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i want to talk to you for a few minutes
this morning about um
sickness and healing
um
you know sadly a lot of times people are
not taught that
healing of all kinds
is part of the atonement it’s part of
what christ died for us to have why
would he want us to be saved and
feel bad all the time
and you know for a long time i didn’t
know that i could ask god to heal me
when i
was sick matter of fact sometimes we
just kind of fall in love with our
illnesses and we claim them as our own
you know
my arthritis my aching back you know
my blood pressure my this and my that
and my something else and no
you know there’s a lot of different ways
that god gets healing to us today and
you know i thank god for all the the
medical help that’s available
but even that i don’t think that can
even help us if we don’t go to god first
so let me just you know respectfully say
if you’re trusting the doctor and you’re
leaving god out of the loop
uh yeah you uh
you know we we need the medical
professionals to have the wisdom that
only god can give them
and but i do thank god for it
i am going to pray for people this
morning that have pain in your body or
that are sick but before i do
i’m going to give you a little motherly
speech okay
i’m old enough to be most of you your
mother so we’re just i’m going to be
motherly this morning i would talk to
you like i would my kids
you need to take care of yourself
you need to stop staying up all night
and not getting any sleep
you need to stop drinking six soda pops
a day and drink more water
amen need to stop eating sugar four
times a day
need to stop living on fast food that’s
full of chemicals and grease
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and you need to de-stress your life and
calm down
now you know everybody today wants a
miracle
but to go with a miracle you need some
wisdom or you’ll lose the miracle you
got
and get another problem and
most people today most being i don’t
know what percentage that would be but
i think there’s more people who don’t
take care of themselves than those who
do
and we make all kinds of excuses
and i and a lot of it i’m busy i don’t i
don’t have time
to fix good food so i just grab whatever
is on the run
i can’t get seven or eight hours sleep a
night i don’t have time i’m
too busy i don’t have time to exercise i
don’t
i don’t have time to rest i gotta keep
going keep going keep going
but doing what
there’s not a person in this room today
that couldn’t get
a fair measure of the stress out of your
life just by simply writing down
everything it is that you think you have
to do
and eliminating the ones that aren’t
bearing any good fruit in your life
if you don’t take care of you who’s
going to
i’ll say that again if you don’t take
care of you
who’s going to
now here’s the thing i believe that
healing is part of the atonement the
bible says we can pray the prayer of
faith and the sick will be healed
but i don’t really think that it’s going
to do me any good to pray for everybody
if you’re just going to keep
abusing yourself are we all
together on this page this morning
has anybody been even a little bit
convicted that maybe you need to make a
few changes and how you’re
all right well good that’s what it’s all
about
i rarely ever read this scripture
because the people
who don’t really know the word could get
a wrong idea but here goes
acts 3 verse 1. now peter and john were
going up to the temple at the hour of
prayer the ninth hour three o’clock in
the afternoon
when a certain man crippled from his
birth was being carried along who was
late each day at the gate of the temple
which is called beautiful
so that he might beg for charitable
gifts from those who entered the temple
so when he saw peter and john about to
go into the temple he said would you
give me a gift
and here’s where it gets interesting and
peter directed his gaze intently at him
and so did john
and said look at us
now basically what he’s getting ready to
say is we’ve got what you need
you know why you’ve got what the world
needs because you have the power of god
in you you have
god’s anointing in you and you
can pray for people see i told you
you’re just like
you can pray for people and see the sick
get well
now i know we’re at a whole new gate for
a lot of folks and i understand that
you know i was in a large denomination
for a long long time that didn’t teach
me anything about the miracle working
power of god
i knew that god was powerful but i
didn’t know that he wanted to share any
of it with me
these guys were born again
they’d been there on the day of
pentecost when the holy spirit was
poured out
and now they have the nerve to stand and
say you have a problem
look at me you’re still not with me are
you
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it’s not anything you have in yourself
it’s what god has given you
and you know there’s a lot i don’t
understand about healing and you know
why we pray for some people to get
healed and why we pray for others and
they don’t
but i do believe part of it has
something to do with this whole thing
about how people just disrespect their
selves and their lives and the way
people treat each other today and all
the stress
that’s in the world amen