I know you thought Jan was speaking, but thank
you for coming anyhow. It's a wonderful Lord
that we serve, isn't it? And every service, he
has done great things. He has. Jan this morning
was fabulous. I got right on the phone when I
got. back and told Debbie about it. I said, Jan
told such amazing stories. She said, I've heard
Jan's stories. I said, yeah, but these were really
good. No, Debbie loves you too. And excuse me,
that's my wife in case you weren't sure. Some
of you thought I was talking about my angel,
but that's not. I believe in angels, do you?
And they're here tonight. Because they are assigned.
Did you hear what I said? I'm a little uncomfortable
sometimes around people that only see devils.
And I understand about the activity of the demonic.
But we've got a bunch of boys on our sides. Come
on. That outshine all of the works of the enemy.
Every bit of it. Wow. Well, do you need a miracle
tonight? Do you really need a miracle tonight?
Have you ever had God say something to you but
more than once? Have you? There's something the
Lord has said to me periodically throughout many
years. Not every day, not every week, thank God.
Not even every year. But it happens periodically.
And it will usually happen like this. It will
happen when I'm walking into a church service.
And it makes no difference whether I'm actually
speaking or whether I'm attending. It can happen
either way. And I'll come walking on in, and
it will happen as I'm going to my seat. Not even
thinking about this. I'm just coming in to sit
down. Where am I going to sit tonight? That's
what it's about. I'm just looking to find a seat.
When his voice will come to me, and he'll say
these words to me, he'll say, Dale, you can have
as much as you want. Now you would think he's
saying this is going to be a bingo night for
you. But that's not what he's saying. He will
say to me, Dale, you can have as much as you
want. But do you want anything? Or have you just
come here on autopilot? Have you just simply
come out of routine? Or is there a burn in your
heart? A passion? for something great because,
and he will say it again, you can have as much
as you want. He doesn't say it to me often because
I don't think I come in brain dead most of the
time. I come in with a passion. But I got to
tell you, I think every one of us, every one
of us find ourselves at times just doing routine.
I'm going to say to you, do not let this night
be routine unto you. Come on, grab a passion
right now and say, Jesus, I want this tonight.
Come on, it just may be a greater revelation
of him, but you got to get something tonight.
Don't just come here and just listen to the speaker
and enjoy the music. Come on, let's meet with
the most high God and let us be transformed by
him. In that great, powerful way. So I'm going
to say it again. If you need a miracle, pick
out something specific tonight. I talked at length
about it last night. I'm not going to talk at
length about it tonight because many of you know.
Most of the miracles that happen in our ministry,
not all of them, but the great majority of them
happen as I'm preaching. As I preach the word
of the Lord. Look, this is no new thing. The
Bible says that they preached everywhere. I'm
quoting the end of Mark 16. They preached everywhere.
The Lord working with them and confirming his
word. With signs following. I'm only going to
be speaking the things that he is doing. And
what I'm declaring will be the unfolding and
revelation of what he is doing among us. So don't
wait for the end of the service to get a miracle.
You may get one then, but why wait to then when
he's already here now? And you can receive now.
And many, most of us will have a miracle shortly
into this. If not, it's already begun. Because
I already saw three clear healing streams again
in this room tonight. What I know, Jesus is moving
up and down these aisles. He's walking in between
these pews, if I may say it that way. He's touching
people right now. And miracles, come on, miracles
will take place. They will take place here. Not
somewhere else and not another time. Here. Right
now. He's that glory. And you want to keep your
heart open all the way through because it will
happen. In some cases, when you least expect
it, he is that glorious God. You know, I was
ministering in Florida not long ago, and it was
a church seating capacity very much like this.
The healing had happened throughout the message.
I'd called the folks up like I did last night
to show us what God had done. And they had stretched
literally like this across the building. And
we heard from one after another. But when I got
to the end, I saw a family coming down the aisle
with a little 10 -year -old girl. And they joined
the end of the testimony. Everybody knew them.
They were a long time. attenders and members
there. And the lady spoke up and said our daughter
went totally blind in one eye. She could not
see at all and lost a big portion of the sight
with the other. And the doctors were concerned
she would lose her whole sight. But they'd fitted
her with glasses and she was managing. And they
were sitting on the very, very back row of the
church. We're now near the end of the testimony
time when mom looks over and she sees her daughter
just playing there at the pew. You know, it's
a young girl in service. We've had the worship.
We've had the offering. We've been all preaching.
We've had all these testimonies. You know, she's
out to lunch. She's just playing. She's just
playing. But she had her glasses off. And so
it bothered her mother, and she spoke in a very
stern southern woman way and said, why do you
have your glasses off? And her daughter just
looked up at her and matter of fact and said,
oh, because I can see again. Just like that.
Oh, because I can see again. I got to tell you,
when I heard that, and then she demonstrated,
she had perfect sight in that eye that was completely
blind. I turned around to say to the folks, well,
we need to praise God. But when I did, the whole
place was already on their feet. And for the
next, oh, Lord, it was a long time. It was just
a constant outbreak of praise. By the way, this
is America. I love to see what he does overseas,
but let me tell you, Jesus is great right here.
And then as I was about to leave, a family came
down. They had one of those baby, what do you
call them, those little carriers that you put
an infant in, you know, that you can also have
for a car seat. They snap in and out. And they
walked up, and they said, I want to show you
what happened to the baby tonight. This wasn't
their child. They were foster parents. And they
said, this child is a little over a month old.
And she was brought into our services after the
orthopedic surgeon had fixed the broken hip from
the abuse. And this child had one leg this much
shorter than the other. We don't know when it
happened, they said, but we looked down a few
moments ago. And those legs are a perfect length.
And they checked the child, and the child had
no deformity left at all. And I thought about
that. I thought about this Jesus. And now, this
is the testimony, so I'm going to just give it
to you. That's what we know. The rest I'm going
to tell you is speculation. This is what I think.
But I think... that one who always knows and
who always cares, observed the abuse that happened
to that little baby. And I think that maybe he
had a hand in working through this bureaucracy
system to put her into that home because he knew.
that family that did not attend that church but
always came when that church had special events,
would be there on that first week of January
because he was going to walk into that room and
cure her that day. That's the one who's present
right now in awesomeness. Great power. Great
power. You expect your miracle. Pick one out.
Pick one out right now. And while I'm speaking
tonight, you look for something to happen between
you and him. We talked last night about the many
ways that could by witnessing your heart, by
a touch on your body that's supernatural, or
just like those folks that just a change. Why
don't you have your glasses on anymore? Oh, she
said, she did not say I felt a big touch. She
did not say I saw a ray of light. She just said,
oh, simply because I can see now. Maybe during
this message, you will see differently. You will
hear more clearly, or your pain will just go.
But one way or the other, look for something
more than just lights and speaker. Would you
do that? Look for the moment of the Almighty
with you. You know, I will confess to you, Pastor
Brad, that... It was a bit of a challenge to
consider what I would speak on in this house.
And part of that is for this reason. A lot of
times when I come to a place, my wife will say
to me, you preach the same thing all the time.
And she doesn't mean the same sermon. But my
sermons are simplistic. So she tells me, this
is what a great compliment. She tells me that
she says, I like your preaching better as a pastor.
Doesn't that encourage your soul? But as a pastor,
see, I had people that were maturing, and I could
build, and that's what she was talking about.
I would teach in series and would teach in depth
where when I come into a crusade, the message
is always a simple type of thing because I only
have about an hour in front of you, and I've
got to get you to a place from who is the guy
on the stage to getting a miracle from God. And
so I found that it is the simplicity of the gospel
that reaches the masses. That's what I've discovered.
But I know, I recognized immediately in this
house that this is a different kind of group.
This is a group that has a, you got some meat
on you. No, really, you do. You're a different
kind of group. I can tell it by the way you carry
yourself. I can tell it by the way you pray.
I can absolutely tell it by the way you serve
and also by the way that you worship. There's
a maturity level in this house that is different.
From many other places. Now that's a shame to
say. Did you hear that? That is. Come on we should
all be like this. And beyond. But obviously,
the gift that God has put in your house as your
pastor and his wife and others have created what
is supposed to happen, and that is the development
of the house of God. That is what the five -fold
ministry is all about. It's not about shining
just themselves, but lifting others up in that
way. And so for that reason, I tell you, I look
at it and I say, well, I'd like to preach some
of that other stuff that I'd love to get into.
But I want you to, you see, I think that there's
more than faith in this house to be healed. I
think there's faith in this house for impartation.
I think a lot of you, I think you'll get miracles
tonight. That's not the whole point of it. But
I do believe that some of you are going to walk
out of this place and it's going to be more than
just my ear here is better now or I don't have
pain in my back anymore. But you're catching
something. You're picking up something that's
going to bring that to your children in the middle
of the night. Did you hear this? And may I declare
that to you? It's going to bring it to the people
in the coffee house. And at work and in places
just like that. And so I thank God for what I've
seen and what I see in this room. It's just absolutely
amazing. Now, Brother Jan's got great material
also in the back. He helps people mature in Christ
Jesus. You've got books back there, is that right?
You didn't bring any 8 -tracks or tapes, right?
No, okay. Just wanted to be sure. I've written
one book. It's on healing. And I think you'd
enjoy it. Brother Schambach himself actually
read and did the forwarding on that book for
me. But I don't have it in print. I don't have
it here. And that way, so if you go back, you'll
get all of Jan's material back there. But if
you want to get mine, you're going to have to
go to, let's see, do they have it up? No, they
don't. Well, see, they don't care either. You
go to, whoa, there, well, you know. Yeah, well,
you can get it at, have you heard of Amazon before?
You can get it at. at amazon .com. Just put Dale
Everett and healing in there. It'll pop right
to the top. If you like it on a Kindle format,
if you like it. Just go to my website, DaleEverett
.org. You can get it there. And you'll find some
great things in there that will help you understand
how to not just get healed but how to walk in
healing. The concept of the book is healing God's
power flowing through you. And I talk much about
the ways that God has spoken to me in my lifetime,
how I hear the voice of God, how I know how to
respond. I also talk about how to deal with the
demonic and how to deal with fear and other areas
that will bring you forth in strength of healing.
All right? Are you ready for God's word tonight?
Beautiful. I have scriptures before me, and they're
found in the book of 1 Corinthians, the second
chapter. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. And in verses
9 through 12 is what I'm going to read. 1 Corinthians
2 and verse 9. I invite you to open your Bible.
If you don't have a Bible with you, then open
your tablet or your phone or whatever. If you're
waiting for it to go on the screen, I didn't
give it to them. Oh, Lord, that means you've
got to find it yourself. God, help us all. Here
we go. Do you remember, Pastor, the days in which
we knew when we could start reading because we
heard the Bible pages stop? Huh? That's when
we all brought the Bible with us, didn't we?
Well, hey, you know, seriousness, you need to
love the Word. You need to read the Word. And
hear me on this. You need to be familiar with
the Word. I think some of the technology we have,
and I love it all and I use it all, but I think
some of it has created a certain level of laziness
in us where we are unfamiliar with Scripture.
We don't even know where to turn because we don't
hardly experience it unless we're at a moment
where they project it on the wall. But you say,
well, preacher, you don't have a Bible with you
either. The pastor asked me, he said, do you
have a Bible? Bible I was talking about needing
something up here and I don't but you know I
mean I looked at it and I thought you know Moses
read from a tablet so can I alright yeah yeah
he did yeah alright would you stand with me in
respect to the reading of scripture would you
be so kind Oh, I feel his presence here. Let
me tell you where I'm going as far as the word
is concerned. I'm going to talk to you about
grasping your answer today. May I say that again?
Grasping your answer, now say it with me, today.
Today, yeah. Lay hold of that which is right
now. We procrastinate our faith way too much.
God's always going to do it. By the end of the
week. Here's the day he's going to do it. Someday.
I know that today's educators are different than
the ones that educated me and Jan. School, I
know, is different. But I think there are certain
things that are still the same. And one of the
things they taught me in school was this, that
there were seven days in a week. There was a
Sunday and a Monday and a Tuesday and a Wednesday
and a Thursday and a Friday and a Saturday. But
there was no someday. Someday does not exist.
If you're ever going to get something from God,
you need to get it in the now. Really hear what
I just said to you. If you're ever going to get
it at all, you've got to bring it into the now
moment. All right, you found it by now. I've
given you time. I was doing that on purpose.
It was 1 Corinthians. If you haven't found it
by now, bless your darling heart, you never will.
I'm just going to read. I'm just going to read,
beginning at verse 9, all right? But as it is
written, now he's going to quote an Old Testament
verse. As it is written, eye has not seen, nor
ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of
man the things which God has prepared. I'm going
to read more, but are you listening? Eyes haven't
seen, ears haven't heard, hasn't entered the
heart of man. This is an Old Testament prophet
speaking. The things which God has prepared for
those who love him. But God has revealed them
to us. Oh, come on, that's a shouting moment
right there. The things that men never could
see. They couldn't figure it out. They never
heard it. The things that had never entered their
heart. The things that were already there that
God had prepared for those who love him. He's
now revealed them to us. Come on, our eyes are
open. Are you hearing? Jesus would say, he that
has ears to hear, let him hear. This is true.
God has revealed them to us through his spirit.
For the spirit searches all things. Yes, the
deep things of God. For what man knows the things
of a man except the spirit of man which is in
him. Even so no one knows the things of God except
the spirit of God. Now we have received. Not
the spirit of the world. But the spirit who is
from God. Now look at these words. That we might
know. That we might know. Come on. You're supposed
to know. You're supposed to know. I don't know
why it is in the church that sometimes we glorify
ignorance. Our people testify like this. You
know, oh, I had such a great idea. And you know,
and I can't even tell you how, but the Lord came
through and we're all, hallelujah. I'm thinking,
wait, wait, you should be able to tell us how.
It's not enough to be saved. You need to know
how to bring this gift to God to someone else.
Did you catch that? I'm not saying you figured
out the Almighty, but when God moves within your
life, he wants to show you the way, not just
shock you. The things that we might know, the
things that have been freely given to us by God.
You've got more than you know. You've got more
than you let yourself believe. You're greatly
supplied. And we are waiting for things to come
that have already arrived. You may be seated.
Thank you. I was asking God, praying a prayer
that I'll bet everybody in the room has prayed.
And it's an appropriate prayer. But I was asking
God for his blessing. Would you bless me? And
the Lord came to me and he said, let me help
you in that prayer. He said, the truth is, Dale,
that blessings are going by you like this. I
mean, they're all around you. They're coming
in at warp speed. They're whizzing, right? You're
asking me to bless you. And it reminded me of
the passage that we are blessed with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
He says, they're coming by you like this. Here,
let me help you pray. He said, this is how I
want you to pray. You need to pray for faith
to see them and boldness to grasp them. Did you
hear that? Faith to see it. It's right there.
But then you need boldness to lay hold on them.
Do you know, if you read especially the first
three chapters of Acts, the New Testament church,
they did not pray for faith. They prayed for
boldness. They had walked with Jesus. They had
seen and heard of him, and they knew exactly
how this thing would operate. It wasn't a matter
of getting God to perform. It was getting men
to stand up and cooperate. Boldness. It's the
key to the kingdom, you understand. It's one
of the great keys in the kingdom. Your faith
will never operate above your boldness. If there
is a lid at all, that's it. So raise the lid.
Become bold. Bold. Why don't you try being bold?
Be bold in Jesus' name. Become boldly into the
throne of grace. I didn't say cocky. There's
a difference between arrogance and boldness.
They might look the same to a casual onlooker,
but they are different. Arrogance and cockiness
comes from an incorrect assessment of oneself.
Boldness is born of relationship, not of cockiness.
If I was sitting at the table today with my son,
now, the pastor's mother and dad had us into
the home, and they fed us a meal that you had
to repent of gluttony afterwards. Now, if my
son was nearby, here's what could happen. Like
when we prayed, I would have to have one eye
open. I would have to protect my plate. If he
saw something on there he wanted, he'd grab that
baby right on off. When he comes to our home,
he just comes right to the refrigerator, and
he pops the door open, no questions asked. He
does that. Now, he would not do that in your
house. I would never have to say to him, now
we're going somewhere, don't do that in their
house. He would not do that in your house. And
you might have table fare as nice as what we
had or something in your refrigerator as delightful
as he would want, but he would not do that in
your house because he doesn't have that kind
of relationship. But with me, it's a whole other
matter. Did you get what I'm talking about? It's
not a matter of arrogance. When he walks in,
he knows he fits in. Did you catch that? You're
not just at the table of the Lord. You belong
there. Believe me, that takes the help of God
to bring us to that understanding. Because you
see, when we sit down at the marriage supper
of the Lamb, you might be seated between Barnabas
and Paul. Hello. And without the help of God,
I might be sitting there thinking, am I in the
right spot? You know, there was an old time hymn
we used to sing. It said, I'd be happy with just
a cabin in the corner of glory land. Here's the
problem with that. There are no cabins there.
And there's nobody that's supposed to live in
such a thing. Not in this household. Boldness.
It's not arrogance. It's born of relationship.
The closer you draw to him and the more you understand
who you are in him and how he sees you, the more
you will be bold in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Talk about grasping your answer today.
There are things that guys have never seen, never
figured out, never heard. Right today, God's
revealing them to us by his spirit. It's happening
right now in this room. And these are things
that he has prepared. It's not a matter, these
are things he can do. These are things he has
done. It's right out there, dude. You just need
to lay hold on it. You need to see it, and you
need to have boldness to reach out and grasp
it. Am I helping you tonight? Let me tell you
something else that has helped me grab a hold
of a miracle in the now. in the now moment. And
that is when I finally understood that I didn't
have to make it happen. And I can't tell you.
Yeah, go ahead. I can't tell you how many people
I've helped with that when I prayed with them
and I've said, look, look me right in the eye.
You don't have to make this happen. But sometimes
we think we've got to do it. You know, that we
have to have whatever, that we have to have enough
faith or enough time in prayer or enough spiritual
insight for God to be able to do that. I think
I mentioned last night how I was preaching that
kind of a concept one time, and I was telling
people this, that I've heard a lot of preachers
say, that if you believe, God can do it. And
the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me. He said,
I can do it whether you believe or not. He said,
what made you think I need you to be me? And
then I understood something, that we had a mis...
misunderstanding of the things of the spirit
and specifically about faith that I think sometimes
we think that our faith how can I say this that
our faith is God's energy that we come before
him and we give him faith and then he can do
what we have faith for well that's absurd to
think that God needs us to be him I want to challenge
your way of thinking right now. Sometimes we
even think of faith as, you know, I don't know,
it's kind of like, you know, the old Incredible
Hulk. Remember the old TV program, Incredible
Hulk? You know, Bill Bixby, that when they hit
him with the gamma rays, he swolled up real big,
you know? And so when you hit him with the gamma
ray of faith, he just gets right out there. But
when you have some unbelief, he just shrivels
right down to being old Bill Bixby. I just lost
everybody under 50 right there, didn't I? It's
all right. All right. We'll just skip to a bro
cream commercial and bring you up to date. It's
all right. I see people that are 18 right now
going on YouTube and finding that. There's nothing
I do that makes him who he is. Actually, my faith
has nothing for God at all. He has no need. Faith
opens me. Not him. Did you get that? That's why
he is the author and finisher of my faith. I
don't bring to him faith. He imparts to me faith.
And then I, in faith, cooperate with him who
is whole and complete within himself. Are you
catching what I'm talking about? My... life was
transformed and I entered into a place of being
able to grasp in the now that which is when I
understood I didn't have to make it happen I
told people I got delivered I did I got delivered
I didn't have to get delivered from drugs or
alcohol or things like that I thank God for those
who have that's not my testimony I just got delivered
from thinking God needed me to be God And that
could be looked at as an arrogance statement,
but that wasn't arrogance. It was what I was
just describing to you. I thought I had to come
prepared and all together prayed up on top of
the game for him to be able to do his stuff.
I just finished a television shoot in Buffalo,
New York with Brother Tommy Reed. I don't know
if you all know who Tommy Reed is, but a great
man of God and one who served our brother Yungi
Cho for many, many years. He's now in his 80s
and he's still knocking it out of the ballpark.
I got a text from him just this week. He's 89
years old and this guy's impacting the world
with the gospel. We had just finished a shoot
and now we were driving to lunch together and
Brother Reed was driving. I was in the back seat.
Doc Kellner was in the other seat in the front.
And Brother Reed... Just look back for a moment.
He said, Dale, when you go into a crusade, what
exactly are you looking for? What are you looking
for when you go to a crusade? Now, he didn't
say that because he didn't know who I was. I've
been preaching in this church since I was a teenager.
So it wasn't that. I remember Kellner said, that's
a tough question. I said, no, it's actually very
easy. I said, whenever I go into a crusade, this
is what I'm looking for. I'm looking for more
than me. Did you hear that? Now, I wasn't trying
to be humble. What I was saying was this. When
I come into a crusade like this, now, I know
the call that's within my life. I'm not unsure
of it. And I know the giftings that God has brought
to me. There are certain gifts of healing that
flow consistently in my life, and I know them.
I'm familiar. I know when I'm operating them.
I can tell when they open up. Men of faith know
exactly what I'm saying. This is not an arrogant
statement. It's just like you know how to speak
with tongues. I know when these certain operation
gifts happen within me, and I know how to touch
God and move in them. Just like you know how
to speak in tongues, I can do these other things.
So I want you to understand what I'm saying.
When I come into a crusade, you say, well, I
guess that's what you're going right there. You
know right where your faith is at. I know where
my faith is at, but when I come into a crusade,
that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking
for more than me. I'm looking for something that
is bigger than my faith. I'm looking for something
that's greater than my anointing. Are you hearing
me? I'm looking for something that exceeds the
giftings of God within my life. Because he who
has given me this, these are precious and wonderful,
but he is more. Oh, come on, church. He is more.
He's more than what you've seen. He's more than
what you believe. He's more than what you understand.
He is, come on, he's more. And because you have
not yet seen it does not mean it doesn't exist.
And because you have not yet walked in it does
not mean it's outside of the scope of what's
available for you. I'm telling you, there's way
more available to us than what we understand.
And so wherever I go, here or elsewhere across
the world, and I step into a moment, I'm not
looking for that which I know and I believe.
I'm looking for that which is more than me. Way
more. Way more. That's who he is. And he wants
to bring you into that. He's revealing that by
his spirit. And one of the things that really
helped me get there is when I finally recognized
I didn't have to make it happen. It wasn't up
to me. Now, a little couple of things for you.
If you'll buy into what I'm telling you, I'll
do a couple of things for you. It'll take the
shackles off of you. from stepping into the power
of God. Because if you don't believe this, you're
always going to wait until you're ready. That
means you're going to be waiting forever. You
can get out of the boat, but you've got to step
over the side. The other thing it'll do for you,
and you'll have to hear this properly to understand
it, it will deliver you from the fear of failure.
When you understand it's more than me and I don't
have to make it happen. It's not that we don't
pray. It's not that we don't prepare our heart.
But I understand this thing is way beyond me.
My mentor, the old voice of healing preacher
that so impacted my life and trained me, he told
me this. He said, Dale, he said, and he had great
healing gifts, amazing gifts of God. But he said,
when people get healed, Dale, he says, I don't
take the glory. I don't take the glory when people
get healed. I got that. And he looked me right
in the eye and he says, and I don't take the
blame when they don't. Did you understand? Now
he didn't say I put the blame on them. He wasn't
saying that at all. He was saying I will not
walk in a sense of intimidation and fear and
condemnation. Did you get that? Am I helping
you right now? One of the things that will help
you step into a now miracle. Is when you understand,
you don't have to make it happen. You don't have
to make it happen. It doesn't hinge on you. Come
on. Get that pressure off of you. Get that pressure
off of you. And walk in that kind of light and
revelation. Hallelujah. So when that devil stands
up against you and says, you think you've got
enough faith to beat me? My answer would basically
be. Well, of course. But you've got to understand
the beating you're going to get is going to be
way beyond my faith. Amen. Another thing that
has helped me grasp a miracle in the now today
is when I really understood that God has provided.
Everything I need, he has provided. Quit asking
him to do the stuff he's already done. Come on,
he has provided. Or let me say it to you like
this. Our God is, he's proactive, not reactive.
He's ahead of the devil. He's ahead of our needs.
And he's beyond our troubles. I think sometimes
we see God as a God who comes through in the
nick of time. You know, in the end, you'll see.
God will come through. So the devil starts a
fire over here. And we think, oh, see that fire?
That's not, I can, look at me. You can stamp
that baby right out. Oh, look, there's another
one over there. No problem. No problem. I can
get that one over here just like that. You see
that one? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm coming. That's
not it at all. That's not it at all. Let me tell
you about my God. Before the devil starts to
fire, he's already there. The answers come before
the trouble is known. You know, when I see problems
arise, people say, what do you think? You see
that problem? What do you think about that? I
say, well, now I can finally figure out what
God's going to do. Because this thing shows me.
Isaiah 65, 24, it says, it shall come to pass
that before they call, I will answer. And while
they are still speaking, I will hear. Well, isn't
that nice of him? Before they call, I will answer.
And he says, then while you're telling about
it, I'll listen to you. But I've already got
it done. Isn't that sweet? Come on. Isn't that
great? We say the Lamb of God was slain 2 ,000
years ago for our sin. But Revelation 13, 8 says
the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the
world. Before there was sin, there was a Savior.
I told you when I see those streams of healing,
they come in very narrow, but somewhere in the
message they go wide, and they're wide right
now. Whatever miracle you need, would you take
it from God? It's here. I feel the pull. I felt
it twice already. There's an anointing that's
delivering and healing. Come on, grab your miracle
right now. This is a strong moment. Before you
call, before you've ever thought about it, before
you knew there was a problem, before the devil
could get enough together to give you the problem,
he was already your answer. 1 Peter 2 .24 says,
Whomself bore our sins and his own. body on the
tree, that we, having died to sins, might live
for righteousness. You know that last line, don't
you? By whose stripes you were healed. He's talking
about divine healing. Isaiah saw it very clearly,
and he said, when he looked at the sacrifice
of Jesus, he said, by his stripes we are healed.
I mean, he looked at it and said, oh, look at
that, we are healed. He didn't say we can get
healed. When he saw it, he saw it as a done deal.
Do you understand that? So I used to read that
passage for years and I thought, that's it, that's
my promise. That's how I can get healed. But
Isaiah did not say, I see that healing can happen.
He said, he looked at it and he said, well, look
at that, will you? We're healed. Peter looked
at it and he said, by whose stripes you were
healed. So excuse my grammar again. But before
I get sick, I were healed. Did you all hear that?
Yeah, before I get sick, I were healed. he's
already provided. The thing that's helped me
grasp a miracle in the now, right now, today,
not someday, not he will do, what's helped me
step into a moment and grab a miracle, there's
many of them. One of them is a sense of boldness,
just drawing near to him and understanding who
he is and how he feels toward me, and then recognizing
I don't have to make it happen anyhow. So I don't
have to like get it all together before. No,
it's right there. Come on. And then when I realized
that, well, he's already provided this thing.
And when I step into the room, the provision's
already there. It's not an issue that he's going
to take the request into consideration. And then
think about it. And if it's his will and his
divine purpose for the longevity of your life,
that he might come up with the answer. And when
you meet with him, you two can hash it out. You
know, he's actually already done it. Well, he's
already provided. Another great thing that has
helped me and many others receive him, am I helping
you tonight? All right, is this. Here's another
idea, that you enter a miracle through rest,
not through struggle. You enter a miracle through
rest, not through struggle. Now, in Hebrews chapter
3 and also chapter 4, The writer of Hebrews is
addressing the differences between the two generations
of Israel that came out of Egypt. You had the
first generation, the adults, that came out,
and you have the second generation, the children,
that came out with them. Now, the goal and the
purpose of God was not to get them out, but to
get them in. Do you understand that? That was
the purpose of God. The purpose of God was not
to get them out of Egypt. He had to get them
out of Egypt, but that wasn't the goal. The goal
was not to get out. The goal was to get in the
land of promise. The first generation never received
the goal. They died in the wilderness. And in
those two chapters of Hebrews, he tells us exactly
why. It does not need interpretation. You don't
need a concordance or anything else to determine
it. He just flat out says it. They did not enter
in because of unbelief. That's what he said.
That first generation, they did not enter in
because of unbelief. Now, the second generation
got in. And you would think that he would have
said, That they got in because of faith. But
he did not say that. It was involved, but that's
not what he called it. He said this. They entered
into my rest. Oh, wow. In fact, it became thematic
throughout those verses. The entering into his
rest. And then I understood something. That in
the mind of God, rest. And faith are synonymous.
That if you were to step into God's office and
pick up the thesaurus on his desk, and you were
to open it up to the word faith, you would see
the word rest there. And if you went over and
opened up to the word rest, you'd see the word
faith there. Because in God's mind, when faith
comes, the struggle ends. Are you hearing this?
I know when I'm operating in faith because I'm
through the breaking point. And when I step through
that and into that place of his presence and
of his imparted faith, there is no struggle.
You all know what I'm talking about. I can tell
it. The song arises. The shout is there. The
dance begins. The burden is lifted. You enter
a miracle not through struggle, but through rest.
So when I find myself really trying hard to believe,
I realize I'm not there. I'm not even in the
right direction. I'm not going to get there that
way. We were talking about people receiving the
Holy Ghost today, and we've seen as many as 2
,500 in a single service receiving the baptism.
But you all that have ministered to folks that
are at the point of receiving the gift of the
Holy Ghost, you can tell sometimes just by the
look on their face. I'm in many countries where
all the languages are unknown tongues to me,
and someone says, well, how are we going to tell
if they're speaking in tongues or not? I said,
it'll be very easy. Just look at their face.
You won't have to understand what their native
language is versus whether they're speaking or
not. Just look at it. There is something there
that's very readable. Does anyone know what I'm
talking about? And I can tell when a person's
not going to get it. You can look on their face
and it just looks kind of like this. You say,
well, that's not happening here, buddy. Because
it doesn't work that way. All you get out of
that is a spiritual hernia. You don't step into
a miracle. When I find myself knotted up, I realize
I'm not going to enter into that miracle right
now. I need to stop. And I need to work. And
I want to say that here's what I do. You take
it within the theological diction of our island
brethren from the Caribbean. They would tell
us this. They would say, you just need to mellow
out, dude. No, you need to find that place of
rest in him. I look for the moments in which
he will carry me along. I look for, when you
say, well, how do you pray for a miracle? Sometimes
I just sit before him. I just wait upon him.
I worship him, but I wait upon him. And there
comes a moment in which, oh, that we would have.
Oh, that we would have more confidence in him
than we do in our theological understandings
and in all of our teachings, our systems. And
I'm not just talking about dogma of mainline
churches. You can't believe that. junk that we've
got in our present day charismatic full gospel
whatever you want to call them churches we got
we've got you know brother Oral Roberts used
to say everybody knows who Oral Roberts was right
brother Oral Roberts when he had those big tent
crusades he would say once I can get past the
Pentecostal people we can start having miracles
Because, you see, what we are, people like us,
what we've been doing is we've been trained the
right stuff. We've been told that, you know,
you need to have faith. You need to believe God.
You need to get your heart right with God. You
need to draw near to him. And we've got all these,
and they're not bad. There is truth in all this,
but it's just not all the truth. And what happens
to us is we've got a lot of rules about what
it takes to get a miracle. And, therefore, when
one of us get a miracle, it's really a miracle.
Because we put all these steps and things we've
got to do. To get one, you know, it's very easy
to believe God. Here are the 47 steps you need
to do to get your miracle. We have figured it
out, you know, and then we teach all these things.
It's wonderful teaching, you know, and then we
choke to death on them. Come on, guys. Are you
catching what I'm really trying to say to you?
You're going to enter your miracle through rest,
not through faith. I mean, through struggle,
not through struggle. When that faith of God
arises within you. It's a wonderful, freeing,
refreshing moment. Now, I know you're thinking,
well, but the Bible says to fight the good fight
of faith. I understand that. There's more than
one aspect of faith. But even on that, you understand
he, and you all know he called it a good fight,
didn't he? He's fighting the good fight. So you
say, well, I've heard people say, so what's the
good fight? And someone says, it's the one we
win. Well, that's nice, but. No, that's really
not it. Let me tell you what a good fight is.
A good fight is a fixed fight. Did you all hear
that? It's a fixed fight. That's a good fight
right there. That's the fight that when you step
in, before you step in the ring, you already
know what the outcome is. Did you hear what I
just said? Oh, yeah. There's going to be some
punches thrown. I get it. And there's going to
be some hitting going on. But you already know
who's going down. And come on. And who's got
the victory? And that is your fight right there.
There may be some punches thrown. And there may
be some rounds that you go through. But before
you get in the ring, you already know. Come on.
This is a good one. Before you even start, do
you think this is going to turn out? Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be cruel
here or anything. Whatever the word would be.
But I never really, I don't jump real high when
I hear people say stuff like, you know, I read
the end of the book and we win. I'm thinking
I read the front of the book and we won. Hello?
When Adam sinned, God came and he didn't say,
read the end of the book, it'll work out. He
said, Adam, come here. This thing's really bad
right now, but let me explain how it's going
to work out. Am I right? Come on, am I right?
He told us up front from the very beginning.
Wow. Your answer's already there. Your battle's
already won. You've already been healed by his
stripes. That's why so many people get healed
just when I'm preaching the word. And I know
there's a place of laying on of hands and taking
authority of the enemy, but I'm going to tell
you, a lot of people just when they finally hear
it, they go, oh, that's what it's all about.
Boom, and they're healed. In fact, you'll notice
last night when there were so many people that
testified here, did you notice that there wasn't
one moment or testimony of a struggle? Am I right?
There's nobody that had to push their way through.
It just, whoa. It just came. You can fight if
you want. And some believers, you know, they
pray for a fight. There was a guy that was speaking
at my home church. received the full gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Part of that point, he
was saved, but he was part of one of those denominations
that don't believe in the fullness of the Spirit
and resisted such things as that. And so when
our pastor was telling us who he was, they told
us of that particular Christian background that
he was from, and they said, and then also, he
used to be a prize fighter. And I looked at the
person sitting next to me, and I said, that was
a very redundant statement. because most of the
people that don't believe these things, all they
do is carry hats to drop so they can fight. They're
always looking for a fight about this stuff,
but those of us that have entered into his rest,
we don't have to battle with it at all. Jan said
it this way the other night, I didn't come here
to defend God. He doesn't need a defense. While
you're all bristled up, just enter into his rest,
and you'll move right into your miracle. You'll
move right into your miracle. Praise God. All
right, let me conclude with this. I didn't say
it was through preaching. I said I would conclude
with this. God only knows how long this will
take. But I will conclude with this thought.
I'm giving you hope anyhow. If you want to enter
into a miracle now, then you need to own it,
not simply believe it's possible. You got to
own it. In other words, the gospel has to be
personalized to be activated in you. He cannot
just be the Lord. He needs to be your Lord. It
needs to get beyond this, that he's the savior
of the world. You need to come to the point that
you can say, he's my savior. Do you understand
what I mean by owning it now? Personalizing it.
This is my moment. This is the gift he has given
me. This is what he's brought me unto. You know,
when the Lord opened this gift to me, and you
must understand, I give you a tiny bit of my
history. I got born again when I was seven, and
the call of God I recognized when I was eight
to ministry. All I knew was ministry. He didn't
give me any specifics. I was baptized in the
Holy Ghost. When I was 12, I was sitting in a
camp meeting, just listening to a guy preach
at an afternoon service, and the voice of the
Lord came to me and said, Dale, I want you to
be an evangelist to North America. That's how
I first heard it. That was the first phase of
this ministry. I wasn't praying, God, what is
your will? What do you want me to do? I'm just
listening to a guy preach. I don't actually even
remember what he was preaching about, and it
had nothing in reference to that. Just all of
a sudden, bang, just like that, the voice of
the Lord came. You don't have to make it happen.
He just came to me and said, this is what I want
you to do. And then after that, he started defining
it more when he talked to me about healing the
sick and casting out devils. But I couldn't see
myself doing that, so I didn't think I was hearing
God. I blew it off. I know I heard the Lord when
I was praying. When I walked out the door, I
talked myself out of it. Is anybody in the room
understanding what I just said there? Have you
ever done that? Don't answer. And that went on
for almost three years. And finally, I was again
in another camp meeting type experience on my
back under the power of God for two hours, and
he showed me the length and the breadth of this
ministry. Those crowds you saw on the screen
yesterday in Africa, I saw those crowds when
I was right at the end of my 14th year, about
to hit 15, and he showed me the work and the
walk of this ministry. And then when that took
place, I remember I got up from that point of
prayer, and I said to the Lord this. I said that
this is it. there's not going to be the struggle
anymore that maybe this is not really God and
I'm just got some. I told myself over and over
again, my problem was that I was reading too
many Smith Wigglesworth books. I needed to get
serious and find out what I was supposed to do.
But now that day I said, I get it, Lord. This
is what you've called me to do. But then I said
to him, but I just want you to know. I did. I
said it just like that. I said, I just want you
to know you really got your work cut out for
you. You see, because I looked at me and I looked
at that, which I saw in the vision. I looked
at me and I looked at that. I looked at me and
I looked at that. I said, that's not me. I didn't
understand who he was and what he was like. I
didn't understand that he was one, that when
he shows us who we are, he doesn't show us from
our point of view. He shows us from his point
of view. And he sees things from the end to the
beginning. Did you hear that? That's changing
someone right now. He saw the completion. I wasn't
even sure the first step. And he didn't talk
to me from my point of view. He talked to me
from his point of view. And he saw it done. And
he said, this is it. And I said, that's not me.
And if that's going to be me, you got a big job.
And then I was sitting under the guy that would
be my mentor. And he started a crusade in Buffalo,
New York on December 1. Do you understand the
weather patterns in Buffalo? Lake effect snow
that can drop down three and four feet in hours?
In hours? You don't start a revival in Buffalo,
New York on December 1 unless you've really heard
from God or unless you've been smoking something
that you shouldn't be smoking. And that meeting
went 17 weeks. It concluded two weeks before
Easter of the next year. During that time, I
got my Bible education. I was shaped in that
time. There's some things that are caught in
partation that takes place. And I remember that
he was doing a 10 -night series on who we are
in Christ. Somewhere in that series, I was sitting
in the second row. It hit me like a ton of bricks.
I mean, I remember. I don't remember the actual
message. I remember the theme that he was preaching
on, and I remember the moment. Because it hit
me just like this. And I thought, oh God, oh
God, you know that great big thing that I told
you you were going to have to do? You've already
done it. And I did not appraise it correctly.
I had no idea of the depth of his workmanship
in us through new birth in Christ Jesus. I was
always thinking that someday... Remember someday?
When is that? Is that the second or third day?
No, fourth. One day of the week is that someday
it would come. The moment I saw it, the gifts
of God showed. The healing miracles began to
happen right there. They didn't wait until I
started preaching. Healing ministry did not begin
with me from the pulpit. It began with me from
the streets. It was because of the miracles that
were happening in the streets that people invited
me to the pulpit. It's true. It's true. Someone
said, well, did you start holding revivals and
God started healing the sick? No. I just started
ministering healing in the hospitals. I was 15
years old. I did a weekly move into the hospital.
At 15. I went to the hospital every week and
ministered healing to the sick. People say, well,
if you've got a healing ministry, why don't you
go to the hospitals? That's how I got going.
That's what I did. And we saw people get out
of those beds and completely well. I was raised
in Niagara Falls, New York, so I'd go to the
waterfalls because people came from all over
the world there. There were 20 ,000 Asians that
would come in and see the falls just in July
and August. You know, I was smarter then. Now
I spend thousands of dollars to go overseas to
them. Then they just came to me. I don't know
why I didn't sit still in Niagara Falls. But
anyhow, and it would minister the word with signs
following. That's how I would approach it. Did
it then? Do it now. The same way. Finally, people
saw enough of that, and so a couple of pastors
saw it, and they said, wow, if you can do that
on the streets, could you come and do it at our
church? And I thought, I don't know. I don't
know if it'll work in a church, but we can give
it a try. But I remember when that gift was locked
in for me, and it wasn't in that revival crusade.
In the revival crusade, I worked with him, and
he had me lay hands on the sick, and we had miracles.
We witnessed them. But I remember when the steel
backbone came, and it was in the hospital, in
a Catholic hospital in Niagara Falls. When I
walked in to minister to a man from my home church,
and God would instantly heal him. And there was
another man in the next bed that saw it happen,
who did not know Christ. And when he saw this
man get, instantly healed. He sat right up in
his bed. He had an ongoing problem. He'd been
in a hospital for quite a while and they were
not able to correct it. He had a constant bleeding
that was not being stopped. He sat right up in
his bed and he said, can you do that for me?
And I remember, I don't even know why I did it.
I prayed with the man from my church here. This
man's in the hospital bed there. And I don't
know why I didn't say, sure, I'll just pray with
you. Instead, I... turned completely around the
other way. I have no idea what I did that, and
when I did, the bed was empty. He was gone. I
thought, well, where in the world did you go?
And he was right over in the chair next to the
other guy. He said, I'm ready now. And I looked
at him, and I said to him, I said, sir, you did
not know Christ. I said, let me tell you, Jesus
is a mighty healer, and he's given me an anointing
and a grace that when I lay my hands upon you,
you will be instantly healed. And when I said
that, something big in me just like this that
never left. It was when I finally stood up and
owned it. Did you hear that? I value the covering
of my mentor and the assistance he gave me, but
it's when I stepped out when there was no organ
playing, no believers saying amen. And no one's
standing alongside. And I said, this is the way
it is. And when I said it, I remember. But when
I say steal, that's what it felt like. Something
literally went, just straightened me right out.
Right up my backbone, just like that. And it's
still there. You want to enter into a miracle?
You need to quit procrastinating your faith.
And you need to own that baby. When that word
of the Lord and that touch of God comes, don't
you sit on that baby. We talked about it last
night. Don't you say, well, we'll give it a week
and see how it really is. You will walk right
out of the moment of your miracle. But if you
will own it, this is not a mental thing. It's
not, all right, let me figure out how I do it.
That's not how it works. It's a matter of sensing
the presence of the Almighty, catching the word
of the Lord, and then stepping into it and saying,
that's it, that's mine. Are you on page with
me right now? That's what it is. And you need
to pick up, and you need to get past the idea
that God has to plow you down. You know, I see
people, like Brother Jan has a great anointing
where people fall under the power. They do that
sometimes when I pray with them. They do it a
lot when he prays with them. I believe in that.
I've received God's blessing many times in my
life like that. But I meet people all the time
that say, it's not that I'm unwilling to fall
down, but I don't do courtesy drops. And so when
someone comes down that line, they say, no, we're
ready for God to touch us and God to move. But
all right, I'm ready. Come on. Come on. Hit me
right there. Hit me right there. And if it's
God to bully me over, I'll be okay with it. And
they think, you know, that they're doing the
right thing. They're not going to be anybody's
fool. And I look at that and say to myself, I
don't want to have to have God come and hit me
with a two -by -four. I would like to be able
to respond to his lightest touch. I welcome the
voice that shouts out. But would you make me
so sensitive that I could hear your slightest
whisper? That all he has to do is brush me. can
feel that. I recognize you. Would you own it?
Just enter into it and say, that's the way it
is. Draw near to him. You may have to get me
in the lobby, stop, really take some minutes
with me to get thought across, but my wife doesn't.
I can walk in the room and know whether it's
good or bad. Oh, don't look at me like that.
Huh? Sometimes just the slightest touch, you
know. Am I right? Why don't you get to know him
like that? Get to know him that you can just
walk right into his presence and know, oh, this
is good. I don't know what all this other nonsense
was. This is right. This is right. Why would
I live like that when the moment I come before
him, and sometimes he doesn't even need to say
a word, the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayers. Sometimes
I walk in, and I can just feel him looking at
me. Would you stand with me all over the room?
Jesus is here. Oh my God, Jesus is here. Wow.
Own it. You all know it. Let the redeemed of
the Lord. Not think about it. Not pray about
it. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. This
is the way it is. The promise, the reality. The
greatness of his name. Do you know that his name
is healing? You know names, the names of God
in scripture, we mentioned it the other night,
they're not titles, they're revelations of an
aspect of God. That's why you find so many names,
because he's too big to figure out at one point.
It's literally going to take you all of eternity.
And then. Yeah. But he would come and speak a
name. And when he spoke that name, it wasn't
informational. It was transforming. And when
he told Israel that his name was healing, Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord who heals. Then I understood
two things. Number one, it's not that he could
heal. He is healing. Do you understand that?
He can heal me. When you get in his presence,
you just stepped into the presence of healing.
He doesn't know how not to heal. He never behaves
differently to his character. He is healing.
I said it like this just a few weeks ago when
I was in Dar es Salaam. I was up around the beginning
of July. And I said to the crowd of those Africans,
I said, you must understand, I'm a Mzungu, which
means white guy. I said, I don't have to pray
to become a Mzungu. I just am. I don't get up
in the morning and say, I'm just going to believe
God to be a Mzungu. I said, I can't help myself.
I'm a white guy. I'm stuck with it. That's what
I am. And I said, I'm not just a mizungu to nice
people. I'm a mizungu to bad people. I'm a mizungu
to religious people. I'm a mizungu to people
that have no faith at all. I just am what I am.
I said, you need to understand something about
him. He is a savior. He's not a savior of good
people. He's a savior. He's a savior of good
people and bad people. You understand this? He's
a savior to those that are holy and those that
are perverts. You didn't like that, but it's
the truth. He can't help himself. He's just a
savior. When he walks in the room, he's a savior.
And then the writer of New Testament said this,
if you believe not, yet he remains faithful,
he cannot deny himself. Think of that. Think
of that. He's a healer. He's not a healer if
you believe. He's a healer. I know I've seen
it. I'm sure you've seen it. I've seen God heal
people that were shocked. When they got healed.
We had a lady come from one of those churches
to a crusade of ours in Dallas. You know, it
was one of those churches that they're the only
ones that saved. They knew we were all going
to hell. But her son had talked her into coming
because he'd seen so many miracles. And she came.
She was completely deaf in one ear. And the reason
why she was an adult woman, the reason why she
was completely deaf is because they had to do
surgery to take a tumor out. And in order to
get to it, they had to go through her ear canal.
a mastoid operation, so they removed the anvil,
disturbed the cochlea, the eardrum. She had nothing
but a hole there. And she's sitting over to the
side, halfway through my message, her ear popped
just like that, and she could hear perfectly.
And she came to the altar half -mad. Truly. She
said to the pastor with tears, she says, I don't
understand what's going on. She says, I was eight
years old when they took that out. I've been
deaf all my life, and I could not hear, and now
I can hear perfectly. And that guy's not even
saved. How can this happen? And his wife is wearing
pants. You know that's wrong. I got to tell you,
he is who he is. Do you know where you are right
now? You're in the place where nothing is impossible.
Where the glory of the Lord is. Where the healer
is present. Every one of you that have wanted
a miracle of the Lord, would you look up at him
and tell him, I'm taking mine right now, Lord.
Come on. Worship him for it right now. Give him
praise for it. Enter in. Enter in with me right
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