The A to Z of Healing: Positioning Yourself to Receive a Miracle
This episode of Power Hour dives into how we position ourselves to receive a miracle. Carlie Terradez explains that God has already made miraculous provision available through Jesus — our role is to stay in faith and patience while we see those promises manifest.
We break down the difference between miracles and healings:
- A miracle suspends natural laws entirely
- Healing is often a sped-up natural process
The conversation also covers how staying strong in faith means refusing offense, resisting discouragement, and keeping our hearts anchored in God’s Word. When we stay confident in God’s goodness and refuse to quit, we set ourselves up to receive exactly what He promised.
🔑 Takeaways
- Receiving miracles requires active faith, patience, and staying rooted in God’s Word
- Miracles override nature, while healing accelerates the body’s natural recovery
- Faith + patience = inheriting God’s promises
- Offense, distraction, and discouragement can block miracles — stay focused on God’s truth
🔗 Links referenced
- YouTube — Terradez TV: https://www.youtube.com/TerradezTV
- Contact for prayer: info@terradez.com
Transcript
Welcome to Power Hour where we believe it is God's will for you to be well.
Speaker A:I'm your host, Kylie Terradez, and this podcast is created from the weekly live streams that I do every Thursday at 1pm Mountain time.
Speaker A:Whether you tune in live or listen later, this message is something that you can receive today.
Speaker A:Let's get started.
Speaker A:Let's get into the word of God.
Speaker A:Get your Bibles out.
Speaker A:This is going to be great.
Speaker A:Now the first scripture I want to start with here is in Hebrews 6, verse 12.
Speaker A:And then while you're finding that, let me just mention something first.
Speaker A:You know, a lot of people when we're looking at miracles, they're not really very clearly defined in people's minds.
Speaker A:They just know that they're in a desperate situation and they need to receive something.
Speaker A:And people will refer to something as a miracle, even if it's just something that turned out in their favor the supernatural.
Speaker A:Miracles do have a definition.
Speaker A:They are suspension of a natural law.
Speaker A:Okay, now there is a working of miracles that is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:And when you, when you see this in the, in the scriptures, examples of working of miracles that would be, you know, there's, there's, there's so many different ones that, that you could pull out.
Speaker A:But I'm thinking, you know, when they go in the catch, the, the, the ax head starts to float.
Speaker A:And when they, the prophet and tells the man he loses his axe head and it sinks to the bottom and it was a borrowed ax head and it would have been in a lot of trouble.
Speaker A:And the prophet comes, is throw a stick in and the ax head started to float.
Speaker A:That was a working of a miracle because we know there is gravity involved that simply just, you know, being in this world, there's gravity is part of that.
Speaker A:And the accent is heavy and it sinks to the bottom water ax heads don't float.
Speaker A:For an ax head to float, float a metal Axid, then that would have had to been a suspension of a natural, the natural law of, of gravity, of, of buoyancy.
Speaker A:And so that is an example of a miracle.
Speaker A:But you know, if we put this into the context of healing.
Speaker A:Your body is designed to heal itself.
Speaker A:You have an immune system so that when you, you know, have a bump or a bruise or a hurt or infection or whatever, a virus, your body will attack it and there will, there is a healing process that's naturally built into your body.
Speaker A:God was so smart when he design kind that he created the human body with the ability to, to heal itself.
Speaker A:Now what you might be thinking, well, you know, I need.
Speaker A:I need a miracle in my body.
Speaker A:How do I know if it's a miracle or healing?
Speaker A:How I'm going to know, you know, do I need to know the difference?
Speaker A:Well, honestly, because they're all received the same way.
Speaker A:It's not that important.
Speaker A:Don't get that technical.
Speaker A:But for people that are interested, the difference between a miracle and a healing in the body is, is this.
Speaker A:If somebody has a.
Speaker A:A problem with their body and their body recovers from it, we could say that they've been healed of that.
Speaker A:Now, a supernatural healing is a.
Speaker A:Is an extreme supernatural speeding up of that natural process that's already in the body.
Speaker A:So rather than taking six months to recover from the surgery or, you know, or build up strength in, you know, atrophied muscles or six months for whatever it is to, you know, a long period of time for that body to naturally recover, it happened in an instant.
Speaker A:That would be a supernatural healing.
Speaker A:That's aside from some.
Speaker A:A process that's already happened naturally in the body.
Speaker A:It's a supernatural speeding up of that natural process in the body.
Speaker A:That's a supernatural healing.
Speaker A:But a miracle in the body, put in the context of healing, that would be something being restored or returned or created that isn't not in existence anymore.
Speaker A:So, for example, a miracle that happened.
Speaker A:You know, I've prayed for several, several people, and we've seen some amazing things.
Speaker A:People that had body parts that were actually missing that came back, people that had no ability to have children and conceived.
Speaker A:Maybe they had their ovaries removed or the uterus removed.
Speaker A:They had no ability in the nature.
Speaker A:They actually had something missing.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:That would be a miracle.
Speaker A:I've prayed for lots of people that have limbs that are shortened or deformed and they've.
Speaker A:Those.
Speaker A:Those limbs have actually grown out.
Speaker A:You know, we've.
Speaker A:We pray for one man that had a withered foot.
Speaker A:So it's almost like he had a tiny foot.
Speaker A:It was completely withered away much probably, you know, I know at least.
Speaker A:At least a quarter of the size of what a normal foot should look like, like a baby foot.
Speaker A:And we pray for him.
Speaker A:And that foot just supernaturally grew in front of our eyes to normal shape and size.
Speaker A:That is a miracle.
Speaker A:There is no amount of healing that's going to replace a limb that's been chopped off or a limb that's shortened or something that's.
Speaker A:That just never grew.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But when something supernaturally develops, so that's.
Speaker A:We're talking new tissue, new bones New nerves, things that weren't there before.
Speaker A:That is a miracle.
Speaker A:So there is a difference between miracles and healing.
Speaker A:Now, a lot of the times we just say, I need a miracle.
Speaker A:We don't really define the two.
Speaker A:And, you know, I've written a book called Miracle at Miracles and Healings Made Easy.
Speaker A:And so you know that that would be a great book if you're new to.
Speaker A:If you're new to our teaching, that would be a great one for you to start with, to encourage you in some things.
Speaker A:And you can get that on our website.
Speaker A:But, you know, don't get so technical.
Speaker A:You just need to be.
Speaker A:You just need to be.
Speaker A:Well, right.
Speaker A:You don't have to necessarily know.
Speaker A:And it doesn't really change too much the way that we pray.
Speaker A:But one thing that people often don't realize is that miracles aren't random.
Speaker A:We can position ourselves, we can learn how to receive from the Lord.
Speaker A:He has all of these things for us.
Speaker A:All of the miracles, all of the healing power that you're ever going to need are already available to you in Christ Jesus.
Speaker A:It's not mysterious.
Speaker A:It's not out there.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's already been provided for us.
Speaker A:But as believers, we can position ourselves to tap into the supernatural power and provision of God and the things that he's already accomplished for us on the cross.
Speaker A:It's already done deal.
Speaker A:All of his promises in Christ are yes and amen.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:We position ourselves as believers in faith to receive those miracles.
Speaker A:So they're not random.
Speaker A:But, but when we can position ourselves, it's almost like if you want to get wet, you have to get in the river.
Speaker A:You have to get in the stream to get wet.
Speaker A:So we're going to get in the river today.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:This is really, this is going to be really fun.
Speaker A:You know, God's already.
Speaker A:The Lord's already provided the answer.
Speaker A:But being in the right position, being in the river, helps us to receive it.
Speaker A:Now let's look at this.
Speaker A:You know this scripture here in, in Hebrews 6, verse 12, it says, do not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience, inherit the promises.
Speaker A:So through faith and patience, we inherit the promises.
Speaker A:Now, there's two things in there that tell us how to inherit promises.
Speaker A:And it's talking about we need two of them.
Speaker A:And there's also a process involved in there.
Speaker A:There's two ingredients, that's faith and patience.
Speaker A:But there's also an, an action in there of imitation.
Speaker A:Do not become sluggish.
Speaker A:In other Words, don't be lazy, but imitate those.
Speaker A:So imitate to imitate.
Speaker A:There's an action involved.
Speaker A:It's almost like do likewise what these other people are doing.
Speaker A:If you see people that, that have received miracles, that have that walk in the supernatural power of God, that received healings or have prayed for people and seen miracles and seen healings, imitate those people.
Speaker A:They've already learned how to get in the river.
Speaker A:They've already learned how to tap into the supernatural and power of God.
Speaker A:So it says don't be sluggish, but imitate those people because they've already learned how to deploy faith and patience and therefore inherit promises.
Speaker A:So there's a process in here that, that, that shows us that these, these things, these, these miracles and healings, they're not random.
Speaker A:There is a pathway to get there.
Speaker A:There's a stepping into that river in order to get wet.
Speaker A:Okay, right.
Speaker A:So you know, when our daughter, many of you have heard this testimony, but you know, when our daughter was born, she was born with an autoimmune disease, completely incurable according to natural law, according to the doctors.
Speaker A:They, you know, had some different treatment ideas but you know, didn't really know much about it.
Speaker A:It was a very rare autoimmune disease which meant that she couldn't, she couldn't process any type of food.
Speaker A:Her body did not have the capacity, the capability to break down protein.
Speaker A:So when she ate anything and proteins pretty much in everything, when she ate protein, the body couldn't break it down into amino acids and therefore it couldn't absorb any of the goodness from any food.
Speaker A:And even more than that, because it's it, her body thought that, that that protein was a foreign object.
Speaker A:It like a disease, the, her own immune system would go into overdrive to attack it.
Speaker A:It was, her body was self destructing.
Speaker A:And so by the time she was three and a half years old, she was the same size as a nine month old baby.
Speaker A:Her growth was so stunted, all of her hair fell out.
Speaker A:She was basically in a vegetative state, just sleeping all the time, not walking, not talking, not able to control her bowels or intestines, just in terrible pain and suffering the whole time.
Speaker A:And you know, this was terrible.
Speaker A:This is something, you know, we were believers at the time.
Speaker A:It was very difficult, but we didn't understand how these principles work and we didn't even know that God wanted us, our daughter to be well.
Speaker A:And you know, but during that time that we were watching her deteriorate, there were some things that, that we Did.
Speaker A:And I don't want to make this sound like works, but faith, it isn't passive.
Speaker A:There is definitely action to it.
Speaker A:Grace has provided all of the healing and the miracles that we're ever going to need in Christ Jesus.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Grace is already provided it.
Speaker A:But faith is how we access those promises that grace has provided.
Speaker A:Faith is the doorway to those mir to, to the provision of grace.
Speaker A:And all faith is, is simply putting more trust and more confidence in, in God's Word and what he says about our condition than we do on the report of the doctor.
Speaker A:And so looking back now and the end of the story is with Hannah that she was supernaturally healed by God when she was on, literally on her deathbed with a few days to live.
Speaker A:Supernaturally healed, not expected to live more than, you know, a few days.
Speaker A:And you know, that was 19, 19 and a bit years ago.
Speaker A:She's married now, she's got two babies, we have two grandchildren and she's perfectly well and healthy.
Speaker A:But you know, there were some things, looking back now, I see that the her, her healing, her miracle was not accidental.
Speaker A:We will position in ourselves somewhat unintentionally not realizing the process that we were going through, but we positioned ourselves for her to receive that miracle.
Speaker A:So I'm going to unpack this a little bit because I hope this is going to be, and I believe this is going to be an encouragement to you and to help you not see that, you know, you too can position yourself to receive a miracle and end up walking in health and wholeness just as adulter Hannah did.
Speaker A:But you know, during that time that leading up to Hannah receiving her healing, you know, she was diagnosed when she was two years old finally after just a whole battery of tests.
Speaker A:And it just seemed like it went on forever before we got a diagnosis.
Speaker A:But during that time one of the things that we did was we looked in the Word of God.
Speaker A:We were always really word people.
Speaker A:We would write out scriptures, we would stick them on post it notes, we would put them around our apartment, around our house.
Speaker A:And as things started to progress with Hannah and get worse and worse, we looked in the Word of God and we knew that Jesus had a healing ministry, but we weren't seeing it in adults life.
Speaker A:We knew that the problem was not with God because his Word hadn't changed in, you know, thousands of years.
Speaker A:But there was a disconnect with how we were approaching the Word of God or somewhere we knew that we were missing something.
Speaker A:And you know, This is so important because ignorance can kill you, right?
Speaker A:And you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker A:And some of the things we did know, we'd had misconceived ideas about it.
Speaker A:We'd interpreted the word of God to mean something other than the truth.
Speaker A:And we started, we had started looking at our circumstances and listening to the doctor's reports and you know, it was, it was difficult.
Speaker A:These, these things, these medical challenges were playing out in front of our very eyes every single day.
Speaker A:Caring for a dying child and to two other children and you know, just trying to pay the bills and everything else.
Speaker A:There was just a lot going on.
Speaker A:And so we made some conscious decisions that I believe now were very instrumental in helping to position us to hear God.
Speaker A:God was always speaking.
Speaker A:But during these, this really trying time, it was very easy to become distracted.
Speaker A:It was easy to become distracted with the day to day efforts of caring for a dying child.
Speaker A:I mean, having three toddlers, I had three toddlers is challenging enough, okay?
Speaker A:But just the day to day physicality of all of the decisions, you know, all of the high tech medical stuff that you have to get into and give medications and hospital appointments and living in the hospital, all of that was speaking to us all the time, like just pulling on us for our attention.
Speaker A:And when we were, when we were at home, you know, we were in the Word as much as we could, but there were some distractions that we realized that we needed to become more focused and less distracted because we, even though we didn't understand a lot of things, we knew one thing, that the answer was in the word of God somewhere.
Speaker A:The answers that we needed were in the word.
Speaker A: Psalm: Speaker A:That, you know, that that word that it was been talked about back there in Psalms is Jesus.
Speaker A:You could put, he sent Jesus and healed you.
Speaker A:In John chapter one, Jesus is the word that became flesh.
Speaker A:So he sent Jesus through his Word.
Speaker A:He sent Jesus to heal us.
Speaker A:So we knew that our answer was in the word of God.
Speaker A:But we were, we were so distracted by things that were going on that we needed to be able to focus a bit clearer.
Speaker A:So one of the things that we did was actually, we actually cut the cable.
Speaker A:I know this is going to shock some people, okay?
Speaker A:But yes, we cut the cable.
Speaker A:Now this was really before the Internet was really widely used, utilized and so people weren't really streaming things on YouTube and, and social media wasn't a thing.
Speaker A:But you know, we actually decided that we didn't want to have the background noise be the television.
Speaker A:And you know, when You've got three little ones in the house.
Speaker A:I guess we'd kind of grown up in households where it was normal.
Speaker A:It was very normal.
Speaker A:All of our friends did the same thing.
Speaker A:You'd have the TV on in the background, whether anyone was really watching or not.
Speaker A:It was like background noise.
Speaker A:And when we had little toddlers, you know, they'd watch it and then they'd watch the adverts.
Speaker A:And it's amazing how much those adverts actually target kids.
Speaker A:These are kids that didn't know anything.
Speaker A:They were just little toddlers.
Speaker A:But because they'd seen the advert, when they went to the store, they knew exactly what toy to ask us for.
Speaker A:It was amazing.
Speaker A:But, you know, we decided we were going to cut the TV off because we needed to be focused.
Speaker A:And I'm not saying we didn't have a television, but when we watched television, we planned to watch back then a video, a video cassette tape, right?
Speaker A:Or later on a dvd.
Speaker A:And we sat down as a family.
Speaker A:We didn't just have it on in the background, speaking to us all the time, sending us subliminal, subliminal information when we were very intentional about reading the Word.
Speaker A:And when we did have free time, we had Christian radio on in the background.
Speaker A:So we listened to sermons.
Speaker A:The only Christian station, maybe you still have this in England, I'm not sure, was Premier Radio.
Speaker A:People in England.
Speaker A:Maybe you can.
Speaker A:You can chime in here.
Speaker A:But Premier Radio back then was the only Christian radio station, and so we'd have that one in the background.
Speaker A:And actually somebody that really spoke into my life through their program on Premier Radio was Joyce Meyer.
Speaker A:She was the only women woman preacher that I'd ever heard.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And out of a lot of the voices that I heard there on Christian radio, she really ministered to me.
Speaker A:She, you know, we've had.
Speaker A:We have kind of similar background testimony.
Speaker A:She's been through a lot of difficulties in her past.
Speaker A:And just the way that she speaks the Word of God and very practical, she's very real, very authentic, really ministered to me.
Speaker A:And so we were constantly in the Word or listening to the Word, or writing out the Word and sticking it right and reading the Word.
Speaker A:Because we knew ultimately, ultimately that the answers that we needed to, to.
Speaker A:To see our child live were going to be found in the Word of God.
Speaker A:There was a persistence about it.
Speaker A:And, you know, when we just read that scripture in Hebrews 6, verse 12, it says, do not become sluggish.
Speaker A:You know, we had found ourselves becoming sluggish because we were Weary.
Speaker A:We were worn out with.
Speaker A:With just life and surviving life.
Speaker A:We were the ones that had become sluggish.
Speaker A:But this scripture jumped out, said, but imitate those.
Speaker A:The people that are already walking in faith, that already have patience, operating in their life, that are already seeing the promises of God manifesting enough.
Speaker A:Imitate those.
Speaker A:What do those people do?
Speaker A:And when I listened on the radio and I heard people like Joyce Meyer that came from real darkness and is now walking in light and walking in her.
Speaker A:In walking in freedom in different areas and experience healing in her body, I'm like, that's somebody that I can follow.
Speaker A:That's somebody that I can listen to.
Speaker A:I want to be a word person.
Speaker A:I want to have an understanding of the word of God on the inside of me to when.
Speaker A:To where.
Speaker A:When I'm squeezed and under pressure, out comes the word of God.
Speaker A:That was somebody that I could imitate.
Speaker A:So find somebody that you can imitate.
Speaker A:Hopefully, I'll be honored to help you on that journey.
Speaker A:But, you know, there's lots of good voices out there.
Speaker A:There's lots of great ministers, but find somebody.
Speaker A:Be absorbed in the word of God.
Speaker A:Let it get down on the inside of you.
Speaker A:This is really, really important.
Speaker A:This is one of the ways that we positioned ourselves for a miracle.
Speaker A:And then because we had a lot of word on the inside of us, even though we had missing pieces, you know, you can go on our website and watch.
Speaker A:They made a whole video testimony on that.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:But, you know, because.
Speaker A:Because we were in the Word of God, even though we had missing pieces, our hearts became fertile ground.
Speaker A:So that when the.
Speaker A:When the puzzle pieces that were missing appeared, we had ears to hear them, and those pieces dropped into place.
Speaker A:We were quick to believe what we were seeing God doing, even though we couldn't see it.
Speaker A:Now, this is really important.
Speaker A:When Hannah was prayed for finally, it was a long journey.
Speaker A:We ended up at a conference.
Speaker A:When she was finally prayed for and she received ministry, we knew that.
Speaker A:We prayed a prayer of faith.
Speaker A:But there was something that that positioning did for us that I didn't understand at the time, but I see now that was when we prayed for her, nothing changed.
Speaker A:Not that we could see, nothing changed on the outside, but things were changing on the inside.
Speaker A:And because we were word people, because we had been walking like imitating other people that walked in faith and patience, we took the word promise of healing for Hannah at face value above more than what we could see with our eyes.
Speaker A:We looked beyond the fact that those symptoms hadn't left yet.
Speaker A:We look beyond the fact that she was still asleep, you know, in a vegetative state in a stroller, that, you know, strength hadn't come back to her yet, she couldn't eat yet she still looked exactly the same after we prayed for her as she did when we, as before we prayed for.
Speaker A:There was no physical change that you could see, nothing to indicate by naturally looking at our daughter that anything had happened when we prayed.
Speaker A:But because we had positioned ourselves through just absorbing the Word of God, you know, we knew the Word of God better than we knew the symptoms.
Speaker A:It became.
Speaker A:It became, and it became a higher report on the inside of us.
Speaker A:So that understanding that grounding in the Word was what enabled us to look beyond the lack of evidence in the natural circumstances.
Speaker A:And as a result of that, we acted upon the.
Speaker A:What the Word said that she was healed rather than acting upon the physical evidence that she looked like she was dying.
Speaker A:And we went and did something that was completely contrary to the report of the doctor, actually.
Speaker A:And we.
Speaker A:We followed the report of the Lord and that was we went and fed her food.
Speaker A:And, you know, afterwards, doctor said, you know, you could have killed her.
Speaker A:And, well, I'm glad you weren't there when we pray for our daughter.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But, you know, the Word of God works.
Speaker A:And it's.
Speaker A:It was working then and it's been working ever since then.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And Hannah, you know, over.
Speaker A:It took a period of a few hours, but over the period of a few hours, we started to see every single one of those symptoms for fall away.
Speaker A:That would not have happened if we had not have been people that had grounded our heart with the Word of God.
Speaker A:Because otherwise we would have prayed.
Speaker A:We would have looked at her sitting in the strong thought, oh, well, that was a nice prayer.
Speaker A:But it didn't work, did it?
Speaker A:And I see a lot of people that find themselves being shipwrecked in that.
Speaker A:In that moment of faith, because they look, they pray, they at that moment of faith, they extend their faith, they pray, they speak the words of life.
Speaker A:You know what, Their word leaves their mouth.
Speaker A:It goes exactly to the problem.
Speaker A:But because they don't see the evidence, the impact of those words of faith, immediately then they get disappointed, they get discouraged, they get weary, and they step back.
Speaker A:They got all the way up to the door.
Speaker A:They opened the door of faith with faith to the promises of God, but they weren't able to step through it into the promises because they didn't have patience.
Speaker A:Now, this is really crucial.
Speaker A:We read that scripture, Hebrews 6:12.
Speaker A:It says, Be imitators of those through faith and patience.
Speaker A:You see, faith will open the door to the promises of grace, right?
Speaker A:They'll open the door to the promises.
Speaker A:It'll get us to the point of the threshold, but it.
Speaker A:But it won't take.
Speaker A:You know, if we don't have patience, that door won't.
Speaker A:Won't stay open.
Speaker A:We'll open the door, but we won't move through it without patience.
Speaker A:Those two things go together.
Speaker A:You see, faith opens the door, but patience keeps the door open.
Speaker A:Patience keeps the door open.
Speaker A:They're power twins, faith and patience.
Speaker A:I'll give you an example of this, okay?
Speaker A:You know, in.
Speaker A:Well, let's just read this.
Speaker A:Hebrews 11, verse 1, right?
Speaker A:It says, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Speaker A:For by it, the elders obtained a good testimony.
Speaker A:You know, faith.
Speaker A:Faith says it's already mine.
Speaker A:Faith is the evidence.
Speaker A:It doesn't try to get God to move.
Speaker A:It agrees that God already moved.
Speaker A:So faith is the one that will pull the door open.
Speaker A:But patience.
Speaker A:Patience is the next step, right?
Speaker A:Patient.
Speaker A:Faith will open the door, but patience will hold it open until the promise walks through it.
Speaker A:Patience isn't passive waiting, okay?
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's not just sitting there.
Speaker A:It goes together.
Speaker A:Faith is a.
Speaker A:Is an active thing, and so is patience.
Speaker A:You know, we don't like that.
Speaker A:We don't like to talk about patience much because it's not very popular.
Speaker A:And we live in a world that really wants to have its.
Speaker A:Have everything instantaneously when we want to microwave that miracle, right?
Speaker A:Without doing any.
Speaker A:Without positioning ourselves to receive it.
Speaker A:But, you know, it's.
Speaker A:It's an anchoring.
Speaker A:Patience is an anchoring.
Speaker A:It holds you anchored in the word of God with a joyful expectation.
Speaker A:Actually, the Greek word for patience, we just read that there in Hebrews 6, verse 12.
Speaker A:That word in the Greek, in the original language.
Speaker A:Now, I'm probably going to butcher the pronunciation, but the Greek word for patience is macrothumia.
Speaker A:Macrothumia.
Speaker A:And it means enduring with long passion, persistent, joyful, hopeful.
Speaker A:There's an expectation that's in there.
Speaker A:So this is, you know, having patience isn't something.
Speaker A:Oh, man, I have to wait another day.
Speaker A:Oh, man, when is this problem gonna leave?
Speaker A:Oh, you know, when is.
Speaker A:When am I gonna start feeling better?
Speaker A:You know, I just have to, you know, cross the days off the calendar, right?
Speaker A:Patience isn't a.
Speaker A:Isn't an attitude.
Speaker A:Patience is an expectation.
Speaker A:There's a difference is an expert hope and an expectation that has joy associated with it, you know, Nehemiah 8, 10 says, the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because you've learned how to be patient.
Speaker A:There is a.
Speaker A:There is a persistent, passionate, hopeful, joyful, enduring knowing that every day that I endure, that means I'm taking a step through the door.
Speaker A:I'm stepping through the door.
Speaker A:It's not second guessing.
Speaker A:It's not wondering if the promise belongs to you.
Speaker A:It's knowing that you have it and it's excited to receive it.
Speaker A:That's quite different from the word patience that we have interpreted in our modern language.
Speaker A:Patience goes together.
Speaker A:It holds the door open for the promises of God to flow through.
Speaker A:Really important.
Speaker A:If we look in Psalm 27, Psalm 27, verse 13 and 14, it says this.
Speaker A:It says, wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart for David.
Speaker A:David actually said, I would have lost heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of God in the land of the living.
Speaker A:This is, this is a massive scripture.
Speaker A:Wait, he says, wait on the Lord.
Speaker A:Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart.
Speaker A:Wait, I say, on the Lord.
Speaker A:Now I'm reading that out of the new King James.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Now if you start looking up some of the words in here, this word wait, often we don't like the word wait either.
Speaker A:We don't like patience, and we don't like wait because we feel like there is all about timing.
Speaker A:You know, if I was just more patient, you know, read the scripture, patience will have its perfect work in you.
Speaker A:That doesn't mean you're waiting on God to heal you.
Speaker A:God isn't.
Speaker A:God is not holding healing back from you.
Speaker A:He's not holding a miracle back from you.
Speaker A:You know, it's not a timing issue.
Speaker A:These words are not a timing issue.
Speaker A:Let me show you something.
Speaker A:The word wait, it isn't saying, you know what, you're waiting.
Speaker A:You're always waiting.
Speaker A:You know, you're out in front and God's got to catch up or, you know, whatever.
Speaker A:You're just waiting for him to come on down and, you know, extend power and do his thing.
Speaker A:That is not what this means.
Speaker A:We're not waiting on God to deliver us from sickness and disease.
Speaker A:God has already delivered us from sickness and disease through the deathbearing resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Because healing is part of the atonement.
Speaker A:We're not waiting on God to answer our prayers when we pray them, not when it comes to healing.
Speaker A:Because, you know, we do not have to wait to receive healing.
Speaker A:We aren't Old Testament believers.
Speaker A:We're New Testament post, post cross believers whereby his stripes we were healed.
Speaker A:We're not.
Speaker A:When we're waiting on the Lord, we're not waiting as in waiting for God to move.
Speaker A:He already moved.
Speaker A:Let me show you what this actually means, because it's not a timing issue.
Speaker A:This word wait actually means confident, courageous, expectation.
Speaker A:This is an expectation that has a confidence and a courage about it.
Speaker A:That means it's talking about a heart that is steadfast on the Lord.
Speaker A:It means to become immovable.
Speaker A:He says, wait on the Lord and be of good courage.
Speaker A:It means don't quit, don't give up.
Speaker A:Let me show you something.
Speaker A:I want to look at this scripture.
Speaker A:We're going to look it up in a different translation.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Going to look this up.
Speaker A:In the amplified classic.
Speaker A:It says, what would have become of me if I had not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Speaker A:Wait and hope and expect for the Lord.
Speaker A:Be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout, enduring.
Speaker A:Wait and hope and expect.
Speaker A:Wait and hope and expect.
Speaker A:I'm going to look this up in another translation.
Speaker A:Let's look at it in the message paraphrase here.
Speaker A:Because it's not actually a real translation.
Speaker A:It says, I'm sure now I see the good God's goodness in the exuberant earth.
Speaker A:Stay with God.
Speaker A:Take heart, don't quit.
Speaker A:I'll say it again.
Speaker A:Stay with God.
Speaker A:There is an element when we wait on the Lord that we have, we have become steadfast, that we have heard his word, that we have planted our feet, that we have taken our stance and that we've set our face like flint.
Speaker A:That we, we, we put our hope in him.
Speaker A:And the element of waiting is talking about not quitting.
Speaker A:Don't back off what you've made your stand.
Speaker A:Don't back off from it.
Speaker A:That's, that's very different.
Speaker A:That is very different from, from this, this, this understanding of somehow waiting, as in being with it.
Speaker A:We're waiting on God to move something.
Speaker A:Because the problem is if you, if you feel like you're waiting on God to do something, always in the waiting zone, you, you, you, you just never get anywhere because you didn't realize that Jesus already came and rose and did it.
Speaker A:You missed it, right?
Speaker A:You get stuck in.
Speaker A:You get stuck in the waiting zone.
Speaker A:You know, faith and patience go together.
Speaker A:They don't put us in a waiting zone.
Speaker A:They put us in a place where we've opened the door to the power of God and patience is holding that door open with.
Speaker A:And when every distraction of the world comes, when every symptom comes, when all of our natural senses are telling us otherwise, patience is saying, you've spoken the word.
Speaker A:Now look beyond the natural circumstances.
Speaker A:You've spoken the word.
Speaker A:God's already done it.
Speaker A:Now don't, don't, don't pull up the seed of faith that you just planted by quitting patience.
Speaker A:Hold the door of faith open.
Speaker A:It's that steadfastness which says, I will not be moved from the word of God.
Speaker A:There is almost, there's almost a godly, a righteous stubbornness about it.
Speaker A:Patience's job is to hold your faith in place until you see the promise manifest.
Speaker A:That's why you inherit the promises.
Speaker A:We position ourselves to receive a miracle when we operate in faith and patience.
Speaker A:You know, many times we do not have a faith problem.
Speaker A:We have the faith of the Son of God on the inside of us.
Speaker A:We, we have a, we have a patience problem because patience is not being deployed.
Speaker A:Patience is not keeping the door open.
Speaker A:Patience is not fending off the lies, the attacks, the discouraging, the distractions of the enemy.
Speaker A:And we quit before we see a miracle.
Speaker A:We quit right as, as we're about to see it manifest.
Speaker A:Patience will hold the door open.
Speaker A:Super important.
Speaker A:So waiting on the Lord is being so full of his promises that you're standing in joy, not in panic.
Speaker A:Oh, that's a statement and a half when we know this is what biblical waiting on the Lord is, right?
Speaker A:When we are so full of his promises that we can be joyful and peaceful even in the midst of chaos.
Speaker A:Why, how can you be joyful and peaceful even in the midst of chaos?
Speaker A:Because there's a part of you that already sees, has already seen the victory.
Speaker A:You know, you, you've already seen it and the enemy hates it.
Speaker A:The enemy can't, he can't stand.
Speaker A:He doesn't know what to do with a joyful, peaceful believer that's in the middle of a storm.
Speaker A:If he can't, you know, he sent the storm in the first place.
Speaker A:And if he can't get you to, to, you know, lose your use, lose your ever loving mind over it and, and be terrified by it and bow down to it like he, he, he's like, these people won't play.
Speaker A:They won't play.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter what I throw at them, they won't play.
Speaker A:They won't quit praising.
Speaker A:They won't move from a position of peace.
Speaker A:I just can't touch them.
Speaker A:Well, exactly.
Speaker A:The enemy doesn't know what to do with the joyful, peaceful believer.
Speaker A:You know, the enemy doesn't like us to be positioned.
Speaker A:He wants to get us out of our position so that we won't receive.
Speaker A:And one of the ways that he does that is often, is through offense.
Speaker A:It's through offense.
Speaker A:Let's look at this story.
Speaker A:This is a story in Second Kings, chapter five of a man that almost missed out on the opportunity to receive.
Speaker A:Now this whole passage, I'm going to paraphrase some of this for the sake of time, but this talks about Naaman.
Speaker A:He was a.
Speaker A:He was the captain of the army of Syria.
Speaker A:And so, you know, he was, he was a great man and held favor, you know, he was greatly respected.
Speaker A:He was a mighty warrior.
Speaker A:But he had leprosy.
Speaker A:Now he had a servant girl from the land of Israel that was staying with him.
Speaker A:And she told him about a prophet.
Speaker A:And she said, if you go to Elisha's house, you know, he can.
Speaker A:He's a prophet of God.
Speaker A:The Lord will heal you.
Speaker A:My God of Israel will heal you.
Speaker A:So you know, the leprosy was a curse back then.
Speaker A:And people had to be separated.
Speaker A:It would, you know, it was often a life threatening, terminal condition.
Speaker A:But you know, Naaman being the man of greatly respected, very powerful man, he listened to the word of this little Hebrew girl and he humbled himself and he went and he went out to Elisha's house.
Speaker A:And so he gets there.
Speaker A:But in verse 8 he says, but when Elisha, the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes and sent word, you know, he wouldn't come out.
Speaker A:He wouldn't come out and, and see him.
Speaker A:He will, you know, Naaman came up to his door, but he wouldn't come out.
Speaker A:And it says, so Naaman came with his horses and his chariot, and he stood at the he's in verse nine at the entrance to the house of Elisha.
Speaker A:And Elisha sent a messenger to him saying, go and wash in the Jordan river seven times and your flesh will be returned and be cleansed.
Speaker A:In verse 11 it says, But Naaman became angry and he went away.
Speaker A:And he said to himself, surely he could have come out and stood and called on the name of the Lord and God would have waved his hand over the infected area and taken away the leprosy.
Speaker A:And are not Abaniah and Paraphat rivers of Damascus better than all of the waters of Israel?
Speaker A:Could I not go and watch in those ones?
Speaker A:I don't want to go wash in the Jordan.
Speaker A:So it Says.
Speaker A:So he turned away and went in a rage.
Speaker A:You know, he was offended because he was disrespected.
Speaker A:He felt disrespected.
Speaker A:He was used to getting a lot of glory, a lot of honor.
Speaker A:He was used to calling the shots.
Speaker A:But when he showed up at Elisha's house to hump, supposingly, to humble himself, but he wasn't really humbled because his heart condition told us otherwise.
Speaker A:And Elisha didn't, didn't perform in the way that didn't receive him, in the way that he felt like he should be received.
Speaker A:He was offended.
Speaker A:So much so that he was actually in a rage, an actual rage, and went away.
Speaker A:He did not want to follow the instructions of Elisha.
Speaker A:He wanted him to come out and renounce over him and wave his hand in a certain way.
Speaker A:You know, some of us, we fail to position ourselves or the enemy gets us depositioned out of position from receiving a miracle because we, we believe that, you know, it has to be, it has to fit in this little box.
Speaker A:These little conditions have to be just perfect.
Speaker A:And if one person doesn't play right or somebody looks at you wrong, or the pastor doesn't shake, you know, shake your hand on a Sunday morning, or they didn't drop an oil on you, or they didn't, you know, whatever, then you can't receive and there's an offense there.
Speaker A:People get so easily offended when they feel like they're disrespected.
Speaker A:And that offense in their heart will take you out of position.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because faith and patience is how you inherit the promises, not offense and unbelief.
Speaker A:We don't receive the promises of God in offense and unbelief.
Speaker A:We receive them in, in faith and patience.
Speaker A:So he got offended and he went away and his servant actually ran after him and convinced him to go and follow the, the, the instructions of the Lord.
Speaker A:And, you know, the end of the story was that he, he did humble himself at that point, and he went back and he dipped in the Rivers Jordan seven times.
Speaker A:And as he followed those instructions, he, once he had humbled himself and got with the program, guess what?
Speaker A:He was standing at the door again, opening the door of faith.
Speaker A:And faith and patience were there.
Speaker A:And they, they, you know, he, he, he was able to receive and he was made whole.
Speaker A:But he nearly was taken out by offense, by offense.
Speaker A:He nearly missed his miracles because the instructions that he was given didn't match his expectation.
Speaker A:Oh, come on.
Speaker A:Offense will take you out of position every time.
Speaker A:Don't let the enemy Take you out of position to receive.
Speaker A:So what happens, you know, if we do get offended, you know, if we do get offended at the, at God's methods or maybe his timing, what happens?
Speaker A:Well, you know what?
Speaker A:It's easy.
Speaker A:Naaman repented.
Speaker A:There is a place for repentance here.
Speaker A:When we repent and we say, lord, I'm sorry, I realize now that I was offended.
Speaker A:You know, I was offended because I had an unmet misplaced expectation and I was offended and I want to be offended.
Speaker A:Lord, I repent.
Speaker A:I turn of my ways.
Speaker A:I receive your forgiveness and Holy Spirit, I invite you in.
Speaker A:I ask for your help in this matter.
Speaker A:That's repentance.
Speaker A:When we repent, repent quickly.
Speaker A:When we repent, you know what?
Speaker A:We're straight back at the door again.
Speaker A:We're straight back at the door of faith again.
Speaker A:We're straight back where we were before.
Speaker A:We haven't missed a beat.
Speaker A:And if you, if you're one that walks in offense regularly, just get what, just have an attitude of repentance regularly.
Speaker A:If you know that offense is an issue for you and have a heart of repentance, and you know it, you don't have to go years and years and years being offended.
Speaker A:You can get back into position in a heartbeat.
Speaker A:And when we repent, repentance is a gift.
Speaker A:It shuts the door to the enemy.
Speaker A:Hugely, hugely important.
Speaker A:You know, Anita's asking, do you think there's a difference between offense and the spirit of offense?
Speaker A:Yeah, I do think there's.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's a difference because we can take an offense at a human level over stupid stuff, right?
Speaker A:But when we wallow in that offense, when we allow that offense to become a stronghold in our heart, to become our default position, we've opened our heart up to the, to demonic entities.
Speaker A:And now that offended spirit is emboldened and invited.
Speaker A:And so there's a demonic element that's involved in that.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so it's, you know, it's going to need a little deliverance to get rid of it.
Speaker A:So, yeah, you can, you can have people that have a spirit of offense.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Doesn't mean that everyone that's ever been offended is demonized.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:But there, but it's talking about something that's taken a stronghold in somebody's life.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So repentance is a gift.
Speaker A:So how can we practically stay in position?
Speaker A:Practical steps here.
Speaker A:I'm going to give you some.
Speaker A:Some things that I believe will help you here.
Speaker A:Well, number one, stay in the word.
Speaker A:Staying in the word.
Speaker A:Is huge.
Speaker A:It was huge for us to see the breakthrough in our daughter's life.
Speaker A:Now, that doesn't mean that unbelievers can't get healed, okay?
Speaker A:Because we can go out on the street and pray for people that don't even know Jesus and they'll receive.
Speaker A:They'll receive healing, and then we'll be like, do you want to receive Jesus?
Speaker A:Yes, please.
Speaker A:Okay, so.
Speaker A:But I'm talking about if we want to stay, if we want to receive healing and walk in health, we need to be people that are in the Word.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because being in the Word builds up our faith.
Speaker A: Romans: Speaker A:When we read the Word of God, that it's.
Speaker A:It's not just a read the Word of God.
Speaker A:Faith came when you read.
Speaker A:No, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Speaker A:There's a process there, a continual process, a continual meditation.
Speaker A:Faith keeps coming, keeps coming, keeps coming, right?
Speaker A:There's a building up when we read the Word of God.
Speaker A:That's a saturation, really, in God's truth.
Speaker A:That's what.
Speaker A:One of the things that really helped Ashley and I when our daughter was sick, we were literally creating an environment within our home and within our hearing.
Speaker A:We listened to teachings over and over and over again.
Speaker A:We were saturating ourselves with the Word of God until the Word of God promises became more real and more true and more factual to us than the physical symptoms that we could see with our natural eyes.
Speaker A:There was a shift there.
Speaker A:There was a shift there, right?
Speaker A:And that's a process.
Speaker A:And, and.
Speaker A:And I can't tell you how long your process is going to be.
Speaker A:It's different for.
Speaker A:For every person.
Speaker A:But I'm telling you some things that will help you to position yourself to receive.
Speaker A:So another thing is guarding.
Speaker A:Guarding our heart and mouth.
Speaker A:We realized that if we couldn't say anything positive, we just didn't say anything at all.
Speaker A:If we couldn't say a word of faith and we just didn't say it, we got to that point where, you know, the circumstances were saying one thing.
Speaker A:Their doctor's report was saying one thing, but the Word of God said something else.
Speaker A:And if we couldn't speak a word of faith and we didn't speak it, man, that was huge.
Speaker A:In Proverbs 4:23, it says about our heart, God, our heart with all diligence.
Speaker A:For out of it flows the issues of life.
Speaker A:That word issues is talking about boundaries and borders.
Speaker A:We've talked about this before, but we need to put a God over our tongue, we need to have a God over our heart.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth will speak.
Speaker A:If I.
Speaker A:If I spoke out everything, every disappointment, every hurt, every pain that was in my heart, those things would have had power in our life.
Speaker A:You know, we had people that say to us, you know, I hope you get counseling when, you know, when.
Speaker A:When your daughter dies.
Speaker A:Hope you, you know, this might be God's judgment on you.
Speaker A:That's sick.
Speaker A:I mean, those words, even though I can still hear them, you know, at that time, because I was going through that trial, I didn't repeat them.
Speaker A:I didn't go and say, did you hear what so and so said to me?
Speaker A:What do you think about that?
Speaker A:I didn't take offense at those words.
Speaker A:I just discounted them.
Speaker A:They were in my heart, but I didn't repeat them and allow them to have power.
Speaker A:We have to be really careful of the things that we absorb and the things that we repeat.
Speaker A:So the scripture says, anything that's not a faith is sin.
Speaker A:I didn't want to speak anything that wasn't a faith, and I wouldn't have it.
Speaker A:After our daughter was healed, actually, we had to go back to the.
Speaker A:To the hospital because she had surgically implanted device in her stomach.
Speaker A:And I couldn't, you know, I couldn't take it out.
Speaker A:It was a part of her.
Speaker A:It was implanted.
Speaker A:She had to have an operation to remove it.
Speaker A:And the doctors, after she was healed, it was such a dramatic turnaround.
Speaker A:They'd never seen anything like that before.
Speaker A:They actually wrote that she's a miracle in her notes because they didn't have any other way to explain that.
Speaker A:But it took them a period of nine months of them watching her and testing her.
Speaker A:They wanted to see a track record.
Speaker A:They didn't want this to be.
Speaker A:She's good one minute, we can't understand why she's good, and then the next week, suddenly she's not.
Speaker A:So they were looking for a track record.
Speaker A:And during that time, we still had to go to the doctors, we still had to go to the hospital, we still had to follow the checkups because if we didn't, they wouldn't remove this surgically implanted device.
Speaker A:So we didn't give her any treatment, we didn't give her any medicine, but we had to go to all those appointments.
Speaker A:And in that, before I went to every one of those appointments, I had to guard my heart.
Speaker A:I had to be prepared in my heart not to absorb the words, because what happens Sometimes is that people know that they're healed, and they go.
Speaker A:And then they get a negative report.
Speaker A:And then you have a choice what you're going to do with that negative report.
Speaker A:And it's better that you prepare your heart beforehand, because sometimes the reports come back and they're great, and they confirm what you already know, and sometimes they don't.
Speaker A:And then what are you going to do?
Speaker A:How are you going to be moved?
Speaker A:Is patience going to be thrown out the window because you didn't get the test result that you was looking for?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So, you know, we.
Speaker A:We as parents, we had to determine in our heart what.
Speaker A:How we were going to respond.
Speaker A:We had to determine it in our heart how we were going to respond, what.
Speaker A:Depending on what kind of report came back to us.
Speaker A:Because if a report came back to us about Hannah's physical body that was contrary to the word of God, we were ready to defend our stance.
Speaker A:That was really important.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:We guarded our hearts to not let those contrary reports come back in, but also we guided our tongue to not let things that weren't a faith come out.
Speaker A:That was.
Speaker A:That was really helpful for us.
Speaker A:And, you know, and I just refused to partner with fear.
Speaker A:There was a couple of times after Hannah was healed, those symptoms came back.
Speaker A:They were like the telltale symptoms, okay, she's choking.
Speaker A:This, you know, this is going to start.
Speaker A:And everything on the inside of me, you know, when your heart has been through a trauma, it already knows the way back to that trauma.
Speaker A:Even after the trauma is finished, it's like it has muscle memory.
Speaker A:It knows the path back to that trauma.
Speaker A:And so when those symptoms came, you know, in my heart, in our mind, in our imaginations, there are, you know, our brain was running a thousand miles an hour, and it was.
Speaker A:You know, it was bringing back to our remembrance all of the words, all of the loads of death, all of the evil reports, all of the.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The nightmares and the dreams that we'd ever had of losing our daughter and burying her in a hole in the ground.
Speaker A:And, you know, all of those visuals, those things that you.
Speaker A:That you dream, those evil reports, those imaginations that you have on the inside that has so much fear and anxiety attached, and all of those things came flooding back when those symptoms appeared.
Speaker A:But there was something in our hearts because it was grounded in the word of God, because we got.
Speaker A:We were guarding our hearts and said, no, no, you know, you cannot stop a thought coming to you, but you can refuse to partner with it.
Speaker A:You can refuse to partner with fear and anxiety.
Speaker A:And death and disappointment and offense and unbelief.
Speaker A:We refused to partner with those emotions.
Speaker A:Those emotions came well over, overwhelming us, right?
Speaker A:But you know, they come like a flood and they catch you unawares when you're least expecting it.
Speaker A:But we weren't going to partner with them.
Speaker A:We were like, no, I know, I.
Speaker A:We didn't deny that we had emotions.
Speaker A:This is really important.
Speaker A:We didn't, we didn't refuse the fact that, you know what, that those things on the inside were real.
Speaker A:But we refused to partner with them.
Speaker A:And what came out of our mouth was the word of God.
Speaker A:No symptoms, you back off.
Speaker A:No devil, you back off.
Speaker A:Because the symptoms will come at you and they'll try to get you to move, move, move, move in your heart, moving your imagination.
Speaker A:Let me move your lips.
Speaker A:Let me just confess.
Speaker A:Let me just get you to confess how bad it all is.
Speaker A:Let me just get you to confess all of your doubts and unbelief and hidden fears that are on the inside that haven't come out yet.
Speaker A:Let me just get you to confess.
Speaker A:Your symptoms are trying to make you move.
Speaker A:That's where on the inside that patience, holding your faith in place, refuses to quit, has that hopeful expectation.
Speaker A:It says, no symptoms, you move.
Speaker A:I'm not being moved by you.
Speaker A:You move.
Speaker A:You see their boldness, that authority starts to come out.
Speaker A:And that happened a couple of times after, after Hannah was healed, those symptoms came back and we had to stand up for it.
Speaker A:But man, I mean, we just refused, we just refused to quit.
Speaker A:We were not going to allow the enemy to steal something from us that we'd already received.
Speaker A:You know, this refusal to quit is another thing that will help us to, to keep positioned.
Speaker A:Remember that scripture that we read right at the beginning, Hebrews 6, verse 12.
Speaker A:It says, do not become sluggish, right?
Speaker A:But by faith and patience, imitate those right and inherit the promises.
Speaker A:So this is, this is a refusal to quit.
Speaker A:Don't become sluggish.
Speaker A:And you know, this is one thing that long term sickness and disease does is it wears you down.
Speaker A:You know, the enemy will try to wear you down just with time, with how long, how long you've been, you know, physically, the time, just the timing of it.
Speaker A:The enemy likes to use timing to trap you and to condemn you.
Speaker A:That's what he does.
Speaker A:He uses timing to trap you and to condemn you.
Speaker A:And so, you know, if he can, if he can stretch out a situation to get the maximum impact, to wear you down as much as possible, to elongate the suffering, he will but it says here, this is Galatians 6, 6, 9.
Speaker A:Do not grow weary.
Speaker A:Do not.
Speaker A:Do not grow sluggish.
Speaker A:Do not grow weary.
Speaker A:In doing good for induced seasons you shall reap.
Speaker A:If we do not give up.
Speaker A:If we do not give up.
Speaker A:I mean, just take quitting off the table.
Speaker A:Just take quitting off the table.
Speaker A:You know, if I have to go to the grave, I'm on my tombstone, they say, well, she just wouldn't quit.
Speaker A:She didn't give up.
Speaker A:She was in faith till the final day.
Speaker A:I mean, you know what?
Speaker A:I'm going then.
Speaker A:I'm going happy, but I'm just not quitting.
Speaker A:I don't care.
Speaker A:It's not even about winning or losing.
Speaker A:I've already won.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm just.
Speaker A:I'm just not going to quit.
Speaker A:I'm not going to quit.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's the way we decided we weren't going to quit believing.
Speaker A:We weren't going to be moved by a symptom.
Speaker A:And, you know, I like to think of it this way.
Speaker A:You know, you.
Speaker A:You hold.
Speaker A:Some of, some of us today are holding on to the door by faith.
Speaker A:They're holding on the door that leads the promises.
Speaker A:And we're holding onto the doorknob.
Speaker A:And faith, the wedge, the door stop of wedge of faith, the door, wedge of patience is in the door, right?
Speaker A:But we're hanging onto the doorknob.
Speaker A:And there's, there's that, that whisper in our ear, that emotion, that symptom, the pain that's just saying, just let go of the doorknob.
Speaker A:Just let go of the doorknob.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:Don't let go of the doorknob.
Speaker A:Keep the door open.
Speaker A:That's your position of strength.
Speaker A:And you will win if you do not quit.
Speaker A:Don't quit.
Speaker A:Don't let go of the door.
Speaker A:Amen.
Speaker A:It's your entry into your promise.
Speaker A:So what can, what can derail your miracle?
Speaker A:Let's just wrap these up, give you a little summary here.
Speaker A:You know, offense, offense and unbelief are major things that can derail you.
Speaker A:Deposition.
Speaker A:You take you out of position from receiving your miracle.
Speaker A:You know, and this is something that Jesus ran into in Mark 6, 6 through 5, actually, let's, you know, that's, that's actually a good scripture.
Speaker A:Let's look at that one.
Speaker A:And this is in Mark 6.
Speaker A:This is a challenge that Jesus ran into.
Speaker A:It says here in Mark, chapter six, verse three, and the people around him, right?
Speaker A:Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph and Judas and Simon.
Speaker A:Are these not his sisters here with us?
Speaker A:And they took offense at him because they were over familiar with him.
Speaker A:They took offense at him.
Speaker A:And Jesus said to, to them, a prophet is not without honor even except in his own country, among his own relatives and in his own house.
Speaker A:And he could not do any miracles there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Speaker A:You see, healing, supernatural healing and miracles are separated there.
Speaker A:Do you see that?
Speaker A:He could not do any miracles there except lay his hand on a few sick people and heal them because of their unbelief.
Speaker A:So there's a couple of things there that healing is primary, a lower level than a miracle.
Speaker A:Okay, this is according to Jesus.
Speaker A:He couldn't do miracles there, which was seen as a greater work.
Speaker A:He could only do the entry level stuff, which was healing a few sick people.
Speaker A:So it's almost like it's nothing.
Speaker A:He was really, he was really bringing healing down to a base.
Speaker A:Entry level like this should be normal.
Speaker A:Healing should be normal.
Speaker A:Miracles are seen as more of a greater work.
Speaker A:But he says, that's why he says he couldn't do many any miracles there except just lay a few hands on a few sick people and heal them.
Speaker A:Most of us will think that's a really good day.
Speaker A:But he says he was amazed because of their unbelief.
Speaker A:In other words, every one of those people that had need could have received.
Speaker A:But only a few would stand in faith and patience.
Speaker A:Only a few of them.
Speaker A:And those were the ones that didn't allow offense and unbelief to take them out.
Speaker A:They didn't allow offense and unbelief to remove them from their position of faith and patience.
Speaker A:The other thing, the other things that can derail us or deposition us is weariness, right?
Speaker A:We read that scripture, Galatians 6, just being tired, just being tired.
Speaker A:And this, it really is.
Speaker A:If you, if you're listening to this saying, you know, I'm just tired.
Speaker A:It's just been a long time.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:You're real vulnerable because that tiredness, that longevity, the enemy's been using timing against you to wear you down.
Speaker A:That's his whole plan.
Speaker A:That's when you draw on the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Holy Spirit, I thank you Lord, that you can give me, that you give me strength, that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Speaker A:Holy Spirit, bring strength to my physical body, bring energy back to my physical body.
Speaker A:And you know, we start to stir ourselves up in Jane, in, in Jude it says we stir ourselves up in faith.
Speaker A:When we pray in tongues, we stir ourselves up in our most holy faith.
Speaker A:This is where, you know, people that have become tired and weary are often people that are disappointed and just, just despondent.
Speaker A:That is the place where we stir ourselves up.
Speaker A:And this is where no one said this was easy.
Speaker A:It's much easier to be sluggish, okay?
Speaker A:But if we want to inherit the promises, there's a stirring up.
Speaker A:Stir yourself.
Speaker A:David had to do this in the Psalms.
Speaker A:He said, bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me.
Speaker A:And forget not all of his benefits, who heals all of all, of all sickness and all disease, right, Delivers my life, redeems me from destruction, crowns me with loving kindness and tender mercies.
Speaker A:And Psalm 103, David had to stir himself up.
Speaker A:He couldn't afford to be sluggish.
Speaker A:He is the one that wrote that psalm.
Speaker A:He couldn't afford to be sluggish.
Speaker A:He knew if he was going to see the victory yet to stir himself up.
Speaker A:So if you find yourself tired today, draw on the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:Praying in your prayer language, praying in tongues.
Speaker A:You know you'll bring strength to your physical body.
Speaker A:There's a supernatural power that's on the inside of you.
Speaker A:When we pray in tongues, we meditate on God's word.
Speaker A:We allow that to come out of our mouth.
Speaker A:We literally change.
Speaker A:We've seen DNA changed.
Speaker A:You know, it literally changes things around and brings strength back to our physical body.
Speaker A:Sluggishness is what it talks about.
Speaker A:You know, that's kind of the same thing in Hebrews, just a laziness.
Speaker A:Sometimes we get apple, you know, we get apathetic.
Speaker A:And I, I, I like to describe it this way, tolerance.
Speaker A:Sometimes we tolerate things.
Speaker A:You know, maybe we don't use the word sluggish, but we do use the word tolerant.
Speaker A:We can start to become tired and then tolerant of things.
Speaker A:And we were never created to tolerate the plans of the enemy.
Speaker A:We were never created to tolerate sickness and disease.
Speaker A:We were never, we were never created to manage sickness.
Speaker A:That was, you know, it's, it's uncomfortable because it's alien to us.
Speaker A:It should be foreign to us.
Speaker A:It's not part of who we are in our born again selves.
Speaker A:That's not who we are.
Speaker A:And if we can tolerate something, if we can tolerate a situation, then we're more likely to keep it because we're just about maintaining.
Speaker A:And this is one of the ways the enemy tries to really get us out of position for receiving a miracle.
Speaker A:It's to make us weary and sluggish, tolerant to the status quo, the situation.
Speaker A:Don't be tolerant, say thank you, Lord, that is abundantly.
Speaker A:You came to give me abundant life.
Speaker A: You know, John: Speaker A:But Jesus came to give me life and life more abundantly, and I'm having that abundant life.
Speaker A:He promised me it, he provided it for me, and I'm taking it.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna, you know, determine in my.
Speaker A:In my heart not to live at level lower than abundant life.
Speaker A:I'm not living at a level of existence existence, just merely existing.
Speaker A:I know that God has a plan, that God has a purpose for my life.
Speaker A:He has a plan.
Speaker A:He has a purpose for your life.
Speaker A:He has good thoughts that he thinks to you.
Speaker A:He has a.
Speaker A:He has a plan to prosper you, to live a long life with an expected end to your hate, has good works that have been set aside for you to do, for you to accomplish.
Speaker A:He has victory and triumph already secured for you.
Speaker A:He has generational legacy and blessing already set aside for you.
Speaker A:And you know when, when we declare those things over, over ourselves and over our family, we take quitting off the table when we know we have a purpose for our life, that God has a purpose for our life and his plans for our lives.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:We stop tolerating things that are of the enemy.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:We stir ourselves up, we find our purpose.
Speaker A:We stop becoming sluggish and we invite the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:And as we speak in these things, sometimes the be not as though they are we declaring the word of God over us us.
Speaker A:Something happens on the inside of us to where we.
Speaker A:We.
Speaker A:We rip the door right off and we head.
Speaker A:We position ourselves to receive man.
Speaker A:These are powerful, powerful truths right here on the inside.
Speaker A: ay's teaching with this Psalm: Speaker A:Wait on with good courage and receive supernaturally strengthened heart.
Speaker A:That comes from, from Psalm 27 and verse 14.
Speaker A:Wait on the Lord.
Speaker A:Be of good courage and he should strengthen your heart.
Speaker A:He'll bring strength when you.
Speaker A:When you put your hope in him.
Speaker A:You know, even though there's a temptation to lose heart when you put your hope in him, your faith in him, when you believe in him, when you declare his word over your life.
Speaker A:And you know you're.
Speaker A:You are speaking out your agreement with it.
Speaker A:Whatever he says in that word, I agree with it.
Speaker A:Let it come out of my mouth.
Speaker A:And we start to do that.
Speaker A:You know what our physical heart, our mind, our will and emotions become strengthened.
Speaker A:We become courageous.
Speaker A:We become steadfast and we won't quit.
Speaker A:And we're going to receive.
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