Speaker 1: 0:13

Good morning, arcade. Good morning. We will be reading from the book of John, chapter 4, verse 46, 50 through 53. Once more he visited Cana, in Galilee, where he had turned water into wine, and there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. Then Jesus told him Go back home, your son will live. And the man believed what Jesus said and started home. While the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. He asked them when the boy had began to get better, and they replied yesterday afternoon at one o'clock his fever suddenly disappeared. Then the father realized that that was the very time Jesus had told him your son will live, and he and his entire household believed in Jesus.

Speaker 2: 1:15

Good morning everyone. I will be reading John, chapter 4, verse 46 in Tagalog. Jesus answered the Word of the Lord.

Speaker 3: 2:21

Come on, show them some love. Everybody. Is anybody excited to be in the house of the Lord today? Hey, the students are back from camp. I'm excited. Hey, welcome back to all the parents. They're like, yay, right, when my refrigerator got a break. They're like they're back. But thank y'all. Y'all have brought so much energy to this service, so y'all are going to keep the party going then. That's incredible.

Speaker 3: 2:49

Where are the people in here who know how to cook? You're gifted at cooking. You know what you're doing. You know how to throw down a little bit. You know what you're doing. You know how to throw down a little bit. Where are you at? There you go? There you go. We're all the people who know how to fix things. You're kind of a you can take that. We need to know you in case something goes wrong. 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 just like a little bit more salt and it'll be just right. There you go.

Speaker 3: 3:19

We're in this church. We're in a house where there are many gifts. I mean, every week there's a different language reading the opening scripture. Every church is not able to do that. So that lets you know that there are so many gifts in this house. Do me a favor Tell the person beside you I think you're gifted. Tell the person on the other side do I need a breath mint? Ask them, ask them, ask them. Ask them, ask them. 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.

Speaker 3: 3:57

The Bible talks about our gifts and how our gifts work in unison. So that way God gives gifts to the 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 the church, first off apostles, prophets, teachers, watch this. Then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping. Then he said the gift of administration and all kinds of tongues. I want to lean in today.

Speaker 3: 4:23

Last week I preached about prophecy when it comes to the Holy Spirit. This week I want to talk about healing when it comes to the Holy Spirit. Is that okay? That's good. Come on, y'all give God some praise. Y'all are ready already.

Speaker 3: 4:37

I feel like Pastor Lawrence gave me the two provocative topics and said you got that one man, I feel like he gave me prophecy and then he gave me healing. Because remember last week I talked to you here. Last week let's let's rewind it really quick. Remember last week when I talked about prophecy and and I said that you wake up at one in the morning and there's somebody telling you to call into a number. Well, the same thing with healing. You wake up at one in the morning and there's somebody telling you to call into a number. Well, the same thing with healing. You wake up at one in the morning. Sometimes there's a person up there not trying to sell you holy water, but they'd be like call in, we ripped this garment into 27 pieces, call it now, you'll be healed.

Speaker 3: 5:10

And let me just tell you though that is Bible for some of us you either saw that and you said that is a little too provocative for me, or for some you said that is paralyzing to me. And what we don't realize is that the gift of healing, or the nature of healing, or healing is supposed to be a part of the life of every believer. Here's what I've had to realize that just because someone else did it and it looked performative, it looked like a production or it looked polarizing, still does not mean that God didn't want to do it in my life. That means that I need God to go beyond my understanding in my comfort zones, because every now and then you run across somebody who seems like they're just highly overproduced or they're passionate and you're just like God. I don't know if I want healing in my life to look like that, because there are moments for some of you you've seen healing look more like a circus than look 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 do with this word then, god? Let's walk through a little bit of that today. Here's what I realized Whenever you're looking at the word healing in the Bible and the word of God, it means this definition it means to be whole again, restored to purpose, or fully aligned with God's desires.

Speaker 3: 6:24

Come on, whole again, restored to purpose, fully aligned with God's desires. Let's try it. We didn't do this in the first service. 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. We sound good. Here's why this is so important, because when we're praying for healing, I'm not just praying God, help me feel better. I'm saying make me whole again. It is not just don't take the pain away. I want you to make me whole. How can you look at my life and say that you can fix the fractured places? He wants to make me whole. Here's another thing he wants to restore me to my original purpose. Everyone in here has a purpose. When God looked at you and designed you, the person sitting in your seat actually has a purpose. The person born into your family actually has a purpose. And then the last thing is fully aligned with God's desires.

Speaker 3: 7:19

I've been pastoring people for quite a few years and I've had a chance to run into many people who've received healings, and I've also run into some people that I know that, after receiving their healing, one of the things that they did is they left the desire to be aligned with God's desire. They took that new whole self, that new whole marriage, that new whole body, that whole new understanding, and they decided I can do what I want to do, not what God wants me to do and how many of you guys know that is not what God is trying to push you. He wants to say how can I get you to be my instrument, how can I get you to work on my behalf? Here's what I wrote.

Speaker 3: 7:52

Healing often walks in with three companions presence, prayer and partnership Presence. Prayer and partnership Presence that's this. Right here, you felt the presence of the Lord. Who, in here, felt the Holy Spirit during worship? You felt that Worship, come on, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah. You felt that right there. What a beautiful name. It is the name of Jesus. You felt that thing. And then somebody came up and prayed and you begin to feel the presence of the Lord in a prayer.

Speaker 3: 8:17

But it's not just in presence, it's not just in prayer, it's also in our partnership. Jesus came, died on the cross for you and I went to the grave, overthrew the grave, got out of the grave, came and said ha, ha, I won. And then looked at the disciples and said now I'm going to leave this all in your authority. So now I'm going to give you Holy Spirit, which is the name of the sermon series. And he said you're going to be given power by Holy Spirit, and he's going to be your comforter. But the way that you unlock all that he has for you on the inside is through partnership. You have to partner, we have to partner. That means he's going to do his part. I'm going to do my part. Tell the person beside you say, do your part. Ask the person on the other side where are we going to eat at after church? If the other person on the other side of you is single and you're single, this may be your moment. Girl, I've been looking for you all service.

Speaker 3: 9:12

You want to know the thing that often stands in the way of me walking out the gifts of the Spirit, 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 me and all that stuff. But sometimes it's not the enemy, sometimes it's really the inner me. Hmm, it's not just the enemy, it's the inner me, it's my understanding, it's my experiences that keep me from unlocking what God has for me. So this lets me know that God wants to deal with my belief system so he can throw me into the journey of healing. What is the difference? What's the deal with my belief system? Here's what I wrote.

Speaker 3: 9:54

Your belief system wasn't just learned, it's often survived. Many of us carry a belief system shaped by survival, not by scripture, and when we ask God to bless our system, god is often saying I don't want to just bless your belief system, I want to overhaul your belief system. Many of us don't realize that our belief system is shaped between the ages of one and eight. What you believe, how you believe, why you believe, is often established between the ages of one and eight. That is where it's formed or where it becomes deformed. What we believe and here I want to give you a few areas on how that comes alive it comes alive like this what we believe is shaped by our environment. The environment that you're in often shapes your belief system. That's why you can grow up in a home whether it be a good home or a bad home, or a home that has people fighting or a home that has people celebrating. That begins to shape you. And let me help us for a quick second. If you're a home that fights a lot and you think, well, that kid doesn't know what we're saying. That environment is shaping them, that argument that they don't hear in the bedroom, but they can feel the atmosphere of that right there. It is shaping that little one, and so our environment helps to shape our belief system.

Speaker 3: 11:10

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 for you to speak things over yourself. Or if you find somebody and you don't feel like they're actually doing the right thing and I'll go back to the little kid scenario and that little kid may be mischievous or what you would call that and you keep telling that kid oh, you're bad, you're this, you're that. If they keep hearing it over and over again, they're going to adopt that as their identity.

Speaker 3: 11:34

Here's another thing that shapes our belief system voices of significant others. You ever had that coach that believed in you, or somebody that said that you could do anything, and you actually believe that thing. You're just like, yes, I can go pro, knowing you really can't go pro because you can't hit a curve ball. But you're like, I can go pro. No, you can't, but for a second in that game. You believed it right there.

Speaker 3: 11:56

What's the fourth one? Experiences shape us. I came from the generation where they would pull the chair from up under the person and then 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 the pulled. We got the bullies and the other ones in here today, but if you ever saw somebody have the chair pulled from up under them, they checked chairs for the next two years. No chair went unknown. They grabbed it and just sat down slow.

Speaker 3: 12:25

Why? Because that experience shaped them, and so, the same way that the inner me can shape my belief system through what happens with me, through my experiences, I love the power of God, because God is strong enough to take the thing that the enemy tried to use as a blueprint, flip it on his head, rebuild it and turn it into the thing that he uses to reshape us. And so, with that being said, my belief system is rebuilt through my environment. Thank you for coming to church today. Give yourself a hand, come on. You could have been anywhere else, you didn't have to use your gas to get here today, but you wanted to be in the house of the Lord, because environments shape your belief system. That's why it's important that we be in the house of the Lord. That's why I can't just come once a month. I got to be here whenever the doors open, because I don't know how your life works. The enemy tries to come at me every day, and so I got to fight him every day. I got to be in the right environment.

Speaker 3: 13:23

Here's the second thing repetitious information. When I was a student pastor, my student leaders would walk around with an index card in their back pocket of the scripture they were memorizing. I don't think do they even sell index cards today? Maybe not, maybe not. So index cards are just white cards with a lot. We'll explain that later. We'll explain that in the Dewey Decimal System later. Here we go, and so there's an index card that would have scriptures on it and they would memorize these scriptures right, because they wanted to get these scriptures in their heart so that way, when life tried to come against them, they had something that was planted on the inside of them that could fight against what life was trying to throw at them. Repetitious information is necessary.

Speaker 3: 14:00

The Bible says faith cometh by hearing hearing the word. You got to hear something over and over again. There are some sermon series you got to hear over and over again. You can't just hear it one time. Who was here last year during the summer when there was a sermon series on mental health. Eight to nine weeks on that, some of us may need to go back and just start playing those sermons over and over again and resetting what you hear.

Speaker 3: 14:21

And the fourth one is your experience. That's why, when the worship team was up singing man, I couldn't stand it. I had to come out here and throw my hands up because I needed an experience that was greater than my reality. I needed an experience that I could engage with, where I could surrender my life and say God, here's my life, here's my yes, here's all of me. And I'm grabbing for your atmosphere because I know that you're here. I believe that you're here and I know you want to do something. Experiences shape all of us and so, with that being said, if that's the truth, with all four of those things, this leads me to Mark 9.

Speaker 3: 14:58

Mark 9, there's Jesus. He's up on the mountain. He's on the mountain called Transfiguration. He's there. And you know, it's kind of some cool stuff happening up there. Go back and read it in Mark 9. Right before that Jesus is there, his friends have hologrammed in the other disciples that are with him. Like this is some trippy stuff happening right here. And so Jesus they finish and Jesus said let's go back down the mountain. And they get back down the mountain and there's a commotion because there is this group of people around the disciples and you really can't tell what's going on.

Speaker 3: 15:29

But as Jesus gets closer, there is this father who brought his son to the disciples because he said my kid needs to be healed. And so Jesus walks up on this scenario, to this commotion. He's like what's happening? And the father looks at Jesus and he's like I brought my son because I heard that you and your disciples could heal people. And I brought my son because he has these issues. Jesus said how long has your son been dealing with this affliction? How long has he been dealing with this possession? And the father says since birth he's been dealing with this affliction. How long has he been dealing with this possession? And the father says since birth he'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 throw himself in the water to drown himself. And since birth my son would just lay there lifeless, looking like he was dead afterwards. And Jesus, in that moment he realized something has to be done. Many of us walked in here saying I need to understand the father. Or I am that son. I'm either the father bringing somebody to the altar, or I'm that son saying Pastor Courtney, that's me.

Speaker 3: 16:33

I find myself in fiery situations. I find myself in situations where the heat is turned up and I don't even know how I got there, or I find myself underwater drowning, trying to figure out how can I find an answer. Or you're like the last part of the sun and life has beaten you so much that all you can do as your seed is lay there, lifeless. Are you alive? 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.

Speaker 3: 17:19

Father brings a son, one boy versus nine disciples. The Bible says he beat them boys so bad. And you know it's true why? Because I've seen daycare centers. One kid beat up nine workers. My wife works in the school system. One kid, nine workers. There's the disciples, frustrated.

Speaker 3: 17:42

Jesus tells him.

Speaker 3: 17:43

He said oh, you have little faith. How much longer shall I contend with this generation? In other words, what he's really saying to them is this 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 got myself stirred up real quick I believe that that's what is happening right now is that God is looking at 2025, and he's saying there are people that are coming in wounded, hurting and in need of a miracle. And he's saying how much longer will you look like me, sound like me, be next to me, but have no power like me? And he says let me bring the son. So Jesus asked the father. He says do you want me to heal your son? Dad's like, if you can? Jesus said if I can. This is crazy because this father left his house to bring his son to find these disciples.

Speaker 3: 18:37

Clearly this man had faith at some level, but how many guys know that if you go searching for a miracle and you give it your best shot and you don't get healed, that can knock the wind out of you? Here's his father. The wind is knocked out of him because he was searching for an answer from God. And he said when I walked up here, I had faith that something could happen, but now I find myself wondering can this actually happen? And then here's what the father says. He says right here. He says immediately the father of the child cried out and said I believe, but help my unbelief. That's the tension right there. That's the tension many of us sit in. Healing is it a reality or a rumor? Healing I believe it's possible for them, but I don't know if it's possible for me. In many of us we have faith for somebody else, but we have no faith for ourselves oftentimes because we've run the resume of our experience as opposed to the truth of God's existence. And I understand that father who came searching for a healing but is standing in a place where they said the healing can be, and he still has the same evidence he walked up with.

Speaker 3: 19:54

I remember in the season when my wife was healed of cancer. I remember that moment, but I also remember us wanting to have kids in that season. She got healed of cancer. I remember that moment, but I also remember us wanting to have kids in that season. She got healed of cancer. I didn't get the kid, but I kept the wife. And I remember thinking God, where are you? And I read this scripture and listen to this Immediately the father of the child cried out and said I believe, but help my unbelief.

Speaker 3: 20:18

In other words, I have faith. It's not perfect, though. What I have is the kind of faith I have faith. It's not perfect, though. What I have is the kind of faith, this honest faith. And everybody in here walked in here today and someone said I don't have perfect faith, man of God, but what I do have is honest faith. And let me just say this People are sitting on your row and everyone walked in with a smile, but somebody walked in here desperate today. Somebody walked in here saying this is my last chance at God. Walked in here desperate to death. Somebody walked in here saying this is my last chance at God. Somebody walked in here and said this is my last opportunity to try God for this thing, or else life is done, it's over, I quit, that's it for me. And somebody on your faith has the answer called faith. So this father, he asked me. He says yo, I believe you can, but you got to help my unbelief. My unbelief is just a little crazy right now, because I walked up believing that you can. Here's what I love. This father stands between the reality of where he is and the possibilities of heaven.

Speaker 3: 21:14

And as I read that scripture over and over again, I realized something in that scripture that happened to be true in my own life Is that, though he did not have his miracle, he still had the miracle worker close. Just let me know that Jesus never leaves the people who are sitting in brokenness because they did not receive what they expected. And I don't know about you. Every time I felt like there was an unanswered prayer, I assumed that God was distant. But this scripture right here lets me know that God is close. Whether I feel him or not, the truth is that Jesus never left the scenario. Jesus ends up going on to heal this little boy and it changes their entire life. But you're sitting in here today and I want to encourage you that healing is possible for you. Whatever that thing is, that diagnosis, whatever people have said that marriage is broken, that mindset that feels like it's redundant, that cycle in your emotions Jesus can heal whatever you're walking through, and so that right there gives me the understanding that when this scripture says to me, let this mind be in you, that is also in Christ Jesus. It's real.

Speaker 3: 22:18

Last week I told y'all something and you guys talked to me about it at the church. I told y'all that I absolutely love TikTok. I spend a lot of time on it, and several of y'all were asking me I thought y'all were going to say something about the message. You just wanted to walk up to me and ask me what was the secret Waffle House thing? Shout out to everybody who went home and made the secret Waffle House menu this weekend. I was on TikTok earlier this week and here's my confession. Last week it was Waffle House.

Speaker 3: 22:43

You know what the algorithm put me on this week? Squatters. Anybody know what a squatter is? A person who moves into your house and they don't have ownership. And do you know that you cannot physically remove those people? Like, if you physically go to remove them and they get injured, they can sue you, isn't this crazy? So you can't even pull them out because if they hurt their back or throw their back out, then they can sue you and sue you in court and then just take the house that they were kind of squatting in. So I ran across this one guy on TikTok, right, he said I'm not going to put the squatters out. So he went to Home Depot and got some boards and he went to all the doors and instead of kicking them out, he nailed the boards into the wall and locked them 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're going to jail one day. Here's what I realized.

Speaker 3: 23:41

Unbelief is just like those squatters it moves into my space, it says it's here for a little while and then it overstays its welcome and unbelief will start moving furniture around. But unbelief will also take hostages. It'll say well, since I'm here, let me hold favor hostage. And let me here, let me hold your belief hostage. And while I'm here, let me hold your joy hostage. And while I'm here, let me hold your marriage hostage. And while I'm here, that kid you've been praying for, let me hold that hostage. And nothing changes until you evict it. Tell the person beside you you have to evict it, oh, that's good. Tell the person on the other side one more time you got to evict it, oh, that's good. Oh, do I have to? Oh, I got time to get to something that I didn't read earlier.

Speaker 3: 24:35

When you stay inside of a place longer than you should, that unbelief can become a stronghold. There's a way that you have to get rid of strongholds. You get rid of strongholds and I won't read the scripture, we can put it up there. 2 Corinthians 10, 3 is Paul talking, and he starts talking about strongholds. But there's a way you have to get rid of a stronghold and I give you three things out of this scripture. You have to deal with your imaginations, your high things and your thoughts, imaginations. How many of you guys know who in here has ever been sick and then you looked up your symptoms on Google and your imagination made it worse. Let's confess who in here has done that. Oh yes, thank you so much for the confession. This kid said I thought I was going to die and all he did was cough, one cough and he's like that's it for me. But you look at those symptoms and your imagination just takes off.

Speaker 3: 25:31

Paul is saying when that unbelief stays too long, it starts to question you Can God really heal you? I know he can heal them, but can he heal you? Can God really heal you? I know he can heal them, but can he heal you? Can your marriage actually be healed? Can your mind actually be healed? Can God reverse that diagnosis?

Speaker 3: 25:45

The first thing that Paul is saying is deal with your imaginations and don't let them run wild. The one thing that you hand over to God is your imaginations. What's another thing? Every high thing. What is a high thing? Everything that tries to confront God. What's the confrontation of God? Yeah, he'll do it for them, but I don't know if he'll do it for you. And what's the third thing? Every thought.

Speaker 3: 26:08

Psalm 27, 13 says this I would have fainted unless I believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. I get this scripture because he's saying I would have passed out, I would have thrown in the towel, I would have quit unless I believed that God was going to do something for me. I would have given it all away. So this leads me to John 4 and 46. John 4 and 46, here's Jesus traveling. He stops at this one town he'd been at before Jesus had been doing things. But here's this moment. There have been some miracles happening, but Jesus runs into this one guy who has a very similar story to probably what some of us feel like our lives are.

Speaker 3: 26:52

At John 4, 46. Once more, he visited Cana in Galilee. Galilee where he had turned water into wine. They didn't have social media back then, but you better believe. As soon as they saw Jesus coming across the hill, they were like, hey, the guy is here who does the thing thing with the water. Tell everybody, cook out in my house, bring the food and all the water you can find. He's going to do it again. We're going to trick him into doing it.

Speaker 3: 27:22

Jesus is there and there was a certain royal official whose son lives sick in Capernaum. Now you gotta understand. Capernaum is 20 miles away. This probably takes a few hours of a journey or, if you do it the proper way, it should take you an entire day to get here. Here's his father, who they say is a royal official. That means he works for the king. Everything the king, everything the king has access to. This man potentially has access to. That means if he needed the best doctors, the king would find him the best doctor. If he needed the best resources, the king would find him the best resources.

Speaker 3: 28:05

But how many of you guys know that there will be a moment in life where you hit a place where you can say all I need is Jesus. He's the only one who can step in 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 moment will be. It may be in a kitchen, it may be 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 be at a connect group, it may be at the senior group, but you will hit a moment where you got to throw your hands up and say all I need is Jesus right here, whose son lay sick at Capernaum. It's important because Capernaum is also the place.

Speaker 3: 28:55

A few weeks prior, jesus ran into 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 and he goes to that guy. He looks at the lifeless girl and says, hey, come on, raise her up. Jesus stops what he's doing and he goes to that guy. He looks at the lifeless girl and says, hey, come on, get up. It's time for you to live again. Come on, get up. It's time for you to choose life again. Come on, get up. It's time for you to pursue your future. Come on, get up. You have life, and life more abundantly. Come on, get up. There's some kids with your name on it. Come on, get up, you will achieve all that you have. This guy said if Jesus could do it for my friend, for sure he could do it for me. Let me walk 20 miles and find out where this guy is. He walks from here to pass Walnut Creek to find Jesus. I know that because I drove it yesterday. How many miles it is, learning the cities. He gets there, he finds Jesus.

Speaker 3: 29:55

The next scripture says this when he tells Jesus what the problem is. Then Jesus told him go back home, your son will live. I love this right here, but if I'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 heal my son. Now, when my friend came to you and asked you to heal his daughter, you left what you were doing and you went to his house. Why is it that you won't come to my house? Is it because my resume is not good 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 enemy picks us off right here when we start comparing how Jesus heals us compared to how we heal somebody else, and it can become easy to be offended when Jesus doesn't do. The recipe we've seen with others and so it can also happen with leaders. Why did they go to their house and only send me a text? Here's my question Is Jesus in the text and in the moment? He absolutely is? Jesus says go back home, your son will live.

Speaker 3: 30:59

I'm just crazy enough to believe that some of you will go back home today and walk into a scenario that's much different than what you left. The information you left will change by the time you get home. There will be miracles in this place. There will be evidence. I'm expecting it. I'm expecting emails this week. Pastor Lawrence, you won't believe what happened. Hal went to the doctor. Pastor Lawrence, you won't believe what happened. Hal went back home and my spouse who was crazy they're just not crazy anymore. He's going to write you back. How do you determine crazy? It says go back home, your son will live.

Speaker 3: 31:39

And the Bible says and the man believed what Jesus said. The man oh, come on, give God some praise. And the man believed what Jesus said. And Northgate believed what Jesus said and Benicia believed what Jesus said and the Bay Area believed what Jesus said. And you believed what Jesus said. And you believed what Jesus said. I've just seen too many miracles, and sit down on them.

Speaker 3: 32:11

It says in the man believed what Jesus said. And let me just help you. That was a moment I got all excited but I kept reading. And then the Bible says that the man believed. I was like yup, he believed, he believed. But that's not the part right there. The part is that he believed and the Bible says and he started. Started is action. That means that there has to be some action built onto your belief. You cannot just believe. The Bible says even the demons believe and tremble, but not believers. We believe and we start something.

Speaker 3: 32:44

There's an old hymn that said you want to be starting something, got to be starting something. You want to be starting something, got to be starting something. Is there anybody that wants to start something? Is there anybody who wants to start something? Let me check it. Where are the fire starters at? Where are you? You just say I want to start some stuff. I want to start some stuff. Come on, I want to start some stuff. I want to start some stuff. The Bible says and started to head home. Oh, I believe that some of you are starting to head towards your miracle. You are starting to head.

Speaker 3: 33:27

And it says and while the man was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well. Would you stand on your feet and give God some praise? Come on, oh, come on, give God some praise, come on. The father's probably. I identify with the father because verse 52, he says they gave him the fact that he was alive. But the father's basically saying let me check the receipts for a second, let me see if I can clock this for a second. He says. Verse 52, he says when did my son start feeling better? And they said yesterday afternoon at one o'clock, his fever suddenly disappeared. His fever suddenly disappeared. Don't be shocked if by tomorrow at this time, you walk into some information that finds out that things have shifted in your favor. And he says then the father realized that that was the very time that Jesus told him your son will live.

Speaker 3: 34:38

I was talking to Pastor Megan last week and after the service she said she said, pastor Courtney, you're preaching on healing the only way she can. Pastor Courtney, you're preaching on healing the only way she can. Pastor Courtney, you're preaching on healing next week. I said I am. She said you know what I've discovered about healing? I said what's that? She said healing has to point to Jesus for it to be a miracle. And I said that's good, I put it in here. But then I was reading this scripture this week and the spirit of Pastor Megan fell on me and this is what it says Then Jesus, then the father, realized that there was. That was the very time Jesus had told him. Then it says your son will live here's the part, right here and he and his entire household begin to believe in Jesus because of a miracle. Because of a miracle. Because of a miracle, come on.

Speaker 3: 35:36

I remember when my wife got the diagnosis and she looked at me and she said, courtney, in this moment, we're going to use this moment so others can see Jesus. She was determined that this miracle moment, this moment for healing, was going to point people into finding out who Jesus is. And I want to just tell you this as you're standing here looking for a miracle, many of you, your life is not just going to change, but others are going to discover Jesus because of your yes, I don't want to hold it. You're here today and you say Pastor Courtney, I came looking for a miracle. I want to know can God do something with my life? Can he shift this thing? If that's you, come on, lift your hands up high, don't be ashamed. Come on, lift it up with that confidence that's you partnering with Holy Spirit right there. I want to pray over this atmosphere and I want to pray with a little bit of passion, because I'm passionate about you, father, in Jesus' name, from room to room, space to space, wall to wall, seat to seat, I'm thanking you right now that you are about to do the miraculous inside of lives, homes and families. In this place, father, you are using this moment. There will be a new diagnosis, there will be new understanding, there will be new evidence that your glory is here because we're partnering with you. We believe we receive, and it's done in Jesus' name.

Speaker 3: 37:02

Come on, give God some praise in here. 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 the way to the front. Last thing lift both of those hands all over the place. Lift them up. Say this prayer with me, lord God, come on, say it like you mean it. Lord God, my life is a miracle. My life is a canvas for your glory. Canvas for your glory. Let there be miracles in my house, in my church, in my city, in my family. In Jesus' name, amen. One more time, give God some praise.

Speaker 1: 38:05

Yes, come on. Amen. Was that a great word, guys. That was awesome.