Day 30 (2011)

0:00 - Opening Prayer - Bigger perspective

1:25 - Power and Love Conference - Colorado - healings

➡ 6:00 - We were talking about love - becoming love.

6:10 - Opening prayer - continue to put heaven’s perspective inside us

God's Purpose in Redeeming Us is Bigger than We Thought

7:30 - Understand your purpose - We were created to look like our Father - love - The reason we were created is for God’s image. This keeps me free from offense - from falling into the things of the flesh that people cycle in because truth makes you free. So if I understand in my prayer life and communion why I am here, my life is no longer an experiment.

7:55 - Don't live life as an experiment - Just seeing what works - Look to Jesus for purpose and value - Life as an experiment - trying life, trying to find life as they go - they cycle for years - sometimes they learn and grow - others stay deceived and never grow. You don’t want to learn life as you go. You want to learn life through Jesus because He is life - He’s the way, the truth and the life.

8:20 - Jesus reveals the value and purpose of our life. You find yourself in the Lord.

8:30 - Be rooted and grounded in God's love - Then live from God's love - The Bible says to be rooted and grounded in love. So that every place we live from comes from love. Because we were created in God’s image and God is love.

8:45 - The fall made us self-centered, self-conscious, needy for love - But what we need, we find in Him - The fall of man brought a lot of insecurity, self-centeredness and self-consciousness on the earth.The fall of man made us self-centered, self-desiring, self-justifying, self-protecting, self-sufficient. And none of us are doing too well in that arena. There is really not fullness in that place. You always need people to do the right things, say the right things or you are let down, frustrated, mad. You go from happy to sad - a roller coaster ride. The purpose of our life is found in His image in the good times and the hard times.

9:25 - Understanding who you are and why helps you through the hard times - The hard times is where the test is. When things aren’t going the way you desire you really can’t lose sight of why you are here. You’ll turn inward if you don’t understand. If you lose sight of who you are and why you are here, you will start justifying the flesh - justifying certain feelings and you won’t find the grace and strength in Christ to keep living for the right purpose.

10:00 - Difficult relationships - Being in a relationship where someone doesn’t line up can take a toll and give you reasons… “Well, how would you feel if you had been in this thing 15 years...” The next thing you know that one phrase can sell you cheap. You can let that one person who refuses to shift become your identity. And you don’t realize what’s happening.

10:25 - Hold onto identity and purpose during hard times - So you really can’t lose sight of who you are and why. We are on the earth to be found in God’s image. The reason we are born again is not to go to heaven, it’s to get heaven back inside of us, to get restored back to the Father and the Father inside of us. We are one with Him. So that His image is restored in our life. So that we can bear witness to His name in the face of life. That's why we're Christians.

10:55 - Christianity is not just about God pampering us and taking us to heaven one day - Most of us didn’t grow up that way. Most of us heard Christianity taught that it was all for our sake - about God pampering us - taking care of us - giving us provision and taking us to heaven one day. And we are not really changed because we are singing songs, “Why would you love me? I really can’t understand this mysterious love. It’s amazing you even consider me.” Because we think we’re such losers. We see ourselves for the way we have been. God’s love is a mystery songs.

God Set Man Over the Works of His Hands

11:40 - Hebrews 2 - Hebrews helps us understand who we are and why we are here - He’s talking in Hebrews 1 about Jesus being the expressed image of God and that Jesus is a Son begotten by God. He rules His kingdom with a scepter of righteousness. Hebrews 1 is full of identity and purpose - foundational truth. That His angels are ministering spirits. He’s talking about God’s purpose in sending the Son, angelic spirits ministering to the heirs of salvation. He’s showing you how important you are to this whole mix.

13:30 - 1:13 - But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? - Sit at my right hand - God is intense about this. He has a plan and a purpose and we are the subjects of the salvation He is talking about. It’s all directed toward the redemption of our lives. And heaven is involved in this.

13:50 - v.1 - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. -

Stay diligent - Therefore / because this is true… Let’s pay especially close attention to what we have heard lest they drift away. Stay diligent in this truth because life, feelings will sneak up on you. People will say the wrong things and it will give you the right to be the wrong way unless you take earnest heed of the things you have heard.

14:35 - We don’t just want to know about God, we want to know Him.

14:45 - v.2-3 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; - How shall we escape if we neglect a salvation so great? In other words, there’s no other answer, no other escape, freedom or truth. He makes it narrow - He’s THE way, not A way. He’s not just a good choice. So we’ve heard this salvation and it’s great - It makes sense so I am going to continue in it.

15:20 - v.4 - God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? -

15:30 - v.5-7 - For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: -

Mankind is very important to God - We are not God but we are the sons of God. That is not blasphemous. When the Pharisees were so mad a Jesus because He called Himself the Son of God, Jesus pointed them to the scripture - Doesn’t the scripture say that you are gods - from God - having His DNA. New age is making yourself a god. We’re in God and God is in us.

16:50 - You CROWNED him with glory and honor.

16:55 - v.8 - Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. -

17:05 - He set us over the works of His hands - That’s incredible. We cry out to God in fear, despair. And He says, “Hey, you don’t know who you are.” He’s trying to tell us who we are right here. This was His plan. He put all things in subjection under our feet. There’s a place for us to have boldness and courage and believe and understand the will of God. That’s why we need our minds renewed through the gospel. That’s why we need to be not conformed to the world. We lived in our senses and in our flesh our whole life. And unfortunately after we embrace a Christian confession, we stay that way a lot of times and don’t understand the truth. And we continue in fear, worry and continue to let life, face value, continue to be our reality.

18:00 - He crowns us - But here is God, in His word, saying, You have made him a little lower than angels and crowned him with glory and honor.

18:05 - Glory and honor - How does He crown us with glory and honor? - He forgave us of everything we’ve done when we repent...

18:10 - Gospel in a nutshell - We were created for God's image - When we understand that that we were created to be sons and we say, “Wait a minute, I’ve put life in my own hands. I’ve lived by my own will, my own desire at the cost of whatever. I’ve been very self-driven. I’ve been very self-minded. I wasn’t created for myself. Wow, I see that I was created for God’s image. Jesus modeled a life I was created to live. He said, ‘Follow Me.’ So I repent - I change my mind - and I give my life back to Jesus. So God comes into me.

18:35 - Glory and honor - How does He crown you with glory and honor? By first showing you the time of day. God almighty just considering you. “I know you. I love you. Let me show you the truth about your life.” And He comes through His Son.

19:15 - The other way He crowns us - He fills us with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. He shows that we are His home - the desired place that He wants to dwell. He could live anywhere and He wants to live in you. You are a house fit for a King. That’s God’s idea of a home - you.

19:40 - He told us to subdue - You set him over the works of your hands - If we could just get out of worry and fear and just camp in this and understand that God gave us authority and told us to subdue the works of His hands...

19:50 - v.8 - He put all things in subjection under man’s feet - through the name and authority of Jesus Christ. Not because you are a hotshot but because Jesus is Lord. He really doesn’t want us afraid. He wants us with courage.

20:05 - We pray because we are in crisis - But He doesn't want us afraid - The crisis is driving our prayers. We really don’t understand the power and authority of Jesus’ name. We’re still trying to figure out God’s will. We’re still perplexed. We’re still trying the gospel hoping it works.

21:00 - Under our feet. Is that true? Is the word of God true? Is that for us to believe? Camp here until it becomes your reality. It’s one thing to preach it but a different thing to know it and live it. When you know it and live it, that’s where fear / worry is crushed. That’s when the confidence of the finished work of Christ begins to live through your life.

22:30 - Even physical death will be swallowed up -This next verse is what I wanted you to see. He’s talking about death in the sense of physical, natural death. Even in time that will be swallowed up. Incorruptible body.

23:00 - But this has way bigger meaning than just death...

We Don't See Everything Subjected Yet... but We're Growing in Him

23:15 - We don't see it all in subjection yet - He left nothing that is not put under him - But now we do not yet see all things put under him. Who has seen the answers to all of their prayers? Who has seen everything go the way the Bible says it’s supposed to? But yet it says all things are placed in subjection under our feet - that we are in authority over the works of His hands.

23:55 - v.9 - But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. -

When things don't seem to be in subjection keep your eyes on Jesus - He is the truth and we are growing in Him - But we see Jesus - Where do you fix your eyes when you don’t see thing yet in subjection to what you believe you have authority in? Where do you have to keep looking? What do we tend to do when things don’t make sense? Come up with explanations for our experience - create theory. The Bible says, when things aren’t in subjection, you better keep your eyes on Jesus. Because He is the truth and we are growing in Him. And if we come up with an explanation apart from Him you’re definitely going to create a ceiling. This is talking about increasing in growth and keeping your heart in a good place.

24:40 - We are growing in the expression of authority and love - What did He say in Luke - I give you authority over... all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you. Sometimes it seems like we are harmed. Sometimes it seems like things don’t submit. But the Bible is teaching us that there is a place to grow in authority, in love and in understanding to where we can move in the subduing of all things. One day we are going to realize that this was the truth the whole time. Get to the place where if things aren’t in subjection we see Jesus. That's where authority / anointing is going to increase.

26:00 - Granddaughter visits New Life for Girls - granddaughter prays for the sick.

35:20 - Be steadfast in believing - Even when your mind can't cope with what is happening - It shows that we have this kind of authority in Jesus name. Sometimes healings happen quickly. Other times things don’t seem to be happening and our minds go bonkers. We struggle so much. I’m just learning not to let my mind go bonkers. Just continue to believe and call on the name of the Lord and not budge.

36:00 - I'm doing my best. I'm going after God. And I'm not changing my mind. Stay that simple. Contending.

36:25 - “How come I didn’t get healed.” Faith is not a point in time. Faith is the position of your heart to receive from God. It is His will. “Well, how come they got it so quick?” Stop. You’ve got God and your own value in court. Questions are on the wrong track. You’re taking it personally. Get back in the good fight of faith. Most of the time prayers are driven by need.

37:25 - Walgreens manager healed of carpal tunnel - wrist brace. Surgery on Friday. One problem, I don’t believe. You're freaking me out. No numbness.

41:10 - Don’t be thrown by situations that don’t fit a cookie cutter pattern - “One problem, I don’t believe,” and you think that’s a problem. What if it’s not a problem?

41:00 - Paradox - some unbelievers healed on the spot v. believers not seeing the thing change. It drives our minds crazy.

41:10 - Pray from a place of security, identity, rooted and grounded in His love - Faith works through love - Sometimes we are praying because we are believers in the sense that we’ve been taught and we know what the Bible says and we are trying to get it. Faith works through love and relationship. There is a place to pray from, like Jesus - Rooted and grounded - Understanding who we are in the Father - No identity crisis, no insecurity, no fear, no worry. Do you think Jesus had that stuff going on (in His head)? And He said, “Follow Me,” didn’t He?

41:45 - We’ve got to be real careful now that the book is already written, that we are still writing.

42:00 - He put ALL things in subjection under our feet… We do not yet see everything under our feet. - That’s been my experience. I see all sorts of things move out of the way. And then every now and then something will sit there and say, “What-ever. I’m not moving.”

➡ 42:30 - We’re not going to get into that stuff (healing) right now, I’ve got some things I need to finish up. We’ll hit healing really hard later in the school.

42:50 - We see God through Jesus - But we see Jesus. Who is perfect theology - perfect belief system? Remember, “No one has seen God at any time… the only begotten who is in the bosom of the Father has declared Him to us.” We have not seen God until Christ has come. We have not seen God except through the life of Christ and He has declared Him to us.

➡ 43:30 - We need to be established in the love of God and the will of God to heal - What I just preached (Heb 2) there is never going to be fulfilled unless we are rooted and grounded in love (1 John 2) and settling in our heart the will of God and the love of God.

44:00 - We are still trying to figure out the will of God - Look to His word, not your experience - Some of us are still trying to find the will of God through life - through the way things happen and unfold. The biggest mistake the church has made concerning God’s will in healing - to find God as we go - to define God as we go. To take our outcome and determine God’s will through our outcome when God’s will is determined through the life of Jesus and what was already revealed through His word. We keep writing the book on God based on how life is and is not going.

44:45 - Video of people sharing the how God ordained the losses of loved ones and how it is all going to work out. It was disarming them and taking their armor off. Anti-finished work of Christ. Anti-all things under our feet. Anti-subdue. The enemy plays on sentiments. We are trying to find comfort and giving up power. God ordained it. Who am I to question God. We’ll find grace in the death and learn through this and become better people because He alone is God.

48:00 - Sometimes people are offended when you suggest praying for their loved one. Ohio. It’s all the working of God’s plan. Why pray? And your feelings and emotions will agree. A seductive (demonic) mindset. When you bring up, “How can you see love in this?” They respond - Eternal life.

50:15 - Never give up your sword and shield - All things are to be in subjection - Any theology that takes away your sword and your shield can’t be from God. He gave you both. He told you to stand and always use them. It can’t be from Jesus. That’s a good measuring stick.

50:50 - All things are in subjection under man’s feet. He gave us dominion over the works of His hands. If we embrace this other thinking there is no need for sword and shield. Whatever will be, will be. God is sovereign and He does what He wants.

51:00 - No, God gave you the earth. Psalms 115:16 - He gave the earth to men. And we are accepting our losses, trying to figure out how it’s God and getting offended if someone is trying to pray otherwise.

51:30 - John G. Lake’s wife - dying. “Reconcile with the will of God” - a destructive lie ingrained in the mind of the church. Healing all who were oppressed by the enemy. Bowed legs straightened.

54:20 - "Not everybody is healed" - Don't accept this as God's will - That was not Jesus' experience - “Yeah but… Not everybody is healed.” - The only reason we say this is because of our experience but you can’t find that in the life or teaching of Jesus. So don’t accept it as the will of God, even though we have to find a place of grace when we lose people. Still see a bigger picture and at the same time not lose our fight (our readiness to stand up and fight).

54:50 - Heaven didn’t take your loved one.  But heaven receives your loved one. In no way does that lessen your fight.

55:10 - When you look at some situations and see a clearly demonic oppression, it’s almost blasphemous to say that it’s the will of God. Jesus went around healing all who were oppressed by the devil.

55:40 - How many got healed when He prayed? How many were healed that came to Him? He declared the Father to us. Personal loss doesn’t change the word. So in humility, we have to go after this. We don’t have to just keep losing. There is a place for us to believe.

56:20 - Losing a man to cancer. He was totally healed for 9 months. Different cancer. Passed away. Love is greater than all mistakes. Another man with the same cancer came and was healed.

59:00 - Healing is available despite our weaknesses - Love is greater than all our mistakes. Love covers a multitude of sin. Mercy triumphs over judgement. Drill that in to me - that what it seems like men have earned - let it be overcome by mercy. Sometimes those closest to you are the hardest ones to have faith for because you so know the people involved and the mistakes they have made. Yet none of that has anything to do with them receiving from God. It's mercy triumphing over judgement. It’s the love of God overcoming. Get that in your heart.

Be Established in His Love - Faith Works through Love

➡ 59:45 - I was trying to talk about love but got onto healing because faith works through love. Faith doesn’t work because you have need. And it doesn’t work just because you found a scripture in your Bible.

100:10 - 1 John 2 - v.3 - And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. -

Obedience reveals relationship - Oneness with God - Walking out His word is the revelation of knowing God. It’s not just going to church. When we are living His word it reveals that we know Him - His word is taking priority in our life - we’ve become one with Him. It’s just like walking in love. 1 John 4:7,8. So knowing God is revealed by walking out His word and becoming love.

101:00 - v.4 - He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. - Living your life apart from God’s word while holding a confession that all is cool.

101:20 - v.5 - But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. - When you keep His word you give Him highest honor - you’ve given your life back to Him. It’s an expression of love. He has loved you and now you are expressing your love back to Him.

➡ 101:50 - The love of God is perfected in him - Why do we talk so much about the love of God in this school? Because the automatic response of knowing His love is keeping His word. Now you are not trying to do right, it’s an automatic response of being in His love. I don’t wake up and try to do right. I don’t have a list of what I need to do today. I’m just waking up free and blessed. I’m not trying to fulfill His commands. You just find yourself walking in Him because you are in love.

102:30 - Embracing feelings of unworthiness produces unworthy living - Get out of that mindset - Praying for a man that doesn’t feel like he is worthy. Has zero to do with the man. Everything to do with the love of God. It’s not just about them getting healed but about them getting that mindset out of their life. When you feel unworthy, you are going to live unworthy. When you believe less about yourself you start to perform and function less because that’s who you are. Christ makes us worthy. It’s the love of God and the blood of Jesus that reveals our value. He didn’t die because we were sinners. He died because we were lost sons. He died to redeem our value.

104:15 - v.5 - You don't earn His love - Receive His love - It’s not works, it’s receiving His love. You are not keeping His word to perfect the love of God. No, the love of God is perfected and the result is His word is being kept.

104:40 - How many people trying to live in obedience but are not sure of His awesome love? Trying to earn His love - win His love - trying to be perfect in His word so that they can be loved. No, start with His love and then we will do well. I’m in love with Him and yielded. The greatest thing you can do is be loved by God.

105:35 - Receive God’s love - God, You loved me so much that You paid the price for my life because You saw who I was from the beginning. You made me with purpose. I didn't know any of that. Some days I was just willful and arrogant and stubborn. And somehow it didn't change You because You know who I am. Thanks for bringing the best out in me. Thanks for loving me when I was so unlovely. Thanks for coming and finding me when I was so lost. God thank You for showing me that I had a greater potential, greater value in You. God, thank You for redeeming my life...

106:20 - People that aren’t keeping His word just don’t understand His love.

107:00 - perfected - to complete, to accomplish, to carry through to the end - to bring to a successful conclusion - to reach the goal - to fulfill. Bringing into maturity and completion.

107:30 - v.6 - He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. - ought to walk as He walked. - Why? Because Jesus walked in perfect love. Healed, setting free… Did everybody get healed? Why? Perfect love. Love - not just talking about human empathy, emotion.

Praying for Close Friends, Family, Favorites

108:10 - Praying for close friends and family - sometimes our strong emotions are at odds with faith - Sometimes when we pray for those with whom we are very close, our strong emotions and empathy are at odds with faith - God’s love for the person, the finished work of Christ and the power of God. Driven by the fear of losing them. And the whole time you are calling it faith. Jesus wasn’t moved by any of those fears.

109:00 - Best friends - favorites - You shouldn’t have friends that you see as having much higher value. Not best friends at the cost of others. We value some way higher than others. It makes us a sitting duck when trouble comes. Then prayers are driven because of who the friend is that you are so moved. You are already in trouble. It’s already works - sentiment - emotion and human stuff. It’s about who God is and His promises.

111:00 - Blind man in Michigan - doctor - empathy, everybody loves him - I appreciate your testimony for the doctor, but none of those reasons is why God heals. (If so, glory would go to man because he earned it.) Can you see me at all? That’s a shame because I am a pretty good looking fellow.

113:00 - Lady with frozen eye. Can you see me? Am I a pretty good looking fellow? Now I know you can see, Worship Him!

114:00 - Blind doctor (continued) - I had to dismantle the whole merit thing before I could pray. Because when Jesus healed him they would have thought it’s because he is such a good man. And God owed it to him.

115:00 - That kind of sentimental love is usually trouble when praying for the sick. We pray extremely hard and if the result doesn't happen we are extremely hurt and confused. And we feel like we have to explain it.

115:20 - Blind doctor (continued) - saw everything crystal clear - 6 weeks later.

116:20 - I tell you that testimony because of the lady who brought Him forward. It seems like a good thing to honor someone that way but you are missing the grace and work of Jesus and why He really does what He does.

Healing - Foundations

116:50 - Does fasting cause God to heal? - Fasting is to prepare you for healing situations. It’s not a works. Fasting is to suppress the flesh side of man - any carnal temptation - anything that would be flesh driven in your life. Fasting suppresses that so that the spirit man can rise up and have dominance in your life. That’s why you fast.

➡ 117:30 - I’ll talk about fasting at least one day in this school as grace permits.

117:35 - Healing does not depend on our "works" - People use fasting as works. But healing happens because of the love of God through Jesus and the finished work of Christ. Banners, flag waving, shofar… all of that is trying to do the right thing, to get the right thing, instead of believing His simple love. It was all coming from a place of fear and driveness because of the reality of losing a loved one. You couldn’t find that in Jesus’ life.

➡ 118:40 - We are on this topic. Is it alright if we just stay here? On the healing topic?

119:20 - First and foremost - Settle the will of God to heal - MOST IMPORTANT on the topic of healing: You have to settle on beforehand, before you ever pray for anybody else - You have to lock in and settle in your heart based on what the word reveals - settle on the will of God to heal. It’s still the big hot potato out there. It shouldn’t be.

119:40 - Faith springs out of knowing the will of God to heal - The will of God to heal has to be established in your life if you are going to have faith. If you don’t understand the will of God, how can you have faith? You just have hope that the need gets changed.

120:00 - Faith is a spontaneous response from knowing God and understanding His will for a situation - Faith is substance of - the realization of what you are hoping for. When we pray for the sick we hope that they are healed. But faith is the realization of that hope. How can you have a realization - a knowing of your hope - without knowing the will of God? Faith is the evidence of what you haven’t yet seen. How can you have an inner evidence of what you haven’t seen? By knowing God’s “yes” (God’s will) in the situation. It’s the only way. Faith is found when the will of God is revealed. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word and it works through love.

120:40 - We often pray from need and call it faith - How can I have Bible (what the Bible calls) faith, if I haven’t settled the will of God in the situation I am believing for? Because if you haven’t settled His will for the situation, maybe He will heal or maybe He won’t. But let’s pray because we have need. So there is no authority, no subduing of the works of His hands because we don’t even understand the heart of God in the matter, so we are just crying out. That’s what we’ve been reduced to.

121:10 - Everybody prays when there is trouble. Even people who don't believe in God will cry out in the midst of trouble.

121:30 - Those that know their God, do great exploits. Dan. 11:32 Doesn’t say everybody who cries out. Because faith comes from knowing the will of God.

121:35 - Bible faith - Heb 11:1 - substance of things hoped for - the realization of your hope - a knowing. How can I be that sure in my heart that something is going to happen if I don’t have God’s take on it. If I’m unsure of Him, I’m unsure in my heart.

We Carry the Kingdom - We have Responsibility

122:20 - 2 Corinthians 1 - Yes & Amen - v.15-16 - And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea. - passing through so that they could help him along the way of his travels to Macedonia. Now coming back by again.

123:35 - v.17 - When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? - This is huge.

Don't pray just from need - Pray because of the answer that has already been provided - When I pray for the sick do I do it lightly? Why are we praying? Doing things lightly. I’m not praying because there is a need. I’m praying because there is a covenant and a promise and understanding in my heart. You pray because you have an answer. Because truth has been revealed - Christ has come. You pray from the position of covenant. It’s an answer driven prayer not a problem driven prayer.

125:00 - HCSKL 2010 - It was like we couldn’t hear. Because life had bitten us so hard. We had tried so hard. We’ve had so many experiences where it didn’t happen, that when the good news is preached there are many “Yeah, buts,” rationales, reasoning. That’s the voice that Eve listened to. I answered the same questions over and over.

125:30 - The day you eat of the tree you will die. "Oh, now, Did God say that? You won't really die."

125:45 - These signs SHALL follow those that believe… they SHALL lay hands on the sick and the sick SHALL recover - period. “Well yeah, brother, but not everyone is going to be healed.” It’s the same voice that spoke to Eve.

126:45 - v.17 - Be led by God - Not just blown by the winds of life - v. 17is so huge - He’s talking about the way he lives. He’s saying, “Do I do things lightly? Is it just driven by life and need. I’m not vacillating. I knew what I was doing - I was being led by God - it was the will of God. I’m not living by the flesh. I’m not doing it lightly.”

127:25 - Living by the flesh - your own works, ingenuity, qualifications… You live by grace through Christ = no condemnation. Living by the flesh = death. Living by the Spirit = life, peace.

128:00 - Avoid "yes & no" living - an indecisive way of living - Jesus wasn't like that - He’s talking about living by the flesh - it’s an indecisive place. It’s maybe “yes” and maybe “no.” You are not sure whether something will happen. He was talking about living by the flesh, and what that results in, and now he shifts and and talks about the spiritual…

128:30 - v.18 - But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. - We live maybe so / maybe not - our word to you was not maybe He will, maybe He won’t. If you take “yes” and “no” and marry them together, if they have children it would have to be “maybe so” / “maybe not.” The only thing yes and no produces is maybe so or maybe not. We live maybe so, maybe not. Maybe He will, maybe He won’t - let’s pray and we’ll see. If He chooses to heal then we will know that it was His will. If He doesn’t heal it just wasn’t His will.

129:30 - Where did we get that kind of thinking? We’ve defined God through the flesh. Through our circumstances and the human mind and not through His Son. Paul says if I am living by the flesh, it’s indecisive - it’s yes and no - (but) if I am preaching God who is faithful it is yes, period.

129:55 - v.19 - For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. - Jesus wasn’t yes and no.

130:15 - v.20 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. - for ALL the promises of God in Him are yes.

We carry the kingdom - God works through us - We get off track by listening to what life teaches - Through us - Who carries the revelation and ministers the kingdom? He is in us to move. But we don’t know what is going on because life has taught us something else. We’ve lost so many people, had unanswered prayers so we have to try to come up with something to comfort our soul. But the things that we come up with are at the cost of truth. And truth makes us free.

131:10 - Paul says, If I live in the flesh, I am a yes and no guy. Why are we yes and no Christians concerning healing? Because we weigh God through the flesh - through the outcome and experience of life. And we say things like, “If he died, God must have wanted him.”

131:45 - We blame God - But we have responsibility - And there is an enemy at work - Adding to and shortening my days. We have responsibility. We put it on God and sovereignty but there is a thief who steals, kills and destroys. Why doesn’t he (satan) get any of the blame. Why do our minds turn completely to God as soon as tragedy strikes? What about us? What about the devil? Why is God the focus all the time when He gave the earth to men and told us to subdue. We are supposed to know.

132:45 - We are supposed to know God’s will - Rom 12:2 - Transformed by the renewal of your mind so you can prove God’s will. We are supposed to know God’s will. How do you know it? Through Jesus. He’s the will of God revealed. He’s the yes and amen of the Father.

133:30 - ALL the promises of God are yes and amen. It’s yes and amen through us. We ought to know the yes. We're fighting over the yes.

133:55 - Denominations - divisions not the will of God. We fight because of our experiences.

134:20 - The Bible says that the gospel did not come with a yes and no but all the promises have God’s yes stamped on it so we’re called to grow up into that truth - even in the face of loss. We’re growing up into Him in all things.

134:55 - BREAK