Seeing God Move

Episode Transcript

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I was thinking about this morning,different times and seasons where I have really
seen God move in what I wouldthink is mighty ways. But I know
God can move in much greater waysthan what I've seen him move. Welcome
to Healing Begins. My name isPastor Gail, and I am sure glad
you're listening to me this morning.You're either hearing this on wood radio or

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listening to it later by podcasts.So wherever you are, wherever you're at,
I pray right now in the nameof the Lord, that God would
touch you in just a really,really mighty way and encourage your heart as
you listen to the program that theLord has put up my heart today called
Seeing God Move. And as Isaid here speaking into my microphone, I

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really don't have any notes, butmy mind is flooded with memories throughout my
life of seeing God do what Iwould call extraordinary things. It's only left
my heart hungering for more. So. When I was a young pastor in
my early days in a little church, we did a series of ten days
of purn fasting. Every year.We would do ten days that we would

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pray, we would fast, wewould have ten nights of services no special
speaker. We would gather around thealtar and pray, and then the Lord
would have me. I know thisis going to sound strange, but the
Lord would have me pour a littleoil on their heads and pray for them.
And during this time there was anelderly lady there whose leg was like

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an inch and a half shorter thanthe other leg, and so she had
come up for prayer, and soI put some oil on her head and
we began to pray, and shefell on the floor. And some people
in the church at that time wantedto call nine one one, and I
said, no, no, no, no, don't call nine one one.
She's all right. As we watchedher lay on the floor, we
could hear snapping, We could hearcracking of bones, as we watched the

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leg grow out to the full lengthof where it should be. And she
got up off the floor healed.She said that when we went to pray
for her, she had a visionof Jesus and he reached his hand out
and took her by the hand andsaid, I won't hurt you. And
the Lord healed her back and shewalked without pain from that day on to

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the day she passed away. SoGod touched her in a mighty way.
And I think that as I'm talkingabout this, I'm thinking of people that
are listening right now. Maybe you'restruggling with physical sickness, maybe you've got
a mental health issue you're struggling with, or you would like the Lord just
to reach out and touch you asI'm speaking, And I pray that that
would happen along the airwaves, thatthe sound of my voice, that the

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presence of God would enter the placewhere you're at right now and began to
touch your heart and began to ministerher healing in peace to you in the
name of Jesus. Then I wasreflecting back to when I was baptizing the
Holy Spirit in nineteen eighty five.Right after that, I had been asked
to go pray for a young girl, a child in fact, who had

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a high fever of like one hundredand forty degrees and she was in the
hospital and somebody asked if I wouldgo pray for her. I went in
and had prayer for her, andthe moment I did, her fever broke
and she got miraculously better. Sothat was in nineteen eighty five, and

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over the course of the years.You know, I have had different times
and seasons where I've actually been privilegedto witness God move in this very special
way. You know, I workedbetween three hospitals for eighteen years and had
a lot of chances to pray fora lot of people who were really sick

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and in need of a miracle.And I have seen God touch people that
were very sick. I remember onelady was given six weeks to live,
but she just refused to give upand she lived six more years. Another
lady had the same sentence six moreyears, and she looked at the doctors

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that I really want to live tosee my kids graduate school. She lived
another twenty years. And so youknow, your purpose fulfilling your purpose in
life is really key to the longevityof your life. But seeing God move
an amazing way has always been whatI have desired in my heart. So

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when we go on mission trips,and I'm going to talk about this a
little bit, we have the chanceto witness God move in a mighty way
and do things I've never seen before. So the Hondura's trips we take have
a real reputation of signs, wondersand miracles and healings. And I remember
before I went to Honduras, Iheard of a miracle that happened in the

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mountains of a little girl who hardlyhad no tongue in her mouth, and
when she was prayed for, bythe end of the service, the tongue
was at full length. And Iknow this might freak some people out,
but these things happen up in thosecountries where they don't have the healthcare that
we have. They don't have theability for medicine, but they have great

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faith in God's ability to move,touch and restore lives. And so you
know, I think about this alot. Lord. I want to see
you move in greater dimensions. Iwant to see you move in ways I've
never seen. And you know,my grandma when she was sick and supposed

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to die, the doctor said,you're not leaving the hospital. You're going
to die. Well, the nextday, my grandma called the doctor into
the room and she said, I'mgetting out of this hospital. And he
said, well, how do youknow that. She said, well,
I talked to Jesus last night andhe gave me fifteen more years to live.
You know, that woman lived anotherfifteen more years. I believe her

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last and final mission was me gettingme to come back to know the Lord,
come back and rededicate my life toChrist. She lived another fifteen years
and even down right to the daywhen she was going to die, she
knew when she was going to pass. She even told me when she was
going to pass and gave me finalorders. So I've seen God do precious

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things. Another case to a gentlemanwhere this was years and years ago.
I went to visit a guy ina hospital and he was really ill,
and everybody wanted me to pray forhealing. So I get around his bed,
we annoying him with all and I'mabout to pray for healing and to
hear the Lord say, don't youdare Ah, not this one. I'm

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taking this one home to heaven.And I changed my prayer right in the
middle of everything, and God tookhim home to Heaven. But I met
the family years later who told methat my prayer had led them all to
Christ. I don't even know whatI prayed, but all I knew is
that God was going to take thisone home to heaven. You know,
if you know the Lord and yourbeliever going home to heaven is your ultimate

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healing, because you know, whenwe accept Jesus Christ, he said to
our hearts as our Lord and Savior, we receive ever lasting life. Eternal
life really starts the moment you acceptJesus as your Lord and Savior. Now,
my body's gonna die someday unless theLord comes back, but my spirit

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and my soul gonna live forever.I'm gonna be with the Lord forever in
heaven, and so I know I'mgonna live for eternity. I know I
have everlasting life. I know allthese things. Do you do you know
whether you have everlasting life? Today? You know? I was somebody asked
me to go to the hospital theother day. There was someone that needed

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the Lord who was getting near adeath. They were really ill, and
no one had been able to leadher to the Lord. And so I
came in the hospital room, andI noticed I didn't have a lot of
time, and so I began totalk with the individual, and we began
to laugh and talk a little bit. So I asked a very simple question,
do you know whether you're going togo to heaven or not? She

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goes, no, I really don't, I said, would you like to
know she said, yeah, Iwould really like to know. I said,
why don't you pray after me?So I let her in the sinner's
prayer of accepting Christ, asked herLord and Savior and forgiveness of her sins.
And she accepted Christ into her heart. And then right away her blood
pressure was dipping low, and abunch of doctors came in the room.

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We didn't have a very long windowof time to come in and lead her
to the Lord, but she acceptedChrist. I think everybody wants to know
if they're going to go to heavenor not. You know, it says
in Romans, if you confess withyour mouth that Jesus is Lord, and
believe in your heart that God hasraised them from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. So if you don'tknow whether or not you're going to go

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to heaven, I want you topray this prayer after me right now.
Just say, Jesus, I believeyou are the son of God. I
believe that you died on the crossfor me, and then the third day
you rose from the dead. Yourose from the dead. I asked you
to forgive me of my sins,come into my heart and be my Savior

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and fill me with the Holy Spiritin the name of Jesus. Amen.
So if you've prayed this prayer,heaven is going to be your home.
But you have to learn to walkwith Jesus. You've got to find a
good church to attend, get ina Bible study, learn and begin to
read your Bible. Grow in yourfaith. Because life is all about eternity,

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one way or another, and soseeing God move it has been no
greater joy to me than seeing Godmove on the heart of somebody. So
one time I was working in SouthDakota with the sue in the Navajo tribes,
and we would bring all the Indiankids to revival services every week,

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and I remember one evening watching ayoung Navajo girl, Neil at the altar,
lift her hands up toward the crossand cry out in her own language
and accept Jesus into her heart asher Lord and Savior. It was a
beautiful moment of seeing God move ina tremendous way. I have seen the

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Lord come into a service. Evenin my first church where I pastored.
One time the spirit of God beganto move and it didn't stop for like
three months. We have three monthsa church four to five days a week,
and services went from seven am tillmidnight, and God was touching and

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healing and restoring. I think wesaw one hundred and thirty three people saved,
several people healed. People came fromall over the United States to come
to where God was moving in thislittle place. But the beautiful thing is
God wants to move right where you'reat, right in your own heart.
God wants to do a move rightthrough the airwaves. Come into your car,

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come into your home, come intoyour room, come into your workplace,
wherever you're at, and touch yourheart in life. And I pray
for people right now that are listeningto me that are suffering from pain.
You've got pain in your body rightnow, and you've been suffering for a
while, So I pray right nowfor the removal of pain. So,
if you're listening to me and youare able to do this, I just

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wanted you to put your hand onyour body in the area where you're hurting,
and right now, Lord, Ipray for the healing and the removal
of pain in the name of Jesus, from the top of your head to
the bottom of your feet. Ijust pray that God would touch your life
right now in the name of Jesus, Amen, and please let me know.

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Please let me know if God istouching you through these programs, you
know, email me at Gail G. A. L. E. At
Spiritual Careconsultants dot com. The otherday I was invited. This was about
two weeks ago. I was invitedto a little Spanish church up in Grand
Rampas. This was to me anamazing time. I had gone there with

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Apostle Wilfrid Dilbert. He had preachedthere several times. I didn't know the
pastor or the congregation, and Iwalked into this little church and right away
I could feel that these people werein a lot of pain. This church
had been through a great struggle,not whe their pastor, but just struggles
with life in general. You knowhow it is in life. You go

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to who struggles right, struggle inlife. And so he talked about who
I was to the congregation and thenhe introduced me. At the end of
the service, he said, PastorGail, I want you to come up
and pray for healing for people.And I said all right. So I
went in front of the people toan interpreter. I said I don't speak
Spanish, but if you have painin your body, I want you to

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touch the area of your body withone of your hands where you're in pain.
And then when I pray for you, when your pain begins to leave,
I want you to raise your hand. Hands were raised all over the
place. God touched about every oneof those people took their pain away.
It was amazing. I didn't knowhe was going to show up, you
know, in the way he did. And I really want to see God

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move in a greater dimension. Nowlet's talk about that a little more.
Seeing God move. The other day, I was in prayer and I'm trying
to saying, Lord, I wantto come up near the throne. I
want to experience glory. I wantto I want to touch from you.
And I heard a voice speak tome, not not not audibly, but

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in my spirit. It said,the true nature of power is in humility.
And I thought, wow, okay, now I don't normally talk about
that. You know, the truenature of powers and humility. So I
looked up the word nature. It'sthe basic or inherent features of something,
especially when it is seen as acharacteristic of it. So, in other

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words, humility you can't have truepower without humility, you know. And
then I looked up the word inherentexisting in something as permanent, essential,
or characteristic attribute. Humility is alow view of oneself, of one's own

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self important. So you know,the times where I have seen God move,
where it surprised me the most iswhere I didn't know He was gonna
move. And so I just wantto be able to go into places and
pray for people and see God moveand not really tell a whole lot of
people about it. But I'm sharingmore now because I got my book God

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Moments out. Go to Amazon dotcom. You can look up God Moments,
or you can look up Jesus inthe Mountains Jesus in the Mountains.
And these are two books where I'vetalked about seeing God move, and I
put a lot of God stories intheir healings, signs, wonders where I'm

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just seeing God and do amazing things. So if you're looking for a couple
of good books to read, thosewould be good books for you to read.
And so God was just moving inthis little church. I was so
shocked. Honestly, I was shocked. Why are we shocked when God moves?
But I was shocked, and thenI thought, Lord, what is
the key to operating in true power? Well, the key is in humility.

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It's total. And a lot oftimes I know I have been in
church's stress, honor, honor,and during the time where this voice said
to me the true nature of powersand humility, it also said, the
pitfall of honor is self importance.The pit fall of self importance is pride.
The pit fall of pride is destruction. Wow. So the question becomes,

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can we truly handle the power ofGod or will it destroy us?
So I think the key in answeringthat question, and the key and seeing
God move is in humility. Iheard of this one priest, and I'm
not going to say his name,but he would come out and minister and

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people would be healed his perish.On the walls of the parish were crutches
and wheelchairs and everything like that.But you know, one of the things
he would do, he would comeout and minister to the people, and
when everybody was healed in he wasdone ministering, he would turn right around
and he would walk right back intohis study. He wouldn't even visit with

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the people. And I thought,how strange but the more I think about
it, I go, no,it isn't strange, because you see,
he wanted the people to keep theireyes on Jesus, not on him.
And when God is beginning to touchand heal people's lives through an individual,
there becomes a lot of attention aroundthat person, and that person receives a

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lot of honor, and they receivea lot of love, and they receive
a lot of attention. Not thathonor and love is bad, But I
think the best thing to do afterwe've seen God move is go right back
into the place of prayer, giveGod all the glory and thank him for
allowing us to see him move.That's what I think about. Thank you

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Lord, thank you for allowing meto see you move and do great things.
So I think the key is understandingwhat is humility? What does it
mean to be humble? I don'tmean falseimility. Oh I'm humble. I'm
humble. No. Humility is likethank you Lord, and you don't talk
about it, you just minister.The people they get healed is just keep

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going. You don't talk. Youdon't like brag on yourself and stuff like
that. Now, the reason Iput my books out with God's stories is
because Jesus wants people to know He'sreal. Jesus wants people to put their
faith and their hope and their trustin him. That's why I wrote those
books. You know, Jesus said, if you don't believe in me,

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believe in the miracles I do becausethey speak of me. And so the
God's stories need to be out therebecause one they challenge our faith too.
They draw people to put their hopeand their faith in Jesus Christ, the
Messiah. He was the Messiah.He wasn't just a good man Jesus.

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It wasn't just a good teacher ora good prophet. He was God that
came in the flesh. The way, the truth and the life and the
moving of God shows that Jesus isreal. We don't serve a dead savior.
We serve a risen Savior. Wesing it on Easter all the time.
I serve a risen Savior. He'sin the world today. I know

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that he is living, no mattermen may say. I know he lives
because he lives where within my heart. One of the biggest miracles you can
ever witness is a life transformed bythe power of God. You know when
we go into Costa Rica and wego do these extreme camps. I work

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with Pastor Christian at the Line ofJudah Church. Now he's down in Pavis.
This is a gang area and hewill take forty fifty kids away from
the drug lords, bring them toa separate location and they're in that location,
give them an extreme God experience.And this year I'm going back again
to do another extreme camp. Thisis my fourth extreme camp that I've been

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involved with. In every camp,when we preach the gospel of what Jesus
did for us, how my sinin your sin nailed him to the cross,
how we cost his death. Whenwe go through the good news of
the Gospel, these kids always acceptChrist, get filled with the Holy Spirit,
turn their back on gangs and drugs, and turn to Jesus. Now

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a lot of them make these decisionsat the cost of their own life.
One young man said, now I'ma Christian. Now he goes, you
know what, I've done a lotof bad things, but I'm with Jesus.
Now he goes, I'm walking withJesus. He goes, I know
I'm going to get killed, butwhen I do, know that I'm with
the Lord and so two weeks laterhe was assassinated for his faith and he

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died. In the fact, outof the last camp we did, fifty
kids, six were assassinated for theirfaith. And so these kids, when
they make a choice to follow Christ, they could lose everything. But when
you follow Christ, when you acceptChrist, you don't lose everything. You
gain everything. For me, tolive as Christ and to die is gain.

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That's what the great Apostle Paul said. So seeing God move, I
want to pray right now for thoseof you that are listening. Man,
I just really want to see Godmove. Lord. I pray that you
would move on this program. Ipray that you would move on the hearts
and the lives of everybody that's listening. I pray that they would know that

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you are real, that you arealive, that you love them, that
you care about them, that youwant to have a personal relationship with them.
And I just pray that you wouldencourage those that are down and depress
the day, that you would putyour loving arms around them and keep them
in the palm of your hand.I pray that you would touch those with
pain, with physical sicknesses and illnesses. I pray that you would bring peace

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to those that are tormented in theirmind. And I pray that your angels
would visit and minister to everybody that'sunder the sound of my voice in the
name of Jesus. Amen. Oh, I'm so glad you chose to listen.
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hour. I pray that you wouldknow that you're not alone. You know
a lot of people think they're alone. They think nobody cares. Well,
this is pastor Gale. He onlybegins. I care, and God cares
about you, and God loves you. May the Lord bless you, May
the Lord keep you. May theLord cause us face to shine upon you.

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May He be merciful to you,and may He give you peace.
And may the Spirit of the LivingGod move upon your heart this day as
you go about your day, andmay you have unexpected surprises from the King
of Kings in the Lord of Lords, May he show you how much he
loves you. God bless and havea good morning. Healing Begins is brought

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