Gifts Of Healings and Miracles (335)

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Welcome again to the Quality Christian Living

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Podcast. I am your host, David Friend. Today's

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podcast is entitled, Gifts of Healings and Miracles.

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Today we're going to talk about a number of issues.

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One is, are the gifts of healing and miracles

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still operating today? And does taking medicine

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take away from our faith for miracles and healings?

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And can the power gifts be earned by good works?

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And who is the source of these two power gifts?

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And how can we receive these gifts? Well, we've

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got a lot to cover, but we serve a great big

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God who can take care of all this and help us

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with it. So before we get into it, let's pray.

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Heavenly Father, once again, I thank you for

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who you are. I pray blessing upon those listening

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in. I pray that you would anoint this podcast,

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Holy Spirit, take over. I surrender to you. I

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ask for you to guide and direct my comments,

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the scriptures I read, and the ones that I don't

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read, because I need to be led by you. I pray

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the Holy Spirit now that you would do what only

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you can do, that you would bring revelation and

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comfort and peace and joy to people who are in

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need of either healing or a miracle in their

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life, or they know of other people facing the

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same challenges. So Father, bless this podcast,

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I ask. And I'll be careful, always be careful

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to give you all the praise and glory for what's

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about to take place. For I ask all these things

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now in Jesus name I pray, amen. It might be a

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little hard to cover both of these gifts in one

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podcast, so I'll probably be in the future doing

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a little bit more on healings, a little bit more

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on miracles because there's so much to talk about.

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But let me just answer a couple questions that

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I mentioned in the early part of this. I can

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guarantee you through my personal experiences,

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through my church family and the experiences

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we've had for hospital visits and those people

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in our church who fought many sicknesses and

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illnesses that the gifts of healing and miracles

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are alive and well today. All we have to do is

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look up Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 8 that says

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Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever.

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He is our healer. He hasn't changed. His healing

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power has not decreased in one bit and we can

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believe for miracles and we can believe for healings

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because his word says that we can. Now in my

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book, Fate for Miracles, it's something I wrote

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based on a series of podcasts I did here probably

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Six months ago or longer and I would encourage

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you if you'd like to to go pull up that list

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of podcasts There was about 20 of them dealing

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with faith for miracles and that podcast is what

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gave me the inspiration Shall I say to write

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a book on it? And so it's been one of my favorite

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books that I've written because I believe the

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Holy Spirit is Doing a great work with it and

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many people's lives have been touched by it.

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I thank the Lord for it. So in that book I give

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actual examples of where these two power gifts

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have been manifested in the bodies of various

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people. I mean, there's a number of them there

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and I'll give some examples in this particular

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podcast also. Before we go further into the podcast,

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I want you to know that there's nothing wrong

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in taking prescribed medicines or supplements

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for an illness. Whenever I have experienced,

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you know, a physical setback of some kind, I

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like to tell the doctors that I'm a Christian

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and I thank the Lord for doctors, for medical

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care and medicine, but most of all for prayers.

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I usually get a little smile from them. Most

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doctors have a difficult time. with having confidence

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in prayer but I've seen a number of doctors over

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the years who've seen the miracle take place

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in my life and the lives of other people that

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I'm very much aware of and they've called it

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a miracle too. Now we must tell our doctors I

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believe that we need to tell them that you're

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Christians and that you believe in the Word of

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God and you believe that Jesus is the healer.

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It's fine to take their medication it's fine

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to hear from them but we need to pray and trust

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God. You know in the old days when I first started

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talking about healings and miracles and things

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I used to talk about what I call the faith cabinet

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that's when we get a cold or something the first

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thing we do our faith leads us to the medicine

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cabinet in our bathroom and we open it up we

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start looking for pills and things that help

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us with it now we've all done it and I don't

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think necessarily there's anything wrong with

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that but on the other hand we better not make

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that our faith cabinet the medicine cabinet is

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just the medicine cabinet but by faith we were

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healed by faith we receive our sight by faith

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we receive the blessings that God has for us

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so let's not put our faith in a medicine but

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It's I believe okay to use those things and I

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also have no problem using supplements. I take

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several different supplements because they're

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natural and I think they're good for me and my

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doctors have even recommended them. So we thank

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the Lord for that. The gifts of healing and miracles

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come from the Holy Spirit deciding who should

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have these gifts. Now once again that's found

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in 1st Corinthians chapter 12 verses 7 through

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11. I strongly recommend you go back and read

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those. If you haven't, I've covered them several

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times in the last few messages as we've covered

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the nine power gifts of the Holy Spirit. These

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are the last two in that series, but like I said

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earlier I'll be continuing to talk about in the

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future about Holy Spirit Directed healings and

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miracles because I believe that's such a vital

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part of our life. We cannot earn these gifts

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through good works. People sometimes think, well,

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if I'm a better Christian or if I help other

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people, then maybe God will give me these gifts.

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No, we don't earn gifts. We don't go out and

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do those things. We, by faith, we operate in

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the gifts. By faith, we trust the Holy Spirit

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to do what only He can do. The gifts of healings

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and miracles come from the Holy Spirit deciding

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specifically who should have them and what gifts

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that they should have. And I think I've mentioned

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in other podcasts, I've been blessed on several

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occasions to have the gift of healing, the gift

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of miracles, the gifts of great faith and the

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gift of discerning of spirits. And they've been

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very helpful. They've come in at times when it

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was most needed. And 99 % of the time, it has

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to do with something in the church, something

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that's taking place in the church or a good friend

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of mine that I'm praying for or believing for.

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So the Holy Spirit, though, doesn't have me operate

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every moment of every day in each one of these

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gifts, but he brings them to me when there's

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a need so then I can be a blessing to those people

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that need and just give God all the glory, all

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the honor, and all the praise. Now, we don't

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have to, listen to this very carefully, we do

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not have to receive the power gifts of healing

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and miracles in order to see them come forth

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through our regular prayers and requests that

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we make to the Lord. You don't have to, it doesn't

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have to always be a power gift. Some people think,

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well it's gotta be this great power gift. No,

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it can be as simple as a child. The Bible talks

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about the children have great faith. Have you

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ever seen a little child of four or five year

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old and their mom or daddy's sick? and they want

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to go over and lay hands on them put their hands

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on their mommy or daddy and say Jesus would you

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heal him that's childlike faith and that's the

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kind of faith that he wants us to have that little

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child believes there's nothing there's no doubt

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in their mind they haven't been polluted by the

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world to think that there's no reason that won't

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happen we need to have childlike faith in order

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to believe and if we even have childlike faith

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we can see miracles and miracles examined in

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the Bible many of them Jesus referred to as a

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little faith and great faith and incredible faith

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and the Bible talks about great faith with the

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Holy Spirit but you know just a small little

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bit of faith can bring forth a miracle from God

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and a healing for someone in need now let me

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describe what each gift is that just the two

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miracles and healings and how they are manifested

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during this podcast I pray that our faith will

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be increased if anyone listening needs a miracle

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or healing receive this prayer let's pray Heavenly

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Father I pray now that the Holy Spirit would

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release faith, greater faith, to those who are

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desiring to pray for miracles and healings. And

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for those who need a miracle or need a healing,

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Father, I call forth that miracle in the name

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of Jesus. There's no name like the name of Jesus.

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Nothing greater, nothing more powerful, nothing

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more. supernatural than the mighty name of Jesus

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Christ our Lord and Savior so I pray Lord for

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those who need a physical healing that you would

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touch their body right now and for anyone listening

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in just place your hand upon part of your body

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that maybe needs a physical touch maybe with

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your back or your foot or your arm or your hand

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or your head headaches or whatever it might be

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just call it forth now say father as they lay

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their hands upon the knee that they have I pray

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that you would manifest a miracle healing miracle

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in their body that you would make it come to

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pass even at this moment as they're being prayed

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for I believe for that and I thank you for it

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father we expect nothing less than your Perfect

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touch your healing touch your miracle touch and

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I pray father for those who are been struggling

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Maybe some illnesses they've had for many many

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many years that they would not give up on the

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Apostle Paul had He had thorn in the flesh and

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on three different occasions the Bible tells

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us that he prayed for those things But the Lord

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did not meet that need but God had another plan

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for him And I believe the fact that Paul went

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on built his faith even though his prayer wasn't

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answered for his specific specific need his faith

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increased because he had trust in God his confidence

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was in God his confidence was not in himself

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his own ability and he did not allow him sir

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his circumstances to rob him from the blessings

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of God so I pray now father blessing what happened

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to each and every person and Lord I'm gonna read

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in Jesus name and Lord I want to read four scriptures

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that I read every single morning when I get up

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my little my devotionals and scriptures that

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mean a lot to me for healings and for miracles

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father I believe Lord that these will bring forth

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healings and those who are listening in today.

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Father, I thank you for Luke 17, 9, where the

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Word of God says your faith has healed you. I

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thank you, Lord, for Mark 6, 56, where your Word

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tells us, who touched him were healed. I thank

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you from Matthew 8 16 where your word says he

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healed all the sick and Matthew 4 23 where it

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says he healed every kind of disease and illness

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father I claim that and I believe that for everyone

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listening in either for their need or for the

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others needs of others that they love or care

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for our friends with whatever might be we believe

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for that father and we thank you for it give

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you all praise now in Jesus name we pray amen.

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Now the Holy Spirit gifts of healing refers to

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a supernatural healing without medication or

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treatment. Now don't shut me off on that now

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because I'm going to talk about that a little

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bit more and kind of clarify a little bit. That

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does not mean that medication or treatment cannot

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be blessed with a miracle or healings. I love

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to tell the doctors when I talk to them and they

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give me medication and they'll give me some pill

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or something for something I'll say, let me ask

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you a question doctor, whatever is in this pill

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is it anything that God didn't create? And sometimes

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they'll look at me like, hmm, I never thought

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of that way. But almost every time they'll say,

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no, it all had to be here on Earth someplace.

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So God created everything that's in there, right?

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And so if he did, the man's just now getting

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around to understanding what the pill is. So

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when you take a pill, that pill has something

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in it that God created and that man has just

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been used by the Lord to use that medication

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to help us. So therefore, I'm really not supporting

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drugs and medicine all the time, but I just want

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you to know that sometimes when you take medication,

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you can get a much greater... reaction, or a

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good reaction, a positive reaction of something

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great happening in your body. Matter of fact,

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in all the eight months that I was taking chemo,

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the doctor would tell me, he'd say, okay, now

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we're putting this chemo in you. I went every

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week for my treatments for eight months when

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I was... fighting their diagnosis of multi myeloma

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bone marrow cancer and they said we need you're

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gonna need to take this for many many months

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maybe for many years and it was pretty heavy

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stuff and it was trying to beat me up and they

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would say this medication you know is is really

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attacking your kidney and is attacking your body

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and at the time I only had one kidney left because

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20 years before that I lost my right kidney to

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cancer and I believe due to Asian orange exposure

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in Vietnam and then 20 years later here came

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multi myeloma bone marrow cancer which was due

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to my experience in Vietnam being exposed to

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Agent Orange, which by the way, if you know of

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a veteran who's fighting those things, I would

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encourage you to get them to contact the VA and

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try and get help from them. The VA was a huge

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blessing to me and they paid for all my chemo

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medications for a number of years. Eight months

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had gone by and the doctor was telling me, you

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know, he says, matter of fact, you're way ahead

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of what we thought you'd be at this stage. And

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so it was eight months from the time I started

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that, that he looked at me and he said, this

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is still incurable. There's no cure for it and

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it's still in your and I said well I don't accept

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that anyways and he says but no it is and he

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says and it probably will could take your life

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someday he said but and there's no cure for it

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he said but you are coming along well so let's

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just keep putting more medicine in you so they

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went from chemo treatments to pills and I started

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taking pills which were chemo pills and I took

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those for enough after that now put people might

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say well pastor don't you have any faith now

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I had no problem taking a pill that was filled

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with all the chemicals that God had placed here

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on earth and when I would tell the doc and the

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nurses that would bring that stuff to me, they

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were always blessed by it. And I know that God

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received the glory and honor for it. So we can

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look at medication, that God can do something

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greater in that medication than what the medication

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is capable of doing. I saw it in my own life

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and I give God all the praise and all the glory

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for it. Now healing is a divine manifestation.

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The gift of supernatural healing is a divine

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manifestation. The gifts of healing can be an

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explainable experience. I remember when I was

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at the doctor and they were giving me all this

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chemo and I said I'm just curious about something

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I have one kidney its kidney function is okay

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it's not as good as it should be I said is there

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any reason that with all this chemo I'm taking

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which is attacking my kidney why is my kidney

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why am I is my one kidney why is it improving

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and functioning stronger and he looked at me

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and he said Have no idea I said are you doing

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something to give me medication to help my kidney?

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He says we're not doing anything to help your

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kidney He said for a 70 year old man He said

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that should not be happening and he said but

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it is and he said there's only one answer for

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it And he said it has to be a miracle because

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your kidney function is now better than it has

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been in the last 10 years of your life So we

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give God all the glory and all the praise for

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it. Amen. Here's another example of kidney diagnosis

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that I had when I was 25 years old. I've had

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so many kidney issues in my life and because

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of that I'm thoroughly... take advantage of any

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opportunity I can to pray for people with kidney

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issues. Matter of fact, right now, if you're

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facing a kidney issue, maybe it's a functioning

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problem, maybe a kidney stone, an infection,

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whatever, Father, in the name of Jesus, I call

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forth healing in those kidneys. Lord, for anyone

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these people may know that's having kidney problems,

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whether it be cancer, whatever, because I've

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had it all. And Lord, you have touched me in

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every situation. And Father, I give you praise

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for it, and I speak healing in their bodies,

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in Jesus' name. You see when I was 25 years of

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age, I had kidney failure. The doctor looked

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at me and I was a young man at the time, very

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young man at the time, 25 years of age. And it

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was a long time ago and they didn't do kidney

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transplants very much. And he said, you would

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not be able to survive a kidney transplant. You're

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not that healthy. Your blood is not in good shape.

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And we had just become Christians. We had just

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found Jesus as our Lord and Savior. And a few

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months later I was diagnosed with incurable kidney

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failure. And my kidneys would just simply die.

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And I would die. And there was no other thing

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else that they could do. Anyways, so we prayed.

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So six months later I went back to the doctor.

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He looked at me and said, what did you do? I

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said, well, we prayed and I drink a lot of water.

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He said, well, I like you drinking a lot of water.

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But you prayed? I said, yeah, every day. My wife

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and I prayed over my kidneys. I even prayed over

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the water that it would cleanse and do more than

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what the lot of water was intended to do. And

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he said, well, it worked. He said, because you

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have absolutely no disease whatsoever. Your kidneys

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have completely healed. They're restored. They're

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normal. You don't need any medication. You don't

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need any treatments. And I said, well, to God

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be the glory. So I'm just telling you, because

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these are the ways that God wants to work. His

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ways are greater than our ways. His thoughts

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are higher than our thoughts. And because of

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that, we've got to trust God in every situation

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that we face and believe that we can have a miracle

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or a physical healing and that that healing,

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Father God, will come from you. Now the gift

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of working of miracles are also a supernatural,

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divine intervention. It is a display of something

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without an intellectual explanation. Of course,

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that's what'll, and I'm not down on doctors,

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I think they're great. I have some good friends

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that are doctors one doctor that I go to now

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I've been seeing him for 25 years. We've become

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good friends I prayed for his son who played

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football I prayed for his family and we've got

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to know each other and he's always said call

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me if you ever need anything and I have a couple

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of times and he's been right there to help in

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any way that he could but it's it's not an intellectual

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explanation a Working of miracles and so doctors

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sometimes have a difficult time with that because

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they are doctors of science and that's good,

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but both the gifts of healings and working of

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miracles work together with the gift of faith

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they all kind of come together and work together

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for the glory of God and for healing and emotion

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whether it be emotional healing would be physical

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healing whether it be a miracle someone needs

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and a cancer that they've given up hope on there

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is no way that God ever gives up on us I know

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he doesn't always heal everyone I don't understand

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why that is all I know is that when we get to

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heaven we'll know the answer then and that's

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just good enough for me now but I believe that

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I Every time I pray I believe that God's going

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to perform a miracle and he's going to do something

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that man will be in awe about. Man will be wondering

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how it happened and to God be the glory. A miracle

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takes authority over sickness and even sin. Recently

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you know at one of our men's breakfast meetings

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a man experienced a massive coronary or heart

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attack. His heart stopped. twice and he was taken

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to the hospital. I went and jumped in my car

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and drove behind the ambulance to get to the

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hospital to be with him. We went to the emergency

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room and the doctor came out there and he looked

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at me and he said, you know, Pastor, he says

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this type of a heart attack almost always takes

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the life of the patient. He said when I saw what

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it was and the kind of heart attack he had, it's

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just unbelievable that he's alive. The doctor

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told me it had to be a miracle. And I'm not making

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this up. The doctor looked at me and he says

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it had to be a miracle that he's alive because

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his heart did stop twice and God brought him

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back. Now, the heart blockage and all that that

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he had in his heart was not healed. So the man

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had to have bypass surgery. The bypass surgery

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was great. We prayed that the doctor's hands

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will be led and guided and directed. We need

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to do that. When someone goes for surgery, we

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need to pray over the hands of a doctor. I remember

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one time I was praying for someone. who was having

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hip surgery. And the doctor came in the room

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and I said, Doctor, would you mind if I prayed

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over your hands that the Lord would bless you?

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And he said, Oh, that's wonderful. So he put

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his hands out and I just reached over and I put

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my hands on his. I just simply put my hands over

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top of his. I said, Father, you made these hands.

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You created them and you've given this man the

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ability to use them in a proper way. I pray now

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that his hands will be touched and blessed and

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this surgery will go better than he's ever seen

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before. And quite frankly, the surgery was incredibly

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successful. The doctor even told me, he says,

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I thought it was going to be a four, four and

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a half hour surgery. And it took me an hour and

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a half to complete this surgery that normally

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takes four and four and a half hours. So once

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again, to God be the glory. Going back to the

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guy with the heart attack, the severity of the

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blockage should have taken this guy's life, the

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man that we had at the men's breakfast. So we

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just need to pray for medicine, for doctors,

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and that they can work together. And through

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that, God will receive all the glory, all the

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honor and praise. Now this tells me that miracles

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and healings can happen at the same time, but

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in many cases the miracle will bring a physical

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healing and it might be physical, it might be

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mental, it might be spiritual. As a pastor for

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over 28 years I've seen the gifts of healings

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and miracles bring entire families to receive

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Jesus Christ as Lord. I knew a family once. They

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were from the the mid -east and they came and

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there was a lady in the family who had cancer.

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They came to me. I prayed with them. They were

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converted Muslims. They came to our church and

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got saved and I prayed with them and I had a

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little cloth and I said let's take this cloth

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and pray over it. I put some anointing oil on

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it. Now it's not the cloth. It's not the anointing

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oil that healed anything. I said but take it

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to her and in faith claim her healing and they

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went all the way back. to the Mideast to meet

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this family member. They prayed for her and she

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was miraculously healed. Now that is just over

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the top miracle and healing and faith. These

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people started Bible studies. in their little

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town. And they had Bible studies underground

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because they couldn't let anybody know that they

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were seeking advice from Christian pastors and

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reading and having Bible studies. And God's power

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spread throughout that community that they were

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in. Remember, Jesus performed healings and miracles.

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After those healings and miracles, many people

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followed Jesus. They went after him. Matter of

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fact, I'm going to read a scripture to you found

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in Matthew, and it's in chapter 4, verses 23

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and 25 as I close this part. I'm reading out

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of the New Living Translation or paralyzed, he

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healed them all. Large crowds followed him wherever

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he went. People from Galilee, the Ten Towns,

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Jerusalem, from all over Judea, and from east

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of the Jordan River. Look at that. The power

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of God in action through miracles and healings.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for this podcast.

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And I pray that people were blessed. I pray that

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they receive something very special today, because

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I believe you were here in a very special way.

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I ask this in Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Well,

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I hope that you enjoyed this podcast on healings

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and miracles. and we'll be talking more about

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these in upcoming podcasts on the Holy Spirit.

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This seems to be something that is really touching

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a lot of people because we've seen a large increase

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in our downloads all over the country, matter

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of fact all over the world. People are downloading

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this and I just thank God for it because the

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Holy Spirit is doing a very special work and

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I pray that you'll receive the blessings that

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the Lord wants to give to you and what you need.

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So Heavenly Father, I just pray blessings again

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on the upcoming podcasts that you guide and direct

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us Lord. And I pray Lord that your hand would

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be upon everything Father that takes place. Once

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again, in Jesus' name I pray, amen. If you'd

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like to know more about Quality Christian Living,

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that is the overall title of our podcast. You

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can go to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor .com

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and when you get there, the front page will show

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you a link to my podcast. This has been podcast

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number 335. So we've had many series that are

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10, 15, 20 podcasts on series on finances, on

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miracles, on healings, on the gifts of the Spirit.

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We've talked about finances. We've even helped

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veterans with the challenges that they faith

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so you might want to look through all the podcasts

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and see something that's of interest to you.

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In addition to that if you'd like to subscribe

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On our next podcast we're going to be taking

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up the title or the topic of Holy Spirit led

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witnessing. You know when we receive the Holy

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Spirit when we become Christians Jesus said that

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gives us the powers to be witnesses of him and

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I'm going to talk about how the Holy Spirit can

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help us so everywhere we go we just feel like

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we've got to say something to someone. Bless

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you or invite them to church or let them know

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that Jesus touched you. I know when I go into

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a Starbucks or a coffee shop or something and

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I'm standing in line, I like to turn around and

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say, this is going very fast, is it? And just

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make some comment to get a conversation going.

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And they'll say, no. And I said, well, you know,

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I'm just glad to be anywhere. And they'll say,

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what do you mean? I said, well, years ago, I

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was given six months to live with multiple myeloma

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bone marrow cancer and Jesus Christ healed me.

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And here I am today, all these years later. And

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it's interesting, they'll start talking about

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a sickness that they have or someone else they

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know that needs prayer. And I'll get their name

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and say, can I pray for you? Is there anything

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that I can pray with you about? And it gives

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us that opportunity. We just have to keep our

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eyes sensitive and our hearts sensitive to where

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the Holy Spirit wants us to share, even if it's

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a little thought just a little slight comment

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that says God loves you or may the Lord bless

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you those types of things can mean a lot to people

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and so with that I hope that you will Tune in

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for the podcast entitled Holy Spirit led to witnessing.

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We're gonna have a lot of things We're gonna

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get into it'll be fun and it won't be something

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that will over challenge you but it'll be something

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that's fun then that will help each and every

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one of us to sense the power of the Holy Spirit

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in a greater way than we ever have when it comes

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to letting other people know that we're Christians

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and also where we go to church and that we like

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the Bible and all those types of things so I

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hope that you'll listen in and let your friends

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and family members know about it because I believe

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they're a blessing there for them. So I want

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to encourage you to continue to stay with us

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on this whole series on the Holy Spirit. We will

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come back at later dates and talk more about

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healings and miracles and some of the other nine

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power gifts of the Holy Spirit. You can't just

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do one or two in one and cover all the topics

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that need to be there. So I just want to thank

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you so much for listening in to the Quality Christian

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Living podcast. And if you enjoyed this episode,

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please take a moment to rate and review the podcast.

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you so thank you so much again for listening

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in to the quality christian living podcast i

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want to pray a blessing over you i pray that

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the lord will bless you and keep you may his

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face shine upon you may he be gracious to you

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and give you peace may you prosper and be in

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good health even as your soul prospers. So until

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next time, I pray that God will richly bless

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you. I pray that you'll operate in the nine gifts

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of the Holy Spirit, that you will experience

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the gift of great faith and experience the prophetic

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world that's out there that's so powerful for

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Christians and understand the power in miracles

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and great faith and healings and all these things

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that the Holy Spirit has that he has. the choice

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to decide who he's going to give those to. And

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I want to have my hand up and say, Holy Spirit,

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I'm over here. And I'd sure like to have that.

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Now, like I said earlier, you can't buy it, you

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can't pray it in necessarily, but you can certainly

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be sensitive to the Holy Spirit and allow him

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to fill you with one of these power gifts. Matter

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of fact, you're more likely to experience a power

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gift of the Holy Spirit if you're praying for

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other people. The more you pray for other people,

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I believe you get the attention of God. And if

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you're praying for the needs of others, get on

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prayer group someplace. Be a part of something,

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whether it be on a TV program or whether in your

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church or just your neighborhood, whatever it

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might be, get on that list and get the names

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of people who need prayer. When we pray for other

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people, it shows that we care. It shows that

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God loves them and he's put in our hearts a desire

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to reach out to them. And I believe when we do

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that, that blesses the Holy Spirit. The Bible

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tells us not to grieve the Holy Spirit. I believe

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the Holy Spirit is blessed and is open. to touch

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us and bless us if he sees that we're good soil,

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that what we're doing is good things that will

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bless other people. So I just pray that you'll

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receive that little something. There was no extra

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charge for that by the way. So thank you once

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again for listening to Quality Christian Living.

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This has been podcast number 335 entitled Gifts

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of Healings and Miracles. You'll find it on Quality

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Christian Living. I am your host, David Friend.

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Thank you once again for listening in. May God

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bless you.