00:37:32.28
And, but Shelley,
00:37:32.31\00:37:33.65
she was
listening to the doctors,
00:37:33.68\00:37:35.02
"This boy could die."
00:37:35.05\00:37:38.39
And Shelley was praying
00:37:38.42\00:37:40.16
'cause she's
such a praying lady.
00:37:40.19\00:37:42.39
And it gets kind
of complicated here
00:37:42.42\00:37:45.99
because I'm gonna let
you tell the end of the story
00:37:46.03\00:37:49.93
but the scripture that
I have is Psalms 107:20,
00:37:49.96\00:37:55.54
"He sent forth His word."
00:37:55.57\00:37:57.61
That's with the capital H.
00:37:57.64\00:37:58.97
"His word and heals them..."
00:37:59.01\00:38:02.08
Wow, thank you, Jesus.
00:38:02.11\00:38:06.01
I go through this
and then miraculously
00:38:06.05\00:38:10.85
and I'll let
Shelley fill the end of it,
00:38:10.89\00:38:12.69
I was healed.
00:38:12.72\00:38:16.39
Then I was reading
the scripture right here,
00:38:16.42\00:38:20.53
Isaiah 46:4 and it
just caught my attention.
00:38:20.56\00:38:26.94
Isaiah 46:4
because you'll catch this,
00:38:26.97\00:38:31.94
you'll catch on,
00:38:31.97\00:38:33.31
"Even to your old age
and gray hairs I am He,
00:38:33.34\00:38:38.65
I am He who will sustain you.
00:38:38.68\00:38:42.28
I have made you
and I will care you,
00:38:42.32\00:38:44.92
I will sustain you,
and I will rescue you."
00:38:44.95\00:38:48.92
So here comes this
bug again 20 years later
00:38:48.96\00:38:53.13
walking across the parking
lot, we're going to ministry,
00:38:53.16\00:38:57.60
that fast, it's just amazing,
the little bug jumps out there
00:38:57.63\00:39:02.10
and my knee once again
is this big, that fast.
00:39:02.14\00:39:06.94
And so they rushed me to my room
00:39:06.98\00:39:09.48
'cause I'm thinking
well I just feel faint.
00:39:09.51\00:39:12.38
And thank you,
Jesus, that there was an RN
00:39:12.41\00:39:15.65
at the church and
she came and said,
00:39:15.68\00:39:18.75
"We got to get this guy
in the hospital quickly."
00:39:18.79\00:39:21.09
Here once again everything
shuts down and you nearly die.
00:39:21.12\00:39:25.86
"But He sends forth His
word and He heals them."
00:39:25.89\00:39:29.83
Two separate times here,
00:39:29.86\00:39:31.80
whenever you
didn't have gray hair,
00:39:31.83\00:39:33.90
here when you
did have gray hair.
00:39:33.94\00:39:36.30
I don't know how that all works,
00:39:36.34\00:39:37.81
but I do know that
00:39:37.84\00:39:39.17
He is the same
yesterday as He is today,
00:39:39.21\00:39:42.04
and so He came to assist me.
00:39:42.08\00:39:47.25
And it tells us
in Psalms 107:20,
00:39:47.28\00:39:51.75
"He sends forth His word..."
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.12
But listen to this,
I want to read this,
00:39:53.15\00:39:54.92
this is just
fantastic, "He sent His word
00:39:54.96\00:39:57.49
and He healed
them and delivered them
00:39:57.53\00:39:59.73
from their destruction."
00:39:59.76\00:40:01.16
We got both physical,
we got spiritual, okay.
00:40:01.20\00:40:03.83
Amen.
00:40:03.87\00:40:05.20
And then He goes back
00:40:05.23\00:40:06.57
and He says now look at verse 6,
00:40:06.60\00:40:07.94
look at verse
13, look at verse 19,
00:40:07.97\00:40:10.44
look at verse 20.
00:40:10.47\00:40:12.64
And they all say the same
thing and when they cried out
00:40:12.67\00:40:15.88
to the Lord in their
trouble, He delivered them.
00:40:15.91\00:40:21.58
So there is the
word for us whenever,
00:40:21.62\00:40:25.32
"Jesus help me."
00:40:25.35\00:40:26.99
He is there to assist us.
00:40:27.02\00:40:29.16
And then the part B is
in verse 8, 15, 21, and 31
00:40:29.19\00:40:33.80
it says, "Oh, that man
would give many thanks."
00:40:33.83\00:40:36.40
This is Him to us.
00:40:36.43\00:40:38.13
"Thank you, Jesus.
00:40:38.17\00:40:39.77
Thank you, JD,
that you're sitting here
00:40:39.80\00:40:41.97
and thanking me for
being there to assist you."
00:40:42.00\00:40:45.27
Amen.
00:40:45.31\00:40:46.74
So it's Psalms 107,
00:40:46.78\00:40:50.61
if you are having
issues in your life,
00:40:50.65\00:40:54.02
this is a fantastic,
it's everything wrapped up
00:40:54.05\00:40:57.35
into one in this
particular scripture right here.
00:40:57.39\00:41:00.72
Amen, and amen.
00:41:00.76\00:41:02.09
Amen. Amen.
00:41:02.12\00:41:03.46
You know, when JD,
this first instance
00:41:03.49\00:41:06.53
they sent him home,
the doctors kept telling me
00:41:06.56\00:41:09.60
he could die, he
could die, he could die.
00:41:09.63\00:41:11.63
Well, he was to the point
where he's wanting to make out
00:41:11.67\00:41:14.44
his will everything,
he knew he was dying.
00:41:14.47\00:41:17.11
And so I talked with
the doctors and I said,
00:41:17.14\00:41:19.54
can't you teach me
00:41:19.57\00:41:21.14
how to give him
his IVs and stuff?
00:41:21.18\00:41:23.24
Can I bring him home?
00:41:23.28\00:41:24.61
'Cause I knew he
needed to be out of there
00:41:24.65\00:41:25.98
'cause he was
giving up the will to live.
00:41:26.01\00:41:28.85
So when he got home,
00:41:28.88\00:41:31.12
he kept going
down, down they did a...
00:41:31.15\00:41:35.82
What you call when
they punch into your spine.
00:41:35.86\00:41:39.29
Yes, for the bone
marrow because his haematocrit
00:41:39.33\00:41:43.43
was dropping,
dropping, dropping,
00:41:43.47\00:41:44.90
that's the volume
of your red blood cells
00:41:44.93\00:41:47.67
to the volume of blood.
00:41:47.70\00:41:49.50
And they get him home
and the nurse came out
00:41:49.54\00:41:52.74
and his haematocrit was
all the way down to a 2,
00:41:52.77\00:41:56.48
normally it should be 46 to 54.
00:41:56.51\00:41:59.65
So they're saying acute leukemia
00:41:59.68\00:42:02.55
is what they're now saying.
00:42:02.58\00:42:04.32
Well, that night,
this was on a Wednesday
00:42:04.35\00:42:07.69
that this happened.
00:42:07.72\00:42:09.42
That night I
remember, James 5 where it said,
00:42:09.46\00:42:12.39
"Are there any men
among you who are sick
00:42:12.43\00:42:15.23
then call the
elders, have them come out,
00:42:15.26\00:42:18.53
anoint them, the prayer of faith
00:42:18.57\00:42:20.54
will raise them up."
00:42:20.57\00:42:22.54
So I called the
elders, I called a church
00:42:22.57\00:42:25.71
and I said,
"Can y'all come out."
00:42:25.74\00:42:27.08
And they said, "Sure,
we'll come out tomorrow night."
00:42:27.11\00:42:28.64
I said, "Nope, it
got to be tonight."
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.91
So they came and
they prayed, I mean,
00:42:30.95\00:42:36.28
we prayed but
then when it was over,
00:42:36.32\00:42:41.02
everybody is just kind of
talking about the weather,
00:42:41.06\00:42:44.29
about golf or something.
00:42:44.33\00:42:46.26
And I'm sitting there thinking,
"What's wrong with you people?
00:42:46.29\00:42:48.93
God's just healed my husband."
00:42:48.96\00:42:50.43
I just knew he had,
and I didn't say that,
00:42:50.47\00:42:53.37
but that's what I'm thinking is
what's wrong with these people.
00:42:53.40\00:42:56.60
You know, it's just
like, "Oh, we prayed, now,
00:42:56.64\00:42:58.37
we'll just have,
whatever, chit chat."
00:42:58.41\00:43:01.08
The next morning I
called the doctor's office
00:43:01.11\00:43:03.91
and I said, "I'd like to
have the blood test rerun."
00:43:03.95\00:43:07.52
They called back and
said, "He won't do it
00:43:07.55\00:43:09.28
because your
insurance won't cover it,
00:43:09.32\00:43:10.85
he just did it yesterday."
00:43:10.89\00:43:12.22
I said, "I don't care
if the insurance covers it,
00:43:12.25\00:43:13.99
I need the blood to be rerun."
00:43:14.02\00:43:16.02
And it took hours,
they finally sent out
00:43:16.06\00:43:18.69
the home health
nurse to redo the blood.
00:43:18.73\00:43:22.13
I get the call from the doctor
that night, he never called.
00:43:22.16\00:43:26.50
He calls about 6
o'clock and he said,
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.67
"Mrs. Quinn, I'm going to have
00:43:29.70\00:43:31.87
the home health
nurse come out on Friday."
00:43:31.91\00:43:35.51
Because he said, "I
need to rerun this."
00:43:35.54\00:43:38.88
'Cause I kept saying,
"Did you get the results?
00:43:38.91\00:43:40.38
Did you get the results?"
00:43:40.42\00:43:41.75
He said, "Well, I'm sending
00:43:41.78\00:43:43.12
the nurse out tomorrow to redo."
00:43:43.15\00:43:44.49
And I said, "It
was normal, wasn't it?"
00:43:44.52\00:43:47.36
And he said, he was ignoring me
00:43:47.39\00:43:49.72
and finally in a
frustration this doctor says,
00:43:49.76\00:43:52.83
"Yes, it was absolutely normal.
00:43:52.86\00:43:55.30
And he said it is
medically impossible
00:43:55.33\00:43:58.20
to go from a haematocrit
of 2 to a haematocrit of 50s
00:43:58.23\00:44:01.97
whatever it was."
00:44:02.00\00:44:03.34
He said, "It is impossible."
00:44:03.37\00:44:04.91
And I said, "All
things are possible with God."
00:44:04.94\00:44:07.81
And I knew God had
miraculously healed him.
00:44:07.84\00:44:10.41
Amen.
00:44:10.45\00:44:11.78
Now he's had the same
condition five other times
00:44:11.81\00:44:16.25
where he's been at
the point of death,
00:44:16.28\00:44:18.15
and like you said earlier,
00:44:18.19\00:44:19.55
God didn't
miraculously healed him,
00:44:19.59\00:44:22.26
but He's walked him through.
00:44:22.29\00:44:25.03
But this one took a miracle
because of the haematocrit.
00:44:25.06\00:44:30.20
And even a greater
miracle and this just shows you
00:44:30.23\00:44:32.63
the power of God and how much
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.00
He loves each
one of His children.
00:44:34.04\00:44:37.57
I mean, my walk with
the Lord in 1989 fair,
00:44:37.61\00:44:42.21
I believed in
Jesus, believed in God,
00:44:42.24\00:44:44.85
didn't know what He could...
00:44:44.88\00:44:46.21
I mean, I went
through the motions,
00:44:46.25\00:44:49.62
but 20 years later 2009,
00:44:49.65\00:44:54.39
we went from just a
healthy healing in 1989
00:44:54.42\00:45:00.16
to a spiritual healing in 2009
00:45:00.20\00:45:05.40
because by then I
came here in 2005,
00:45:05.43\00:45:09.10
my life changed
because I learned who Jesus is,
00:45:09.14\00:45:14.18
not who He was, who He is.
00:45:14.21\00:45:16.44
And I was so close to
God, I remember here again,
00:45:16.48\00:45:21.12
you know, "I'm okay, Shelley,
00:45:21.15\00:45:22.88
I'm as close to the
Lord as I'll ever be.
00:45:22.92\00:45:24.79
Thank you, Jesus, I do believe
00:45:24.82\00:45:26.45
in the first
resurrection and so be it."
00:45:26.49\00:45:29.99
I mean, that's where I was.
00:45:30.03\00:45:31.46
So it's by His
love for His children.
00:45:31.49\00:45:34.86
Yeah.
00:45:34.90\00:45:36.23
I mean, I got to experience
both healing physically
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.93
and thank you,
Jesus, because He gave me
00:45:39.97\00:45:42.94
that extra time
to find out who He is
00:45:42.97\00:45:46.61
that opened up a
door for me spiritually.
00:45:46.64\00:45:49.24
Amen.
00:45:49.28\00:45:50.61
Well, I just need to turn
the remaining time over to C.A.
00:45:50.65\00:45:53.42
You've been so quiet.
00:45:53.45\00:45:54.78
C.A. has been through
what six bypasses at one time
00:45:54.82\00:45:59.15
on your heart,
you've had several issues
00:45:59.19\00:46:03.86
with your eyes blind,
00:46:03.89\00:46:05.29
you've been healed
miraculously from that.
00:46:05.33\00:46:08.16
Tell us about your situation
00:46:08.20\00:46:11.10
and share you scripture with us?
00:46:11.13\00:46:13.03
You know, my mindset
has changed several times
00:46:13.07\00:46:16.74
just in what I was gonna say
00:46:16.77\00:46:18.11
just over listening
to all of you speak.
00:46:18.14\00:46:19.74
I've gotten to
the point in my life
00:46:23.65\00:46:24.98
where I don't put God in a box
by any stress of imagination.
00:46:25.01\00:46:30.39
I don't presume to
always know the will of God.
00:46:30.42\00:46:34.92
I certainly don't presume
00:46:34.96\00:46:36.29
to be able to
predict the will of God,
00:46:36.32\00:46:38.56
and I don't
presume to always know
00:46:38.59\00:46:41.86
what God guarantees.
00:46:41.90\00:46:43.73
I'll try to flush that out.
00:46:43.77\00:46:47.67
If you look at Mark
8:24 there is this healing
00:46:47.70\00:46:51.17
that Christ does
where He has a touch of God
00:46:51.21\00:46:54.01
the second time, you
know, the first time He says,
00:46:54.04\00:46:56.11
"What do you see?"
00:46:56.14\00:46:57.48
Well, I see people like trees."
00:46:57.51\00:46:59.11
So Christ touched him again,
then his sight became clear.
00:46:59.15\00:47:02.48
I've wrestled with
that a lot and still I am.
00:47:02.52\00:47:05.89
When you brought
this idea up, I said,
00:47:08.96\00:47:10.69
"Well, here we go again."
00:47:10.73\00:47:12.06
Because I've gone
back to the Tanakh, I mean,
00:47:12.09\00:47:14.76
I've gone to the Mikra,
00:47:14.80\00:47:16.13
I've gone back to
the Jewish writings
00:47:16.16\00:47:17.83
to see if this particular
text which is Isaiah 53,
00:47:17.87\00:47:21.90
is a guarantee of
healing and what does it mean
00:47:21.94\00:47:25.17
when by His
stripes we are healed?
00:47:25.21\00:47:29.61
Because I've heard
people say that is a guarantee
00:47:29.64\00:47:33.25
that when you're sick,
00:47:33.28\00:47:35.22
Christ stripes
guarantee your healing.
00:47:35.25\00:47:37.65
And I've not seen
that anywhere in the Bible
00:47:37.69\00:47:40.02
particularly in the Tanakh.
00:47:40.06\00:47:43.49
Jehovah Rapha from
which we get the word
00:47:43.53\00:47:46.76
by the way
"Rafael" it means God cures,
00:47:46.80\00:47:49.90
it means God
heals, God sets to right,
00:47:49.93\00:47:53.47
God resurrects,
God reestablishes,
00:47:53.50\00:47:56.44
there's a lot of
shades of meaning
00:47:56.47\00:47:58.37
but they all mean
God takes what is bad
00:47:58.41\00:48:01.04
and makes it better.
00:48:01.08\00:48:02.41
Amen.
00:48:02.44\00:48:03.78
You know, and that's a
guarantee that we have.
00:48:03.81\00:48:06.51
God is still sovereign.
00:48:06.55\00:48:08.38
God can say yes, God can say no,
00:48:08.42\00:48:10.95
God can say wait a while.
00:48:10.99\00:48:14.86
And I don't think
He heals in the face of
00:48:14.89\00:48:17.29
as you mentioned before.
00:48:17.33\00:48:18.79
If someone is doing something
to tear down their body,
00:48:18.83\00:48:21.66
God is under noblesse obligation
00:48:21.70\00:48:23.97
to correct that unto you,
00:48:24.00\00:48:25.87
because you're
working against Him.
00:48:25.90\00:48:27.64
You're a smoker, I cure you,
00:48:27.67\00:48:29.44
then you put more
cigarettes back into body,
00:48:29.47\00:48:31.11
it doesn't make sense.
00:48:31.14\00:48:32.74
So a number of things come up.
00:48:32.77\00:48:35.31
In 1890, I think it was,
they shipped Ellen White off
00:48:35.34\00:48:40.28
to Australia, long trip
00:48:40.32\00:48:43.72
and she didn't really
feel the Lord was sending her
00:48:43.75\00:48:45.99
or that the
brethren was sending her
00:48:46.02\00:48:47.36
because they wanted to
get her out of United States.
00:48:47.39\00:48:49.89
She said not only was
that a long boat trip,
00:48:49.92\00:48:52.69
it was just incredible,
you're going to Australia.
00:48:52.73\00:48:54.30
You know, how
long it takes in plane,
00:48:54.33\00:48:55.96
it's almost 30 hours
on a plane by boat months.
00:48:56.00\00:48:59.77
And she said,
"When I got to Australia,
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.64
I had the worst
suffering of my life.
00:49:01.67\00:49:04.67
I'm in a place that
is very alien to me,
00:49:04.71\00:49:07.04
I don't know why I'm here,
00:49:07.08\00:49:08.78
I have no call
from God to be here,
00:49:08.81\00:49:10.55
and I'm suffering like
I've never suffered before."
00:49:10.58\00:49:14.02
And she says, "To this
day, I price those days
00:49:14.05\00:49:17.12
because they drove me
into the arms of Jesus.
00:49:17.15\00:49:19.79
I was never closer to God
than I was during those months
00:49:19.82\00:49:22.76
when I suffer to the point
where the only thing on my body
00:49:22.79\00:49:25.46
that would move
would be my fingers,
00:49:25.49\00:49:27.40
nothing else would
move, couldn't move my neck,
00:49:27.43\00:49:29.46
couldn't move my legs,
couldn't move anything,
00:49:29.50\00:49:32.50
intense suffering and
yet it drove me to Jesus.
00:49:32.53\00:49:34.97
And so I price those times."
00:49:35.00\00:49:36.74
Well, protracted pain
like that can do things to you,
00:49:36.77\00:49:40.48
it can drive you to
Jesus, it can kind of make you
00:49:40.51\00:49:42.94
doubt Jesus sometimes.
00:49:42.98\00:49:44.31
It can make you doubt yourself.
00:49:44.35\00:49:45.68
It can make you doubt whether
you hear the voice of the Lord
00:49:45.71\00:49:48.52
or whether that
God is hearing you,
00:49:48.55\00:49:49.92
it can do those
kinds of things to you.
00:49:49.95\00:49:51.89
But ultimately,
she says, you know,
00:49:51.92\00:49:53.46
when you're in
that kind of pain,
00:49:53.49\00:49:54.82
don't try to feel,
00:49:54.86\00:49:56.79
just remember
that God loved you,
00:49:56.83\00:49:59.86
remember the days
00:49:59.89\00:50:01.23
when you were sure He loved you,
00:50:01.26\00:50:02.60
and repair back to those.
00:50:02.63\00:50:03.97
Don't try to feel
your way through it.
00:50:04.00\00:50:05.33
"You know, I don't
feel like I'm close to God."
00:50:05.37\00:50:06.77
Well, forget
your feelings. Amen.
00:50:06.80\00:50:09.40
Go by the Word of God. Amen.
00:50:09.44\00:50:11.14
And Word of God says,
He loves you, in your pain,
00:50:11.17\00:50:13.91
in your sorrow He
loves you nonetheless
00:50:13.94\00:50:15.94
because
you're... And your sorrow,
00:50:15.98\00:50:17.38
your pain is not
commentary on your relationship.
00:50:17.41\00:50:20.42
It is simply you're
going through some stuff now.
00:50:20.45\00:50:22.78
And God is pleased not to
00:50:22.82\00:50:24.45
miraculously
deliver you from it,
00:50:24.49\00:50:26.45
He wants you to go through it.
00:50:26.49\00:50:27.92
And if He takes you through it,
one, you'll know why, and two,
00:50:27.96\00:50:32.63
it will have a purpose,
and it will have an end.
00:50:32.66\00:50:35.36
The devil likes
to make you suffer
00:50:35.40\00:50:36.87
just to see you squirm.
00:50:36.90\00:50:38.73
God doesn't do that.
00:50:38.77\00:50:40.44
If God is allowing it,
there's a purpose to it
00:50:40.47\00:50:43.20
and praise God there's an end.
00:50:43.24\00:50:44.64
And if you hold on to the Lord,
00:50:44.67\00:50:46.17
one, you'll see what
the purpose was, and two,
00:50:46.21\00:50:48.54
at the end you'll be better
than it was when you began.
00:50:48.58\00:50:50.98
So every time
this thing hits you,
00:50:51.01\00:50:53.11
you're stronger in a Lord.
00:50:53.15\00:50:54.55
If you look at the first time
He hit you, the second time,
00:50:54.58\00:50:56.99
and if He hits you
now, your whole response
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.06
is different because
you got a better hold on God
00:51:00.09\00:51:01.86
than you did earlier, you know.
00:51:01.89\00:51:03.22
Amen.
00:51:03.26\00:51:04.59
So there's a
purpose and there is an end.
00:51:04.63\00:51:07.80
Oh, there's just
so much to talk about.
00:51:07.83\00:51:11.07
I have had a
dozen eye operations,
00:51:11.10\00:51:13.74
I went blind at
eight, I went to first grade
00:51:13.77\00:51:17.44
in regular school, lost my sight
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.18
in the middle of the year,
00:51:20.21\00:51:21.54
and had to
restart first grade again
00:51:21.58\00:51:22.91
in blind school,
the Braille thing,
00:51:22.94\00:51:24.58
the whole deal, and
I hated being blind.
00:51:24.61\00:51:28.15
But I liked it because
00:51:28.18\00:51:30.05
this is what I found
out about being blind.
00:51:30.09\00:51:31.49
And God does
such wonderful things.
00:51:31.52\00:51:34.96
When you lose one major faculty,
00:51:34.99\00:51:40.03
God enhances the other ones.
00:51:40.06\00:51:43.50
Blind kids get to
a level of closeness
00:51:43.53\00:51:47.57
that I've never had
with a sighted person
00:51:47.60\00:51:49.57
because they cannot see,
00:51:49.60\00:51:51.11
so they're very, very
dependent upon each other.
00:51:51.14\00:51:54.11
And there's a little
thing when you're blind,
00:51:54.14\00:51:56.54
if you're really
close to a person,
00:51:56.58\00:51:58.38
you let them touch your
face when you're really close
00:51:58.41\00:52:01.22
that means you're
really, really buddies.
00:52:01.25\00:52:04.05
Normally you hold
here when you're escorting
00:52:04.09\00:52:07.22
a blind person, you grab arms,
and you feel you were together,
00:52:07.26\00:52:10.23
but when you really feel close,
00:52:10.26\00:52:11.59
you let them touch
your face, you know.
00:52:11.63\00:52:13.90
And I've often thought
about that when I get to heaven
00:52:13.93\00:52:16.56
I want to touch Jesus' face.
00:52:16.60\00:52:17.97
Amen.
00:52:18.00\00:52:19.33
You know, I've learned to
feel a person through the tips
00:52:19.37\00:52:22.14
of my fingers, I
want to close my eyes,
00:52:22.17\00:52:24.14
and I just want
to feel His face.
00:52:24.17\00:52:28.08
And you start up and
you work your way down,
00:52:28.11\00:52:29.61
you go with the eyes,
you go here, and here.
00:52:29.64\00:52:32.05
I want to feel His face,
00:52:32.08\00:52:33.65
that's the
first thing that I do.
00:52:33.68\00:52:35.02
I don't necessarily
have to see Him first.
00:52:35.05\00:52:36.65
I just want to touch Him.
00:52:36.69\00:52:38.02
I want to handle His face
and that's from being blind.
00:52:38.05\00:52:43.53
The other things, God has been
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good to me in that,
00:52:47.86\00:52:53.00
each one of those experiences
has given me a respect
00:52:53.03\00:52:56.60
for pain, and a
respect for sickness,
00:52:56.64\00:53:00.78
and a respect for the God
who can change those things.
00:53:00.81\00:53:03.71
Amen.
00:53:03.75\00:53:05.08
Even when I got, I'm
like you, the doctor said,
00:53:05.11\00:53:08.92
"You know, you
need six bypasses."
00:53:08.95\00:53:13.19
He said, "First
of all most sixes
00:53:13.22\00:53:14.56
don't walk in here,
00:53:14.59\00:53:15.96
and a lot of
them don't walk out."
00:53:15.99\00:53:17.79
And then he said, "You
were the healthiest sick person
00:53:17.83\00:53:20.36
I got on my rotation."
00:53:20.40\00:53:21.73
They took me in an ambulance
to St. Louis, you know.
00:53:21.76\00:53:24.30
And when I got
there, He was reputed to be
00:53:24.33\00:53:28.37
the best one they had, he
had stopped taking patients,
00:53:28.40\00:53:30.84
he said, "For some
reason, I'm gonna take you."
00:53:30.87\00:53:33.68
And he said, "Now I'm
gonna send you home," he said,
00:53:33.71\00:53:35.81
"Because I got some really
sick people in my rotation
00:53:35.84\00:53:38.21
and you ain't one of them."
00:53:38.25\00:53:39.65
He said, "You were the
healthier six bypass guy
00:53:39.68\00:53:42.05
I've ever had, so we're
gonna put you back for two weeks
00:53:42.08\00:53:44.55
'cause I got some
people who need to see me today
00:53:44.59\00:53:46.82
or tomorrow or
they're going to die,
00:53:46.86\00:53:48.52
you're not gonna
die, you're sick,
00:53:48.56\00:53:50.93
but you're the healthiest
sick person on my rotation."
00:53:50.96\00:53:53.33
And we became fast
friends, he brought his son in
00:53:53.36\00:53:55.16
to meet me on
Sabbath and the whole deal.
00:53:55.20\00:53:58.77
So I've been able to
see with the sickness
00:53:58.80\00:54:01.17
the hand of God
in certain things.
00:54:01.20\00:54:03.71
There was a time when
my primary care physician
00:54:03.74\00:54:06.41
was Jewish, my eye doctor
00:54:06.44\00:54:09.11
who when I went
blind the second time,
00:54:09.14\00:54:10.78
I'm doing a meeting,
00:54:10.81\00:54:12.41
getting ready to
preach the Sabbath,
00:54:12.45\00:54:14.48
Saturday night I go to
bed, Sunday morning I wake up,
00:54:14.52\00:54:17.19
I cannot see a thing.
00:54:17.22\00:54:18.72
I've got to call the
next door neighbor and say
00:54:18.75\00:54:21.66
can you come and
take me to the eye doctor
00:54:21.69\00:54:25.16
because I cannot see.
00:54:25.19\00:54:26.93
So I felt my way
through I don't know
00:54:26.96\00:54:28.93
if it was clothes
were matching if my socks,
00:54:28.96\00:54:31.53
if my shoes were matching,
I just put on some clothes.
00:54:31.57\00:54:34.07
And I went to an eye
doctor and the only guy
00:54:34.10\00:54:35.94
who was open on
Sunday was a Jewish guy
00:54:35.97\00:54:37.97
because he's closed on Sabbath
so he became my eye doctor.
00:54:38.01\00:54:41.54
Three operations
there, but we developed
00:54:41.58\00:54:44.15
a good strong relationship,
00:54:44.18\00:54:46.41
many conversations
about the things of the Lord,
00:54:46.45\00:54:50.02
talking about
the Book of Daniel,
00:54:50.05\00:54:51.39
this guy loved
the Book of Daniel
00:54:51.42\00:54:52.75
we were able to do that.
00:54:52.79\00:54:54.12
So I see a pattern of
if you hold on to Jesus
00:54:54.16\00:54:58.83
and keep your focus, God can use
00:54:58.86\00:55:02.63
what is an apparent
defeat into a victory.
00:55:02.66\00:55:07.60
The 2 Corinthians
2:14 now thanks be to God
00:55:07.64\00:55:11.31
who always causes
us to be in triumph
00:55:11.34\00:55:14.84
and through who and
through us He defuses
00:55:14.88\00:55:18.41
the fragrance to
every place that we go
00:55:18.45\00:55:21.65
and above that we
smell like Jesus, you know.
00:55:21.68\00:55:24.85
So triumph is assured
even in the face of pain.
00:55:24.89\00:55:31.19
There does not have
to be defeat that pain,
00:55:31.23\00:55:35.40
that suffering can make
you stronger in the Lord,
00:55:35.43\00:55:38.23
and give you empathy for others
who are suffering in the Lord.
00:55:38.27\00:55:41.90
And I think that's a
very, very important part
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.44
of our walk, empathy for those
00:55:43.47\00:55:45.07
who have to go
through some of these strains.
00:55:45.11\00:55:48.14
Absolutely.
00:55:48.18\00:55:49.61
And you know, even
in the face of death,
00:55:49.64\00:55:51.65
the way I pray as you
said I do believe God can heal.
00:55:51.68\00:55:57.05
We've seen it in
both of our lives,
00:55:57.09\00:55:59.92
we prayed for others,
00:55:59.95\00:56:01.32
I know you all
have prayed for people,
00:56:01.36\00:56:03.09
we've seen healing,
00:56:03.12\00:56:04.46
miraculous
healings, and we've seen then
00:56:04.49\00:56:06.86
just the progressional healing.
00:56:06.90\00:56:09.56
But one thing that we don't know
00:56:09.60\00:56:13.94
what God's purpose is.
00:56:13.97\00:56:15.30
I always pray, "Lord, if
somebody is facing death,"
00:56:15.34\00:56:19.37
I pray, "Father,
please don't let them live
00:56:19.41\00:56:24.05
one day longer
than your perfect will
00:56:24.08\00:56:26.72
or die one day sooner
than your perfect will."
00:56:26.75\00:56:29.85
And, you know, it's interesting
when you watch people
00:56:29.88\00:56:33.25
who are at death
door, it is interesting
00:56:33.29\00:56:37.33
how God may keep them
alive another week or two weeks,
00:56:37.36\00:56:41.36
and you see things
happening in the family,
00:56:41.40\00:56:44.17
timing is amazing.
00:56:44.20\00:56:45.87
And speaking of
timing we're out of it,
00:56:45.90\00:56:48.60
I can't believe it. I
just looked at the clock.
00:56:48.64\00:56:50.77
We're got to say good bye.
00:56:50.81\00:56:53.07
Thank you so much
for spending the Sabbath
00:56:53.11\00:56:56.58
and sharing with us.
00:56:56.61\00:56:57.95
And we just want
to thank you at home
00:56:57.98\00:56:59.81
for sharing
your Sabbath with us.
00:56:59.85\00:57:02.15
And we pray that
00:57:02.18\00:57:04.29
you will prosper in your health,
00:57:04.32\00:57:06.39
and we pray that
the grace of our Lord
00:57:06.42\00:57:08.22
and Savior Jesus
Christ, the love of the Father,
00:57:08.26\00:57:11.63
and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit
00:57:11.66\00:57:14.23
will be with you
throughout this Sabbath
00:57:14.26\00:57:17.27
and every day of your life.
00:57:17.30\00:57:20.74
Remember, to it is the
name of Jesus and the faith
00:57:20.77\00:57:25.84
that comes
through Him that brings us
00:57:25.87\00:57:28.84
complete healing,
physical, emotional, spiritual.
00:57:28.88\00:57:33.52
That's it. God bless.
00:57:33.55\00:57:35.32
Amen. Amen.
00:57:35.35\00:57:37.15