 Well, good morning friends. Welcome to podcast and Sunday morning. It's nine o'clock. Hope you're able to hear locally to catch my radio shows on eight o'clock on 1100 a.m. this morning. Nine o'clock now, Sunday Pacific time, but we change. We don't change, but everybody else changes. Time zones changing again. Congress is up and arms over. They're going to change that pretty soon. So that's going to change pretty quick. So yeah, it's nine o'clock in the morning in Arizona and in California. This is the last day of that. It will be similar to mountain time tomorrow. Hope you'll join into our services. Remember, we have two live services every week. We have Thursday nights and Friday nights. We have preaching teaching, healing and deliverance of both services. Both of them are excuse me broadcast on our YouTube teaching channel. You just go to youtube.com slash house of healing AZ. And you're there Thursday and Friday nights at seven o'clock Arizona or mountain time. 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If you look at the book of Philippians, that was a spectacular book to say the least. Thing was off the chain. And it was written in prison. And the devil had had enough of Paul. And he wanted him dead in the worst way. And Paul was the greatest Christian ever lived. The most anointed man of God that ever lived there. Never has been. And there won't be anybody ever like him until the two witnesses arrived during the tribulation. But until William Paul is it, he was a cactur to say the least. And he suffered enormous, enormous persecution. Stuff I can't even imagine. 99% of it. I couldn't even make it through it. You know, I'm not even, not even on the same page as he was. And he was, he told the Corinthians about his some of his persecutions and they were absolutely amazing. How somebody could live under that kind of pressure was quite remarkable. But it gives you an idea of the grace of God where the Lord told him, my grace is sufficient for you. For my strength is made perfect in your weakness. And Paul testified about himself going to heaven. He saw all kinds of things that most of which he wasn't even allowed to repeat. And obviously somebody who actually goes to heaven, I'm not talking about these people on YouTube that said they've been to heaven, that those are all fake. I'm talking about somebody who's actually gone to heaven. If you've actually been there, that's a, that's a head trip. Huge. And that person would have to be humbled in some way. And that's what happened to Paul. He was given a thorn in the flesh. Angolos was the Greek word for messenger of Satan. Angolos is the Greek word for angel. A fallen angel was allowed to follow, fall around and cause him all kinds of persecution events. And he lists them in the same chapter he's telling them about the thorn in the flesh. The thorn in the flesh wasn't a sickness or an illness. It was all the persecutions he faced. Well, here we are in jail and Paul is winning again. He put him in prison and Paul's going to win again. And the Spirit of the Lord then tells him, go ahead and write about two thirds, two thirds of the New Testament. Unbelievable. This guy was appointed beyond belief. What an amazing person. But it gets even more amazing as we look at Philippians chapter two. And here's what relates to you and I. Here we go. Here we go. Verse 17. Paul says, this is the King James Bible. Yes. And if I be offered, offered, the Greek word for offered there is spendal. Spendal means to take a glass of liquid and pour it out. You just pour it on the ground, pour it into a cup, pour it out of a vase, what have you. That's what that means. Spendal. He says his life is going to be poured out as a sacrifice of your faith. Paul is sacrificing his life. He's becoming a martyr. And it says, I joy and rejoice for you all. He was saying, I joy in me being executed as a martyr Greek word, Cairo, which means to be cheerful. He was in a cheerful mood knowing he was going to be executed. Excuse me. And in verse 18, he says something even more amazing. And for the same cause also, do you become cheerful, Cairo, joy? I want you to be cheerful and rejoice with me that I am being executed. Can you imagine that? He's telling you, he's telling you, I'm about to have my head cut off and I couldn't be happier. What's happening here? Well, remember that Paul, unlike his cooks on YouTube, Paul had actually been to heaven and seen it. And he was trying to explain to the Philippians who were going to be very sad that he was executed. He said, listen, don't, don't be sad over it. I'm, I'm happy. I'm cheerful because I know where I'm going. See, and the reason that Christians mourn other Christians who die and the reason Christians themselves fear death is because we have to grasp the glories of heaven by faith. We have not seen it. I've never seen anything in heaven. I don't know anything about it, but I receive it by faith that it is the most beautiful place in the universe. That's, I mean, that's the way I look at it. And I know that heaven is a land of glory, but I have never seen it. And so Christians tend to be hesitant about dying. And if somebody else dies as a Christian, they go into mourning and Paul was explaining to them, listen, don't do that. Don't go into mourning when I am executed. Now, this is coming from somebody who's faced enormous persecution, enormous suffering for the Lord. And then if you flip over to chapter four, he drops a bomb on us. Philippians chapter four, verse four, you can remember it very easily. Philippians four, four. Philippians four, four. Easy to do. Here he says something amazing while in follow-up to what he had previously told them in chapter two about him dying and being cheerful and about him dying and him asking them to be happy for him that he's dead. He's going to have his head cut off, he's going to be executed, and he wants them to be happy about it. Why? He wanted to teach them this in chapter four. It says, rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I say rejoice. Now this is the challenge for everybody who's a born-again Christian. I'm no different. I face this challenge constantly myself. This is the challenge of our lives, to be able to be cheerful and rejoice over, same Greek word, Cairo, rejoice in the Lord always. Now that Greek word there, pantote, means under all circumstances. So it says here, be cheerful in the Lord, verse four, under all circumstances. Again, I say rejoice, Cairo, be cheerful. Then he says, let your moderation be known to all men, for the Lord is at hand. Anytime somebody gets out to an extreme or something, particularly doctrine, 99% of the time, the doctrine is going to be false and you're going to get into trouble. If you go extreme on anything in the natural world or the spiritual world, things usually go bad. Then he says in verse six, a mic drop, be careful for nothing. Now remember this background. Here's a guy who has had enormous mind-numbing persecution, everything, whippings, beatings, all of it, and more. Shipwreck, the whole thing. He says, be careful for nothing. Greek word for careful there, it means don't be anxious about anything. Don't live with anxiety for anything. That's what it says in the Greek text. But in everything, in everything good or bad by number one prayer, number two, supplication. What's the difference between those two? Well prayer is, could be like one prayer, but a supplication is a list of prayer. Daesis is the Greek word. It means to make your requests plural be made known unto God. Request, request, request, request. Daesis. Supplication. I'm supplement. Supplicating to God. One, two, three, four, five. And then he says, but don't do that unless you add something to it. Okay, you got to have the ingredients right for food to turn out and you got to have the ingredients right for miracles to turn out. He says, he says by prayers and supplication with thanksgiving. Eucharistia. Have you ever heard of the Eucharist in Roman Catholicism? That's where they're, that's where they got this from, from this Greek word. Eucharistia. It means to develop an attitude of gratefulness, gratitude. You have to add thankfulness, gratefulness to your prayer and to your supplication, your list of prayers. He's saying you have to combine them to get them answered. Let your requests be made known unto God. And then verse seven says, and the peace of God, which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Verse seven passes all understanding. Okay. Greek word for understanding there is noose. It was mistranslated noose is your mind. What Paul's saying here is that if you do these things, if you pray and you supplicate and you add thanksgiving to it, gratefulness and gratitude, if you add it, your mind is not going to be able to grasp the miraculous answers to your prayer and you will be at peace that you don't even understand and the peace of God, which passes all mental abilities to grasp noose, your mind, the peace of God will be beyond, will be beyond what your mind is able to comprehend. It is, should have been translated mind blown, but they didn't have that back in the 1600s, the day. And it says, the peace of God, while you're praying, now remember, this is a person who has suffered enormous persecution. He had peace during his persecution periods. And he has cheerfulness that he's about to be executed. And he's trying to pass these skills onto us and the Philippian church. So what he's trying to do. I'm sharing it with you because I wanted you to know why your prayers have not been answered and why so many prayers on your list have not been answered. You've been supplicating and you've been praying and that's good. You're supposed to do that. But your prayers have not been answered because you forgot to add as ingredient to the mix. You got to add the yeast to the bread. You got to add the ingredient. Thanksgiving. And he said, in everything, you're not be anxious about anything, but in everything. Now here's the killer. That means bad stuff along with good stuff. The Greek word past is the word used for everything here. And it means under all circumstances in everything. So that means that you have certain struggles and failures and losses. The combination should be mixed in with gratefulness. For example, dear Lord Jesus, thank you that this screwed up and that screwed up. Everything's gone bad. Nothing's working. The money's gone. The people don't like me. My family rejected me. Everybody thinks I'm a loser. Thank you, Jesus. It sounds crazy, doesn't it? This is information coming from the Great Apostle Paul who's an expert in this field. And this is how he got through all those horrible persecutions. This is why and how he saw his execution as such a blessing. He loved it. He'd already seen heaven. He knew where he was going and couldn't wait to get there. In fact, at one point in the text he told us the people, hey, I'd rather go there now, but for your sakes, for your sakes, I've asked the Lord to let me stay here so I can continue to help other people. But now that he was in prison writing the letter to the Philippian church, things had changed. He knew he was about to be executed. He was going to be offered up as a sacrifice, a sacrifice for the garter gospel. And nowadays Christians don't have this mindset. Somebody dies or they're dying. Oh, they're, everybody's sad about it. Back in the day, the first century Christians, these people were so loaded with the Holy Ghost and they were so dedicated to God that it was a privilege to be martyred. They saw it as a privilege and they weren't praying for it, but if it was imminent, they looked forward to it. They did not consider their lives Hebrews 11. They didn't see their lives coveted unto death. They were willing to be martyred and become a Christian. Now that concept's crazy in America because obviously we've got so many carnal Christians here, nobody can grasp that situation. But in Philippians 4, you need to make this adjustment and you need to make it starting today because God wants you to have your prayers answered. God wants to answer prayers. He likes helping people. He enjoys it. It's part of his personality. He likes it and he feels good about it. Father likes helping people. It's part of his nature. That's who he is. He's a genetic helper. God is love. That's what it says John said. John taught us that. He doesn't say God loves. It says God is love. That's what he is. That's what he does. That's all he can do. He can't do anything else but love. He doesn't know how. He doesn't have the ability to do it. He doesn't have the capacity to do it because that's what he is. You can't change what you are. I can't become an ape. I'm a human. God cannot become anything other than what he is. God is love. And because of that, he wants to help you. He wants to answer your prayer. But if you don't learn spiritual warfare and you don't study the word of God and you don't know what you're doing, your prayers are not going to be answered, period. Prayers don't get answered in their backing. You have to follow the procedure. You have to obey. You have to do what you're told. You have to do what's right. There's no way out of it. And Paul was telling you prayer is good. It's not good enough. Supplication is good. A list of prayers is good. Not good enough. It's not good enough. It's not working. He said, I added thankfulness to my prayers. They work. And I am cheerful when I'm being executed because that's an answer to one of my prayers. I want to go home. I'm ready to go home. I fought the good fight. I kept the faith. I went through untold persecutions. You see, as you can imagine, it's easy to see. Paul was considered an icon back then in the first century church. Paul was like off the hook, great. And he felt very uncomfortable with that. He didn't like people thinking he was wonderful and great and glorious in this and that. But it was inevitable. There's no way to get around it. An incident happened to Smith Wigglesworth. You remember that in his book, where he started crying one day. And the pastor asked him why he was crying. He said, well, poor Wigglesworth, he said, God's going to take me out of the way. He will not share his glory with another. That's what Wigglesworth said. What was happening there? Well, Wigglesworth's anointing was so monstrously high. Not as high as Paul, but I mean, they would have been on speaking terms for sure. That people had kind of made an idol out of Wigglesworth. They had kept putting him on a pedestal up there. God, father doesn't like that. He wants the Lord Jesus on the pedestal, not anybody else for all these reasons. It would be only Christ the healer and nobody else. Bang. Paul didn't like that. Wigglesworth didn't like it. In our society today, because it's life with carnal Christians, most of them are gutless losers. These YouTube crackpots and these mega church pastors and these guys and TV preachers, the whole thing is a gasping, hideous embarrassment. It's an idol worship situation. You have to have a figurehead up there to draw in the money. And that figurehead has to be this wonderful great leader, and everybody has to kind of put him on a pedestal. You have to do that to generate the donations, the ties, selling the products, everything else. And that sickness, mental sickness among Christians has led to this prophet-apostle movement. You look on YouTube, you see all these ads for services, Miracle Night, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, with apostle so-and-so and prophet such-and-so. Prophetess, this and that. Oh, it's a so ridiculous, it's unbelievable. It's so ridiculous. Wigglesworth never used any of those terms and was obviously all of it. But Wigglesworth knew something that the kooks on YouTube don't know is that everyone who exalts himself shall be abased sooner or later. But he that humbles himself shall be exalted. And that's what God wants you to do. He wants you to be with a humble heart and a cheerful heart and a thankful heart for both good and bad. Okay? What's the worst things that happen? Oh, people don't support you. They don't like you. They criticize you. The family doesn't support you. They don't believe like you do. Your spouse doesn't believe like you do. You married a carnal person, then you got saved, and then your spouse didn't get saved. And then he doesn't support you. She doesn't support you. On and on and on it goes. There are problems, par excellence. And in everything, give thanks. So this is the will of God concerning you and Christ Jesus our Lord. And if you'll add thanksgiving to your prayer list, you will A, get your prayers answered and B, you will have the peace of God way down deep in your heart that passes all of the comprehension of your mind. This peace during this trial doesn't make sense. This is ridiculous that how can I be so restful and peaceful when my daughter, my son, my spouse, my parents are going through what? Drug addiction, cancer, terminal illnesses, poverty, addiction, everything. How can I be at peace with God during these tough times? Well, the way you do it is you thank God for the good things that have happened to you and all the bad. Thank you that this doesn't work. Thank you for that failure. Thank you that I made this mistake. Thank you that I screwed up. Thank you for those people rejecting me. Thank you. I'm grateful because I know God's grace is sufficient for me and his strength will be made perfect in my weakness. I get to win even though I'm weak. Can you imagine it? Yeah, this is being told to us by the most annoying man who ever lived and who was facing execution and he knew it was going to happen this time. He wasn't going to get out and he told the Philippians to be cheerful with him while he's being murdered. Was the guy crazy? No, he was crazy as far as the world is concerned. Yeah, the guy was completely nuts, but as far as your concern, he was on the money. That is exactly what the Holy Spirit is trying to develop in each one of us. Why? Because you can grieve the Spirit and you can quench the power of the Spirit. You have that ability. That's how powerful you are. How do you do that? You start griping and complaining. As soon as you start complaining about something and griping about it, moaning about it, you lost your prayer. It's over. You lost your prayer. Yeah, okay, on a small note, a practical note. Friday night, I was teaching at the Deliverance Center and I love doing that, so privilege to do it. I'm teaching on the two assignments. If you haven't seen that teaching, man, you got to nail it. It's really, really helpful. You know, and I get up there at seven o'clock, that's when the service starts and I look out at the crowd. There's almost nobody there. There might have been five people there or something like that. I didn't turn here. It didn't make a bit of difference. I just went right ahead with it. People straggled in, left their lines, filled up later. And then, and then at the altar call, I'd never had this happen before. I'd been doing this for years, obviously. Everybody that came up to the altar call after I taught on the woman, the two women with the alabaster box, Jesus is first anointing and then Jesus is second anointing. And then his last anointing was at Martha and Mary's house. Mary did it. There were three anointings of Jesus before he was murdered. So I took the first two at Simon the Lover's house and Simon the Pharisee's house, those two. And what happened was I opened the altar for prayer and, wow, everybody that came up for prayer, I'd never had this happen before, got down on their knees to pray. And as soon as I saw that, I thought, well, man, this is going to be a special night. I didn't know what was going to happen, but I was looking forward to it because I'd never seen that before. Everybody that came up all across the whole sanctuary, everybody was on their knees. Strange. So I kept going and the spirit of God started to move through the lineup like he always does. And the ministry team killed the thing as usual. He was flying out of people left and right. But at the end, but at the end of the service, I felt this kind of quietness come over the room. The sanctuary got like still strange. And I thought, well, this is praise time. So I had taken two people brought them up to the front. And the three of us were singing in tongues, praising the Lord. And we were singing in tongues and praising the Lord. And this has never happened before. I just all of a sudden I looked up and like 15 people just stood up and came to the front and started singing in tongues with us. It was amazing. People were giggling with joy. People were crying. Holy Ghosts moved again. And how did that happen? Well, when I first got there, I could have gotten discouraged because it was like five people in the whole sanctuary or something like that. It was very, maybe 10. There was very low people. I didn't even turn a hair on it. I didn't even flinch. I just said, thank you, Jesus, and move forward. And when bad things happen to you, you've got to be able to move forward. And the only way to do that is follow Paul's lessons. You have to learn to add thanksgiving to your prayer list. Dear Lord Jesus, my daughter is on meth. The devil's trying to kill her. Thank you. Thank you. Because the sicker she gets, the greater testimony she's going to have when you make your move and she's healed. Uh-huh. Dear God, all the money's gone. Thank you. I'm broke. Thank you. Because my testimony, my testimony is going to be so much greater because my pressure from Satan was so powerful. When the persecution goes up, your praise and thankfulness goes up. And God will show up like you did Friday night in the worship session at the end of the service. It was, it was wonderful and I'll never forget it. Paul has taught us what to do and how to do it, right? And you're going to do it starting at this very second. From this moment on, you're going to add thanksgiving to the miserable things in your life. Well, brother Mike, I thought I wasn't supposed to have all this misery. I thought I was supposed to be peace, joy, and happiness. You thought wrong. You were listening to some gutless, useless, greed-ridden TV preacher, some cuckoo on YouTube telling you how wonderful their Christian life is and how you're supposed to emulate their wonderful Christian life. It's all a bunch of B and then you add an S to it. You know what a B added to an S to it is? Yeah, you don't want to know. Yeah, don't listen to these cuckoo on YouTube. What you need to listen to is what I read you. That is directly from God Almighty, what I just read you. Not the whack job on YouTube, not the Sunday morning TV preacher doing the idol worshiping thing. Forget that stuff. Go with this. Okay. What's the number one problems other on this? Children, spouses, parents, right? Finances. Is there anything bigger than that? Usually not. Dear Lord Jesus, my wife is jacked out. She's nuts. Thank you. My husband is an imbecile. He's made a huge family. Thank you, Jesus. My son, my son's lazy, stupid, he's ignorant. He won't work. Thank you, Jesus. Father, I got, my back is killing me. My neck's killing me. Thank you. Nobody showed up for the service, brother Mike. There's nobody here. Thank you. And everything gives thanks. And this is the will of God concerning you and Christ Jesus. Oh, Lord. That's Paul. Apostle Paul would say to you, I'll just speak for him right now. I'm getting ready to be offered as a sacrifice. I'll be dead very soon. I'm so happy over it. Please be happy with me. Thank you. Goodbye.