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I have never been more honest with you in my

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life than I have been in these heart -to -heart

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talks we got into question as to why some people

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are not healed. I have been so dead honest with

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you that I have told you sincerely that I do

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not have the answer. I do not know. And when

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somebody comes along and says that they have

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the answer, they know why, I'm afraid I'm a little

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skeptical of those who claim they know. No one

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can understand God's reasoning. No one can understand

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the ways of God. No one can fathom the mind of

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God. You and I have been really getting down

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to rock bottom. We have gone into the word of

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God. And the day has come when we need to get

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back again to Bible teaching. And the Bible does

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not teach that faith is a condition of the mind.

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It is not. No person in the whole world can ever

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make me believe that faith, the kind of faith

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that Jesus was talking about, was a condition

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merely of the mind. It is not. It is a divinely

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imparted grace to the heart. And very often,

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our emotions are mistaken for faith. And then,

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you know, it's so easy to blame God when there

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are no results from something that has been purely

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of the mind and not of the heart. Mm -hmm. Oh,

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I know, beloved. I may be upsetting some of your

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theology, some things that you've been taught.

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But remember, if the Bible teaches one thing

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and you have been taught another, the Bible is

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always right. The Word of God is the final authority.

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We can believe in healing. We can believe in

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our Lord and His power to heal. But... Only Jesus

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can work the work that will lift us to the mountain

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peaks of victory. We need faith, a product of

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the mind, when all of the other gifts of the

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Spirit we have attributed to God. Too many people

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believe that faith is still their own ability

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to believe the truth. and is often based on their

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struggles and their ability to drive away doubt

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and unbelief through a process of continued affirmations.

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But watch something. There is belief in faith,

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but faith is more than belief. If you want to

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get the mind of God, study the Bible. If you

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want to get close to the Lord, study the word.

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If you want the answers to your questions, go

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back to God's holy word. Again I repeat, if you

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want understanding, search the scriptures. There

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is belief in faith, but faith is more than just

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mental. It's more than something of the mind.

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It's more than belief. Faith is a gift. And Jesus

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is our faith. He is the giver of every good and

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perfect gift. He is the author and the finisher

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of our faith. How often we... quoted that scripture.

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A thousand times you have repeated it. He is

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the author and the finisher of our faith. And

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yet so few of us have realized the full meaning

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of those words. Faith isn't something that we

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can work up. Faith isn't a result of emotions.

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Faith isn't a product of the mind. Faith must

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come from Jesus. He is the author and the finisher

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of our faith. If I have any faith, he's the one

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who's given it to me. If you have faith, he is

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the one who's given it to you. If you are a Christian,

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he is the one who has given you the faith to

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believe that you've been born again. I am a Christian

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this hour because he has given me the faith to

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accept him as my personal savior. He's the author

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and the finisher of our faith, whether it's faith

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for salvation or whether it's faith for the healing

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of our body or for the faith of anything that

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we receive from him. Active faith is unquestioning

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belief. It's complete trust and reliance upon

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God with all confidence. And faith can become

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as real as any of our senses. When we receive

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his faith, we also receive understanding. And

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we receive both from the word because he is the

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word and he is truth. And that's the answer.

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It's that simple. Everything that God has for

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his children. he puts within the reach of faith

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and then he turns around and gives them the faith

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to appropriate the gift that's what he's like

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and yet lo these many years we've missed it then

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jesus spoke with him there's no struggle the

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waves of doubt and anxiety and worry all fade

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away and suddenly a glorious and marvellous calm

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and peace enters into the heart and the mind

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of the one who has received that which only he

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can give and the only noise that will be heard

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will be that of praise and adoration from the

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lips of the one who has just been healed by the

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great physician be no loud demanding. No. No.

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There be praise and worship and adoration. I

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told you in our last heart -to -heart talk that

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one of the greatest secrets that I've learned

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through the years is that when i had realized

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my own helplessness and had acknowledged it to

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him without a struggle oftentimes i was too tired

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to struggle there'd been more than once that

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i had been too tired to utter an audible word

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i mean that the words would not And yet, I have

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received some of the greatest manifestations

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of this power. I have received some of the greatest

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anointings of my life when I have had to lean

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completely on him. And he always comes through.

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You are nearest your possession of this great

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imparted grace when you realize your own helplessness

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and your complete and entire dependence upon

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the Lord. You know, I'm reminded the young lady

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who in describing faith used this illustration.

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I hope you'll never forget it. She said, you

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know, when I was learning to float on water,

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i realized i had to completely relax and without

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fear trust the water to hold me up it worked

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i floated in the same way i faithed if you forget

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everything else that you've ever heard me say

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in our little heart -to -heart talks regarding

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faith remember what i have just said i repeat

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she said when i was learning to float on water

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i realized i had to completely relax Without

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fear, trust the water to hold me up. It worked.

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I floated. In the same way, I faced it. That's

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my life. Day by day. I have to trust him to hold

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me up. But as long as I struggle, then I'm not

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trusting. You and I would never learn to float

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on water if we went about it the same way that

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the majority of people go about trusting the

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Lord. All they say, they... Trust them, all right.

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Oh, sure, but I'm telling you something. They

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never relax. They're never without fear. There's

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always anxiety and worry. Well, if they did that,

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believe me, they'd drown as sure as shooting

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if they were learning to float. Relax. And you,

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too, will know what real faith is. We receive

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nothing by demanding of God. It's a part of his

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great love, compassion, and mercy that he gives

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us. How often we lose sight of the fact that

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not one of us can claim any righteousness of

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our own. Not one is worthy of the smallest blessing.

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But we are the receiver of his blessing because

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of his mercy and his compassion. It's the sovereign

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act of God and not something that we have merited

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or something that we have obtained through our

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own goodness. I'll make an admission. When I

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was... Oh, let me think. I would say my late

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teens or 20 years of age. I could have given

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you all the answers. Had you come to me when

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I was 20 and asked me any question, believe me,

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I wouldn't be... Talking to you then as I am

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now. I would have told you now. If you want to

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receive your healing, I have a set of rules.

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There's number one, there's number two, there's

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number three. I want you to know my theology

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was straight. And I was sure that if you followed

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certain rules, and if you walked hard enough,

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and if you obeyed all the commandments and had

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yourself in a certain spiritual state god would

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heal you oh i was sure of it but lo and behold

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my theology came tumbling down was crushed into

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a thousand pieces when one day a man who had

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just entered the auditorium doing a miracle service

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stood silently against the wall and after not

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more than five minutes, and I'll never forget

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it, I can tell you exactly what the man looked

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like. He walked boldly to the stage and freely

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admitted, without any emotion, he just looked

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me squarely in the face and said, my ear has

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just been opened, and I don't believe it. Just

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like that. My word? Think what that did to my

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theology. I put that man through the third degree.

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I had everything at stake. My theology was at

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stake. Everything I believed as to how to receive

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your healing was at stake. But the more I questioned

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him, he held his ground. He never recanted. He

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was honest, seeing the crowd, out of curiosity,

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came in. He didn't know whether he was going

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to a giveaway program. He didn't know. He was

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sure something was being given away by the crowd,

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and he wasn't going to miss it. He didn't know

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what it was, so he came in. He was standing there,

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a spectator. And I found out he hadn't been inside

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of a church for 25 years. he had put himself

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in the category of an atheist and yet his ear

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that had been deaf for years was instantly opened

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it was possible for me to relate many many cases

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where people had been healed who were amazed

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who freely admitted that they did not expect

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to be healed some of them with the tears streaming

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down their cheeks stood before the crowd and

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said, I can't believe. I just can't believe it.

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You know, until we have a better way of defining

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it, all that I can tell you is that these are

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mercy healings. They've been healed through the

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mercy of the Lord. And in every... instance without

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exception the one healed has always accepted

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christ as his personal savior before he left

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the stage always we forget the mercy of god we

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forget his great compassion we forget that we

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do not earn our blessings, neither do we merit

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his goodness. Were it not for the mercy and the

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compassion and the grace and the love of God,

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not one of us would be a Christian today. And

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the same holds true when it comes to physical

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healing. How often I have thought that God knows

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very little about man's theology. And we're so

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prone to get dogmatic about things that we know

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so little about. In the final analysis, let me

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ask you, how much do we really know? Only that

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which is in his word. His word is our basis.

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let's get back again to the word of god let's

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forget that it's a matter of the mind isn't it

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much simpler to just take god at face value isn't

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it much simpler to acknowledge the fact that

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he is the author and the finisher of our faith?

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Isn't it much simpler to lean on his understanding,

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his mercy, his grace? And if you really want

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to know what he's like, he'll reveal himself

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through his word get back to the word his word

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may he give you the desire of your heart