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Hallelujah! Praise God! Thank you and welcome! I am so glad all of you are here for our winter Bible Conference. I told my wife, "Didn't we just do this last month?" It seems like the last six months have sped by. We are going to have a great conference. This is going to be a historic conference. If we plant 13 churches this week, we will pass the milestone of 4,000 fellowship churches. Amen! Thank God! As of tonight, we stand at 3,987, but we have to do the will of God. So, pastors, let God stir you. We are going to believe God for great things, and we can be a part of that.
Before I go into the word of God, I want to do a couple of things. Jason S. Sanchez, stand up. You are going to meet someone, and they are going to confess to you that they are involved in witchcraft and have been working against your church, working against you. They are going to get powerfully saved and completely leave witchcraft. Two things are going to happen: number one, it will be like a lifting or a parting of the opposition that has been there; and secondly, numbers of people they are involved with, whom they have influenced for witchcraft, have grown disillusioned. They are going to win other people that are involved in witchcraft. God is going to do that for you. Thank God! Thank you, Jesus!
I just want to pray for a few people before I begin that are in pain. I want you to be able to listen to the sermon effectively, so we are going to ask God to heal. I want to pray for someone who, when you were driving up, had pain in your back. You had to sit sideways; you couldn't sit normally in the seat to try to get relief from the pain. That's someone who is here, not watching online. If that's you online, you can be healed. But who is that here?
There’s someone else who, when you were loading the bags to come to the conference, had terrible pain in your shoulder and in your upper back. I want to pray for that person. Then there’s someone here who has nerve pain in your feet right now; it feels like your feet are on fire. Who are those people? I want to pray for them. Numbers of them, stand up. Stand up if that's you. Stand up for the other one and the third one that I mentioned. There are a number of other people, I think, with nerve pain; there’s more than one. Praise God! All of these people, God is going to heal them.
Then, if you are in the audience right now, or you're watching online and you're in pain, I want God to set you free from pain so you can concentrate on the word of God. If you're in pain, stand up to your feet right now, and we are going to ask God to help you. Right now, put your hand on your body where the problem is, or put your hand on your head.
In Jesus' name, I rebuke infirmity. Loose them right now! All pain is going to go. Every curse is broken. There will be free motion in the spine and in the shoulder. All pain is going to go. Be healed right now in the name of Jesus Christ, and I thank you for it.
Now check yourself right now, wherever the pain was. Check, push, feel, bend. Wherever there was pain, if that was you in the feet, I want you to move your feet right now. How many of you right now feel that the pain has left? The pain is gone! Praise God! Thank God! Thank God! Praise God! You can be seated, and God is going to help. I am going to pray for some more people afterwards.
If you came and you have, or you're watching online, if you have a tumor, growth, or lump, I feel while I'm preaching that God is going to be healing that. While I'm preaching, you be checking; you are going to see that God is going to heal you. Then we are going to pray for some more people at the end of the service.
Praise God! Turn in your Bibles. Let's go to the word of God, then, to 2 Kings chapter 20.
In sports such as American football, an important part of coaching is clock management, which means using the time you have left in the game wisely. For a team that's behind in the score late in the game, they must keep an eye on the clock, and they have to make decisions that will give them the maximum amount of time to score. What frustrates fans is when coaches have poor clock management.
This past December, the Pittsburgh Steelers were behind near the end of the first half. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin inexplicably let 20 seconds go off the clock before he called a timeout. This meant that when they got the ball, they didn't have enough time to score, and they wound up losing the game. Tomlin was asked about his clock management decision after the game. He said, "I got caught up in some information." He didn't manage the time. This lack of keeping an eye on the clock cost them the game.
But we are going to read in the word of God, not a game, about a man named Hezekiah. He was given an incredible opportunity by God. God gives him 15 more years of life when he should have died. He knew when he should die, but we are going to see he wasted the time that was given. The challenge for all of us is that God calls us to be stewards of time, and that's what I want to preach about: stewards of time.
2 Kings 20, starting at verse one: "In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, went to him and said, 'Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.' Then he turned his face toward the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, 'Remember now, O Lord, I pray, how I walked before you in truth and with a loyal heart and have done what was good in your sight.' And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
And it happened before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 'Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Surely I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord, and I will add to your days 15 years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.'"
Let's look at stewards of time for a moment. In this text, it tells of God's involvement in time, and it's pictured in our text by the sundial, which in ancient times is how they kept time. There is time allotted to a nation before judgment. This is what's going on; this nation was facing judgment. Every nation has an appointment with judgment for their sin, and in fact, the entire world has an ending date, a seven-year period of tribulation, incredible judgment—the time of God's judgment. Romans 11:25 speaks of the fullness of the Gentiles. It's talking about a limited amount of time where right now God's focus in the earth, in His purposes, is primarily on the Gentiles, but that will change.
Our text speaks of God's involvement in the time of Hezekiah's life. Isaiah comes and gives him a message saying, "Your life has come to an end; it will be no more." But in actual fact, God being involved in our lives is not just at the end; it's in every area of our life from the beginning. Before we were born, Psalm 139:16 says, "Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them."
Every person here or watching online, you didn't just happen. This text says you were fashioned; you were molded according to a purpose because God has plans for our lives—things He wants to accomplish for His will. Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before you were born, I set you apart for a special work; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
So God plans things for our life, and part of His plan is an allotted amount of time to accomplish that job. Job 14:14 speaks of the days of my appointed time. Hebrews 9:27 says, "It is appointed unto men once to die." The reality of our lives is that they are limited; they will not go on forever. James 4:14, the New Century Version, says, "You do not know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a mist; you can see it for a short time, but then it goes away."
So God has plans, and He gives us limited time to accomplish those plans. What that means is your life is a gift from God. Your life is actually a stewardship. A steward is one who manages something that belongs to another or something that is given by another. We usually think of stewardship in terms of money. In the Bible, a wealthy owner would go away—a landowner or a wealthy man—and he would entrust his property and his money to a steward to manage on his behalf. What is he supposed to do with what he was given? Manage it for the one who owns it. That's what a steward is all about.
But our text is speaking of the fact that we are stewards, not just of money; we are stewards of time. God has given us limited time in order to accomplish His will. Ephesians 5:17 says, "Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is." Every person here is to accomplish God's general will. God's general will is something every believer can be a part of. Mark 16:15 says, "He said to them, 'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.'" That is the main thing that Pastor Campbell quoted from my father: the main thing that we are supposed to keep—the main thing is evangelism on a local level, spreading the gospel through our entire nation and through the entire world.
Every believer, God has given us a limited time to accomplish His general will, and every person is to accomplish God's unique and specific will for our lives. Colossians 1:1 says, "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." There are things that God has planned for you—things that you are supposed to do in your church. For some, God has put His hand upon you; He is calling you, inviting you to a purpose. That purpose is preaching the gospel in your own nation, and for some, He is calling you to be a missionary to other nations.
So our duty then is to find out what it is that God wants us to do. Acts 9:6 is an incredibly powerful scripture. I often refer to it. Saul, when he encountered Jesus Christ, said, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" I pray that this week you are asking God that question: "What am I supposed to do with my time, with my money, with my life?" We should ask, we should listen, and we should obey because built into stewardship is always accountability. That is, we will answer for what we have been given—the time, the opportunities, the money, the calling. We will answer for it. Romans 14:12 says, "So then each of us shall give an account of himself to God."
Many of the stewardship parables in the gospel show a wealthy landowner putting what he had into someone's hands, but always there would come a day of reckoning, of accounting: "What did you do with what I gave you?" A lady named Betty Maxfield survived the terrorist attack on 9/11. She was at the Pentagon during that attack. Betty Maxfield said, "I should have been dead. I was, for some reason, saved. My question now is, 'What am I supposed to do with it? I just can't go wasted. I thought I was living my life well before, but obviously, there's more that I can do to say thank you for my life and a second chance at it.'"
That's a powerful question: "What am I supposed to do with the time that God has given me?" Because we are stewards of time.
Let's talk secondly about the miracle of time. There are times when God will intervene to give us more time. Verse six speaks about this: "I will add to your days 15 years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
Look at what God sometimes does. God supernaturally overcomes enemies and resistance. What's going on in the backstory here? The Assyrians seemed unstoppable; they were conquering every nation around Judah. They were now threatening the nation of Judah. But God says, "I am going to intervene. I'm going to overcome those strategies in order to give you more time."
In our text, God delays what's coming. The prophet Isaiah said, "God is giving you a message: Your time is up; you're finished; you're about to die." But when he prays, God says, "I'm going to give you 15 more years." God has the right to delay what He has planned. Hezekiah—God delayed his death for 15 more years. God can reach into our nation; God can reach into the world and delay the coming judgment. He can delay that in America and the entire world that we are facing judgment for our sin and rejecting God.
But our text says if God does a miracle and grants more time, He does that for His purposes. Verse six says, "I will defend this city for my own sake." God is not in heaven worried that your kitchen needs remodeling; you need more time. God is not concerned that you've never learned how to water ski; you need more time. No, God gives the miracle of time for His plans, and that is always about redemption and saving souls. Luke 19:10 says, "For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost."
I want to tell you something: last November, God intervened in America. He did a miracle; He gave us more time in the election of Donald Trump. And I'm not preaching politics; I'm preaching about the plans of God. God defended; He fought because God wanted to bring a change in America. Four years of legal cases, bias in the media, assassination attempts—God would not let those succeed. Yes, not because God is a Republican; He did it to change the spiritual atmosphere in America and the world.
That is why, listen, God did that. God is doing something. I saw this morning that Trudeau in Canada resigned. Things are shifting around the world. God is doing something. Listen, people are becoming disillusioned with godlessness and wokeness. The reason why that's important is sometimes what you see in the natural is mirrored in the spiritual. Things are shifting because God wants to shift things, not just politically, but spiritually.
Last year, 2024, the sales of Bibles in the U.S. went up 22%, fueled by anxiety. People are experiencing it. One bookstore manager said she is seeing many first-time buyers—people who have never bought a Bible before—coming looking for a Bible. She said, "People are on a quest for hope." One of these is a lady named Sel Vasquez, a 2-year-old artist and influencer. She bought her first Bible and said, "I felt like something was missing."
It's a combination of where we are in the world and general anxiety, and the sense that meaning and comfort can be found in the Bible. God did that! God is drawing; He is shifting things in the world. If you've been reading, there is coming openness in Muslim nations. Iran, the main exporter of hardline Islam, says more than 1 million Muslims have left Islam for Christianity. They say they've closed 50,000 mosques. God is doing that! It is beyond human programs because God wants to work His will.
In November, God reached in for His will, and part of that is He did it to unleash financial resources because if we're going to reach the world, it's going to take a lot of money. We need money for buildings, money for church planting, money for world evangelism. You remember the last time Donald Trump was elected; it unleashed a great financial boom.
See, God giving us more time is connected to a supernatural miracle. 2 Kings 20:1 says, "So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and he brought the shadow 10 degrees backward by which it had gone down by the sundial of Ahaz." Isaiah prayed, and God did something that was physically impossible. If you paid attention at all, in between chasing girls and causing trouble at school, that is physically impossible; time cannot go backward. But God did it! He did a miracle!
Do you know that that is the privilege of every believer? We can pray like Isaiah did, and God will do things that shouldn't happen. God can bring miracles of healing like we've never seen before, whether that is kinds of miracles that we've never seen, whether that is the frequency of miracles. We can pray; God can do that! God can give miracles of openness like we haven't seen for decades, or for some, that you have never seen before. God can give openness in age groups that have not been open, ethnic groups that have been resistant.
Let me ask you a question: what kinds of people never get saved in your church? God wants to turn the clock back; that is what God wants to do. He wants to shift things. We can pray, and God wants to shift. Why? Because He has planned a mighty end-times revival, a powerful harvest of souls. Amos 9:13 says, "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it."
This is describing a harvest that is absolutely supernatural. It is beyond human efforts; it is beyond any form of advertising, even beyond the outreaches that we do. The plowman overtaking the reaper—that is describing a harvest that is so big they are reaping and reaping and reaping. It's time to start planting again, but they are still reaping this massive harvest. That is what God wants to do!
In the book of Acts, He could save 3,000 in one day, 5,000 at one time. But I believe God is describing a harvest that is greater than that because this is what God wants to do. Zechariah 10:1 says, "Ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain, and the Lord will make flashing clouds; He'll give them showers of rain, grass in the field for everyone." God can do miracles, and I believe that things are shifting because of what God wants to do.
But the message that God gives in verse one is, "Set your house in order." You know what that means? That means apparently there were some things that were not in order. That means there were some things that were not as God intended.
Let me ask you this week: are there areas of your life and your ministry where right now, if you're honest, you are not doing God's will? You are not stewarding the time that God has given you for His purposes and His will. I declare to you, "Set your house in order." Make a plan to line up your life, your ministry, your finances with God's will.
Let's talk finally about the impact of our stewardship. We didn't continue to read the rest of the chapter, but this incredible opportunity—Hezekiah, you have 15 more years! Imagine if you knew the day you were going to die: "Hezekiah, 15 years from today, now you'll die." You know, not someday; we're all going to die 15 years from today. What could you do with 15 more years?
The tragedy is that Hezekiah failed in his stewardship of time. You know, it's possible to waste the time and opportunities we've been given. Fifteen more years, and what good did Hezekiah do with those 15 years? Nothing.
Years past, we've had nurses in the Prescott church who have a deep bitterness toward drug addicts. I've talked to them; they're angry. The reason why is they've seen so many drug addicts, after an overdose, come in, and they work to save their life and bring them back to life. What do they do? They go right back to drugs.
I tell you that when we started a rehab ministry, I had a nurse who left the church. She said, "No, no! We save their lives, and they go right back to drugs!" They waste all of our efforts. This is what Hezekiah did; he accomplished nothing. He did nothing in line with God's will in those 15 years.
1 Corinthians 3 talks about building the possibility with wood, hay, and stubble. Verse 15 says, "If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss." God is saying the choices that we make are like building something, and it is possible that we could build something that at the end of the day was just for us, and it burns up.
In 2016, God gave us as a fellowship a wonderful opportunity—a boom time of financial prosperity. But you know what many people in our fellowship did? They wasted that opportunity. They simply made money to buy more stuff. One poet said, "Some people die in ashes, some people die in flames, and some people die in by inch playing silly little games."
He wasted the stewardship of time. We have to understand the impact of our stewardship. Poor stewards are focused only on themselves: "What do I want? What do I prefer? How will this affect me?"
2 Kings 20:19—Hezekiah told Isaiah, "These words from the Lord are good." He said this because he thought, "There will be peace and security in my lifetime." While he's wasting, he's showing the Babylonians—the enemies who would later conquer his nation—everything he has. The prophet comes and challenges him: "What did you show them?" He said, "Everything." And he said, "Listen, judgment is going to come. The nation will be destroyed; your sons will be castrated, but not while you're alive."
That verse, he says, "These words are good." I don't think the boys were quite as excited as he was. That's selfishness! But every person who wastes stewardship has a selfish element to that. The decisions we make are not just going to affect us; they are going to affect others.
2 Kings 20:18 says, "They'll take away some of your sons whom you will beget; they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." The decisions we make affect our children. The decisions we make affect our converts. The decisions we make affect our spiritual sons, our disciples.
Every pastor, I pray you understand: discipleship is a precious thing. God places young couples or couples into your hands that, in some way, you could aim them; you could shape the direction of their entire life. But if we waste what God is wanting to do, we're not good stewards of time.
The story of Hezekiah and how he wasted it is written for our instruction. The Bible is an honest book; it puts in stories that have no happy ending. That's how you know the Bible is true. If the Bible was a fable, it would say they all were millionaires that lived happily ever after. But the Bible tells stories of people who failed, like Hezekiah did.
Why not be like Hezekiah? The opposite of Hezekiah, who wasted his time, would be redeeming the time. Ephesians 5:16 says, "Redeeming the time because the days are evil." Redeeming the time means buying up opportunities to save time from loss. Redeeming the time means you get something out of the time we have left. When it is finished, you have something to show that will have eternal value. That is redeeming the time.
Redeeming the time involves taking actions that line up with the will of God. Luke 12:42 and 43 says, "The Lord said, 'Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his master will make ruler over his household? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.'" Knowing that the master, God, will ask for an accounting, blessed is that servant who makes actions in line with so that they have something to show.
The actions that God wants us to be involved in are very clear. Matthew 28:19 and 20 says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you." It's very simple; that has never changed.
We are to get converts that become obedient believers. We're to make disciples that reproduce the vision, that would do what we do in other places. What you heard tonight, every report, is the product of discipleship. They are doing what their pastor would do if he were there himself.
Our job is planting churches domestically and internationally. There are pastors that are here in this conference; you have never planted a church. I know, I know they're not quite ready yet like you were. They're just not. Oh, you were a perfect specimen, weren't you? You have never, but time is running out. Plant a church this week for the first time!
Some of you have planted in the dim, dark past, but you stopped because of the cost, or maybe something didn't go well. Finish the job this week! Keep planting! Some have never planted a church overseas. Finish the job! Send a church to the nations this week! Converts, disciples, planting churches—that is redeeming the time.
Our mission is narrow. We are a boring fellowship, according to the church world, because it's the same mission that we've had for 54 years and will be until Jesus comes back. But redeeming the time involves priorities. Priorities simply mean order of importance. Whatever is most important should always be on top.
You know the problem, as Vance Havner said, is the good can become the enemy of the best. You can be doing some things, and they're not bad; they're not evil. But there's something you should be doing. God's will must come first. Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek first the kingdom of God."
I want you to know that God rewards faithful stewardship. Most of the stewardship parables speak of the reward the master gives to reward faithful stewards. Matthew 25:29 says, "Everyone who has more will be given, and he will have abundance." That is God's will for us: more converts, more disciples, more finances, more churches, more nations.
Matthew 25:21 says, "His Lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You were faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord.'" God doesn't just want to bless you in your money or your marriage; He wants to bless every area—in many things. He says you can rule.
Luke 19:17 says, "He said to him, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in very little; have authority over ten cities.'" I believe it is the will of God that we impact entire cities, not just a handful of people. I'm telling you, God wants us to impact cities, but that will depend on whether we are wise stewards of time.
I close with this story. Reinhard Bonnke tells the story of a woman in South Africa named Denny Fun. Denny Fun had cancer, and when treatment failed, they sent her home to die. Someone contacted Reinhard Bonnke and asked him if he would pray for her. He went to Denny Fun's house and prayed for her, and she was completely healed of cancer—raised up by a miracle of God.
Denny Fun began to tell everyone what God had done for her. She gave money to God; she wrote a book telling the testimony of her healing. One year after God healed her, she gathered people to celebrate what God had done. Five hundred people from the Dutch Reformed Church gathered to listen to a Pentecostal preacher. That's a miracle! That's almost as great as the cancer miracle!
If you want some of you that know the Dutch Reformed Church, you know what I'm talking about. Denny Fun did that. That one year, that was the celebration. A week later, Denny Fun suddenly died of an unrelated illness. One year after she was supposed to die, God gave Denny Fun an extra year of life.
What was interesting is she had gotten healed. She said at her anniversary of her healing, "The past year of my life since I've been healed has been the best year of my life and has exceeded all the other years of my life put together." Denny Fun was given a gift, and she used it wisely.
What about us? I believe that God is shifting America, shifting the nations, preparing for what He wants to do. He is granting; He has overcome enemies and opposition. I believe He wants to give us a mighty harvest. But what are we going to do with it? That is what we have to decide this week.
On Monday night of the conference, set your house in order so you can be a steward of time.
Let's bow our heads and close our eyes all across this place. Now, with our heads bowed, before we do anything else, there are people that are here; you are not right with God. This is the most important thing that has to happen. There are people that are living in sin. If you would be honest right now, God would not be pleased with the way you're living.
Sin ruins, damages, destroys in this life. It holds you hostage, makes you an addict, keeps you in bondage. That's the power of sin. When you choose to go against God's word and live your own way, it never is what you thought it was going to be; it's something worse.
But I'm preaching hope tonight. I'm preaching Jesus Christ, who died on the cross, paid with His blood. You can go free tonight! God can do a miracle! This building is filled with people who made a decision: "God, I don't want to live in sin any longer," and God reached in on the inside and did a miracle and set them free.
How many people are here? If God was to come to you and say tonight is the end of your time, would that be good or bad news for you? For some, it would be terrible news. If you're honest, you know you would go straight to hell—judgment for your sin. But it doesn't have to be that way. Jesus died to save you.
How many here would be honest under the sound of my voice? You say, "Pastor Greg, I know that I'm not right, but I want to pray tonight. I want to get right with God." If that's what you want to do, lift up your hand. Let me see that you're saying, "I want to pray and be saved." Thank you! I see that hand at the back. How many others? Lift up your hand; hold it up high. Thank you! I see that hand in the back section. God bless you! Others, you need Jesus. Lift up your hand. God's dealing with you tonight. You need to get right with God. You have no guarantee of more time, so make it right with God tonight.
How many others? Lift up your hand. Thank you! How many backsliders are here? What a fearful thing it would be to be a backslider, knowing what's coming, knowing that your life is limited, but living in sin when that happens. How many backsliders? I want to come back; I want to get right with God. Lift up your hand. I want to leave my sin; I want God to save me. Thank you! Thank you! God is dealing with people now.
I want every one of you that lifted your hands to stand up to your feet. Stand up right now! Don't wait! Stand up! You lifted your hand; you want to pray. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Over there, over there, over there. Now come out of your seat; come here. Meet me at the front here. I'm going to have someone pray with you. God bless you! Thank you for your honesty! Quickly make your way down; we're going to have someone pray with you.
We're going to give you time. God bless you! Just kneel down right there; he's going to pray for you. Thank you! I appreciate these people being honest. Others, they're still coming from the back. God bless you! We're going to give you time to get right with God. You can come and pray. Thank you! God bless every one of these!
Make sure there's a man praying with every man, a lady with every lady. God bless you! I need a lady to pray with this one. Thank you! Just kneel down anywhere at the front. God bless you! Thank you! God bless you! Every one of these that are being honest, thank God!
I want you all to stand up to your feet. We're going to open the altars on this first night of conference. You need to settle some things. Come and ask God. If you don't know what God wants you to do, ask others. You know what you should be doing, but you've been wasting that time. Then come and tell God, "I am going to do your will. I'm going to surrender to your will so that I can redeem the time."
They're going to sing while people are coming and praying at the altar.
I surrender my all. I surrender, O God! I surrender!
Help us, Lord God! Help us! Let decisions of destiny be made, O God! Speak about calling; speak about your will, O God! Help us! Speak about church planting; speak about world evangelism, Lord God!
Hallelujah, Lord!
God, one more time, I surrender all! I surrender all! I surrender all to Thee, my blessed Savior!
Let's worship God together right now. Thank God for His goodness! Thank you, Jesus! Jesus, thank you for your goodness, Lord!
God, Holy Spirit, have right of way! Have right of way here tonight! Thank God! Praise God!
There are pastors here; I'm urging you, we can do something historic if we obey God in church planting. I'm encouraging you to be a part of that and world evangelism as well. Let's see what God will do for us.
I want to pray for some more people. We're going to ask God to help. I mentioned before, if you have any kind of growth, lump, or tumor of any kind, how many of you here have any kind of lump, growth, or tumor? Some of you, I'm trusting you've been checking yourself.
I want to pray as well. I want to pray for someone here; you've been told that the bile duct from your liver is partially blocked. This is causing problems; the bile is not getting through, causing digestive problems and various kinds of symptoms. I want to pray that God will heal that.
I want to pray for someone here that your diaphragm muscle has been weakened, and this is now causing it to get increasingly difficult to breathe. God wants to do a miracle there.
I want to pray; there's somebody that the tumor I was talking about is in the brain. It's affecting the pituitary gland, and I want to pray for anybody that that applies to, whether that's online or here as well.
Then I want to pray: how many of you here have taken medication or you've had surgery, but the surgery itself or the medication has caused you other problems? It didn't fix the problem. How many of you here are in that situation? The medication has caused other difficulties, or the surgery has caused more difficulties than it fixed? I want to pray for you.
Those are some of the things that God wants to heal. Then how many of you, it wasn't pain or one of those things that we prayed for before, but you need a healing in your body? Lift up your hand. Amen!
Put your hand on your body where the problem is, your head. If there are more than one problem, let's pray together right now and ask God for healing.
God, right now, I speak healing power right now! I reject infirmity; that curse is broken! I command those tumors to be dissolved; the growths will go! I rebuke cancer; every cancer cell will die, but they will live for God's glory! A miracle healing power is going to flow right now in the name of Jesus Christ!
They're going to be able to breathe freely; pain will go! A miracle of healing power! Let's praise God together right now! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you!
If you just prayed, if there's something you can check yourself right now, I want you to check whatever that is. Breathe, look, listen, bend, push—where there was pain, whatever the difficulty. If you can tell right now, I want you to check yourself right now.
How many of you, after prayer, know that you're healed? Lift up your hand! Lift up your hand! Thank God! Thank God! Over there! Praise God! At the back! Thank God! Numbers of people! Praise the Lord! Thank God for His goodness!
Praise God! God is going to help us; He's going to do wonderful things this week! I can't get away from this: there is somebody that you have a financial need, and you added up what you need is exactly $67,000. I don't know if that's for a building or what the issue is. That doesn't apply to everybody; we would all love $67,000. That's not what I'm talking about, but there's someone—you added up, and you're saying, "How can that possibly be?"
God is having me name that number because He is going to give you miracle money; He's going to meet that need, and He's able to do that! Thank God! Praise the Lord for His goodness! Thank you, Jesus! God, you're faithful to us!
Praise God! We're going to be dismissed. We have a great day!