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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, arcade.
Good morning.
We will be reading from thebook of John, chapter 4, verse
46, 50 through 53.
Once more he visited Cana, inGalilee, where he had turned
water into wine, and there was acertain royal official whose
son lay sick at Capernaum.
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Then Jesus told him Go backhome, your son will live.
And the man believed what Jesussaid and started home.
While the man was on his way,some of his servants met him
with the news that his son wasalive and well.
He asked them when the boy hadbegan to get better, and they
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replied yesterday afternoon atone o'clock his fever suddenly
disappeared.
Then the father realized thatthat was the very time Jesus had
told him your son will live,and he and his entire household
believed in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Good morning everyone .
I will be reading John, chapter4, verse 46 in Tagalog.
Jesus answered the Word of theLord.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Come on, show them some love.
Everybody.
Is anybody excited to be in thehouse of the Lord today?
Hey, the students are back fromcamp.
I'm excited.
Hey, welcome back to all theparents.
They're like, yay, right, whenmy refrigerator got a break.
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They're like they're back.
But thank y'all.
Y'all have brought so muchenergy to this service, so y'all
are going to keep the partygoing then.
That's incredible.
Where are the people in here whoknow how to cook?
You're gifted at cooking.
You know what you're doing.
You know how to throw down alittle bit.
You know what you're doing.
You know how to throw down alittle bit.
Where are you at?
There you go?
There you go.
We're all the people who knowhow to fix things.
You're kind of a you can takethat.
We need to know you in casesomething goes wrong.
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There you go.
We're all the people.
You're like I don't really cook, but I stay close to the
kitchen.
I'm a good taste tester.
We're the ones who are justlike a little bit more salt and
it'll be just right.
There you go.
We're in this church.
We're in a house where thereare many gifts.
I mean, every week there's adifferent language reading the
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opening scripture.
Every church is not able to dothat.
So that lets you know thatthere are so many gifts in this
house.
Do me a favor Tell the personbeside you I think you're gifted
.
Tell the person on the otherside do I need a breath mint?
Ask them, ask them, ask them.
Ask them, ask them.
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Wait for the answer.
Don't get offended.
Ask them and listen.
All right, if they said yes,just take the breath mint or
pass it to someone else.
The Bible talks about our giftsand how our gifts work in unison
.
So that way God gives gifts tothe church so the church can
make a difference.
I have a scripture.
I didn't give them back here,kind of went rogue a little bit.
First, corinthians 12, 28,.
It says and God placed in thechurch, first off apostles,
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prophets, teachers, watch this.
Then miracles, then gifts ofhealing, helping.
Then he said the gift ofadministration and all kinds of
tongues.
I want to lean in today.
Last week I preached aboutprophecy when it comes to the
Holy Spirit.
This week I want to talk abouthealing when it comes to the
Holy Spirit.
Is that okay?
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That's good.
Come on, y'all give God somepraise.
Y'all are ready already.
I feel like Pastor Lawrence gaveme the two provocative topics
and said you got that one man, Ifeel like he gave me prophecy
and then he gave me healing.
Because remember last week Italked to you here.
Last week let's let's rewind itreally quick.
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Remember last week when Italked about prophecy and and I
said that you wake up at one inthe morning and there's somebody
telling you to call into anumber.
Well, the same thing withhealing.
You wake up at one in themorning and there's somebody
telling you to call into anumber.
Well, the same thing withhealing.
You wake up at one in themorning.
Sometimes there's a person upthere not trying to sell you
holy water, but they'd be likecall in, we ripped this garment
into 27 pieces, call it now,you'll be healed.
And let me just tell you thoughthat is Bible for some of us you
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either saw that and you saidthat is a little too provocative
for me, or for some you saidthat is paralyzing to me.
And what we don't realize isthat the gift of healing, or the
nature of healing, or healingis supposed to be a part of the
life of every believer.
Here's what I've had to realizethat just because someone else
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did it and it lookedperformative, it looked like a
production or it lookedpolarizing, still does not mean
that God didn't want to do it inmy life.
That means that I need God togo beyond my understanding in my
comfort zones, because everynow and then you run across
somebody who seems like they'rejust highly overproduced or
they're passionate and you'rejust like God.
I don't know if I want healingin my life to look like that,
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because there are moments forsome of you you've seen healing
look more like a circus thanlook like the presence of the
Lord.
Amen.
Anybody else in here?
Yeah, okay, you get it and so,but then I can't throw it out of
the word.
So what do you want me to dowith this word then, god?
Let's walk through a little bitof that today.
Here's what I realized Wheneveryou're looking at the word
healing in the Bible and theword of God, it means this
definition it means to be wholeagain, restored to purpose, or
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fully aligned with God's desires.
Come on, whole again, restoredto purpose, fully aligned with
God's desires.
Let's try it.
We didn't do this in the firstservice.
Read this with me out loud,like we've done this before Go.
Healing means whole again,restored to purpose, fully
aligned with God's design.
Boy, we sound good.
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We sound good.
Here's why this is so important, because when we're praying for
healing, I'm not just prayingGod, help me feel better.
I'm saying make me whole again.
It is not just don't take thepain away.
I want you to make me whole.
How can you look at my life andsay that you can fix the
fractured places?
He wants to make me whole.
Here's another thing he wantsto restore me to my original
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purpose.
Everyone in here has a purpose.
When God looked at you anddesigned you, the person sitting
in your seat actually has apurpose.
The person born into yourfamily actually has a purpose.
And then the last thing isfully aligned with God's desires
.
I've been pastoring people forquite a few years and I've had a
chance to run into many peoplewho've received healings, and
I've also run into some peoplethat I know that, after
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receiving their healing, one ofthe things that they did is they
left the desire to be alignedwith God's desire.
They took that new whole self,that new whole marriage, that
new whole body, that whole newunderstanding, and they decided
I can do what I want to do, notwhat God wants me to do and how
many of you guys know that isnot what God is trying to push
you.
He wants to say how can I getyou to be my instrument, how can
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I get you to work on my behalf?
Here's what I wrote.
Healing often walks in withthree companions presence,
prayer and partnership Presence.
Prayer and partnership Presencethat's this.
Right here, you felt thepresence of the Lord.
Who, in here, felt the HolySpirit during worship?
You felt that Worship, come on,come on, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You felt that right there.
What a beautiful name.
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It is the name of Jesus.
You felt that thing.
And then somebody came up andprayed and you begin to feel the
presence of the Lord in aprayer.
But it's not just in presence,it's not just in prayer, it's
also in our partnership.
Jesus came, died on the crossfor you and I went to the grave,
overthrew the grave, got out ofthe grave, came and said ha, ha
, I won.
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And then looked at thedisciples and said now I'm going
to leave this all in yourauthority.
So now I'm going to give youHoly Spirit, which is the name
of the sermon series.
And he said you're going to begiven power by Holy Spirit, and
he's going to be your comforter.
But the way that you unlock allthat he has for you on the
inside is through partnership.
You have to partner, we have topartner.
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That means he's going to do hispart.
I'm going to do my part.
Tell the person beside you say,do your part.
Ask the person on the otherside where are we going to eat
at after church?
If the other person on theother side of you is single and
you're single, this may be yourmoment.
Girl, I've been looking for youall service.
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You want to know the thing thatoften stands in the way of me
walking out the gifts of theSpirit, such as healing.
It's often, it's not the enemy,sometimes it is the enemy.
It's the enemy, it's the devil.
He's trying to fight against meand all that stuff.
But sometimes it's not theenemy, sometimes it's really the
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inner me.
Hmm, it's not just the enemy,it's the inner me, it's my
understanding, it's myexperiences that keep me from
unlocking what God has for me.
So this lets me know that Godwants to deal with my belief
system so he can throw me intothe journey of healing.
What is the difference?
What's the deal with my beliefsystem?
Here's what I wrote.
Your belief system wasn't justlearned, it's often survived.
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Many of us carry a beliefsystem shaped by survival, not
by scripture, and when we askGod to bless our system, god is
often saying I don't want tojust bless your belief system, I
want to overhaul your beliefsystem.
Many of us don't realize thatour belief system is shaped
between the ages of one andeight.
What you believe, how youbelieve, why you believe, is
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often established between theages of one and eight.
That is where it's formed orwhere it becomes deformed.
What we believe and here I wantto give you a few areas on how
that comes alive it comes alivelike this what we believe is
shaped by our environment.
The environment that you're inoften shapes your belief system.
That's why you can grow up in ahome whether it be a good home
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or a bad home, or a home thathas people fighting or a home
that has people celebrating.
That begins to shape you.
And let me help us for a quicksecond.
If you're a home that fights alot and you think, well, that
kid doesn't know what we'resaying.
That environment is shapingthem, that argument that they
don't hear in the bedroom, butthey can feel the atmosphere of
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that right there.
It is shaping that little one,and so our environment helps to
shape our belief system.
What's the second thing?
Our repetitious information,what we hear over and over and,
over and over again.
That's why it's important foryou to speak things over
yourself.
Or if you find somebody and youdon't feel like they're
actually doing the right thingand I'll go back to the little
kid scenario and that little kidmay be mischievous or what you
would call that and you keeptelling that kid oh, you're bad,
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you're this, you're that.
If they keep hearing it overand over again, they're going to
adopt that as their identity.
Here's another thing that shapesour belief system voices of
significant others.
You ever had that coach thatbelieved in you, or somebody
that said that you could doanything, and you actually
believe that thing.
You're just like, yes, I can gopro, knowing you really can't
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go pro because you can't hit acurve ball.
But you're like, I can go pro.
No, you can't, but for a secondin that game.
You believed it right there.
What's the fourth one?
Experiences shape us.
I came from the generationwhere they would pull the chair
from up under the person andthen they said yeah, some of
y'all scarred by that right now,come on to the altar.
All the people that had chairs,some of y'all are the pulley or
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the pulled.
We got the bullies and theother ones in here today, but if
you ever saw somebody have thechair pulled from up under them,
they checked chairs for thenext two years.
No chair went unknown.
They grabbed it and just satdown slow.
Why?
Because that experience shapedthem, and so, the same way that
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the inner me can shape my beliefsystem through what happens
with me, through my experiences,I love the power of God,
because God is strong enough totake the thing that the enemy
tried to use as a blueprint,flip it on his head, rebuild it
and turn it into the thing thathe uses to reshape us.
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And so, with that being said,my belief system is rebuilt
through my environment.
Thank you for coming to churchtoday.
Give yourself a hand, come on.
You could have been anywhereelse, you didn't have to use
your gas to get here today, butyou wanted to be in the house of
the Lord, because environmentsshape your belief system.
That's why it's important thatwe be in the house of the Lord.
That's why I can't just comeonce a month.
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I got to be here whenever thedoors open, because I don't know
how your life works.
The enemy tries to come at meevery day, and so I got to fight
him every day.
I got to be in the rightenvironment.
Here's the second thingrepetitious information.
When I was a student pastor, mystudent leaders would walk
around with an index card intheir back pocket of the
scripture they were memorizing.
I don't think do they even sellindex cards today?
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Maybe not, maybe not.
So index cards are just whitecards with a lot.
We'll explain that later.
We'll explain that in the DeweyDecimal System later.
Here we go, and so there's anindex card that would have
scriptures on it and they wouldmemorize these scriptures right,
because they wanted to getthese scriptures in their heart
so that way, when life tried tocome against them, they had
something that was planted onthe inside of them that could
fight against what life wastrying to throw at them.
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Repetitious information isnecessary.
The Bible says faith cometh byhearing hearing the word.
You got to hear something overand over again.
There are some sermon seriesyou got to hear over and over
again.
You can't just hear it one time.
Who was here last year duringthe summer when there was a
sermon series on mental health.
Eight to nine weeks on that,some of us may need to go back
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and just start playing thosesermons over and over again and
resetting what you hear.
And the fourth one is yourexperience.
That's why, when the worshipteam was up singing man, I
couldn't stand it.
I had to come out here andthrow my hands up because I
needed an experience that wasgreater than my reality.
I needed an experience that Icould engage with, where I could
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surrender my life and say God,here's my life, here's my yes,
here's all of me.
And I'm grabbing for youratmosphere because I know that
you're here.
I believe that you're here andI know you want to do something.
Experiences shape all of us andso, with that being said, if
that's the truth, with all fourof those things, this leads me
to Mark 9.
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Mark 9, there's Jesus.
He's up on the mountain.
He's on the mountain calledTransfiguration.
He's there.
And you know, it's kind of somecool stuff happening up there.
Go back and read it in Mark 9.
Right before that Jesus isthere, his friends have
hologrammed in the otherdisciples that are with him.
Like this is some trippy stuffhappening right here.
And so Jesus they finish andJesus said let's go back down
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the mountain.
And they get back down themountain and there's a commotion
because there is this group ofpeople around the disciples and
you really can't tell what'sgoing on.
But as Jesus gets closer, thereis this father who brought his
son to the disciples because hesaid my kid needs to be healed.
And so Jesus walks up on thisscenario, to this commotion.
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He's like what's happening?
And the father looks at Jesusand he's like I brought my son
because I heard that you andyour disciples could heal people
.
And I brought my son because hehas these issues.
Jesus said how long has yourson been dealing with this
affliction?
How long has he been dealingwith this possession?
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And the father says since birthhe's been dealing with this
affliction.
How long has he been dealingwith this possession?
And the father says since birthhe's been dealing with this.
Since birth, my son, who I love, my son would throw himself in
the fire.
Since birth, my son would throwhimself in the water to drown
himself.
And since birth my son wouldjust lay there lifeless, looking
like he was dead afterwards.
And Jesus, in that moment herealized something has to be
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done.
Many of us walked in heresaying I need to understand the
father.
Or I am that son.
I'm either the father bringingsomebody to the altar, or I'm
that son saying Pastor Courtney,that's me.
I find myself in fierysituations.
I find myself in situationswhere the heat is turned up and
I don't even know how I gotthere, or I find myself
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underwater drowning, trying tofigure out how can I find an
answer.
Or you're like the last part ofthe sun and life has beaten you
so much that all you can do asyour seed is lay there, lifeless
.
Are you alive?
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Yeah, I'm alive, I'm not moving.
Are you alive?
But I'm paralyzed?
Are you alive?
I don't have any energy.
Are you alive?
I'm just exhausted.
Father brings a son, one boyversus nine disciples.
The Bible says he beat themboys so bad.
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And you know it's true why?
Because I've seen daycarecenters.
One kid beat up nine workers.
My wife works in the schoolsystem.
One kid, nine workers.
There's the disciples,frustrated.
Jesus tells him.
He said oh, you have littlefaith.
How much longer shall I contendwith this generation?
In other words, what he'sreally saying to them is this
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he's saying, hey, disciples,guys, how long are you going to
be next to me with proximity,sound like me and look like me,
but have no power like me?
And I believe oh sorry, I gotmyself stirred up real quick I
believe that that's what ishappening right now is that God
is looking at 2025, and he'ssaying there are people that are
coming in wounded, hurting andin need of a miracle.
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And he's saying how much longerwill you look like me, sound
like me, be next to me, but haveno power like me?
And he says let me bring theson.
So Jesus asked the father.
He says do you want me to healyour son?
Dad's like, if you can?
Jesus said if I can.
This is crazy because thisfather left his house to bring
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his son to find these disciples.
Clearly this man had faith atsome level, but how many guys
know that if you go searchingfor a miracle and you give it
your best shot and you don't gethealed, that can knock the wind
out of you?
Here's his father.
The wind is knocked out of himbecause he was searching for an
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answer from God.
And he said when I walked uphere, I had faith that something
could happen, but now I findmyself wondering can this
actually happen?
And then here's what the fathersays.
He says right here.
He says immediately the fatherof the child cried out and said
I believe, but help my unbelief.
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That's the tension right there.
That's the tension many of ussit in.
Healing is it a reality or arumor?
Healing I believe it's possiblefor them, but I don't know if
it's possible for me.
In many of us we have faith forsomebody else, but we have no
faith for ourselves oftentimesbecause we've run the resume of
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our experience as opposed to thetruth of God's existence.
And I understand that fatherwho came searching for a healing
but is standing in a placewhere they said the healing can
be, and he still has the sameevidence he walked up with.
I remember in the season when mywife was healed of cancer.
I remember that moment, but Ialso remember us wanting to have
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kids in that season.
She got healed of cancer.
I remember that moment, but Ialso remember us wanting to have
kids in that season.
She got healed of cancer.
I didn't get the kid, but Ikept the wife.
And I remember thinking God,where are you?
And I read this scripture andlisten to this Immediately the
father of the child cried outand said I believe, but help my
unbelief.
In other words, I have faith.
It's not perfect, though.
What I have is the kind offaith I have faith.
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It's not perfect, though.
What I have is the kind offaith, this honest faith.
And everybody in here walked inhere today and someone said I
don't have perfect faith, man ofGod, but what I do have is
honest faith.
And let me just say this Peopleare sitting on your row and
everyone walked in with a smile,but somebody walked in here
desperate today.
Somebody walked in here sayingthis is my last chance at God.
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Walked in here desperate todeath.
Somebody walked in here sayingthis is my last chance at God.
Somebody walked in here andsaid this is my last opportunity
to try God for this thing, orelse life is done, it's over, I
quit, that's it for me.
And somebody on your faith hasthe answer called faith.
So this father, he asked me.
He says yo, I believe you can,but you got to help my unbelief.
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My unbelief is just a littlecrazy right now, because I
walked up believing that you can.
Here's what I love.
This father stands between thereality of where he is and the
possibilities of heaven.
And as I read that scriptureover and over again, I realized
something in that scripture thathappened to be true in my own
life Is that, though he did nothave his miracle, he still had
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the miracle worker close.
Just let me know that Jesusnever leaves the people who are
sitting in brokenness becausethey did not receive what they
expected.
And I don't know about you.
Every time I felt like therewas an unanswered prayer, I
assumed that God was distant.
But this scripture right herelets me know that God is close.
Whether I feel him or not, thetruth is that Jesus never left
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the scenario.
Jesus ends up going on to healthis little boy and it changes
their entire life.
But you're sitting in heretoday and I want to encourage
you that healing is possible foryou.
Whatever that thing is, thatdiagnosis, whatever people have
said that marriage is broken,that mindset that feels like
it's redundant, that cycle inyour emotions Jesus can heal
whatever you're walking through,and so that right there gives
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me the understanding that whenthis scripture says to me, let
this mind be in you, that isalso in Christ Jesus.
It's real.
Last week I told y'all somethingand you guys talked to me about
it at the church.
I told y'all that I absolutelylove TikTok.
I spend a lot of time on it,and several of y'all were asking
me I thought y'all were goingto say something about the
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message.
You just wanted to walk up tome and ask me what was the
secret Waffle House thing?
Shout out to everybody who wenthome and made the secret Waffle
House menu this weekend.
I was on TikTok earlier thisweek and here's my confession.
Last week it was Waffle House.
You know what the algorithm putme on this week?
Squatters.
Anybody know what a squatter is?
A person who moves into yourhouse and they don't have
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ownership.
And do you know that you cannotphysically remove those people?
Like, if you physically go toremove them and they get injured
, they can sue you, isn't thiscrazy?
So you can't even pull them outbecause if they hurt their back
or throw their back out, thenthey can sue you and sue you in
court and then just take thehouse that they were kind of
squatting in.
So I ran across this one guy onTikTok, right, he said I'm not
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going to put the squatters out.
So he went to Home Depot andgot some boards and he went to
all the doors and instead ofkicking them out, he nailed the
boards into the wall and lockedthem in.
He said if I can't kick you out, I'm going to starve you out.
I know he's going to jail.
He's going to jail, brother.
If you're watching, you'regoing to jail one day.
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Here's what I realized.
Unbelief is just like thosesquatters it moves into my space
, it says it's here for a littlewhile and then it overstays its
welcome and unbelief will startmoving furniture around.
But unbelief will also takehostages.
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It'll say well, since I'm here,let me hold favor hostage.
And let me here, let me holdyour belief hostage.
And while I'm here, let me holdyour joy hostage.
And while I'm here, let me holdyour marriage hostage.
And while I'm here, that kidyou've been praying for, let me
hold that hostage.
And nothing changes until youevict it.
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Tell the person beside you youhave to evict it, oh, that's
good.
Tell the person on the otherside one more time you got to
evict it, oh, that's good.
Oh, do I have to?
Oh, I got time to get tosomething that I didn't read
earlier.
When you stay inside of a placelonger than you should, that
unbelief can become a stronghold.
There's a way that you have toget rid of strongholds.
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You get rid of strongholds andI won't read the scripture, we
can put it up there.
2 Corinthians 10, 3 is Paultalking, and he starts talking
about strongholds.
But there's a way you have toget rid of a stronghold and I
give you three things out ofthis scripture.
You have to deal with yourimaginations, your high things
and your thoughts, imaginations.
How many of you guys know whoin here has ever been sick and
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then you looked up your symptomson Google and your imagination
made it worse.
Let's confess who in here hasdone that.
Oh yes, thank you so much forthe confession.
This kid said I thought I wasgoing to die and all he did was
cough, one cough and he's likethat's it for me.
But you look at those symptomsand your imagination just takes
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off.
Paul is saying when thatunbelief stays too long, it
starts to question you Can Godreally heal you?
I know he can heal them, butcan he heal you?
Can God really heal you?
I know he can heal them, butcan he heal you?
Can your marriage actually behealed?
Can your mind actually behealed?
Can God reverse that diagnosis?
The first thing that Paul issaying is deal with your
imaginations and don't let themrun wild.
The one thing that you handover to God is your imaginations
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.
What's another thing?
Every high thing.
What is a high thing?
Everything that tries toconfront God.
What's the confrontation of God?
Yeah, he'll do it for them, butI don't know if he'll do it for
you.
And what's the third thing?
Every thought.
Psalm 27, 13 says this I wouldhave fainted unless I believed
to see the goodness of the Lordin the land of the living.
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I get this scripture becausehe's saying I would have passed
out, I would have thrown in thetowel, I would have quit unless
I believed that God was going todo something for me.
I would have given it all away.
So this leads me to John 4 and46.
John 4 and 46, here's Jesustraveling.
He stops at this one town he'dbeen at before Jesus had been
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doing things.
But here's this moment.
There have been some miracleshappening, but Jesus runs into
this one guy who has a verysimilar story to probably what
some of us feel like our livesare.
At John 4, 46.
Once more, he visited Cana inGalilee.
Galilee where he had turnedwater into wine.
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They didn't have social mediaback then, but you better
believe.
As soon as they saw Jesuscoming across the hill, they
were like, hey, the guy is herewho does the thing thing with
the water.
Tell everybody, cook out in myhouse, bring the food and all
the water you can find.
He's going to do it again.
We're going to trick him intodoing it.
Jesus is there and there was acertain royal official whose son
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lives sick in Capernaum.
Now you gotta understand.
Capernaum is 20 miles away.
This probably takes a few hoursof a journey or, if you do it
the proper way, it should takeyou an entire day to get here.
Here's his father, who they sayis a royal official.
That means he works for theking.
Everything the king, everythingthe king has access to.
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This man potentially has accessto.
That means if he needed thebest doctors, the king would
find him the best doctor.
If he needed the best resources, the king would find him the
best resources.
But how many of you guys knowthat there will be a moment in
life where you hit a place whereyou can say all I need is Jesus
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.
He's the only one who can stepin for me.
My mind is going wild.
All I can get is Jesus.
My marriage is crazy.
All I can get is Jesus.
I don't know where your momentwill be.
It may be in a kitchen, it maybe in your car, it may be in a
hospital, it may be at your job,it may be at this altar, it may
be at a prayer night, it may beat a connect group, it may be
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at the senior group, but youwill hit a moment where you got
to throw your hands up and sayall I need is Jesus right here,
whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
It's important becauseCapernaum is also the place.
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A few weeks prior, jesus raninto a guy who said hey, jesus,
my daughter's dead.
She's out of here, she's sick.
Can you come and raise her up?
Jesus stops what he's doing andhe goes to that guy.
He looks at the lifeless girland says, hey, come on, raise
her up.
Jesus stops what he's doing andhe goes to that guy.
He looks at the lifeless girland says, hey, come on, get up.
It's time for you to live again.
Come on, get up.
It's time for you to chooselife again.
Come on, get up.
It's time for you to pursueyour future.
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Come on, get up.
You have life, and life moreabundantly.
Come on, get up.
There's some kids with yourname on it.
Come on, get up, you willachieve all that you have.
This guy said if Jesus could doit for my friend, for sure he
could do it for me.
Let me walk 20 miles and findout where this guy is.
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He walks from here to passWalnut Creek to find Jesus.
I know that because I drove ityesterday.
How many miles it is, learningthe cities.
He gets there, he finds Jesus.
The next scripture says thiswhen he tells Jesus what the
problem is.
Then Jesus told him go backhome, your son will live.
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I love this right here, but ifI'm a wounded, fragile person,
I'm easily offended.
Jesus, what do you mean?
Go back home, my son will live.
I asked you to come and to healmy son.
Now, when my friend came to youand asked you to heal his
daughter, you left what you weredoing and you went to his house
.
Why is it that you won't cometo my house?
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Is it because my resume is notgood enough?
You won't come to my house.
You went to my friend's house.
Why won't you come to my house?
And this is where the enemypicks us off right here when we
start comparing how Jesus healsus compared to how we heal
somebody else, and it can becomeeasy to be offended when Jesus
doesn't do.
The recipe we've seen withothers and so it can also happen
with leaders.
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Why did they go to their houseand only send me a text?
Here's my question Is Jesus inthe text and in the moment?
He absolutely is?
Jesus says go back home, yourson will live.
I'm just crazy enough to believethat some of you will go back
home today and walk into ascenario that's much different
than what you left.
The information you left willchange by the time you get home.
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There will be miracles in thisplace.
There will be evidence.
I'm expecting it.
I'm expecting emails this week.
Pastor Lawrence, you won'tbelieve what happened.
Hal went to the doctor.
Pastor Lawrence, you won'tbelieve what happened.
Hal went back home and myspouse who was crazy they're
just not crazy anymore.
He's going to write you back.
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How do you determine crazy?
It says go back home, your sonwill live.
And the Bible says and the manbelieved what Jesus said.
The man oh, come on, give Godsome praise.
And the man believed what Jesussaid.
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And Northgate believed whatJesus said and Benicia believed
what Jesus said and the Bay Areabelieved what Jesus said.
And you believed what Jesussaid.
And you believed what Jesussaid.
I've just seen too manymiracles, and sit down on them.
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It says in the man believed whatJesus said.
And let me just help you.
That was a moment I got allexcited but I kept reading.
And then the Bible says thatthe man believed.
I was like yup, he believed, hebelieved.
But that's not the part rightthere.
The part is that he believedand the Bible says and he
started.
Started is action.
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That means that there has to besome action built onto your
belief.
You cannot just believe.
The Bible says even the demonsbelieve and tremble, but not
believers.
We believe and we startsomething.
There's an old hymn that saidyou want to be starting
something, got to be startingsomething.
You want to be startingsomething, got to be starting
something.
Is there anybody that wants tostart something?
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Is there anybody who wants tostart something?
Let me check it.
Where are the fire starters at?
Where are you?
You just say I want to startsome stuff.
I want to start some stuff.
Come on, I want to start somestuff.
I want to start some stuff.
The Bible says and started tohead home.
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Oh, I believe that some of youare starting to head towards
your miracle.
You are starting to head.
And it says and while the manwas on his way, some of his
servants met him with the newsthat his son was alive and well.
Would you stand on your feetand give God some praise?
Come on, oh, come on, give Godsome praise, come on.
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The father's probably.
I identify with the fatherbecause verse 52, he says they
gave him the fact that he wasalive.
But the father's basicallysaying let me check the receipts
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for a second, let me see if Ican clock this for a second.
He says.
Verse 52, he says when did myson start feeling better?
And they said yesterdayafternoon at one o'clock, his
fever suddenly disappeared.
His fever suddenly disappeared.
Don't be shocked if by tomorrowat this time, you walk into
some information that finds outthat things have shifted in your
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favor.
And he says then the fatherrealized that that was the very
time that Jesus told him yourson will live.
I was talking to Pastor Meganlast week and after the service
she said she said, pastorCourtney, you're preaching on
healing the only way she can.
Pastor Courtney, you'repreaching on healing the only
way she can.
Pastor Courtney, you'repreaching on healing next week.
I said I am.
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She said you know what I'vediscovered about healing?
I said what's that?
She said healing has to pointto Jesus for it to be a miracle.
And I said that's good, I putit in here.
But then I was reading thisscripture this week and the
spirit of Pastor Megan fell onme and this is what it says Then
Jesus, then the father,realized that there was.
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That was the very time Jesushad told him.
Then it says your son will livehere's the part, right here and
he and his entire householdbegin to believe in Jesus
because of a miracle.
Because of a miracle.
Because of a miracle, come on.
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I remember when my wife got thediagnosis and she looked at me
and she said, courtney, in thismoment, we're going to use this
moment so others can see Jesus.
She was determined that thismiracle moment, this moment for
healing, was going to pointpeople into finding out who
Jesus is.
And I want to just tell youthis as you're standing here
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looking for a miracle, many ofyou, your life is not just going
to change, but others are goingto discover Jesus because of
your yes, I don't want to holdit.
You're here today and you sayPastor Courtney, I came looking
for a miracle.
I want to know can God dosomething with my life?
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Can he shift this thing?
If that's you, come on, liftyour hands up high, don't be
ashamed.
Come on, lift it up with thatconfidence that's you partnering
with Holy Spirit right there.
I want to pray over thisatmosphere and I want to pray
with a little bit of passion,because I'm passionate about you
, father, in Jesus' name, fromroom to room, space to space,
wall to wall, seat to seat, I'mthanking you right now that you
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are about to do the miraculousinside of lives, homes and
families.
In this place, father, you areusing this moment.
There will be a new diagnosis,there will be new understanding,
there will be new evidence thatyour glory is here because
we're partnering with you.
We believe we receive, and it'sdone in Jesus' name.
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Come on, give God some praise inhere.
Come on church, Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on, students.
Let me hear you.
Come on From the back all theway to the front.
Last thing lift both of thosehands all over the place.
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Lift them up.
Say this prayer with me, lordGod, come on, say it like you
mean it.
Lord God, my life is a miracle.
My life is a canvas for yourglory.
Canvas for your glory.
Let there be miracles in myhouse, in my church, in my city,
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in my family.
In Jesus' name, amen.
One more time, give God somepraise.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, come on.
Amen.
Was that a great word, guys.
That was awesome.
Good morning, arcade.
Good morning.
We will be reading from thebook of John, chapter 4, verse
46, 50 through 53.
Once more he visited Cana, inGalilee, where he had turned
water into wine, and there was acertain royal official whose
son lay sick at Capernaum.
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Then Jesus told him Go backhome, your son will live.
And the man believed what Jesussaid and started home.
While the man was on his way,some of his servants met him
with the news that his son wasalive and well.
He asked them when the boy hadbegan to get better, and they
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replied yesterday afternoon atone o'clock his fever suddenly
disappeared.
Then the father realized thatthat was the very time Jesus had
told him your son will live,and he and his entire household
believed in Jesus.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Good morning everyone .
I will be reading John, chapter4, verse 46 in Tagalog.
Jesus answered the Word of theLord.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Come on, show them some love.
Everybody.
Is anybody excited to be in thehouse of the Lord today?
Hey, the students are back fromcamp.
I'm excited.
Hey, welcome back to all theparents.
They're like, yay, right, whenmy refrigerator got a break.
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They're like they're back.
But thank y'all.
Y'all have brought so muchenergy to this service, so y'all
are going to keep the partygoing then.
That's incredible.
Where are the people in here whoknow how to cook?
You're gifted at cooking.
You know what you're doing.
You know how to throw down alittle bit.
You know what you're doing.
You know how to throw down alittle bit.
Where are you at?
There you go?
There you go.
We're all the people who knowhow to fix things.
You're kind of a you can takethat.
We need to know you in casesomething goes wrong.
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There you go.
We're all the people.
You're like I don't really cook, but I stay close to the
kitchen.
I'm a good taste tester.
We're the ones who are justlike a little bit more salt and
it'll be just right.
There you go.
We're in this church.
We're in a house where thereare many gifts.
I mean, every week there's adifferent language reading the
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opening scripture.
Every church is not able to dothat.
So that lets you know thatthere are so many gifts in this
house.
Do me a favor Tell the personbeside you I think you're gifted
.
Tell the person on the otherside do I need a breath mint?
Ask them, ask them, ask them.
Ask them, ask them.
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Wait for the answer.
Don't get offended.
Ask them and listen.
All right, if they said yes,just take the breath mint or
pass it to someone else.
The Bible talks about our giftsand how our gifts work in unison
.
So that way God gives gifts tothe church so the church can
make a difference.
I have a scripture.
I didn't give them back here,kind of went rogue a little bit.
First, corinthians 12, 28,.
It says and God placed in thechurch, first off apostles,
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prophets, teachers, watch this.
Then miracles, then gifts ofhealing, helping.
Then he said the gift ofadministration and all kinds of
tongues.
I want to lean in today.
Last week I preached aboutprophecy when it comes to the
Holy Spirit.
This week I want to talk abouthealing when it comes to the
Holy Spirit.
Is that okay?
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That's good.
Come on, y'all give God somepraise.
Y'all are ready already.
I feel like Pastor Lawrence gaveme the two provocative topics
and said you got that one man, Ifeel like he gave me prophecy
and then he gave me healing.
Because remember last week Italked to you here.
Last week let's let's rewind itreally quick.
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Remember last week when Italked about prophecy and and I
said that you wake up at one inthe morning and there's somebody
telling you to call into anumber.
Well, the same thing withhealing.
You wake up at one in themorning and there's somebody
telling you to call into anumber.
Well, the same thing withhealing.
You wake up at one in themorning.
Sometimes there's a person upthere not trying to sell you
holy water, but they'd be likecall in, we ripped this garment
into 27 pieces, call it now,you'll be healed.
And let me just tell you thoughthat is Bible for some of us you
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either saw that and you saidthat is a little too provocative
for me, or for some you saidthat is paralyzing to me.
And what we don't realize isthat the gift of healing, or the
nature of healing, or healingis supposed to be a part of the
life of every believer.
Here's what I've had to realizethat just because someone else
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did it and it lookedperformative, it looked like a
production or it lookedpolarizing, still does not mean
that God didn't want to do it inmy life.
That means that I need God togo beyond my understanding in my
comfort zones, because everynow and then you run across
somebody who seems like they'rejust highly overproduced or
they're passionate and you'rejust like God.
I don't know if I want healingin my life to look like that,
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because there are moments forsome of you you've seen healing
look more like a circus thanlook like the presence of the
Lord.
Amen.
Anybody else in here?
Yeah, okay, you get it and so,but then I can't throw it out of
the word.
So what do you want me to dowith this word then, god?
Let's walk through a little bitof that today.
Here's what I realized Wheneveryou're looking at the word
healing in the Bible and theword of God, it means this
definition it means to be wholeagain, restored to purpose, or
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fully aligned with God's desires.
Come on, whole again, restoredto purpose, fully aligned with
God's desires.
Let's try it.
We didn't do this in the firstservice.
Read this with me out loud,like we've done this before Go.
Healing means whole again,restored to purpose, fully
aligned with God's design.
Boy, we sound good.
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We sound good.
Here's why this is so important, because when we're praying for
healing, I'm not just prayingGod, help me feel better.
I'm saying make me whole again.
It is not just don't take thepain away.
I want you to make me whole.
How can you look at my life andsay that you can fix the
fractured places?
He wants to make me whole.
Here's another thing he wantsto restore me to my original
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purpose.
Everyone in here has a purpose.
When God looked at you anddesigned you, the person sitting
in your seat actually has apurpose.
The person born into yourfamily actually has a purpose.
And then the last thing isfully aligned with God's desires
.
I've been pastoring people forquite a few years and I've had a
chance to run into many peoplewho've received healings, and
I've also run into some peoplethat I know that, after
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receiving their healing, one ofthe things that they did is they
left the desire to be alignedwith God's desire.
They took that new whole self,that new whole marriage, that
new whole body, that whole newunderstanding, and they decided
I can do what I want to do, notwhat God wants me to do and how
many of you guys know that isnot what God is trying to push
you.
He wants to say how can I getyou to be my instrument, how can
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I get you to work on my behalf?
Here's what I wrote.
Healing often walks in withthree companions presence,
prayer and partnership Presence.
Prayer and partnership Presencethat's this.
Right here, you felt thepresence of the Lord.
Who, in here, felt the HolySpirit during worship?
You felt that Worship, come on,come on, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You felt that right there.
What a beautiful name.
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It is the name of Jesus.
You felt that thing.
And then somebody came up andprayed and you begin to feel the
presence of the Lord in aprayer.
But it's not just in presence,it's not just in prayer, it's
also in our partnership.
Jesus came, died on the crossfor you and I went to the grave,
overthrew the grave, got out ofthe grave, came and said ha, ha
, I won.
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And then looked at thedisciples and said now I'm going
to leave this all in yourauthority.
So now I'm going to give youHoly Spirit, which is the name
of the sermon series.
And he said you're going to begiven power by Holy Spirit, and
he's going to be your comforter.
But the way that you unlock allthat he has for you on the
inside is through partnership.
You have to partner, we have topartner.
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That means he's going to do hispart.
I'm going to do my part.
Tell the person beside you say,do your part.
Ask the person on the otherside where are we going to eat
at after church?
If the other person on theother side of you is single and
you're single, this may be yourmoment.
Girl, I've been looking for youall service.
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You want to know the thing thatoften stands in the way of me
walking out the gifts of theSpirit, such as healing.
It's often, it's not the enemy,sometimes it is the enemy.
It's the enemy, it's the devil.
He's trying to fight against meand all that stuff.
But sometimes it's not theenemy, sometimes it's really the
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inner me.
Hmm, it's not just the enemy,it's the inner me, it's my
understanding, it's myexperiences that keep me from
unlocking what God has for me.
So this lets me know that Godwants to deal with my belief
system so he can throw me intothe journey of healing.
What is the difference?
What's the deal with my beliefsystem?
Here's what I wrote.
Your belief system wasn't justlearned, it's often survived.
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Many of us carry a beliefsystem shaped by survival, not
by scripture, and when we askGod to bless our system, god is
often saying I don't want tojust bless your belief system, I
want to overhaul your beliefsystem.
Many of us don't realize thatour belief system is shaped
between the ages of one andeight.
What you believe, how youbelieve, why you believe, is
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often established between theages of one and eight.
That is where it's formed orwhere it becomes deformed.
What we believe and here I wantto give you a few areas on how
that comes alive it comes alivelike this what we believe is
shaped by our environment.
The environment that you're inoften shapes your belief system.
That's why you can grow up in ahome whether it be a good home
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or a bad home, or a home thathas people fighting or a home
that has people celebrating.
That begins to shape you.
And let me help us for a quicksecond.
If you're a home that fights alot and you think, well, that
kid doesn't know what we'resaying.
That environment is shapingthem, that argument that they
don't hear in the bedroom, butthey can feel the atmosphere of
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that right there.
It is shaping that little one,and so our environment helps to
shape our belief system.
What's the second thing?
Our repetitious information,what we hear over and over and,
over and over again.
That's why it's important foryou to speak things over
yourself.
Or if you find somebody and youdon't feel like they're
actually doing the right thingand I'll go back to the little
kid scenario and that little kidmay be mischievous or what you
would call that and you keeptelling that kid oh, you're bad,
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you're this, you're that.
If they keep hearing it overand over again, they're going to
adopt that as their identity.
Here's another thing that shapesour belief system voices of
significant others.
You ever had that coach thatbelieved in you, or somebody
that said that you could doanything, and you actually
believe that thing.
You're just like, yes, I can gopro, knowing you really can't
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go pro because you can't hit acurve ball.
But you're like, I can go pro.
No, you can't, but for a secondin that game.
You believed it right there.
What's the fourth one?
Experiences shape us.
I came from the generationwhere they would pull the chair
from up under the person andthen they said yeah, some of
y'all scarred by that right now,come on to the altar.
All the people that had chairs,some of y'all are the pulley or
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the pulled.
We got the bullies and theother ones in here today, but if
you ever saw somebody have thechair pulled from up under them,
they checked chairs for thenext two years.
No chair went unknown.
They grabbed it and just satdown slow.
Why?
Because that experience shapedthem, and so, the same way that
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the inner me can shape my beliefsystem through what happens
with me, through my experiences,I love the power of God,
because God is strong enough totake the thing that the enemy
tried to use as a blueprint,flip it on his head, rebuild it
and turn it into the thing thathe uses to reshape us.
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And so, with that being said,my belief system is rebuilt
through my environment.
Thank you for coming to churchtoday.
Give yourself a hand, come on.
You could have been anywhereelse, you didn't have to use
your gas to get here today, butyou wanted to be in the house of
the Lord, because environmentsshape your belief system.
That's why it's important thatwe be in the house of the Lord.
That's why I can't just comeonce a month.
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I got to be here whenever thedoors open, because I don't know
how your life works.
The enemy tries to come at meevery day, and so I got to fight
him every day.
I got to be in the rightenvironment.
Here's the second thingrepetitious information.
When I was a student pastor, mystudent leaders would walk
around with an index card intheir back pocket of the
scripture they were memorizing.
I don't think do they even sellindex cards today?
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Maybe not, maybe not.
So index cards are just whitecards with a lot.
We'll explain that later.
We'll explain that in the DeweyDecimal System later.
Here we go, and so there's anindex card that would have
scriptures on it and they wouldmemorize these scriptures right,
because they wanted to getthese scriptures in their heart
so that way, when life tried tocome against them, they had
something that was planted onthe inside of them that could
fight against what life wastrying to throw at them.
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Repetitious information isnecessary.
The Bible says faith cometh byhearing hearing the word.
You got to hear something overand over again.
There are some sermon seriesyou got to hear over and over
again.
You can't just hear it one time.
Who was here last year duringthe summer when there was a
sermon series on mental health.
Eight to nine weeks on that,some of us may need to go back
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and just start playing thosesermons over and over again and
resetting what you hear.
And the fourth one is yourexperience.
That's why, when the worshipteam was up singing man, I
couldn't stand it.
I had to come out here andthrow my hands up because I
needed an experience that wasgreater than my reality.
I needed an experience that Icould engage with, where I could
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surrender my life and say God,here's my life, here's my yes,
here's all of me.
And I'm grabbing for youratmosphere because I know that
you're here.
I believe that you're here andI know you want to do something.
Experiences shape all of us andso, with that being said, if
that's the truth, with all fourof those things, this leads me
to Mark 9.
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Mark 9, there's Jesus.
He's up on the mountain.
He's on the mountain calledTransfiguration.
He's there.
And you know, it's kind of somecool stuff happening up there.
Go back and read it in Mark 9.
Right before that Jesus isthere, his friends have
hologrammed in the otherdisciples that are with him.
Like this is some trippy stuffhappening right here.
And so Jesus they finish andJesus said let's go back down
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the mountain.
And they get back down themountain and there's a commotion
because there is this group ofpeople around the disciples and
you really can't tell what'sgoing on.
But as Jesus gets closer, thereis this father who brought his
son to the disciples because hesaid my kid needs to be healed.
And so Jesus walks up on thisscenario, to this commotion.
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He's like what's happening?
And the father looks at Jesusand he's like I brought my son
because I heard that you andyour disciples could heal people
.
And I brought my son because hehas these issues.
Jesus said how long has yourson been dealing with this
affliction?
How long has he been dealingwith this possession?
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And the father says since birthhe's been dealing with this
affliction.
How long has he been dealingwith this possession?
And the father says since birthhe's been dealing with this.
Since birth, my son, who I love, my son would throw himself in
the fire.
Since birth, my son would throwhimself in the water to drown
himself.
And since birth my son wouldjust lay there lifeless, looking
like he was dead afterwards.
And Jesus, in that moment herealized something has to be
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done.
Many of us walked in heresaying I need to understand the
father.
Or I am that son.
I'm either the father bringingsomebody to the altar, or I'm
that son saying Pastor Courtney,that's me.
I find myself in fierysituations.
I find myself in situationswhere the heat is turned up and
I don't even know how I gotthere, or I find myself
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underwater drowning, trying tofigure out how can I find an
answer.
Or you're like the last part ofthe sun and life has beaten you
so much that all you can do asyour seed is lay there, lifeless
.
Are you alive?
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Yeah, I'm alive, I'm not moving.
Are you alive?
But I'm paralyzed?
Are you alive?
I don't have any energy.
Are you alive?
I'm just exhausted.
Father brings a son, one boyversus nine disciples.
The Bible says he beat themboys so bad.
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And you know it's true why?
Because I've seen daycarecenters.
One kid beat up nine workers.
My wife works in the schoolsystem.
One kid, nine workers.
There's the disciples,frustrated.
Jesus tells him.
He said oh, you have littlefaith.
How much longer shall I contendwith this generation?
In other words, what he'sreally saying to them is this
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he's saying, hey, disciples,guys, how long are you going to
be next to me with proximity,sound like me and look like me,
but have no power like me?
And I believe oh sorry, I gotmyself stirred up real quick I
believe that that's what ishappening right now is that God
is looking at 2025, and he'ssaying there are people that are
coming in wounded, hurting andin need of a miracle.
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And he's saying how much longerwill you look like me, sound
like me, be next to me, but haveno power like me?
And he says let me bring theson.
So Jesus asked the father.
He says do you want me to healyour son?
Dad's like, if you can?
Jesus said if I can.
This is crazy because thisfather left his house to bring
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his son to find these disciples.
Clearly this man had faith atsome level, but how many guys
know that if you go searchingfor a miracle and you give it
your best shot and you don't gethealed, that can knock the wind
out of you?
Here's his father.
The wind is knocked out of himbecause he was searching for an
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answer from God.
And he said when I walked uphere, I had faith that something
could happen, but now I findmyself wondering can this
actually happen?
And then here's what the fathersays.
He says right here.
He says immediately the fatherof the child cried out and said
I believe, but help my unbelief.
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That's the tension right there.
That's the tension many of ussit in.
Healing is it a reality or arumor?
Healing I believe it's possiblefor them, but I don't know if
it's possible for me.
In many of us we have faith forsomebody else, but we have no
faith for ourselves oftentimesbecause we've run the resume of
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our experience as opposed to thetruth of God's existence.
And I understand that fatherwho came searching for a healing
but is standing in a placewhere they said the healing can
be, and he still has the sameevidence he walked up with.
I remember in the season when mywife was healed of cancer.
I remember that moment, but Ialso remember us wanting to have
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kids in that season.
She got healed of cancer.
I remember that moment, but Ialso remember us wanting to have
kids in that season.
She got healed of cancer.
I didn't get the kid, but Ikept the wife.
And I remember thinking God,where are you?
And I read this scripture andlisten to this Immediately the
father of the child cried outand said I believe, but help my
unbelief.
In other words, I have faith.
It's not perfect, though.
What I have is the kind offaith I have faith.
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It's not perfect, though.
What I have is the kind offaith, this honest faith.
And everybody in here walked inhere today and someone said I
don't have perfect faith, man ofGod, but what I do have is
honest faith.
And let me just say this Peopleare sitting on your row and
everyone walked in with a smile,but somebody walked in here
desperate today.
Somebody walked in here sayingthis is my last chance at God.
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Walked in here desperate todeath.
Somebody walked in here sayingthis is my last chance at God.
Somebody walked in here andsaid this is my last opportunity
to try God for this thing, orelse life is done, it's over, I
quit, that's it for me.
And somebody on your faith hasthe answer called faith.
So this father, he asked me.
He says yo, I believe you can,but you got to help my unbelief.
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My unbelief is just a littlecrazy right now, because I
walked up believing that you can.
Here's what I love.
This father stands between thereality of where he is and the
possibilities of heaven.
And as I read that scriptureover and over again, I realized
something in that scripture thathappened to be true in my own
life Is that, though he did nothave his miracle, he still had
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the miracle worker close.
Just let me know that Jesusnever leaves the people who are
sitting in brokenness becausethey did not receive what they
expected.
And I don't know about you.
Every time I felt like therewas an unanswered prayer, I
assumed that God was distant.
But this scripture right herelets me know that God is close.
Whether I feel him or not, thetruth is that Jesus never left
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the scenario.
Jesus ends up going on to healthis little boy and it changes
their entire life.
But you're sitting in heretoday and I want to encourage
you that healing is possible foryou.
Whatever that thing is, thatdiagnosis, whatever people have
said that marriage is broken,that mindset that feels like
it's redundant, that cycle inyour emotions Jesus can heal
whatever you're walking through,and so that right there gives
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me the understanding that whenthis scripture says to me, let
this mind be in you, that isalso in Christ Jesus.
It's real.
Last week I told y'all somethingand you guys talked to me about
it at the church.
I told y'all that I absolutelylove TikTok.
I spend a lot of time on it,and several of y'all were asking
me I thought y'all were goingto say something about the
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message.
You just wanted to walk up tome and ask me what was the
secret Waffle House thing?
Shout out to everybody who wenthome and made the secret Waffle
House menu this weekend.
I was on TikTok earlier thisweek and here's my confession.
Last week it was Waffle House.
You know what the algorithm putme on this week?
Squatters.
Anybody know what a squatter is?
A person who moves into yourhouse and they don't have
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ownership.
And do you know that you cannotphysically remove those people?
Like, if you physically go toremove them and they get injured
, they can sue you, isn't thiscrazy?
So you can't even pull them outbecause if they hurt their back
or throw their back out, thenthey can sue you and sue you in
court and then just take thehouse that they were kind of
squatting in.
So I ran across this one guy onTikTok, right, he said I'm not
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going to put the squatters out.
So he went to Home Depot andgot some boards and he went to
all the doors and instead ofkicking them out, he nailed the
boards into the wall and lockedthem in.
He said if I can't kick you out, I'm going to starve you out.
I know he's going to jail.
He's going to jail, brother.
If you're watching, you'regoing to jail one day.
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Here's what I realized.
Unbelief is just like thosesquatters it moves into my space
, it says it's here for a littlewhile and then it overstays its
welcome and unbelief will startmoving furniture around.
But unbelief will also takehostages.
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It'll say well, since I'm here,let me hold favor hostage.
And let me here, let me holdyour belief hostage.
And while I'm here, let me holdyour joy hostage.
And while I'm here, let me holdyour marriage hostage.
And while I'm here, that kidyou've been praying for, let me
hold that hostage.
And nothing changes until youevict it.
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Tell the person beside you youhave to evict it, oh, that's
good.
Tell the person on the otherside one more time you got to
evict it, oh, that's good.
Oh, do I have to?
Oh, I got time to get tosomething that I didn't read
earlier.
When you stay inside of a placelonger than you should, that
unbelief can become a stronghold.
There's a way that you have toget rid of strongholds.
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You get rid of strongholds andI won't read the scripture, we
can put it up there.
2 Corinthians 10, 3 is Paultalking, and he starts talking
about strongholds.
But there's a way you have toget rid of a stronghold and I
give you three things out ofthis scripture.
You have to deal with yourimaginations, your high things
and your thoughts, imaginations.
How many of you guys know whoin here has ever been sick and
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then you looked up your symptomson Google and your imagination
made it worse.
Let's confess who in here hasdone that.
Oh yes, thank you so much forthe confession.
This kid said I thought I wasgoing to die and all he did was
cough, one cough and he's likethat's it for me.
But you look at those symptomsand your imagination just takes
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off.
Paul is saying when thatunbelief stays too long, it
starts to question you Can Godreally heal you?
I know he can heal them, butcan he heal you?
Can God really heal you?
I know he can heal them, butcan he heal you?
Can your marriage actually behealed?
Can your mind actually behealed?
Can God reverse that diagnosis?
The first thing that Paul issaying is deal with your
imaginations and don't let themrun wild.
The one thing that you handover to God is your imaginations
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.
What's another thing?
Every high thing.
What is a high thing?
Everything that tries toconfront God.
What's the confrontation of God?
Yeah, he'll do it for them, butI don't know if he'll do it for
you.
And what's the third thing?
Every thought.
Psalm 27, 13 says this I wouldhave fainted unless I believed
to see the goodness of the Lordin the land of the living.
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I get this scripture becausehe's saying I would have passed
out, I would have thrown in thetowel, I would have quit unless
I believed that God was going todo something for me.
I would have given it all away.
So this leads me to John 4 and46.
John 4 and 46, here's Jesustraveling.
He stops at this one town he'dbeen at before Jesus had been
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doing things.
But here's this moment.
There have been some miracleshappening, but Jesus runs into
this one guy who has a verysimilar story to probably what
some of us feel like our livesare.
At John 4, 46.
Once more, he visited Cana inGalilee.
Galilee where he had turnedwater into wine.
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They didn't have social mediaback then, but you better
believe.
As soon as they saw Jesuscoming across the hill, they
were like, hey, the guy is herewho does the thing thing with
the water.
Tell everybody, cook out in myhouse, bring the food and all
the water you can find.
He's going to do it again.
We're going to trick him intodoing it.
Jesus is there and there was acertain royal official whose son
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lives sick in Capernaum.
Now you gotta understand.
Capernaum is 20 miles away.
This probably takes a few hoursof a journey or, if you do it
the proper way, it should takeyou an entire day to get here.
Here's his father, who they sayis a royal official.
That means he works for theking.
Everything the king, everythingthe king has access to.
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This man potentially has accessto.
That means if he needed thebest doctors, the king would
find him the best doctor.
If he needed the best resources, the king would find him the
best resources.
But how many of you guys knowthat there will be a moment in
life where you hit a place whereyou can say all I need is Jesus
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.
He's the only one who can stepin for me.
My mind is going wild.
All I can get is Jesus.
My marriage is crazy.
All I can get is Jesus.
I don't know where your momentwill be.
It may be in a kitchen, it maybe in your car, it may be in a
hospital, it may be at your job,it may be at this altar, it may
be at a prayer night, it may beat a connect group, it may be
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at the senior group, but youwill hit a moment where you got
to throw your hands up and sayall I need is Jesus right here,
whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
It's important becauseCapernaum is also the place.
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A few weeks prior, jesus raninto a guy who said hey, jesus,
my daughter's dead.
She's out of here, she's sick.
Can you come and raise her up?
Jesus stops what he's doing andhe goes to that guy.
He looks at the lifeless girland says, hey, come on, raise
her up.
Jesus stops what he's doing andhe goes to that guy.
He looks at the lifeless girland says, hey, come on, get up.
It's time for you to live again.
Come on, get up.
It's time for you to chooselife again.
Come on, get up.
It's time for you to pursueyour future.
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Come on, get up.
You have life, and life moreabundantly.
Come on, get up.
There's some kids with yourname on it.
Come on, get up, you willachieve all that you have.
This guy said if Jesus could doit for my friend, for sure he
could do it for me.
Let me walk 20 miles and findout where this guy is.
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He walks from here to passWalnut Creek to find Jesus.
I know that because I drove ityesterday.
How many miles it is, learningthe cities.
He gets there, he finds Jesus.
The next scripture says thiswhen he tells Jesus what the
problem is.
Then Jesus told him go backhome, your son will live.
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I love this right here, but ifI'm a wounded, fragile person,
I'm easily offended.
Jesus, what do you mean?
Go back home, my son will live.
I asked you to come and to healmy son.
Now, when my friend came to youand asked you to heal his
daughter, you left what you weredoing and you went to his house
.
Why is it that you won't cometo my house?
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Is it because my resume is notgood enough?
You won't come to my house.
You went to my friend's house.
Why won't you come to my house?
And this is where the enemypicks us off right here when we
start comparing how Jesus healsus compared to how we heal
somebody else, and it can becomeeasy to be offended when Jesus
doesn't do.
The recipe we've seen withothers and so it can also happen
with leaders.
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Why did they go to their houseand only send me a text?
Here's my question Is Jesus inthe text and in the moment?
He absolutely is?
Jesus says go back home, yourson will live.
I'm just crazy enough to believethat some of you will go back
home today and walk into ascenario that's much different
than what you left.
The information you left willchange by the time you get home.
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There will be miracles in thisplace.
There will be evidence.
I'm expecting it.
I'm expecting emails this week.
Pastor Lawrence, you won'tbelieve what happened.
Hal went to the doctor.
Pastor Lawrence, you won'tbelieve what happened.
Hal went back home and myspouse who was crazy they're
just not crazy anymore.
He's going to write you back.
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How do you determine crazy?
It says go back home, your sonwill live.
And the Bible says and the manbelieved what Jesus said.
The man oh, come on, give Godsome praise.
And the man believed what Jesussaid.
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And Northgate believed whatJesus said and Benicia believed
what Jesus said and the Bay Areabelieved what Jesus said.
And you believed what Jesussaid.
And you believed what Jesussaid.
I've just seen too manymiracles, and sit down on them.
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It says in the man believed whatJesus said.
And let me just help you.
That was a moment I got allexcited but I kept reading.
And then the Bible says thatthe man believed.
I was like yup, he believed, hebelieved.
But that's not the part rightthere.
The part is that he believedand the Bible says and he
started.
Started is action.
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That means that there has to besome action built onto your
belief.
You cannot just believe.
The Bible says even the demonsbelieve and tremble, but not
believers.
We believe and we startsomething.
There's an old hymn that saidyou want to be starting
something, got to be startingsomething.
You want to be startingsomething, got to be starting
something.
Is there anybody that wants tostart something?
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Is there anybody who wants tostart something?
Let me check it.
Where are the fire starters at?
Where are you?
You just say I want to startsome stuff.
I want to start some stuff.
Come on, I want to start somestuff.
I want to start some stuff.
The Bible says and started tohead home.
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Oh, I believe that some of youare starting to head towards
your miracle.
You are starting to head.
And it says and while the manwas on his way, some of his
servants met him with the newsthat his son was alive and well.
Would you stand on your feetand give God some praise?
Come on, oh, come on, give Godsome praise, come on.
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The father's probably.
I identify with the fatherbecause verse 52, he says they
gave him the fact that he wasalive.
But the father's basicallysaying let me check the receipts
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for a second, let me see if Ican clock this for a second.
He says.
Verse 52, he says when did myson start feeling better?
And they said yesterdayafternoon at one o'clock, his
fever suddenly disappeared.
His fever suddenly disappeared.
Don't be shocked if by tomorrowat this time, you walk into
some information that finds outthat things have shifted in your
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favor.
And he says then the fatherrealized that that was the very
time that Jesus told him yourson will live.
I was talking to Pastor Meganlast week and after the service
she said she said, pastorCourtney, you're preaching on
healing the only way she can.
Pastor Courtney, you'repreaching on healing the only
way she can.
Pastor Courtney, you'repreaching on healing next week.
I said I am.
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She said you know what I'vediscovered about healing?
I said what's that?
She said healing has to pointto Jesus for it to be a miracle.
And I said that's good, I putit in here.
But then I was reading thisscripture this week and the
spirit of Pastor Megan fell onme and this is what it says Then
Jesus, then the father,realized that there was.
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That was the very time Jesushad told him.
Then it says your son will livehere's the part, right here and
he and his entire householdbegin to believe in Jesus
because of a miracle.
Because of a miracle.
Because of a miracle, come on.
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I remember when my wife got thediagnosis and she looked at me
and she said, courtney, in thismoment, we're going to use this
moment so others can see Jesus.
She was determined that thismiracle moment, this moment for
healing, was going to pointpeople into finding out who
Jesus is.
And I want to just tell youthis as you're standing here
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looking for a miracle, many ofyou, your life is not just going
to change, but others are goingto discover Jesus because of
your yes, I don't want to holdit.
You're here today and you sayPastor Courtney, I came looking
for a miracle.
I want to know can God dosomething with my life?
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Can he shift this thing?
If that's you, come on, liftyour hands up high, don't be
ashamed.
Come on, lift it up with thatconfidence that's you partnering
with Holy Spirit right there.
I want to pray over thisatmosphere and I want to pray
with a little bit of passion,because I'm passionate about you
, father, in Jesus' name, fromroom to room, space to space,
wall to wall, seat to seat, I'mthanking you right now that you
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are about to do the miraculousinside of lives, homes and
families.
In this place, father, you areusing this moment.
There will be a new diagnosis,there will be new understanding,
there will be new evidence thatyour glory is here because
we're partnering with you.
We believe we receive, and it'sdone in Jesus' name.
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Come on, give God some praise inhere.
Come on church, Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on church.
Come on, students.
Let me hear you.
Come on From the back all theway to the front.
Last thing lift both of thosehands all over the place.
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Lift them up.
Say this prayer with me, lordGod, come on, say it like you
mean it.
Lord God, my life is a miracle.
My life is a canvas for yourglory.
Canvas for your glory.
Let there be miracles in myhouse, in my church, in my city,
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in my family.
In Jesus' name, amen.
One more time, give God somepraise.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, come on.
Amen.
Was that a great word, guys.
That was awesome.
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