Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Welcome to the leaders notebook with Dr. Mark Rutland. Dr. Rutland is a world renowned leadership expert. He is a New York Times best selling author and he has served as the president of two universities. The Leaders Notebook is brought to you by Global Servants. For more information about Global Servants, please Visit our website globalservants.org Here is your host, Dr. Mark Rutland.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Let me just bring you up to speed on this brief series here this fall semester at Buford Church of God we've been talking about.
The whole series is on the practical Spirit Filled Christianity.
Sometimes we approach the Spirit filled, the execution of Spirit filled living at a theoretical level. And that's particularly what I want to deal with tonight.
We talked about that the Spirit Filled church is a healing community.
Healing happens because where we are gather and worship in the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus is present. And where Jesus is healing flows out from him. The healing virtue of Christ that touched the woman with the abnormal flow touches us as well.
The woman with the abnormal flow. She didn't say if I can learn more about the Holy Ghost, I'll be healed.
She didn't say if I can hang around with the apostles, I'll be healed. She didn't say if I could sing in the choir, I'll be healed. She said, if I can touch him.
And so the central reality of the Spirit filled Community of healing is the presence of Christ.
Then that led us to the second session, which is that therefore we are in essence a Jesus community.
That the Holy Spirit empowers us to glorify Jesus, that we are essentially Pentecostals are not essentially about the Holy Ghost, we're about Jesus.
And sometimes Pentecostals talk about the Holy Spirit as if there was something better than Jesus.
The Holy Spirit gives us the grace to worship and receive and adore his presence.
We are a healing community and, and we're a Jesus community.
Now if you have your Bibles, if you'll take those and turn if you will please to Ephesians chapter 4.
I want to speak tonight on Beyond Theoretical Christianity, Ephesians chapter 4. I'm going to begin reading at verse 30.
Look at the first few words and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Now just think about the words for a moment before we read on.
If we want to be a Spirit filled community, it means we want the presence, the power, undiluted, undiminished of the Holy Spirit. Therefore we don't want to do anything to grieve that, to quench it, to limit that.
So what Paul is about to say now is hugely important. If we're talking about what it means to be a spirit filled community, a spirit filled church, then we don't want to do anything that would grieve, vex, wound, hurt the Holy Spirit and thereby limit his healing power and activity among us. So what follows that statement is of huge importance.
And grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice.
And be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
I want you to look at words in English in verse 31 and evil speaking.
Now remember, we're reading in English something that Paul wrote in Greek, but Paul did not think in Greek, Paul thought in Hebrew.
So the passage evil speaking is a direct phrase from Torah.
There are two different kinds of evil speaking. The first is hatzat shamra.
It means to bring a false witness, a false accusation.
I think we're pretty clear on that. To falsely accuse somebody. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. We know that.
But that's not the more nuanced and difficult kind of evil speaking.
It's a very significant part of teaching Judaic ethics and it is lashon hara.
It translates literally evil speaking.
So Paul is actually communicating with us. La shonhara. Evil speaking Into Greek evil speaking and into English. Evil speaking.
When I was at the University of Maryland as an undergraduate student right at the end of the civil War, I remember so rude to laugh at a guest speaker.
I remember one semester, one summer semester, I just needed to have a one hour class.
I just needed something to start the fall semester. I was working so hard. My wife and I were poor as church mice. We're both working multiple jobs and I was one hour short to get to where I needed to be to start the fall semester so I could graduate on time. And they said, just choose a course for one hour.
And I said, well, what do you got? They said, choose a skill course in the physical education department. I looked through them. There was one in canoeing. I said, great, how hard can that be?
So I signed up for canoeing. The first two classes, we met in a classroom and the guy taught some, you know, talked about it and everything like that. At the end of the second class, he said, now on Tuesday, we won't meet here in this classroom. We, we'll meet at the lake on the backside of the university. Everybody meet there. We'll get the canoes out.
And a girl in the classroom said, what?
What? He said, we're going to get the canoes. And she said, I can't do that.
She said, I'm terrified of water, I can't swim, I can't go in a canoe.
He said, young lady, this is a course in canoeing.
Why did you sign up for this?
She said, I thought it was an introductory course. I thought it would just be theory of canoeing.
She said, I didn't know we were really going to canoe.
There's so many things you take. Theory of physics, theory of botany, all these theory courses. She thought it was going to be a theory of canoeing.
I fear that there are many, many people who want theory of Christianity.
They don't want to know what the Holy Spirit actually does. In our practical, day to day relationships. If we're going to move beyond theoretical Christianity, it's going to have to be practical.
John Wesley said, I know no holiness, save social holiness.
Now he's not talking about the social gospel, he's talking about in society.
He's saying there's no way to have vertical holiness only. You can't be holy to God and unholy to people.
How we relate to one another is not a matter of theory. This is real.
This is real Christianity.
And nothing, absolutely no element of real, practical Christianity is more real than the way we talk to each other.
Now, first of all, we have to speak words of forgiveness. Look at what Paul says, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven us for Christ's sake.
I just don't, I don't want to say because something is real and not theoretical. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying real canoeing is harder than theoretical canoeing.
Now when I was in that classroom and he's drawing pictures of canoe design up on the blackboard, my back never hurt once, as when you start pushing that canoe through the water, especially if the person in front of you is not pulling their load.
There were a couple of people I wanted to hit in the back of the head with a paddle, say, could we do this at the same time, I think it would help.
So when you start talking about practical Christianity, I want to make it very clear to you. I think sometimes we gloss over this.
Forgiveness between each other is hard Christian work.
It's not easy to forgive people.
In what sense are we forgiven?
We live in the comforting reality that God has forgiven us.
1 John 1:9. If anyone will confess their sins, God is faithful and just to forgive them and cleanse them of all unrighteousness.
Wow.
We bask in that truth and that reality that we are not just forgiven, it's cleansed, gone. That he has buried our sin in the sea of his forgetfulness. And as Dr. M.G. mcLuhan used to say, and he put a sign out that said, no fishing allowed.
But when it comes to translating that into how we forgive and speak forgiveness to one another, that's where the rubber hits. The word hits the road.
Many years ago, I was young Methodist pastor in my twenties.
An older minister in the conference did something. There's no use to go into it all. I thought he had damaged, limited, impeded my ministry.
And I took up a hardness toward him.
And then I became under conviction of that. And I wanted to forgive him.
So I tried to forgive him. I'd pray forgive him, and then I'd say, okay, that's settled, that's done. Am I the only one that's ever struggled with this? You all sit out there looking so religious.
I'm up here revealing the secrets of my slimy soul.
I think I had forgiven him. I prayed it through. I felt liberated. And then I'd be at a dinner party or something, his name would come up, and I could feel that thing inside.
And I. Oh, back to prayer. Back to prayer.
I couldn't seem to get it real.
And I said, lord, you've got to help me with this.
One night I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamed he was killed in a terrible burning car crash.
And it woke me up and I said, God, are you telling me that that's how he's going to die?
And the thought came in my mind as clear as you can hear my voice right now. No, I'm telling you that in your heart of hearts, that's what you want.
I tumbled out of that bed onto my knees and I said, God, I don't want that. I don't want to want that. If I want that, I don't want to want it.
Please help me. Please, God. Whatever it takes.
Now listen to Dr. Mark.
You don't want to pray that if you don't mean it. See, he's like God and all.
So I went to the Indian Springs camp meeting. Anybody here ever been to Indian Springs Campground down at Jackson, Georgia? It's Holiness Campground down at Jackson. I just attended. I wasn't preaching. It's huge, big banks of speakers. I was sitting way up in the back.
And I went to hear because it was an Andrew Miller, Salvation army colonel was there that night. And I Wanted to hear him preach. He was a great preacher. And he preached that night on unforgiveness, the corroding power of unforgiveness. And I was under so much conviction. And he said, I'm going to give an altar call. I said, oh, I don't. Please don't do this.
The altar call for unforgiveness. See, that's not.
That's not vague.
When you leave the back row with the balcony, it's like people say, ooh, I wonder who he hates, you know?
But I just couldn't get out of it. I couldn't get out of it. It kept weighing on me. God said, you said, anything it takes.
Finally, I just broke. And I came all the way to the front at Indian Springs. They had these little, like.
They're little. It's odd kind of altars. They're like little tables.
And you kneel on one side and somebody comes and prays for you on the other side. I came down and fell at that little table, and I was just saying, oh, God, please heal me. Heal me of this unforgiveness. And somebody came and knelt on the other side, and he said, would you like me to pray with you?
And I looked up.
Oh, yes, it was.
Oh, yes, it was. You knew it was.
He said, can I pray with you about unforgiveness? I said, yeah.
And it broke.
It broke. I never told him. I didn't tell him. I didn't say something. You know, I've had resentment toward you for that horrible thing you did, but I need forgiveness. No, I just broke and I prayed with him, and he prayed for me. I don't think he ever knew. I don't think he ever knew. But I got up from that little table in Indian Springs campground, and I was free. Now, listen to me. That's a kind of healing.
We've been talking about healing every week of this. And when I told you we'll have prayers for healing.
Unforgiveness is an impediment to the healing spirit of Jesus.
It can impede a church. It can impede a family. It can impede a life. It can actually quench what the Holy Spirit wants to do in life. Now I'm calling on you right now. We're going to have our second prayer for healing.
One of the things that can make healing flow more freely is to get anything out of the way that's in the way of healing.
And unforgiveness can block the pathway.
Now, it's hard work.
Somebody's Sitting here. I guarantee you somebody is sitting here saying, yeah, but you don't know what happened to me.
You're talking about unforgiveness. You don't know what happened to me.
I don't know.
Somebody say, you don't understand the outrage that was committed against me by people that I trusted and believed in. You don't know what my father did to me when I was a little girl.
You don't know how I was lied about and betrayed. You don't know. I'm not telling you. I know. What I'm telling you is that God wants to heal you of the unforgiveness and healing you of the unforgiveness, begin to heal other things that the holy. That the unforgiveness is standing in the way of. It's a double healing.
It is also one of the great passageways of God's grace.
I believe that we cannot find the liberty of the Holy Spirit in healing while we harbor unforgiveness.
Will you bow your heads and close your eyes before we go any further?
I'm not going to give the kind of altar call that Colonel Miller gave. I'm not going to ask you to walk up here, but I am going to ask you, every head bowed, if you'll bow your head and close your eyes.
Dr. Oatland.
God knows the truth.
There's somebody. Some people, some group, some person.
I just can't seem to get over it. I just can't seem to get free.
I need to be healed of my unforgiveness. If that's you, then you lift your hand. I want to pray for you. Sure, sure, sure.
So many. So many. That doesn't mean some horrible thing about you.
You know what that proves? That only proves one thing. You're as human as everybody else in this room.
Now. Heavenly Father, I pray.
I implore you that the spirit of grace would so invade them.
So remove from them this barrier, this blockade of unforgiveness.
Lord, that, as Paul said, we would not grieve. Your Holy Spirit. Take it out of us. Pluck it out like a.
A thorn in our foot. Pull it out, God, right now. We release it. We want free of it.
Now, consciously, as an act of your will, begin to say, I forgive. Even name the people. I forgive him. I forgive her. I forgive them. Say it in your spirit. I forgive. I forgive. I forgive. As I am forgiven. As I have been forgiven. As I've released it, I release it.
I forgive. Heal me, O Lord. Heal me, O Lord. Now in the name of Jesus of Nazareth who has forgiven you of your sins, though they are multitudinous and against you he holds no mark.
Now release in the same way and begin to receive your healing. Now here's the second part of the prayer.
Others that would say, now with that out of the way, deep in my heart I've had a feeling that that unforgiveness was in the way of my healing.
And I've set it aside, it's finished. I've given it to God and I believe I'm free of it. Now there is an area in my life, another area where I need healing. And with that out of the way, will you pray another prayer for healing? If that's you, you lift your hand, let me pray for you. Sure, sure, sure. Okay, okay, okay. Or I still see some hands. Okay. Yes ma'. Am.
Heavenly Father, we don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit. We don't want to blockade the Holy Spirit. We don't want anything to be a barrier that gone, that removed. Whatever it was, whatever it was, it's gone.
That unforgiveness has been taken out. Now let your healing power flow into this point of human need, my friend. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, receive a touch from God.
Receive a touch from God and be made whole in Jesus name.
Amen.
Now the second part of this, the first part is unforgiveness. The second part is more. It almost feels trivial. I mean unforgiveness, that's huge. We know it's wrong, forgive even as you have been forgiven. We know Jesus parables about it. But Lashon Hara, evil speaking, it almost seems trivial and yet it's huge in the Hebrew Bible and Torah in the Greek Bible, in the English Bible.
I was president of two different spirit filled universities.
The number of students with whom I personally did counseling or had counseling encounters, the percentage of those that fell into one category was huge.
It was second, third and fourth generation Pentecostals who had heard their fathers stand up in church and give a quote unquote word of prophecy and then talk to their mother in the car on the way home like she was a dog.
People who would speak in tongues in church and speak evil in the church parking lot.
And the gap between those two realities is where second and third generation Pentecostal kids fell to their deaths.
Lashon Hara is not a small thing how we speak, what we talk about. Now let me free you up on something. If no one has ever told you this, maybe I can be the one to help you with this. A great truth.
Here it is. Are you ready?
You don't have to have an opinion about everything.
Free at last, praise God Almighty. Free at last. There's some stuff you don't have to think about, worry about, have an opinion on, and you don't need to speak about.
I was the associate pastor at a huge church in the Atlanta area.
A group of men in the church.
Not church money, not board money, just a group of men, five men in the church that loved their pastor. He had built that church for 37 years.
And a group of five men in that church went together and pooled their money and bought the lead pastor, a brand new Jack, a Jaguar.
Few Sundays, lady. A lady met me in the aisle as I came in and she said, Dr. Hartland, can I speak to you for a minute? I said, yes, ma', am. What's the problem? She said, did you hear about this Jaguar? I said, oh, I did.
I did. She said, I can see you're as troubled by it as I am. I said, I'm just. I said, I can't tell you how troubled I am. She said, well, I'm glad to hear it. I said, they didn't buy me one.
I said, now, ma', am, I'm going to speak to you. If nobody's ever spoken to you like this before, I'm going to be the one.
You need to shut your mouth.
I said, you are out of order.
Those men have acted in generosity to bless the man of God and this is none of your affair.
And I said, I love you, but I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. There's some stuff that Christians ought not to say, ought not to talk about. Lashon Hara is not a minor sin. From the Old Testament to the book of Ephesians to the modern Pentecostal world, evil speaking is evil. That's the reason it's called evil.
This is not theoretical Christianity.
This is canoeing in the tough waters of real Christianity.
Evil speaking is not biblical. It is not God wrought, spirit filled Christianity.
When we speak judgmental, unforgiving, merciless, accusational words, we are in sin.
It's not minor, it's huge.
It gets right down to where we live and it's all the time.
I went to a grocery store.
I hate telling this.
I've marked this out of my notes four or five times and rewritten it.
I went to the grocery store. My wife had had surgery.
I was rushed, feeling difficult trying to find something. I didn't even know what it looked like.
Ladies, listen to me. When you write stuff on a shopping list, describe it.
And this grocery store was odd. It wasn't like it wouldn't, you know, Kroger's, everything. They'd be regular. This was a weird grocery store. It didn't. You're supposed to bring your own bags. I couldn't find stuff. Everything.
I said, who designed this?
I got up to the counter and the little girl behind the.
In the cash register there, she was obviously about 9 years old. And.
And I don't know what she said. I don't remember now. I felt she.
I felt she was rude to me.
And I gave it right back to her.
She was rude. I thought she deserved it.
I got out to my car. You ever talk to God and he won't answer you?
I said, God, did you see the way that girl talked to me?
Not a word.
I'm driving down the road. I said, lord, she shouldn't talk to old man like that. Nothing. He didn't say, I know, I know. Poor old guy.
I said, lord, she shouldn't. She shouldn't speak to me that way. Not a sound.
I said, lord, you want me to go back there and apologize to that girl?
He said, you do what you think is right.
So I drove all the way back. I went in, she was there. I waited till the customers were gone. She was by herself. I went over, I said, miss, I don't know if you remember me or not.
I felt like I was rude to you. I didn't say you were rude to me. You deserve it. That's not an apology. I said, I feel like I spoke harshly to you. And I had this fantasy that she would say, oh, thank God.
You've made my day.
I don't know how to thank you, sir. I can see that you're a real man of God.
I said, I want to apologize. She said, whatever.
I'm telling you, this is real.
This is real on a day to day basis.
This is not minor. This is real Christianity. You want theoretical canoeing, stay in the classroom.
You want to get out on the lake.
It changes the way we speak.
I believe that God is looking for a church, for a group of people that are willing to speak grace, who are willing to move past theoretical Pentecostalism and want the real things of God to move past anger and nitpicking and criticism and judgmentalism.
Wonder why she dresses like that.
Who does he think he is?
Those are not minor things.
I don't know if you've ever even heard a sermon on evil Speaking, but it is fundamental to the way we understand what real Spirit filled Christianity means.
A mean person is a terrible thing.
A mean Pentecostal is an aberration.
And they're not scarce.
They should be unheard of.
Think of the church's spirit filled Pentecostal churches. That rupture burst wide open because of nothing more significant than evil speaking.
They call themselves, you know, the Church of the Holy Ghost. They should put Lashon Hara Church of God right over the title.
Evil speaking is fundamental sin because it's not just sin against God, it's horizontal sin.
It brings a reproach on somebody else. Someone else is hearing it. By the way, in rabbinical writing on Lashon Hara, the rabbis have ruled that he who listens to Lashon Hara is as guilty as the one who says it.
Because they say you are now actually more guilty in some ways because you have encouraged the person in their evil speaking and you have allowed to some extent or another, you either believe or have pretended to believe something evil about someone else. And they said, that's twofold sin.
We've got to come to this place in our Christian life where we say, it's not just what I think or what I believe or how much I read my Bible, it's how I talk, how I speak to one another.
Pastor and I've been talking some about revival.
There was a great revival in China before the Boxer Rebellion in the early 1900s.
There was a great Canadian missionary there. His name was Jonathan Goforth.
His widow, after he died, Rosalind Goforth wrote his biography and the story of their time in China. It was called Go Forth in China.
They were there for many, many years until they had to flee from the rebellion and all that. But they had a great work.
But at first it wouldn't move, it wouldn't budge. They just felt like they were laboring and laboring. You know what broke it open?
The great revival. When after the Communists came and there were still, after 70 years of communist oppression in China, there are still Christians.
After all the persecution, all the wickedness, everything that's been done against the church, there's still Christians in China.
Where did that come from?
It came from a revival under the leadership of Jonathan Goforth planted seeds that transcended persecution and violence and the horror of communist oppression.
And you know where it started?
It didn't start in a meeting with Chinese people present. It started in a missions meeting.
A missionary lady stood up and she said, I've got to get free of this sin in my life.
She said, can you forgive me.
I've been speaking evil against other women in this mission group, and I need forgiveness. And people begin to break, sins begin to be confessed.
Sins were broken, relationships were healed. The revival among the missionaries burst out into the Chinese people. And for once the Chinese people said, oh, so it's not theoretical anymore.
This is real.
It's not just real in Canada.
It's not just real in the United States. It's real in China.
And the greatest revival in Chinese history happened because missionary lady confessed not adultery or murder or stealing from the offering, but evil speaking.
Paul says, quench not the Holy Spirit.
He says, you want to see the things of God in a church.
You want to see healing signs, wonders, gifts, miracles.
He said, then when God's trying to water the garden, don't put your foot on the hose.
Don't quench the spirit. And the first thing he says is have done with lashon hara.
Evil speaking.
So what do we replace it with?
If we're not going to speak evil, then what are we going to speak?
We're going to speak goodness. We're going to speak grace.
We're going to speak truth in love. We're going to speak joy.
We've got to allow the Holy Ghost to re educate our tongues, to speak faith and to speak hope and to speak love and to speak grace.
I was the president at Oral Roberts University. I came around the corner of a building and there was a kid standing there with a stack of books in his hands. As I went past him, I said, hey, you, handsome, how you doing? And he dropped them.
I said, well, son, did I scare you?
He said, yeah, you did in a way. President Rutland, he said, I'm 22 years old. Nobody has ever called me handsome.
Where was his mother?
Where was his father?
Where were people speaking grace to each other, speaking life, speaking love, speaking hope?
We don't just do away with evil speaking.
We fill our mouths with the good tidings of the presence of Jesus.
And I believe that it has the power to heal.
Let me give you one example.
Peter and John arrived at the gate, beautiful.
And there was a man there begging.
And they, perceiving that he wanted money, looked at him and they said, look on us.
That's a remarkable thing to say.
Look on us.
They weren't saying, look at us because we're wonderful.
Simon Peter was only about two months from denying Jesus on the night he was crucified.
He said, look at me, friend.
You think you're crippled.
I was crippled.
You think you're twisted?
I'll show you twisted.
Look at me.
Look how healed I am. Look how forgiven I am.
And then it says, and they spoke to him, such as I have. I give unto thee in the name of Jesus.
Stand up and be healed.
Receive your healing.
Be filled with faith.
El goso del senor mi fortaleza es. The joy of the Lord is my strength.
Receive God's grace.
Be forgiven. Speak forgiveness. Speak grace. If you think this is a trivial and elementary sermon, I'm telling you, this is fundamental Christianity.
Husbands and wives that snipe at each other in the kitchen. This is not little.
It's not just. Well, it makes our marriage a little brittle. No, it doesn't. It makes it sinful.
Snapping at your children, criticizing them over things.
Learn to speak grace.
Turn to someone near you there and say, grace be to thee.
Grace be to you.
Ladies, where are the married women whose husbands are with them tonight? Every married woman, turn to three.
All right, we have some other work to do now. Let's say now. I see hands going up. Every married woman who's got their husband with her tonight, raise your hand. All right, turn to your husband and say, you're the handsomest thing I've ever seen.
Guys, we're the married men whose wives are with them. Turn to your wife and say, oh, baby, you raised my Injun.
Turn to the person behind you. Turn to the person behind you and say, grace be unto thee. Go on, say it. Grace be unto thee.
Grace be unto thee.
Look around, say to somebody, be healed.
Try it.
Release it. In the name of Jesus, such as I have, I give unto thee. Be healed.
In the name of Jesus. Be healed. Whatever's broken, I speak healing.
Whatever is wounded, I speak wholeness.
Whatever is unforgiving, I speak forgiveness.
I speak grace. I speak Jesus to you.
I speak Jesus to you.
Now let's bow our heads for our last healing prayer.
Heavenly Father, I pray that your healing power would flow up and down these pews.
Touch first one and then another. In the name of Jesus. Receive God's healing power. In the name of Jesus. Every barrier broken. In the name of Jesus. Resentment cast out. Demonic oppression gone. In the name of Jesus. I speak liberty. I speak health and healing and forgiveness.
In the name of Jesus. Bondages broken, wicked habits shattered, chains falling. I speak liberty. I speak liberty. To you I speak freedom. To you I speak repentance. To you I speak the joy of the Lord. I speak healing. In the name of Jesus, be made whole. Heavenly Father, I pray that everything that would quench or hinder or vex The Holy Spirit would just be cast out of us and gone. That would be gone from us. And that you would have free reign in this place. Free reign, Lord, that your healing power would flow across the people.
Receive it now. Receive his healing grace in your body, in your hands, in your arms, in your legs, in your knees. Wherever there's pain in your spine, whatever you're facing, receive it. Believe it. Every head bowed and every eye closed. If you can possibly do so, I invite you to just touch.
If you have migraines, reach up and put your fingers on your head.
If you have congestive heart failure, put your hands over your heart. If you have a knee that's giving you pain, put your hand on your knee. Just touch it and say, I receive Jesus healing.
Say it. I receive Jesus healing. I receive Jesus healing. Now we're going to stand in just a moment when I say amen to this prayer and we're going to sing. And as we do, if you would like prayer, more prayer for healing, I want you to slip out from where you are and come up here to the front. Pastor Mia and the staff, everyone, Colma, we're gonna pray for you and believe God for your healing. And the rest of you, as you see people near you, start up the aisle, speak healing.
Say to them, jesus is touching you. Jesus is here. Jesus is healing. Speak it right out as they come forward.
We speak Jesus. We speak healing. We speak grace. We speak forgiveness. We speak deliverance. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Receive God's healing touch. Receive God's healing touch. Receive God's healing touch.
Now let me invite you just now, speak out. I receive God's healing. Say it. I receive God's healing. Speak it.
Release your faith a little bit. I receive your healing. I receive your healing. God, I thank you for it. I believe you for it. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
Now we're going to just stay where we are for a moment. We'll have a closing prayer. I'll give the microphone to Pastor, but what I'd like to invite everyone week people have come up afterward and said, oh, I got healed.
Different hap this happened or that happened. If you feel that God has done something particular in you tonight, then come to us after and say, hey, I want to share with you. I think this happened to me.
Listen, after healing services, never act impetuously. Don't go home and quit taking your medicine or something.
If you sense God has done something, go back to your doctor. It's okay. Jesus doesn't mind anybody checking his work and believe God for your healing and act on it, but gently and in faith believing. But let us know. We want to share with you each of the Wednesdays so far. Somebody has come afterward and said God, God has really touched my body and we want to believe with you.
Lashon Hara Evil speaking.
It is the axe to the root of joyful spirit filled Christianity. You want to get past theory, Learn to speak grace.
God bless you.
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