 All right, welcome back So yeah, just to Recap just do a quick recap of what we've been talking about is God is sovereign In his sovereignty why in his you know, he is all powerful good loving healing deliverer Why doesn't he just invade intervene and just heal everyone? You know, and now I'm saying heal everyone And There has been times as a kid. I've also wondered like Lord If you just showed up in all your majesty in all your glory Everybody on earth will be saved, isn't it? Yeah But again the humility of God is that he wants us Mankind to make their own choice Not compelled or forced you know what I'm saying if God just showed up in all his majesty Everybody will fall down and know that the day is coming that every tongue every tribe one day confess that he is Lord It's coming but in this time He wants us to choose him by you know our choice by our free will with me I Think we learned that a little bit about about that in praise and worship as well, isn't it like? We see that all the other creation of God Doesn't have a choice Like we read in Psalms like the deep sea creatures praise him The trees of the field clap their hands and praise Psalm 19 said the heavens declare the glory of God day and night the poor fourth speech Right day after day the poor fourth speech all of them have no choice, but they are worshiping him Only us as human humans We have a choice to worship and it's the same with everything else We choose him to be our savior and then in that moment when we choose him as our Lord and savior We are healed we have salvation. We have eternal life everything right So that's the beauty of our God is that he wants to partner with us He wants to he expects us to come to him in faith In the previous chapter we saw that We addressed one question Is it is it okay to question God or come to him in question or you know doubt? Right And we see the passage where all these Pharisees and the teachers of the law they want they came to Jesus only to question him Now guys listen, okay. This is very important a life lesson Also for our attitudes and everything There is a difference a thin line between asking questions and questioning I say that again. There is a very thin line or there is a difference. Let me say it that way between asking questions and questioning So what's the difference? What's the difference between asking questions and questioning asking question is to know about something, okay? Question Yeah, it's spot on isn't it? Yeah, Sean. Yes. Yeah, so the difference basically is you asking questions You genuinely want to know something, right? You you want to know, okay? What time is the class getting over? You know about salvation or whatever it is, right? There are genuine questions You want to know about something and questioning is Who told you? How come you're right? You know what I'm saying, right? So that's and the difference is it's not the question is an expression of the Intent the motive the character of the heart You know what I'm saying, okay, so when and it's the same thing with David There's a difference about Complaining to God and complaining about God You know what I'm saying David constantly complained to God like Lord my enemies Smash their teeth against you know, but then there is a difference about complaining about God You know what I'm saying and again it all comes down It's birthed out of the intent of a motive of our hearts Okay, so the Pharisees the Sadducees teachers of the law came to Jesus to question him not to ask questions By questioning him questioning his authority questioning his Statements like who are you to say this? How can you say this? You know who told you to say this? How can you say you were the son of God? Okay, you know all blasphemy kind of things, you know, but then there was those are people who just came to him in faith Are you with me and Jesus healed up, right? So God in his sovereignty expects us to partner with him and come to him in faith And the third point is we walk by the truth that has been revealed and search out what is unknown We walk by the truth which has been revealed and search out what is unknown Who's got the mic? The mic is close to you. Why don't you read Deuteronomy 29 29? That's in the notes The sacred things belong to the Lord our God but those things which are Revealed belong to us and to our children forever that we may do all all the words of this law New reader one more time, please The secret things belong to the Lord our God But those things which are revealed belongs to us and to our children forever That we may do all the words of this law. Thank you. Okay, the secret things belong to the Lord Can everybody see that? the Secret things belong to the Lord Okay, and we should be Fine with that Okay, find a way to be fine with that Okay, the secrets belong to him. I don't know all the answers. It's okay. Chalega, you know this Okay, another one Proverbs 25 verse 2 It is the glory of God to Conchill a meter, but the glory of Kings is to search out a matter That's wonderful. Isn't it? I love this verse Proverbs 25 verse 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of Kings is to search out a matter Okay. Now again, like we were just talking about This person called Nick who does not have limbs and whatnot, right and that's one of the scenarios and The questions can be so much like in just last two weeks you just could hear I mean, I've heard so many deaths That's of a young child like, you know, we're all three-year-old who died in accidents and fellow of the balcony and died and and So how about fly over construction metro construction thing fell and then you know a mother and a son died and then so I'm just using few instances, but then there are instances all around the world like this For which we don't know the answer to Yes or no, right? It's And then there are things that we try to understand Out of our wisdom and out of our knowledge But it is Absolutely needed for us to come and say I don't know why this happens Like, you know, what will you go and tell a mother who is grieving over a son? I can't go and say, okay, there's the lords will She'll slip away Punch me or whatever You get what I'm saying and at moments like that it is okay to say we do not know It's okay because God is sovereign. He knows everything. We have to remember this guys. Okay? We work for him He doesn't work for us. I with him We work For whom for him. He doesn't work for us He does not owe us any explanation This is very important core Fundamentals he does not owe us any explanation There are times where he chooses to explain. That's his sovereignty But he does not owe us an explanation Okay, I hope you'll understand the weight of what I what we just said Are you with me? Okay. So that leads us to another question um Why doesn't everyone get healed? Why doesn't everyone get healed Okay, uh, so who's got the notes there nicole if you can just read a few passages from there From the section uh in your notes. Why do you have a hard copy? Page 97 Why doesn't everyone get healed just a little portion of that? We Yeah, I admit that not every person we minister to gets healed or delivered I'm sure that every great healing evangelist and men or woman of God has flexed This and also circled With answering this question as to why we don't see every person we minister to heal and delivered The answer to such a question is very subjective since the actual condition can vary from individual to individual we do because nice That there can be several things that hinder a person from receiving their healing or deliverance. There could be a way Very easily of reasons some known to us and some reasons unknown to us some parable regions are outlined In a section below. Okay. Thanks. So very quickly. We just pause and paraphrase everything. So we Ideally admit that everyone we pray for may not get healed Right. I mean, it's not just the problem that you have faced. I'm sure a lot of evangelists Ministers of God have men men and women of God have come across these things and it says that The scenario can vary from person to person from individual to individual right the reasons can be several Several reasons things why a person might not get healed. We do not know But having said that The conclusion of this question or the answer to this question is Those failures or those things those moments when you prayed for and that person did not get healed Should it stop you from continuing to pray and pursue healing and deliverance? Should it stop you It should not stop us the answer is very simple. It should not stop you from continuing to press in Are you with me? Okay. Now, you know a mathematical equation a plus b the whole square is equal to a you know something like that you study, right? That's an equation, right a plus b the whole square is equal to something, okay, so When it comes to this God's side of the equation Is never wrong. Okay God's side of the equation is Never wrong Okay, so you prayed for this person person did not get healed You close the door you seek him you do whatever you have to do you present you pursue him Are you with me right? Okay in the secret place ask lord just fill me more use use me Let your power flow in and through me Are you with me right? So that's what that's what we ought to do and in that process don't compromise the truth everybody say truth Say it one more time truth Okay, the difference between fact and truth. We've spoken about it before right a fact will inform you Right, but a truth will Transform you Right fact will change Okay, whether report facts It's so and so but the truth will never change the fact is the woman suffered with the issue of blood for 12 years That's the fact It informed me But the truth is jesus can heal her and he healed her that transformed her Are you with me so just because the healing did not happen when you prayed for this thing does not happen Don't modify the truth I think it is the will of god For some of you to be sick What are you doing? You are compromising the truth. Isn't it do not do that? In your failures through your failures, whatever happens in your ministry, uh, don't compromise the truth And just in and hard questions like that. It's okay to say I don't know I'm very happy to admit that When any student asks me a question and if I don't know the answer, I am very proud to say I don't know That's that's the thing, isn't it? I mean, I think in and what I've also learned in my journey so far is that People will not like you if you pretend to know the answer you know So people will be listening when I'm saying something when in their mind they'll be thinking I this fellow doesn't know what he's talking about, but I'll just pretend like okay, so I have been there Okay, so Uh, I have once been a student as well. I'm still a student. Okay, so when you don't So when you don't know something especially when it comes to the things of the kingdom and whatnot, we've just Learned this that the secrets belong to the lord Right. Uh, it's okay to say I don't know But I will continue to stand with you in prayer. I don't know why this happened to you But I will continue to stand with in prayer. I will intercede for you right be encouraged That's the least we can do are you with me? Right and and ask god for insight that proverbs chapter 25 verse 2 it says It is the glory of god to conceal a matter But the glory of kings is to search out a matter Right, uh, and paul writes in coranthians the holy spirit searches the heart and mind the depths of god and reveals it to us Are you with me right so you ask the holy spirit lord you teach me You show me you reveal the things to me that I need to know Are you with me right and what happens in the process is Never forget to glorify god Okay, you glorify god and not the condition Guys, I want you to listen very careful. You glorify god not the Condition you you prayed for a person with who's possessed with evil spirit And that did not do anything Okay, so I prayed for vimal and the spirit starts talking about it's like hey, hey, hey, I'm not going to go I'm just you're free. Okay, vimal Right What do I do? I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to begin to glorify the demon Actually go The demon is more powerful than god than the name of jesus and all of that Are you with me don't glorify the condition Glorify god Okay, don't say okay. Just because I prayed and the sickness did not leave I think this is a very new sickness. It's a code 2.0 or something like that Are you with me right? You don't glorify god not you you mean you glorify god not the condition Okay This is passage in your notes page 99 in the book Uh, pdf. It must be something it's called in spite of and not because of Is everyone there in spite of and 65 pay 65. Thank you Um, can someone read that please? Uh, micah God can use a person in spite of sickness Bodily elements and any physical problem. Okay, stop. Thank you. So god can use a person Okay, god can use a person in spite of The sickness bodily elements or whatever in spite of their shortcomings Right god can use a person go on. However However, this does not automatically mean that the condition they are in is god's waste for them God is not using them because of their sickness or Stop. Okay. God is not using them because of their sickness or ailment Okay, god's work in spite of the situation Right god works in spite of the situation in I like this line that says he is not limited by our limitations He is not limited by our limitations. He works because of his purpose and grace given to us in Jesus christ Right sickness or no sickness. That is why he is god Wow So when god uses a person in spite of their sickness or ailment we glorify god and not the Sickness. Okay. So when we see like What we spoke about nick or whatever it is god using him in spite of his weakness or its ailments or whatever it is, okay And so we come the encouragement here is for us to pursue more because god wants to heal everyone and he wants to do it through us Okay What another classic question is why are some healings gradual? The opposite of gradual is instant healing We pray and we see healing right then and there Now does god become any less god because the healing doesn't happen instantly? Okay, speak to me. Yes. Does god become any less of a god? Yeah, Sean Okay. Yeah, right. So It's okay Yeah, so god doesn't become any less of a god because the healing doesn't happen instantly like we just saw Equation on his end is always right Right, um, we see that only once where jesus prayed for a blind man twice Like even that There must have been a reason why jesus did that Okay, uh, we read that in mark chapter 8 verse 22 and 26, uh, right It says then he came to betside and they brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him So he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town And when he had spit on his eyes and put his hands on him He asked him if he saw anything and he looked up and said I see men like trees walking And he put his hands on his eyes again and made him look up And you and he was restored and saw everyone clearly Then he sent him away to his house saying Either go into the town or tell anyone in the town. Okay, so Uh, this is one of the instances the only instance probably where we see jesus prayed for a person twice And so again the question is why are some healings gradual? It again varies from individual to individual scenario to scenario the reasons are several uh, but the But the point is that we in every small let's say for example uh I let me use someone else as an example of Say francis, uh, he is um, so he needs multiple Healing in multiple places Right his hands need to be healed his legs need to be healed Uh, or whatever. So there are multiple healings, isn't it? So you pray for a person You see only the hand being healed, but his legs are not healed It with me But that should not stop you or get discouraged You continue to pray you be encouraged and you encourage the person and say okay We continue to pray for a complete healing a complete, you know Touch on the hand of god. So, uh, again the simple answer once again is we don't know why Why the healings are some healings are gradual some healings are instant instant. We leave that to god And we do what we are called to do Okay And I want to come to the very last section of this chapter because you uh The last the last section I think it's page 63 or something for you. Okay. So three heart attitudes that allow god to work miracles three Heart attitudes that allow god to work miracles. The first one is faith expectancy and intense desire Say faith expectancy and intense desire. Okay. I can someone read that section, please When ministering to people Kechira, why don't you read nickel's been reading? Three heart attitude that allows god to work miracles in order to minister both minister next passage When ministering to people, okay When ministering to people we must walk in faith Expectancy and intense desire We minister healing and deliverance with faith in our hearts Our unbelief can be a hindrance to the power of god Following through us flowing through us. Okay. So point there our unbelief can be a Hindrance to the power of god flowing through us Okay, and sorry and then go on We must expect people to get well expect people to deliver and med will Have an intense desire to see people healing Med world and set free for the glory of god Yeah, thank you. So as we minister to people we come in faith We we come to him knowing that god is a healer. He's a Jehovah Rafa He wants to heal this person and knowing that he can do it Right, and then we come with an expectation Okay, so I want to see this person healed And so and so so it says right we we must expect people to get well Expect people to be delivered and made whole And then have an intense desire See people heal the third one. We don't talk about much But it's very important is that intense desire. Do you have a desire to see people healed? Okay, that's too awful. Okay, that's cool You have intense desire. There was no intensity. There was no desire Right, do you See Those are all the fundamentals of it if you don't have it. It's not just desire You need to have intense desire and you look at the life of Jesus. That's what you see He healed he healed. He healed. He healed everyone who came to him Right late in the evening. They brought he healed. I mean After the Sunday service, right a Sunday service and that EPC is what to say about three hours Just the service of two and a half hours. We started 10 30 want to work 12 30 two hours Yes, okay So you are we are sound and setup starts at what time the reporting time for worship team is 6 30 a.m so six 7 8 9 10 11 12 so six hours It's a little bit of a stretch after six hours itself. We'll be like, okay, Vendaya. I want to go home and sleep There's too much people I'm very tired What I'm trying to say is ministry can be physically tasking Uh, but then Jesus went through like a long long days And he would do that only if you have intense desire to see people healed Are you with me? So as leaders as pastors and church leaders youth leaders, whatever if you don't have intense desire for the people that you are leading Um, you're not going to see much happen Are you with me? Okay, so faith expectancy and intense desire are the three heart attitudes that allow God to work miracles right And finally The last section of this chapter is hindrances to receiving healing hindrances to receiving healing we've covered most of this But let's cover a few one more time. Okay. This is the last page. So Some of the reasons we've seen this lack of knowledge Right lack of faith Considering the ailment as the will of God Okay, the next point lack of Persistent desire to get well So it says the desire must come from you to get well Right lack of persistent desire to get well not really wanting to be well Okay, I wonder who that is. Okay, not really wanting to be well Uh, perhaps enjoying the sympathy and attention of people Hallelujah. Okay, perhaps fear of living life with the normal responsibilities once they get Perhaps fear of living well life with normal responsibilities. I've seen that in kids No, like I want to have more fever one more day. So I don't want to go to school Why the responsibility is to study? So I like being sick. So I don't have to go to school You know what I'm saying, uh, so I don't have to go to office or whatever. So Okay Um being passive in resisting sickness Okay being passive in resisting sickness wrong posture that leads to a passive belief If it is God's will he will heal me God will heal in his time Whatever happens in God's God's will and so on if it happens it happens if it doesn't happen No loss, huh? uh, wrong heart attitudes Anger resentment jealousy unforgiveness bitterness and so on anger could be um How can anger be a point here? I'm angry with God because I've been praying for healing for so long and he hasn't healed me I'm angry with you. Why did this happen to my father? Why did this happen to my mother and that leads to bitterness resentment unforgiveness Um, those are all the attitudes that can hinder from receiving healing Probes 14 30 it says a sound heart is life to the body But envy is rottenness to the bones wow Probes 17 22 a many heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones Okay, um, just on a side note here guys your heart attitudes. It's so crucial Um, just like we need a physical heart check. We need a spiritual heart check as well Uh, you know the gospel says that all sins sexual immorality are all you know this and that Comes from the heart But it is the same heart the god our god is after he sings. I want that heart All right, um The next two ones destructive lifestyles If a person continues to do things that are self-destructive to their health Example alcohol smoking drugs and so on That will lead to hindrances as well And the other unknowns we do not know every cause that could hinder a person from receiving healing and deliverance Okay, you see that the first line we do not know Okay, we do not know every cause that could hinder a person from receiving healing and deliverance So we learn to listen to the holy spirit and he will show us what to do in specific situations Okay, so those are the points on hindrances to receiving Healing and uh, when you can and if you want to um go back to your rooms And just go through those lists one more time. It should come in handy. Okay Um, so we'll actually stop at that point Any questions or any thoughts? Yeah You want to use the mic? Actually, do people ask me about this question like uh, I mean, uh, if being sick is not a god's will Why so many people are dying because of the sicknesses Okay, believers in believers also. They used to pray for From long long time. I mean, I have seen a person. I was in personally also Uh, people got sick by the cancer and all their good believers. So they used to pray from long time But when we consider this as is like uh, if being sick is not a god's will He wants to heal everyone's then why people are dying with the sicknesses. Yeah Again, we've just looked at that answer. How we respond to that is we don't know Um That's the genuine answer to that question is we don't know as in We have what we are asked to do is heal the sick cleans the lepers, you know, raise the dead, etc, etc That's our responsibility Right, that is our duty. That's our responsibility. That's our side of the commission Uh, and everything else is up to him Right, we pursue to live a life like jesus lived He's the benchmark, right? He's the standard. He healed people. He prayed. He lived a lifestyle of prayer Right, he lived a lifestyle of holiness. There was no blemish in him So we pursue all that as christians and whatnot. We do what we can do. We leave the rest to god The question is uh, have you done what you can do? Right, um, and so Like I said, all these questions are in this book and more Because people have asked this Genuine questions right and people have asked this and And rightly so I have asked this question. I'm not going to stand here and pretend like I have not asked this question like lord, why When my friends, wife had a miscarriage while they've been waiting on a baby for seven eight years and when that happened It's a genuine question. He's like lord, why? How is that god's will? How is that god's will? Like why should we consider Was it god's will in the beginning for us to go through all of that? It was not We were our design was perfect right on it like there was no flaw in his design Sin Caused that flaw though. It came and left a mark in on a beautiful painting. There was a black mark That ruined the look and everything right And so and Like I said, and and this is my personal So in the last year 2022, I think from somewhere between august onwards um I have always believed god is good Right and I have I refused to put the blame on him when I failed in my 12th I failed in my 12th because I didn't study I'm just not gonna say like I failed in 12th because you did not give me enough wisdom. You did not make me intelligent Um, I refused to do that then and then I saw a very different perspective I had a different very a very different perspective of his goodness and the statements that I made saying that I work for him and he doesn't work for me Was birthed from that season of me encountering his goodness and and if I have an earthly father Right. His name is rajesh um I would not want to misrepresent him in a very different way that he is not I will want all my friends to know that he is a good father How much more will I want my heavenly father to know that he is good? Like I really have this zealous this zeal that I want where I want everybody to know that he is good Even if I don't understand it's okay, but the truth is that he is good Right our situations and our circumstances they change Right one day you will have a good day another day. You might have a bad day or in one day You might have a good and bad day Right our situations or circumstances they go up and down up and down But he never changes, isn't it? That's why he's the constant like we say that He he's the same yesterday today and forever, right and we you see the book of joshua chapter one Joshua chapter one what has happened? Moses has led the israelites, you know into the wilderness out of egypt and whatnot and And exodus 40 and between exodus 40 and joshua chapter one somewhere there moses dies Right moses has led them. He has been a leader to the people of israel Millions of people and everybody is panicking our leader has died The leader that they followed in the wilderness for years has died The leader that would listen to god speak with god and come and tell us what to do has died There was panic in the camp But god's answer to joshua is that as i was with moses I will be with you That means in all this change that you are seeing i am the only constant And so that core has to be strong Uh, you know, i will i will refuse to blame him for anything and that's the principle that that's something that i learned In the last second half of 2022 is i will refuse to blame him that is not living life in denial like You know understand what i'm saying that is not living life ignorant or deny. Okay. I'm going through something. I'm not like no I'm not going through that Right. I accept what is happening But then I will continue to declare that he is good You get what i'm saying Anything can happen. That is what life is. Let's say, uh, I don't know if it's if it's philippians or something It says in everything give thanks to the lord You know that verse that says that in everything Give thanks to the lord that verse will be useless If my life is smooth and absolute filled with joy or every day It's like that verse was written for days like these for moments like these when i'm going through bad times when i'm going through hell In everything give thanks You get what i'm saying right so And I think the world needs to know that and this revelation of so This encounter of his goodness began in 2010 for me. I'm just sharing my personal thoughts. Sorry. Okay of my personal journey is until 2010 Uh For me it was okay God is holy and all of that nothing changed But if he was portrayed as this thing with a cane, you know with a stick He's waiting for you to make a mistake and he'll back you You know it was You know, he is holy You know, um, which he is In his holiness He is our father in his holiness. He is good That's the perspective that it during me began. There's like wow. He is our father Uh, you know, and I think mark. I don't know which chapter mark Where it says, okay, you know, which one of you will ask your earthly father for a bread and who will give you a stone It with me and how much more should this heavenly father? Who is so much good, you know so much more good? Um You know Same thing is And I've heard young I've had young people, you know during the time of my youth ministry Uh come and say is like, you know what pastor? I I begin to sleep when I start reading the bible And they feel very guilty about it Right and I've said this, you know what if I'm if my son Comes and sleeps on my chest I'm not going to throw him away I get what I'm saying. He is the word You know what I'm saying and he's so good and we treat and we may we have this image that he is Like waiting for us to falter and back us But you know if we feel so guilty about small things like, okay, you know, when I'm reading the bible I fall asleep. I don't know, you know, I feel bad about me. I don't know what he's thinking about me While he's such a good father that he will not just chase you away You know what you went you you're going to sleep sleeping on the bible You know, it's like you are sleeping on his chest. Why would he chase you away some, you know He is so good Then we can ever imagine Yeah And that's the kind of a father The world needs to see The father that jesus, you know Um showed revealed A jesus came to do a lot of things on earth He he came to die for us on our say when on the cross for our sins But in everything he did he revealed the father He revealed the father by healing the blind man Right when he stooped down and wrote something on the ground And he stopped the whole crowd from stoning the woman who was caught in adultery He should reveal the love of the father to her Are you with me and so ministering healing and deliverance Reveals god's nature It's not just one part of ministry where we are called to do something. Okay prayers again. Jesus name be healed and nothing happens Okay, move on next person You know, uh, you get an opportunity to reveal jesus to someone when you pray So you do what you have to do and leave the rest of god Are you with me? Okay, so yeah, let's uh, that's it for today And we'll meet again next week And um, move on from every left off. All right. Thanks everybody. Thanks Nina Karen. I should come on for joining us. Take care. I'll see you next week Bye