 Good morning friends, Sunday morning nine o'clock Welcome to the deep things of God with brother Mike Sitting here in my den in Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome to hardcore christianity.com Today interesting Bible study on how to get miracles from God. I'll show you exactly how to do it Believe it or not. It's a lot easier you think It's quite quite shocking So I hope you'll go to the website room remember every Sunday, of course I'm on at nine o'clock in the morning also to every Tuesday at 6 p.m. I have a zoom deliverance service. I post that on my Facebook page Michael W Smith and this Tuesday also the face the Zoom is at 6 p.m. Pacific and Arizona time and I have a question and answer period and then after that we do Some prayer time so don't forget about Tuesdays at 6 p.m. Please remember the zoom broadcast with brother Rick and the ministry team They are on Wednesdays at the same time 6 p.m. Pacific time 6 p.m. Arizona time by the way, the time change is about to occur this this Sunday, I believe it's two in the morning so that'll change a little bit so Don't forget about we got two services on zoom every week Tuesdays and Wednesdays also we have two live services in Phoenix that are broadcast on multiple platforms including our YouTube teaching channel Just put in YouTube comm slash house of healing AZ and You're there every Thursday and Friday night. That's at 7 p.m Arizona and Pacific time and again, that's about to change with the time change So we've got plenty of things available for you to learn the deep things of God I want to do my best today to share it with you some very important things if you would Turn with me to Matthew chapter 8. I call these the miracle Chapters and you'll find some fascinating things about the word of God and how easy it is to get a miracle from God The devil wants to complicate it and he wants to make it very difficult and he wants you to use your mind to try and figure it out That is a recipe for disaster. Okay miracles come from childlike faith From the spirit man Through the word of God With love so all you need to get a miracle from God is childlike faith And love you add the word of God to that mix You win you can't possibly lose check it out Matthew chapter 8 When Jesus came down from the mountain multitudes followed him and behold there came a leper worshiping him and saying to him Lord If you will you can make me whole or make me clean now that Greek word for it if If you will is the Greek word phalo and it means if you want to Many people believe that God is able to do something has the power to do something But they question his willingness to do it and so what the Holy Ghost is doing here by putting this Incredible story in the Bible What he's doing here is telling you I want to I Want to and you know that the son and the father Want to because Jesus said I only do those things. I see my father doing I Only Speak those things I hear my father saying so what happened here was a dying leper approaches him and Father looking through Jesus eyes sees him and said boy, I would love to heal that guy Jesus heard him say it and said Says to the leper as he's walking up Jesus put forth his hand verse 3 and touched him again demonstrating for us that the laying on of hands to transfer the anointing is a very productive method of Seeing people healed you don't have to lay hands on everybody every time. Obviously, but Some kind sometimes it requires the laying on of hands and this is one of them He lays his hand off on a communicable disease The Holy Ghost blocking the disease and destroying it. No fear of being transferred to Jesus and He says I will Be clean and the Greek word again same Greek word. They know I want to Be clean and immediately his leprosy was cleansed and the man Then was told to go give a testimony of his healing. Can you believe it? That's how Amazing it was how easy it was to get a miracle from God, but you'll notice something here the leper Came to Jesus. Jesus didn't run him down Same as true for you. You got to come in with childlike faith. You got to come in with love You got to come in with determination. You got to come in with perseverance Now, how do you know my that Mike that it didn't say that in the verse? Well, I've been a counselor for 40 years and I know people better than most people and the people are my business People are my job This leper was not even supposed to be out of the Valley of the lepers. Okay, they kept them separate from society They got kicked out of society They didn't live in Houses or in cities or villages. No, they kicked them out because for obvious reasons. It's a communicable disease So this leper had insurmountable determination to leave seclusion or Quarantine to use to use our term nowadays Fight his way through Rejection and fear of others everybody who saw a leper back in the day would stone them For obvious reasons. It's communicable disease He fights through his fears. He fights through the people He he fights through his exhaustion and his sickness And he walks all the way from wherever he lived to hunt down Jesus and you can see there that miracles Require your cooperation and your determination You've got to be like the dying leper. You've got to be able to get to Jesus and be determined Without a question or doubt That you're going to push through that's what he did And then Jesus said to him I want to Be clean. Can you imagine that? That's how easy it was to get a miracle. Why? Because Jesus saw the leper's faith. He heard him Speak he saw the determination in the leper he saw What he had sacrificed to get to Jesus Bang it's a miracle Miracle number two in the miracle chapters Matthew chapter eight and nine Matthew chapter eight Jesus came to Capernaum, which was his headquarters That was his new home. He had moved from Nazareth to Capernaum and there he is Writing down the pathway is a bunch of soldiers He looks up and he sees a centurion A centurion And he was begging him it says He was begging So here you say the same situation Or a similar situation as the dying leper You see a centurion who is making sacrifices and is determined To get to christ and is pushing himself and making an effort Through determined domination To get to the living christ And he says to jesus my servant is laying at home. He is grievously tormented greek word for A servant there is pice. It means a young child So it could have been a servant child or it could have been his son. We don't know But it says he's lying at home sick of the palsy Peraluticus is a greek word. It means A spinal cord injury And it says he is grievously tormented The greek word is basanizo. It means to be tortured He's being tortured. So this sounds like Some kind of demonic activity on top of a medical condition And jesus said to him Without a hesitation you see how easy this is to get a miracle He saw the centurion's determination and his faith. It was demonstrated in his behavior And the response is I will come and heal him That was it There was no conversation No intercessory prayer nobody was going through a bunch of religious incantations nothing Soon as jesus saw that this centurion meant business. Okay to use a slang phrase He saw it He says to him, okay, let's go Let's get it done. It's done. Let's go And the centurion then blows The mind of god and i'm praying that god will Trigger you to blow his mind today. I want you to do that to the lord I want you to do something that he's not expecting. I want you to do something freaky The centurion blows jesus's mind. He says listen, i'm not worthy For you to even come come under the roof in front of my house That's that's what the greek word meant. It didn't mean the roof overhead. It meant the overhang in front of the house I'm not worried. Don't even come up to the steps of my house. Don't even Don't even do that because i'm not worthy of it Tecanus is the greek word. It means i don't deserve it Now notice this the centurion coming to christ doggedly determined with a broken heart and humbleness and childlike faith See that those things trigger a miracle all the time he says Listen, i am a man who is under authority he says And i have men under my authority pecking order He says i tell them do this they do it i tell them to go there they go there Look at the guys behind me. I told them to saddle up and come here when i heard about you You know the centurion was kind of strange There were some proselytes back then there were some people who were romans who did believe in the one and only true god He was one of them he'd been raised around jews and he'd been to the synagogue as a kid and he recognized the scroll of isiah With all the prophecies of the moshiach And the messiah was going to have certain traits and the centurion knew it. He knew what those traits were And he said the stories i'm hearing about this yashua from nazareth That has got to be the moshiach. That's it So we're saddling up He brought a team with him and they bolted out And they came to jesus and said hey My son my servant is being tortured Jesus said i will come and healing The centurion says i don't deserve for you to come on my roof under my house anywhere near my house Don't even come in my neighborhood Because i know you have the authority to heal him by only speaking the word okay now This is the lagas word is all of god's word and a rama word is a portion of the word Lagas rama right And this is what the guy's exercising here. He's saying i I'm a man under authority. I have people under authority to me I tell them to go and come they go and they come you Have authority over the spirit world you have authority over demons you have authority over sickness and disease and addiction and death You have the authority Like i have authority over these soldiers go here go there they go here then they go there No problem. He says just Speak the word only Can you imagine that? He says speak the word only and My servant will be healed utterly unbelievable Give me some lagas. Give me the word Just speak the word only It's a done deal It's a done deal and here's what's shocking about it and here's what I hope you'll do today first ten says jesus was Marvelling at the man The greek word is the madzo It means to be shocked this Gentile who's not even jewish Makes a statement Of utter and pure faith and belief Jesus Mouth drops open He can't believe it He is stunned He says i have not found anybody in israel. Okay, he says israel That has the faith of this gentile. He wasn't even jewish unbelievable Absolutely unbelievable and jesus was just stunned That's what it is. You know what? I want you to stun god today I want you to pick out two or three of the rottenest things in your life Let's pick them out right now could be a sickness Could be a relationship could be whatever it is Pick it out and I want you just simply Take the loggus and go for it. I want you to stun god this morning Instead of complaining and griping and having doubts and having unbelief Questioning things what if what if what if this what if that but this but that no no no no Not today. You're not going to if or but anything You're just going to believe period and you're going to cause the good lord to drop his mouth open Jesus turns to the people that are following. These are messianic jews. These are jews. Okay He says listen Many shall come from the east and the west To sit down with abraham isaac and jacob and in the kingdom of heaven many will come there but The children of the heaven kingdom of heaven The children of the kingdom of god Shall be cast out Into outer darkness And there will be weeping and gnashing a piece translation They're going to go to hell most jews that die go to hell For the last shall be first the first shall be last The centurion who was never supposed to be in heaven because he was a gentile Made it and the jews who were supposed to go to heaven Didn't they went to hell? He says to the centurion go your way Ready as you have believed Remember miracles are based on some type of foundation Belief in god the greek word is pistul It's a greek verb and it means to step out in faith Having zero doubts and zero unbelief. You have no doubt and you have no unbelief period You simply step out in faith pistul. You're doing something demonstrate The faith in your heart This is the teaching god's trying to show you What's the holy ghost doing right now? He's trying to uncomplicate Miracles for you That's exactly what it is. It's unbelievable. It's uncomplicating how this system works Okay, because the simplicity of christ is the key When you start factoring in pastors preachers teaching You know degrees from seminaries and bible colleges christianity gets all jacked up Once you go to the loggus You can't lose Once you simplify the gospel You win It's in the bag You're killing it It's yours And that's what the centurion did That's what the leper did. They just simplified it They simplified it they believed They fought their way through adversity Bank they got a miracle Oh, just like that And it says the centurion immediately went home And it says the servant was healed in the same Hour Within the same hour so this centurion Didn't live that far away from where jesus was in capernaum Okay, now to give you an idea how incredible the story is Check this out I had I had this printed up for you originally, but The problem is I I couldn't pick up the order because I forgot my password. But anyway, I decided to write it out here Here is a roman legion Buried between three thousand and six thousand soldiers, but a regular legion Was six thousand soldiers right here They were supervised by 60 centurions each centurion Supervised a hundred soldiers and a cohort was 10 Superbizing above centurions There was 10 of them per legion Above that was six tribunes There were six tribunes above a legion I don't know if you can see that I wish my printing had come through I got to start remembering these passwords And above the tribunes, of course the Like in the united states the president of the united states is in charge of the military Let that sink in But a emperor the emperor was in charge of the military And the emperors of Rome always gave the military anything they wanted because for obvious reasons If there was going to be a coup The military would be behind it and would Obviously kill the emperor so they always made sure the soldiers were happy Just want to be happy Then in Matthew chapter eight the miracle chapters Matthew eight and Matthew nine Here we go again Jesus later went over to Peter's house and His mother-in-law was dying And she had what the bible says uh Uh puresso puresso is a skyrocketing Fever a fever that's getting super bad super bad If it gets too bad, obviously, you know what happens your your organs shut down the patient dies Jesus went in and it says once again. He laid hands on her notice the centurion. He did not lay hands on it Okay, you don't have to lay hands on somebody all the time to have them heal But it does work sometimes when you need healing. There's no problem either way works Faith is the operating factor a greek word pistas to believe with no doubts and no unbelief First thing he touched her There it is. He touched her hand. He just reached over, you know, she's laying on the cot there She's moments from death her fever is skyrocketing puresso and he reaches over and he Holds her by the hand That's a beautiful scene. Don't you think? Yeah, what is it? Jesus was the greatest counselor of them all. I'm a I'm a been a counselor for 40 years I was a secular counselor for 25 years And I was excellent at it my skill level of the counselor is top of the line My ability to counsel people Allowed me to never see anybody ever cured I was a secular counselor for 25 years. I never had anybody cured It's unbelievable. I made I made a lot of money off of them you know the miracle of insurance and I never cured anybody Okay, and again, I was a highly skilled highly skilled counselor couldn't cure anybody Okay, the Holy Ghost is the greatest counselor In the universe period bar none. No one questions it And here he is counseling so to speak and he reaches over I've done it myself Just held somebody's hand as a sign of of love and care and concern and compassion and he Touched her hand and guess what left her Yeah It says the fever just gone There it is poor at us disappeared She goes right back to normal And she got up and ministered to them Yeah, I mean they were exhausted from healing all these people over in Capernaum They'd been walking a long time and they needed lunch. So she gets up and fix the lunch See When you get healed Make it a thought make it a mindset Make it a determination That you're going to serve God for the rest of your life You're not going to just get healed and go back to your secular life or your sinful life. No, that's not going to happen You're going to get delivered from demons. You're going to get healed in your body You're going to get healed in your mind And it's going to be simple this time instead of everybody complicating it And After you're done, you are going to serve your heavenly father through the lord And that's what you're determined to do And then guess what happened The normal thing that happens I get contacted hundreds of emails a week I have on my on facebook. I have a special group on facebook called facebook group called blessings In that group, I post many of the miracles that are happening at the Arizona Deliverance Center And at hardcore christianity.com I post the miracles there And I usually post a picture with it I don't mention anybody's name. I do things anonymously. I write it so that you can't figure out who it is But those miracles on the blessings group have given people Uh, it's almost like advertising People contact me. I get hundreds of emails a week I send out The miracle list Mike at hardcore christianity.com. I send that out dozens of times a week I send out zoom broadcasts Tuesday and Wednesdays dozens of times a week But the miracles the moving of the holy ghost 100 of the miracles and healings and deliverances are Caused by the spirit of the lord Zero percent are caused by me. I I couldn't heal anybody if my life depended. I came heal myself I recently had to have surgery. I mean if I could heal myself, I would have never gone in for surgery But verse 16 the miracles of the holy ghost And god's son Attract a crowd here it is verse 16 when the evening came They brought to him many who were possessed by devils This is the king james version. The greek word is daimonides of mine. It means to be under the control In greater or lesser degree of a spirit So everybody who is infected with demons Uh is under the control of that spirit At different levels Some demons are stronger than others. Some of them are weaker. Some of them have different skills Some of them cause different sicknesses different illnesses different mental illnesses demons are Various in their contact content and in their personality This uh translation here is very poor. It should never be used king james. They use the word possessed. Okay Very very very few people just a minute minute Amount are possessed by demons Years ago. I used to have a prison and a jail ministry in the state of arizona I would travel around to prisons uh ministering in their chapels and god Wow, it was unbelievable. I had deliverance services going all the time around the state but uh Included in my department of corrections card. I used to have a card Actually, I still have that card hanging in my office, but it's not valid anymore. I got kicked out. But anyway That card included the state hospital, which is down on ban burin in phoenix the state hospital Okay I saw people possessed by demons at the state hospital possession means that they just take over everything They're they're just in total control The vast majority of sinners and christians are not possessed by demons. In fact christians can't be possessed by demons A christian cannot be possessed by demons They can be infected in their body because of the physical illness or in their mind because of a mental illness But they cannot be possessed by demon. That's that's not possible Don't let anybody ever tell you that christians are not possessed by demons Infected like having the flu. Yes, 100 percent possessed absolutely not And here it says Many people who were dimon needs of mine dimon needs of mine under the control of spirits to varying degrees And he cast out the spirits with his luggus word And he healed all that we're sick Okay, now that is showing us that there's a difference between a medical condition and a medical condition caused by a demon Not everything is demons. Okay, so if you just have someone that needs to be healed you can't cast demons out of them So they can get healed you pray for healing and then the holy spirit heals them If somebody has an illness caused by demons You can't pray for healing You need to do deliverance So the person can be healed. Okay I have a book I wrote called atonement healing that bifurcates all of the healings in the new testament I go right down the list for you explaining it Some things are medical some things are to be demonic. Okay, not everything's a demon and it says here Verse 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet Okay, and that's obviously Isaiah Isaias is the Septuagint's translation of Isaias Hebrew name that's from the Septuagint Isaias the prophet he said himself took our infirmities That's the Greek word Athenia. It means our weaknesses and it says he bear our sicknesses sicknesses Nossus is the Greek word for sicknesses there. It means diseases You know leukemia can't different forms of cancer. Okay Viruses bacteria diseases sicknesses He bore them it says Bore them Bastazo This Greek word means to lift something up and carry it off He best odds oh he lifted up and carried off our sicknesses He lifted up and carried off our diseases How do we know that because Peter's mother-in-law was dying with a disease That was causing an accelerating fever and he touched her hand lovingly and showed his compassion to those around him and she Instantly The disease was gone And you can't lose with this system friend Matthew chapter 8 is the miracle chapter. You cannot lose with this thing You can't lose Now let's go down to verse 23. Here's another miracle This is when Jesus entered into the ship The disciples followed And it says there rose a great tempest in the sea What in the world does that mean? Oh, it's a storm or hurricane. No a seismus Seismus is a tsunami That's an earthquake under the ocean that causes the sea to look like it's in a hurricane, but it is not the waves Are so big and powerful they cause a wind So it looks like a storm, but it's actually a tsunami tsunami pardon me And it says it occurred in the sea And it says the ship was covered with waves Meaning they were going to die It was going to be capsized. They were all going to drown but Jesus Having perfect pistas or faith and full assurance that what god had Stated he was able to perform Just like he told Abraham Jesus knew he was protected So he saw in logs in the bottom of the ship unbelievable in the middle of a tsunami chilling Kicking back And the disciples came to him in an obvious panic Saying look, uh, we're about ready to Die. We're about ready to be destroyed. The greek word is apolamy And jesus said to them, why are you Fearful now, this is the greek word that was mistranslated in fearful. It should be cowardly Delos, it's a greek adjective Why are you acting like cowards? Delos you remember paul told timothy God has not given you the spirit of fear but a power love and a sound mind. That's was also mistranslated That was also the greek word delia the adjective is Delos it means cowardice Cowardice will block every miracle You ever hope to have from god you will never receive it Fear and cowardice are two demons that work together. They always work together fear greek word fabbas Delia cowardice they always work together. Here's how it works. The fear greek demon gives you the the initial adrenaline rush of Shock and awe boom. You're scared The coward demon Makes you timid and shy So that you won't seek help So they both work together keeping the person in total bondage Jesus says to him, why are you acting like cowards? Oh ye of little faith When your faith drops Cowardice Accelerates it's like a kid on a teeter totter They don't have teeter totters anymore. I don't think but when I was a kid One guy would sit at this end the other sitting you would go up and down like that And then if one of the kids was cold-blooded He would go down and then jump off of it and you would crash to the ground remember that Yeah, that happened to me several times I wasn't all that popular in grade school I'm very popular now obviously but when I was in grade school. I wasn't working I used to get the teeter totter boom That's what it is when Faith goes up fear goes down When fear goes up Faith goes down Why are you acting like cowards? Oh ye of little faith. Oh fear went up cowardice went up Faith and believing went down Okay What do you need to do to fix that I'm praying that god will give you a revelation today of Your faith And and what you're going to hear the lord tell you if you're listening is that your faith is fine It's great. You need to remove the cowardice Your faith is fine Just remove The fear and doubt That's the key to victory. You got to remove The fear and the doubt once you do that your faith boom It blossoms you can't be stopped You can't lose It's not possible Keep it simple You step out in faith with no no doubts and no unbelief you remove your fear You remove your cowardice And you like the centurion like the dying leper You move forward and you win You cannot lose following This formula in matthew chapter eight Now here's something else very interesting in this section of text verse 26 it says Then jesus arose and he rebuked the winds and the sea imagine that Now that greek word for rebuke there is pitamao it means to charge or aggressively charge someone Or command someone to stop doing something pitamao That greek word with jesus was only used when he was rebuking satan or demons So this looks to me like satan has something to do with that tsunami Which gives you an idea of his incredible power And that power was clearly demonstrated in jove chapter one and jove chapter two Satan has enormous power over the weather people nations the whole nine yards And it looks like in this verse since the word rebuked was used pitamao It looks like this had something to do with satan trying to drown jesus and the disciples Trying to drown jesus and the disciples He caught it He rebuked the winds and the sea Well, normally there's no reason to rebuke wind because it's not a person There's no reason to rebuke the sea because that's not a person But if a person is behind it Then this verse makes perfect sense and then it says there was a great calm That is exactly what happens when you remove your cowardice and you remove your fears You get what the leper got Complete healing and his body was in a great calm You got exactly what the centurion wanted The spinal cord in the boy's neck or low back or whatever it was Was mended or cured spinal cord injuries are Shockingly supernatural because the spinal cord can't be fixed By uh doctors. It's so complicated. There's so many threads neurons In spinal cord. There's no way to connect them all Through surgery can't be done They don't have a cure for spinal cord disabilities now Then it says last verse verse 27 The men marveled What greek word is that the same one again the mazzo they were in a state of shock their jaw Dropped They said what manner of man is this that the winds and see obey him Yes friend There it is you got it Half a chapter of the miracle chapters matthew eight and nine And you can see how easy it is to get a miracle How much god wants to give you a miracle How much he cares about you He wants to help you He's ready to help you boom He's ready to make a move on your life but Add those ingredients would you remove your fears remove your Cowardice wipe that yellow streak off your back Come in aggressively like the centurion and the Lepper be strong Step up Fight back I don't know. I need to sit here in church I need somebody to lay hands on me or give me a word. Okay. Listen, you're gonna be you're gonna be sitting there until you drop dead It's not gonna happen. Get off your duff Push your way in Make your move Take the log us with you You can't lose We can win this thing 100 percent We can win this thing Well, how can this possibly happen go to facebook and go to my group blessings There's a picture of the deliverance center on the front of that group page Okay Scroll down through the thing and see all these people that have been Delivered and healed. They're just regular people like you and me We're just regular foe But what makes us special is not me, but I believe not you but you believe We're all believers. We're children of god. We we're gonna win this thing. There's no doubt about it. We can't lose We can't lose You just follow the simple Formula in the bible so simple And you win Okay I'll see you Tuesday night at six o'clock pacific time and arizona time tuesday night It could be five p.m pacific time as you know with the time change I'll see you there Same thing on wednesday night brother rick and the ministry team will see you on the zoom on six o'clock wednesday night And that's a six p.m. arizona time five p.m pacific time And uh, you could send me an email mic at hardcore christy anity dot com I will send you a religious exemption. I will send you the miracle list A step by step guide to being healed that works 100 of the time I've never seen anybody not healed Who actually did the miracle list? If you have questions or comments or suggestions for future shows mic at hardcore christy anity dot com I love you and I thank you for watching sunday mornings at nine o'clock See you next time